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Crime by Amelia Saw
Premium Content Think you re safest in broad daylight? Think again. The time you re most likely to fall victim to a sexual offence, be intimidated, stalked or harassed, or have your house broken into is on a weekday morning or afternoon. Figures from NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, obtained exclusively by News Corp Australia, reveal that in 2019 the peak time for sex offences was on a Wednesday afternoon, when 451 offences were recorded from midday to 6pm. However, all weekday afternoons saw sex offences rise to similar figures of approximately 400. That s four times as many sex offences as some other time periods.
Daniel Daylight will never forget the day a young Indigenous boy asked for bail in the children’s court so he could attend his year 6 farewell.
The 33-year-old Gamilaroi man was working as the Aboriginal client and community support officer at Parramatta children’s court in Sydney’s west. His main role was to refer kids to support services but he did whatever he felt was needed: talked to parents and lawyers, and bought kids lunch when they turned up hungry with no money.
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Daylight soon noticed a pattern. The same kids kept returning to the court, from the age of 10 to 18.