Child Safety placed a known male paedophile Ziora Warner into a foster families home who had 3 young daughter. The predator molested the 3 girls the pedifile sexually assaulted them with added violence. His victim before these assaults, was a 3 year old baby girl Judge Sarah Bradley set him free with no conviction recorded thus allowing him with a clean slate to enter another home.
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December 2005 to June 2006 my 3 granddaughters lives changed forever....
My daughter was a Foster Carer in Cairns North Queensland for Child Safety in the Lake Street Branch until 2005 .. she was classed as one of the best ever by Cairns Child Safety and was even asked to present her family and extended family for a story on TV .. which she did.
My son in-law is a builder .. so the house grew as the huge demand to help more children became apparent.
After a few years (2006) my daughter was officially excepted in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Safety Branch where they had already placed an adolescent boy into my daughters house in December 2005.
He sexually assaulted my three granddaughters over a period of several months during 2005 to 2006 .. when he entered the youngest granddaughters room in June 2006 and made his sexual advances .. she told her mother.
The other two girls then disclosed he had also been sexually assaulting them .. Child Safety was called and the offending youth was removed.
The family was told by the foster child's case worker Annie Roberts .. that it would be taken care of and that they should wait for instructions.
The girls asked the head of the Indigenous Department Jon Banks who was Annie Roberts superior if they (the 3 girls) were safe now he was removed from their home. Child Safety had placed the offender only a 5 minute walk from the girls home.
Mr Banks told the girls the boy was not allowed within a limited distance and if he offender did he would go straight to jail .. Jon Banks told me the same thing.
They were told by Annie Roberts not to talk about it to anyone or the case would be jeopardized which even included me .. their grandmother.
I kept asking why the boy had left the home and the girls would say he broke the rules and it was being taken care of by Child Safety and they were not allowed to say anymore.
Eventually in approximately February 2007 the oldest granddaughter broke down and told me everything but she begged me not to tell anyone or I would ruin everything and she said she would be in huge trouble. This was 7 months after the incidents occurred and approx: 13 months since the sexual abuse started.
In March 2007 the youngest granddaughter also wanted to talk to me and she told me everything but also made me promise not to tell anyone.
My immediate reaction was to talk to Child Safety and find out about their progress in this matter.
I rang one of Child Safetys Solicitors Miss Davis to arrange an extremely delicate meeting with a trusted officer from the city branch to clarify what I had been told by my granddaughters .. I made it clear I did not want the girls to get into trouble for confiding in me.
Miss Davis spoke to Jo Riley who is Brenda Campbells secretary .. and Jo Riley sent Sue Pascoe to meet with me at the Lake Street office.
I also wanted the brother of the offender removed from the house as it upset me to think that there was a potential offender still in their home.
Sue Pascoe rang me after our meeting and said the offender was not on the books at the City Branch in Lake Street but was on the Indigenous Branch books and their head officer was Jon Banks and he would ring me within a day or so and that he had been briefed about the seriousness of this confidential matter.
Jon Banks rang me in answer to the call from Sue Pascoe and confirmed the offender and his brother were on his Regional Office books and Annie Roberts was the offenders case worker .. Annie Roberts was my daughters best friend but I did not know this at the time.
I asked Jon Banks to remove the boy and he said he could not and would not as the brother then 12 had done nothing that had been reported .. although I now know .. he knew of serious incidents that he and Annie Roberts had not reported but had witnessed .. so until the boy had actually done something and it was reported he would not move him from my granddaughters home.
Jon Banks admitted to me that day the sex offender was the worst Child Safety had ever had on their books and that he had known him personally for a few years as the offender had lived in a house with some other youths where Jon Banks was a live-in house parent.
After approximately 1 hour of asking him how did he expect the girls to heal with the other boy in the house .. he agreed to move him if I gave him time to find a place .. this was a lie to shut me up .. thinking like most I would fade away.
During the next 6 months of me ringing and my calls being refused I learnt that Annie Roberts who was the predators case worker had been telling my daughter every complaint that I had made to Jon Banks and what I had said in great detail.
This was against the law (Click here to read Part 6 of the Child Protection Act regarding confidentiality) as all reports I made were strictly confidential especially this one and I was convinced by one of Jo Riley's Child Safety's Officers Sue Pascoe that this file was now a locked file and no-one could possibly ever know such personal reports were made by me.
These were the trusted offices the Child Safety Solicitor arranged the meeting with.
This caused great division between my daughter .. granddaughters and myself .. the 3 girls trusted me and now their mum knew that they had both told me against instructions from Child Safety.
