Thousands of children are removed from their parents without proper cause. Watch this shocking report.
“It has become clear that all across Australia child protection departments, and the children’s courts are acting against children, separating children from the parent, or parents, on hearsay and finger-pointing…”
Out-of-home care is a multi-billion dollar industry, and Dee McLachlan recounts a case in which the malfeasance by child protective services (CPS) and the relevant children’s court was very clear. The court strategy used by the CPS is to refer to the “weight of the paper” (unnecessary documentation), rather then the facts of the case; and to throw as much unsubstantiated “mud” as possible onto the protective parent.
Dee McLachlan did not name the child or the parties, noting that it is necessary to respect the applicable secrecy laws (although these laws are not actually there to benefit children).
Summary of the case
Dee McLachlan recounts a case of very clear malfeasance by CPS and the relevant children’s court. The child was removed from the protective parent on the basis of falsified allegations of mental illness and coaching/parental alienation syndrome.
2016
Sexual abuse by the father was substantiated by the relevant CPS, following detailed and reliable disclosures by the then 6 year old child.
The father then filed with the family court for sole custody. Dee noted that, “this is a trick often used to stop further investigations by agencies, and to prevent prosecution”.
2017
During a police interview the child disclosed child rape and death threats, giving convincing detail. However, these disclosures did not come to light until much later after the interview video was obtained by the mother. The interviewing officer (Officer CT) falsified her reports and failed to obtain relevant forensic evidence.
2018
The Family Court awarded the mother sole custody, but ordered renewed visitation with the father. Following the false statements made by Officer CT the judge formed the view that sexual abuse had been unlikely.
Six weeks later the child returned home displaying a significant injury, and reported an assault. Officer CT was again put in charge of the police investigation and continued to falsify her reports, alleging instead (and without basis) that the mother was mentally ill.
CPS removed the child from the mother after the child continued to make disclosures, and began to reunify the child with the father.
2022
The Youth Court ordered that the child remain in state care until age 18, based on a spurious opinion by a psychologist that the mother had somehow unconsciously influenced the child to make her persistent disclosures of abuse. The psychologist had never spoken to the mother or child, or viewed the evidence for the allegations. The child’s pleas for return to her mother were ignored.
Dee McLachlan: “For speaking out again and again the child was punished and psychologically tortured when the person she loved most in the world was taken from her…”
TELL THEM THIS MUST STOP IMMEDIATELY. Contact Child Protection Minister – Minister.Hildyard@sa.gov.au
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