How Could You? Hall of Shame-Australia-William Tyrell case-Missing Child UPDATED

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From NSW, Australia,  foster child William Tyrell, 3, went missing on September 12, 2014.

“A judge has raised the “tragic probability” that missing boy William Tyrrell is dead in legal documents that reveal the child was in foster care at the time of his disappearance.

William, then three, vanished from a home on the NSW Mid North Coast in 2014, the case sparking an intense police investigation and public concern for the child.

Legal restrictions prevented the publication of the fact that William was in out-of-home care at the time of his disappearance but a NSW Supreme Court judge has said the matter was of “legitimate public interest”.

There are almost 20,000 children in out-of-home care in NSW but state legislation provides certain restrictions on publication of their names and identifying information.

In his ruling in January, NSW Supreme Court of NSW judge Justice Paul Brereton noted there was “substantial public interest” in the integrity of the out-of-home care system.

In making his decision, Justice Brereton also raised “the tragic probability that [William] is no longer alive”.

“Moreover, the truth has to date been obscured: the public has admittedly been given to think that [his] carers are his parents,” he said.

“There is a substantial public interest in accountability and scrutiny of the out-of-home care system, and in accuracy of reportage of the circumstances of his disappearance.”

The decision was upheld by three judges of the NSW Court of Appeal on Wednesday.

Along with the legal complications, William’s foster parents were also reluctant to expose his siblings to public scrutiny.

“It’s important because there are children involved and they’re young. They deserve an opportunity for privacy,” his foster mother said in 2015.

“They deserve to grow up as individuals and not grow up being known as the brother or sister of the little boy who went missing.

“So if our faces are known by the general public, if we walk down the road, people will know by association who William’s sister is.

“It’s not fair. It’s not fair to them and we’re not doing it for us, we’re doing it for the children.”

Dressed in a Spiderman outfit, William disappeared from the garden while visiting members of his foster family in Kendall on September 12, 2014.

There is no suggestion that either William’s biological or foster families were involved in his disappearance, have any knowledge of his whereabouts or are at fault in any way.

The state government announced an unprecedented $1 million reward for information leading to William’s whereabouts on the second anniversary of his disappearance.

At the time, police said they were continuing their investigations in the hope William was still alive.

“The Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) was deeply saddened to hear about the disappearance of the child in 2014,” a department spokesman told AAP on Friday.”
Missing boy William Tyrrell, in foster care when he vanished, is probably dead: court

[Brisbane Times 8/25/17 by Rachel Browne]

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Update: “William Tyrrell’s foster parents are set to slam the police handling of the toddler’s homicide case, claiming internal politics and in-fighting has derailed the investigation.

In episodes six and seven of the Where’s William Tyrrell? podcast, to be released next week, the three-year-old’s foster parents speak exclusively about their fears for the future of the investigation into William’s disappearance in September 2014.

Their concerns come after detective Gary Jubelin, who led the homicide investigation for four years, was suddenly removed from the case earlier this year amid allegations of misconduct, just weeks before the coronial inquest into William’s disappearance was set to begin.

He later resigned from the NSW Police Force before being criminally charged with illegally recording a conversation with a person of interest involved in the case.

William’s foster parents told 10 News First they fear William’s case will never be solved without Jubelin.

“I’m really angry because police are playing with William,” his foster mum said.

“William’s investigation right now is not going, they’re getting ready for the coroner’s court.

“The only people who are fighting for William is us and Gary.

“I want them to know and I want the public to know that we are never ever giving up on finding out what happened to William and the people who can do that are police and they’re doing nothing. Nothing. It’s disgusting.”

The full interview and other explosive allegations against senior members of the NSW Police Force will be aired in the Where’s William Tyrrell? podcast episodes six and seven, released on Monday.”

‘It’s Disgusting’: William Tyrrell’s Foster Parents Slam Police
[10 Daily 7/18/19 by Lia Harris]

Update 2: William Tyrrell’s former foster parents have been found guilty of intimidating another child in their care, but cleared of a slew of other domestic violence allegations.

In a hearing at Sydney’s Downing Centre on Friday, magistrate Susan McIntyre found the former foster mother – who cannot be legally identified – guilty of intimidating the child on two occasions, including threatening to slap them.

The father was found guilty of intimidating the child on one occasion while driving the child to school, when the child was heard “crying and sobbing”, the court was told.

But the magistrate dismissed a slew of domestic violence allegations facing the couple, with the foster mother cleared of five counts of intimidation, while the foster father had one count of assaulting the child dismissed.

None of the allegations relate to their treatment of William.

Prosecutors relied on more than 1,000 hours of covert recordings made in the couple’s home and vehicles over a period of 14 months in 2020 and 2021 by detectives investigating William’s disappearance.

Three-year-old William went missing while playing at his foster grandmother’s home in Kendall on the New South Wales mid-north coast on 12 September 2014.

Prosecutors are yet to provide an update on the prospect of charges being laid over his disappearance.

The former foster mother also earlier pleaded guilty to assaulting the child on two occasions in January and October 2021, striking her with a wooden spoon and kicking her on the thigh while she was sitting on the floor during a time out.

Lawyers for the woman argued her actions did not constitute a pattern of violence and that she is “distraught and remorseful” for her actions, which the magistrate accepted.

The former foster father was cleared of assaulting the child while implementing a “time out”, which involved him placing his hands on the child’s shoulder and applying pressure in order to place them in a seated position.”
William Tyrrell’s former foster parents found guilty of intimidating different child/a>
[The Guardian 3/22/24 by Australian Associated Press]