Sarah Kopp

Mum's recollection, and I do, like this kind of fits with my own memory of at the time what she said,

was someone from the Department of Education was going to call her.

She only knew this was happening because Paul had already given her the heads up.

He said, someone from the department's going to call you, you need to just say that I'm a family friend.

You know, because they're trying to get me in trouble, kind of thing.

And he'd already put in the hard work prior to this, like, mum was going through a lot of issues at her workplace,

And, you know, he was in a bit of trouble with his workplace.

So they really bonded on that.

And he came across like such a victim of, you know, this workplace bullying and all this other stuff.

So I think mom empathized with that going, oh, this poor guy, you know, of course I'll say that he's a family friend and we love having him over.

So they rang and yeah, she, they only really asked, I think one question was sort of, you know, what's the nature of

Paul Greeley's relationship.

And she was like, yeah, he's a family friend.

You know, he comes over for dinner sometimes.

And that was basically it.

They didn't really look too much further into it.

And unfortunately, yes, it was a missed opportunity to step in and stop things.

Yeah, he was always very insistent that we don't have, like, vaginal intercourse until I was 16, because that's against the law.

But yeah, we were certainly doing everything else at that point up until.

And that was, I think, why, you know, turning 16 was such a big deal to me, because it sort of signified, I guess, being able to be in a proper adult relationship.