by Dee McLachlan
Many hearts have been broken.
We have written so much on how removing a child from the care of a protective parent or the person they consider as Mummy and/or Daddy can be worse than a prison sentence for many people. The pain and distress caused are hard to imagine.
In the article, “Unimaginable and Hidden Cruelty by Child Protection Departments and Courts,” I wrote that,
“When you relate these stories to a normal person, their life-experience and their brains cannot fathom the cruelty. And when I first began to explain one case to a few experienced legal professionals over a year ago, they replied: there must be another side to this story. But there isn’t.”
I could only conclude it is deliberate, but I will be expanding on this in future articles. And in that Hidden Cruelty article, I wrote about good foster parents and how the child department came — with almost no warning — and removed a foster child from their home and from whom she considered as her (only) mum and dad.
“The girl was shunted from a privileged and loving home — the only home she knew — to one cluttered with a number of disadvantaged foster kids. She began to self-harm. She was moved again and again. She was later denied all contact with the person she calls ‘mum’.”
While I was down in Adelaide I had dinner with this couple Jacqueline and Graeme Bowden and heard their story once again first-hand.
I don’t have to go into details of the case; I covered that before in “A Merry Xmas to the Department of Child Abuse.” I reported that the departed Professor Freda Briggs AO, Emeritus Professor in Child Development, had advocated their case, and she was disgusted by the child department’s (then Families SA) actions. She wrote to the department:
“I am also told that her few photographs of life with and before the Bowdens have been removed, that she was banned from taking her photo albums with her, thereby cutting off her past.”
As Freda learned, the foster child, K, was brought up as their own child in a privileged Burnside family and attended Seymour College with their own younger daughter (at the Bowdens’ expense). The Bowdens kept the child in contact with her biological family and made tremendous efforts to enable the foster child to reach her potential. As Freda wrote:
“The Bowdens were exemplary carers…”
Going For a “Little Drive”
I continue with Freda’s account, in her words:
“On December 13th [2011], two social workers went to the house and told the foster child to pack some of her clothes and take only one of her hundreds of toys because she was going for a ‘short drive’. She was given 35 minutes in which to complete this task. She was then taken to another foster home where there were 11 in the family (foster children, family daycare children, and the carers’ own children) [and with K it became 12].
“The girl was
K was deprived of her special needs program that was designed for her where she received 4 extra tutors each week; deprived of her private education, her foster sister, her school friends, her activities such as ballet classes, swimming, and gymnastics and even her Christmas presents. The child was lactose intolerant and had medication and special milk which the social worker refused to take, and as a result, became ill. She went straight into a new Public school and never got the chance to say goodbye to one friend from Seymour college. To continue with Freda:
“On the 14th January 2014, I [Freda] accompanied [the Bowdens] to a meeting called by Families SA senior officer… The officer said that she understood that Graeme and Jacqueline had loved and cared for the child for most of the child’s life, she loved them and their physical care was exemplary. However, it was made very clear that the Department would never return her…”
I wrote about another foster mother where siblings were traumatized by being removed from her care. A social worker said you must not show them love; only give them what they physically need. But, I have my own thoughts on why children are removed.
But back onto that evening when they removed K from the Bowdens.
K and the Bowden’s own daughter had grown up together as their own daughter was born two years after K came into their care. The two girls loved each other and considered themselves sisters.
The Garbage Bag Children
About two weeks before Xmas 2011 social workers suddenly arrived and said to K,
“We’re going on a little drive.”
They only allowed her to take one of her many many toys. The Bowdens were frantically packing her stuff into a bag; preparing notes on her lactose diet. The social worker said that her clothes and stuff could not be placed in a case or even a shopping bag. IT MUST BE PLACED IN A GARBAGE BAG.
This becomes a symbol of severing all ties from a past life. But worse, I think, is the dehumanising effect it has on everyone. These children become the garbage bag kids — shunted from home to home.
