After Luke died while in DoCS Qld Foster Care,

I began a protest march and left from Cairns heading south. Where exactly I was marching to I did not know or care, my reason for living had been taken away, tortured and killed, only a two year old baby who had known nothing but love from his father.

Life seemed pointless and still does.  I have made it as far as Cardwell, 250km south of Cairns, and intend to resume my protest march on Monday the 16th of December from where I left off. Anyone who would like to join us for all or part of the walk are more than welcome, and if you would like to contribute in some way that would also be much appreciated.

I have never asked for donations but it seems the time has come to register Luke's Army as a not for profit organisation which will incur fees and regular overheads such as insurance and a vehicle, this is part of the reason for embarking upon the protest march, to raise funds In order to offer people effected by the child protection scurge the best possible service. If we could employ people to assist no doubt more could be achieved also.

It has become a necessity to have access to funds, which is hard for me to accept as I have always remained adament there would never be money made from the death of Lukey, but those who help administrate Luke's Army have made me aware that to raise money for the cause is not profiteering, it is a necessity to attain the next level of service in our organisation.

Therefore I feel I must belay this fear of commercialisation and do whatever it takes to ensure that Lukey's legacy will remain even after I am gone, and will continue to assist thousands of devastated families world wide. It is not making money from Lukey, I would never do such a thing, it is raising funds in order to give the best possible assistance to families dealing with child protection authorities, in Luke's name, and in God's name.

So I am asking for your assistance in any form you may be able to offer. If you have a support vehicle to donate, or if you can drive a support vehicle for the march. If you can offer our team accommodation or meals. If you can donate money to help register Luke's Army and pay for insurance, phones and phone calls, stationary etc.

We have come a long way with no money and every contribution done voluntarily, surely we can advance further with financial assistance. We are in the process of registering a bank account for Luke's Army, and if you can help with a donation of money, goods or services, please email me michael@lukesarmy.com

I am also prepared to offer advertising space on the Luke's Army website which has never been done before.

Luke's Army now has access to ,many talented and knowledgable people who are also devoted to child protection reform and the exposure of the mass injustices inflicted upon families unfortunate enough to have child protection authorites involved in their lives in Australia,

Many who come to us are parents now fighting to bring their children home.  For those who have never dealt with child protection, please be aware that these departments are not there to offer assistance and do not operate like any other government department or private enterprise organisation. They answer to no one, they hold no accountability for their actions and they are protected from media scrutiny by laws which they will tell you are "In the best interest of the children."

Countless people have contacted me after approaching child protection departments for assistance, only to have their whole world, and their children's futures ripped to shreds. Most children will never be the same once they have been removed from a loving family, and much of the time they are too young to understand. I am an adult and I fail to understand the ludicrous decisions I am informed of daily. Somehow they get away with it, and continue to unleash their wreckless, vindictive stupidity upon defenseless families.

Luke's Army has come a long way since "i"was Lukey's Army, I didn't care if there was no one else, and I handed it over to God. Four years on and Luke's Army has grown to almost 7000 members on the facebook support group, with the number of people who have visited the Luke's Army website reaching almost 200 000.

I have handed out over 25 000 fliers, and many members of Luke's Army actively distribute leaflets in their own areas which can be downloaded from the site and printed at home to be distributed by members at a cost of less than a cent per flier. Just send me an email if you can't find child protection flyers for your area and would like Luke's Army flyers designed for your area.

Lukey's story has been on the front page of every major newspaper in Australia, and I am regularly approached by the media for interviews or information, but the majority of people who contact me daily are parents who have lost their children to the child protection authorities and are desperate for help, and bewildered at how this could even be happening to them.

With the state of child protection in disarray, and child protection ministers addressing the failing system by giving those who have failed at providing a worthy child protection service more powers instead of removing them, the future of children exposed to child protection departments in Australia is terrifyingly bleak.

Luke Borusiewicz is one of hundreds of children who die in foster care each year in Australia, one of the few that you will hear about. These departments do their best to keep as much as possible away from public view, and this is about to become easier with gagging orders proposed for NSW and Tasmania as I understand it.

Gagging orders are already in place in the UK with over 100 parents currently in jail as a result of speaking out after their children were legally kidnapped by Social Services.

One would think that if you are to go into the houses of strangers, you would at least first clean up your own back yard first. Not in New South Wales which has stolen more children than any other state in Australia from their families, the minister for Families and Community Services (FACS NSW) Pru Goward refuses to admit or address the failing department, which is covered by the smoke screen of the FACS NSW complaints unit.

No, instead she has opted to reintroduce the forced adoption policies for which countless politicians recently apologised. How does it help families to grant more power to a failing department, with the goal being to adopt children who have been removed from their families as quick as possible. And who decides if the children are ripe for adoption or not??? The same idiots who are ruining the lives of tens of thousands of children in NSW at the moment.

Australia - Adoption changes could create new stolen generation say community groups

Once again, if we look to the UK we can see what has resulted from is adoption and gagging orders. Babies are now major targets as they are easier to adopt than older children. If there is a bottleneck in the supply of children then the money train stops, so there are quotas set and child protection workers do their best to exceed these quotas by removing as many children as possible, especially babies. This is also currently occurring in the United States and Canada, as well as other government funded child stealing rackets that exist in other countries all over the world.

United Kingdom - Adoption push could break up families unnecessarily, peers warn

Having child protection departments run their own complaints unit has been a blatant failure, and Justice Woods confirmd this when he stated in his inquiry into child protection in NSW that parents who may have genuine and legitimate concerns about the welfare of their children are labelled as trouble makers, and that this must stop. The trouble with these inquiries is that not all the recommendations are accepted and the ones that are brought into law are often ignored by corrupt staff who resist any interference with their corrupt operations. The same happened in "The Munro Review into Child Protection in the United Kingdom."

I will use my son Luke as an example.... In the photo at the top of this blog we were at our last visit together. He went and stood next to the gate and gave me that look, "Take me with you Daddy."

He couldn't understand why he couldn't be with his Daddy who loved him and spoilt him rotten, and neither could I. The day before this visit I had a meeting with DoCS Cairns North, to beg them to get him out of the house where a 74 year old foster carer who had five other children. Lke was constantly seriously injured needing medical attention, and even though I rang and rang everyone I could and begged them to help, no one could change a thing.

The day before I had that last precious visit with Lukey, I had a meeting with them bastards at DoCS Cairns North to try to beg them to get him out of danger. All they did was hand me a list of rules and threaten me that I would never see him again if I broke any rules for visits. They refused to let me have longer visits, or more frequent, or unsupervised. Those predators had no intention of ever giving Lukey back. He had a life ahead of being moved from stranger to stranger and abused, because some nasty bitch, well actually there is more than one, the majority of them are little Hitlers who should not be allowed anywhere near children or families.

Child protection workers play God with your children, and more often than not it makes no difference how much you love your child, and most of the time the child has never been abused. All it takes is for some idiot who has never had kids but has done a TAFE course or less, and they can rip your kids away from your home and remove all of your rights.

Please share your child protection story and name those responsible for ruining the lives of yourself and your children forever...

Name and Shame DoCS Staff, Offices, Legal and Medical Practioners etc

So I guess that is a very brief outline of some of the reasons for continuing the protest march I began shortly after Lukey died. Please look through this site and educate yourself and others about the truth behind the child protection industry. It is nothing but a cruel, government endorsed child stealing racket. Politicians won't talk about it, the media is not allowed to talk about it, and parents are soon to be gagged so they cannot talk about how their children have been wrongfully taken... Legally Kidnapped.... PREYED UPON BY WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING FALSELY PORTRAYING THEMSELVES AS PROTECTORS OF CHILDREN WHEN THEY ARE NOTHING MORE THAN BULLIES AND PREDATORS.

It came to a point with my sons outburst that just wouldn't settle, that I rang womens shelter searching for answers on who could help me with him..I was told DOCs....I rang them, they came to the home....I was told I needed and could have 28days respite....they took kids, all the kids, but I couldn't be without my babies and got them home a week n half.

There is corruption everywhere so I never thought I had a chance to sue them. I have fire in my belly,I won't back down….Can you or anyone on this site, or anyone in Luke's Army give me any advice?

Hi Michael, My name is Nicki.I, by chance, came across your site. Im looking at suing the BASTARDS for ruining My FAMILY.. I live in Queensland..If you have any contacts that can put me on the right path it would be much appreciated. I'm sorry to hear of your loss….I too lost a son to the Department, also a daughter to cot death…Knowing i had a son alive that I couldn't cuddle, tuck in at night or be a mother to was horific, knowing my daughter was/is in heaven was easier to accept…..regardless,,,,,they should have NEVER taken my son…we are left ruined.

Note: Hi Nicki. I would like to welcome you to the site and offer you my condolences for the loss of your daughter to cot death, and the loss of your son to DoCS Qld, the predators of children and bulliers of parents. Please consider joining the Luke's Army group on facebook as there are many people there who know what you are going through and give good advice and support. You are no longer alone....

Also, the Help for Australian Families Dealing with Child Protection Section of the site may be a good place for you to start searching for information.

The stolen generation the government admitted to,,,,,,,what about CHILDREN THAT ARE STOLEN EVERYDAY FROM THEIR FAMILIES TODAY

Hi Michael, First thanks for your time to read my email..longest, heartbreaking story to tell, like many others, but in short- I,seeking help for my son's violent outburst (he was 8/9yrs old) was told DOCs would help...BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER....

I was supported in my parenting skills yet my sons refusal to go to doctors appointments led them to his removal....his violent outburst, I couldn't manage, neither could they..I had to keep him safe from himself as well as keeping his brother n sister safe from his rages...I was told to choose if he went or the other two...I should NEVER HAD BEEN IN THAT SITUATION TO MAKE A CHOICE...

Son was taken n many lies n twisted truths made by them, all for the so called help we needed....my son has just told me he was sexually abused by his male carer...he told me docs didn't believe him...this homosexual youth worker gave up his full time job to care for my son....this worker was exposed by others n so docs believe my boy BUT TOO LATE..

I want SOOOOOO bad to leave them ruined like they have left us.....I WANT TO SUE THEM....I have soooo much anger n upset right now ... I lost my baby girl, 3mths old,to cot death -that is easier to deal with as I know she is in a safe peaceful place but to have a child I could not mother, be there for in anyway, to protect, love unconditionaly and to guide him is heart wrenching ...Can you help with any advice????

Your welcome to share this with others, and removing names great idea...Doc 's need to be exposed for their wrongful decisions n failures which leave families in ruin...My son is now 21..We have a strong bond DOCs could not break but much damage between us done because he was just a child with a child's mind....DOCs could not find a long term foster home for him because of his violent outbursts.

Their so called only option was to have him stay in a motel where a youth worker. As well as DOCs would visit him...he went through worker after worker till he wore them done...it was at this time Cameron Reid, youth worker, gave up his full time job to care for my son

Sorry Michael, im sure you appreciate the fact that this is overwhelming and right now I carnt write anymore...I can however write more via email to you when I can, if you like??
We, other kids n I, had been on witness protection until I found out my son was not being protected...Another story, CMC also currupt but hey, I wont go there...

I have spoken to my son again today about this but he doesn't want to press chargers or sue DOCs, he just happy to get therapy n build his life putting it behind him....

Different story for me though ...I needed help for his violent outbursts no one could control....after talking with him today im now confused - the simple fact that he refused to go to doctors whether he was at home or not,,, who failed? Who failed this child? Who failed to protect him from the choices he made? Was it those who make the childrens rights?

In year 1 my son had violent outbursts..procedures were put in place similar to a fire drill in the class room...he didnt want to be at school n runaway from school on a daily bases back home..yet I would take him back....a school based buddy thru child n mental health (I think) came up with different way to deal with outburst like restraing him,, something that traumatised him more I believe ... he went to child mental health for counseling yet when he was taken into the kids play room n saw the camera he refused to go back....

See michael, his father alone has done much damage to my little mans mind, which is all part of the bigger picture to this story....I can't write anymore right now, too overwhelming but I can say that in around 2007 I was contacted by cold case detectives regarding the fathers soon to be released n their concerns for the safety of the community...I was leaving the country with the kids, sick of running n hiding from him...anyway they told me he'd been criminally profiled in this state, QLD, a serial psychopathic violent rapeist n offered us witness protection....

I made that decision to go ahead pressing charges as it was stop him from ruining another family, girl as he done time for others.....I could have had big media coverage with my court case in adelaide but was in our best interest back then not too....if you google-Heinous monster Adelaide Now you will be able to see write ups by court reporter Ken Mc Gregor...
If this is too overwhelming or too much for you Michael I understand...

                 There is no denying some kids ARE in need of protecting,but,I only needed help,advice on where I can go n what can I do for my son's violent outburst.....It's all too much to write right now,heart breaking-they couldn't even control his rages yet they made me choose my son at home or my other two children.....They put my son at risk even more by allowing his father visitation rights whilst in jail...

Don't get me wrong, I'm ALL for kids needing both parents in their lives but NOT when one has been criminally profile a serial psychopath....one we had been on the run from for many years....I fought to have my son medicated but because he wouldn't go i was told i couldn't go on his behalf, tell the doc about him then doc could prescribe medication n i would sneak it into his mash potato - oh no,thats child abuse.

In around 2000/2001 I'd managed to eventualy escape interstate from kids father (heinous monster) after incidents that occurred after his release from his first stint in jail...it took many months for my eldest son's violent outburst to settle...unfortunately his father found out where we were...he was on parole (in South Australia) yet drove all the way up north to where I lived with the kids...

I had no restrainging orders or dv orders,,,

Not only would he not abide by them anyway but it was a way of not letting him know where we were....stuck again, in his presence, and not wanting a seize situation, as had been same in the past, I trod very carefully til finally the right day n time came and I managed to make 000 call....police responded and he was removed...I didn't want to press chargers I just want him gone, thinking it would come up on their data base that he was on parole in another state...

Seconds after that morning the police attended my sons violent outburst started all over again...in fear, unknown if the monster would return and the fact that I need emergency attention at hospital, we left the home and stayed in a womens shelter...hospital wanted to keep me in but had no one to look after kids so stayed in shelter, visiting hospital, on high does of antidiotics for septasemia (blood poisoning) ..

