“Persistent" child sex abusers will face a maximum life sentence as part of a raft of legal changes announced by the NSW government today.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Attorney General Mark Speakman introduced the reforms, putting the state ahead in its response to recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse.
But she stopped short of pushing for state laws to break the seal of confession.
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