The introduction of Australia's first public child sex offender register has triggered an emotional response from an MP who has detailed harrowing allegations of abuse.
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The brave MP used parliamentary privilege to reveal the ordeal on the day Queensland passed a law honouring Daniel Morcombe that allows parents to track predators.
"During one summer of January 2016, my then six-year-old daughter was the victim of a sexual assault," the MP said.
"There were other people around. It was broad daylight, and it wasn't a stranger - I didn't know."
The once-thriving, happy and confident little girl became afraid and introverted.
It was not until

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