A few days later I'd rang local police to see if he had been picked up for breaking parole n returned to SA wanting to know if it was safe to go home...I was told he was remanded in custody n looking at attempted murder, rape charges agaisnt another ...it was safe for kids n I to return...

It came to a point with my sons outburst that just wouldn't settle, that I rang womens shelter searching for answers on who could help me with him..I was told DOCs.

I rang them, they came to the home....I was told I needed and could have 28days respite....they took kids, all the kids, but I couldn't be without my babies and got them home a week n half...DOCs, witnessed an outburst from my son in his return and this is when it allllllll began..............

It began with the department knowing my son refused to see any doctor/counselor and that by forcing him to do so would trigger an outburst-an outburst they said they could not handle-they made an appointment for him at child and mental health and demanded I take him there.

"We cannot physically restrain him but as his mother you can"....we had another agency doc 's got involved with son, like a buddy who would come and visit him at home..it was this 'buddy ' that doc 's  organised to take us to appointment ....my son was well informed that this appointment was going to take place but within he wasn't prepared or happy to go....other kids went to sitters n time came to leave...against his will I restrained him, just like they said, he was kicking, punching, spitting, pinching, scratching all the way into n in the car....

There was no way I was getting a seat belt on him ...the car starts, we start reversing, he bits me that hard I let go of him...in seconds, his opened car door n jumped out...his adrenaline soooo high he runs across the road, without looking, nearly missing a truck....

I managed to stop him running by yelling out to him...we then sat together and talked about how horrible it was,the whole situation but knowing going to the appointment was going to n  needed to happen..with that he got back into the car, with child lock on,without restraining him...the 'buddy ' unfortunately turned up a no thru road, across the barrier, our destination, we were almost there...buddy rang to say we 5mins away but was told "too late, have busy schedule, will have to make another appointment "

SOOOOOO ....another appointment was made, about a week later I think maybe two but son wasn't willing to go....even more DOCs demanded "I get him there "...soooo with child lock on kicking bitting punching spitting we got there, getting out the car next obstacle, but some how I managed to restrain him up a flight of many stairs, opening the office doors then plastered myself over the door so he couldn't escape...

Meanwhile admin n other workers did absolutely nothing to help me or him...he was kicking over indoor plants, the glass doors/panels smashing them....up a corridor walked this lady n in a sturn loud voice said "he obviously doesn't want to be here, let him go "she was telling me to get away from the door so he could go but I wasn't moving....in those seconds n with her words my son looked for and found another exit-fire exit, and he was gone....the police were called and he was found not too far away,,,

All he wanted was his mum, he wasn't going back into child mental health so ' met him downstairs in police car ( both traumatised n heartbroken, poor little man)

Not long after, maybe a week later I got a visit from DOCs....I was served with papers to attend court, certain day time place ...DOCs were seeking an interim order(?),if I remember rightly .... DOCs sat there whilst I read their statement or reasonings why..

I could believe the twisted truths they said and I refused to sign any of their paper work....it was at that moment I was told "it has to be presented to the court in a way that will get you the help that you need " I still refused "you have twisted the truth, not at my expense you dont " was my reply but they stuck to their word of 'help we needed ' and told me that I could defend myself in court

SOOOOOO .... off I went to legal aid, no solicitor would take on the case....I paid to see solicitor but nooo good either..time was running out, court date days away....so thru free legal advice, I rang and was told how to represent myself and respond just as a solicitor would....around the clock n desperate I wrote a 'legal ' response .... but....  it didnt change anything.....

In n out of foster homes and back n forth from home my son went till he was placed long term foster home.....

DOCs had even made contact with his father., in jail, knowing dam well the circumstances because "He had legal, parental rights to know " they even took my son to see his father on special visits...........................,.

Son in long time care, "stable home " n having access, mind you not all the time he seemed to settle...he told me things about the foster mother but I didn't read too much into it, thinking he was ib his way letting me know he'd rather have me.... 

I got to a stage I thought it would be best if I started to work on my issues, regarding that monster, kids father...so I began to write from when we first met and the trauma ....one day, out of the blue, a truck pulled up and dropped off all the ex 's belongings which forensic police were finished with....I was gobb smacked...

Anyway...going thru his things I came across things he used on me...I was, what I know now triggered ..... I rang DV womens help n told them, they rang victims of crime n that same day I got visit from victims of crime., but I couldn't talk....instead I handed her what I had written so far....she. asked if she could take it n come visit me the next day....she returned with the news that she had shown a detective what id written n that detective wanted to talk with me n offer protection....

I decided to press chargers and started giving a statement to police....

Meanwhile, back at foster home things weren't rosey...the foster parents seperating, her moving with all the children to tasmania....I decided to move to task with foster mum, I was SOOOOOO close to get my son back n the ex wouldn't know.....i gave up my home n we set up camp at foster home, packing ours/hers belongings in shipping containers until I saw foster mums true colours. ..

I unpacked my belongings after the foster father said no need for me or kids to go..."you are so close to getting your son back " he said....son can stay with him n I could look after his place when he took his family to settle in tassy.....DOCs agreed, we stayed....

My statements to police had come to an end, long process, many many years to speak of, ..... foster father had been back few weeks when I got call to station.....it was at that moment I had to make a decission to go on protection, it was cmc....I made that desission but only when I knew I could take m son with me.....I signed up. N they kept us moving .....

All,this upheavel, son didn't manage n back to outburst again....they quickly settled us but son didn't settle....I was told "his behaviour is putting all your safety at risk "....he was placed back in the hands of DOCs....sons was saying he hated me n didn't want to be at home....DOCs told me "we support your parenting skills and we can see that his behaviour would be hard for anyone to manage ".....I was told, by DOCs" to make a choice ""either you have .....",son "or we take the other two siblings "

Words carnt explain the heartache of it all.... I dropped all charges n came off witness protection when I found out my son wasn't on protection either....

Back n forth from foster homes n home it was....no one fostering wanted to/couldn't manage/take on his violent outburst.....I fought n fought n fought DOCs, at one stage even put up on abandonment charges which may have cost $$$$$ but at least they got thrown out of court....

I fought to have my son medicated even, I was a desperate mother seeing her son overwhelmed, gender violent outburst....I even said "I will go to doctor, I will tell them what he does n why, doctor can prescribe me medication for him n I will sneak it in his mash potatoes " but was told that would be child abuse.....

Meanwhile, my son refusing to go to school would go to office, they say things like "you carnt be here all day, heres some money go to pictures ".... I would have put his uniform in the car n told him he had a choice, "'he could go to school in his pj or he could choose to put on uniform in car on way to school "...sad thing is I saw what was best for him....he had full control and under DOCs was able to remain that way....

He was just a child, with a childs mind....he was/is a great kid, manners boy was his name I gave him because he had such beautiful manners....he is a good kid with a golden heart n beautiful soul who had in his younger years experienced traumas relating to his father....we. needed help, no one could give.

Day after day, week after week, month after months all to easy for him to come home n have a violent outburst n nothing changing....I was beating my head on a brick wall, so to speak, when it came to DOCs....the last straw for me was when he came n smashed all the cars windows....I decided to pack up n leave hoping that it would somehow wake my son up to his behavior and knowing it was affecting the other two seemed in the best interest of all...

So I went back up north QLD n had no contact with son or DOCs, although DOCs knew where I was n how to contact me....

4 months later I ring them to see how my son is...it was at that moment they told me" they couldn't find me,,",, bullshit!!!!! "That the order run out and that he was made ward of the state" I was soooo mad....."it was what......(my son) ",wanted "... so I didn't fight it....he had been living, before I left, in a motel having youth workers stay at motel 24/7 but my son wasn't always there he came back when he wanted doing what he wanted...

He started to wear down youth workers yet when moved to cabin at caravan park most time he was on his own doing own thing....when I found out he was made ward of the state I was told one of the youth workers who  really clicked n liked my son gave up his full time job to become his full time carer

It is wrong for me to hate, it is wrong not to forgive... but to sit and watch evil at work and do nothing is a sin too. How these politicians can stand by and let this happen... and Pru Goward and Linda Burney...

The combination of failures and abominations which exist in the form of the government department known as FACS NSW are a product of evolution, a result of generations of Australian children being preyed upon by social workers and anyone else who can lower themselves to this level of depravation, tormenting children and parents to extremes, often resulting in suicide, health failure, mental breakdown, or loss of all possessions in order to fund solicitors to fight for the return of children who should never have been taken. In the unlikely event that the department loses and the children are returned, the outcome is often that the children no longer have an inheritance as it all went to the solicitors.

All on the side of the child stealers are rewarded by lucrative government contracts. This is paradise if you are a paedophile with access to unlimited resources: children to be abused without the risk of being exposed or convicted.

The process of stealing children has been streamlined to protect those stealing children from being properly investigated, held accountable, or hindered in any way when it comes to implementing their own special style of "Protecting Children."

The modern day child stealing machine has evolved into an insatiable, unstoppable and extremely profitable utility for those with no conscience or thought for the lives of the victims they force themselves upon. This becomes obvious when examining those who are at the forefront of this government child abuse organisation. We will come back to today's head of FACS NSW, minister Pru Goward, and Michael Coutts Trotter who is a perfect example of senior child protection staff who order families to do as I say, not as I do.

And of course let's not forget another shining example of FACS NSW senior management failing to lead by example, Director General Jim Moore shows the whole department FACS NSW how if you work for FACS NSW you are untouchable....

Liars from top to bottom in FACS NSW - Director General Jim Moore

I would like you to look first at the last pathetic example of a child protection department minister, a failure not only as a minister but also a disgrace as a humanitarian and an abhorrent example of a sadistic human being, a disgrace to the stolen generation she is part of, and obviously a challenged IQ which is displayed in her mismanagement of operations involving disadvantaged families in NSW.when she was minister of DoCS, none other than the incompetent, the ignorant, the corrupt.... Linda Burney.

Now I have come across some sick individuals since I became involved with child protection, but Linda Burney is living proof that the corruption, the mismanagement, the underhanded, dishonest immorality and misconduct displayed with heartless incivility is shown by example from the person at the top, and this disgraceful bench mark will always be the legacy left by Linda Burney. Hated by so many families who fell victim to her underhanded department while she was the minister of DoCS NSW.

In fact my first interaction with this banshee queen resulted in her threatening me directly with legal action, and the mother who I was support for was blackmailed into keeping quiet about the disgusting way in which she was treated by Linda Burney personally. She had complained to DoCS NSW constantly about her daughter being in danger while she was with her father. The father stabbed the two year old girl, Madison, in the head, leaving her incapacitated for life. What was the first action taken by Linda Burney? Removal of all children from the mother even though she was not present when Madison was stabbed, and she had warned DoCS NSW that this would happen.

Sound bad??? Linda Burney then trumps her ruthless and incomprehensible behavior by removing all parental rights and stating that she reserved the right to turn off the life support system that was keeping Madison alive. Talk about power tripping. What Linda hadn't counted on up to this stage was that this family would contact me, and appoint me as admin to the facebook page, "Give Kristy Her Kids Back.".

I did what I do and within hours the group had grown by 5000 members, and the page had become a hate wall against DoCS NSW, minister Linda Burney and the father, hence the resulting threats leveled against myself and the mother. Last I heard the mother had still not been given her children back. WTF?

Now in case you find this whole blog a bit hard to believe... maybe you think I am some grief stricken father hell bent on attacking innocent, ethical model citizens who are fine examples of politicians overseeing a finely tuned, well oiled operation which provides assistance for many disadvantaged children and families.... let us take a look at how this escapee from satan's personal staff handles another situation of crisis.....

A FIVE-year-old girl wrongly removed from her parents was denied a visit with her dying father, even after the Ombudsman ruled DOCS bungled the case.

In a horror start to her life, the girl has suffered from cancer, lost her father and spent more than two years separated from her family because of decisions that should not have been made.

DOCS will be forced to pay compensation to the family of the Sydney girl, who had never been abused or neglected.

Community Services Minister Linda Burney was notified of the case in September and this month did not override her department's decision to prevent the girl from traveling to Taiwan for her father's funeral.

Yesterday she said the case was before the court until February and that it was "inappropriate for me to intervene."

And then she moved onto the next family, along with her whole department of child stealers who followed their leader's example. Now of course I have hundreds of stories of families who contacted me during the era of "She who's name should not be spoken", and I eventually was forced to report Linda Burney to the Independent Commission Against Crime (ICAC) after the mountains of corruption were too much to deal with anymore, but like so many other victims of child protection in NSW I was ignored, and so was the obvious misconduct which was left to flourish, nurtured no less to evolve further into a plague upon the families of NSW. And now it is ready for the next dictator, who would make Linda Burney look like she was Jesus compared to what we were about to see from Pru Goward.

And who was the only person to turn to for the multitudes inflicted with the permanent wound of child loss and family terrorism that became the trademark of Linda Burney? Pru Goward who has displayed a natural talent when it comes to the affliction of misery and suffering,

Pru Goward Adds Forced Adoption to Her Arsenal Against NSW Families

in fact one could almost go so far as to say she has outdone her predecessors, taking the art of terrorising families and kidnapping children to an all time high, with the fast tracking of stolen children for adoption a feather in her cap, which incidentally was custom made to facilitate the horns that stick out of the front of her head.

Ok, down to business, let's open up the book of suffering which is a record of the abuse unleashed by minister Pru Goward upon her reluctant subjects...

Perhaps we should go back again to the reign of "She whose name should not be spoken", the former minister of FACS NSW... I have seen both of these thugs turn their backs on children and parents who have blatantly been abused by FACS NSW while Burney and then Goward were at the helm.

They both know of a little boy dying at the moment from Lymes disease and they have forbidden the child from being tested, even though the mother has been tested positive.
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You see they were in the back yard cleaning up after a storm in Sydney. A week later and the two year old boy is screaming in agony, and the mother is scratching all over and in pain, so she rings the poisons line. They tell her to go straight into the hospital, with the child.

