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Authors
Hunt, Gabrielle R. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9932-7497
Higgins, Daryl J. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0268-8243
Mathews, Ben https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0421-0016
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Australian Catholic University Limited
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Article History
Received: 26 March 2026
Accepted: 15 May 2026
First Online: 26 May 2026
Declarations
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: Daryl Higgins and Ben Mathews are Chief Investigators for the Australian Child Maltreatment Study. Gabrielle Hunt has no competing interests to declare.
: The Australian Catholic University Human Research Ethics Committee approved secondary analysis of the ACMS dataset (approval number: 2025-4445X). The original ACMS received ethical approval from the Queensland University of Technology Human Research Ethics Committee (#1900000477).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors affirm that ACMS human research participants provided informed consent for publication. Data presented from the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse were sourced via public record.
