New abuse allegations have emerged from the former disgraced Families SA, including claims children in residential care were asked to film sexual activity between peers and staff, and told to have an abortion because of their race.
The state’s child protection agency has again been savaged for systemic failures, with a long-awaited Ombudsman’s report into the case of two siblings murdered with their mother at Hillier in 2016 laying bare departmental “inertia, complacency and misplaced priorities” that saw authorities “do nothing” to protect the children despite serious warnings about their welfare.