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Toddler who drowned in a backyard pool while in foster care may have been DRUGGED the day before he died

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Category: Child abuse industry deaths in NSW

Created: Saturday, 28 October 2017 16:52

Written by Kate Darvall and Sam Duncan - Daily Mail Australia

• Toddler who died in foster care might have been drugged, a court has heard
• The court heard on Wednesday Braxton's foster parents pretended to be a couple when at the time, despite having been separated for two years.
• The couple relied on the money they were given from the state to look after the three-year-old, because they were both unemployed, the court heard. 
• The 22-month-old boy died just three weeks after being placed into foster care
• He drowned in the unsafe backyard pool of his foster home in September 2014 
• Inquest heard he might have been given antihistamine tablets by foster mother
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One out of four deaths of children from families with a child protection history

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Category: Child abuse industry deaths in NSW

Created: Wednesday, 25 August 2021 19:21

Written by Caitlin Fitzsimmons - Sydney Morning Herald

A report from the NSW Ombudsman criticises the state government for closing cases for children reported to be at risk of serious harm without a caseworker making face-to-face contact with the family.

The findings are in the Ombudsman’s 2018-2019 report, which found almost one in four of the 989 infants and children who died in NSW in the two-year period were from families with a child protection history.

A report has criticised the state government for closing cases for children reported at risk of serious harm without a caseworker making
contact with the family.

Calls for Queensland government to make report into child deaths available 

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Category: Child abuse industry deaths in Queensland

Created: Friday, 28 January 2022 20:30

Written by Duncan Murray - News.com.au

The Queensland government is facing calls to release a report into the deaths of 55 children, with one MP slamming the lack of transparency. 

Opposition child protection spokeswoman Amanda Camm has demanded that the Queensland Government makes report into child deaths available. 

The Queensland government is facing calls to release a report into the deaths of 55 children in order to help reform child protection. 

Of the deaths, which occurred last financial year, 10 were due to assault or neglect, six were by suicide and two drowned. 

A further seven died by “unknown” causes and nine had “sudden unexplained deaths”. 

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Another two year old toddler killed in care of DoCS NSW

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Category: Child abuse industry deaths in NSW

Created: Sunday, 14 September 2014 22:06

Written by Alecomm2

Another toddler has drowned in foster care after being removed from his loving mother just three weeks earlier.  Many mainstream news outlets have publicised the death, but there has not been one mention that the child, Braxton, was prematurely taken from his mother, prior to supports being provided as per usual, and placed in the care of more lousy and careless foster carers who only care for the money the child will bring them, and not the child himself.

Time and time again, children die in the so-called "care" of the department, without anybody being held accountable.

Braxton was only two years old and his life was taken by the agency that purports to be there to protect children.  It is time charges are laid for carers who kill children in their care.

Life Without Barriers was responsible for Braxtons placement with his fostercarers that ultimately led to his death.  Coroner photos of the place show a filthy green pool lacking adequate safe fencing that had obviously been in a state of disrepair for months prior to Braxton drowning in it.  There were also drugs and empty beer cans strewn all through the putrid house.

To this day, neither the fostercarers responsible for this tragedy - or the NGO - have been charged with his reckless death.

LWB has a long history of children being raped and dying u der their watch but somehow manage to keep their multimillion dollar for profit business of trafficking children. Maybe this is due to those who originally formed the organisation - regardless of it’s massive conflict of interest.  

A little girl lost - EBONY

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Category: Child abuse industry deaths in NSW

Created: Saturday, 27 June 2009 15:55

Written by Joanne Michaels - Newcastle Herald

NONI Carter sat in East Maitland Supreme Court for many days over the past month and cried for a little girl she never knew.  "I was there for the child, and on many occasions I was the only one there," said Carter, of Thornton, about the seven-year-old, whose death by starvation at Hawks Nest in November 2007 shocked a nation and led to murder and manslaughter convictions against her parents this week.

Like many, Carter felt the child was a silent victim in this deep tragedy. Even the judge, Supreme Court Justice Robert Allan Hulme, felt moved to restore her dignity by going against NSW legal convention and allowing the child some manner of identification, ruling on Wednesday that the media could identify her in reports on the case by her middle name, Ebony.

AT least one child in state care dies every fortnight and another 20 are involved in assaults in Victoria.

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Category: Child abuse industry deaths in Australia

Created: Tuesday, 07 August 2018 13:31

Written by Herald Sun

[How Victoria let down 610 children who needed help the most].

AT least one child in state care dies every fortnight and another 20 are involved in assaults in Victoria.

A shock new report reveals 27 children died in the past year while in the care of child protection workers, or soon after leaving.

The deaths of another five children who were known to the Department of Human Services were also investigated last year.

Baby murder’ rocks child protection system

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Category: Child abuse industry deaths in NSW

Created: Monday, 08 January 2018 09:59

Written by Laura Banks - The Daily Telegraph

Murdered baby Elsie ‘would still be alive if social services had not taken her’

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Category: Child abuse industry deaths in WA

Created: Tuesday, 07 November 2017 14:37

Written by BT.com

Elsie was named Shayla O’Brien by her birth family when she was born in November 2014.  Murdered baby Elsie ‘would still be alive if social services had not taken her’.

