{"id":29883,"date":"2017-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/the-child-sex-offender-who-lived-free-for-26-years\/"},"modified":"2017-03-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T00:00:00","slug":"the-child-sex-offender-who-lived-free-for-26-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-child-sex-offender-who-lived-free-for-26-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The child sex offender who lived free for 26 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The young victim of a sex offender whose case was essentially forgotten about may have not been able to access proper assistance, says SA\u2019s Victims\u2019 Rights Commissioner Michael O\u2019Connell.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s the possibility that he may not have got access to some services at that point in time because the criteria that existed was to prove that you\u2019re a victim,\u201d Mr O\u2019Connell told David and Will on FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/315130060&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" frameborder=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Graeme Thomas Gammon has finally been jailed after fleeing SA in 1990 and living free in Tasmania after he was charged for molesting a 13-year-old boy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter more than a quarter of a century Graeme Gammon was finally held accountable for his crimes,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/news\/law-order\/child-sex-offender-case-lost-in-the-sa-justice-system-for-26-years\/news-story\/c50bde5b92d273dcbe665d554e6669ea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mr O\u2019Connell told The Advertiser earlier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnowing he was suspected of perpetrating sex crimes, with only fear of the consequences for himself, he absconded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile he has lived free, his victim has for too long been denied justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVictims should not have to struggle with those in the criminal justice system to attain a just and fair outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr O\u2019Connell told David and Will that reliving the past was often difficult for victims who had managed to build new lives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTo be haunted by something that they may have never shared with their new family can of itself be quite devastating as well, and extremely challenging,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine yourself having to sit down in front of a loved one now and reveal something so intimate, so horrible\u2026 that you\u2019ve managed to suppress and suddenly now you have to confront, not through your own fault, but through he fault of other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/garry-lyon-defends-his-erin-phillips-comments\">GARRY LYON DEFENDS HIS COMMENTS ABOUT ERIN PHILLIPS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/wayne-milera-reminds-eddie-betts-of-a-former-crows-superstar\"><strong>WAYNE MILERA REMINDS EDDIE BETTS OF ONE OF THE BEST CROWS EVER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young victim of a sex offender whose case was essentially forgotten about may have not been able to access proper assistance, says SA\u2019s Victims\u2019 Rights Commissioner Michael O\u2019Connell. \u201cThere\u2019s the possibility that he may not have got access to some services at that point in time because the criteria that existed was to prove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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