{"id":32733,"date":"2015-08-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/families-sa-under-fire-over-mccoole-case-2\/"},"modified":"2015-08-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T00:00:00","slug":"families-sa-under-fire-over-mccoole-case-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/families-sa-under-fire-over-mccoole-case-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Families SA under fire over McCoole case"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Image | Daily Mail<\/h6>\n<h3>There are some big questions to answer after a former carer was convicted of abuse.<\/h3>\n<p>In 2013, subsequently convicted paedophile and Families SA worker Shannon McCoole was reprimanded for a sexual comment he made about a little girl in departmental care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than being drummed out of the joint, he was only suspended for three months,\u201d David Penberthy said on FIVEAA Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it was after his suspension that he continued to abuse these seven kids that he was ultimately charged for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCoole, 33, was sentenced last week to 35 years in jail for the abuse of seven boys and girls, aged between 18 months and three years, while he was working for Families SA in a residential care facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would somebody like him be given a second chance?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/218528875&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Shadow families minister Rachel Sanderson said: \u201cWe need to look at our screening process and our ongoing investigation processes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said a three-yearly police check wouldn\u2019t have caught McCoole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a vetting process that is ongoing and continual and a lot stricter than it has been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/adelaide-still-broken-hearted-says-graham-cornes\">&#8216;I&#8217;M WORRIED&#8217; &#8211; CORNESY SAYS CROWS ARE STILL BROKEN-HEARTED<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/nasa-rover-captures-grey-lady-of-mars\">NASA ROVER CAPTURES EEIRE IMAGES FROM MARS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image | Daily Mail There are some big questions to answer after a former carer was convicted of abuse. In 2013, subsequently convicted paedophile and Families SA worker Shannon McCoole was reprimanded for a sexual comment he made about a little girl in departmental care. \u201cRather than being drummed out of the joint, he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-32733","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) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Families SA under fire over McCoole case - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/families-sa-under-fire-over-mccoole-case-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Families SA under fire over McCoole case\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Image | Daily Mail There are some big questions to answer after a former carer was convicted of abuse. 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