Little Girls Lost: The Stories of Four of Australia's Most Horrific Child Murderers by Helen Reade

How the murders of four Australian girls changed our society forever

Little Girls Lost tells the heartbreaking stories of the murders of four girls. But it also gives a groundbreaking account of how the girls' grieving parents brought about changes in the law to ease the unbearable burden for themselves - and for the families of other homicide victims.

Not happy with the law as it stood - seemingly more in favour of murderers than their victims - each of the children's families successfully took the government to task and brought about historic legislative changes such as:

• The Child Sex Offenders' Register
• The CRIMTRACK database
• DNA database for previous offenders
• Automatic victims' compensation and counselling
• Life sentence legislation
• Victim impact statements
• Pre-trial disclosure
• The foundation of the Homicide Victims' Support Group which has helped thousands of families in their grief since its inception in 1993

Little Girls Lost is crafted by a writer who passionately believes in her obligation to tell these stories of horror, heartbreak, love and family commitment beyond all odds. It is not only deeply moving, it's inspiring.