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I have so many questions about this too. From the point of view of SFR, they were trying to get intelligence about a missing child through surveillance. Hearing the wooden spoon incident, they did not report to DCJ, I believe because they could not think of a way to inform without blowing their cover. If they had of reported, the behavior of FP's may have changed, more support given to the family by DCJ with the issues and the child may not have had to be uprooted.... but they didn't.
Child abuse team in evidence said that they normally wouldn't do an investigation around such events but were asked to help homicide... does that mean that they advised at what threshold for proving assault and intimidation charges they advised SFR? Does that mean both teams were aware of risk situations and both did not intervene to get support? I do not deny the responsiblity of the FP's for their actions and on a couple of charges I think there is wiggle room to defend them, we shall see.
But I'm concerned there might be a level of entrapment in this scenario and the weighing up of an investigation of someone missing for a long time as opposed to a present day child, living in a pressure cooker... Those doing the surveillance are also those applying pressure from the outside to this situation by identifying one publicly as the only POI in a missing persons case, doing the big dig, pulling both FP's into the NSWCC and charging for anything that they can and the threat which became real of ending their family together. Again I acknowledge the FM's responsibility for her actions but I am wondering like I said a couple of months ago about the tail wagging the dog in this scenario. I have very mixed feelings about it all and I know in the past I was in support of all pressure on FM but something doesn't feel kosher to me about this scenario. AMOO
Just to add, you can't sit there for months on end, waiting for someone to do a crime, not intervene or prevent, stick the subject with pins in the public world and then when they crack, possibly use it as tendency evidence for a child missing for 9 years and say, "See, this is how she behaves!" Anyway, I feel sure at some point, all of this will be argued if need be.