Leader – Foster care sex child abuse scandal demands policy review
To judge a society, examine how its most vulnerable are treated. That seems like a truism but it bears repeating. It is the reason why child abuse is so disturbing.
Sexual abuse and exploitation of children are crimes the scale of which seems enormous. From the Rotherham scandal to abuse in the Catholic church (see the oscar-winning film Spotlight), no place or demographic is immune.
Hackney is no different. Some will recall the Mark Trotter scandal. He was a social worker and political activist who was about to be arrested by police over allegations of sex abuse when he died of an AIDS-related illness in 1995.
It is thought he abused several children in his care during his career in Hackney from 1981 to 1993.
Another awful case involved a man who was allowed to foster 30 children in the borough before he was discovered to have raped and sexually assaulted five schoolgirls in his care between 1998 and 2005.
Alarmingly, the head of the borough’s safeguarding board, Jim Gamble, has now warned that similar abuse could be happening right now under the radar of foster services.
A former senior police officer, Gamble says crimes committed against the five girls could have been prevented had police shared with the council details of anonymous allegations that the man possessed child abuse images.
Gamble wants the National Police Chiefs’ Council to review its policy in this area, but it has refused.
This is baffling. Police policies on forces sharing information like this with other agencies should be reviewed – particularly as police are keen on having other agencies share similar information with them.
When allegations remain unproven, a balance must obviously be struck between the rights of individuals against whom claims are made and issues of public protection – but in terms of fostering, it seems obvious the safety of children is paramount.
Gamble thinks there are flaws in the current system, and given his expertise people should be inclined to listen.
Related: NSPCC criticises police over Hackney foster care child sex abuse
Foster care abuse testimony.
My foster cousin punched me in my face when I was 15 for refusing to steal from a bank and his motive was that he assumed that nobody cared about me because I was a Foster child. My Foster cousin that punched me in my Face when I was 15 was aged 19 at the time back in 1996. I never knew that I could report the incident so I took revenge against his younger brother by setting up his younger brother to get robbed. On 1 occasion my Foster mother used the excuse of saying that I must clean her house to get my pocket money so that she can stop giving me pocket money if I don’t clean her house according to her standard. I assume her motive was to eventually give my pocket money to her grand children that were jealous my designer clothes. I reported my Foster mother for trying to use such a pathetic excuse to stop my pocket money to my social worker and my social worker demanded that she give me the pocket money that she owed me, but I never knew that I could report the fact that my foster cousin punched me in my face because I was also afraid that I would become homeless and my schooling would become disrupted if I had to regularly move between different foster homes like other victims in foster care. When I was 17 when I left my foster mother because she was protecting her grand son that tried to fight me. I also became homeless when I left Foster care. I’m now 35. Today I suffer from Post traumatic stress disorder caused by a culmination of bad experiences that occurred during my child hood. During the 1990s most children did not have mobile phones and the mobile phones that existed were contract phones. Pay as you go mobile phones did not exist in 1996, so it was harder than it is today to report abuse in Foster care. 1 of my old friends was beaten up by his foster father so he later took revenge and burned down his Foster parent’s house and he even went to prison for the burning down of his Foster parents home. A Foster child is a target for exploitation because envious people that are related to the Family of the Foster carer often assume that nobody cares about children in care. Teenagers in Foster care are at risk of not being able to differentiate between friend or foe because they can be deceived by their foster family that only pretend to care about the Foster children in care. Foster carers can be manipulative and abusive and violent towards their Foster children. Foster homes are also not good for freethinking teenagers because Foster homes are often used as places of recruitment for religious cults. Foster care deceived me into thinking that my foster family cared about me when they only wanted to destroy me. The sooner an individual learns that nobody cares about that individual the safer that individual can become. Good advice for children in care is to stay close to people that care about you, that may include members of your original family and also the creation of support groups. Also associate with other children in state care but make sure that they have good morals.
