Professor Gemma Carey dies: Family speak out following her death
Australian author, academic and child abuse survivor Professor Gemma Carey has died after an illness.
‘Gemma passed away on November 17, 2024 after a long battle with illness. Her family requests privacy at this difficult time,” her family confirmed to Daily Mail Australia.
In September 2020, she released her memoir about sexual abuse.
‘My mother knew as a child that I was being abused. She had read letters my abuser had sent to me,” she wrote in the memoir.
“But she never talked to me about it, or what they described. And she never intervened to stop the abuse.”
When Prof. Carey was seventeen, she took the perpetrator to court without anyone else’s knowledge and had him placed on the child sex offenders register.
Australian professor Gemma Carey, a passionate advocate for the rights of people with disabilities, has died after a battle with illness