Award-winning Australian author Craig Silvey charged with child exploitation offences

Three children of the accused are affected by the restrictions; broader impact on students who studied his works in schools.

Craig Silvey, the Australian author whose novel Jasper Jones became a staple of school curricula across the country, was arrested at his Perth home and charged with possessing and distributing child exploitation material — crimes that cast a long shadow over a literary career built, in no small part, on stories told from the perspective of vulnerable young people. At 43, a father of three and twice named among Australia's most promising novelists, he now faces the courts under conditions that bar him from unsupervised contact with children, including his own. The distance between the moral wor

Award-winning Australian author Craig Silvey charged with child exploitation offences

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