On Wednesday, Hannah Clarke and her three children set off on their school run.
Within 12 hours, they were all dead at the hands of her estranged husband.
Clarke died in hospital on Wednesday night after suffering “horrific” burns when she and her three children were doused in petrol by the children’s father, Rowan Baxter.
Her children - Aaliyah, 6, Laianah, 4 and Trey, 3 - died in the car after it burst into flames on a quiet suburban street in Camp Hill in Brisbane’s east on Wednesday.
Children’s advocates say family courts unfairly favor fathers, even when they’re the abusers
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- Category: Family Law Courts
- Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2018 16:13
- Written by Rebecca Addison
“It’s really the same story of the #metoo movement, just in a much more dire setting where children are at stake.” 
At a custody hearing in Allegheny County on May 20, 2016, the 9-year-old boy at the center of the case took the stand and was asked a series of questions. His favorite school subject? Math. His best friend? Drew. His musical instrument of choice? The alto recorder.
But according to court transcripts, the questioning soon turned from school and music to the boy’s relationship with his father. “So what happened when your dad would sleep in the bed with you?” the judge asked.
The boy answered in graphic detail.
“Well, sometimes he would lay on top of me,” the boy said. “He would, like, pull my pajamas down. … Well, the first thing is that I was — I acted asleep, but I was really awake when it all happened. He would stick his penis in my butt crack. … He would do that many times. When under my body he would be squeezing my penis. Sometimes, I get really angry with myself, because I always say that I could have stopped him.”
Custody in Crisis: How family courts nationwide put children in danger
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- Created: Thursday, 01 December 2016 15:59
- Written by Laurie Udesky -
Six years ago, in 2010, an appellate court in Tennessee affirmed a family court ruling that had awarded Darryl Sawyer* primary custody of his six-and-a-half-year-old son, Daniel.
The court ruled in favor of Sawyer despite evidence presented by his ex-wife that alleged he had sexually abused their child.Three years earlier, Daniel returned from a visit with his father with suspicious bruises on his bottom. His mother, Karen Gill, immediately took the three-year-old boy to his pediatrician. “Your instant reaction is that you don’t want it to be what it appears to be,” Gill said, choking back tears at the memory. “You really hope there’s another reason for why he has these marks on him.”
But the doctor, Victoria Rundus, confirmed Gill’s worst fears. Dr. Rundus reported to the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services that she found reddish blue bruises on the child’s buttocks that could only occur from an adult “holding his buttocks forcibly open.” Gill thus began a long, arduous battle – that continues to this day – to protect her son.
Statistical Evidence: Gumshoe’s Family Court Survey
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- Category: Family Law Courts
- Created: Wednesday, 02 January 2019 04:23
- Written by Dee McLachlan - Gumshoe News
This article contains the replies to the survey that I conducted from November 5 to December 16, 2018. What I was seeking to find is an explanation for the anecdotal reports of unfathomable behavior by the authorities regarding the removal of a child from an apparently good parent.I was hoping to make some sense of the oft-heard complaint that even where there is good evidence of child abuse, the Family Court orders the child to be placed with the abuser, or in foster care.
Removal of child from good mum traceable to corrupt female police officer
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- Category: Family Law Courts
- Created: Wednesday, 09 October 2019 03:32
- Written by Dee McLachlan - EIN Presswire
Two Hours on Computer
Female police officer disgraces the South Australian Police for corrupting two child abuse investigations, and acting against a child.
to, believed, and investigated
before anything else.”
— Interagency Code of Practice
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA, October 9, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — After a South Australian mother reported an injury on her daughter last year (2018), the female police officer that took over the investigation made no attempt to investigate the injury. The police officer (code-name ‘Demeter’) not only stalled and corrupted two investigations into child sexual abuse and assault, she colluded with the perpetrator.
The mother is about to release a book on her case — with the book coming out early September 2019.
We reported on this officer back in July, and again in August as further evidence was gathered to substantiate the extent of the malfeasance in this case.
'My husband abused me for ten years - and HE won custody of our children'
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- Category: Court Ordered Abuse
- Created: Thursday, 03 October 2019 17:40
- Written by Emily White - Lincolnshire Live UK
'I was told by countless institutions that I wouldn't lose my children - but I did'.
