Commentary
While our country recovers from the COVID lockdown years, across Australia there are thousands of families who look back to 2021 as the start of a very different nightmare—the year their sons were accused of sexual assault.
This is the legacy of the media hype around Brittany Higgins.
There’s a flood of copycat cases working their way through our justice system, demanding massive police and judicial resources, often for dubious cases that should never have ended up in court.
A huge wave of women came forward in early 2021 claiming to be victims of sexual assault. The New South Wales (NSW) Bureau of Crime Statistics reported that in March 2021, NSW police recorded the highest-ever spike in sexual assaults, an astonishing 59 percent increase from the monthly average in the previous year….