Fed: Former public servant guilty of leaking classified material

AAP General News (Australia)
08-25-2008
Fed: Former public servant guilty of leaking classified material

CANBERRA, Aug 25 AAP - A Canberra jury has found a former commonwealth public servant
guilty of emailing classified information about sexual abuse in the Northern Territory.

Former federal indigenous policy adviser Tjanara Goreng Goreng, 50, had pleaded not
guilty to seven charges of intentionally leaking information in mid 2006.

Goreng Goreng had sent information about government plans to introduce sexual health
checks on children at Mutitjulu near Uluru to a long-time friend who was a member of the
community council.

The jury found Goreng Goreng guilty of five counts of leaking confidential material.

Two other charges were dismissed including one relating to the alleged passing on of
details of a confidential complaint made by a youth worker at Mutitjulu, alleging financial
misappropriation.

Goreng Goreng, who faces up to two years' jail on each conviction, will be sentenced in October.

She was released on bail but declined to comment outside the court.

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