My support group in addition to my original family was my child hood Gang Even though it may be a bad idea for a child to be in a gang. My childhood gang on 1 occasion humiliated the younger brother of my Foster cousin that punched me in my face. (Unfortunately my childhood gang betrayed me so I had to separate from my child hood gang). Never allow a teenager to go into Foster care because Foster homes are Dangerous for teenagers. Teenagers that are growing up in the care system of the government authority should be put into Group homes with 24-hour trained staff and Closed circuit television recording instead of Foster care. Group Homes are perfect for teenagers growing up in care and the only problem with Group homes for teenagers in care is that Group homes can be very expensive to operate. Before I was put into Foster care as a teenager I entered the care system at the age of 13 and I was put into a Group Home but I was later forced to go into Foster care and leave the Group home because the council that provided me with care decided that Group Homes were too expensive to operate. I was forced into Foster care because my Group Home was forced to close down because the council was not able to get the money to keep my Group Home open. Group Homes need money to stay open.
Foster homes have also got a bad reputation because Foster homes are often used as places of recruitment for religious cults. No teenager should go into Foster care if they desire to be a freethinker. If a teenager is growing up in the care system then that teenager is safer living in a group home. The first group home that I was in the staff were very good to me and the Group home was supervised 24 hours a day. The reason why Foster homes can be dangerous is because they are more secretive and secluded. If anything happens inside of a Group home then every one of the staff and all of the children will know about it and that’s why Group homes are safer than Foster homes for children in care. It is easier to discover the abuse of children in-group homes than it is to discover the abuse of children in Foster homes. My friend was put in a Group home and the staff allowed hum to play his music as loud as he wanted to but when I was living with my Foster mother she complained about the noise of my music by banging her fist on the wall. My other friend that was in a Group home was allowed to have pets too. I feel that Group homes are better than Foster homes, but the problem is that Group homes can be expensive to operate and that is why I was encouraged to go into Foster care. I’m now 35 and I left the care system when I was 17 back in 1998. Foster care is not good for teenagers because if a Teenager wants to bring his girlfriend home to have sex with his girl friend the Foster parent will say no and complain but when my teenage friend was in a Group home the staff allowed his Girl friend to visit the Group home so my friend could have sex with his girlfriend. Foster care is not for teenagers that enjoy freedom. Remember NEVER allow a teenager to go into Foster care because if you are a Foster parent and you allow a Teenager as a Foster child into your home the end result will be disaster.
I am not denying that Good Foster parents exist, but most Foster parents are involved in Foster care for the money because they are too lazy to go to work and get a job. Foster care is appealing to mothers that enjoy staying at home. A lot of Foster carers are miserable and miserable people hate being alone so miserable people like to infect other people with misery. Some Foster carers are good because they cannot have children of their own so they choose to Foster children or adopt children and that’s a good thing. The fact still remains that most children that go into Foster care get abused and most of the incidents involving abuse of foster children by their Foster family go unreported to social services. Anybody that desires to be a Foster care must do so for the right reasons.
Here’s another story about an abusive Foster mother that murdered her Foster child that was a baby. This story is from my country the United Kingdom:
Kandyce Downer sentenced to life in prison for ‘barbaric’ murder of 18-month-old:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFoG_JZBYLs
http://www.itv.com/news/2016-05-04/foster-mother-kandyce-downer-sentenced-barbaric-murder-of-toddler-who-suffered-200-injuries/
Foster care can be a good thing for small children but too many times the Foster carers take out their frustration on their Foster children. I know that fostering children is not easy especially when the Foster carer is fostering teenagers. When I was a teenager in Foster care I got arrested by the Police numerous times and I admit that this caused stress for my Foster mother that had to collect me from the Police station because I was below the age of 17 so I was not allowed to leave the Police station alone. I also used to stay out late on the street and I did not come home until the next morning. I once returned home so high of smoking marijuana that my Foster mother had to remind me that I left the key in the front door. So I am going to be fair because I know that being a Foster parent can be a very stressful job but that does not give Foster parents the justification to use violence against their Foster children. My Foster mother tried to threaten me with violence when I was complaining to her to her about her grandson punching me in my face for refusing to steal from a bank. My foster mother threatened me with violence the day before I left her by calling another one of her relatives that was a body builder to intimidate me because she feared that I may take physical revenge against her grandson that punched me in my face because I refused to steal from a bank.