This is the same hospital where the child's older sister lost a finger while playing with an exercise bike inside the hospital. Another cover up with bad blood already in the mix, a vendetta held against the mother for previous occurrences, no fault of the child or the mother's..

So they go into the hospital and the mother is forcefully separated from her child and locked up in the psych ward. The already extremely sick and distressed child is placed with strangers in foster care where he will spend the next four years slowly dying a painful death, even though he was never abused by his mother, and committed no crime. He is but a helpless baby, yet another victim of Linda Burney, but that will progress to being a victim of Pru Goward.

In any case Linda Burney and Pru Goward know without a doubt that this child has been wrongly removed, yet it is never openly debated, both concubines of satan being as guilty as the other, and the child is in constant agony from Lymes disease because FACS NSW refuse to test the child for Lymes disease.

The mother never abused her son. She did the right thing and rang the poison line, then took him straight to the hospital, so why four years later will Pru Goward not return this child to his mother, and test him for Lymes Disease. Why hasn't Linda Burney demanded the child's return either? Because this child is just one of thousands who have been stolen from their families without proper grounds.

What is even more disgusting about this story is that when this first happened, Linda Burney was the FACS NSW minister and she was well aware of this case because the then shadow minister, "Pru Goward" went in to bat for this mother and child, but Linda Burney refused to step in and help this poor little child, the same as I have witnessed her turn her back on countless families begging for nothing more than a common sense approach.

No instead Goward and Burney con the public with a facade of heated arguments which in reality boil down to meaningless repartee....

Political storm between Pru Goward and Linda Burney over stats for at-risk children in NSW

The same is now true for Pru Goward, and this dying child is just one of many that the FACS NSW minister has turned her back on, and no doubt she is thankful that the many stories of her ruthless reign of terror do not often get out, her terrorised victims taking their own lives after FACS NSW has taken away every sense of self worth and hope for the future.

Pru Goward.... Have you seen or heard any interviews with the FACS NSW Minister over the last year????

 Each and every interview now has her portraying every family unfortunate enough to be dealing with FACS NSW as junkies living with their children in houses filled with used syringes and piles of baby shit and dirty nappies everywhere. She will then go on in a thinly veiled and poorly attempted pretentious voice of concern... every day these children are there their lives are ruined.

Pru Goward and her goons don't give a second thought to traumatising children they snatch away like pirates of the NSW houso estates, yet when it comes to returning them, then they decide to show concern. It will traumatise them if we take them out of foster care and put them back home with their families. Anything is better than resorting to a child being with their families to these sickos, honestly.

So back to the interview speech that Pru Goward has been flogging to death on every reporter that will lap it up...

"It is time", she says. "It is time to put children's rights first. All we hear about is parental rights, I am more concerned about the rights of the child and putting the child first."

Now anyone else, and I would think that perhaps this is a good thing, and I might also believe her apology for forced adoptions endured by thousands and thousands of Australians from previous generations. But apologising for a past atrocity while campaigning for laws to bring what you are apologising for back, removes all sincerity from the apology. Especially when the child stealing was enforced by the Australian government and assisted by churches, exactly what FACS NSW minister Goward plans to do again, this time Barnardos are the enforcer, and you better believe this child stealing adoption racket will be much more streamlined than ever seen in any of the other stolen generations.

So when you hear FACS NSW minister Goward repeating her speach again and again about the rights of children, not parents, I don't think there was ever a worry about her paying any attention to the rights of the parents. She has no respect for parents or their rights, and no appreciation of the value of parents to a child and their upbringing. Pru Goward does not provide a service to the community, she dictates to all of NSW. The biggest problem with this is not that she is a malicious, poisonous snake to children and families, but the organisation that she is leader of, and relies upon to back her up, is just as pathetic and misguided as the minister herself.

The child protection system is failing, too many children are being wrongly removed. Pru Goward's Solution - Turn the wrongfully stolen children into a commodity and sell them off for adoption. Worst of all is the same parasites who wrongfully removed all these children in the first place, whether by stupidity or something more sinister... these are the same failures as child protection workers that now hold the power to remove and adopt your children, only if Pru Goward has her way this will be achieved much easier and you will not be hearing about it from me, from the parents of the stolen children, from the media, not anyone.

I will go to jail Pru Goward you evil child stealing witch of NSW, before I stand back and roll over and allow a concubine of satan to steal innocent children unhindered. You ignore the countless parents begging for you to give their children back, children who so obviously should never have been taken. You are the same as the rest of them. You would rather the children be dead than with their parents.

I have visited so many houses now, I can only think of one that was unfit for a child to be in. Yes, there were used syringes everywhere, but obviously no baby or baby shit, but I helped that mother clean her house as best as I could, even though I know her child will never be returned, but that is not for me to decide.

Almost every house I visit is spotless, and the children's room is like unto a shrine, the same as Lukey's room was for me. I usually stay in the empty children's room, the first person to receive the honor since the children were stolen. Pru Goward does not get her hands dirty, she does not go out and visit the houses of the parents whose children her department has stolen. None of these queens of pain do. They are there to save money, and win votes.

Note: Excuse me while I rant here and vent for a bit, seems I have gone off track a but I will come back and edit this blog when I am done.

The bullshit seems to be flowing today, usually does when I am pissed off. Oops, I might need anger management.... If some idiot who's claim to fame is stealing children from their families decides that I have anger problems, or any problem for that matter.... I think for once I might just show them exactly what anger is, because I have an unlimited supply that I have total discipline and control over. The next DoCS worker to tell me I have anger management problems I am going to admit defeat and let out all the anger I have inside me, and direct it straight at them. I will show you proper anger management problems, if you want to accuse me of absolute bullshit, like you skum do to everyone.

Somewhere here I will start to talk about the two evil Queens of child theft, Burney and Goward.

May the children they have terrorised haunt them in their sleep, stalk them in the street, and hunt them beyond the grave into the next realm, relentlessly, mercilessly, eternally, with no remorse or petty ever being afforded them, as they showed no mercy to their victims, and turned their backs continuously on those who were helpless and innocent, those of whom I am about to speak of, to tell these children's stories... before the one child in particular dies a death which could have undoubtedly been avoided with a simple acknowledgement from both Pru Goward or Linda Burney.

 I sit and watch as these same predators continue to do the same evil to so many.

That is what my life is devoted to now... To keep the promise that I made to my baby son the last time that I saw him as he lay in his coffin. I promised him that I would do something about what they (DoCS Qld Child Stealing Skum) did to him, and I promised him I would do something about the obviously flawed and corrupt child protection system.

And so I study child protection the world over, day after day, night after night, and I do what I can for the endless stream of victims that come to me desperate for help and with nowhere to turn... Parents, grand parents, children, grand children, foster children, foster carer's children, foster carers.... Absolutely no one is safe from these government endorsed predators who make the toughest police seem like kindergarten teachers.

Now I have dealt with these highly empowered government officials in the worst possible scenarios, from man hating lesbian case workers who would glare at me with hatred even though I had never abused my son or even met them before, to the team leader who laughed in my face when I told her my baby's mother had burnt a cigarette on his face, to the reunification team leader who accused me of raising my voice at her when I arrived at intensive care to find out my son was about to die.

I did yell at her as she was surrounded by police... "I told you to get him out of that house", and that was all she could come up with.... "You're raising your voice."  I told her, "I get angry, I raise my voice. You get angry and you steal people's kids off them." I could tell she was just dying to put some bullshit anger management crap on me, but if I have anger management problems why didn't I rip your limbs off your body there and then, or throw you out the window of the hospital, or smuggle in a weapon to kill you with....

You friggin piece of shit child protection baby stealing, child murdering evil witch.... Stick your anger management bullshit right where it belongs. These fat evil DoCS bitches love to use the old anger management on the men they love to hate. What can a father do? Helpless, absolutely at the mercy of dumb, vindictive pieces of hateful shit like that reunification bitch at the hospital that could have saved my boy, but refused to lift a finger, instead at the meeting two days before my baby's head was smashed in, she ignored my pleas to get him out of danger and slid a list of visit rules across the table to me.

And still only recently I was accused again of having anger management issues by none other than a DoCS Qld Team Leader, Morag the Slag from Toowoomba DoCS.

This is another one of these evil DoCS banshees who has looked at so many of the people she has stolen children from with hatred and detest, the lines of hatred are now permanently etched deep onto her sickeningly emotionless face. Nothing but hatred coming out of that woman who is unleashed upon innocent children daily, removing them from their parents and keeping them away for trivial, self absorbed prejudices... the old "Anger Management", or "Risk of Harm", "Probability of Harm", "Toxic Environment", she has unlimited bullshit to choose from which cannot be challenged. Common sense does not come into the equation when you are dealing with these beaurecrats from hell.

Morag is the same as all of them. If they don't like you, they will make sure your kids pay the price by losing you as a parent. If they don't like your partner, they will insist you end the relationship or face the blackmail of losing your children forever. What is even worse with Morag is she doesn't like many people.

A senior lecturer at Edge Hill University has devised some steps to alleviate the blame culture in UK social work, based a study of child protection in Flanders, Belgium.

Dr Jadwiga Leigh was a social worker for 10 years and experienced first-hand the impact an embedded blame culture can have on practice: “I was becoming increasingly paranoid about the decisions I was making and started to feel myself focusing less on the families I was working with and more on ticking all the boxes.”

In this this recording she explains why she looked to Europe for a solution:

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A question regarding the rights of parents associated with their children in foster care which is often asked is what rights does a parent have if a foster carer wishes to take the foster child overseas with them.

Understandably this situation can cause quite some anguish for a parent who has been robbed of their children and stripped of all say in circumstances relating to their child. To have strangers leave the country with your child, and to have no say in the matter is not an experience anyone would wish to endure.

So, how much say does a parent have in this situation. Can they refuse to allow the foster carers to leave the country, or will it make no difference what they say?

The children will need passports to leave the country, whether they are in foster care or not.

Consent

Before a passport may be issued to a child the written consent of all persons with parental responsibility for the child is needed. The Australian Passports Act 2005, Section 11, also permits a passport to be issued to a child if an Australian court order permits the child to travel internationally.

If you wish to make an application without the consent of all persons with parental responsibility you must complete a statement on a form B9 and provide details of the circumstances (Download Form B9). The application will be referred to a delegate of the Minister for Foreign Affairs for a decision.

If only one parent is named on the child's birth certificate the form B8 must be completed. (Download Form B8).

For further information regarding consent, see Children and Parental Consent Passports - Child passports

The minister or delegated person could sign as they have parental responsibility which overides the parents right to make any decisions on whether the foster child is to attain a passport and travel overseas or not.

This law is Aus wide, once the kid has been taken from their parents and they have agreed to the minister having parental responsibility they effectively loose any rights they have had.

This is an issue which needs to be addressed nationally as it has the same impact no mater where you are.

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 'Something Military Academy SMAashed... It's not all that funny unless your smashed'.

UNDERSTANDING THE JOKE: Where is the Brewer Report?

RAAF officer [now] convicted serial pedophile Graham Charles Wickson.

ADFC_Review_Final_Report_Nov_2008.pdf

So the image sent to you asks Where is the Brewer Report?.  The man in the image is the only man who went to the appropriate institutions that bears the name Brewer. Is this the mysterious Brewer who wrote the mysterious Brewer Report?

I recently retired after serving for 34 years as a judge in both tribal and state courts. When I started as a juvenile court judge, I trusted that if I did my small part as a judge (basically accepting the recommendations of the professionals appearing in court before me), children would be well taken care of. I trusted that the “system” was doing right by the children it cared for. Since then, I have learned that system involvement is not the guarantee I believed it to be.

The focus of our juvenile system in the last couple of decades has been on safety as the paramount value and removal as the principal intervention. Along the way, we have created a system where many are substituting their own versions of “best interests” when deciding whether to send children home after being in the system. Almost twice as many children are now in care as when I began. And yet, we are seeing second-, third-, and even fourth-generation children in foster care. If removal was indeed solving the problem, we would not see a generational carryover. Upon reflection, I have concluded that this carryover is a direct result of not healing the children and families of origin that become involved in the juvenile system. While removal may well interrupt a pattern of abuse or neglect, it is not sufficient to ensure that the children have an opportunity to grow up in healthy families, which everyone agrees is best for children. Moving children from foster home to foster home or into institutional care does not provide them with the necessary modeling and long-term connections to launch them on positive trajectories.             

While no one would want children to be harmed, the orphanages of Eastern Europe demonstrate that safety is not a sufficient standard. Instead, I would propose that if removal is necessary, that the creation of resilience for children be built into the service delivery plan. Studies have demonstrated that this one trait allows some children to survive the very worst sexual or physical abuse and come out seemingly whole. Research also makes clear that resilience is the product of multiple connections. Connections to people who genuinely care about the children turn out to be critical. And yet, too often when children are removed from families, there is little real effort to maintain or enhance children’s current relationships while in care. (It is even more uncommon to see efforts to create new relationships through natural connections to relatives not tied to placement options.)

If we know these connections are necessary, why do we not routinely ensure that they are in place? Perhaps for the same reason we ignore visitation evidence. The average parent gets one hour of visits per week with the children. We know from research that adding another hour of visits results in a tripling of successful reunification efforts, doing nothing additional in the case. Adding another hour triples success again. Going from one hour of visits to three hours of visits results in a nine-fold increase in successful reunification. And yet, the possibility of additional visits is often ignored. Similarly, the father’s family is often ignored when considering both connections and placement options, and caseworkers no longer have families as the center of their work, instead being focused on documenting compliance with standards.

All of these seem to reflect the prevailing approach that the system will find better (i.e., “best interests”) connections for these children. It is increasingly difficult to ignore the plethora of research demonstrating poor child well-being consideration outcomes that result for children in foster care—both short term and long term. Despite good intentions, children (and their families) are not being served well by child-serving institutions in our communities. We need to keep in mind the layman’s definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. It is long past time for a different result—one without recurring generations of children landing in foster care, one without children in the care of the system having measurably poorer outcomes than children who manage to stay out of the system, and one without children aging out of care without the caring and enduring connections of families.              

