Child Abuse Victim Told to Repay Pedo-Friendly SA Government $100k Before Being Compensated For Its Failure to Protect Her From 2 Molesters

South Australia is a pedo-friendly jurisdiction where child molesters have always enjoyed highly paid and privileged positions in government and judiciary.

SAPOL covers up acts of pedophilia committed by other cops and pedophile networks, and actively protects the taxpayer-funded pedophile ring known as Department of Child Protection.

If a career cop gets caught trying to groom a young teen for underage sex, the judiciary makes excuses for him and lets him off without any punishment.

But if you are a child sexual abuse victim who lures monsters out of hiding and then publicly exposes them, the pedo-friendly judiciary will declare you a criminal and stain your record with a conviction.

The latest disgraceful story to make the news in the pedo paradise of SA is the plight of “Diana”, who as  child was was repeatedly raped by two men.

Five years ago, Diana received $100,000 from the Victims of Crime Compensation Fund – which had a $248 million balance as at May 2025 – for the abuse inflicted by her stepfather and step-uncle.

She subsequently sued the Department of Education, alleging it failed to fulfill its mandatory notification obligations when she told a teacher she was being abused.

The government then offered $200,000 to settle her claim – but also required Diana sign a deed agreeing the $100,000 “already paid to me … will be repaid to the Victims of Crime Fund as part of the settlement sum”.

The $100,000 had been awarded to her in recognition of the physical and emotional harm caused by her abusers, and was not connected to any alleged Department inaction.

On Friday, Diana said she was “angry and appalled”.

“I spent nearly eight years in the criminal justice system to put those pedophiles away, and I’ve not got much fight left in me,” she said.

“I feel like the government was trying to take my voice, that the system was still silencing me … I’m sick of being screwed over.”

“As a child, I told a teacher I was being abused and nothing was done … the government should own up to its responsibility.

“You can’t move on, you can’t heal, when you’re being forced to re-live childhood abuse.”

Diana’s case is the second example in two years of crime survivors being required to refund the government before settling lawsuits.

In May 2024, the family of the Hillier triple murder victims had to reimburse the government $40,000 before the Department for Child Protection was held accountable for its role in their “preventable deaths”.

Attorney-General Kyam Maher, who declined to exercise his discretion to waive the reimbursement, claimed that family had “misunderstood” the situation.

Attorney-General and victim-blamer Kyam Maher.

On Friday, a state government spokeswoman claimed it “has not sought and will not seek to be repaid any money by the victim from compensation already received” from Diana.

However, she said “further compensation provided often takes into account initial payments that have been made” for “the same damages”.

Diana’s lawyer, Andrew Carpenter, said the government had made its attitude toward victims clear.

“This is yet another failure and broken promise on behalf of a government that has shown, and continues to show, it will not come down on the side of victims every day of the week,” he said.

“Its refusal to use its discretion is yet another win for offenders at the expense of victims.”

“If Mr Maher is refusing to exercise his discretion to forgive the recovery of payments for children who have been murdered or raped due to the negligence of the state, when will he ever exercise his discretion?”

Source

Child abuse victim repays SA Government $100k before being compensated for its ‘failure’ to protect her from two pedophiles. The Advertiser.