How Could You? Hall of Shame-Australia-Foster Girl case-Child Death UPDATED
This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.
From New South Wales, Australia, “the repeated rape of a teenage girl with special needs by a man who worked at her foster home is alleged to have been covered up by a government office after her death.
It is alleged that although DNA evidence showed the odds of her attacker being innocent were ‘100 billion to one’, the shocking abuse was ‘conveniently’ overlooked by the New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Despite the seemingly strong case against the 26-year-old man – known as ‘BJQ’ – the DPP dropped the case following her death, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Charges against the man were reportedly ‘dismissed after committal, before trial, after her unfortunate death’.
It is also alleged that the girl was raped on multiple occasions by another member of staff while he was on a ‘sleepover shift’ at the residential foster home.
The names of the two offenders have been suppressed.
Details of the sustained abuse against the teen only came to light as a result of the offender applying for a Working With Children Check.
The man’s application was rejected, however during an appeal against the decision the numerous sexual encounters with the girl were revealed.
After one of the sexual assaults the girl was taken to hospital to receive medical attention.
Police then became involved in the matter, charging ‘BJQ’ with aggravated sexual intercourse with a girl aged 14.
The girl told police that the sexual encounters occurred over a five-month time frame.
Forensic evidence reportedly also discovered the man’s semen on her underwear.
In addition to the series of sexual assaults, it is also alleged the man had explicit images of another girl who was under his on his mobile phone.
Brad Hazard, the New South Wales Family and Community Services Minister, described the cover up as ‘beyond disturbing’. “
[Daily Mail 8/21/16 by Josh Hanrahan]
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Update:”A caseworker at a youth group home where a 15-year-old died of a drug overdose, has told a coronial inquest staff often had no control over who was coming in and out of the facility.
The NSW Deputy State Coroner Derek Lee is investigating the death of a teenage girl identified only as MK.
She died in April 2014 after overdosing on cannabis, ice and heroin, and after allegedly being raped by two workers at a refuge in inner Sydney in 2012.
A caseworker at the now closed Gordon House group home at Pennant Hills where MK spent her final year, has told the inquest her facility struggled to stop youths and adults from sneaking in and spending the night with the children in care.
She said she was concerned the home “was becoming a drop-in house, where people could come and go as they pleased … at all hours”.
“We’d find young people in beds and on floors all the time,” she said.
She agreed with Counsel Assisting Donna Ward who suggested that “access to house was beyond the control of the workers”.
The female caseworker, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said she would sometimes find up to 10 extra people in a resident’s room.
The caseworker said there was another girl in care at Gordon House who was so concerned about “the goings on” in the facility that “she would lock herself in her room”.
The inquest has been shown CCTV from the night MK overdosed on a toxic injection of ice and heroin known as a “speedball”, where at least six young men can be seen climbing into Gordon House through a window.
The inquest is expected to last for a week.
Family and Community Services Minister Brad Hazzard last week said he was extremely concerned that a youth worker had not faced court over allegations he repeatedly raped the teenager.”
Unauthorised visitors to youth home where 15yo girl overdosed was ‘beyond the control’ of staff, caseworker says [ABC 8/30/16 by Lucy Carter]
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