When the social workers were taking her away that night the little seven-year-old said,
“See you, tomorrow mummy.”
The social worker cut in.
“…You are never coming back to this house ever again.”
The Fallout
I have spoken to many adults that have been through the “system”. Last week I spoke to a young mum who had been reluctantly taken from her mother to be placed into care and then raped. Now, years later, they have found a reason to remove her child — three hours after birth.
In Freda’s submission to the Child Protection Systems Royal Commission in South Australia, Freda pointed out that there was no emergency to snatch K; the Bowdens were banned from answering her questions and threatened if they did; K was deprived of contact with her friends and foster sister, and she went through five foster placements.
The young seven-year-old was told at the time that her mum and dad could no longer afford to have her, and had rejected her. Imagine! The girl began self-harming, i.e., scratching holes in her legs because she couldn’t be with the Bowdens.
As I wrote, “There is much maliciousness in the Child Protection Departments across the country, and it goes beyond what I believed possible in a civilized society…” I look at the Bowden’s over dinner. Their lives were ruined by this. Graeme Bowden fought with the department, and he soon found that his family business of 48 years collapsing as lines of credit began to be mysteriously withdrawn.
The effect on the Bowden’s own daughter has been truly profound and damaging.
I can only imagine what K must have gone through. The pain and suffering from losing the only parents and sister she knew.
This artwork below is another piece by K when she lived with them. It is now on her foster mum and dad’s wall. The painting above is the painting of her and her sister — two loving sisters in a bond. It was to be K’s Xmas present to her (foster) mum and dad, but she was removed 11 days before that Xmas… never to return.
Shame on the government officials.
Footnote:
The Fight Continues
The Bowdens have never stopped fighting for the best interests of their foster daughter. They have made desperate attempts to get access for the two girls (and for all intense and purposes, they are sisters). K is now 16 years old and the Department for Child Protection (DCP) is not allowing contact. Jacqueline had communicated with the DCP for some time before contacting the Ombudsman to get him to review the department’s actions.
The SA Ombudsman’s reply:
“Dear Ms Bowden,
…You have complained about my decision not to investigate your complaint. … you complained that the Department for Child Protection (the department) has failed to initiate contact between your daughter … and your former foster care child, K.
By letter dated 9 February 2021, I advised you that I would not be investigating your complaint because the department was still considering the matter. I also advised you that once a decision has been made by the department regarding visitation between K and M you may then seek a review of that decision with the department.
…Under the Ombudsman Act 1999 my role is to investigate complaints about the administrative actions of SA government agencies such as government departments and statutory authorities, and local government councils.
It does not appear that you have completed the process with the department… It is not my role to act as an advocate for you, and, in any event, I do not consider that the time taken by the department to make its decision is unreasonable in the circumstances. … Your file will remain closed.”
To note: The Ombudsman ended with “In my opinion, there is a public interest in disclosure of my decisions under the Ombudsman Act. Therefore, I authorise disclosure of this letter by you as you see fit.”
https://www.brokensystemproductions.com/the-truth-behind-foster-care/
https://paulrobertburton.com/2021/03/14/first-person-ever-kicked-out-of-gaol/?fbclid=IwAR1faGXoMhHU31GGjEZXWG-UKCf-MPYIFOpn3MB28vLplZZXim42p4cGppI
MINISTER ARTICLE
https://paulrobertburton.com/2021/03/06/minister-you-have-blood-on-your-hands/
Brilliant article Dee. Thank God people like the Bowden’s and K have you to share this information. There is much catharsis in victims sharing their truth. Yourself, Mary and Gumshoe have been champions in this regard.
The ombudsman’s letter to the Bowdens is so typical of state authorities with jurisdiction over these matters. They do nothing of any substance. They simply waste time, divert energy. Shame on them all.
The Lazarus project, headed by Humanitad and Sacha Stone, are currently inviting victims of DCP abuse – parents, foster parents, and adult survivors – to give testimony for their upcoming hearings.
