A court hearing where @RockliffTeam said they will seek all details & docs regarding abuse I survived 25 years ago to fight my WC claim due to my workplace being a child abuse cesspit.
Prior, an invite to a ‘settlement’ conference on Monday. #politas 1/5
They will fly me to Hobart, unsure if health will permit yet. Unsure if I can take more cruelty when I’ve done nothing wrong & am sick.
I was injured reporting Child Sexual Abuse at AYDC. @Tasmania_COI
Will they listen to medical advice? Or seek to break me more? #politas 2/5
Whatever the motivation, please - send strength 🙏. I’ve got nothing left & know how low they go.
Today in court for my WC claim as a woman in my mid 30s, the State raised my father’s abuse of me age 4. Can Survivors never be free?
Can we never be successful & make mandated reports without Surviving our own abuse 25 years ago being brought up? I’ve been through the justice system. @jeremyrockliff punishes Survivors at the time of a @Tasmania_COI FOR REPORTING CHILD SEX ABUSE. Couldn’t make it up. 4/5
And why, are the State fighting about my Surviving abuse when this is about THEM abusing children in Government Institution’s?
Why do they not celebrate my survival & getting a job for them & KEEPING THEIR KIDS SAFE?
Ministers,
In this process (that should not be occurring as I should be safe at work either not seeing child sexual abuse or supported to report it)
I’ve been surveilled with my children.
I’ve been followed.
I’ve been gaslit, threatened & lied to by the MOST senior staff.
1/10
I’ve been retraumatised.
I’ve had the State knowingly caused harm to me.
I’ve been manipulated.
I’ve been threatened.
I’ve had my income ceased for no reason, many times.
I’ve had to pay legal fees to have it reinstated.
I’ve been taken urgently to hospital twice.
2/10
I’ve learnt how cruel people can be.
I’ve spent my families life savings on legal fees to resolve this.
I’ve had 5 forced psych evaluations.
The state made them privileged as they are supportive of me.
I’ve been denied treatment I desperately need.
I kept giving evidence.
The proposed apology to be held at Parliament & requiring registration is grossly ignorant of the fact that the majority of Victim Survivors are from AYDC & OOHC - and may struggle with literacy, enclosed spaces, authoritative ppl & buildings - even using computers to register 1/
This apology must be accessible to those it is for. Why is it in your safe space not theirs? Why is it not open to all? Will there be opportunities to respond? That is an important part of offering a meaningful apology. What will you do now, to build the foundations needed.. 2/
..so that people who have been horrendously harmed by the Government; can believe a word of what is said? Will those with criminal records be welcomed into parliament? Or perhaps not offered a ‘limited seat’. Who is this apology for? @CassyOConnorMP@RockliffTeam#politas 3/
@RockliffTeam,
As you try to apologise for CSA in Tas - you’re putting me through court to force a 5th psych eval for an injury incurred at AYDC. Dr shopping & psychological torture. We have 4 reports. But they don’t say what you want.
You know I’ll fight it - I have to. My treaters have said I cannot safely endure it. You know this, but push ahead anyway. To harm me?
If this isn’t reprisal for blowing the whistle on CSA I don’t know what is.
Read the AYDC transcripts. You’ll see my name hundreds of times. 2/
The reason for this, is because I reported child sexual abuse consistently and properly, when no one else would and got bullied, harassed and physically attacked for it.
Still, the legal torture you continue is equally as horrific as being assaulted outside my office. 3/
They request this immediately be rectified. #politas 1/5
They also request this apology is made outside Parliament. This is not an opportunity to score points by putting it on the record.
This is an opportunity to speak to the broken hearts of the most courageous individuals in the State (certainly not limited to the above named) 2/5
To whom, you owe a debt of gratitude. THEY have fought to expose this cesspit of pedophilia. THEY have retraumatised themselves for the greater good and to protect others. THEY have not stopped fighting for the truth even when it's nearly killed them. THEY cannot take this. 3/5
It has been a horrendous week. I’d like to share what I’m feeling & thinking.
Please note that I have worked with AYDC survivors, I am a survivor & the woman at the heart of this conversation is a dear friend of mine who I have watched be broken, repeatedly, this week. 🧵👇
I am inherently biased in this moment. However, I hope to balance this with my professional views as a reform & best practice consultant who is specialised in Trauma Informed Practices.
She is young. Hopeful. Courageous. She reached out, in the hope of answers & healing👇
Her question was read in parliament. It was met with the Minister for Children & Youth, the Attorney General & others groaning & saying “Oh Come on”.
I felt her deflate, she apologised tearily for ever trying to bring this up to have leaders, show survivors how little they care.