by Dee McLachlan
It has been just over a week since I posted a questionnaire – “the Survey” – to my Melbourne website GumshoeNews.com. It asks responders to record accurately their experience with Australia’s Family Court and with various groups charged with protecting children.
I can honestly say, the responses I have seen so far are SHOCKING.
To begin, I’d like to apologise for the survey being imperfect — and that it had a narrow focus (sexual abuse cases, or serious injury only). Of course I will be criticized (rightly) for the fact that the survey is anonymous and ‘anecdotal’. But even if you consider a large margin of error in the answers, the results are TRULY ALARMING. At least it will serve us if it can clarify the atrocities that are occurring.
What should terrify the authorities, is that Gumshoe’s Readership is tiny — minuscule compared to that of the Herald Sun or the ABC. So, I suggest that this is only the TIP OF THE ICEBERG — and that if this survey were to run nationally — in the mainstream media, and advertised on television — I guess the results would be catastrophic for the government.
There is a huge amount of data to analyse, and I will spread it over several articles. This first part is an introduction — and states a few things of which we should take note. In later parts, I’ll focus on Destruction of Evidence, Threats, etc..
As I start writing this article, there are 58 responses.
I know by publishing this, it might have an effect on future participants, but I will be alert to any pattern changes in future answers. Essentially, there is no time to waste. Children are in harm’s way, hence my publication of some of the results.
The Credibility of the Participants
I have been fielding many calls from desperate parents (and a grandparent) — so, I wanted to establish a measure of their credibility in the survey. The participants so far are made up with mothers, 3 fathers, 10 aunt/grandparent etc, and 1 victim over 18.
82% of respondents, so far, were accused of “coaching” — trying to sway the child, or enhance the child’s version of abuse.
The courts decisions should reflect whether abuse occurred or not. So, why did the courts not determine sexual abuse in these cases?
Does the survey demonstrate to authorities that the participants involved are/were genuine cases of sexual abuse?
I asked the question: “How much MONEY have you lost (or spent) trying to achieve (or manage) your outcome in the family Court, so far? (This a TOTAL of solicitor fees, transcripts, supervised visits, court fees, etc)”
It is heartbreaking. People have spent enormous amounts of money trying to protect their children. Several more than $350,000, and one more than $750,000.
[UPDATE: As of 27 November, 2018, and from 74 responders, 31 people have lost homes, seven lost more than $351,000, and four more than $750,000.]
So far of the 58 cases [1],
- 27 people lost their house as a result (so far),
- 30 lost a business or their job, and
- 39 were put into debt.
50% of responders lost their house!
And about 66% were put in debt. (Nigerian scammers don’t rate a mention!)
Logical Analysis
Near the end of the survey I kind of asked a trick question — that relates to the Money Lost question.
I asked: “If you only had ONE choice — what OUTCOME would you vote for?
- An apology from the prime minister
- A Royal Commission into the Family Court
- A Special Unit, with the power to prosecute, to Investigate criminality in the Family Court, CPS etc — with the promise to jail anyone that broke the law, or
- Financial Compensation
The answers speak for themselves. With all the people having lost everything (I know ‘Darlene’ has), only one voted for financial compensation. Maybe it was the person that had lost over $750,000, and felt justice would never be served. (I’ll check.)
Most people voted for the prosecution of the perpetrator – above a Royal Commission.
The thought to consider is, why would all these people want justice and prosecution above anything else — if they were “coachers”, or they were not genuine? That does not make sense. (I deliberately left out the option: To have your child safe, as I guess that would have been chosen above everything. These people are “protective”.)
Almost everyone is SEEKING JUSTICE.
Therefore it is reasonable to think they are a sample of genuine cases where sexual abuse of the child occurred.
A Note of ‘Darlene’s’ Finances
I know ‘Darlene’ lost her house, her business and is now in debt — a loss of around $250,000. She never needed to lose any of that. When she reported the sexual abuse of her daughter, her mental state was investigated — not the abuse. If the perpetrator was prosecuted, as the law requires, it would have NEVER gone to family Court — and she would still have her house and her child. She has neither.
People might spend small amounts of money defending their name, for example. But protective parents will spend EVERYTHING, give anything up to protect their children.
I hope outside people are getting the picture.
