Daryna Zadvirna

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Cross-Platform Reporter at Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

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Calls for urgent reform in WA's child protection system after kids tell of horror foster care abuse

Nov 10, 2024 | abc.net.au | Daryna Zadvirna

Loading... Josh was two days old when he was removed from his parents. The state of Western Australia became his guardian — responsible for protecting and nurturing the vulnerable infant. But Josh, who is now 16, says government care was no safer than his troubled home. More than 400 children in state care became victims of neglect or sexual, physical or emotional abuse in WA between 2020 and 2023. Some have even died. These are their stories.
Questions raised as man in coma after suspected drug overdose at Albany Prison

Sep 20, 2024 | abc.net.au | Samantha Goerling |Daryna Zadvirna

The family of a man in a coma after a suspected drug overdose inside a West Australian jail say authorities failed to notify them promptly and are questioning a decision to shackle him in his hospital bed. The 33-year-old-man,who the ABC is not identifying for privacy reasons, required urgent medical attention while in Albany Regional Prison on Monday. His family told the ABC he was serving a sentence for burglary.
Potential bureaucratic bungle could see hundreds of WA workplace negligence claims become invalid

Sep 13, 2024 | abc.net.au | Daryna Zadvirna

Hundreds of workplace negligence claims have been cast into doubt, after a decision by the WA Court of Appeal highlighted a potential bureaucratic bungle by a government agency. The WA government has told the ABC it is urgently reviewing the judgement, which was handed down last week, and the potential operational or legal issues it has raised.
Boy who died in WA youth detention could still be alive if he'd stayed in care program, provider says

Sep 3, 2024 | abc.net.au | Daryna Zadvirna

WARNING: This story discusses incidents of self-harm. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the name of the person who has died. The teenage boy who died while locked up in WA's youth detention centre last week would have still been alive if he was not removed from a care program, the organisation who ran it says.
'Unholy wall of silence': Inquiry slams Chrtistian Brothers for trying to hide abuse and limit payouts

Aug 14, 2024 | abc.net.au | Daryna Zadvirna |Nicolas Perpitch

Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467 Lifeline on 13 11 14 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander crisis support line 13YARN on 13 92 76 Kids Helpline on 1800 551 800 Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636 Headspace on 1800 650 890 ReachOut at au.reachout.com MensLine Australia on 1300 789 978 QLife 1800 184 527 The names of known child abusers should be published prominently on church websites and the WA government should create a centrally accessible list of all known perpetrators, an inquiry into...
Detention facility continued to house at-risk youth months after teenager fatally self-harmed, inquest hears

Aug 6, 2024 | abc.net.au | Daryna Zadvirna

An inquest has heard the juvenile detention wing at Casuarina Prison — where a teenager fatally self-harmed — continued to house detainees at the highest risk of self-harm months after his death in October last year. The facility's former superintendent Doug Coyne could not provide a reason for why the practice was not stopped earlier. Mr Coyne admitted the practice would have continued had it not been for the death of the teenager, and the subsequent inquiry.
Who was behind 'grievous lies' to the minister, and other burning questions from the Coroner's Court

Aug 3, 2024 | abc.net.au | Keane Bourke |Daryna Zadvirna

The slow turning of bureaucratic cogs is typically about as interesting as watching paint dry. WARNING: This story discusses incidents of self-harm and contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died. But when those cogs churn out information a top bureaucrat describes as "a series of grievous lies", suddenly they're a bit more interesting. Even more so when that information is relied on by a minister to lock up children inside an isolated unit of a maximum-security adult prison.
'I was now the guy hurting kids': Former justice chief breaks down on the stand at Cleveland Dodd inquest

Jul 25, 2024 | abc.net.au | Daryna Zadvirna

The former boss of WA's Department of Justice has broken down on the stand at the inquiry into the state's first juvenile death in custody, conceding that treatment of some juvenile detainees by the department was "institutional abuse". WARNING: This story discusses incidents of self-harm and contains the image of an Indigenous person who has died.
Former WA corrections chief Adam Tomison says he wishes he'd met with Cleveland Dodd's mother

Jul 24, 2024 | abc.net.au | Rhiannon Shine |Daryna Zadvirna

Former Director General of WA's Department of Justice Adam Tomison says he regrets not meeting with the mother of an Indigenous teenager who took his own life in Unit 18. Speaking at an inquest into the teenager's death on Wednesday, Mr Tomison issued a personal apology to Nadene Dodd, who was in the court. The apology came after Coroner Philip Urquhart criticised government departments for submitting key documents to the inquest late.
Officer in charge the night Cleveland Dodd found unresponsive in Unit 18 cell excused from testifying at inquest

Jul 22, 2024 | abc.net.au | Daryna Zadvirna

The officer who was in charge on the night a teenager was found unresponsive in his cell at a controversial WA juvenile detention facility has been excused from giving evidence at the inquest into the boy's death. WARNING: This story discusses incidents of self-harm and contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died. Cleveland Dodd, 16, died after self-harming in his cell in Unit 18, a youth wing at maximum-security adult Casuarina Prison in October last year.

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Articles

Calls for urgent reform in WA's child protection system after kids tell of horror foster care abuse

Questions raised as man in coma after suspected drug overdose at Albany Prison

Potential bureaucratic bungle could see hundreds of WA workplace negligence claims become invalid

Boy who died in WA youth detention could still be alive if he'd stayed in care program, provider says

'Unholy wall of silence': Inquiry slams Chrtistian Brothers for trying to hide abuse and limit payouts

Detention facility continued to house at-risk youth months after teenager fatally self-harmed, inquest hears

Who was behind 'grievous lies' to the minister, and other burning questions from the Coroner's Court

'I was now the guy hurting kids': Former justice chief breaks down on the stand at Cleveland Dodd inquest

Former WA corrections chief Adam Tomison says he wishes he'd met with Cleveland Dodd's mother

Officer in charge the night Cleveland Dodd found unresponsive in Unit 18 cell excused from testifying at inquest

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