If the Bowen’s would like to voice their experiences to the Lazarus project they are welcome to contact me. I can forward them on to the right people.
How shall they contact you, Ms Rachel?
I read through everything to try to find out WHY and you provided the answer yourself in the linked article comments, “she became available for other purposes”, it sounds like a farming operation to me
All children are divine sacred beings, doesn’t matter what colour, with their smiles they tell us where we come from. Their integrity must not be violated in any way. To stop perversions and sacrificial murder of innocents, porn has to be taken away from a child’s fingertips. In this web, truth is censored and crimes on humanity are promoted openly. Abusing little angels is the biggest tragedy of our times, it has to be stopped yesterday.
“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
Matthew 18:6
“And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
Matthew 25:40
“There shall not be found among you (anyone) that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times or an enchanter, or a witch,
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.”
Deuteronomy 18:10 – 18:13
This would be a good time to mention “Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control” by E. Michael Jones
I doubt that these people ever read the Torah.
Quite pertinent in many respects but the claim that the issue was, quote, “basically between the Catholics and the Jews”(9:50 min) indicates a lack of any real in-depth understanding.
Like it or not, the cultural & government morality of yesteryear was rooted in an adherence to Mosaic law, albeit in the name of “Christianity”, and as every dinky-DI Christian knows, the obsolescence of every such system is inbuilt.
No doubt many Catholics continue to be rankled by this mob:
So,quite apart from anything else, loose talk about “the Jews” really is just absurd nonsense
Truth is stranger than fiction
Australian Government’s Pedophiles
http://www.jewworldorder.org/australian-governments-pedophiles/
That sort of fiction might well be top of the pops but even the most die-hard aficionado could figure out it has absolutely no bearing on my observation
“I doubt that these people ever read the Torah” – or the New Testament: a comprehensive knowledge of both is critical to grasping the value,limitations and pitfalls of “the Law”
Deuteronomy 18:10 is noteworthy in as much as an obvious act of violence (burning children on an alter) is lumped in with a range of practices that most modern minds would deem to be relatively harmless or even totally innocuous: the World is full of people who’re oblivious to what they’re aiding/abetting/creating
The Secret World Government or Hidden Hand
by Cherep-Spiridovich
Topics Russia, Communism, Secret World Government, Cherep-Spiridovich
Murder by vaccination
“……..A WAR IS BUT A “LEGALIZED MASS-MURDER.”
A war is only a “legalized mass murder.” Thus CHRIST pointed out those, who arrange all wars and revolutions, and that their chief cause is Satan’s and his sons’ “lust of murder.”
But “Christians” never seem to agree with CHRIST.
https://archive.org/details/TheSecretWorldGovernmentOrHiddenHand
https://archive.org/stream/TheSecretWorldGovernmentOrHiddenHand/13065735-The-Secret-World-Government-or-The-Hidden-Hand-The-Unrevealed-in-History-Paperback_djvu.txt
Not much parental alienation in the wild:
Speeches were made about the following matter in parliament this morning.
Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System
The Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System was appointed by resolution of the Senate on 18 September 2019 and resolution of the House of Representatives on 19 September 2019.
Submissions close: 18 December 2019
Reporting date: 7 October 2020
The committee was originally due to present its final report on or before 7 October 2020. On 31 August 2020, both Houses of Parliament agreed to extend the reporting date to the 25 February 2021.
The committee has agreed to table its second interim report by 16 March 2021. The committee intends the second interim report to detail its views and recommendations on the family law system.
On 22 and 23 February 2021, the Parliament agreed to extend the presentation of the final report until 30 June 2021. The committee intends that the final report will outline the committee’s views and recommendations on the child support system.
Information about the inquiry can be found here.
