A minor is a child, under the age of 18 years.   This is heartbreaking, little unaccompanied children sent here on boats and subject to this sort of abuse.

Read more at The Australian, 26 June, 2013

As a government-appointed advisory committee was told that Immigration Department staff lacked a "clear understanding" of child protection practices, the evidence of STDs among children seeking asylum prompted calls for condoms to be made available at "discreet locations" at the Christmas Island detention centre.

With the number of children arriving on asylum boats climbing, documents obtained by The Australian under freedom of information laws have painted an alarming picture of the state of unaccompanied minors detained within the immigration detention system. The document contains the minutes from a briefing to the detention health advisory group in May last year.

The briefing follows the visit in March of that year by child and adolescent psychiatrist Choong-Siew Yong to the Christmas Island detention centre. In the site report, Dr Yong raises concerns about the "high rates of sexually transmitted infections among UAMs (unaccompanied minors)".

The minutes quote the Immigration Department's chief medical officer Paul Douglas advising the group that "condoms should be made available in discrete locations wherever appropriate".

ENDS

Condoms should be made available.   How about criminal investigations in relation to child abuse?