It is time to reimagine a system that intervenes in the lives of children and families in such a way as to bring healing, not separation; to bring improvements, not disadvantages and burdens; to bring an ally to families in trouble, not an adversary. Segments of the child-serving community have begun this work; we need to support that work. These children are our relatives, and we need to treat them as such. Hope is not a strategy—someday is not a plan.

William A. Thorne Jr. is a Pomo/Coast Miwok Indian from northern California enrolled with the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria. He graduated from the University of Santa Clara and Stanford Law School and practiced law for several years at Echo Hawk & Thorne, specializing in federal Indian law. He has served as a tribal judge in 11 states. After 14 years as a state trial judge, he was appointed in 2000 to the Utah Court of Appeals, where he served until retiring in 2013.

Thorne has served as board member of numerous nonprofits, and he continues to speak and teach around the country, chiefly on issues related to children, including child welfare reform efforts, disproportionality affecting minority children, and the Indian Child Welfare Act.

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Historic: Lismore The North Coast Children's Home. Circa 1970. Photo The Northern Star Archives

THE Grafton Anglican Diocese had access to more than $200 million in assets when it refused to pay out less than $4 million to victims of child sex abuse, the royal commission has heard.

The revelation came just moments before former registrar Pat Comben surprisingly announced he had voluntarily relinquished holy orders and was no longer a reverend of the Anglican Church.

During yesterday's cross-examination, Mr Comben, who last week told the commission the diocese had felt threatened by the "scary" group claim being brought by former residents of Lismore's North Coast Children's Home, was quizzed about a significant jump in the diocese's recorded equity between 2005 and 2007.

Mr Comben described the diocese as being "asset rich but cash poor" and said the jump could be attributed to a change in bookkeeping that included insurance, property and equipment values.

He said he was aware the diocese had money tied up in assets, including a deceased estate valued between $7 million and $8 million that had been bequeathed to the church by a member from Port Macquarie.

Asked whether he could understand that given the church's financial basis, some may have considered that the diocese had been parsimonious in settling the claims, Mr Comben said "yes" but stressed many of the assets were not "easily available" for liquidation.

He also defended his prior lack of knowledge about the region's assets by saying that before he transferred from Brisbane, he "didn't know where Grafton was".

The commission heard that after a settlement (about $820,000) was reached with victims, Mr Comben wrote a letter of apology to original claimant Richard "Tommy" Campion.

In the letter, Mr Comben apologised for "many accusations of deceit" he had directed at Mr Campion over the years.

Mr Comben said he wrote those words not because he believed in his heart that he had made such accusations, but because he thought that's what Mr Campion believed and he wanted to provide him with closure.

When it was put to him that "any reasonable reader" would not understand that it was an apology based on Mr Campion's beliefs and not what actually occurred, Mr Comben dramatically responded that he had lied in one sentence but was happy to apologise.

"If that is my crime, I plead guilty, " he said.

During the final hour of Monday's hearing, former Grafton Bishop Keith Slater was sworn in.

He is expected to return to the stand on Tuesday followed by former archdeacon Gregory Ezzy and Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia Rev Dr Phillip Aspinall. 

Jessica Grewal
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Service providers defend their agencies in face of critical youth advocate’s report B.C. MCFD child welfare expenses

More than half-a-billion dollars is spent each year in B.C. on child protection services — an important system that was harshly criticized last week by the province’s youth advocate.

The provincial budget earmarked $500 million for the 2012/13 year — and for the next two fiscal years — to pay for child-welfare costs such as social workers, foster parents and supporting troubled youth to live independently.

The federal government also gave an estimated $57 million in 2012/13 to Delegated Aboriginal Agencies (DAAs) for child welfare in B.C., according to the report by children and youth representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond.

Those 23 DAAs, which mainly operate on reserves, also get $90 million from the provincial government, roughly one fifth of B.C.’s overall child-welfare budget.

And yet, 13 of those DAAs — more than half — do not have the authority to do full child protection services, so Ministry for Children and Family Development (MCFD) social workers are still being paid to work on files on those reserves.

In an interview Tuesday, MCFD deputy minister Mark Sieben said some of those agencies are content to deliver voluntary support services to families and a few others have the increased authority to oversee guardianship services.

Only 10 of the DAAs provide full child protection services right now.

Turpel-Lafond’s report admonished the province for wasting an additional $66 million over 12 years on planning a new protection system for aboriginal children without spending a dime of that money on helping families.

While one plan — creating regional aboriginal authorities — was shelved, another plan called Indigenous Approaches, which aims to transfer child-welfare authority to First Nations communities, is still slowly moving forward.

In the meantime, Sieben defended MCFD’s $90-million price tag for these DAAs, arguing the provincial money is spent on helping children and mainly focuses on preventing kids from going into care in the first place. The federal government’s $57-million contribution is for the care of children after they have been apprehended, he said.

“On the federal side, they do not pay for prevention and family support style services,” Sieben said. “They pay money for when a child comes into care. And that is, in B.C.’s view, a crude measure and approach to child welfare practice.”

Sieben allowed that Turpel-Lafond’s report left the ministry with some things to consider, such as offering to help the DAAs increase their level of child protection services and/or assist them to better recruit and train staff.

Turpel-Lafond’s report found some DAAs were “fraught with staff turnover and ongoing struggles to find qualified staff.”

She also said the DAAs were “mostly ignored and sometimes undermined” by the province as they “struggled” to provide services.

Sieben said the province has had the “best intentions” to revamp aboriginal child welfare in the province and has engaged over the years with First Nations to try to get fewer kids in care.

This is crucial in B.C. where, as of March 2013, more than half — or about 4,450 out of 8,106 children in care — were aboriginal, according to Turpel-Lafond’s report, When Talk Trumps Service.

The DAAs represent almost 47 per cent of the aboriginal children in care, noted the report.

Fully one-third of the province’s $90 million output for DAAs is spent on one Vancouver agency, which gets $30 million annually and is handling more than 900 child welfare files this year.

The Northwest Inter-Nation Family and Community Services Society (NIFCS), on the other hand, received $1.5 million in provincial funding and had just 34 open children-in-care files.

NIFCS board president Patricia Starr said her DAA, which is located in Terrace and serves nine Northern B.C. reserves, shouldn’t be criticized for carrying a small number of files as that is a sign it is doing its job well.

In other words, it is doing prevention work to keep kids in family homes, rather than provide services after there is a crisis and they have been apprehended.

“NIFCS places social workers in the communities and they can work more closely to identify families at risk,” Starr said.

Her DAA does not have full child protection authority, so when a child apprehension takes place its staff accompanies an MCFD social worker to the home.

NIFCS has applied to get full child protection designation, and Starr said the delay has mainly been around finances. She believes more money is needed for prevention services.

It has also been a challenge to find and retain staff, but Starr said that is a challenge in the north and is confident it can be addressed.

“That’s our goal, to move toward full child protection,” she added.

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B.C. spends $500 million a year on child protection services.

• $215 million for foster care, guardianship, delegated Aboriginal agencies and other in-care services

• $106 million for family support programs

• $23 million for youth services

• $30 million for alternatives to foster care and post-majority supports

• $125 million for child welfare program delivery

Source: MCFD

By Lori Culbert

The Vancouver Sun

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Boys in care were allegedly being groomed for sex at parties at a south-west London house attended by well-known and powerful figures such as Cliff Richards.

The photo was taken by children's advocate Mary Moss who was suspicious that police had ulterior motives when they seized it the boxes of records relating to the Elm Guest House in England. She had continuously reported the abuse of children by paedophiles to police and was silenced and her name smeared. Police seized her boxes of evidence in November 2012, never to be seen again, except for the few photos which she managed to capture before it was stolen.

The above document which was seized by police and is now missing has some very famous and influencial names on it such as "Keith Richards" and disgraced disgraced late MP Cyril Smith who was accused of abusing boys.

In this next video you will see how "Sir" Cliff Richards is implicated in the Elm Guesthouse.

Also there is notorious disgraced spy and relative of the queen Anthony Blunt.

Leon Brittan (above) MP, ex Home Secretary now Trade Adviser and member of the House of Lords is also on the list of regulars at the Elm Guest House.

Disgraced former MP Harvey Proctor (above), charged with gross indecency in 1987. He is currently secretary to the Duchy of Rutland.

Actor and singer Jess Conrad (above).

Ex MP Peter Bottomley (above).

George Tremlett ex deputy leader of Greater London Council (above).

Make of this interview what you will, but what Shrimpton claims about former British PM and Savile pal, Ted Heath, is given in graphic detail, and clearly implicates more than one top ranking government official in murdering children – which was covered-up.

Allegations of the grooming of young boys in care for sex, elaborate gay parties involving senior public figures including members of the Conservative Party, charges of a police cover-up and even the suggestion of murder. The police believe that in the context of the Jimmy Savile scandal, there is every reason to look again at an extremely murky saga.

What is known is that in the late 1970s, the Elm Guest House on Rocks Lane was a safe, unthreatening meeting place for homosexual men free from the stigma of a sexual orientation legalised barely a decade earlier.

As many as 12 boys gave evidence to the police to the effect that they had been abused by men at the house, The IoS has established, but the only conviction was the comparatively minor one of running a disorderly house (ie, a brothel). "Abused boys do not always make the most impressive of witnesses once they get into the witness box," someone involved in the case said. "The real unlawful activity was underage sex.

Child-protection campaigners alleged that boys had been taken from a local council-run home and abused, a line of investigation that police are now pursuing. Children who are stolen from their families and placed in foster care are always a good target for paedophiles as all family ties have been severed and they have no one who will miss them.

Allegations have been made by Tom Watson in the House of Commons. The Labour MP had spoken of a "powerful paedophile ring" and its links to a previous prime minister's "senior adviser".

Others have spoken of two High Court judges and a Foreign Office official attending. Chris Fay, a social worker who worked for a small charity, the National Association for Young People in Care (Naypic), has alleged that a terrified Kasir had shown him about 20 photographs of middle-aged men with young boys, taken at what he said were kings and queens fancy-dress parties, attended by a number of powerful and well-known people. One, Mr Fay alleged, featured a well-known public figure wearing nothing but a French maid's apron alongside a young boy nude apart from a tiara.

David Cameron is responsible for destroying evidence of child abuse, says Ben

Ben Fellows writes -
David Cameron disappears Kengate Tapes whilst Head of Corporate Communications for Carlton Television during the “Cash for Questions” scandal back in 1994. Will he be above the law as well?

The Metropolitan Police Paedophile Unit confirmed this week to me personally that there was indeed a government and Carlton Television conspiracy over the Kengate Tapes. The police confirmed that Ian Greer along with Carlton Television conspired to cover up the “Cash for Questions” scandal for John Major’s government back in 1994. So the Prime Minster David Cameron covered up a scandal of paedophilia in 1994 as a corporate “sleaze fixer” for Carlton Television, on behalf of  John Major’s Conservative Government, through Ian Greer.  Now as Prime Minister, David Cameron is preventing the Metropolitan Police from investigating my case against Kenneth Clarke MP, who was involved in the scandal of sexually assaulting me in Ian Greer’s office, which Cameron helped cover up!
Okay, let’s just take a breath…

A TOP-level cover-up was ordered to hide close links between Prince Charles and paedo Jimmy Savile

A number of political scandals in the 1980s and 1990s created the impression of what was described in the British press as “sleaze”: a perception that the then Conservative Government was associated with political corruption and hypocrisy. In particular, the successful entrapment of Graham Riddick and David Tredinnick in the “Cash for Questions” scandal of 1994, the contemporaneous misconduct as ministers by Neil Hamilton, Tim Smith, and the convictions of former Cabinet Member Jonathan Aitken and former party deputy chairman Jeffrey Archer for perjury in two separate cases leading to custodial sentences damaged the Conservatives’ public reputation.

Persistent rumours about the activities of the party treasurer Michael Ashcroft furthered this impression. At the same time, a series of revelations about the private lives of various Conservative politicians such as Hague, Portillo, etc, etc., made the headlines. Scallywag Magazine even accused Lord McAlpine of being a paedophile. However the investigation was stopped but McAlpine didn’t sue Scallywag Magazine as they had photographic evidence apparently which then subsequently disappeared. See the pattern? Paedophile rings all operate in the same way.

Read More about the cover up of paedophile rings by David Cameron and other senior political identities in the United Kingdom.

The organised paedophile rings operating at the highest level of government and society are not contained to just one country. Sadly it is those in the most powerful and influential positions who enable the sickest of crimes against the most defenceless members of society to flourish.

I find it far from coincidental that "Hey Dad" star Robert Hughes was arrested on molesting charges, when you look at how many other high profile entertainers are being exposed as predators of children. After a two-year investigation and a three-month global hunt by police, former TV star Robert ''Hey Dad!'' Hughes was behind bars in London, accused of molesting five girls more than 25 years ago.

London, you will see that with these high profile entertainers the path repeatedly leads back to London.

Even less of a coincidence in my opinion is the fact that Rolf Harris who is implicated in paedophilia was based in London, where so many other high profile entertainers already proven to be paedophiles such as Jimmy Saville, base themselves.

Rolf Harris was the subject of child sex charges and the entertainer could be jailed for 10 years if found guilty. The star has been charged with nine sex attacks on girls aged 14 and 15 and making indecent images of children. Prosecutors said today there was “sufficient evidence” to charge the Australian star.

Names of top politicians, royal aides and a famous pop star on list seized by police investigating child paedophile ring at suburban B&B

Ben Fellows spills the beans

.It covers his experiences as a child actor, being offered by his agent Sylvia Young to Tom Cruise for sex (Tom chose someone else), Christopher Cazenove making violent sexual moves on him in a hotel room, and how he is advised to make a Police statement to protect himself from Ken Clarke suing him for the penis-touching allegations.

(Once allegationsare subject of a Police enquiry, the alleger cannot be sued. Furthermore, not mentioned, no newspaper can carry them) A 13 year old from an Australian soap was raped at an after show party in front of fifteen people. The perpetrator is named. No one did anything about it.

