Published: August 18, 2019
Move comes week after survivor Grace Tame won exemption to tell her story
The Tasmanian government has confirmed it will move to abolish the state’s archaic sexual assault gag laws early next year.
It comes one week after Grace Tame, 24, the sexual assault survivor who campaigned for law reform, won a supreme court exemption to tell her story of being groomed by a school teacher. At the age of 15, Tame was repeatedly sexually abused by her 58-year-old maths teacher, Nicolaas Bester, who was convicted and served time in jail for molesting her.
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