That’s my opinion so far as to the credibility of the persons who responded to the Survey. Let me continue.
The Age of the Child
In all of the accounts I have heard personally, the sexual abuse was a surprise and shock to the protective parent. Who would imagine someone could abuse a one-year-old?
To the question: “How old was your child when you realised that SEXUAL ABUSE (or a serious injury) occurred?“, this was the outcome.
More than half of the cases occurred 4 years or younger. Shocking.
Generally first disclosure is to the protective parent (79%), and then a few each to a grandparent, teachers, and ‘others’.
To, “Who did you contact once you realised there had been abuse?” [multiple answers], there was an expected variation between: Family (26), Police (30), Doctor or hospital (24), Child Protective Services, etc., (29) and other (19).
To, “When you confronted the perpetrator about the abuse, did they do any of the following?” [multiple answers],
- 45 denied the allegations
- 18 threatened violence
- 26 advanced proceedings into Family Court
- 30 called the person delusional (resulting in health assessments)
- 13 ‘other’
I expected that most perpetrators would deny any allegations. I should have asked: how many confessed to abuse?
About 60% of the participants were faced with accusations of delusion — as in ‘Darlene’s’ case. Her partner got the mental health folks to their house in about 15 minutes. Surely the court would be aware that this is a pedo-trick?
As is advancing the case into the “safe-haven” of the Family Court.
Safe-haven and Prosecutions
I wonder if the Family Court is a safe-haven for pedophile activities?
To the question, “Was the abuser, the alleged pedophile investigated?”
Of 48 who responded to this question, 12 said YES.
To, “Was the abuser, the alleged pedophile prosecuted?”
Three said YES.
To, “Did anyone go to jail?”
Two people said YES, the remainder said No.
So, WHO is Doing the “Coaching”?
There must be cases where one partner becomes vindictive or revengeful and wants to punish the other by false accusations through their child. Our actions are usually selfish, as false accusations would be. So if you are selfish, and self-invested, you are probably not going to allow your life to implode.
As I wrote above; why would anyone “coach” their way into financial bankruptcy?
Consider the LOGIC that has escaped the court’s decisions:
It makes no sense that you would be “coaching” false claims while you financially DESTROY yourself and go into debt. Why would someone risk everything, including jail time, to keep “coaching” false claims? And why would someone risk losing their child by continuing to to bring up “false claims”?
So let’s review the “coaching questions:
To, “Did a court EXPERT, i.e., PSYCHIATRIST, claim that you were “coaching” — i.e., that you were trying to sway or enhance your child’s version?” (of the abuse)
82% of the 52 who responded to this question said YES. It may be higher, considering that a victim and grandparents might have not answered Yes.
To, “Do you believe someone in the authority tried to “COACH” your child — and sway your child’s version to him/her admitting to less or no abuse?”
67% of the respondents said YES. WOW. Two thirds of respondents believed their child was being “coached” to admit LESS or no abuse.
This confirms what I have heard anecdotally.
To, “Who do you believe “COACHED” your child — or altered their original disclosures, or outlook?”, these were the people identified:
Right across the board. No category is exempt. Let us consider how we get this result.
Why are people trying to coach the child to lessen their original disclosures? Sexual abuse of a child is a terrible crime, so I think some of these factors are at play:
- Society has generally not listened to, nor believed children — and that they make stuff up. The Royal Commission proved this wrong over and over again.
- It is also easier for all those working in the Family Court system to believe the child was not harmed. Less draining on them.
- The police take the easy road — and pass the ball to the Family court, failing to prosecute. Less paperwork, etc.?
- There seems to be a culture of thinking in the Family Court system that believe most partners are trying to “alienate” the other partner — or as the Attorney-general’s office put it: “one parent deliberately undermines the relationship between a child and the other parent, causing the breakdown of a previously healthy parent-child relationship.” Same thing as parental alienation, Mr Brooker. (E.g., The non-expert, Rikard Bell, was a so-called expert in 2,000 cases — admission to the ABC.)
- The Family Court and all it’s subsidiary industries are a huge MONEY MAKING MACHINE. (Darlene’s ex should have gone to jail — and she would have then deprived the Family Court industry $250,000.) I cannot think of another industry that could suck every dollar, and more, from a person so easily and willingly.
