On the 18th August 1992, Australian schoolgirl Ebony Simpson came home and told her mother that students had received a talk during a school assembly about stranger danger. Ebony's mother recalls "I said to her, if anything ever comes up in your life, if anything ever happens, come home any tell me. Then I read her a story and she went to bed. And the next day, when she went to school, she didn't come home."

Sources:

Crimes that Shook Australia - The Murder of Ebony Simpson

Garforth's Application for Special Leave: https://www8.austlii.edu.au/au/other/HCATrans/1994/149.rtf

Sentencing for "Life" in New South Wales, Research in Progress by John Anderson: https://anzsoc.org/files/conferencearchives/1998/anderson.pdf

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