I just recently read an article by Jon van Tiggelen and i am speechless about the information portrayed in it. basically how the "white" just totally wrecked an aboriginal community to a degree beyond reproach. The children do not fear being sent away and the parents are drunks who gamble away any income or government support money. Here's a few exerpts;
'Incidently, among the kids are also several of the six boys who, along with three young men, were let off with a warning after pleading guilty to the statuatory rapes of a ten year old girl. In words that were to resound around the world, the persecuter had submitted that the act was 'a form of childish experimentaion' and 'consensual in the non legal sense.' Arukun kids are 'very naughty' he'd said to the judge, as if with a wink. 'she probably agreed to have sex with all of [them],' Judge Sarah bradley acknowledged, before releasing them back into the community.'
'One or two males face the circuit cort for rape every month, but mostly it goes on drunk, stoned and ignored. A non-indigenous Wik Mungkan speaker told me how a few years ago she was flown into a Cairns court to interpret for a girl who'd been dragged around the community and raped multiple times. In court the girl clammed up, the case was dismissed, and the girl and her assailant flew home to Aurukun on the same plane. 'So much goes unreported because of the threats, the price you pay if you tell. There is real fear.'
The parents might receive First-world welfare handouts, but the kids get Third-world parenting.
After Sorry
by John van Tiggelen
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