The current legislation applicable to the protection of  'at risk' children needs to be reformed. In Queensland alone 10 000 children aged 1-4 years old are abused, by either their biological parents, guardians or family friends.

The abuse applied to these children include sexual, emotional and physical. Leniency towards child abuse offenders is immorally unjust. A more recent example of this suggested leniency is a case held in the supreme court in 2009. A 13 year old girl's parents had 'prostituted' her out to a 56 year old man. Whilst this highlighted the urgency of child protection, it was not enough to enforce a strict penalty. The 13 year old girls 'client' recieved 6 years in jail. 

The media can also be seen as being partially responsible for the lack of awareness on child abuse offenders. The media often only depicts the harsher penalties as opposed to exposing Australia to the realistic outcome of child abuse crimes. Although many organisations advocate awareness of abuse, there isn't enough economic support to assist society in the prevention of raised child abuse statistics. Evidently this is unjust and therefore it would be highly beneficial to commence a review of current child protection legislation to ensure that our future generations are protected from such immoral exploitation.