When Professor Gemma Carey was 12 years old, a man twice her age would sneak into her bedroom on a weekly basis and sexually assault her.  When Gemma was seventeen, she took the perpetrator to court without anyone else knowing and had him placed on the child sex offender’s register.  

Perhaps most startling is that for 20 years, Gemma’s mother had known about her daughter’s abuser.

But why hadn’t she acted to protect her daughter?  

Could the genesis of this unspeakable betrayal be found in Gemma’s mother’s own family history?

This is Gemma’s story…

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Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday

With thanks to my special guest: Professor Gemma Carey

Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso

With very special thanks to George Weinberg. 

BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung who are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.