Girl gang-rape warnings ignored by Left-indoctrinated social workers

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Girl gang-rape warnings ignored by Left-indoctrinated social workers

You would have to be a Leftist moron to put the welfare of criminal
black men ahead of the welfare of brutally-treated little black girls.
Those, however, appear to be the sick priorities of political
correctness

THE family of a 10-year-old gang-rape victim have revealed they had
warned child safety authorities she would be attacked if taken out of
a Cairns foster home and returned to their remote Aboriginal community
of Aurukun.

Amid a continuing public outcry over the Queensland Department of
Child Safety's failure to protect the girl and a Queensland District
Court judge's controversial decision not to jail her attackers, her
family has told of a community in crisis and "a little girl who has
had the light turned off on her life". They expressed outrage at the
sentence the nine males received, and claim some of the offenders had
first raped the girl when she was seven. "She should never have been
allowed to come back from foster care while those boys were still
here. We told that to welfare. (Some of) those boys had raped her in
the past," the girl's mother said.

In October, judge Sarah Bradley decided not to record convictions
against six teenage attackers and gave three others, aged 17, 18 and
26, suspended sentences over the rape. The sentences will be appealed
and dozens of other sex abuse cases from the cape reviewed after the
lenient sentences in the gang-rape case were revealed. The prosecutor
in the case, Steve Carter - who described the rape as "a form of
childish experimentation" of which the victim was a willing
participant - has also been stood down pending an internal
investigation.

The girl's aunt said she was deeply offended by Mr Carter's claim that
the victim had consented to the rape, and said suggestions underage
sex was a fact of life in cape communities was abhorrent. "That's not
right. It's not traditional to have sex without parents' consent.
Something is not right. She is a little girl who has had the light
turned off on her life," she said. Her uncle, the family patriarch,
said sexual assaults, family violence and drugs had become so bad in
the community he would support a Northern Territory-style
intervention. "The violence happens all the time. Something needs to
be done, we shouldn't have to live like this," he said.

Cape York Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson last night described the case
as "just the tip of the iceberg" of dysfunction in indigenous
communities. Mr Pearson blasted the notion that indigenous children
taken into care and placed with non-indigenous foster carers were
"another Stolen Generation" - as social workers in the Aurukun case
believed. He said that where children's welfare was under threat, the
placement should be "one of safety, whether it is whitefellas or
blackfellas". "Those child protection practices that have sought to
place Aboriginal children exclusively with Aboriginal carers have
resulted in a great deal of harm for the individual children under
care," Mr Pearson said.

"This is a case of children in urgent need of protection. As long as
Aboriginal society is so dysfunctional that we have to take children
into care and protection, we should never hear people bleat about some
Stolen Generation. "Today children on communities are living in
dysfunctional situations where their welfare is under threat. There
should be no hesitation in taking them out of those threatening
circumstances and placing them with carers - whitefellas or
blackfellas."

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has vowed to take radical action and
work with federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin if the
review of sex abuse cases finds systemic problems. "What's not clear
until we look at all of these cases is, is it a systemic issue where
the standard of justice is somehow different or lower in these
communities?" Ms Bligh said. "Or is this a one-off aberration from one
particular officer?"

The girl's family speak to her once a week by satellite link because
she is housed in a secret location in north Queensland. "She sleeps
with the light on. She gets jumpy when they get new case workers," her
uncle said.

The uncle said no authority had contacted the family since the story
was reported. He first heard about it on the radio, and he welcomed
the opportunity to speak to the media. Authorities had neglected to
inform the family the case was being heard in October in a courthouse
less than 100 metres from the victim's former home.