Derek McDowell (Labour)

The Senator's point is a good one. The term is particularly defined in this context as someone who is believed to be abusing a child. We are discussing people who recklessly endanger a child by causing him or her to be left in such a situation because they are safe as long as the abuser in question is never convicted. For example, take the Ferns Inquiry, from which this all falls. Where were the convictions? There was plenty of reckless endangerment in my view, but I do not want to prejudice any potential trial.