I turn my back for a moment, and look what happens.. you folks have been sleuthing like there is no tomorrow, and how utterly sickening it all is, yet so predictable, so unsurprising, so blatantly persistant have these people been, that only a murder stopped them and that not immediately... an amateur timeline..
August 2014. TheThorburns, mum and dad , are accredited as foster carers..... no one has stated as yet that the sons went thru any training, or psychiatric assessment, or even a light check around the area if any nonsense could be detected. Meanwhile , running thru this whole event the daycare run by Mum Julene is operating , with Josh , the older son as assistant.
August 2014 to January 2015. . .. Was there a placement of a foster child in this period? . I don't know. Family Services say they are so short of carers... there are plenty of kids in need of foster care, so may be there was, or maybe FS of QLD was waiting until the Thorburns moved up some list..
January 2015. 12 yr old Tia is placed with the Thorburns, Mum, Dad, Josh, 21, an injured former child care assistant, and his younger brother, Trent, 18 , a bi - sexual ( according to Rick ) dancer with mechanical trade tendencies.
October, .. Tia goes missing, from the Thorburn home and her body is found some time later on the river bank, her bag and school uniform have never been found, Rick says he drove her to school that morning. A police search is set up, statements are made, Rick and Julene and Trent and Josh are busy with their dancing and child care income stream, and flogging frankfurters around the area, helpfully giving the police advice, now and then. No foster child is placed with them .
In November 2015.. Rick advertises that he is offering placements at his home for international students over the Xmas break.. ( the international student trade is a lucrative one, and certainly an income stream to be admired ) Whether he got any answers to these advertorials, I don't know, ,it isn't impossible that he did...
April. 2016 a 56 yr old man, whose wife runs a day care centre in Logan, same place as Julene and Rick is investigated due to claims of rape of 2 sisters, 4yrs , photographing them, and also an unsubstantiated claim of the day care running wife abusing a young boy at the day care centre..
April 2016.. the Thorburns day care operation is closed down by Family services, after the Qld police notify them of criminal activity by the operators, the Thorburns...
September 2016.. Rick is arrested for the murder of Tia. Josh is arrested for perjury and perverting the course of justice, ditto Julene, and the bi- sexual dancing son, Trent is arrested for the same thing, perjury, perverting justice's course, with an added charge of incest. Rick is taken to the watchhouse and carefully doses himself with an unknown substance and is currently under 24/7 observation awaiting further questioning. Trent has been refused bail.
lots of gaps if someone could fill them in.
IMO it's important to reference when Rick came to Australia from NZ. I've seen '81 referenced. What was he up to prior?...There were many references to Ricks NZ heritage in previous days but seems that this reference is now dropped, NZ has disowned him. This could also have political motivations as NZ crims are been deported back to Kiwi reform systems from Australia. NZ is getting overwhelmed with deportees.
The Palmer family are also from New Zealand and the pall bearers were described as part of Tiahleighs Whanau - Moari word for extended family or connected community. I have a photo of him holding the coffin with the caption refencing Whanau. Will try to upload.
Wondering if Tiahleigh was part of the kinship program that works within foster care framework and those incest charges do have relevence? Just a hunch. Rick is in her Whanau, Palmers and Thornburns both from NZ. Perhaps coincidence but worth the mention. Either way I still call ig rape. A 12 y.o child and a 19 year old man. I suspect Tiah was not safe with other Thornburn family members either, especially if Rick is known to have raped the 11 and 4 y.o.
The courier mail newspaper reported a NZ man was arrested earlier this year on rape charges. An 11 y.o and her 4 y.o sister were abused at a family home running a daycare scheme. It doesn't state names however fits timeline and too coincidental to be anyone else. http://www.redlandcitybulletin.com....e/news-story/9ed5e85050a2387b7c1f7e55f5c06c0e
Trent was working with minor in AND out of the home. He was a dance instructor and Tiah attended the dance school he worked at. It's now become subsciber only but here is the link.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sub...dc69b0cf963044a56a049b337dd&memtype=anonymous
Rick had been interviewed by investigators at the Star Chamber over several months. They seem to operate seperately to Police Force which is important as Foster Care System seems to not always be answerable to Australian Law. Very bizaar. Again another subscriber report. Sorry. I don't havd access but I know some here do. What I find interesting is the rate at which articles, references to facts previously publicly accesable are now heavily edited or under subscription. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sub...8338b0aeed0e18e978715069a78&memtype=anonymous
More gaps to fill in, IMO.