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One More Rape Another Story Of Abuse By Bruce Grundy (November 2001) A former inmate of the John Oxley Youth Detention Centre at Wacol has alleged sexual abuse by a male staff member. The woman, now 30, said the man gave her extra cigarettes in exchange for having sex with him while she was detained at the centre in 1988. She said she had also been exploited and raped by a male staff member in Brisbane's Sir Leslie Wilson Detention Centre just before she was transferred to the John Oxley centre. The woman said the rape at the Sir Leslie Wilson centre was when she was 14. Because of the rape, she had slashed her wrists and had been taken to the Royal Brisbane Hospital for treatment, she said. The woman said she had decided to speak out after seeing reports in The Courier-Mail about the reporting and investigation of the alleged pack-rape of a 14-year-old Aboriginal girl at the John Oxley Centre, also in 1988. She said a man on duty at John Oxley had let himself into her room one evening and said." You must be lonely, you can't go out, you can't get a man", and began massaging her. He then had sex with her. His visits were repeated on a number of occasions. The woman said she had been 17 at the time, an age when girls often had boyfriends and she thought the man must have had feelings for her because of what he was doing. She said when she was nearing the end of her detention and was given weekend leave, the man would pay for a cab to take her to his place so that he could have sex with her. She said she had told another staff member about these incidents and she believed others knew. She said she told a staff member at the Sir Leslie Wilson centre what had happened there but nothing had been done about it. The woman said she believed the man who forced himself on her at Sir Lesile Wilson had sex with several female residents. She said her problems had started at the age of five when she was molested by her foster father. The abuse continued until she was 10. Her sister had told the nuns at the orphanage where she had been living about the abuse but nothing was done. The woman said that after her release from detention her problems had continued. She had a job working on the roads. But she said that being the only woman in the road gang meant she encountered unpleasant and distressing harassment and discrimination. She said her lack of education, her background of abuse, and the pressures of her life eventually caused her to break down and her children had spent time in care. She claims while her five children were in care, two of them, both boys, were raped. She said despite repeated efforts on her part, as far as she knew nothing was done. She said the children were now living with her. Top 1996 page visits Content Management Software 2010