‘Nobody cared’: Victim’s ‘betrayal’ over revelations at Victoria’s school child sexual abuse inquiry

Victim-survivor shocked by education department's admission it moved accused paedophile teachers to other state schools

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When the dark history of Victoria's education department was laid bare this week in public hearings, Glen Fearnett sat metres away from bureaucrats as they divulged the state's failings to protect children.

Fearnett is a victim-survivor of abuse and has been central in pushing for a formal apology for the abuse he and other victim-survivors suffered at Beaumaris primary school, in Melbourne's south-east.

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