- It seems that some people (knowingly, or unknowingly) are DELIBERATELY protecting pedophiles, and supporting their actions.
I do find it extraordinary that, the default position seems to be that the protective parent must be “coaching” — and this because the children’s disclosure is not generally believed.
The 90%
Rikard Bell, the non-expert, said in his ABC interview: “90% of children’s accounts are LIES”. And these results back that up. How many other people are ringing Bell’s bell? Appalling.
As Prime Minister Morrison said in his National Apology to abuse victims (22 October 2018):
“We will shine a spotlight on all parts of government to ensure we are held accountable.”
Well, Sir, we have started shining the spotlight, and we will hold you ALL accountable.
I’ll be discussing all this in more detail as we analyse the data in the Parts to follow — especially when we go over potential criminal actions by those people associated with protecting children.
Stay tuned.
Notes/references:
[1] I exclude the “lost support or partial support from friends of family”, as I did not make it clear that it was financial support.
“Rikard Bell, the non-expert, said in his ABC interview: ‘90% of children’s accounts are LIES’. And these results back that up.”
I have just phoned Dee (she’s in a cave in Dubbo) to ask for clarification. When she said that her survey “backs up” the cuckoo claim of Rikard Bell, she means yes he thinks kids are lying, and the moms and dads answering the survey are telling us that indeed the professionals refuse to believe the kids.
Cavewoman also wants me to tell you that when she says “multiple answers,” that means the person answering the Survey was invited to tick more than one box if appropriate.
Thus, the answer to, “When you confronted the perpetrator about the abuse, did they do any of the following?” [multiple answers],
45 denied the allegations
18 threatened violence
26 advanced proceedings into Family Court
30 called the person delusional (resulting in health assessments)
13 ‘other’
adds up to 142 ticks made by 58 responders.
Three questions that need to be asked:
Why was the Family Court founded in the 1st place?
Why were “legal professionals” allowed into the mix ?
Why would anyone allow themselves to get dragged into such a net?
“Why would anyone allow themselves to get dragged into such a net?”
Because they believed in the ‘justice system’. – I’ve seen it destroy so many good people over 21 years at the Bar that I found it soul destroying that I should continue to participate in the fraud.
Eventually, an epiphany, I decided that my continued participation only gave undue credibility to the fraud. I withdrew my participation.
When we are ‘dragged’ in to this net, or should I say web of lies we go in blindly. We trust our lawyers & barristers, not realising that ‘deals’ are done behind closed doors before we even enter the court room. I had no idea that our legal system was so corrupt before being dragged into the family court. I truly believed that if you told the truth that everything would be revealed & the perpetrator would face prosecution. I could be no further from the truth. A year after the trial I joined facebook for the first time discovered a platform away from MSM that educated me far more than any schooling & university could offer. My life has been destroyed by the inability to protect my children legally, I most certainly would have chosen a different path knowing what I know now. The greed of others involved including lawyers, psychologists, social workers etc that were willing to sell their soul to the devil and fail my children by not protecting them has destroyed my faith in humanity. A glimpse of hope is now out there with amazing people like Dee & Mary that are willing to stand up for what is right.
They are forced into the net by default
They need to purge themselves of the idea that self-representation = losing. In truth its the most effective way of putting a spanner in the works of a fundamentally reprobate system. You’ll never get a worldly “win” but so far as keeping the wolf from the door it works like magic;better a stalemate than being dispossessed of everything you hold dear.
