That is sad
Did the child ever complain about this to your sister that he was removed from home for no or incorrect reasons.

I am can only pray my little girl is like someone like your sister. She is with strangers. They could be doing anything to her. Anything. I am so scared for her. She is so upset. She was on the phone sobbing tonight. And I couldn't hold her. I hope the lady caring for her is kind to my daughter. And that she is holding her hand and telling her everything is ok.

Victory is Sweet, but what a fight it was.

These DOCS workers from our experience are criminals.

My sarcasm as seen in my posts is still very strong.

I have been discussing with an acquaintance the setting up of an association. His experience is the same. Docs went rabid with vexatious allegations. We are both Technology savvy and can set up a central free phone in every major centre.

Our solicitor believes around 50% of DOCS cases are rubbish.

We are discussing the possibility of a class action. We need 400 members. On the basis that up to 3000 cases a year are bogus in Queensland, we need a 15% hit rate. The issue is getting people to fight back and overcome the fear these morons at the department use.

We the people as a group can easily beat these dead beat Uni graduates who can't work any where else.
Section 197 of the Act can be utilised to effect. As we all no on Altnet, these guys are so arrogant, they leave such a clear trail of negligent behaviour.

"197 Protection from liability
(1) An official, does not incur civil liability for an act done, or omission made, honestly and without negligence under this
Act.

Remember also that section 9 clearly states:

9 What is harm
(1) Harm, to a child, is any detrimental effect of a significant
nature on the child’s physical, psychological or emotional
wellbeing.
(2) It is immaterial how the harm is caused.
(3) Harm can be caused by—
(a) physical, psychological or emotional abuse or neglect;
or
(b) sexual abuse or exploitation.

These abusers of children at DOCS are not exempt.

We need expressions of interest from you guys.

I'm fighting DOCS now from the other side, and
I'm like a pit bull. Can you imagine a large group of us all attacking the department as one.

How sweet a dream that is !

Further to my post of Tue, 03/06/2008 - 11:56, the two children taken at 3.1/2 weeks and 2 years of age, were finally handed over to their grandmother after 6 weeks in foster care.

The next date for review is the end of August, by which time the parents will have had their beloved children in care for just over four months.

If it had been up to DOCS, they would have prolonged this to two years! Considering that there was absolutely no abuse, rather an accidental injury to the new baby, their treatment of the family has been nothing short of criminal.

I am sure that in the majority of cases DOCS is within their rights to take the children out of abusive situations, but when they make a mistake and are not willing or capable of sorting it out quickly, the damage they cause is absolutely heartbreaking. There has to be some better way for this department to make a correct judgment of the case. There have to be other departments involved from day one, before children are put into care, people who are specialists in dealing with parents and families involved.

Our experience was unfortunate in that the DOCS involved were substandard to say the very least. The case worker was completely without compassion, and obviously had no idea of the resultant effect her and her superior's decisions would have on the children they were supposed to protect.

As I mentioned in my earlier post, the foster carer couple were exemplary in their duty towards the children in their care, and I fully respect the situation they are subjected to. They admitted that the toddler was suffering from the separation from her parents.

DOCS delayed court proceedings as much as possible, by not being fully prepared, and by delaying any investigation of the parents. To date, to our knowledge, nothing has yet been done in this regard.

Although the parents are able to see the children at every possible opportunity now, and their grandmother is coping well with the changed circumstances of her life, those children need to be at home where they belong.

DOCS handled the situation extremely badly, and should be brought to account if only to force them to use better practices in handling situations they are not trained for.

As a postscript I would like to state that the injury to the baby, although frightening to the family, was not severe. She was removed from hospital in just over three days when she was taken off her mother's milk and put on formula so DOCS could put her in foster care.

you sound extreemly well informed of the processes etc. have you requested an assessment be completed in regards to your child's bonding and attachment with you? or one of you family members who is willing to care for you child? perhaps you could do this privately?? I hope you dont mind me saying this, but have seen many stories such as yours.

How very wrong you are...the parents are the problem - not the carers and not the Departments.

most carers are great....but they are so deperate that these days they are hiring anyone as carers.....of course, this only compounds the problem....Ive heard carers say recently that the types they are hiring today , they wouldnt leave a dog with....says it all doesnt it.

i suggest you go visit some independant groups and go to aus-city forum.....the bitterness you see may be yours as many others are more angry and frustrated.....more at the lack of action from gov higher ups......I would like to know where you get your facts from......what is going on is corruption and an agenda that does not benefit any family in a supposed democratic country.
Since when do young adults hold power over families when they themselves have never experienced parenting.....and if they were so honest why do they need to trump up cases against those trying to normalise., and what need is there for them to continually harrass families and the already traumatised children.....excuse the punt....but are you in lala land?

BULLSHIT! DICKHEAD! Obviously u r either a docs worker or a docs supporter. U obviously don't know anything. I had a good 20+ relatives willing to take my children and would have been approved by Qld standards. A certain Docs department in L###n, Qld decided to be spiteful and remove my children into foster care where they we not washed properly, feed properly or even had a proper bed to sleep in. (they were forced to share)
At present I have several taped conversations of the twits lying, Ma#@$ Children's Hospital Lying and several Q's that still remain unanswered by the Department- now 12 months later. A criminal Lawyer is now preparing our case. Just because Magistrates comply, doesn't mean Judges do, especially if it gets as far as the high court of Australia. Docs had to return my children 18 mths ago after extreme pressures were put on the minister of Child Safety with the Shadow Minister coming at her full force. The words "Unlawful Kidnapping and Wrongful Imprisonment" come to mind. The Department only had my childen for 3 weeks. And no I'm not a millionaire, so you can do it and take these PR@#KS to court, you just have to be prepared to sacrifice a lot of things.

I totally agree , the Dept of Atherton and Cairns North offices are so corupt . These so called workers treat carers like pigs. The workers in Atherton are nothing but unqualified little school girls and like to run it their way and not by the book. As soon as a carers questions their decisions , the Dept take children off the carers and give them to other carers.. MMM this is really thinking of the children. And when their is a corupted Dept and their is always a corupted cop involved .
I would never encourage anybody to be a carer in Atherton or Cairns North.!!!!!!

You are right , Atherton office is bad. The snr Prac their should be sacked. The staff turnover there is huge because of the snr prac. Atherton office treat carers like dogs. I was once a CSO at Atherton and left because of the coruption in the office. They run their own show there and not by the book. They take kids off carers and use the excuse it's because they are not indig , then place the kids with another white family. I can not figure that one out??. Like i said , you get in the bad books with the SNR prac or the Manager , they will send you to get a Psyc report done at Mental HEalth, turn your life upside and will not give you any answers to any questions.
Good luck parents and Carers in Atherton keep fighting!!!!

It's called no life experience. Most DOCS are children or screwed up adults.

A neighbour of mine has a family member who works for DOCS. The person has just had kids.

His comment: "she has some weird ideas about bringing up children." The entire families opinion is she shouldn't be working in this area of child safety as she's nuts.

You should also be positive that the people that work in that department would never place their children at risk of harm therefore they would never have to know what it felt like to have their children taken from them.
Grow up, take responsibility and stop playing the victim. The only victims in the equation of child abuse are the children.