Five years after denying there was any evidence of child sexual abuse in the sport, Gymnastics Australia signs on the scheme to help survivors.
When the organisation denied abuse in the sport in 2018, it was despite the 2017 conviction of former gymnastics coach Graham Partington who groomed and raped 14-year-old Alison Quigley in Victoria in 1981.
She continued to push for the body to finish joining the scheme through a parliamentary petition signed by hundreds of people, journal reports, and media interviews."Having said that, I wish [the wait] had been a lot shorter," she said. In response, then Gymnastics Australia chief Kitty Chiller appointed a new child safety coordinator and created a National Child Safety Working Group to ensure children were kept safe."There's never been any evidence or complaints that anyone's been unhappy within the Gymnastics Australia environment," she said in 2018.
Two years after her comments denying an issue, in 2020 Ms Chiller commissioned the Australian Human Rights Commission to launch an independent investigation into Gymnastics Australia, which led to theThe report found the sport was not safeguarding children and young people, that a focus on the "ideal body" could result in eating disorders, and coaching practices were putting athletes at risk of harm and abuse.
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