Reiby Training School/Reiby Juvenile Justice Centre

Reiby Training School was opened in 1973 by the New South Wales Department of Youth and Community Services. It is situated near Campbelltown in western Sydney. The training school was initially opened for girls who were defined as delinquent. In 1977, it became coeducational and was transferred to the Department of Juvenile Justice. It later changed its name to Reiby Juvenile Justice Centre in 1991.

Like many other juvenile detention centres around Australia, Reiby Juvenile Justice Centre has been involved in matters dealing with allegations of child sexual abuse. In 2017, three female juvenile justice officers were charged by NSW Police over sexually assaulting inmates at Reiby between 1996 and 1997, while in 2020 another former female juvenile justice officer was charged with sexually assaulting a male inmate who was 15 years old at the time in the late 1990s. NSW Police had established Strike Force Redcliffe, comprising detectives from Campbelltown Local Area Command, to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by former juvenile justice officers at Reiby. This was in light of the evidence given at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse concerning the horrific abuse of inmates in youth detention centres around Australia.

Moody Law has represented in the past and is currently representing clients who have made allegations of sexual abuse while they were detainees at Reiby Juvenile Justice Centre.

We invite former victims of sexual and physical abuse by any employee of the Department of Communities and Justice/ Youth Justice NSW to tell us confidentially what information they may have, and we will explain what options are available to help with these cases.

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