Former Sydney schoolteacher Helga Lam will not be prosecuted for the alleged abuse of four school boys – because of a historical legal loophole that exempts women – leaving her former students “extremely traumatised”.
NSW’s top criminal court on Monday declared that the indictment against Lam was void because the historical laws were only directed to “to the crime of sodomy upon a male and other male homosexual conduct”. “Although huge strides have been made in recent years in acknowledging survivors of child abuse, until the media and society fully understand that any child is incapable of consent we will continue to retraumatise and punish survivors who come forward in the hope of protecting future generations.”
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