A few days before the National Apology to Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse was recited in Australia's Parliament with two men who originally opposed the Royal Commission, namely Messers Scott Morrison (ScoMo) (Prime Minister) and Bill Shorten MP (Leader of the Opposition) ...
Only a few days before they delivered their hollow words ... whistleblowers and those who tried to help victims of sexual abuse and Family Court's "legal" genocide were charged with Conspiracy to Defeat Justice amongst other charges.
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Who is Trying To Help Children, and Who is “Conspiring to Defeat Justice”?
October 30, 2018
by Dee McLachlan
As we reported last week, the Australian Federal Police carried out “Operation Noetic.” They swooped on two persons – Patrick O’Dea and Dr Russell Pridgeon – whom they called kidnappers of children, plus an 83 year-old man. The authorities upped the ante by calling the two arrestees “part of a kidnapping syndicate.”
The Kidnapping Syndicate
Gumshoe now believes there is indeed a syndicate — and it is one that YOU, the taxpayer, pay for. We are not engaging in sensationalism but only plain reporting when we tell you the system is set up to act AGAINST a protective parent. Some kids get “taken” by government, and these kids then end up in the home of a pedophile, or in a third-party environment from which they may be trafficked for child prostitution, and child pornography, etc.
The mainstream media wrote that some of the kidnappers (they mean O’Dea et al) have in mind “to travel by yacht to New Zealand,” and make the child, or children disappear. In reality, children who are “taken” by court order, get sent into the guardianship system — and may disappear from Mom’s (or dad’s) view forever.
What would you do if it were your kid? From our perspective, these two persons are sincere activists tying to help children caught up in desperate situation by “the system.”
On 23 October, the Criminal Defence Lawyers Australia site wrote: “[the AFP] cracked an underground parental abduction ring following a two-year investigation into the group that allegedly helped jilted mothers to abduct…” Jilted? Really? There are many jilted parents in the Family Court system, but these cases to which I refer, are about pedophilia, and sex crimes against children.
In trying to help, these two men are charged with “conspiring to defeat justice,” and “proceeds-of-crime” offenses.
Who is Conspiring to Defeat Justice?
Judges and magistrates should be impartial. The oath that Australian judicial officers take before appointment includes a promise: “[to] do right to all manner of people according to law without fear or favour, affection or ill will”.
This appropriate quote from a former High Court judge, the Hon Sir Gerard Brennan, sums it up:
“A judge’s role is to serve the community in the pivotal role of administering justice according to law. Your office gives you that opportunity and that is a privilege. Your office requires you so to serve, and that is a duty… Freedom, peace, order and good government — the essentials of the society we treasure — depend in the ultimate analysis on the faithful performance of judicial duty. It is only when the community has confidence in the integrity and capacity of the judiciary that the community is governed by the rule of law.” [Emphasis added]
I am following the case of “Darlene” – a mother whose experience at the hands of courts has been shocking – and there is now a major loss of confidence in the courts, at least the Family Court. Justice has truly been defeated.
Gumshoe writer Mary W Maxwell says Justice has been replaced by lawlessness of the courts themselves. (Mainly she refers to American courts, but to Oz Family Court as well.)
In all the accounts I have heard, the protective parent tried their best to get reasonable arrangement via the court and the system. What options are available when the child is NOT believed and is at great risk? In the cases I have looked into, and after speaking to many informed people, I see a pattern – let’s call it The Pattern – whereby:
EVIDENCE of sexual injury or abuse was deliberately suppressed, ignored, withheld or tampered with,
interview transcripts (that are not recorded) were likely changed — against the child’s interests,
the pedophile was/is possibly being protected by people in powerful positions
the children were not only NOT believed, but they were typically reprimanded by officials or officers for “telling lies”,
the safety of the child was ignored, and may have had to be escorted/taken by excessive force to comply with court orders,
the court and officials most likely threatened the protective parent — that any further accusations would be held against them, and could lead to them losing their child forever. Wow.
there is also high probability that children were coached — but not by the protective parent; rather, by the social workers and child safety officers.
In the cases I have heard, I would suggest that there’s a type of “syndicate” with social workers, officers, officials and the judge, and that they have conspired AGAINST the child, or children and any protective parent/s. If investigated, they could be found to have acted with “ill will” AGAINST the best interests of the child.
