Department Of community services, DoCS
At times I wonder why I am still alive, waking and thinking why didn't my childhood abductors just murder me, then my children would not follow in my footsteps with our negligent child welfare system then I continuously read of more DoCS tragedies. How do you define the difference between a closure and a tragedy. I cryed for this little girl. Hey Reba, you aren't doing a bloody thing to fix our child welfare systen are u!?! Our government replaces arrogent, ignorant ministers with worse, so much for the Lucky country. Your only lucky here if the system doesnt touch you.
A little girl who lived and died alone
SHE was just three years old but Desiree would , allegedly,often be left to fend for herself.
Dressed only in light clothing and with matted hair and dirty nails, she could be found wandering the streets around her Sydney home. The "overactive child" also had a habit of climbing over her back fence and making her way into her neighbours' yards. Yesterday, the Coroners Court heard the heart-breaking story of the little girl who "just wanted company". Desiree drowned in her neighbour's pool, on November 23, 2003. "I began to feed and wash her. She'd wear dirty clothes all the time and she'd need a bath," an emotional neigbour said. "She'd be away from the house for hours and no one would come looking for her." Ms Gorham told the inquest Desiree's mother, Cheryl and the girl's grandmother often verbally abused the child. On one occasion she heard Desirees' mother threaten to burn Desiree on the legs with a cigarette after she broke a window. Her grandmother Norma was the last person to see the little girl alive as she climbed over her rear fence. The inquest heard Desiree had been the subject of "several" calls to the Department of Community Services, the Child Abuse Prevention Service, and police, by people concerned about her welfare. Former neighbour Katrina told the inquest she had frequently called the agencies after Desiree climbed over the fence and into her yard – usually on a daily basis. Ms Gorham expressed her anger at case workers from the Department of Community Services for failing to act on her calls. "I had grave concerns for the child's safety and well being," she said. "I'm very disappointed my calls for help for Desiree did not save her." She gave evidence about receiving a call from a case worker with the Child Abuse Prevention Service, inquiring about whether Desiree "is okay and if she's settled down". "She's dead," Ms Gorham said she told the woman. "She's dead and somebody has to take responsibility . . . reports were made, whether it was three, 20 or 100 . . . one should have been sufficient." Desiree's grandmother Norma denied abusing or neglecting her granddaughter and said the girl was well looked after. Asked by a Deputy State Coroner to state the date of her granddaughter's death, Ms White could not recall.
The inquest continues today. 
This family needed help and guidance but if you get reported here you are too scared to lose your children to a worse parent, "THE GOVERNMENT", and frightened to say "hey, i need help, not judgement".. There are lots of parents all around the world that need mere guidance cause they cant cope, or simply aren't taught parenting skills at length, as per family. But just remember the world didn't get born with nappies, milk formula or lollies. Basically poor parenting (which is not wrong or right) is a product of civilization. You go to Uni to learn a skill for jobs, you go to local swimming pools to learn to swim, no one says you go some where if you are a frightened parent without propper family support and guidance to go find out how to parent according to the law. I just wish those parents, Mums and Dads could say when they know in their heart something is wrong, Please help, and they would get it, minus judgements. We have family support groups, non government here. Low on funding, I am currently looking at months and months of waiting to make sure I give my son the best. But if something goes wrong while I wait, or I make a mistake, I will get judged by the government. Which would be a tragedy for my son, as was for my daughters. I dont blame me anymore, I know as a parent I didn't fail my children, I was failed by the government as a child and already given a sentence aged 2, that is all the strength and wisdom I need to go on........
Kind regards to all those parents who just need a friend.......
Tracey Lee :)
Tis Trace.......My diary is real and personal (the lengths you have to go to be heard). My mission is to make the world aware all is not as it would seem............................. If you read my diary and think you can help, email 
My At the tender age of eighteen months old I was stolen from my mother, by two woman, I found evidence of my birth mothers' story in my own Freedom of Information Folder. Mind you I grew to be told at the age of nine, I was adopted.
