r/nsw

TL;DR:
After enduring severe domestic violence and institutional neglect, a former student is exposing how the NSW justice system weaponized a fabricated autism diagnosis and coerced a guilty plea to ignore their documented trauma. Following a psychological collapse triggered by police indifference to their father’s abuse, the author staged a non-harmful protest to force state intervention; they have now released unredacted evidence to hold the courts accountable for silencing survivors and protecting abusers through systemic corruption.

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For the past month, I have remained anonymous while investigative journalists reviewed the evidence of my case. My silence ends today.

In 2019, I was studying a double-degree in Electrical Engineering and Finance at the University of Sydney. I had lived independently since I was 18, had no criminal record, and was building a future I had worked hard for.

I was a victim of severe, documented domestic violence a reality recorded in my clinical medical files long before the events that led to my arrest.

The abuse reached its breaking point the day my father pinned me to the ground and strangled me. When I gasped that I couldn't breathe, he replied: "Good. You want to die."

When the police arrived, they walked into a scene entirely controlled by my abuser. I was on the floor in a state of complete traumatic shock. My abuser was standing, articulate, composed, and displaying to police a chilling "predatory calm."

The police looked at the defensive scratches on his hands, marks left by my desperate attempts to pry his fingers from my throat, and ignored my injuries. Based entirely on his calm demeanor, my trauma response, and scratches on abuser hands, they arrested me, the victim of the strangulation.

When I tried to give an official statement and report the assault, the police turned me away. Their exact words to me were: "We don't believe liars."

Denied protection by the police, and subsequently denied emergency psychiatric care by hospitals due to my new pending charges, I was trapped. Seizing on my crisis, my family shifted the blame away from their own abuse by telling police that I suffered from an inherent "behavioral defect": Autism.

The police and the courts eagerly adopted my abusers' narrative. It was an incredibility convenient loophole for the state. By adopting the label, the state could ignore pre-existing medical records that proving my family had been physically, emotionally, and psychologically abusing for years.

The courts suppressed records that explicitly warned that my family's abuse was causing a severe psychiatric decline and that I was at risk of a complete psychological collapse. Instead, the state weaponized a medical label to strip me of my credibility.

(For the record: I've undergone an independent, gold-standard ADOS-2 neuropsychological assessment. The results are conclusive: I DO NOT HAVE AUTISM. The State anchored its entire prosecution on a fabrication).

Shut out of every service, terrified that my father would use the State to have me involuntarily committed under his control, and being prosecuted by the courts for the very strangulation I had survived, I experienced a total psychological collapse.

I attempted suicide. I survived, waking up in a hospital from a coma.

When I was released, I was still suffering the lingering cognitive and psychological effects of the coma. Sitting on my bed, pushed beyond the absolute limits of human endurance and ready to end it all again, one single thought stopped me: How many others? How many others have been failed by institutions that turn a blind eye to abuse until it’s too late?

I realized I could die right there, becoming just another silent statistic of abuse. Or, if the system was determined to destroy me, I would use my collapse to leave a permanent, undeniable record of how this system destroys victims.

I placed an inert, fake device on one of my abuser's doorsteps.

I do not hide from what I did, but I will not allow the State to rewrite history. I told authorities from the very beginning that the act was deliberately harmless, a fact explicitly documented in official court transcripts and confirmed by police forensics. I made certain no actual harm could occur. It was not an act of malice; it was the desperate, final resort of a broken mind. It was a last attempt to force the system to finally look at the abuse it had buried, in the hope that no other victim would ever have to suffer in silence.

Instead what followed was the ruthless, bureaucratic disposal of a human life. To acknowledge my severe trauma would have exposed the police negligence that triggered my collapse in the first place. So, the system chose to bury the truth.

Initially, Legal Aid recognized my actions as a severe trauma response and prepared a strong case for my diversion into treatment under the Mental Health Act. Desperate for better representation, I switched to a lawyer who promised do a better job.

Initially, Legal Aid recognized my actions as a severe trauma response and prepared a strong case for my diversion into treatment under the Mental Health Act. Desperate for better representation, I switched to a private lawyer who promised to do a better job.

