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Letter to coroner is only 1 week of arrogance from Child safety Cairns
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Please note that my letter stating concerns surrounding the death of my son, Luke
Borusiewicz is only detailing "ONE WEEK" of how I have been treated by child safety. I have been dealing with this department who have become a law unto themselves on and off for a year and a half, in which time I have never been given a chance to prove myself as a father and give my son all the love he deserved and missed out on. It will take some time for me to document all this, but mean time an army is building, and I thank everyone for their support and help. It means so much. I would like to think that Luke was hear for a reason, a big reason, to stop so many children being ripped off their parents unfairly, and parents being kicked while they are down. Tell me how I hurt my son. What did I do to him. Child safety hurt my son more than anyone. By taking off the person he loved and was protected by, and who loved him as much or more than any human being can love another human. I will never forgive them and I cannot forget. You did not die for nothing son.
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Lukey
Michael,
I am so sorry for what has happened to your little boy. He was very special, as all children are. This is cold comfort to you but some child safety workers really do care, they are not all bad. I hope you can focus on the many beautiful things about Luke because that is all that really matters now.
Beautiful People
I agree and am trying to stay focused. I dont think it was bad luck that I kept getting child safety staff that looked at me with hatred in their eyes. I did come across 4 people that I can honestly say cared about people. It is the same as police, some people take the job because they care about people and some people like power. I will never forget when they pulled out the last thing keeping Luke alive, his breathing tube. His heart kept beating for a couple of minutes and then I laid him out dead on the bed in front of all the family. After about another 30 seconds I felt him come into my heart. He was happy and excited and kept saying I love you too daddy. I said I love you too Lukey and everyone looked at me. I said he is inside me, like where my heart is. I just cant beleive I never got a proper chance to be the father I proved I could be.
Lifes misfortunes fall disproportionately on the young.
http://lukesarmy.com/
Chid is 100 times more at risk in DoCS care
I have been reading some stats from the Wood report and I am shocked at the horrible truth. In 2006 10 children out of 10,000 died in foster care. This means that a child in that year had 1 in 1000 chance of dying under the care of DoCS. The report also said that the chance of a child being with their own family in the broader community dying, was 1 in 100,000. The difference is 100 to 1. So a child has 100 times more chance of dying when in foster care than being with their own family. Why is this evil tyrranous fraud of child protection still being forced upon us?
WTF?!?!
Bias Anon?
2006; reviewable child deaths
114 (93%): 81 of these children were themselves reported to
DoCS. These children were the subject of a total of 296
reports of risk of harm.
33 of the children were the sibling of a child reported to
DoCS. The siblings were the subject of a total of 201 reports of risk of harm.
4 died in statutory care.
Note: because a child’s death may be reviewable for more than one reason, percentages for any one year will not total 100 per cent.
23.116 The research informs us that child deaths are not considered a likely outcome in most cases of child abuse; most who die are not known to child protection
services and the risk factors that are present in cases of fatal child abuse are generally similar to those present in many thousands of other child protection cases which do not have a fatal outcome.
23.117 Consistent with this research, in his report of reviewable deaths in 2006, the Ombudsman said that in most cases, the circumstances of the child’s death had no connection to reported child protection concerns. Obviously in some cases a child will die of natural causes or as a result of the actions of a third party for which the carer will have no responsibility or capacity to control.
23.118 Accordingly, the Inquiry takes the view that the criteria of ‘known to DoCS’ is not useful and can be harmful by escalating in the mind of the public, deaths where a report has been made, which would not have justified an intervention, to deaths which could have been prevented by action from DoCS.
http://www.dpc.nsw.gov.au/publications/news/stories/?a=33798
Wood Inquiry
Is anyone aware of a similar inquiry in Queensland, or alternatively the availability of comparable statistics ??
To add a bit more perspective
To add a bit more perspective to your statement re:"child is 100 times more at risk in DoCS care". The majority of children that enter DoCS care are often damaged due to the abuse they were subjected to from their parents/ carers and can have feelings of abandonment. They are prone to drug taking, absconding and an endless list of other risk taking behaviours - all of which contributes to the high statistics you are referring to. Also it is important to remember that it is very very difficult to find a foster placement for a child over the age of 12 years. This is largely because foster carers are not prepared to take on children with challenging behaviours (sometimes violence and mental illness). Older children are more often placed in youth refuges; where they are exposed to other young people who are already engaged in risk taking behaviours.
The Wood report highlights that when a child is identified in the media as being 'known to DoCS' that the reports received by DoCS were often unrelated to the media story. A child can be 'known to DoCS' because a report has been made about something minor like a verbal DV incident; about a Family Law Court dispute or even a malicious report. The media often (mostly always) exaggerate and dramatise the story... the public always believes.
Media
The media is facinating. It is of course DoCS fault that the media comes down so hard on them. They don't have good PR and the only news you hear is the bad news and the one case in several thousand that month that went wrong.
Still no excuse because when they go wrong it is generally tragically wrong with long reaching damage to all involved.
And because of the lack of transparency within this department we all know that the one we hear about is the tip of the ice berg.
Realistically - none of us know for sure how far down the ice goes. It's guesses and speculation added to some very emotive language.
Protection week
Did you notice on the news tonight the Promotion of Child protection week. guess media dont mind reporting that.
pity we dont have media, say like the tv show Bad boys or any propaganda cop shows that follows them around.
Wouldnt it be Oh!!! so nice to have media do that with DOCs, have media follow them around. Ya, I know, a bloody wetdream :)
DOCS = Death of children services
Thy sty of thy eye is ecumenical Gone. Thy eye see's thy Myopia in thy Pharisees. And a Lumber jack is required.
Luke was here for a reason.
