50 sexual assaults a week of aged care residents across the country, royal commission told

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The Royal Commission into Aged Care hears there are an estimated 50 sexual assaults a week in aged care facilities across the country.

The Royal Commission into Aged Care has been told there are an estimated 50 sexual assaults a week in aged care facilities across the country.The commission heard there had been an estimated 2,520 incidents of "unlawful sexual contact" in 2018-19

One of the recommendations from the counsel assisting is for mandated staffing ratios in residential aged careIt has heard the true number of sexual assaults in aged care is estimated at 50 each week when assaults by other residents are included, which care providers at present are not required to report.

Following research reports and evidence, they estimated there were 2,520 incidents "unlawful sexual contact" in 2018-19."As disturbing as these figures are, the evidence of the lack of follow-up by the Australian Government department that receives the reports is, if anything, worse.

 

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Calls for long prison sentancès.

50 sexual assaults a week. Let that fucking nunber sink in people Our senior citizens have been let down and the buck stops with the PM Note that LNP have been in power for 7 years

KamalaHarris. THIS PoliticalMonarchist GOVT. privatizated, self regulating aged care. Money pot.

Dafuq is wrong with people?

This is just too awful 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Wow gaddamned!!! WTF

If Josh's mum was one of them, the minister resounding would've been out of job before this hit the fan. JustSaying

Oh no. Oh surely not. Could aged care possibly get any worse in this country?

AnthonyCole68 Oh! Dear! God! First it was abuse & $6 a day for food, then came the neglect & death during the COVID 19 pandemic. Now this! WHERE THE HELL IS RICHARD COLBECK? AgedCareScandal agedcareRC

And who has popped their head up again....... yes.... the Christian Church..... still at it... what is it with the church and sexual assault

So what is the government doing right now to make sure it stops right now?

Vulnerable Vulnerable Vulnerable Vulnerable With no one who cares Easy targets for perverts and criminals

Are you going to get the pm to pop in and account for this?

Another example of a Morrison gold-standard. While privatisation keeps the government happy to be free of any real responsibility, they’ll be happy for this matter to just go away. Disgraceful doesn’t even come close

Shocking! Did they enjoy it?

It's time to can privatised aged care. Everyone's a winner except the residents, their families and the decent people who work their backsides off to make up for huge gaps in the 'service'.

AnthonyCole68 Why do Australians vote for a the LNP/PHON/Palmer party . Most have elderly people in their families and older Australians themselves vote for this trash. This gov does not care, will not care, will not change anything. We are reading the same recommendations over and over. 😡

When profit is a factor in care, our most vulnerable always lose. We must reverse the trend of privatisation for profit in the aged care sector & work with community based organisations to deliver more sustainable solutions that keep our elderly safe & well

this country the sexual normalcy and assault lines are getting blurred. go to any major public pool and you will see naked men walking in the changing room in front of kids. go to any shopping mall and you will see photos of models in transparent small revealing lingeries.

What is Colbeck , Hunt and Morrison doing about this It’s absolutely disgusting slpng_giants_oz ScottMorrisonMP InsidersABC

Wonder how many cases go unreported. Such sad state of affairs! 👎🏽

Asher_Wolf Freaking pervert people

Dreadful. What’s our sensitive PM ScottMorrisonMP and his henchman richardmcolbeck planning to do in response to this? Same as Aged Care Covid plan following NewMarch? Nothing? (Or is it 1. Dan’s fault 2. Not a priority cos he’s building a cubby & going to the football?)

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