If Pridgeon and O’Dea’s cases followed The Pattern, then all of the the above would most likely have occurred. If so, then who is conspiring to defeat justice?
Who Is Doing the Kidnapping?
The definition (Cambridge) of abduction is: the act of making a person go somewhere with you, especially using threats or violence.
I would wager my right arm that any children that were “abducted” (as the AFP and mainstream media describes), did not “go somewhere” because of threats and violence. They were most escaping from criminal negligence/breach of duty/threats and violence, whatever.
As I have said before: why did the Royal Commission believe all of the historical abuse cases, but the Family Court does not believe the children now? Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in his apology, “…we can promise a country where we commit to hear and believe our children, to work together to keep children safe, to trust them and, most of all, to respect their innocence.”
Please sir, keep your promise with regard to these children.
Operation Noetic and the mainstream media name Pridgeon and O’Dea askidnappers. They have been painted a ‘bad people’ — and this is terrible. They should be praised for operating on the side of right and decency. Is this a case of the government acting criminally?
If so we need to “swoop” on the government personnel who are actually – and “officially” doing the kidnapping of children. Just ask Darlene!
Recall from our previous articles that the Family Law Act section 121 prevents litigants in court from identifying to the outside world what is going on. That section of the law allegedly serves the value of privacy, but since when do we owe privacy to law breakers? They need to be brought into the light.
It is pitiful to hear Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Debbie Platz say that activists Dr Pridgeon and Mr O’Dea have “demonstrated a ‘complete disregard’ for the rule of law in this country and the decision of the courts.”
As I said, I am applying “The Pattern” here. And I want the public to know that this is indeed an ongoing pattern, and that it most likely applies in this case. It is cruel and surely UNLAWFUL.
Who Is Profiting from This Crime?
It would have been smarter for Operation Noetic not to bring in any charges of profiteering as this calls our attention to the amazing amounts of money that are changing hands, over children landing up in the Family Court system. And you can be sure the money is not being paid to the likes of Pridgeon or O’Dea.
I assume those two men are very much out-of-pocket. Gumshoe is getting very out-of-pocket in trying to help research this, and publicize it. And as for Darlene (all the Darlene’s in Australia) the financial burden is life-destroying. One loses one’s savings, one’s house, and one’s job over all this.
There is also the issue of the profiteering in the foster care business, and the money-go-round of a system that profits from breaking up families. And then there’s Auscript Australasia — a private company that has the monopoly for recording transcripts. It’s an offense to personally record what you say in court to protect your legal rights, yet it is prohibitively expensive to purchase a record. But all this is for another article.
Meanwhile this kiddy-porn business alone is worth billions, worldwide.
Medical Malfeasance
I have heard a number of accounts where the court refused the request of a parent to seek medical assistance for their child (remember the ‘neck case‘).
So with one of the men being a doctor, this alarmed me. I guess Dr Russell Pridgeon was following his Hippocratic Oath. So is he being charged and punished for caring for distressed and harmed children? I’m sure the various authorities will attempt to punish this good doctor in whichever way possible. That’s what they do.
What has Australia become?
Public Awareness
I believe if all the evidence were made public, presented in an honest hearing, and “without fear or favour”, there would be a national OUTCRY. The cries would be much louder than those heard over the recent Royal Commission.
I hope that the High Court would be gobsmacked, and similarly all professors of law — but I know the public would be appalled. As I relate these stories to people I know and don’t know, they physically and emotionally go into shock and DISBELIEF — then ANGER.
There’s nothing like hiding under the guise of secrecy and privacy. But in this instance the AFP — and their arrests of Pridgeon and O’Dea — has intentionally or unintentionally opened the can of Family Court worms… and there’s no way they can close the lid on this now. These men, in defending themselves, will bring, as evidence, all the injustices of the Family Court system — and expose them. These accounts are a bloody stain on Australia — like the bloody stain on “Ellen’s” panties… evidence that was washed, discarded and ignored by the court before she was abducted from her loving mother.
In the many cases I’ve heard, the court has fulfilled the Cambridge description of “abduction” perfectly: making a person go somewhere, especially using threats or violence.
Now to arrange the meeting between Pridgeon, O’Dea and Morrison.