78-year-old charged with 55 offences of child sexual abuse at Adelaide detention centre

Across more than two decades, children held in state custody at Adelaide's Magill training centre were allegedly subjected to sexual abuse by a man who moved through that institution with access but without formal employment — a quiet, devastating breach of the protection society owes its most vulnerable. Now, nearly half a century after the first alleged offence, a 78-year-old man faces 55 charges spanning 29 victims, as a dedicated police taskforce brings the first of what may be several cases before the courts. The long interval between harm and accountability is itself part of the story —