Mel Smith.  Joanna Lumley.  Joan Collins.  Drugs.  Ben told the Press a few of the seedier details of his encounters with these people.  The
newspapers reported none of it.  The PR machine makes them all seem like wonders of the world.  As Ben makes clear in this video, they
definitely are not.  As usual the Police are concerned not to investigate but to keep the lid on the pot.

Ben seems to want to get it all off is chest, and talks fluently as you would expect from a professional actor.  Once you start listening, you
are transported to the end without a pause.

Bruce Forsyth is mentioned.  Jimmy Savile.  Andrew Lloyd Webber groomed him through multiple auditions, and then stuck his tongue down Ben’s throat, grabbing Ben’s genitals, when he was 15 in 1990.  He didn’t complain.  Who could I complain to, he asks the Police officers.
Silence.

That’s just the first tape.

BOY SCOUTS release 20 years of ‘perversion’ files … sexual predators go free while victims suffered in silence

Note: This story is from the United States but it may as well be anywhere. Child rapists are everywhere, paedophiles is too good a name for them, why not call them what they really are. Sick animals that deserve a bullet, that rape helpless an innocent children. Nothing more than predators. (Luke's Dad)

Again and again, decade after decade, an array of authorities — police chiefs, prosecutors, pastors and local Boy Scout leaders among them — quietly shielded scoutmasters and others accused of molesting children, a newly opened trove of confidential papers shows.

At the time, those authorities justified their actions as necessary to protect the good name and good works of Scouting, a pillar of 20th century America. But as detailed in 14,500 pages of secret “perversion files” released Thursday by order of the Oregon Supreme Court, their maneuvers allowed sexual predators to go free while victims suffered in silence.

The files are a window on a much larger collection of documents the Boy Scouts of America began collecting soon after their founding in 1910. The files, kept at Boy Scout headquarters in Texas, consist of memos from local and national Scout executives, handwritten letters from victims and their parents and newspaper clippings about legal cases.

But the files are also littered with horrific accounts of alleged pedophiles who were able to continue in Scouting because of pressure from community leaders and local Scouts officials.

The files also document other troubling patterns. There is little mention in the files of concern for the welfare of Scouts who were abused by their leaders, or what was done for the victims. But there are numerous documents showing compassion for alleged abusers, who were often times sent to psychiatrists or pastors to get help.

One of the men said he held an all-night party at his house, during which he brought 10 boys, one by one, into a room where he committed, in his words, “immoral acts.” The same man said he had molested Scouts on an outing two weeks prior to the interrogation.

But no one was prosecuted. Once again, a powerful local official sought to preserve the name of Scouting.

An array of local authorities — police chiefs, prosecutors, pastors and town Boy Scout leaders among them — quietly shielded scoutmasters and others who allegedly molested children, according to a newly opened trove of confidential files compiled from 1959 to1985.

At the time, those authorities justified their actions as necessary to protect the good name and good works of Scouting. But as detailed in 14,500 pages of secret "perversion files" released Thursday by order of the Oregon Supreme Court, their maneuvers protected suspected sexual predators while victims suffered in silence.

The files document sex abuse allegations across the country, from a small town in the Adirondacks to downtown Los Angeles.

At a news conference Thursday, Portland attorney Kelly Clark blasted the Boy Scouts for their continuing legal battles to try to keep the full trove of files secret.

"You do not keep secrets hidden about dangers to children," said Clark, who in 2010 won a landmark lawsuit against the Boy Scouts on behalf of a plaintiff who was molested by an assistant scoutmaster in the 1980s.

The files were shown to a jury in a 2010 Oregon civil suit that the Scouts lost, and the Oregon Supreme Court ruled the files should be made public. After months of objections and redactions, the Scouts and Clark released them.

The Associated Press obtained copies of the files weeks ahead of Thursday's release and conducted an extensive review of them, but agreed not to publish the stories until the files were released.

The new files are a window on a much larger collection of documents the Boy Scouts of America began collecting soon after their founding in 1910. The files, kept at Boy Scout headquarters in Texas, consist of memos from local and national Scout executives, handwritten letters from victims and their parents and newspaper clippings about legal cases. The files contain details about proven molesters, but also unsubstantiated allegations

Many of the files released on Thursday have been written about before, but this is the first time the earliest ones have been put in the public domain.

The 1959-85 files show that on many occasions the files succeeded in keeping pedophiles out of Scouting leadership positions — the reason they were collected in the first place.

But the files document some troubling patterns.

In many instances — more than a third, according to the Scouts' own count — police weren't told about the alleged abuse.

And there is little mention in the files of concern for the welfare of Scouts who were allegedly abused by their leaders. But there are numerous documents showing compassion for suspected abusers, who were often times sent to psychiatrists or pastors to get help.

In 1972, a Pennsylvania Scouting executive wrote a memo recommending a case against a suspected abuser be dropped with the words: "If it don't stink, don't stir it."

In numerous instances, alleged abusers are kicked out of Scouting but show up in jobs where they are once again in authority positions dealing with youths.

One of the most startling revelations to come from the files is the frequency with which attempts to protect Scouts from alleged molesters collapsed at the local level, at times in collusion with community leaders.

On the afternoon of Aug. 10, 1965, a distraught Louisiana mother walked into the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office. A 31-year-old scoutmaster, she told the chief criminal deputy, had raped one of her sons and molested two others.

Six days later, the scoutmaster sat down in the same station and confessed.

"I don't know an explanation, why we done it or I done it or wanted to do it or anything else it just — an impulse I guess or something," the man told a sheriff's deputy.

The decision was made not to pursue charges. "This subject and Scouts were not prosecuted," a Louisiana Scouts executive wrote to national headquarters, "to save the name of Scouting."

In a statement on Thursday, Scouts spokesman Deron Smith said"''There is nothing more important than the safety of our Scouts."

Smith said there have been times when Scouts' responses to sex abuse allegations were "plainly insufficient, inappropriate, or wrong" and the organization extends its "deepest and sincere apologies to victims and their families."

The Scouts in late September made public an internal review of the files and said they would look into past cases to see whether there were times when abusers should have been reported to police.

The files showed a "very low" incidence of abuse among Scout leaders, said psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Warren, who conducted the review with a team of graduate students and served as an expert witness for the Scouts in the 2010 case that made the files public. Her review of the files didn't take into account the number of files destroyed on abusers who turned 75 years old or died, something she said would not have significantly affected the rate of abuse or her conclusions.

The rate of abuse among Scouts is the not the focus of their critics — it is, rather, their response to allegations of abuse.

Throughout the files released Thursday are cases in which steps were taken to protect Scouting's image.

In Newton, Kan., in 1961, the county attorney had what he needed for a prosecution: Two men were arrested and admitted that they had molested Scouts in their care. But neither man was prosecuted.

The entire investigation, the county attorney wrote, was brought about with the cooperation of a local district Scouts executive, who was kept apprised of the investigation's progress into the men, who had affiliations with both the Scouts and the local YMCA.

"I came to the decision that to openly prosecute would cause great harm to the reputations of two organizations which we have involved here — the Boy Scouts of America and the local YMCA," he wrote in a letter to a Kansas Scouting executive.

In Johnstown, Pa., in August 1962, a married 25-year-old steel mill worker with a high school education pleaded guilty to "serious morals" violations involving Scouts.

The Scouting executive who served as both mayor and police chief made sure of one thing: The Scouting name was never brought up. It went beyond the mayor to the members of a three-judge panel, who also deemed it important to keep the Scouts' names out of the press.

"No mention of Scouting was involved in the case in as much as two of the three judges who pronounced sentence are members of our Executive Board," the Scouts executive wrote to the national personnel division.

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Care Proceedings: How can I apply to end a care order?

Note: The following legal advice comes from the UK website familyjustice-exposed.com Tamlyn Edmonds is a barrister and specialist prosecutor at Edmonds Marshall McMahon, a specialist law firm dedicated to private prosecutions.

You can ask the court to discharge (end) a care order, but it is not likely to agree unless there has been a real change in circumstances since the order was made. You may be able to get public funding (legal aid) to pay your solicitor’s costs for helping you with this but you will not automatically get it. You will have to make a good case and you may also be asked to pay some of your costs, depending on your financial circumstances.

If you have already asked the court to discharge the care order in the last six months, but want to ask again, you must get the court’s permission.

You will have to show the court that it is in your child’s best interests for the care order to be discharged. The court will then look at any current risk to your child.

The court may decide to replace the care order with a supervision order, which means the council will no longer have parental responsibility for your child but will supervise how you care for your child instead.

If the court discharges the care order, you and any other person with parental responsibility will take over caring for your child. If you cannot agree about the arrangements for the care of your child with anyone else who has parental responsibility for them, the court can make:

• a residence order to say who your child should live with; and
• a contact order to set out the arrangements for your child to spend time with other people they know

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  Appealing against Care Orders: a Guide for Parents

  If you have the benefit of legal representation, then your first port of call should be to your solicitor in asking for advice on what to do next. Even if you do not like their advice, you should give it very serious consideration. Care proceedings are emotionally fraught by their very nature and a decision you strongly disagree with is not one which can necessarily be challenged legally.

• If you disagree with the decision and you do wish to challenge it, and are legally represented, the first thing you should do is to ask for the person who represented you at the final hearing to write an advice on appeal. It would also be of benefit to you and to them if you wrote down exactly why you think the case should be appealed and to ask them for their professional opinion on it. If asked, whoever represented you should provide a written advice and so do not be afraid of asking for one.
  FUNDING
  A lawyer cannot advise that the legal services commission pay for an appeal if they believe the prospects of success are poor. If your lawyer believes the prospects of success are better than poor there is an automatic right of appeal but they should not appeal unless they believe there are reasonable prospects of success. This is because an appeal court can make a costs order against the lawyer conducting the appeal if they feel the appeal should not have been undertaken.
  If your lawyer does believe that there should be an appeal then the question of how that appeal should be funded arises. Although there is an automatic right to legal aid funding for parents in care proceedings, this rule does not apply to appeals. Perversely, it is possible that in care proceedings a legally aided parent may get the order they seek, and be refused legal aid for legal representation for an appeal against that order brought by someone else, which they have no control over.
  Legal aid for appeals in care proceedings are “means” and “merits” tested. The merits test is that the chances are better than poor as discussed above. The means test is in two parts. Firstly, does the legal services commission believe you have the means to pay for the appeal yourself? This is a standardised test which your solicitor will be able to advise you on, if they feel there is merit in an appeal. Secondly, even if you cannot be expected to fund it yourself, if there are other people or organisations that could reasonably be expected to fund the appeal, you may be refused funding. This seems in principle that the more significant the breach of a persons legal rights are, the greater the danger they will be denied legal aid to appeal. Whether or not that could ever be seen as morally justifiable is unfortunately irrelevant for the purposes of this article. It is the law as it stands.
  GOING IT ALONE
  If you are going to conduct the appeal in person, you should consider whether or not you want help from what is called a McKenzie friend. They are non-lawyers who can provide moral support, take notes, help with case papers and quietly give advice on the conduct of the case. They should normally be allowed to attend any court hearings with you. If you are going to seek the assistance of a McKenzie friend, you should inform the court of who you will have assisting you and send in a short CV setting out their experience. This can be a friend of yours or someone who regularly acts as a McKenzie friend.
  If you want to appeal in person you first must decide the basis on which you are appealing. There are 3 grounds on which you can appeal from the Family Proceedings Court. These are:
  
      The decision of the magistrates was wrong in law.
      The decision of the magistrates was outside their jurisdiction. (They did not have the legal power to make the order they did.)
      The decision of the magistrates was plainly wrong. (This is a very high test as there may be a number of reasonable decisions which could have been come to. You would have to show a clear deficiency in the reasoning of the magistrates.)
  
  What you must then do is as follows:
  
      You will need to lodge an Appellant’s notice with the court you are appealing to, which will be the County Court or the Principal Registry of the Family Division, within 21 days of the decision. You will have to file with this:
          Two additional copies of the appellants notice;
          one copy of the appellant’s notice for each of the respondents;
          one copy of the appellant’s skeleton argument for each copy of the appellant’s notice that is filed;
          a sealed or stamped copy of the order being appealed or a copy of the notice making the order;
          a copy of any order giving or refusing permission to appeal, together with a copy of the court’s reasons for allowing or refusing permission to appeal;
          any witness statements or affidavits in support of any application included in the appellant’s notice.
  
      You must also file an appeal bundle which will need to include:
          A sealed or stamped copy of the appellant’s notice;
          a sealed or stamped copy of the order being appealed, or a copy of the notice making an order;
          any affidavit or witness statement filed in support of any application included in the appellant’s notice;
          where the appeal is against a consent order, a statement setting out the change in circumstances since the order was agreed or other circumstances justifying a review or re-hearing;
          you have the option of including a copy of the appellant’s skeleton argument (This is a written document where you set out why you think the decision of the magistrates should be overturned. It is best to try and be as concise as you can and write it in numbered paragraphs.);
          the written reasons for the magistrates decision;
          the application form;
          any application notice (or case management documentation) relevant to the subject of the appeal;
          any other documents which the appellant reasonably considers necessary to enable the appeal court to reach its decision on the hearing of the application on appeal; and
          such other documents as the court may direct.
  
  You must then serve all of these documents on all of the parties within 7 days of serving them on the court.
  The last bit of guidance I would give is that although it is a very emotional subject, and indeed will concern the welfare of your child, try and remain as calm as you can and focus on the argument you want the judge to adopt.

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  Private Prosecution Your complete Guide how to apply No one is above the law.

Victims have no right to review a decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute. However you can choose to initiate private proceedings. There is no legal aid available for this and if the case goes to Crown Court, you will need to involve legal counsel. The Director of Public Prosecutions – ie the Head of the Crown Prosecution Service – may take over the case at any time, and decide to discontinue it.In many cases it will be easier and more effective to bring a civil claim for damages rather than starting a private prosecution. The standard of proof is lower and a wider range of evidence may be used. However, a successful civil claim will only result in an award of compensation, which may not be enforcable (if the criminal has no money) or it may not satisfy the need for justice in the way that a criminal conviction would.There is no duty on the state to prosecute a person suspected of a crime simply because there is sufficient evidence. However the Human Rights Act means that the interests of the victim should be taken into account in making these decisions in a more formal way than was previously the case. In making decisions not to prosecute a suspect the prosecuting authorities will have to take account of the rights of victims to security of the person, and to their right to a private and family life.

