After a three-decade fight for reform sparked from the tragic deaths of two Bourke Aboriginal girls, the NSW Parliament will finally close a loophole allowing offenders who sexually assault a body to walk free.
On 6 December 1987, non-Aboriginal man Alexander Ian Grant crashed his truck about 60 kilometres north of the town, killing passengers16-year-old Mona Lisa Smith and her 15-year-old cousin Jacinta Rose ‘Cindy’ Smith.
When farm workers arrived on the scene, one of them saw Grant asleep with his arm draped over Cindy’s body. Her pants were pulled down to her ankles…