The way I look at it Luke has done what he had to do, and if I dont do my part now, all his pain, torment, suffering, trauma, and ultimately his death, were for nothing. Luke dies so he could stop The department of child safety from continuing to treat children and parents the way they are. The first thing they did was to try to split my partner and I up. I never had a mum growing up, and I wanted Luke to have his. That was not an option and me having him wasnt either. I will never forgive them for what they did to all of us. And who is ultimately responsible, the government for letting get away with doing this to people.
Lifes misfortunes fall disproportionately on the young.
http://lukesarmy.com/
I am back where I started before Luke came along
I feel like I got a taste of what life is all about. Then it was yanked back off me. The whole time I had Luke I lived with the fear of his mother abusing him. Child safety sided with her, and all of my friends shook their heads. I couldn't have loved him more. I couldn't be more protective, and child safety could not be more wrong about everything, time and time again. I had Luke for one week, just me and him. On the last day, he woke and just started talking, he would never have speech so good again, even a year later. The so called experts never took into account the trauma of removing Luke from me again and again. I remember the last time like a vivid nightmare. I had been off drugs for six months, I was sober. The neighbours rang the police because his mum was drunk and dragging him across the road. I took Luke from his mum and told her she couldn't come in, but I had to let her in to avoid a fight. The police arrived. They removed Luke and said they were taking him to the hospital. I begged them to let me come too. Luke screamed as he looked at me and was taken away. I was surrounded by police, all I could say was "That's my boy, that's my boy." I begged, pleaded, ensured them I was off the drugs. I went into child safety every day to show them I was drug free and working. It made no difference, Luke's mum was a victim of domestic violence, and that is worse than child abuse to child safety. Drugs and domestic violence can be used indefinitely to keep a child from his father, no matter how much they love each other. I am walking to Brisbane to keep myself busy and stop myself from going crazy, as well as to expose what is happenning to so many families. It has nothing to do with how good a father I was. It all comes down to the narrow minded, misinformed judgement of a few women. These little hitlers don't believe that it harms a child to remove them from their parents and home. Luke's learning went backwards when he was taken away. I was told not to buy him lollies at the visits as he was always upset afterwards. He was upset because he wanted to be with his father. How stupid do you have to be not to see that. So many things they had no idea about. If I was so bad because I was on drugs, what was their excuse? They are supposed to be experts. They cost my son his happiness, the whole time they had him removed from me. And the judge, she didn't care about taking kids away from their parents either. It's an every day occurrence. I will never hug my son again. I will never hold him close and tell him how much I love him. I thank God those are the last words I said to him.
"I love you so much Luke, I love you more than anyone will ever love you. I love you more than anything in the world. I am trying to get you back mate, they just wont give you back."
The car drove off with Luke in the back and I dropped to my knees and cried, as I did after every visit.
Lifes misfortunes fall disproportionately on the young.
http://lukesarmy.com/
Lukes Memories
I think Luke was here for a reason. He did his part and now, for me to be a proper father I have to do my part. The people that insulted me and tormented my child are doing it to the next family, excuse me if I have no faith in 95% of DoCS, with the highest percentage of dead weight being at the top, satiated through with misery derived by their actions.
At this point, to me, Luke is the little boy that was abused by the department of child safety, and was killed while under the supervision and direction.
On top of this, and above all else, he was my son who I loved more than I have ever loved anyone or anything. He was constantly kept from me and put in danger in numerous situations which any normal person, yeah even a drug addict would be alarmed at. The prospect of a child who is agitated because of the stress of being removed from his family and home, as well as another 3 children in the care of a 74 year old woman??? If DoCS arent on drugs then what is their problem???Dont start me.
In the future I see look to be remembered as the beautiful little gifted boy he was. I live my life to be in heaven with my little boy and I still thank god for him.
At the moment, I told my son when I was talking to him in his coffin, "I will get em Luke, don't worry, Daddy will do something about this Lukey.
When they (DoCS) asked me if there was anything I wanted, I told them I wanted the job of that bitch that never answered my calls, that could have saved my son's life. The head of child safety, I want that job. Then all the manhating bitches with their heads up their asses would quit in an instant, and there is the way to fix child safety.
Lifes misfortunes fall disproportionately on the young.
http://lukesarmy.com/
To Luke's dad.
Just wish to convey once again my sympathy to you and your family.
I don't know what to say but 'sorry' and your postings on here are very moving. You are brave to be writing it all here to share with us.
God bless you.
Thankyou for your sympathy
Thankyou, I am doing my best to get the truth out there. I did not bring a son into this world for nothing. All the horrible things he went through were not for nothing. He was here for a reason. To expose the injustices which are occuring, from infancy to the poor teenagers. Child safety will never admit they are wrong. Everybody is wrong sometimes. I should never have had my child removed, that is what hurt him the most.
Lifes misfortunes fall disproportionately on the young.
http://lukesarmy.com/
To add a bit more perspective
To add a bit more perspective to your statement re:"child is 100 times more at risk in DoCS care". The majority of children that enter DoCS care are often damaged due to the abuse they were subjected to from their parents/ carers and can have feelings of abandonment. They are prone to drug taking, absconding and an endless list of other risk taking behaviours - all of which contributes to the high statistics you are referring to. Also it is important to remember that it is very very difficult to find a foster placement for a child over the age of 12 years. This is largely because foster carers are not prepared to take on children with challenging behaviours (sometimes violence and mental illness). Older children are more often placed in youth refuges; where they are exposed to other young people who are already engaged in risk taking behaviours.
The Wood report highlights that when a child is identified in the media as being 'known to DoCS' that the reports received by DoCS were often unrelated to the media story. A child can be 'known to DoCS' because a report has been made about something minor like a verbal DV incident; about a Family Law Court dispute or even a malicious report. The media often (mostly always) exaggerate and dramatise the story... the public always believes.