Bondi Nanny's Extradition Hearing

0:00It's March 29, I'm Cory with the story. This is Sydney News Today, driven by AI. A 72-year-old woman, known as the Bondi-nanny, faces her final push against extradition to Chile today. Adriana Rivas stands accused of kidnapping and torturing victims during the Pineshed Dictatorship in the 1970s. She's been fighting removal from Australia since Chile requested her back in 2014, and she's denied all the serious charges. The Lane prosecutors point to testimony from a former servant at a notorious barracks who claims Rivas helped grab people, beat them, and use electric. Shocked during brutal interrogations, she worked for the regime's secret police back then, but skipped bail in Chile in 2011 and slipped into Australia. Now a two-day hearing with Justice Michael Lee could seal her fate. Families of the victims are fed up with the endless delays, saying some spouses and kids have died waiting for justice. Officers call this one of Australia's longest extradition sagas, stretching over years

1:02while bureaucracy drags its feet. Green Senator David Schubridge slams the slow process, urging no more stalls after this. New email suggests an Australian embassy officer might have known about her bail jump, though the Foreign Affairs Department denies helping. Rivas has been locked up here since 2019, after living as a nanny in Sydney. This hearing wraps up a decades-long chase for accountability on Pineshed's horrors, and whatever Justice Lee rules, the hope is it finally sends her. Back to face trial, without more roadblocks.