Overlooked is right
I’m stunned, shocked, horrified.
You name it, that’s where my head is.
Any system that can let this happen is in some serious trouble, as are any people within that system.
For an idea of what I’m on about, read this.
The understatement of the year goes to NSW Minister for Community Services Linda Burney who said this.
“…the girl’s case had been overlooked by a “stretched” department”
“It is true, in my view, that DoCS should have intervened more strenuously than what they did,” Ms Burney
Do ya think Lindy????
This is the brains trust running a department to protect children and the community??
God help us all.
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November 10th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
All I can do when I read stuff like this is scratch my head and stop wondering why the world is as fucked up as it is.
12 years old?
Jeez Louise . . .
The baby is doomed.
~m
quite the jaw dropping little snippet isn’t it?
it popped into my reader and I jsut sat there with my mouth open…talk about letting a kid down, shit!
moe
November 11th, 2009 at 8:04 am
Oh, you missed the doozy in Victoria where a woman had been raped by her father for 30 odd years, had children by him who all had genetic defects which were only viable through incestuous parentage BUT a spokesman for child protection blamed the victimised family for deliberately hiding these facts to explain why Not.One.Single doctor (in 3 different hospitals) had ever picked up that there was something not right with the biological parents, reported it, offered genetic testing/screening or basically questioned the mother.
good god! where are these people’s brains???
the really scary part is these are the oxygen thieves meant to be looking out for these things.
what hope have these poor souls got when those in the position to do something about it, don’t even see it??
FFS, sometimes I just despair of a society that can allow these things to happen…i must be getting old i think…
moe
November 11th, 2009 at 9:58 am
That is tragic. Celtic Lad is 11 and thinking that child is around his age is just tragic.
tragic pretty much sums it up, yes.
zoe is 9 this year, and the thought of her having a baby in 2 years almost sends me into a rabid frenzy..not to MENTION what it would do to her mother!
that doesn’t even bear thinking about!
moe