Next I made an appointment with Brenda Campbell who was the Cairns District Head Officer for Child Safety.
On the way I had an hour to spare and dropped into the police station and asked to speak to someone in Juvenile Aid .. Detective Sergeant Mark Bamford who was a young CIB officer came out .. I asked him when this paedophile was going to be charged as it was now 13 months since the offender had left my daughters home and no-one had been to get statements from the girls or my daughter .. the Detective said he knew of this youth but did not remember any new crimes being reported .. he checked but there was no report made to the police about this offenders abuse on my grandchildren.
I next attended the appointment with Brenda Campbell and told her what I had just found out from the police .. she was shocked at what I was saying and said it cannot have happened or she would have known about it.
I was devastated when it was revealed that the sexual assaults had never been reported by Jon Banks or Annie Roberts .. not to the police or to their superiors.
My daughter .. son in-law and grandchildren had been suffering in silence un-be-known to them to cover up a Child Safety mistake .. a serious deliberate action by Annie Roberts to maintain a professional performance level and have all her children successfully placed into foster care.
Brenda Campbell asked me what I wanted from her and I said for the offender to be charged and put in jail and Annie Roberts dismissed for breaking confidentiality and not reporting these serious offences to the police .. Brenda Campbell said if it was true Mrs Roberts would be dealt with through the system .. being such a serious complaint.
Within a few days the police were investigating everything .. the offender was charged and also pleaded guilty to 14 charges of sexual assault .. I do believe the 14 offences were for 2 girls only .. not the 3 girls .. as one of the girls was angry and refused to talk to anyone. It took the female Detective months of wonderful consistent compassionate work to get her to talk to her .. without this detective we would not have had a chance .. right through to the trial and now .. she is there if we need her .. especially me as I had no-one .. and still have not had any support from any person.
Next it was revealed that the boy was already on probation for the rape of a 3 year old toddler .. Judge Sarah Bradley (Cairns Court) had let him go free .. she has a reputation for giving leniency to YOUNG SEX INDIGENOUS OFFENDERS.
The offender not only JUST received probation for such a disgusting crime on a baby girl but Judge Sarah Bradley announced NO CONVICTION RECORDED.
NO CONVICTION RECORDED gave him a clean slate and Child Safety granted permission for him to stay permanently in my daughters home with my 3 granddaughters and continue his months of sexual rampage on my girls.
Firstly in December 2005 Child Safety removed all their children .. approx: 10 that were in my daughters care at the time of the offenders arrival .. taking them out of her very large house so the predator could not touch them .. but left my 3 granddaughters there which led to a pathway of brutal destruction.
To read Judge Bradley's sentencing for what he did to my granddaughters Click Here
As soon as I started police proceedings Annie Roberts was transferred and promoted and Jon Banks resigned .. he would not even help the police with any statement for the girls case.
The paedophile was also harassing my eldest granddaughter who was then 17 .. at her new work place where she had started her career.
He and his gang were yelling out profanities and her boss had to go out and ask them to leave .. by this time my granddaughter was deeply distressed and crying.
It was very difficult for the girls to function and recover with the offender and his gang free and there were no restrictions placed on him concerning my granddaughters at all.
The middle girl went to the local shops approx: 100 yards or so from her home and 5 aboriginal young men and women circled her car and started hitting it .. she drove off and her mother decided to send her on a holiday with a family friend that was going away on an overseas tour .. my youngest granddaughter was in the car also.
The offenders (Ziora Warner) youngest brother Isaac .. ran away from my daughters house in 2006 to live with the same foster carer as his brother .. but once his brother was charged for the sexual abuse of the girls he threatened to burn the girls home down late one night when they were asleep.
This video will show why the girls are so afraid .. it was taken soon after he left my daughters home .. Ziora Warner the sexual abuser had a gang called the Campus Murri Bois .. a very young dangerous gang that are afraid of no-one .. Isaac was 14 years old in this clip and still in Child Safetys Care .. Isaac is the boy in the red singlet .. the gang terrorized the local shops at night as this video clip will show. Click Here (then Open)
This lead to my daughter and her husband going to auction .. taking the only bid on their home at $150,000.00 loss .. they had no choice because the girls would not sleep there .. this money MUST be redeemable for them from Child Safety as Child Safety had done nothing for the safety of my family after the offences.
This threat was reported to the police but they could not do anything until the brother actually attempted something.
Child Safety asked us not to go to the media and they led us to believe they would settle out of court .. it may sound like this is all about money IT IS NOT .. it is about me getting Justice for my family because the things that have been done and not been heard even yet are unspeakable.
