Northern Territory nurse Rachel Hale responds to trolls who slammed her ... trends now

Northern Territory nurse Rachel Hale responds to trolls who slammed her ... trends now
Northern Territory nurse Rachel Hale responds to trolls who slammed her ... trends now

Northern Territory nurse Rachel Hale responds to trolls who slammed her ... trends now

Rachel Hale spoke out about the abhorrent sexual abuse children in rural Indigenous communities suffer but has now been forced to defend herself after trolls questioned her credibility

Rachel Hale spoke out about the abhorrent sexual abuse children in rural Indigenous communities suffer but has now been forced to defend herself after trolls questioned her credibility

A Northern Territory nurse who spoke out about the sexual abuse children in remote Indigenous communities suffer has come under fire from trolls. 

Rachel Hale, 45, has been working as a full-time cosmetic nurse for the past two years in the Territory. 

She previously worked for Darwin's Danila Dilba Aboriginal Health Service, NT Health, an alcohol and rehab centre and a jail and did cosmetic work on the side.

But after sharing anecdotes about some of the horrific abuse she and her colleagues have witnessed, she came under fire for giving an 'unsubstantiated' theory amid claims she wasn't a real nurse.

'Can anyone confirm if Rachel Hale has ever worked as a nurse (no not a cosmetic nurse) in Alice Springs?' one person questioned on Facebook.

A YouTube commentator, Tom Tanuki, dedicated an entire 15-minute video to Ms Hale, where he rejected her being dubbed an 'Outback nurse' - arguing she simply 'squirted Botox' into peoples' faces.

'I can't help but ask myself the question what the f**k would Rachel Hale know about Aboriginal people in Alice Springs?' he said in the clip.

Pictured is a brawl Ms Hale witnessed outside a pub in Alice Springs

Pictured is a brawl Ms Hale witnessed outside a pub in Alice Springs 

Ms Hale lives in Darwin and visits Alice Springs every couple of months for her business. 

She said she has experienced first-hand the violence in the town but has now had to defend her background.

'Everyone started calling me and messaging me, saying I'm a fake and I've never witnessed anything,' she told news.com.au, adding she's received countless 'disgusting' and threatening messages.

'People are saying I'm just trying to promote my own profile. What am I gaining out of this? I knew I'd get blowback, I just didn't think it would be this severe.'

The nurse said while she now works in a different profession, 'it doesn't discount what I've seen and what my colleagues have seen'.

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