In the files there are seven reports of sexual assault of children, 59 reports of assault on children, 30 of self-harm involving children and 159 of threatened self-harm involving children. These caseworkers, guards, teachers and medical officers have been charged with caring for hundreds of asylum seekers on the island. Speaking before the publication of the Nauru files, Prof Louise Newman, a former member of the Immigration Health Advisory Group, says such attacks have continued. The Nauru files shatter that secrecy. More than 2,000 leaked incident reports from Australia’s detention camp for asylum seekers on the remote Pacific island of Nauru – totalling more than 8,000 pages – are published by the Guardian today.

Source: The Guardian August 09, 2016 20:01 UTC