We took that advice for the girls sake .. as my eldest granddaughter .. working in Child Care .. finished work and had a mental breakdown and made her first attempt on her own life which led to more suicide attempts over a 2 year period .. I took her to a country town to recover for 2 years .. where after a short time my youngest granddaughter joined us.
Even though we had moved from Cairns .. the girls rarely left the house without myself or someone with them .. the offender turned up at MacDonnalds Take Away in the small town one weekend .. the girls ran and hopefully he did not see them but that was the beginning a months of fearful sleepless nights until they settled down again.
My three granddaughters .. my daughter and son in-law are physically and mentally still seriously struggling .. each in different ways .. suffering at the hands of Child Safety .. each time resolving nothing and prolonging the final hearing for settlement.
Child Safety refused to pay for more treatment to finish thier psychology sessions for any of the granddaughters to see their psychologists .. as Child Safety's policy is for a certain amount of months treatment and then you are on your own .. if you cannot financially afford to finish the treatment .. too bad for the children .. which was sadly our case.
At the compulsory conference on the 20th December 2010 it was a disgrace .. as Crown Law offered the eldest grandchild a pittance $43,000.00 for 5 years of mental torment and no immediate changes in sight .. not being well enough to work or finish her career training.
The second grandchild experienced violence and attempted rape; we are talking about an innocent 15 year old who had not even had to be disciplined by her own parents with a smack .. she is approximately 4 foot 10 inches and he was 6 foot plus .. what chance did she have!!
She was offered the insulting amount of $3,000.00 (?) .. because she cannot talk about the incident without continual crying Child Safety deemed her as recovered and they did not even send her to a Psychiatrist for The Crown to do a report for her to plead her case .. they said she will not talk so she must be OK .. this child was an A Plus Student and she could have had any career of her choice.
The youngest grandchild was offered a trivial amount of $1,500.00 .. she was an A Plus Student and was going to study law .. she then had to finish school because the sex offender and his mates were at the same school and would yell and make comments to her.
She lost so much weight and her grades dropped so noticeably that the school called my daughter to find out what was wrong but because she was under instructions from Child Safety not to say anything she could not even ask for help .. my daughter had to take her home and try Home Schooling.
The youngest has not left her bedroom since 2006 without being accompanied by a family member and that is only to doctors or solicitors .. twice she tried to work but with fear of the offender and his mates walking in was too much to bare.
Child Safety has now decided .. because the girls refused the amounts offered .. my granddaughters personal injury/compensation case is deemed for trial.
We are left with the understanding Child Safetys intention is to avoid responsibility and not pay my granddaughters anything substantial.
Each time the abuse is spoken about it becomes fresh in their minds again and it takes a long time to settle back down.
As the girls grandmother I have fought alone since 2007 for Child Safety to take responsibility and help my family recover.
Once a settlement is agreed on we have been advised the girls must pay all costs to solicitors .. barristers .. pay back the government all Centre link payments .. Medicare .. Chemist and any other help the government has had to pay for .. this will be before the girls can even begin do anything for themselves to heal.
These costs would not have ever existed if Child Safety had not put a KNOWN PAEDOPHILE Ziora Warner in their home .. it is Child Safetys responsibility to pay ALL these costs before a settlement is agreed on as it was their mistake that created these debts now owing and growing steadily.
When Child Safety took their children from my daughters care to let the offender move into my daughter's home WHY did they not protect my 3 grandchildren and take them out also .. were they not entitled to the protection of Child Safety like every other Australian Child.
These girls would have been successful proud Australian workers by now .. following their dreams .. going to University and finishing their career training .. instead their family is in shatters and their lives will never be the same.
I want to see my granddaughters get financially compensated for everything they have lost over the past 9 years (2006-2015) and the years to come .. plus all costs paid along with all payments for the extended medical help they need now so they can start to recover .. heal and return to the work force.
I want them to have enough money to move away from Cairns and set up permanently in a safe home of their own .. which was willfully stripped from them by Child Safety when they were children .. these things are important so the predator and his gang cannot find them.
Crown Law who is representing Child Safety has NO intentions of supporting the girls financially for the terror and trauma they have experienced over these past few years .. the money it is costing to go to court would have been a great start to help the girls.
A Royal Commission Inquiry would be great to clean Child Safety up for the sake of all the Children they have in their care.
How proud are we of our Justice System and Child Safety!
I have been writing to the appropriate Ministers on and off for years without avail .. Child Safety must be officially addressed and changes must occur .. I am pleading for the publics support to help the children in the Governments care .. by please making your voice be heard Click Here
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