New South Wales Twin

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New South Wales Twin

The following preserves the family's account and the attributed archived source material.

This brings me to the next child. We have a ten month old, my two year old, and this child was three years old, one of a pair, twins, taken by DoCS NSW. The mother fought tirelessly to have her children returned, and won.

DoCS appealed this decision, and the twins remained in foster care. There is a serious shortage of foster carers but this makes no difference to the child safety departments. They also stand by their claims that removing a child from their parents does not harm a child at all. This makes it all the more frustrating for the loving parents who know and also feel the pain of being torn from a loving family.

Tragically, one of the twins died a month after the appeal. The story gets worse.

The baby was so sick, she had pneumonia. The child was not even taken to the doctors. Worse still, the baby was not even in the care of the foster carer when she left to die. Instead of taking this critically ill child to the doctor, these foster carers put them with a baby sitter and went out. The child was left unchecked and died of pneumonia whilst laying in the cot at the baby sitters. This is a child that was everything the parents lived for, as was my son, and the next child I will bring to light.