The System’s Victims

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

A mother from country Victoria wants us to know what it’s really like, day-by-day, for a family after they report their daughter’s rape by a family friend.

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Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Travis Winks.

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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.
0:07.5	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 Bizina 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. The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.
0:46.0	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.
0:54.0	The following podcast contains accounts of sexual assault.
0:57.3	Listener discretion is advised.
1:01.6	I would say the whole thing was like a waking nightmare. You're like you keep thinking you're going to wake up but you're not.
1:08.0	Where you're just tense and stressed and nothing changes and you know I was trying to work during this we also had a younger
1:15.5	daughter my husband's going to work my daughter had girls bullying her so we actually ended up changing schools. I ended up losing one job because they've been
1:26.1	taken time off all the time. The team leader actually came up to me at one point and said,
1:30.9	no more time off without pay. I'm not doing this anymore. That might sound like what life is like after everyone in the community discovers that someone in your family has been convicted of committing a violent crime.
1:55.8	Like a living nightmare that you can't wake up from.
1:59.3	Constant tension and stress every day the same, in which your children are bullied and have to change
2:05.0	schools and you have to take so much time off from your job that you're
2:09.2	eventually sacked after copying abuse from your team leader in front of everybody.
2:15.0	But the woman we're hearing from today isn't an offender.
2:19.0	No one in her family has committed a crime.
2:22.0	She contacted us because she wanted all of us to know
2:25.1	about her family's experience after they reported the rape of her 15-year-old
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