A GUIDE TO PRIVATE PROSECUTION PROCEDURE IN

ENGLAND AND WALES

 

1. A member of the public can bring a private prosecution for any offence,

unless the offence is one for which the consent of the Attorney General

(AG) or the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is required before a

prosecution can take place. S.6(1) of the PROSECUTION OF OFFENCES ACT

1985 (POA).

2. The private prosecution is commenced by laying an ‘information’ at,

followed by the issue of a warrant by, a magistrate’s court. Rule 7.2 of

the Criminal Procedure Rules (Crim.PR).

LAYING AN INFORMATION

3. Before a warrant can be issued an information must be laid at a

magistrate’s court. R.7.2(2) Crim.PR.

4. The information may be laid before a magistrate or a magistrate’s clerk.

This must be done in writing. R.7.2(2) Crim.PR.

5. A written information is ‘laid’ as soon as it is received in the clerk’s office,

even if it is not considered by a clerk or a magistrate until later (R v.

Manchester Stipendiary Magistrate ex p. Hill [1983] 1 AC 238). No

standard form has to be used; all that matters is that the document sent

to the magistrate’s court contains the essential elements of an

information. R v. Kennet Justices ex p Humphrey and Wyatt [1993] Crim.

LR 787.

6. The written information must contain statement of the offence that:

a. Describes the offence in ordinary language. R.7.3(1)(a)(i) Crim.PR.

b. Identifies any legislation that creates it. R.7.3(1)(a)(ii) Crim.PR.

c. Contains such particulars of the conduct constituting the commission

of the offence as to make clear what the prosecutor alleges against

7. More than one incident of the commission of the offence may be

included in the allegation if those incidents taken together amount to a

course of conduct having regard to the time, place or purpose of

commission. R.7.3(2) Crim.PR.

ISSUING A WARRANT

8. Once an information has been laid, a magistrate or clerk may then issue

a warrant.

9. In deciding whether or not to issue a warrant, the magistrate or clerk

should ensure that:

a. an offence known to law is alleged;

b. it is not out of time;

c. the court has jurisdiction;

d. the informant has the necessary authority to prosecute (R. v.

Gateshead Justices ex p Tesco Stores Ltd. [1981] QB 470 at 478).

10. There is no obligation upon a magistrate or clerk to make any inquiries

before issuing a warrant. A warrant may be issued without giving the

parties an opportunity to make representations and without a hearing.

R.7.4(1) Crim.PR.

TRANSFER TO THE CROWN COURT
11. In respect of anyone appearing before the magistrate’s court on an
indictable only defence, the magistrate’s court must immediately transfer
the case to the Crown Court. S.51(1) CRIME AND DISORDER ACT 1998.
THE DPP
12. With respect to certain qualifying offences committed outside of the U.K.
a magistrate may not issue a warrant without the consent of the DPP.
S.4(A) to s.4(D) MAGISTRATES COURT ACT 1980 (MCA).
13. In addition, and further to POA s.6(1), the AG or the DPP (as head of the
Crown Prosecution Service [CPS] and under the general or special

directions of the AG) is always entitled to take over the conduct of the
private prosecution at any stage of the proceedings. POA s.6(2).
14. Once the DPP has taken over the conduct of the proceedings, he is free
to discontinue them if he thinks it would be appropriate to do so. POA
s.23-24.

15. The private prosecutor is under no duty to inform the CPS that a private
prosecution has commenced. However, the CPS may become aware of
a private prosecution by way of one of the following:
a. where the Private Prosecutor requests that the CPS take over the
prosecution;
b. where the defendant asks the CPS to take over the prosecution;
c. where a justices clerk refers a private prosecution to the CPS under
section 7(4) of the POA, because the prosecution has been
withdrawn or unduly delayed and there does not appear to be any
good reason for the withdrawal or the delay;
d. where a judge sends a report to the CPS;
e. where the CPS learns of the private prosecution in another way, e.g.
from a press report
16. Upon learning of a private prosecution, and if it so chooses, the CPS is
entitled to request a full set of papers from the private prosecutor and the
defendant/s. While the private prosecutor is obliged to comply with this
request, the defendant is not.

17. Upon review of the case papers, the CPS may take over and continue
with a private prosecution if it is demonstrated that
a. the evidential sufficiency stage of the Full Code Test is met (i.e. can
the evidence be used in court, is it reliable and is it sufficient to
provide a realistic prospect of conviction); and
b. the public interest stage of the Full Code Test is met; and
c. there is a particular need for the CPS to take over the prosecution.

18. All three elements must be satisfied before the CPS can take over and
continue with the prosecution.
19. Conversely, the CPS may take over and stop a private prosecution if,
upon having reviewed the case papers, it has been demonstrated that:
a. the evidential sufficiency stage of the Full Code Test is not met; or
b. the public interest stage of the Full Code Test is not met; or
c. even if the Full Code Test is met, where there is a particular need to
do so because the prosecution is likely to damage the interests of
justice, e.g.:
i. the prosecution interferes with another criminal offence;
ii. the prosecution interferes with the prosecution of another
criminal charge; or
iii. the prosecution is vexatious (within the meaning of s.42
Supreme Court Act 1981, as amended by section s.24 POA),
or malicious.

20. Where there is more than one charge, this policy should be applied to
each charge individually. R. v. PP, ex p. Duckenfield; R. Same, ex p.
Murray; R. v. South Yorkshire Police Authority and anor, ex p. Chief
Constable of the South Yorkshire Police; R. v. Same, ex p. Duckenfield
[2000] W.L.R. 55, DC

 

Private prosecutions: an individual’s right

It is a common misconception that only the Crown, government agencies and other public bodies can bring prosecutions.  Individuals also have the right to bring prosecutions privately when they have been the victim of crime.  This important right is contained within section 6 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985.  There are a wide range of offences available to someone who wants to initiate a private prosecution, however some offences require the permission of the Attorney General or the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) before proceedings can commence.

Lord Wilberforce in Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers (1978) 3 All ER 70 [1977], stressed the importance of the right to bring private prosecutions:  ‘ The individual, in such situations, who wishes to see the law enforced has a remedy of his own: he can bring a private prosecution. This historical right which goes right back to the earliest days of our legal system, though rarely exercised in relation to indictable offences… remains a valuable constitutional safeguard against inertia or partiality on the part of authority”.

Private prosecutions are not a new concept – many companies already regularly bring private prosecutions, the most notable being the recent Virgin Media case where three men took part in a large-scale fraud selling set-top boxes which allowed people unlawful free access to Virgin Media’s  cable television channels.  The private prosecution brought by Virgin Media resulted in convictions for all three men.  The RSPCA frequently bring private prosecutions as do the BPI (the British Recorded Music Industry) and FACT (Federation against Copyright Theft).  The private prosecution brought by Stephen Lawrence’s family in 1996 against those suspected of murdering Stephen Lawrence was perhaps the most high profile private prosecution ever brought.

Private prosecutions are not just limited to companies.  If you have been the victim of crime you may feel, in these times of austerity, that traditional methods of redress are either not available to you or if you sought to commence civil proceedings instead, those proceedings would be prohibitively slow and costly. It may be that you feel that certain crimes are not the priority of the police or the Crown Prosecution Service at present. If that is the case, private prosecutions become very important to enabling individuals to act where necessary. Commencing a private prosecution allows a victim to retain control of the proceedings and to actively pursue a conviction against the accused. Sometimes, life-changing events occur which must be resolved, and a private prosecution is one way of doing this.

In order to bring a private prosecution, you can seek the advice of a lawyer who will tell you  whether there is sufficient evidence to launch a private prosecution.  If there is insufficient evidence available, you or your lawyer can utilise the services of a private investigator to obtain further evidence if necessary. It is, again, important to speak to a reputable investigator to ensure the evidence is not illegally obtained.  Once the evidence has been reviewed, and charges decided upon, a prosecution is commenced by ‘laying an information’ at a Magistrates Court. The ‘information’ provides details of the offence alleged and the relevant legislation which creates the offence.  The Magistrates court will then issue a summons, which is served on the accused, along with the date on which they must attend court for their first appearance to face the charges.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has the right to take over any private prosecution (under section 6(2) of the Prosecution of Offences Act) and either continue with the prosecution or discontinue it.  However, the CPS is only  likely to discontinue the case where there isn’t sufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction or the CPS do not deem the prosecution to be in the public interest. For example, a prosecution is not in the public interest if it is likely to damage the interests of justice and if it is vexatious or malicious.  It is therefore very important that prior to commencing a private prosecution, the advice of a lawyer is sought, particularly the advice of an experienced criminal prosecutor. The Prosecutor should have experience in prosecutions and be familiar with the Code for Crown Prosecutors test applied by the CPS, to ensure that the case meets the Code test and to avoid the possibility that the CPS may discontinue the prosecution in the future.

No legal aid
It is important to note that there is no legal aid available for instituting a private prosecution therefore you must be prepared to fund a prosecution yourself. However, you can apply to get your costs back, including investigative costs at the end of the proceedings.  The court can make an order that either the accused pay the prosecutors costs or an order that the costs are paid out of central funds (state funds), irrespective of whether the accused is convicted or acquitted (unless the prosecution was instituted or continued without good case).

Before commencing a private prosecution, the most important thing is that you receive adequate legal advice on the prospects of a conviction, whether your case meets the test in the code for crown prosecutors, whether your require further evidence and if so what that evidence should be, and finally what charges are appropriate in your case.

Last week, I walked into the courthouse and I saw a kid in handcuffs with two sheriffs standing near him. I was surprised for two reasons.

One, it is not common to see anyone walking through a courthouse hallway in handcuffs. Courthouses are designed with hallways/entrances/cells/offices that the public never sees, so as to allow incarcerated people to be transferred in privacy and some dignity to cells and the courtroom.

Two, children and youth are not often found in the courthouse unaccompanied by parents. Usually it’s the parents involved in some sort of court case dragging their children to court because they don’t have a babysitter or other child-care for the day.

Youth court day is the exception; youth court day is the day of the month when young offenders turn up to manage their criminal case. The courthouse fills up with children and young adults, (hopefully) with adults in tow.

There is something unnerving about it to me as a lawyer. It is unnerving because other than in the youth criminal justice system, the court does not engage with minors as legal actors on a regular basis. Children are protected from having the responsibilities that come from being an adult; for example, children are not, on their own, able to sign contracts or start lawsuits.

Nonetheless, children or minors (under the age of 19) have interests that need protecting and rights that are violated. Family law is the area of law where children most enter the picture, yet are not directly involved. In family law, everything is always “about the children”. No case involving children ever gets two steps out of the gate without someone throwing down the challenge: “But have you considered the best interests of the children?!” This is the case if its two parents warring over time with children or a child protection case.

Somehow, however, everyone has a different opinion on what the best interests of a particular child are and how they will be fulfilled. Even when you only consider the factors set out by the law, determining the best interests of the child is not a precise science.

And what about the children? Do they get a say? A recent case in B.C. Supreme Court, Rashtian v. Baraghoush, makes it clear that it is inappropriate to involve children in family law disputes by trying to enter affidavits of children as evidence of whom the child would prefer to live with.

There are other ways to have the views of the child heard, such as through expert reports or through an interview with the judge. Not all judges are willing to conduct interviews of children in their private chambers. These judges may require that if the child’s views are to be part of the evidence, then a report must be prepared by a person qualified to interview children. The problem with these reports is that they are expensive and take some time to prepare. It’s also important to remember the child’s views are not the be-all-and-end-all to the matter of what is in the best interests of the child. They are only one factor to be considered among many.

Tackling the issue of “best interests of the child” in child protection cases is even more difficult—especially if you are a parent. In child protection, it’s often not a matter of which parent should the child reside with and have time with, but whether the child is better off with the family or the state. The stakes are raised and parents enter the ring with an institutional bully that is unrelenting and has the upper hand in terms of credibility in the eyes of the law.

Families involved in child protection cases tend to be lower income families, families where one member of the family has an addiction issue, or families where there is a history of family violence. Mothers that are fighting a removal, which occurred because she was being abused by a partner, will face an uphill battle. They will often be confronted with negative attitudes and stereotypes about their ability to parent because of the difficult situation they found themselves in.

Rather than being in an empowered position to demonstrate to the court that they are good parents and have the ability to protect their children, they are often beaten down long before they get to court. This can hardly be in the best interests of the children, but there is little impetus on the part of the courts or the state to change it. Being lower income parents means that there is not much ability on their part to fight back.

Sadly, it’s the children who are in the care of the Ministry of Children and Family Development that are frequently the ones attending court on youth court day, demonstrating that there is something severely wrong with our system.
Laurel Dietz practices family law and criminal defence with Dogwood Law Corporation in Victoria, B.C.

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For all Munro’s attempts to erase the social work blame culture, we’re still a profession dominated by it, writes an anonymous social worker

Note: I haven't even read this yet, but I can see where it is going... "Blame Culture." You stole the child, you degraded the parent and blatantly called them a failure as a parent, the greatest insult anyone could unleash upon a loving parent possible. You personally drag the child from his home to the house of some stranger, where you turn your back on him leaving him there alone and confused.

You are not there to watch over them or to check on them, all you are concerned with is ripping them away from their family that you do not know, have never met, but have considered yourself above them. Now the child has died.

Don't act surprised. Children in foster care are up to ten times more likely to die than children who grow up in their family home. The average age is four years and under, like my little Lukey who only made it to two after you bastards kidnapped and murdered him.

So who's fault is it> You stole the child. You put him in a dangerous foster care system. It is about time you took some responsibility for all the children you have terrorised. It is about time you were accountable for what you have done to these children instead of the truth being covered up by corrupt coroners like Kevin Priestly, and dispicable child protection managers like Pat Anderson.