Read on –
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Family_Law_System
The US
EQUALITY ACT Will Protect Pedophiles and Will Place Your Children in Great Peril: Boys Can Play on Girl’s Teams and Can Share Bathrooms and Showers With Girls Because They “Identify as Girls” (VIDEO)
https://grandmageri422.me/2021/03/14/equality-act-will-protect-pedophiles-and-will-place-your-children-in-great-peril-boys-can-play-on-girls-teams-and-can-share-bathrooms-and-showers-with-girls-because-they-identify-as-girls-vide/
Child Trafficking Increasing Under Biden? Corporations with History in Child Sex Abuse Vying for Government Contracts to Handle Children Coming Across the Border
https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/child-trafficking-increasing-under-biden-corporations-with-history-in-child-sex-abuse-vying-for-government-contracts-to-handle-children-coming-across-the-border/
Family values:
The Ombudsman ended with “In my opinion, there is a public interest in disclosure of my decisions under the Ombudsman Act. Therefore, I authorise disclosure of this letter by you as you see fit.”
Yes Ombudsman,
I am interested in your decisions and the motivations for to those decisions.
Its curious that you would ignore a complaint regarding health, safety and the well-being of a child.
The Child Protection Systems Royal Commission identified a child’s need for stability and safety that the Bowden’s could and wished to
provide. They also provided contact with the parents smoothing a pathway to hopefully reunification and an ongoing relationship that could only help should some issues remain.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Abuse showed clearly that entities like Department for Child Protection (the department) could have systemic failures.
The Ombudsman Act you refer would appear to a layperson to make it incumbent on you to investigate. I would think the nature of the complaint would motivate you to investigate under your own initiative.
If the office has come up with delaying tactics the ombudsman should ring them up and scare them into doing something a bit more quickly, I was actually in this situation once and that is what happened. Next stop minister, and after that media.
According to this write-up “the Ombudsman and the tiny, useless Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity” are naught but “half-arsed public service oversight bodies”
https://www.crikey.com.au/2018/11/27/federal-icac-corruption/
Going by my experience the general idea is to maintain a veneer of efficacy by way of accommodating relatively trivial grievances, a sneaky distraction from the fact there’s actually no means of stemming the pathological ills that underpin the entire governmental system.
Small wonder the prospectus is so frightfully vague:
https://www.ombudsman.sa.gov.au/make-a-complaint/child-protection-complaints
Of course, they don’t want to take on our mafia, so presumably there is simply a pecking order of departments
When the US Heath Mimister is what it is, considering that we have the same de-facto government here as there, our chances of fair play are less than zero. With many beurocats being compromised pedos and poo pushers, the lies over ride reality every time. These people are in need of replacement, unless they go it continues the same as has been. Sad to see, stupid cannot be fixed. The artisans are denied, the brutal enforce and the innocent suffer for no reason at all.
Dark Australian Forces Refuse To Save The Children
Probably Martin North’s most adventurous discussion ever and one little piece will be of interest to many students (former students too) of the Gumshoe starting about 40:00 Returned Jews of the 12 tribes, Ethiopian tribe given injections when allowed entry to Israel
About the Ethiopian Jews – under the heading “The Truth About The Talmud” in the following
https://hshidayat.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/the-satanic-verses-of-the-jewish-talmud-and-zionism/
“The supremacy of the Talmud over the Bible in the Israeli state may also be seen in the case of the black Ethiopian Jews. Ethiopians are very knowledgeable of the Old Testament. However, their religion is so ancient it pre-dates the Scribes’ Talmud, of which the Ethiopians have no knowledge. According to the N.Y. Times of Sept. 29, 1992, p.4:
“The problem is that Ethiopian Jewish tradition goes no further than the Bible or Torah; the later Talmud and other commentaries that form the basis of modern traditions never came their way.”
“Because they are not traffickers in Talmudic tradition, the black Ethiopian Jews are discriminated against and have been forbidden by the Zionists to perform marriages, funerals and other services in the Israeli state.”
It’s bureaucratic thing in other words,,, like I once asked the taxi driver in Chiang Mai why he only had one kid and he said that’s all he could afford.