Child Protection

Ms SANDERSON (Adelaide) (15:08): Supplementary: can the minister confirm if any new victims have been identified from the 100,000 photos and 600 videos found at the home of Shannon McCoole, which police were still working through?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Child Protection Reform, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for Consumer and Business Services, Minister for the City of Adelaide) (15:08): These are matters for police, and they are working through these matters. Can I just make one point about this: if there have been victims identified by the police, I think the last thing we should be doing in this place is attempting to point fingers at those people. The opportunity should be there for the police to investigate, because it might well be that that leads police into other investigations in other matters.

So, I think we should just leave that alone and let the police deal with it. If there are victims that are identified, obviously there are questions about what support is offered to those people and such like as well. So, let us let the police deal with those matters.