UNDERAGE sex offenders at a juvenile detention centre were shown an R-rated slasher film, which featured nudity and sex scenes, by a government officer who paid for it using taxpayer money.
Up to six detainees as young as 15 years old were shown the gruesome and explicit B-grade horror flick
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End by their recreation officer.
It is understood two of the inmates were serving sentences for sex-related crimes, yet were exposed to an oral sex scene and semi-naked women.
Woman killed with axe
The film also includes an incest scene between two flesh-eating zombies. Other scenes include a woman being cleaved in half with an axe.
It was hired using a Department of Juvenile Justice account. The staff member has since been moved to an administrative position but remains on the same pay level.
The department said she had been "disciplined" but did not elaborate.
"Immediate sacking"
Former Children's Court magistrate Barbara Holborow said the officer ought to be sacked immediately.
"Where do they get these people from? When you put a child into a detention centre it's not just to punish them, it's to rehabilitate and educate them," Ms Holborow said.
"How can you rehabilitate kids if you're going to show them filth like that. Whoever the person is, they should be sacked."
The incident at the Keelong detention centre near Wollongong in November prompted a crackdown on DVD use by Juvenile Justice Minister Barbara Perry.
Yet, just two months later a similar incident occurred at the Cobham detention centre when inmates were treated to a screening of the horror film Saw II.
It is unclear how many sat through the entirety of Wrong Turn 2: Dead End. The department said only two inmates watched the whole movie, which features ex-punk rocker Henry Rollins and B-grade sex kitten Crystal Lowe. Much of the explicit material occurs at the beginning of the film.
"More disturbing is that two of the six residents that saw the DVD were serving sentences for sex crimes," one insider said.
The source said, despite the serious breach, management failed to report the matter to the professional conduct unit.
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