Andrew L. Urban.
Noel Greenaway and Frank Valentine were both, at different times, child welfare officers at the Parramatta Training School for Girls (GTS), back in the 60s and 70s, a place for troubled and troublesome young teenage girls, generally around 14-15. Decades later, some of the former inmates responded to the promptings of lawyers, media and politicians, to come forward and make allegations of sexual and physical abuse against these two men, the only surviving male staff from those years. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013-2017) was all ears. As were the police and later the courts. All they had to do was make their claims, which until then they had never mentioned to anyone. Corroboration was not required. Both men were found guilty of a number of the charges – no surprise. Continue reading