Woman sexually abused by teacher awarded extra $113,000 A judge has granted a woman sexually abused by her childhood teacher an extra $113,000, bringing her total damages to almost $2.13 million. AAP · Jun 25, 2024
Survivor hopes others get strength from $2m legal fight Katrina Munting has been awarded more than $2 million by the Supreme Court of Tasmania after suing the state and her high school teacher abuser for damages. AAP · Jun 17, 2024
Katrina Munting civil damages trial over abuse at hands of school teacher hears closing submissions Tasmanian woman Katrina Munting is seeking damages and only now coming to the end of her third major legal process since reporting to police in 2018 that she had been sexually abused by one of her high school teachers. ABC News · Mar 29, 2023
Abuse survivor's case against the state concludes Katrina Munting is suing the state of Tasmania and her high school teacher abuser for damages in a judge-only trial before the Supreme Court. AAP · Mar 29, 2023
Katrina Munting's former principal did not follow all protocols after abuse report, court hears A former Tasmanian school principal tells the Supreme Court he did not follow all the proper procedures when an allegation of abuse against former student Katrina Munting was reported to him. ABC News · Mar 24, 2023
Abusive teacher given option to resign, court told Katrina Munting is suing the state of Tasmania and her high school teacher abuser for damages in a judge-only trial before the Supreme Court. AAP · Mar 23, 2023
Katrina Munting's abusive teacher given option to resign rather than face investigation, Supreme Court hears A high school teacher who sexually abused one of his students in the late 1990s was given the option to resign, rather than face further investigation, a Tasmanian court hears. ABC News · Mar 23, 2023
Survivor Katrina Munting tells court of mission to 'stand in front of students and keep them safe' A court hears abuse survivor Katrina Munting turned her back on a more lucrative career to become a classroom teacher, because "for every person like me that stands in front of that class room, there was one less person like him" — her abuser. ABC News · Mar 22, 2023
Survivor became teacher to protect kids, court told Katrina Munting is suing the state of Tasmania and her high school teacher abuser for damages in a judge-only trial before the Supreme Court. AAP · Mar 22, 2023
Court hears Katrina Munting's high school abuser was working at Tasmanian uni that she went to When Katrina Munting started her science degree at university, she found the teacher who had sexually abused her as a high school student working at the same university's science department, a court is told. ABC News · Mar 21, 2023
Childhood abuse survivor sues the state, teacher A woman who was sexually abused as a teenager by her teacher is suing him and the state of Tasmania for damages. AAP · Mar 20, 2023
Katrina Munting's civil case against former teacher and Tasmanian Education Department over child abuse begins When she was a student in the 1990s, Katrina Munting was sexually abused by a teacher, who was later jailed for three years. Now, she is suing that former teacher and the government, in a case believed to be the first of its kind in the state. ABC News · Mar 20, 2023
Survivors and families welcome Tasmanian apology to child sexual abuse victims, but demand actions follow words Zoe Duncan did not get to hear the apology to child sexual abuse victims in Tasmania on Tuesday. Instead, her family carried her photo and heard words which, while welcomed, will "mean nothing without action". ABC News · Nov 8, 2022
Child sexual abuse survivor says planned Tasmanian law a step forward but will not prevent offending Tasmania's Attorney-General has announced plans to create a new criminal offence that will punish people in positions of power for failing to protect young people from sexual abuse. Katrina Munting says it is a step forward, but not something that will prevent abuse. ABC News · May 27, 2022
ABC News · May 10, 2022 Commission of Inquiry hears victim was refused meeting with Jeremy Rockliff 16 times Katrina Munting tells Tasmania's commission of inquiry into child sexual abuse about how she sought a meeting with the then-education minister about abuse at the hands of a teacher — only to be refused 16 times. That minister is now Tasmania's Premier.