In a recent high-profile case, a former prison guard spent months behind bars for a rape which never happened. Now, taxpayers have forked out $10,000 for sexual abuse which multiple judges have ruled never happened.
Taxpayers have paid out $10,000 to a girl as compensation for being a victim of sexual abuse despite two Family Court judges rejecting the allegations made during a custody dispute.
The father has launched legal action against NSW Victims Services over its decision to award his daughter money as “recognition” for sexual abuse, even though the Family Court rejected the mother’s claim he had abused their child.
The aforementioned false rape claim was made in the context of a bitter divorce. As is this false abuse claim.
The mother’s sexual abuse allegations against the father — first made in 2012 while they were battling in the family courts over their daughter — were not substantiated by police or Family and Community Services. The allegations were also rejected by two Family Court judges.
Family Court judge Peter Tree in April 2015 found that the child was not at risk of harm in her father’s care. “This child cannot grow up with the belief that her father sexually abused her, or presents an unacceptable risk of sexual harm to her,” he said. “The evidence simply does not reasonably support such a conclusion.”
However, attempts at re-establishing a relationship between Mr Grainger and his daughter were unsuccessful.
In fact, the courts have repeatedly decided in favour of someone who is clearly psychologically abusive.
Following further Family Court litigation, Justice Michael Baumann found in February that Mr Grainger was a “thoroughly decent human being” and the child was not at “any risk of physical, sexual or emotional harm in the father’s care”.
In contrast, he said the mother’s behaviour and her view of the father was “likely to distort the child’s emotional wellbeing”. But he said at age nine, it was too great a leap to move the girl from her mother to her father’s care because her negative views of the father had become so entrenched. He awarded the mother sole parental responsibility.
In the typical star chamber manner in which such “rights” quangos operate, the whole process of the false claims against the father was kept secret from the accused.
Mr Grainger said he was not advised of his wife’s application for the payment on behalf of their daughter at the time it was lodged, or the decision to award it to her, in August 2015[…]Mr Grainger said he became aware of the payment only in 2017, when his ex-wife referred to it in court documents.
This isn’t just a matter of taxpayers being robbed, either. This is a matter of a good man’s name being dragged through the mud and the vindictiveness of a woman scorned being enabled by the victim-industrial complex.
Since then, he said she had been “waving” evidence of the compensation payout around as “evidence” that he had abused his daughter, which had led to him being harassed online.
“It’s devastating,” he said.
“Not only have I lost my daughter through the Family Court, I’m now being called a pedophile and there’s nothing I can do about it. This has effectively been endorsed by Victims Services. I just find it crazy.”
The road to justice in the Canberra false rape claim was long and tortuous – not helped by the fact that the false accuser was a police officer. The road to justice for this falsely accused father is no better. Police have refused to investigate. The father has been forced to launch private legal action against the NSW Commissioner of Victims Rights in order to have his name cleared.
I wouldn’t be holding his breath waiting for justice, if I were him, that’s for sure.
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