Her abuser could speak out. And he did. Now, she can too.

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Grace Tame was groomed and abused by her maths teacher when she was 15. For the first time, she can finally share her story.

In mid-2010, Bester asked Grace to meet him at the school. He led her to a cupboard in the science block.

Grace had confided in Bester that when she was six, another child forced her into a cupboard and molested her."I was in a state of disbelief and sheer terror, and I thought I can't run anywhere. I'm trapped.""He had his arms outstretched and walked towards me and pulled me into his naked body and was just holding me," she said.

"I couldn't believe that they'd put that on television and in the newspapers — that it was an affair," Grace's mother said. "When a perpetrator is 58 and a victim is 15, that's not an affair, that's a clear imbalance of power and it's a clear case of sexual abuse.Bester was convicted and sentenced to 2 years and 10 months in jail. He was released on parole after serving 19 months.Bester enrolled in a PhD at the University of Tasmania, where Grace's mother, Penny, was also studying.That was until 2015, when Bester bragged about his crimes on Facebook.

"The majority of men in Australia envy me," he wrote."I was 59, she was 15 going on 25. It was awesome".Bester was charged with making child exploitation material and jailed for another four months.

 

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This is not 'archaic'. It's a recent law.

Bettina arndt endorses pedophilia. And Tasmania and NT follow an archaic rule that allowed a 58 year old teacher to talk about his raping of a 15 year old student over 6 months but kept her silent. Speaking out cost her $10,000 in legal fees

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