When I first held Luke in hospital when he was born, he just jumped into my heart. He was this gorgeous little helpless bundle.
His birth was traumatic and precarious but he was a little fighter. He survived a fire in his home when he was only threee months old. As he grew up I could never cuddle him as he would cry and only want His Dad. Michael was everything to Luke.
Our hearts are aching now, with his life cut tragically short.... See More
Child Safety: Problems and Solutions
1. Bureaucracy
Child protection departments are run separately in each of the eight states of Australia. This protects the federal government from accepting any responsibility for the corruption and malpractice which is pervading the departments of child safety in every state.
These heinous entities are answerable to no one. Not only are they a black spot on the federal government bureaucracy, these departments who are nothing less than modern day Nazi Storm Troopers, are hidden and protected by the state governments they are empowered by.
Luke's dad plays and sings 'Puff the Magic Dragon' for Luke
video by Luke's dad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=839G8VE7yhs
Ok so one week into my private school for my son and I need to get all of my documents in order. I guess I should have known better than to excersice my civil rights in a county with a personal grudge.
CPS came to my home last night to investigate reports of my son not being in school from neighbors.
Here is my latest piece of artwork. Done with pastels on card, I am giving it away to a member of the Luke's Army group on facebook in appreciation for all the kindness and support I have received from these people who are Luke's Army.
I intend to start giving my art to as many of the members of this group as possible to acknowledge their support.
You can join Luke's Army on facebook by simply hitting the link above.
I am thinking of applying for this job as then i can make the social workers pay for what they are doing to our family's and take there kids off them ha ha cyfs
Hi Daniel, I think it's commendable that you are considering employment within the child protection workplace.
Be prepared to face an authoritarian regime, they have their buddy system well entrenched in their procedures, the corrupt, arrogant dictatorship beginning its emanation in the ministers office, with the complaints department tribunal and regional managers sharing the privelidge of rank.
My friend Patrick killed himself when he learned child safety wanted to take his baby. Here is the only photo there was ever taken of Patrick and David. David was four weeks old when Patrick died.
Patrick thought if he was gone, maybe they would leave the baby with his mother. Patrick's only crime was that he smoked marijuana.
Luke was abused by his mother, before he was out of her stomach and up until the third time he was removed by child safety.
I don't talk of it much out of respect for Luke. He loved his mother. He was too young to know what was happening.
She would hurt him to get at me, she knew how much I loved him.
I tried to be there and protect him, but child safety refused to consider me as an option because there had been domestic violence.
I don't condone my actions, but I tried everything. I hated her for what she did to him, but stayed with her because child safety would not let me take him.
Today I spoke to a woman who worked for an independant child welfare group. She told me that she personally removed three children from the foster home where Luke died.
Two were brothers who were removed because the foster carer threw their food on the floor and fed the children like dogs.
The third child was removed after the foster carer was informed the child had been bitten by a spider. When this child care worker visited a week later the child had still not recieved medical attention.
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