"Rally to reunite Colleen, Kirsten and "Kerrry 2" Stolen by DoCS! Repeal All Child Protection and Forced Adoption Laws! Support Women's and People with Disabilities' Right to Choose! Justice for All New and Past Stolen Generations by DoCS."
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- Category: Rallies / Meetings / Protests
- Created: Friday, 25 January 2013 09:22
- Written by Colleen Fuller / Shelly Dahl
Colleen Fuller and her daughter Kirsten have been fighting for the return of their son and grandson ‘Kerry 2’ who was stolen by the Department of Human Services (DoCS) in November 2007. Colleen as well as Kirsten, is of Aboriginal descent; both have disabilities, and are struggling to overcome poverty.
NSW Department of Human Services did this to ‘Kerry 2’, Kirsten and Colleen on the basis of Kirsten’s disability, Aboriginality, poverty and being unwed mother. In 2008 a Local Court in Sydney ruled for a progressive restoration to reunite ‘Kerry 2’ and Kirsten to the exclusion of the father - After 12 months the Department of Human Services (DoCS) were to remove their services. The father until he addressed his violence and substance abuse issues was not permitted to live in the home of Kirsten and ‘Kerry 2’ for 12 months to 2 years.
In 2007 the Auntie, Uncle of the father with the assistance of the father, tried to force Kirsten to have an abortion of the foetus - with the threat that DoCS were going to take the child from Kirsten the moment ‘Kerry 2’ was born. Kirsten requested the father to leave after this threat was made to defend the right to choose. After ‘Kerry 2’ was born - before Colleen, the mother, and their community even had a chance to begin to raise ‘Kerry 2’; DoCS took the child with the assistance of the Auntie, Uncle and the father.
At the time neither the father, the Auntie or the Uncle advised Colleen and Kirsten that the father had a history of violence, as well as substance abuse until it came out in court. In 2009 DoCS overturned the local Court decision after applying for a stay of the Local Court order.
This happened as a result of Dennis Chapman their legal representative giving the wrong advice to Colleen and Kirsten to agree with DoCS advice to repealing the local Court decision. Dennis Chapman had been recently suspended from practicing as a lawyer by the Supreme Court in a similar case. Legal Aid knew at the time they should not have sent Dennis Chapman to represent Colleen and Kirsten. Colleen and her daughter refused to accept the actions of DoCS or Dennis Chapman. Despite being denied legal AID, they have been fighting for the Local Court decision to be upheld for the return of ‘Kerry 2’ to their loving family ever since. The case has been going back and forth between the Supreme and District Courts in Sydney.
Colleen and Kirsten need a pro bono barrister with an interest in addressing, exposing the issue as well as reuniting ‘Kerry 2’ and the family. Please contact Colleen or Shelly or anyone from DoCS Busters if you can help Colleen and Kirsten. Kirsten also applied for kinship of ‘Kerry 2’ with Colleen and that’s when the prejudicial arguments were exposed, in an attempt to justify the Department of Human Services (DoCS) actions. Charmaine, Colleen’s other daughter and Kirsten’s sister who has TAFE qualifications as a DoCS worker who doesn’t have a disability and has a good job, also stepped forward for Kinship with Colleen and Kirsten. Charmaine did so in order to demonstrate children raised in their biological loving families from oppressed communities can overcome anything and grow up to be valuable and non-judgemental members of society.
The Department of Human Services (DoCS) were ordered to do a Kinship assessment by the Courts. Yet it was not independent, and it wasn’t a kinship assessment, it was a general assessment that failed to do any investigation. -Yet all this proof went ignored. THE NEW STOLEN GENERATION ‘Kerry 2’ is one of tens of thousands of children who are continuing to be stolen from families and their communities without their consent by DoCS today. Today the new stolen generation are not just the children from unwed mothers, or aboriginal people- they're from all walks of life!
If you are a parent, you risk your children being abducted by the state on the basis of malicious lies and false histories DoCS and the carers create about you and your children. Why? There is a frenzy of lawyers, judges and ‘kiddy farmers’ who profit from the state abducting children who are then sold like a piece of property through forced adoption to the highest bidder. This is not a struggle of the past or a struggle that just happened to aboriginal people but a struggle to stop this injustice continuing to happen to all people today.
The Evidence Act doesn’t apply in the Children’s Court. Legal Aid is denied almost entirely to families and communities fighting for the return of their stolen children. The children’s real names are denied being used, to silence who they belong with. (Hence ‘Kerry 2’). Department of Human Services (DoCS) justify forcibly abducting children often on whimsical flimsy allegations. These allegations are usually on the prejudicial basis of disability, race, religion, poverty, gender/sex/sexuality, birth, adultery, or unmarried.
DoCS ignore the woman’s right to choose. DoCS have for decades applied government dictated eugenics by threatening to abduct children if the mother’s do not have an abortion. The families and the children are threatened by the state with psychiatric detainment, police brutality, legalities and gag orders if they fight to reunite. The abducted children in the state care of DoCS suffer neglect, physical, sexual, verbal abuse, forced adoption, child slave labour and genocide in being denied knowledge of their birth rights. DoCS ignore the rulings of courts to stop interfering in loving families and to return the children they have stolen immediately to the loving families. DoCS, carers, police, judges, lawyers promise both families and the children it will be all oranges and sunshine, and to just accept this injustice continuing to happen, when in reality from one generation to the next it is not.
Under Section 13 of the NSW Young person’s and child Protection Act 1998 it states that efforts need to made to reunite children with good parents within their communities. Otherwise consider kinship carers from the same biological family or community the child is from with an emphasis of reuniting children and families within the communities. Yet the NSW Young Person’s and Child Protection Act as with other State and Commonwealth laws still support DOCS abducting children without the mutual consent of the parents, children, families or community.
All child protection laws both state and federal need to be repealed to stop the interference of the state tearing apart biological and replacement families so long as no one gets hurt. Both the UN Convention and the Hague Convention supports the rights of the children to be raised within their communities without interference of any law. Yet in Australia the current laws still do not support these conventions.
Rudd’s and now Gillard’s proposed apology on March 21, 2013 is a lie. If the verbal apology is accepted by the victims, it means the government has no legal responsibility to stop this injustice from continuing to occur. No responsibility to let families reunite or to grant any compensation to all of the victims of this injustice. Sorry without an active apology is not good enough.
REJECT SORRY UNTIL THIS INJUSTICE STOPS! SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN!
- Uphold the Local Court orders to reunite ‘Kerry 2’ with the Fuller/Apps family through immediate restoration with complete non-interference of the state.
- Stop the Department of Human Services (DoCS) unnecessarily interferring with families. Repeal all local, state and federal child protection laws which interfere and support the abduction of children up to 18 years from families and communities without mutual consent.
- Repeal all forced adoption laws with immediate restoration to reunite children and families with complete non-interference of the state.
- Ensure all DoCS workers, and their choice of carers are held accountable for their illegal actions in families.
- Repeal all abortion laws. Support the woman’s and disabilities right to choose with complete non-interference of the state. Reject DoCS forcing abortion on women and people with disabilities to justify threatening child state abduction.
- Stop the mental health system, police brutality, legalities, gag orders and the state being used as a threat to stop families and children fighting to reunite.
- Implement the use of the Evidence Act in all children and family courts.
- Justice for all new and past Stolen Generations by DcCS
Contact Colleen (0402) 013-767 or Shelly (0459) 771-520 facebook.com/DoC Busters movement or www.docsbusters.org
