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.
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Adele Ferguson, ABC investigative journalist
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