Radio show back after rape furore
18 August 2009
An Australian radio show on which a teenager revealed she had been raped has returned to the airwaves.
DJs Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O'Neil resumed their breakfast show with an apology, saying the segment had been a "disaster from start to finish".
It featured a 14-year-old strapped to a lie detector and quizzed about her sexual history by her mother. She said she had been raped as a 12-year-old.
Some sections of the show will now be pre-recorded, broadcaster 2Day FM said.
The programme will also be subject to a seven second delay, allowing producers to cut away from any offensive or inappropriate material.
'Distressed' The DJs had been off the air since 3 August, shortly after the original segment aired.
The teenage girl was strapped to a polygraph machine as her mother - who had volunteered to be on air - quizzed her, despite her daughter's claims that she had already been told about an assault two years earlier.
Sandilands was accused of further insensitivity when, after the revelation, he asked: "Right, and is that the only sexual experience you've had?"
Co-host O'Neil put an end to any further discussions when she realised the conversation had crossed a line. source: bbc.com