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December 15th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
A REPORT on child protection sparked by the prostitution of a 12-year-old girl in Tasmania has found the state’s systems are barely coping.
The Parliamentary committee report, which came about after the girl’s mother and her mother’s partner were jailed for prostituting her to around 100 men, has made 176 recommendations.
“The area of child protection is a very difficult and stressful area,” the 288-page report says.
“In Tasmania, there is little doubt that the system is under pressure and struggling to cope …
“Despite reforms, children are falling through the gaps, serious notifications are not acted upon, children are being sent back into an abusive environment, and files are closed prematurely to improve statistics.”
A former state politician, Terry Martin, was last month convicted of having sex with the 12-year-old and received a suspended 10-month sentence.
Greens MP and committee chairman Paul O’Halloran said the report asked Tasmanian Attorney-General Brian Wightman to review the decision not to lay charges against other alleged offenders against the girl.
“The committee noted the considerable community angst surrounding this matter, especially around the decision not to prosecute all those alleged to have had sex with the girl,” Mr O’Halloran said.
“The committee is of the view that, on balance, a commission of inquiry (instead of laying charges) is not the best course for responding to concerns.
“The committee believes the attorney-general must satisfy himself that the decision taken by the DPP not to prosecute was appropriate.”
The report also recommends a current review of crimes against children be completed quickly.
Two Labor and two Liberal MPs sat on the committee with Mr O’Halloran to produce the 12th investigation into Tasmania’s child protection system in six years.
Minister for children Michelle O’Byrne defended the Government’s response to earlier reports.
“Significant improvements have been made within the child protection system in Tasmania over the last five years and those reforms are ongoing,” she said.
Opposition leader Will Hodgman called on the Government to implement recommendations he said it had been putting off.
“For all its talk of reform, the government has not built the fence at the top of the cliff, but instead is waiting with an ambulance at the bottom,” he said.
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