The birth family of Elsie Scully-Hicks have said she would “still be alive today” if she had not been removed from their care by social services.

"Belmont Baby Death"

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Category: Child abuse industry deaths in NSW

Created: Wednesday, 01 December 2010 23:30

Written by Alecomm2

Ms PRU GOWARD: I direct my question to the Minister for Community Services. Will the Minister commit today to having the case involving the death of a baby in Belmont in December 2007 re-investigated, after revelations that a whistleblower, a caseworker from the Department of Community Services, had submitted a warning report recommending an urgent risk assessment of the family but that was never passed to police or the Child Death Review Team? Given his report could have significantly changed the then murder investigation, will the Minister have the case re-investigated? Or, will the Minister cover it up? I have his affidavits if the Minister would like access.

Ms LINDA BURNEY: This is a terribly sad case that occurred three years ago. I ask members to listen carefully, in particular the member for Goulburn. Despite investigations by the Coroner and the New South Wales Ombudsman, the cause of death could not be determined and the baby may have been still born. In fact, this little baby probably never took a breath. I will repeat this just to make it absolutely clear.

[Interruption]

The SPEAKER: Order! Members will listen to the Minister in silence.

Ms LINDA BURNEY: Separate investigations by the Coroner, the police and the Ombudsman have been carried out and not one of those experts or professionals has ever identified any grounds to substantiate a charge of murder—

The SPEAKER: Order! The Leader of the Opposition will cease interjecting.

Ms LINDA BURNEY: —or found any basis to support the allegations of a cover-up.

Mr Barry O'Farrell: He does not have access to the case worker.

Ms LINDA BURNEY: If you can just hold your tongue for one minute, you will find out.

The SPEAKER: Order! A question has been asked on a serious matter and the Minister is giving her answer. I again ask members to listen to the Minister in silence.

Ms LINDA BURNEY: How utterly irresponsible of the member for Goulburn to start smearing a family with the gravest of possible charges, all without a shred of evidence to support such a charge. The member for Goulburn evidently launched this crusade against this family not only without evidence but also without any thought of what those kinds of allegations do to the other children in the family. They do not deserve this. I know from some of the letters I have received from the member for Goulburn that she fancies herself as a bit of a social worker. She now seems to think she is also a judge and a jury.

Ms Pru Goward: Point of order: Standing Order 129—it was a very direct question: Will the Minister re-investigate the matter?

The SPEAKER: Order! Members will come to order. The Minister's response is clearly relevant to the question.

Ms LINDA BURNEY: The allegations of a cover-up in this matter are simply absurd. Community Services conducted an internal review to examine whether there was anything the agency could learn from this case because there are always things we can learn, or might do differently with the benefit of hindsight. We recognise that and that is exactly why a review of this case was conducted. The Opposition knows all of that because it has a copy of the review report. The Opposition requested information under freedom of information and it was provided. The Opposition also asked questions on notice, which were answered. So where is the cover up? Where is the secrecy? The internal review focused on the way the case was managed prior to the tragedy. Community Services was never made aware of the pregnancy, nor received any reports about the existence of the unborn baby, until the discovery of the body. The mother in question kept her pregnancy to herself.

All information about this case, including findings of the Coroner and police were provided to the Child Death Review Team. Furthermore, all of the Community Services information about this family was provided to the Special Commission of Inquiry. Where is the cover up? It would be laughable if it were not so horrifying to think that the member for Goulburn is holding herself up as ready to take on the responsibility of the Community Services portfolio. Families in New South Wales be warned! I am aware that the employee of Community Services was quoted in a media report. I am concerned about confidentiality. The investigation of that staff member had nothing to do with this case. This matter was completely unrelated to the death of the baby in Belmont. Any allegation of that kind is serious and an investigation was undertaken. The findings of that investigation led to disciplinary action, which was eventually settled in the Industrial Relations Commission.  ^{_{(Source : http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20101201015?open&refNavID=HA8_1)}}

Justice for Kyisha Griffiths Cottom

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Category: Child abuse industry deaths in NSW

Created: Thursday, 26 September 2013 12:24

Written by Alecomm2

Kyisha Griffiths Cottom was removed from her mother by the NSW Department of Community Services because she was a victim of domestic violence.

Like most cases involving DoCS, the mother was crucified, not offered any assistance or support to be able to leave the situation, and she was turned instantly into a surrogate for the system that pretends to care for children and families.

Caseworkers chose their normal "modus operandi", and just ripped the kids from the parent who loved them, gave them to complete strangers and tried to pretend that they just have a complete new family now, and this stranger who is female, they must refer to now as "mummy".

In the time period that Kyisha was "under the care" of the department, she was moved around more times than fifteen foster homes - not exactly stable now is it.  She was then repeatedly returned to Allambi House Group Home which is where she died of a drug overdose.