Don't expect sympathy from the tens of thousand of families you have decimated. Don't expect pity from me. I wish it was Pat Anderson in that coffin down at the Cairns Cemetary and not my beautiful little boy, and the world would be better off with one less corrupt, evil, lying, putrid child stealing low life skum. Just remember that those families you stole the children of that you killed have lost a part of their souls forever, they will miss the children that were kidnapped and murdered by you every day for the rest of their lives. What does a child protection worker do when this happens??? They go out the next day and steal more children from the next unsuspecting family.

By an anonymous social worker

It’s a morning I’ll never forget for the rest of my social work career. Before I sat down, my manager called me over. “A child has died,” she said. I heard her. I saw her lips move. But I just couldn’t process the information. I just shut down and walked away. I was in shock and wanted to be alone.

It’s an uncomfortable reality, but when you enter child protection social work you know children might die (we’ve all read serious case reviews). We work with hundreds of vulnerable children every year. We see abuse and neglect every day. But, you never – ever – think a death will happen on your team.

The child who died wasn’t my case (although it easily could have been), but the fallout has affected each and every single one of my team. There’s the hurt of knowing parents killed a child on our caseload, despite us doing everything in our power to protect them; there’s the sheer shock of the whole thing; and there’s the crippling fear that we’ll be the latest targets of a tabloid witch hunt. The treatment of Haringey social workers in the wake of the Baby P case is still fresh in our memories.

We pride ourselves on working hard. We pull together and support each other. But when a tragedy like this happens, you start questioning your ability. The child’s death, and the looming serious case review, hang over you and your colleagues but the day job doesn’t stop. It’s easy to go into panic mode but you have to keep going.

And, from my experience, it feels like it’s all made worse by the way local authorities handle these situations. Suddenly all kinds of bosses you’ve never seen before come to your meetings. Directors and senior managers – all under their own pressures – tell you the process isn’t about blame. But their speeches feel rehearsed. They don’t feel honest.

The truth is I feel that we are being blamed. It feels like the spotlight is now intensely on our team. My own judgement is getting questioned just that little bit more than it did before.

In fact, everyone has started questioning everyone. Nobody wants the buck to stop with them, whether it’s a receptionist worried they forgot to scan a document or a social worker terrified they may have missed a warning sign. At the same time it feels like other teams are gossiping about what’s happened.

For all Eileen Munro’s attempts to move social work away from a blame culture, this experience has taught me that we’re still a profession dominated by exactly that. For the first time in my social work career I feel de-skilled.

I’ve always, always thought that I wasn’t risk-averse in my practice. I love positive social work. Right now, I don’t feel I have the energy for it. I feel my local authority is forcing us down a defensive route and it makes me sad.

I fear this defensive attitude might last for some time. I hope it doesn’t because working in this defensive culture, under these pressures, makes me sometimes feel like walking away from the job I love.

Whatever happens with this job, I know I won’t walk away from social work as a profession. I love working  with children and families, even the most difficult cases. But, if I’m honest, this has been the hardest experience of my career. I keep telling myself I’ll come out of it a better, stronger social worker. I hope that proves to be the case.

Since, the above paper trail, the biological father, took matters into his own hands to protect his vulnerable baby, you could not do your job properly “DoCS”, at protecting a innocent baby... so let’s hope the criminal justice system having all the proof after father was charged, make you Maggot DoCS workers accountable, this babies biological father hired the best barrister, and we have left a paper trail, of evidence……STAY TUNED… bit insane mother wants father charged with assaulting her new defacto and a 2 year AVO, but did not want the child abuser charged, go figure ?

I had 15 month old baby on 2013 due to Mother having an appointment with a family support worker. 15 month old baby had no marks on him, on that date. I knew Mother had left 15 month old baby with Mother's new defacto on Tuesday or must have taken him to appointment with her above mentioned worker.

On Wednesday 2013, I arrived to take Mother and 15 month old baby and previously arranged to go to a medical centre Mother kept saying she was not ready in numerous calls, upon arriving 15 month old baby was asleep and Mothers new defacto was home again (from the Tuesday 2013 it was noticed Mothers new defacto was of work, a whole week minding 15 month old baby whilst he had the injuries).

I said wake 15 month old baby up and bring him, Mother clearly said no, whilst at Doctors surgery, I noticed Mother holding a prescription for #### tablets, I asked what they were for, and Mother replied I have bad anxiety. At the time I thought it was from financial stress at cost of moving into own place, not knowing 15 month old baby had injuries. When we returned 1-hour, later 15 month old baby was still asleep, so I left.

On the 2013 I received a phone call of Doctor reception staff whom I took 15-month-old baby as proof of his injuries on Friday 2013 they were requesting if I could take 15-month-old baby in, to see Doctor again at #### and the phone number being &&&&. I explained I did not have custody of 15-month-old baby and DoCS have not responded to as far as I am aware of regarding 15-month-old baby’s injuries to date, nor contacted me.

DoCS in fact told me on 2013 that, as I did not have custody of 15-month-old baby if Mother demanded 15-month-old baby go return home. I also received a letter in mail Friday 2013 also asking 15-month-old baby to attend Doctors rooms requesting to see 15-month-old baby. I had to let 15-month-old baby go home; only to read a Facebook page telling everyone they were consuming alcohol with 15-month-old baby there, after saying and begging Mother to let 15-month-old baby stay with me one more night.

I informed doctor’s receptionist I had to legally hand 15-month-old baby over to her when Mother demanded he go home 2013, until DoCS responded. During the consult of 15-month-old baby ’s injuries Doctor took photos with his own camera and reported 15-month-old baby ’s as a child at serious risk of harm and his injuries as being “excessive force” to DoCS hotline in my presence over the phone to the hotline, stating 15-month-old baby “should not go back into that home”.

I received a letter dated 2013 from Doctor Staff again requesting to see 15-month-old baby.

I had contacted your office after calling the doctor back on 2013 and that the Doctor had said “excessive force” not DoCS terminology “accidental or non-accidental.” so I contacted DoCS at #### office on @@@@ and spoke to a worker whom identified herself as DoCS worker to inform her of the Doctor request to see 15-month-old baby again regarding his injuries.

DoCS worker clearly stated “I should have disclosed I had in fact taken 15-month-old baby to the doctors to Mother,” and if the Doctor only wants follow up its ok or he has to call the hotline again.

DoCS worker should have read the notes, in my prior calls to DoCS. I would of lost contact with 15-month-old baby , if I had of told the mother, when speaking with the DoCS hotline on 2013 at Doctor office and half hour after leaving his surgery DoCS clearly told me not to jeopardise my contact with 15-month-old baby until DoCS had investigated 15-month-old baby ’s injuries.

I had a duty of care to my grandson to report and seek medical opinion for 15-month-old baby’s injuries. I’ll always take a child to the doctors without parent’s knowledge for serious physical injuries, as I am legally bound to under duty of care legislation.

I had in fact reported 15-month-old baby’s injuries on Thursday 2013. As soon as I seen them reference number being @@@@@ As stated earlier; Mother demanded her son return home before Mothers new defacto returned from a man of the laws son’s wedding after seeing the Doctor and his report to hotline of a child at significant risk of harm.

I have a reference number &&&&& to state Mother had taken 15-month-old baby back into her home and it was in DoCS hands due to prior calls with staff from the doctor’s call to the DoCS hotline.

Mothers friend Mothers best friend stated upon picking 15-month-old baby up whilst Mother waiting in the car 2013 a different version of how 15-month-old baby sustained the injuries, that Mother and Mothers new defacto were playing with him. Raising even more suspicions on the fact, I was told by Mother upon her placing him in his car seat in my car, seeing his sleeve on t-shirt raise, and exposing his injuries.

I asked how did that happened Mother said Mothers new defacto was playing helicopters with 15-month-old baby.

I said when did this happen and Mother said it may have been the whipper snipper falling on him yesterday. In addition, on Friday 2013, in the morning, after Mothers new defacto left for a wedding. The mother told me the 15-month-old baby may have got them from standing to attention (with both hands running beside torso) and Mothers new defacto grabbing him on the outside of his arms between shoulders (armpit area) and elbow.

I said Mother “15-month-old baby has never been so badly bruised in his life like this, did 15-month-old baby cry”, Mother said no he laughed, I do not believe the force required to inflict these injuries on both of 15-month-old baby ’s arms, that he would of laughed.

Note for the record; that the night Mother demanded 15-month-old baby back 2013 around 8 p.m., it was plastered on Mothers new defacto brothers Facebook new de-facto’s brother; whom dates Mother’s best friend; that they were drinking til 5 am.

I would like to know:

1. Have they seen the pictures that the Doctor took? (I did offer them to DoCS, only to be told they did not have an email, I have my own photos for evidence).

2. Have DoCS enquired how he sustained excessive force injuries?

3. DoCS have not contacted or talked to anyone in my family to date about his alarming injuries, why is that? (only when I contacted DoCS worker or hotline)

4. has he been reviewed by a doctor since (DoCS worker told me during our call under privacy laws she cannot tell me anything) only surety we have as a family at present regarding 15-month-old baby ’s safety, is he attends Pre School only because I called the DoCS team 2013 that allows children at risk to be placed in a school urgently due to risk factors, and Mother thought it was because she had study commitments. That amazing DoCS worker for pre-schools arranged with pre-school manager at school without Mother being aware, that is the effort I went to, to keep 15-month-old baby as safe as I could.

5. Why is Mothers new defacto showering with 15-month-old baby, taking him to his parents or shops without Mother being concerned after sustaining the injuries he did to arms? Mother always states “15-month-old baby needs to bond with Mothers new defacto” at the excuse he is being further isolated from his family, making the baby be in an even more vulnerable position.

I have attached the photos as maybe once DoCS views them; they may take my families concerns for 15-month-old baby seriously and see how valid they are.

Mother has clearly stated to family members DoCS are not concerned at the injuries to 15-month-old baby’s arms.

We as a family have serious and valid concerns for this 15-month-old baby as Mother only allows her sister to visit and see 15-month-old baby, Mother is only allowing Mothers best friend and Mothers new defacto’s family unsupervised contact with 15-month-old baby leaving 15-month-old baby not only isolated from blood relatives, but leaving him vulnerable, not allowing his family contact, to keep an eye on him and further physical abuse.

Kind regards 2013

Make them accountable, stop government workers having legal bills paid by us the tax payers, make equality for all, make them apply for legal aid, if they earn too much, join the rest of society, allow them to be sued for their actions.

ATTACHED IS ONLY ONE ARM OF DAMAGE hate it to the core of my being, ill be honest they have done nothing the screwed up, between us I'm siding with real dad, he is getting charged with blood bathing the abuser and i don't condone violence but he deserved more and i blame department failing to act yet again, my mate works with the inspector of detectives, the Kiesha matter and sent him all my proof of evidence, and said protect my baby grandson, yep post it, just no names as I'm looking at avenues to sue them, if possible.

I respect your reasons for not reading it all its breaking my heart i cry every time i look at him, if i taught abuser a lesson I'd be in jail, its not over i am a fighter, my whole family is supporting the dad, I'm shattered my daughter grew up knowing no-one touches a child and she could come to me, I can protect her from anyone, but I don't no if I can ever forgive her, he is so precious, every child is, I'm riding a roller coaster of emotions cry and then angry at abuser, this father is trying not to lose it again its a f****d situation he belted him badly.

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The real-life Big Brother house where he tore families apart with bizarre tasks to test if parents were fit to keep their children

Note: Yeh this predator was just unlucky, they have at least one for every office. If he was a drug dealer they would take everything he owns and throw him in jail, because he is a predator of children and has made a fortune from it he will keep his assets.

Few places could have been more fitting for a memorial to one of Britain's most celebrated and respected ambassadors.

In the Crypt Chapel of St Paul's Cathedral, representatives of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, as well as diplomats from around the world, had assembled for a service to remember Sir Reginald Hibbert, the former Ambassador to France.

With the stone sarcophagi of Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington within touching distance of the congregation, Sir Reginald's son, Dr George Hibbert, could not help but be moved by the turnout for his father, who had died, aged 80, from cancer. Delegates from the Foreign Office, Diplomatic Service, the Royal Hussars, where Sir Reginald once served, and Worcester College, Oxford, where he studied, were also present that crisp February morning in 2003.
Under investigation: Dr George Hibbert, pictured outside the Family Assessment Centre near Blunsdon, Swindon

Under investigation: Dr George Hibbert, pictured outside the Family Assessment Centre near Blunsdon, Swindon

And although he was very proud of his father, Dr George Hibbert could also later claim that his own career was flourishing as the self-proclaimed expert and psychiatrist called on by local authorities from across the country to assess whether hundreds of young mothers were fit to be parents. After the service, as he got into his black Porsche Turbo to drive home, he probably thought that, like his father, he would one day be respected and esteemed by the great and good of his profession.

But today, Dr Hibbert is famous for very different reasons. He is being investigated by the General Medical Council (GMC) following accusations that he deliberately misdiagnosed parents as having mental disorders to allow social services to take their children into care.

This week, it was revealed that applications by local authorities to take children into care in England have reached an all-time record, soaring to 10,000 a year. Since 2008, the figure has more than doubled as the authorities decide ever-more parents should have their children taken away from them.

In the UK as a whole, there are at least 90,000 children in care. And it is to 'experts' such as Dr Hibbert that authorities turn to for court evidence to back up their applications.

Hibbert has offered to surrender his licence to practise medicine but still faces a full GMC inquiry. The scandal of Dr Hibbert — accused in Parliament of being little more than a 'hired gun' for local authorities trying to take children into care — has shone a spotlight on a family courts system normally shrouded in secrecy.

Crucially, it raises the question of whether a single 'expert' should be allowed to determine the most fundamental rights of parents to bring up their own children. Even the Justice Secretary Ken Clarke, the minister responsible for Britain's family courts — where Hibbert gave many of his judgements — has been asked to launch a parliamentary investigation.

Now some of Dr Hibbert's fellow psychiatrists are pouring scorn on the hugely controversial methods that helped him amass a fortune of more than £2 million.
The doctor who broke up families

But how did this privileged son of a respected British ambassador end up in such an embarrassing scandal at the age of 59? Born in Vienna in April 1952, while his father was working at the consulate in Austria, George Hibbert became accustomed to life as the son of a distinguished dignitary.

