April 5, 2004
Psychologist's theft, threat claims probed
Police are investigating two matters involving psychologist Reina
Michaelson.
As well as the break-in report, they are looking into an alleged threat
made by a TV network executive against one of Dr Michaelson's relatives in
August 2000.
Since Dr Michaelson's original meeting with Police Commissioner Christine
Nixon, two other people have become involved in the pedophile matter.
They are the founder of the Queensland-based child abuse advocacy group
Bravehearts, Hetty Johnston, and Gail McHardy, the president of Parents
Victoria, the peak body representing the parents of children at government
schools, have become directly involved in the issue.
Ms Johnston, Ms McHardy and Dr Michaelson met the Assistant Commissioner
for Crime, Simon Overland, last August to raise concerns about the slow
progress and conduct of the investigation.
The three have now told The Age they have lost confidence in the integrity
of the current Ombudsman and police investigations and want an independent
inquiry into the allegations.
Authorities ignored sex abuse claims
By Gary Hughes. April 6, 2004
The Department of Human Services refused to mount its own investigation
into allegations of sexual abuse of schoolchildren in a Victorian country
town after details were provided through the mandatory reporting system.
The decision was made following advice from police, whose alleged
mishandling of the investigation is now part of a Victorian Ombudsman's
inquiry.
The former student welfare co-ordinator at the school, which cannot be
identified for legal reasons, told The Age that the police
investigation was "incompetent" and the children had been treated by
police in an "appalling" manner.
A detective claimed a jury would not be convinced a boy had been abused
because "similar behaviour of males attempting to touch other men's
penises happens in football rooms after the game", said the co-ordinator,
who took detailed notes. The Age revealed yesterday that the case
is part of an Ombudsman's investigation into alleged police mishandling of
a number of child sex abuse cases and possible corrupt police behaviour
In developments yesterday:
* The Law Institute of Victoria renewed its call for an independent
review of Victoria's police complaints system and, if necessary, the
creation of a powerful anti-corruption commission similar to bodies in NSW
and Queensland.
* The Queensland-based child advocacy group Bravehearts announced
it was setting up a Victorian branch to help victims of sexual crimes.
Mandatory notifications of alleged abuse at the school were made by
teachers to the Department of Human Services in December 1999. In January
2000 the school's principal and the student welfare co-ordinator wrote to
the then minister for community services, Christine Campbell, expressing
concern that "no child protection investigation ever took place".
In her reply, Ms Campbell said an assessment was done to decide whether a
"more formal and direct investigation" was required. "Protective services
examined all the information made available by yourself and the police and
determined that no such direct investigation was required at that time,"
she said.
The student welfare co-ordinator, who sat in on police interviews with the
alleged victims, said police handling of the investigation was
"appalling".
The co-ordinator said two of the children later made detailed statements
at the local police station, but even these did not lead to charges being
laid.
Law Institute president Chris Dale said the issues under investigation
added weight to the institute's calls for an independent children and
young persons' commissioner.
Bravehearts
can be contacted on 0400 656 599.
Police files on sex abuse 'vanished'
By Gary Hughes, April 19, 2004
Police files on a suspect in claimed sexual abuse by men dressed as police
are said to have "disappeared".
A deputy principal who reported a student's claim of the abuse says
detectives later told him that Victoria Police computer files on one of
the alleged pedophiles were tampered with.
He was also told his initial report to the Department of Human Services
under the mandatory reporting system disappeared.
The 13-year-old boy told staff at the school he had been repeatedly
sexually abused by a number of men on the Mornington Peninsula. He said
some of the men wore police uniforms and warned him that they would know
if he reported the abuse because they were policemen. The boy had also
been used to produce child pornography later published overseas.
The deputy principal said it was clear from a detailed 12-page statement
made by the boy that the abuse was conducted by an organised and
"well-connected" pedophile ring.
No charges were laid because police said the boy had been "too well
groomed" by the pedophiles and it was doubtful he would testify in court.
The deputy principal contacted The Age after it revealed this month
that the Ombudsman was investigating the alleged mishandling of a number
of child sexual abuse cases by Victoria Police. The Age advised him
to contact the Ombudsman, which he has since done.
One case being reviewed by the Ombudsman involves children at a child-care
centre in Mornington. Investigators have been told that a house where the
alleged abuse took place possibly belonged to a policeman and that a
videotape existed of children from the centre being abused by men dressed
as police.
The deputy principal from the college in Melbourne's outer east has asked
that neither he nor the college be named to protect the identity of the
abused boy.
The deputy principal, who has since become principal of another school,
lodged an initial report with what was then Community Services Victoria in
July 1995. He telephoned about two weeks later and was told the report was
being investigated.
The deputy principal said it was clear from a statement made by the boy
that the abuse was conducted by an organised pedophile ring.
After the boy made more detailed disclosures and began displaying
disturbing behaviour, the school lodged a second mandatory report in
December 1995 through the Education Department's regional office. The
complaint was taken "very seriously" and police were called.
The deputy principal said police told him there was no record of the
original report to community services or his follow-up phone call. A
senior child protection manager told him it was not the first time reports
had disappeared.
Detectives from a community policing unit said the main alleged offender
in the ring was well known to police, the deputy principal said. But the
police said a previous case against him had been abandoned after
information on police files had disappeared. "I started to pinch myself
and think is this real or not? It seemed quite bizarre and I was very
frustrated..." he said.
After police dropped the investigation in 1996 the boy "totally clammed
up" and staff at the school did not know whether the abuse continued.
A Victoria Police spokesman said the original allegation had been
investigated, including a search of the main suspect's home that found no
incriminating evidence. The boy involved had refused to repeat to police
the disclosures he had earlier made to school staff. The spokesman said he
was not aware that files had disappeared.
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