Despite the claims, no one has been able to answer provocative columnist Andrew Bolt’s challenge to name a single Aboriginal child taken from their parents solely for being Aboriginal. The grim truth was that the period of the so-called “Stolen Generations” was a period where paternalistic authorities arrogated themselves the right to decide who were and weren’t “fit parents” — black or white (it’s a challenge to the narrative that more white children were “stolen” than black).
Fortunately, in many ways, we’ve moved away from that sort of paternalism (although the same breed of bullying bureaucratic paternalism only needed Covid to show that it never really went away). Unfortunately, in many cases, the pendulum has swung too far back.
Because some children would clearly be better off being “stolen” — and authorities sometimes appear far too sympathetic to the abusers.
A woman accused of murdering her daughter allegedly threw the little girl’s belongings out and told people the toddler was living with an aunt in the two years before authorities discovered she was missing, a court has heard.
The remains of Kaydence Hazel Mills were found near the Chinchilla Weir in March 2020.
She would have been approximately two-and-a-half to three years of age when police alleged she was murdered by her mother, Sinitta Tammy Dawita, and Dawita’s partner, Tane Saul Desatge, some time between March and October 2017.
An investigation into her whereabouts was only launched in late 2019.
What this poor little Aboriginal girl suffered in her brief time on earth was horrific.
During the hearing, Magistrate Kerrie O’Callaghan outlined details of the prosecution’s evidence of the alleged physical and psychological abuse inflicted on Kaydence before her death.
The court heard a witness statement claimed the little girl was “abused every day,” “had to sleep on the toilet floor as she had nowhere else to sleep,” and “lived like an animal” at the family home in Chinchilla.
“[The witness said] Tane would flog her with a bamboo cane if she didn’t go to the toilet … and she had to be covered up when [the family] would go out because of the bruises,” Ms O’Callaghan said.
The court also heard the witness said the last time she saw the little girl she was lying on the couch covered in bruises – but she was gone the next day.
“[The witness said Ms Dawita and Mr Desatge] said she had gone … [Ms Dawita] told her not to say anything and threw all of Kaydence’s belongings out.”
So, like the “whanau” in New Zealand, rallying around murderous abusers and conspiring to cover up horrific crimes against their supposedly precious “tamariki”, there were people who were well aware of the abuse being heaped on this little girl — and did nothing, and kept silent.
A support worker also said that in October 2019 Ms Dawita did not acknowledge Kaydence’s existence and, when asked, said she lived with an aunt in Brisbane, the hearing was told.
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And, so, for four long years, even posthumous justice was denied to Kaydence.
But, to listen to so-called “child protection” authorities, one might be forgiven for thinking that the real victims were the torture-murderers.
“All parents have some kind of breaking point,” [Lindsay Wegener, executive director at PeakCare, Queensland’s child protection peak body] said […]
“If they have no income, they can’t pay the rent, they’ve been evicted from their home, that they’re already isolated from a community or from a family, then they’re going to struggle both looking after themselves as well as looking after children.”
And then, inevitably, comes the pivot to blaming it all on “racism”.
“Too often we are willing to ostracise particular groups of people.
“That might be under the banner of racism or homophobia, that we see people as different to the mainstream culture.”
Mr Wegener said child abuse was not confined to poor people or particular demographics.
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No, it isn’t. But it is far more prevalent among certain demographics. One of those is Aboriginal Australians, where children (and women) suffer far higher rates of abuse than almost every other group.
Why would that be? Only a genuine racist would blame it on “race”, but that doesn’t let off a culture too often steeped in violence. To be fair, colonisation was a hugely disruptive event in Aboriginal Australian culture, but the evidence from both historical and archaeological records is that appalling violence against women and children was a feature of Aboriginal Australian culture, long before colonisation.
To allow it to continue, under the weak excuse of “de-colonising”, is pathetically blind.
To use “culture” as an excuse to leave Aboriginal children in situations of horrific abuse is just evil. Given a choice, would Kaydence rather have been “stolen”, or tortured and killed?