Child and adult refugees held on Nauru under Australia’s offshore detention regime are continuing to report allegations of sexual abuse and engage in self-harm, new leaked documents reveal. The leak follows the Guardian’s publication of the Nauru files, incident reports revealing the trauma and abuse inflicted on children held by Australia in offshore detention. She was dropped at another location and, according to the report, told “that if she told anyone they would kill her”. The woman told a caseworker how “on numerous occasions” men of Nauruan appearance requested that she “engage in sexual intercourse with them in exchange for money”. It is three years since the first two refugee children arrived on Nauru, on 18 September 2013.

Source: The Guardian September 19, 2016 00:56 UTC