Child protection authorities from the Northern Territory were overwhelmed by the amount of under-reported sexual abuses involving children.
According to data compiled by a royal commission, only 5 sex abuse victims had been taken into temporary protective custody between 2012 and 2016 despite there being 232 abuse cases.
Former Northern Territory Children’s commissioner, Howard Bath, said the rise in sexual abuse cases was not a result of more nasty predators running around, but the easy access and lack of supervision in the area.