His father received Foreign Service postings in Bucharest, Guatemala, Ankara, Singapore and Mongolia, to name but a few. George was the middle of three children with an older sister, Jane, and younger brother, William, who is now a barrister.

At 13, he was packed off to board at the historic public school, Charterhouse. Eager to follow in his father's footsteps, he went to Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated with a BA in psychology, philosophy and physiology in 1974.

He then gained his medical qualification at the University of London, and began work as a psychiatrist.

In 1977, the year he completed his medical studies, he married Krystina Tysler, a midwife from Essex whom he had met through work. They bought a family home on a Thirties estate in Oxford and had three daughters, Katharine, Rosalind and Elizabeth — all now grown up.

The scene seemed set for a perfect family life and career, perhaps almost as distinguished as his father's.

But that was not to be.

A psychiatrist who worked with Dr Hibbert at the Warneford Hospital, a specialist mental health unit in Oxford, in the Nineties, recalls a vain man with an eye for the ladies.

'His nickname was “Gorgeous George” because he was so full of himself,' she says, speaking on condition of anonymity. 'He was incredibly vain and was often seen looking at his reflection in the window.

'His hair was immaculately styled, and while most consultants would just wear chinos and a jumper, he would wear expensive suits and arrive at work in a sports car.
Former Charterhouse pupil and Oxford graduate Dr Hibbert is the son of a privileged British ambassador

Former Charterhouse pupil and Oxford graduate Dr Hibbert is the son of a privileged British ambassador

'He was a massive show-off, very arrogant and looked down on people.'

It appears snobbery was not his only failing. The psychiatrist told us that he revelled in the old school tie network, and expressed antiquated views about the role of women.

'I often heard him making very laddish comments about women he considered attractive,' the psychiatrist continues. But some nurses would be flirty and he would love it. I think it made him feel powerful.'

At first Hibbert specialised in patients suffering drink-and-drug addiction problems. Before long he was running the addiction unit, and, it is said, told colleagues he planned to join a march in 1998 organised by the Independent on Sunday newspaper calling for the decriminalisation of cannabis. It was the talk of the hospital — we were so shocked,' the psychiatrist continues, explaining that heavy cannabis use can lead to psychosis. 'Here was a consultant psychiatrist treating people with cannabis addiction, preparing to publicly support the legalisation of cannabis.  

'To say it raised eyebrows was  an understatement.

'It was inappropriate.'

He also viewed the drug as a way to make money. He became a sizeable shareholder in GW Pharmaceuticals, a company that secured a Home Office contract to grow and develop medicines from cannabis.

By 2000, Dr Hibbert decided to part company with the NHS to make 'real money' and fund the kind of lifestyle he had become accustomed to as the son of a diplomat. In March that year he set up the consultancy Assessment in Care, making himself its director and psychiatrist, and offering its services to local authorities. His business partner was Jill Canvin, a solicitor specialising in representing children in care proceedings.

For premises they paid £390,000 in 2001 for Tadpole Cottage, a detached four-bedroom house near Swindon in Wiltshire. It would house up to four families at any one time as they were assessed at the request of local authorities to see whether children should be taken into care. Methods Dr Hibbert used to assess parental skills were bizarre and unorthodox.
'He tried to tell my Dad that because my baby's father and I were not together, it proved I was a bad mother'

Staff monitored and made notes on everything parents did with their children during their stay, which could last as long as three months.

He set them stressful challenges. He made some mothers vacuum the stairs while holding their baby.

Or he told parents to take a car journey with their infant strapped in the back seat and then simulate a breakdown to add stress to the situation as a test to see if they were fit to keep their children.

Former residents have claimed their time spent at Tadpole Cottage was like a nightmare version of the Big Brother household on television.

But, for Hibbert and Canvin, it was a lucrative business that resulted in their company being valued at £2.7  million last year. Local authorities paid £6,000 a week to have a family in his care. He charged £210 an hour simply to read a report from their social services departments.

But Dr Hibbert's gilded life began to unravel when, in 2007, a mother complained that he had wrongly diagnosed her with bipolar depression. The GMC began to investigate.

Other parents began to tell their of their shocking experiences. Many of them claimed they were in a 'no-win' situation: if they were too attentive to their babies, they were deemed to be 'trying too hard', while if they worked at seeming to be less conscientious, they were accused of being distant.

A whistleblowing member of staff, who has agreed to give evidence at the GMC inquiry, claims Dr Hibbert was in the habit of putting his fingers in his ears and chanting 'Nah, nah, nah. I'm not listening' when he wanted to ignore an aggrieved mother.

At Tadpole Cottage, staff-recorded details about a number of parents reveal the true extent of the impossible situation they faced.

It included details of what time a mother or father got up, what they wore, what they ate and even the telephone conversations they had.

It would be noted that a three-month-old baby 'did not seem to respond' when told she was a good girl by her mother.

That apparent failing became the basis for an accusation that  the mother was not 'in tune' with her child. Another mother was said to be unable to 'prioritise her child' because she had bought herself hair conditioner during a trip to a pharmacy. Yet another mother, who liked to bake cakes, read books and was chatty and outgoing, was reported to have worn 'a bright orange sundress' and 'inappropriate socks and trainers'.

Yet another was criticised for 'a blank expression' while doing the cleaning chores. Some parents who stayed there felt Hibbert's demands for perfection were not only excessive, but also hypocritical. By then, the psychiatrist had split up with his wife and moved from their Oxford home into a cottage adjacent to the Wiltshire centre —Ms Canvin lived in a flat above the centre's garage.

A woman who Hibbert had chided as a bad mother because she had split from her husband recalls him becoming 'very aggressive' when he was asked about his own family life.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, tells of how her father once attended the cottage and challenged Dr Hibbert over his views on single mothers.

'He tried to tell my Dad that because my baby's father and I were not together, it proved I was a bad mother,' the woman says.

'He said it showed I had problems forming relationships.

'My dad was stunned and asked: “Have you never had a failed relationship?” Dr Hibbert became really angry and aggressive.

He snapped back: "We're not here to discuss me — we are here to discuss your daughter". Later on, we found out from a member of staff that he was going through a divorce at the time.

'We just thought: "What a complete hypocrite."'

While the psychiatrist's career has not ended as successfully as his esteemed father's, he did inherit a reputation for being combative and abrasive (a trait that was noted about Sir Reginald in one newspaper obituary).

We have obtained a letter Dr Hibbert sent in response to Kristina Hofberg, a consultant psychiatrist, who was critical of his methods when she reviewed his care of one mother.

In it, he rounds on his fellow medical professional, accusing her of having an 'apparent difficulty in interpreting English words in common usage'.

He concludes: 'Her reinterpretations consistently imply that it is our behaviour and judgement, rather than our patient's, that is at fault.'

The question the GMC will have to answer is whether Dr Hibbert's methods were ethical and professional and, if not, how many children were torn needlessly from their mothers. Inevitably, many women — some as young as 16 — spoke of a deep sense of despair and stress while in his care.

During her period of assessment, one told a member of staff that she 'hadn't spoken to anybody in days except for my baby, but she doesn't talk back'. It was observed how one mother 'was tearful and began to swear, saying: “I am fed up here — fed up of being watched.” '

On another occasion, the same mother tried to withdraw to a  quiet room but was followed there by staff.

When staff looked in and asked if she was all right, she snapped back: 'Can I just have five minutes on my own please?” and was crying.

A woman who was at the centre with her eight-week-old son told us that she became alarmed when she arrived because she believed that no one left the establishment with their babies. 'It was like something from Victorian times. I started to panic,' she recalls. 'It seemed like no one got out without having their baby taken away. You would see them screaming and crying, begging not to have their babies taken away.'

Her premonition came all too tragically true. She was ordered to leave without her son after Hibbert ruled that she was suffering from a bipolar disorder.

Two other psychiatrists later criticised his findings, insisting she had no such condition. By then, however, her child had been adopted and she could not get him back.

The centre is now closed. And the company website, which featured a picture of Dr Hibbert smiling reassuringly, has been taken down.

Although we made regular calls and left messages for Hibbert, he has refused to comment.

Instead, he relies on the Medical Protection Society. A spokesman says: 'Dr Hibbert is limited in the amount of information he can provide about his actions or advice.

'He is unable to comment on allegations raised in relation to care of a patient due to his professional duty of confidentiality.  

'We can confirm that Dr Hibbert is co-operating with an ongoing GMC investigation and that no findings have been made against him.

'The questions raised with regards to Dr Hibbert's personal life constitute a wholly unacceptable intrusion into his private and family life and as such he does not intend to respond further.'

In the meantime, families torn apart as a result of Dr Hibbert's findings into their personal relationships are trying desperately to rebuild their shattered lives.

There are whispers that the some in the Australian government wish to shut down Luke's Army and throw me in Jail.

This site does not pose a threat to national security, it poses a minor threat to corruption by exposing it and those who are corrupt are doing their best to have it shut down.

Part of communism is that the majority of people depend on government for their income whether it be in the form of a government job or social security payments, and we in Australia are not far off reaching the percentage of people depending on goverment payments needed to be classified as a communist country.

Australia's Aparteid - Segragation of Children from Parents

Recently I received an email comparing me to Nelson Mandella. While I hardly hold a stick to Mandella's achievements having only been speaking out against corruption for four years in a small way, it did instigate contemplation on the similarities between us.

Nelson Mandella was jailed for speaking out against blatantly obvious abuse of citezens by a corrupt government while I help expose tales of government victimisation.for those who have no voice after having fallen victim to the child stealing phenomenum which has stretched across generations in Australia.

I have been stalked by numerous people continuously over the last four years, and cruel and vindictive lies have made up the foundation of this cyber bullying. There is nothing one can do, as complaints fall on deaf ears.

If however one such as myself speaks truths about injustices, they face a high risk of having their site closed down and being jailed, just as Mandella Nelson was jailed all those years ago, just like Julian Assange, or others who stand up to the powers that be and expose evidence of the Australian government's hypocrytical lies, abuse and perversion of justice.

Australia's treatment of it's so called "Friend" and neighbour East Timor is a current example of how much this country bullies not only it's own subjects, but those who it deals with.

Not Content with spying on East Timor for financial gain, the Australian government then blatantly perverts the cause of justice with ASIO seizing evidence and stalking witnesses, to the point of seizing the passport of the prime witness in this case, preventing them from giving evidence. This is blatant corruption for the world to see, but what can you or I do?

Herin lies the problem for myself and this website. The government does not care how many lies you tell, how much you harass each other.... as long as you do not hinder those who are corrupt and in positions of power, or if you do that no great number of people hear you.

Most Australians do not realise how easy it can be for these corrupt social workers posing as protectors of children when they are nothing more than predators to take your children. Something as simple as an arguement in the street can be an excuse to victimise your children, this is no exaggeration.

With Australia in the midst of it's latest stolen generation which has been dubbed "The New Stolen Generation by DoCS", few would argue that this website and

Luke's Army has become a voice for victims of this new stolen generation, and as a source of support.

Luke's Army has never asked for donations on the site, and therefore is not susceptible to the tainting of the organisation by government supply of money nor influence of government by threats of removal of funding.

I am one of the few who has nothing left to lose, and a man who has nothing left to lose can be very dangerous as they say. So I will continue to expose corruption in the name of God, in the name of free speech and in memory of my son Luke, while we still have freedom of speech in this country.

God bless you all.

Managers must encourage social workers to talk openly about their stress levels, says former director Blair McPherson

The results of Community Care’s research into the number of social workers currently suffering moderate to severe stress are alarming, but not surprising. Year-on-year budget cuts have resulted in fewer social workers and higher caseloads. The need to save money has resulted in restructuring, redeployments and redundancies, creating an environment of anxiety and uncertainty. For both social workers and their managers, revised eligibility criteria means saying, “sorry, we can’t help” to increasing numbers of vulnerable people and their carers. This is frustrating and emotionally draining because frontline staff can see the need, but are powerless to do anything about it.

This cocktail of frustration, anxiety, uncertainty and unrelenting pressure is what the findings from Community Care stress survey reflect. Staff recognise it not just them; their colleagues and their managers also work in the same stressful environment – but this is not a reason to grin and bear it. We all need the support of colleagues, our managers, friends and family when we are feeling stressed. So how can stress within an organisation be reduced and what can managers do to help?

Even in an organisation where morale is very low and stress levels are high, some staff will still be enjoying work. These are the people who work in a team where everyone gets along, who feel supported and valued by their manager and find satisfaction in their work. This is despite their feelings about senior management, politicians, or the negative portrayal of their profession in the press.

Managers can clearly influence whether individuals feel valued. It’s part of a manager’s job to maintain good working relations within the team and allocate work in a way that increases job satisfaction. There are more cases to allocate and fewer social workers to allocate them to, so there needs to be a change in expectation about how much can be done and when cases can be closed. Don’t put a stop to the non-essential, but highly rewarding activities; we all need something to look forward to.

Senior managers feel the pressure, too. They can respond to staff stress by simply saying, “well that’s the reality, get used to it” or they can recognise the pressures. As a senior manager, it is tempting to avoid situations where you know staff are simply going to have a long moaning session. Tempting, but not appropriate. It is also tempting to drop time-consuming face-to-face activities with staff, like shadowing a social worker or visiting day centres. Effective communication can reduce people’s feelings of uncertainty and anxiety about the future, but only if senior managers can demonstrate they have an insight into what is happening on the frontline.

One practical thing social workers and their managers can do to ease the stress is join a trade union. In the current financial climate, trade unions are often dismissed as lacking power, but the union voice is going to be heard where an individual’s is ignored. If unions lack authority, it is only because membership in most authorities has fallen below 50%. As a senior manager, I can tell you unions are a lot more effective at getting councillors and senior managers to think again than they care to admit.

Finally a seasonal tip to all managers: if your organisation is still one of those that produce a corporate Christmas card, don’t send it to your staff. Send everyone you directly manage a card you have bought with your own money and write inside a personal message thanking them for their hard work and support over a difficult 12 months. It’s the least you can do.

Blair McPherson is a former director of community services and an author and blogger on the public sector

communitycare.co.uk