ConCourt bid haunts sexual predators


The Mercury – Shain Germaner

CALL TO REVIEW SEX CRIME LAW

Long-buried incidents by sexual predators who abused children could come out to haunt the perpetrators – years after they committed such offences.

An ambitious Constitutional Court application could potentially change the law about indecent and sexual assault, opening the way for victims of child abuse to pursue criminal charges against their violators decades after the abuse.