‘The attention the Brittany Higgins case got in contrast to ours was quite stark’ (Interview)

Sophie Vivian was one of six women who spoke out about child sex abuse at the hands of Stephen Mitchell.

In 2021, while Brittany Higgins’ case got the Rolls-Royce ride, she says her treatment at the hands of DPP Shane Drumgold could not have been more different.

Sophie could have forgiven the him for letting her feel like a second-class victim if the man who sexually abused her as a child had got all the jail time he deserved. But that didn’t happen.

Instead, while the Brittany Higgins/Bruce Lehrmann case was devouring the time, focus and resources of the DPP, the man who violated Sophie and five other young girls negotiated himself a deal to escape the most egregious charges against him.

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