09/11/2025
Grace Tame shows up in ways people may never comprehend 🙌🏻❤️• As some of you know, I’m currently in the middle of a national keynote series about the abuse of preverbal children.
In recent months, disturbing reports of industrial scale s*xual offending in preschool and daycare facilities have sent shockwaves through the community. Organised and solo perpetrators are deliberately pursuing child-focused employment to gain access to potential victims, while exploiting staffing constraints, weak regulatory frameworks, poor workplace cultures and advancing technologies. Research reveals a horrifying, undeniable theme: the younger the victim, the more violent and sadistic the harm is likely to be.
The landscape is bleak. It’s also ripe for progress. Bold public conversations, community awareness, specialised training, improved employment oversight, institutional courage, legislative reform and needs-based funding are central to prevention. It’s incumbent on all of us to be active bystanders and advocate for our little ones.
So far, I’ve delivered 4 of 5 presentations in four states for Goodstart Early Learning — a not-for-profit education and childcare provider with over 650 centres nationwide.
Giving heavy talks is part of my job as a survivor-advocate and founder. I’ve easily done close to 1000 over the years. None have affected me quite like this one. It’s hard to know whether it’s the cumulative impact of them all setting in, or the subject matter. Perhaps it’s both.
Regardless, I am indebted to all the people who have offered support over the last few weeks. Whether you’ve opened up your home, reached out, shared a meal, come for a run, made a house call or simply smiled at me, please know you’re a big part of what makes it possible to forge on. And by virtue of helping me, you’re also helping to keep future generations safe. Thank you 🖤
📷: Cass Warner