Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia show psychologists and youth workers raised concerns and pleaded with youth justice authorities for a transfer to a safer facility
Authorities repeatedly ignored pleas that a 13-year-old boy was at risk of harm in the days before the child was allegedly sexually assaulted in an overcrowded Queensland police watch house cell.
Documents seen by Guardian Australia show psychologists and youth workers separately raised the alarm to the youth justice department about the size and vulnerability of the boy and sought his transfer out of the Cairns police watch house for his own safety.
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