Instead, he dismantled my defense from the inside. He explicitly threatened to withdraw and leave me unrepresented mid-proceedings if I didn’t drop the mental health protections Legal Aid had set up. He pushed for a fast, convenient guilty plea just so he could close the file.

This is where my will finally broke. Isolated, severely traumatized, and terrified of being left to face the State alone, I was coerced into dropping my mental health defense and entering a plea. I'd never would have done so otherwise. When I begged him to subpoena the clinical evidence of the night my father strangled me, he told me simply: "It didn't matter."

The system's exploitation continued in the courtroom. At one point, I was dragged before the court without any legal representation at all. Left alone to face the prosecution, the magistrate actually asked if I wanted to run my own case that day. It was a calculated move to take advantage of a person they believed lacked the capacity to defend himself. I said no.

During the proceedings, the court asked me: Why didn't you report the abuse sooner?

The truth is, I did. But when I stepped forward, the police called me a liar. When I tried to raise my documented history of abuse in court, the justice system looked away again, proving that there is never a safe option for victims to report abuse in New South Wales.

The final trap closed during my last court hearing. With my Legal Aid funding exhausted, my lawyer gave me his bottom line: he needed $10,000 just to continue his services. Stating he didn't even believe I’d be released that day. Having been coerced into a plea and stripped of my defenses, I was left staring at a $10,000 wall just to plead guilty.

By refusing to consider the medical history and relying on the medical label for the conviction, it leaves the NSW trapped by it's own record. If I am not Autistic, then the courts are deliberately relying on fabricated medical diagnoses to secure easy convictions. If I am Autistic, then the State is using systemic prejudice to cover up abuse against vulnerable minorities.

Regardless of which reality they choose, the truth remains: that the courts suppress evidence of domestic violence to strip away the context of what victims survive. By treating a trauma-induced breakdown as a purely malicious act, the State establishes a terrifying precedent: they wait for the victim to break, and then punish the victim for breaking, turning the Justice System into a state-funded weapon for domestic abusers.

I am not releasing this evidence to escape accountability. My accountability is public record, I have served my time. But my conviction does not grant the State a license to avoid accountability. The State does not get a free pass to ignore documented abuse, fabricate medical history, or extort guilty pleas from traumatized victims.

If I remain silent, this institutional corruption stays behind closed doors forever. I accept the risks and the inevitable backlash of speaking out, because the safety of the victims who come after me is worth more than my own comfort. I will not surrender to a system that weaponizes its authority to silence, break, and discard survivors.

If the courts remain silent, they are sending a clear message to all survivors and minorities: You are not a citizen with rights. You are simply trash to be dehumanized, silenced, and disposed of by society

As of today, the State can no longer rely on a my fabricated narrative to keep its failures buried.

The unredacted forensic evidence, audio files, clinical medical notes, and the Petition for Systemic Reform are now live at on my profile.

Let's finally hold the courts accountable for the innocent lives that they help destroy.

(Note: While the published evidence on my profile is more than enough to support my narrative, this is only a snapshot. I hold extensive, highly sensitive evidence regarding my entire family's history of abuse, which I am withholding at this time to maintain focus on the failures of the State).

I can't find a Yass town subreddit. So ill say this here. Great town. However to the person running a vacuum or a piece of machinery that makes a loud wuring noise all night. On the 11/05/26 till the morning after, (now). Mate, from everyone who was trying to sleep last night, i say this to you: we hope you stub your toe and cry.

Starting to process of looking into building a shed, any advice on builders?

Following the tragic reports of homelessness in Wagga Wagga and the North Coast, it feels like regional NSW is hitting a breaking point. With vacancy rates in inner-city areas and regional hubs at 1%, are you seeing more "long-term" camps in your local parks? Is the $2 billion infrastructure boost in tomorrow's budget actually going to build roofs, or is it all going toward "priority upgrades" for roads?

