How childcare became a hunting ground

Warning: This story contains distressing themes including discussion of child sexual abuse. 

ABC journalist Adele Ferguson has spent months investigating Australia’s childcare industry and her findings are devastating.  

She’s exposed a broken system, where profit so often comes before the safety of children and where the most vulnerable are abused and mistreated.  

Today, Adele on her latest Four Corners investigation into how paedophiles are infiltrating childcare centres and why it’s so much worse than we ever thought. 

If you or someone you know needs help, please reach out to a support service. You can contact National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service: 1800RESPECT 1800 737 732, Blue Knot Helpline: 1300 657 380, or Lifeline: 13 11 14. In an emergency call 000. 

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Adele Ferguson, ABC investigative journalist