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Leigh Leigh was only 14 years old in November 1989. Going to her very  first "teenager party" should have been a fun rite of passage, but the  night ended with a vibrant young girl's torture and death. Meg discusses  how the media and the community blamed Leigh Leigh for her rape and  murder which sparked a nationwide commentary on victim-blaming and a  culture that shames women when they've done nothing wrong.

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Anonymous

I went to the same high school as Leigh Leigh. She was in the year below me. “Stocko” people were generally viewed (by the rest of the school population) as being pretty rough around the edges. Their parties were known to be completely out of control. Leigh was absolutely not cast in the same light, before, or even after, within the Newcastle High community. She was a beautiful, bright, smiley and always happy girl, with good grades and good friends. Fresh faced and well behaved….And NO “reputation” 🤯 I remember distinctly the last time I saw her, on the Friday before she was murdered, walking towards me as she came out of the Math Building, as I entered. She was laughing with her friends as she made her way to her next class. And I remember the pall of fear, distress, uncertainty and concern that engulfed the school in those weeks afterwards. I went to the school dance that was on the Wednesday night after that awful weekend, the one that she was hoping to attend if her mother decided she had “behaved” and made curfew at the party. It was a sad and sombre affair (the dance), people were in utter disbelief that she was dead. One of our own, taken so brutally, so young. Rest In Peace beautiful girl 🕊

Bianca Van Dyk

I can’t imagine what she went through, this story hit close to home, and All I can think about is how alone she was at the end but I hoped she remembered the love that her family had for her and all her friends. People are cruel.