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Australian True Crime

Shortcut: Unfinished Business - a survivor defies the odds of Australia’s Court System (Part 2)

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6979 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. 


This is part two of a two part series with our anonymous guest. If you haven’t yet listened to our previous episode, we highly suggest you go and listen to that one first.


Our guest is a recovering heroin addict, and in our previous episode, we delved into her early childhood years, and the chaos brought into her life at the hands of her mother. 


Concurrently to that, however, there was something else happening in her life. She and her younger sister, aged 8 and 6, were being groomed and sexually assaulted by their adult neighbour for almost 5 years. 


In fact, this particular part of her story motivated our guest to reach out to us initially, emphasizing the crucial fact that it's never too late to report abuse.


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CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram 

Guests: Anonymous

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard


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0:00.0

We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,

0:04.3

and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.

0:07.4

Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.

0:10.3

Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,

0:15.2

our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in

0:19.9

Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.

0:26.0

This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.

0:29.0

So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will

0:33.8

contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian

0:38.4

true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

0:42.0

listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.

0:47.0

The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.

0:58.0

They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.

1:07.0

As promised this is part two of our two-part series with our anonymous guest from

1:17.1

Monday. If you haven't yet listened to the first part I highly suggest that you do

1:22.0

before embarking on this part.

1:24.0

Our guest today is a recovering heroin addict,

1:27.0

and in our previous episode we delved into her early childhood years

1:31.0

and the chaos brought into her life at the hands of her mother.

1:35.0

Concurrently to that however, there was something else happening in her life.

1:39.0

As very young children, she and her younger sister were being groomed and sexually

1:44.4

assaulted by their neighbor for almost five years.

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