Survivor's Plea: Deport Abuser's Visa

0:00It's April 13th. This is Sydney News Today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with the story. A teenage survivor of child sexual assault and birth has panned a desperate letter to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, urging him to deport her. UK born a viewser after a tribunal brought back his visa. The man, now in his 80s, got jailed this year for indecently dealing with the girl back when she was 9 years old. His visa got auto-canceled post-conviction, but the administrative review tribunal flipped that last year, saying his long history in Australia, trumped community safety concerns. Now this young woman, going by the pseudonym Rose, is reliving the nightmare. She wrote about the deep betrayal from the assault, the trial where the system seemed to doubt her and how the visa wins shattered her trust even more. Every day, those memories haunt her and she feels the justice system failed her big time. The good news is, the minister holds the power to step in and override the tribunal if it is in the public interest.

1:01The Department of Home Affairs is already putting together a brief to look at re-canceling the visa and Rose even copy Prime Minister Anthony, albany's on her plea. This case echoes moves by the previous minister, who re-canceled 40 visas for serious offenders last year. Rose is straight up begging for that kind of action here to finally get some protection and mend a bit of that broken faith in the system.