2. Did the father not pay child support and therefore as a consequence loose his right to be next of kin. His mother in MSM is pictured with her holding a photo of KW. Did he also lose visitation because of opting out of support? Only my conjecture here and not a fact. If KW could speak at a young age, I believe she would have been able to speak to her father. As in.. What have you learned in school?
3. If the grandfather knew and reported such comments, would he feel that a gov payment would be taken away. Plus his daughter would live with him without govt support. Where does a family member go to for help confidentially?
RE: Point 2
It is so easy for a mother to ensure she is the only contact for a child. Go to the doctors, put down her details, emergency room, lets say Dad takes her in and gives his details, next week Mum brings her in for something else, changes details to her. Same with school, kinder etc, Mum has sole custody, Mum is main contact. I don't know their situation but let me just say from my experiences, people don't ask questions, they just tend to assume that if Mum has custody then don't worry about involving the Dad. Noone is to know whether Dad pays child support, they just assume that Mum is the best person to deal with.
I have personally seen Dad's with 50/50 care, who try their hardest to be involved with everything still have to go to extraordinary lengths to be informed about schooling and medical decisions.
It might have been his choice to take a backseat role, but even if he hadn't, he could have still been kept in the dark anyway, he would have had to knock the doors down at DOCS or police to get action.
RE - Point 3
When you say payments, I assume you mean Centrelink payments. Centrelink have a hotline to report anon. Reporting a family member would be extremely difficult. But this situation was not dealt with properly and the result is absolutely terrible.
I hope the sentence is harsh.
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