GUILTY Australia - Chloe Valentine, 4, tortured to death, Ingle Farm, SA, 20 Jan 2012

[Amee]

Sean Fewster ✔ @SeanFewster

Families SA says workers were unable to objectively assess #ChloeValentine's mum; got too close to her & the situation.

Families SA asks Coroner to recommend it work on keeping its therapeutic & statutory responsibilities separate. #ChloeValentine

It asks Coroner not to accept Leanne Stewart lied, but doesn't dispute Belinda Valentine is right about the phone call. #ChloeValentine

Families SA: Belinda Valentine made the call, but might have spoken to someone other than Leanne Stewart. #ChloeValentine

Coroner says he will accept written submissions from Victims of Crime Commissioner & hand down findings on a date to be set. #ChloeValentine

And with that, the #ChloeValentine inquest has concluded. @theTiser #newsADL


Families SA "ignored" #ChloeValentine & "reauthored" her terrible life, inquest told: http://bit.ly/1FZUowk via @theTiser #newsADL

 

[Amee]

Song dedicated to Chloe Valentine by US-born singer-song writer Jac Dalton

US-BORN singer-song writer Jac Dalton has penned about 40 rock tracks but none with more meaning than One Heart, One Land, which is dedicated to the memory of Chloe Valentine.

An adopted Aussie, classic rocker and former professional dancer in the US, Jac will belt out the tune for the first time publicly at the Clipsal after-race concert on Saturday, to open for Swanee (John Swan) and the Zep Boys.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/...riter-jac-dalton/story-fni6uo1m-1227239407288

song is in the link above :cry:



:rose:

 

[SouthAussie]

Rest peacefully, little Chloe. We now all know what happened. May your life now help many other children who need help.

:rose:


http://www.news.com.au/national/fam...-chloe-valentine/story-fncynjr2-1227238081436

 

[Snoop Dog]

Thank you very much for posting all the updates.

Poor Chloe
Like you said SA, here's hoping what has happened to Chloe will now help other poor little children.

 

[Amee]

Coroner condemned Families SA's dealings with Chloe's mum
Their interactions involved a 'history of drift, irresolution and aimlessness'
Coroner recommended 22 changes to the government


In an emotional statement outside the Adelaide inquest on Thursday, Chloe's grandmother Belinda Valentine welcomed Coroner Mark Johns' ruling that Families SA was broken and fundamentally flawed and that the agency's lack of action over Chloe's mother's drug use was a complete failure.

'The sun comes up tomorrow even though you don't want it to,' Mrs Valentine said.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...agic-mistakes-not-repeated.html#ixzz3WmroGS7R

 

[Amee]

Chloe Valentine inquest findings handed down by SA Coroner Mark Johns

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/...roner-mark-johns/story-fni6uo1m-1227296561371

 

[SouthAussie]

Belinda Valentine was just on Ch 7. She is a very well-spoken woman, who endured a tremendous amount of pain watching her beautiful granddaughter experience such utter abuse and neglect at the hands of Belinda's own daughter.

She said that their sense of powerlessness was overwhelming. There was no higher authority to go to, to plea their case at being shut out by Families SA. That Families SA forgot that Chloe was their client, not her drug-abusing mother.

Their big fear has been that Ashlee Polkinghorne could go on to give birth to another child/children, with the same horrific outcomes - so she very much welcomes all of the Coroner's recommendations. Recommendations that give her great hope that children will not have to live in the way that Chloe was forced to live .. and die.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-...verhaul-of-families-sa-needed-coroner/6378800

 

[Amee]

Chloe Valentine inquest: Families SA silent on whether Chloe’s case workers penalised

THE beleaguered boss of the broken, flawed Families SA department will not disclose whether any of the social workers who botched the Chloe Valentine case have been disciplined or sacked. However, The Advertiser understands that no one who handled Chloe’s case has been demoted or reprimanded for their conduct.

It is further understood that several key players have been promoted since they failed in their duty of care to Chloe, right. Education and Child Development Department chief executive Tony Harrison has refused to discuss the employment status of those involved in Chloe’s case.

A spokesman for Mr Harrison – who will present a response to State Coroner Mark Johns’s damning findings to Cabinet today – said doing so would be inappropriate.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/...orkers-penalised/story-fni6uo1m-1227300850055

 

[possumheart]

CHLOE Valentine wasn’t killed by just two ferals. Also guilty is the feral culture that millions of us helped create.
So it’s not enough that we’ve jailed Chloe’s mother, Ashlee Polkinghorne, and her brutal partner, Benjamin McPartland.
Nor is it enough the we blame South Australia’s child protection service, Families SA, even though it was given 20 separate warnings that Chloe was in danger yet – shockingly – did not save her.
No, we must confront the values we’ve allowed to take root that helped make modern Australia so toxic for this four-year-old.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/opinion-modern-toxic-culture-shares-blame-for-loss-of-chloe-valentine/story-fnihsr9v-1227301326193

 

[Snoop Dog]

South Australia to randomly drug test parents in child protection system following Chloe Valentine case
Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/national/20...n-child-protection-system#H3QkDvItUK6LxJRr.99
"The chief executive of Families SA has told a parliamentary hearing his department has introduced random drug testing for parents in the child protection system.
Tony Harrison appeared today at the Parliamentary Select Committee on Child Protection, which follows a lengthy inquest into the death of four-year-old South Australian girl Chloe Valentine in early 2012."


Chloe Valentine's grandmother calls for greater role for kinship care at child protection inquiry
"The grandmother of Chloe Valentine has called for more consideration of extended family in the child protection system, saying she would have willingly taken custody of her granddaughter had that been an option."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-30/grandmother-of-chloe-valentine-calls-for-kinship-care/6435752

 

[Amee]

:furious:

Families SA did nothing to prevent “walking time bomb” of abuse by mother against young son, court told

FAMILIES SA failed to act on 17 warnings of the danger an abusive mother posed her toddler son before her arrest, a court has heard.

The woman has been described as a “time bomb” by her own lawyer, who also represented the mother of Chloe Valentine, who died as a result of family abuse.

The Advertiser can reveal that Families SA took “no action” to help the two-year-old boy.

The case comes just months after State Coroner Mark Johns handed down his scathing findings in the death of four-year-old Chloe.

The little boy’s 21-year-old mother has admitted biting and bashing him at Kilburn in February last year.

Witnesses statements tendered to the court describe the mother punching the boy in the face and throwing him on a driveway on February 26, 2014, six days after Chloe Valentine’s mother, Ashlee Polkinghorne, pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

The boy was later found to have suffered seven blunt trauma blows, inflicted in the hours before the public attack, and numerous bite marks to his face and body.

A passing motorist who saw the boy bloodied and black-eyed said he asked the mother if he was all right, to which she replied: “He is used to it”.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/...g-son-court-told/story-fnpp66pk-1227380485005

 

[Snoop Dog]

:steamed: Ffs! These poor kids :banghead:

That poor little boy. Is there a thread here about this case?

I can't read that article, I'll try googling the title and see if I can find it that way.

 

[StarrChance]

Chloe Valentine's death prompts changes to SA child protection laws
Updated 15 Apr 2016

Serious offences allow for child's removal

The changes will mean the chief executive of SA's Department of Education and Child Development will have power to remove a child from a parent who has been convicted of offences such as murder, manslaughter, criminal neglect or causing serious harm, as well as attempted offences in those categories.

The bill also defines cumulative harm, which can be considered when assessing any risk to a child.

More at link

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-...e-prompts-child-protection-amendments/7328078