Of course I was not afraid of her relative that was a body builder because I knew that if he had assaulted me I could get revenge against him either by reporting him to the Police or I could use my friends and cousins that were armed gangsters to injure him severely. The next day she was crying and attempting to apologize when my social workers appeared in the morning to remove me from her home. Now I’m 35 years old and I know her grand sons are afraid of me and they do not have a clue where I live and they live in fear that I may take physical revenge against them. I have already gotten revenge against 1 of her grandsons by telling my friends to rob him back in 1996 the same year her other grandson punched me in the face for refusing to steal from a bank. I have never been to prison but I did get arrested during my teenage years for numerous minor offences including Graffiti vandalism and small theft. Foster care can be good for small children under the age of 13 but Foster care is dangerous for teenagers.
Foster homes also have a bad reputation because Foster homes are often used as places of recruitment for religious cults. We have the right to have a personal religion if anybody feels that religion makes a person a better individual then that is okay but we do not have the right to condemn anybody because they may choose NOT to follow a religious Dogma. I support freethinking. Religion is a personal thing and we all have the right to choose our own personal God. I have chosen not to follow any God. My personal view is that all religion is mental poison.
I personally hate any philosophy that tells me that I must pray to a force that is outside of me. I remember my abusive foster mother and my social workers trying very hard to seduce me into joining their religious Christian cult and I was so pressured to become a Christian that I succumbed to the pressure at the age of 19 back in the year 2000. I wasted 2 years of my life believing in an invisible God. I now know that Jesus Christ never existed: http://www.jesusneverexisted.com
I know that religious cults prefer to recruit their followers from among the isolated and rejected population and this is why so many Foster parents are involved in religious cults. Individuals that are isolated and rejected are easily manipulated by religious cults. I have the right to be angry because today as an adult I am suffering from Post-traumatic stress disorder. Foster care abuse has destroyed my life and left me feeling emotionally scarred and I am desperately in need of repair.
Religion is for people that have been defeated. Another sign of an evil foster parent is a Foster parent that is involved in a religious cult. Cowards join religious cults to reduce the feeling of guilt by blaming the devil or some other imaginary entity for the wrong choices that they have made themselves. I do not need to believe in any God to know how to live.
All law is contract. A contract is an agreement between 2 or more people based upon offer and acceptance with terms and conditions attached.
There are 2 ways for us to interact with each other the right way is Contract and the other way is Force and force is wrong unless self-defense is the purpose for using force.
If you are innocent then nobody can force you to do anything they can only make you an offer. If you violate the peace contract then you must lose your freedom.
There are 2 types of contract.
1.The peace contract.
2.The business contract.
The peace contract is compulsory. The Peace contract says we must NEVER cause injury and loss to innocent people. An innocent person is anybody that has not violated the peace contract. The original purpose of the Police is to enforce the peace contract. The best strategy in warfare is the deterrent strategy. So the presence of the Police serves to deter us from violating the peace contract. We must all obey the terms and conditions of the peace contract or else we lose our freedom.
The business contract is voluntary. We do not have to eat food from McDonalds or similar restaurants but if we do desire to eat those foods we must pay those companies for the services that they offer to us.
I do not need to follow any God to know the above laws.
Some of the most evil and wicked people that I’ve met in my life used religion to hide the evil inside of them. Remember I said 1 of the signs of an evil foster parent is that the Foster parent is a member of a religious cult and I’m talking from my own personal experience of being violently abused while being in Foster care when I was a child.