A woman who suffered domestic abuse for over a decade before fleeing her home has said there needs to be 'more transparency' in family courts to protect victims of domestic violence.
Emma Swann*, 40, fled from her family home, with her two daughters aged 9 and 10, to Sleaford in February last year after suffering from emotional, financial and psychological abuse that lasted for 12 years.
Placing children with the parent that abused them: The problematic theory of parental alienation
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- Category: Court Ordered Abuse
- Created: Sunday, 06 October 2019 12:24
- Written by Child Welfare Monitor
An unproven–and mostly discredited–theory is encouraging family court judges to award custody–against children’s wishes–to the parent that has been accused of harming them. Moreover, this theory of “parental alienation” has “spawned a cottage industry of so-called family reunification camps that are making big profits from broken families.” That’s the message of a stunning report by the Center for Investigative Journalism aired on public radio’s Reveal program.
The Reveal broadcast focused on two custody cases in which the judge ordered children placed against their will with the parent that they claimed was abusive. In one case, the judge sent a teenage boy to juvenile detention because he was not making sufficient efforts to get along with his mother. He and his sister were then sent to live with their father and allowed no contact with their mother for a period of three years. In the other case, a fourteen-year old girl who said her mother was emotionally abuse and wanted to live with her father was sent to a “reunification camp” for ten months at her parents’ expense. Her mother was given full custody and the teen was separated from her father father for four years. The judges in both cases based their decisions on a theory called “parental alienation.”
Eye-watering costs of family law disputes
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- Category: Family Law Courts
- Created: Friday, 04 October 2019 17:17
- Written by Renee Viellaris - The Courier-Mail
And the wealthy — rich enough to fight every procedural point — are soaking up more court resources, blowing out court waiting times for low-to-middle-income Australians desperate to finalise their cases.
- Judges fly in for 250 cases in one week
- Fed-up couples go for DIY divorce
- Save tens of thousands on your divorce
An appetite is building within the Federal Government to crack down on outrageous gouging by lawyers, who are being accused of getting flush from family misery.
Family law inquiry is no sop to Hanson. It's a deliberate move to bury previous reviews
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- Category: Family Law Courts
- Created: Thursday, 03 October 2019 11:40
- Written by Jess Hill - UK Guardian
Two big inquiries have recommended sweeping changes to put children’s safety – instead of parents’ rights – back at the centre of the system.
At first, I presumed, like many others, that the government’s recently announced inquiry into the family law system was an exercise in pure politics – a sop to Senator Pauline Hanson and her constituency of angry white men. Nothing would come of it, as nothing has come from the two big inquiries that preceded it. Another report to languish in a drawer.
But on close reading of those two inquiries – one from the House of Representatives, the other from the Australian Law Reform Commission – I see I was wrong. This new inquiry is not just cynical horse-trading. It is, I believe, a deliberate move by the government to bury the findings of the two inquiries it commissioned.
Canberra boy Bradyn Dillon begged not to be sent back into the care of father, who later killed him
- Abusers job or title:: Father of Braydn Dillon
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- Category: Death by family courts
- Created: Tuesday, 03 September 2019 21:09
- Written by Elizabeth Byrne - ABC News
Bradyn Dillon was murdered by his father Graham in February 2016.
The mother of murdered Canberra boy Bradyn Dillon says her son begged not to be sent back into the custody of his father, whose brutal bashings would culminate in his death.
Dad burns daughter alive in bitter custody battle
- Editors notes: Zoey Pereira, 3, burned to death by her father
- Abusers job or title:: Father
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- Category: Death by family courts
- Created: Friday, 17 May 2019 09:35
- Written by Mo Barnes - RollingOut.com
- Abuser Name or Alias:: Martin Pereira
- Abusers Organisation:: Family Court
- Type of Abuse:: Physical, Death
- Matter Resolved?: No, Ongoing
The system in a state of crisis: the reforms needed to fix family law in Australia
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- Category: Family Law Courts
- Created: Friday, 19 July 2019 22:25
- Written by ABC News
The Australian family law system is to be overhauled.
Family law experts describe the current family law system "the system in a state of crisis".
Following the federal election, returning Attorney-General Christian Porter announced that his highest priority will be the structural reform of the family law courts.
What reforms are required to meet the needs of Australian families?
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