A copy of signatures and comments with this petition were handed to Assistant Police Commissioner Steve Fontana today at the CLAN Protest outside Police HQ Melbourne. "A National Apology will encourage more victims to testify and mean more pedophiles are successfully prosecuted. People as they age, they tend to have very strong memories from their childhood. Older people who were arrested for vagrancy as a 3 year old, or subject to beatings in Police premises or NOT BELIEVED about Child Sex Abuse, definitely need an Apology because these were Crimes on the Statute Books at the time, and the Police should have taken a Statement. The Police should have been sympathetic to a child who was brave enough to speak out about horrendous crimes being committed against them. ... Why push for another Apology? 43% of the people who have testified at the Royal Commission, nearly 3,000 people were in Out of Home Care in Australia. It is retraumatising to give testimony to the Royal Commission, but what happens is that the evidence given to the Royal Commission stays with the Royal Commission for 100 years. IT DOESN'T GO TO THE POLICE. In order for the Police to charge a perpetrator that is still alive, or a perpetrator that is still offending against children, it is necessary for people to have trust in the Police. And for the Police to publicise that they will speak to victims of child sex abuse and historic child sex abuse, take their statements, and pursue their perpetrators. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-23/abuse-survivors-call-for-police-apology/7777946