Commander Bender February 2004 Newcastle Police Cnr Church Street Newcastle NSW 2300 Australia
Dear Sir,
Re: Request for AVOs to protect my son
I am writing to request that AVOs be taken out against my son's mother, stepfather, uncle, aunt and maternal grandmother.
I am requesting the AVOs because my son is being subjected to the most horrific sexual abuse and because I have been unable to obtain any kind of professional investigation into that abuse.
The briefest background to this matter is that my son was born in Australia as a result of a six-week relationship with his mother when she was visiting Europe. (That is to say she became pregnant in Europe but subsequently returned to give birth in Australia.)
I paid voluntarily child support for my son's first five years and received photographs from the mother in return.
When my child was eight I could afford to visit him but immediately I ran into problems with the mother.
I ended up going to the Family Court for contact and back to the Court to enforce that contact (when the mother ran away with him).
As a result of the contact I was able to enforce, I found my son not only displaying highly sexually inappropriate behaviour (such as grabbing my groin and asking for sex) but also even having the audacity to argue back with me that it was acceptable for children to have sex with adults.
As my son's mother has always claimed to be a child sex abuse victim, how could she raise a child with such an attitude? Especially as my son is not a wild child but a boy who (in public) is always very well behaved.
In addition the family background emerged as suspicious with the mother having been involved in the running of a family owned brothel and an extensive family background of working with children.
I reported the matter to the Department of Community Services, who bluntly asked my son to confirm the abuse. My son blurted out: "There's nothing going on," and this denial was enough for them to close the case.
This is despite my making my allegations when my son was already ten years of age and an articulate child and when the allegations involved the abuse of all the children in his family. If my allegations were untrue then I could only alienate my son against me.
In the absence of a proper investigation by DOCS, I pushed for a Family Court investigation.
The Court imposed Dr. Brent Waters on me as the investigator.
In addition, they ignored my plea that I should have at least supervised contact during the investigation as otherwise my son would be entirely under the influence of his abusers.
Dr.Waters' report emerged as a calculated cover up of my allegations. He resorted to outright lies in order to discredit me. Just one example being a claim that I had asked my son's mother for naked photographs of my son.
I was too depressed to carry on and was now in ill heath having contacted diabetes and other stress related illnesses. (I am not entitled to Australian health care).
When I was back in Europe I found out that Dr.Waters had featured in one of Australia's most prestigious newspapers as someone who has a long history of covering up abuse. (Copy attached).
The news article that appeared in The Australian on June 3rd 2000 makes it quite clear that Dr.Waters is not just incompetent and biased but someone who deliberately covers up child sex abuse.
That Dr.Waters does cover up such abuse is absolutely known to me from the contents of his report to the Family Court in respect of my request for a Court investigator.
I have written repeatedly to the Attorney General and the Prime Minister regarding the above.
Their protracted replies have directed me back to Docs, the Family Court and to the NSW Police.
I did report the above to your force when I visited Australia in February last year. However, I was subsequently told that NSW police have no powers of investigation.
At the same time as I reported my above allegations to you, I was served with an AVO taken out by Rosebay Police on behalf of Dr.Waters.
I had previously "threatened" to stand outside the offices of Dr.Waters and distribute leaflets outlining the newspaper article on Dr.Waters and adding my own allegations.
One would have thought that I had the right to free speech in this matter and that the appropriate course of action for Dr.Waters would be for him to seek an injunction against me.
Instead Dr.Waters asked Rosebay Police to help him by firstly concealing from them the press article about him; and then persuading the gullible officer to take out his AVO without any attempt on her part to check the veracity of the facts.
That the officer from Rosebay made no attempt to check the facts was admitted during a subsequent taped telephone conversation I had with the officer.
As the AVO was served on me shortly before I was due to return to the UK (where I am in employment) I could not contest the AVO.
I am not expecting you to take out the above requested AVOs without an investigation.
You do now, however, have the opportunity to investigate my allegations of abuse.
I realise that this is not an easy matter for you, but you do have a moral obligation to protect Australian children.
I would plead that you take that opportunity.
Attached is just some of the material that I would like you to read before making a decision to on my request.
Thank you very much for your consideration.
Yours truly,
Pierre Royan
Attached: Section 66 Notice of Abuse filed with DOCS and the Family Court (Parts 10 and 11). Letter to Constable Kaluska (February 2003) Letter to Constable Kaluska (May 2003) Press article on Dr Waters from The Australian (June 3, 2000)