WARNING I MUST REPEAT FOSTER CARE IS DANGEROUS. NEVER ALLOW A TEENAGER TO BE PUT INTO FOSTER CARE. IF A TEENAGER IS GROWING UP IN THE LOCAL AUTHORITY CARE SYSTEM THAT TEENAGER MUST BE PUT INTO A GROUP HOME INSTEAD OF FOSTER CARE. FOSTER CARE CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS AND EVIL: Mother Outraged After Son is Allegedly Killed by Foster Parent: http://www.texomashomepage.com/news/local-news/mother-outraged-after-son-is-allegedly-killed-by-foster-parent/147570700
FOSTER CARE IS DANGEROUS. NEVER ALLOW A TEENAGER TO BE PUT INTO FOSTER CARE. IF A TEENAGER IS GROWING UP IN THE LOCAL AUTHORITY CARE SYSTEM THAT TEENAGER SHOULD BE PUT INTO A GROUP HOME INSTEAD OF FOSTER CARE. Death of woman killed by her foster child ‘may have been avoided’: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/12/death-of-woman-killed-by-her-foster-child-may-have-been-avoided
A lot of Satanists and pedophiles are fostering children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etV0ha6ZzYs
Never allow a teenager to be put into Foster care. A teenager that is growing up in the care system of a local authority should be put into a Group home instead of Foster care. Foster care is dangerous for both teenagers and the Foster parents. Foster care is evil. I want the law to be changed to make sure that No teenagers are put into Foster care ever again. Today I’m a grown man and I’m suffering from Posttraumatic stress disorder because I was a teenager in Foster care. I hate Foster care. I am warning everybody that if a Foster parent attempts to hurt a Foster child that is a teenager then that teenage Foster child may seek revenge against the Foster parent and I know Foster parents that have been killed because they later became subjected to revenge attacks from the teenage foster children that they previously abused
Foster parents arrested over abuse charges: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/foster-parents-arrested-over-abuse-charges-
No teenager should ever be put into Foster care. Foster parents jailed for battering a 4 year old: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-79961/Foster-parents-jailed-battering-year-old.html
A lot of teenagers become Homeless after they leave Foster care and I was 1 of the teenagers that became Homeless when I left Foster care: https://www.tcd.ie/childrensresearchcentre/assets/pdf/Publications/fully.pdf Foster care is evil. Do not allow any teenager to go into Foster care.
FOSTER CARE IS EVIL AND DESTROYS YOUNG PEOPLE. NEVER ALLOW A TEENAGER TO BE PUT INTO FOSTER CARE. IF A TEENAGER IN GROWING UP IN THE CARE SYSTEM THEN THAT TEENAGER MUST BE PUT INTO A GROUP HOME INSTEAD OF FOSTER CARE. FOSTER CARE IS DANGEROUS FOR TEENAGERS.
FOSTER CARE IS EVIL. FOSTER CARE IS BULLSHIT! FOSTER CARE DESTROYS YOUNG PEOPLE DUE TO THE FACT THAT ENVY IS THE EMOTION THAT IS FELT BY THE BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN OF THE FOSTER CARER. THE BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN OF THE FOSTER PARENT USUALLY BECOME JEALOUS OF THE FOSTER CHILD. MY FOSTE COUSINS HATED ME BECAUSE THEY WERE JEALOUS OF ME. I REMEMBER ON 1 OCCASION THAT MY FOSTER COUSINS WERE COMPLAINING BECAUSE I HAD DESIGNER CLOTHES AND THEY WERE JUST WEARING CHEAP CLOTHES. I WAS VERY FLASHY WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER GROWING UP IN CARE. I HAD VERSACE FROM MY HEAD TO MY TOE. I HAD SNAKE SKIN JEANS THAT COST £ 1000 AT THE AGE OF 16. A GOOD FOSTER PARENT IS A FOSTER PARENT THAT DOES NOT HAVE ANY BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN. THE PROBLEM WITH MY FOSTER FAMILY IS THAT THEY SAW ME AS A THREAT. SOME PEOPLE HATE COMPETITION. DO NOT ALLOW A TEENAGER TO BE PUT INTO FOSTER CARE.
FOSTER CARE IS NOT GOOD FOR TEENAGERS THAT ARE GROWING UP IN LOCAL AUTHORITY CARE. FOSTER CARE IS POISON. NO TEENAGER SHOULD EVER BE PUT INTO FOSTER CARE. TEENAGERS THAT ARE GROWING UP IN LOCAL AUTHORITY CARE SHOULD BE PUT INTO GROUP HOMES INSTEAD OF FOSTER CARE. GROUP HOMES ARE GOOD FOR TEENAGERS THAT ARE GROWING UP IN LOCAL AUTHORITY CARE.