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'Survivors won': Good character references abolished for sexual offenders
Key takeaways
- Harrison James has spent the past four years tirelessly advocating to remove the provision of good character references when sentencing convicted paedophiles.
- On Tuesday, the NSW government helped pass a scaled-back version of its reforms, removing good character as a mitigating factor for sexual offences.
- NSW Premier Chris Minns had wanted to abolish the consideration of an offender's good character for all crimes.
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Harrison James has spent the past four years tirelessly advocating to remove the provision of good character references when sentencing convicted paedophiles. (Supplied)
Link copied Share Share article. A survivor advocate behind the campaign calling for good character references to be abolished in sentencing perpetrators of sexual offences has described the NSW reform as "an absolute victory".
On Tuesday, the NSW government helped pass a scaled-back version of its reforms, removing good character as a mitigating factor for sexual offences.
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