At seven-pm this evening outside Brisbane Square Library an event is being held to mourn persons with disability killed and harmed by a carer or family member.
According to the event organisers, in Australia over five hundred and fifty persons with disability have been killed by parents, carers and relatives over the last five years; with one hundred deaths occurring during the past twelve months
Sentencing in many of these cases is light. Furthermore, the abuse of people with disabilities is underreported and rarely successfully prosecuted.
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Update: Event organisers have since contacted us to clarify that the 550 victims statistic is a worldwide number