Making a post about younger people suffering cause like all I hear about is how people with 75k cars and 2k I phones who eat out everyday can't afford a house when you guys are almost 40 and didn't make smart financial decisions in your 20's now it's everyone else's fault, the other day the inner west council decided to throw my only source of shelter into a bin, Ive had to steal food contemplate committing a violent crime or selling myself to try and get back to some sort of normality, Ive been assaulted sexually verbally and physically Ive been spat on and abused by people just for existing, we have a society where someone who is studying can't even get a box to live in (fuck the thought of buying a house) yet all I hear about is how the people better off have it harder 🤣.

Remember as you complain about not being able to live in Bondi in the apartment you dream of some people don't even have clean clothes and warmth, humanity sucks but remember there's always people worse off than you.

Howdy,

I am weighing up my options for several job offers, and one of them involves a move to Tamworth, or other towns in the region that are a reasonable commute.

I'm from Perth, but have worked in regional NSW. Mostly Gundagai, Cobar, Junee, Tumut. I have no idea what Tamworth is like, but from what I have been told it's a nice, regional town, with everything you would need/want.

I have a young family, 7 month old and a 2ish year old. We would ideally be looking at renting, as I don't know the NSW property market well enough to purchase a place. Especially in a regional centre.

From the ABS, the average income in Tamworth is between $54-$76k/year. The Salary I will be on will be anywhere between 2- 4x higher than that. If that matters.

Are there "nicer" areas of Tamworth to live in? Are there other towns in the vicinity that are "better" to live in?

ive been waiting on my 189 visa for ages and it finally got approved last week so im packing up from the uk and moving to sydney in about 6 weeks. im a software engineer in my early 30s and want to live somewhere with good transport into the city but not insane rents if possible.

im working with ptw law to finalise all the last visa and settlement details before i fly over.

any recommendations for decent suburbs for new arrivals? how tough is it finding a rental right now in nsw?

thanks heaps for the local insights guys appreciate it.

Hey, i’m curious if anyone in here in NSW is living in a tiny house, caravan, or off-grid setup full-time and kind of… flying under the radar a bit? Where abouts are you located (general area is fine), and what’s the situation like with neighbours/council attention?

Not looking for anything illegal explained, just your experience on how strict or relaxed different areas feel.

Also how isolated are you vs still being somewhat close to towns?

I’m looking at buying land in more rural NSW, and of course if I can go the ‘legally correct’ way I will. But to those who aren’t, this post is for you!

Hey all,

I got my driver’s licence approved recently and was given the temporary paper licence. I accidentally left it somewhere, but my physical card has now arrived in the mail.

Do I need to get hold of the temporary paper, or is it irrelevant once the card shows up? Also, is there any risk if someone else finds it?

Thanks.

Hi Everyone,

I am hoping to get people in NSW’s input on this. I would love to know your experience in the sector/organisations.

I have been in the OOHC sector for over 3 years now after graduating with 2 Bachelors and an honours degree. I am currently with an NGO. It was great for the first year, then upper management diced up our team and I hate it there now.

I have been applying for new jobs and got offered two roles - a Child Protection Caseworker with DCJ and a counsellor with KidsHelpline. I’m at a loss for which one I should choose.

Let’s start with DCJ:
- Good pay
- Job stability (NGOs are getting de-commissioned right now)
- Lots of opportunities for career growth
- Extensive training
- Familiar with the position
- 30 minute walk from my house
- I’m worried about work/life balance (I currently have very solid boundaries around ensuring when I go home, I don’t work and am not willing to sacrifice this)

KidsHelpline:
- Rewarding work
- Completely WFH (I have chronic pain, so this is a big win)
- Good flexibility
- Roster
- New challenge
- I get to work directly with young people (which is my favourite part of my current job)
- Less pay
- Potential support for my Masters application
- Smaller organisation

Does anyone have any tips or thoughts? Any experience would be really helpful.

For anyone that has recently done the HPT, are they still using those crappy old videos that you find on the practice websites or have they moved on to the newer CGI? Ive gotten through all the older videos but idk if i should spend my time on the newer ones???