Family Courts were created to administer the Family Law which was necessary to make judgements between the individual rights of separated parties to fairly and reasonably divide their assets brought into a marriage and created during the marriage. Initially the Family Law held that ALL such assets belonged to the male, and females and children were a part of his assets. So in some ways the developments in the Family Law was to enable females to be placed in a more equitable position. However, the children have not received the same emancipation from male rights; 2. As these were laws determined by Parliament, it was felt that legal professionals should be engaged to administer such laws. However, children should never have continued to be included among the
assets' of the parties, as there are human and humane elements that have to be considered and which do not apply to inanimate objects such as houses, cars, bank accounts, superannuation etc and that is the fundamental flaw in the Family Law. Decisions regarding children require far wider considerations, and should not be merely seen under therights of dual ownership’ and would be better determined under an Administrative Tribunal system where children would be treated as a separate party to the proceedings and have independent legal representation to protect their rights, which frequently conflict with the rights of the two adult parties. (UK Laws recognise this independence of children in law albeit it is still badly administered by Courts). 3. There is little choice to being sucked into the Family Law system where one or both parties refuse to recognise the `joint ownership’ of their assets and to accept a reasonable and equitable negotiated resolution and have an inherent sense of entitlement to all or the major part of such assets. Unfortunately, the Law and the Courts apply this equitability and reasonableness to decisions regarding children, and for various reasons fail to recognise that abuse and brutality and indifference towards children and the other party, should disqualify that party from any, or restricted share of such assets. In short, decisions and determinations regarding children should NOT be made as part of a legal process, as it is an inhumane system which fails to recognise their individual rights and needs as unique humans. The Family Law and the Courts are therefore inhumane and violate their human rights in their treatment of children and as set out in International Conventions to which this country is a signatory..
I might add, that the processes in the Australian Family Courts are not helped by the prevailing beliefs and attitudes among those who administer the Family Courts, in the 19th Century laws placing the superiority and primacy of male rights as the primary consideration, and that females and children are of `feeble-mindedness’. This is overtly present in Irish Courts, but prevails covertly in Australian Family Courts,- it is nevertheless just as strong.
Thank you Charles, your contribution to highlight the failings of the Family Court over the years has been appreciated by many.
At face value the agenda appears to be at odds with State-engendered feminism: on close inspection it’s not hard to see that it’s actually just the flipside of the same coin
Well done Dee. Sadly I opted to not participate as with 7 children and my own personal experiences I would have needed to fill in several of this survey to give true and accurate information. Another question I’d like to see submitted is, “how many alleged perpetrators involve CPS?” and then follow a line of enquiry from there (similar to what has been presented). You’ll be suprised at how CPS is another “go-to” for FDV and sexual abuse perpetrators. The protective parent is then left fighting a dozen social workers, rather than the ex and lawyers… Separation x10 when dealing with government who has the power to further inflict FDV.
Jules, why don’t you draw lots, pick one of your dear children and write one survey about him or her.
What does FDV mean? I can think of some choice words but will settle for Flippin’ Deviant Valentines.
What a soul destroying industry? Thank you Dee for bringing all this to light. How many criminals are governments and their departments harbouring?
How many Australians will be able to fathom the depth of this industry of crime perpetrated by people in white collared jobs?
I wish to add that many caught up in this industry as public servants may not be aware of the enormous crimes being perpetrated. They may have been trained to look the other way, or brain-washed into believing that the child must in most cases be telling lies. However the from stories revealed on this site, I would think, unless a child underwent the sexual abuse told, they could not give the vivid descriptions that they do. After all most un-abused children know nothing of sex or sexual abuse, at this young age, to be able to describe the acts perpetrated.
On thinking about the enormous financial burdens of a parent caught up in this devastation of losing not only a child or children, but the cost of losing the house, one sees that there is the money gained by governments. There are the court costs, the GST and State taxes, and conveyancing fees to estate agents to be paid by the seller of the house that they were forced to sell. Most people outside the problem do not recognise this side of the equation. It appears that most times the non-abusing parent ends up with a large debt, even after losing the roof over their head.
This whole subject has many nasty, usually not seen sub-sequences.
Spot on Mal… more to be revealed from some of answers.
A long time Centrelink employee said that they have pedo/ issues ALL the time – he said overwhelming concerns urgently expressed ..daily
Everything has been inverted . Oz is the launching pad for the new world disorder .
Globalism is Communism . For murderers , compassion does not exist in their make up .
For these types eating children or dogs is no big deal in the expansion of their satanic agenda .
Nothing good can ever come from individuals that practise abominations .
With these at the controls things can only get worse .
I just looked at the survey and chose not to fill it out. From the moment I realised what was going on I could see those involved working to label me as having a mental disorder.
I had no finances and the solicitor given by legal aid told me to not say anything!?!?
I didn’t fight, I had called a pedo task force and nothing was done.
I felt that the whole system was against me and working towards me losing everything including my mind.
I had no way to fight, he had all the contacts locally.
I only had my voice, so I started to YouTube what I knew.
My ex killed him self.
The children are safe.
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