Re: Name withheld

I am writing to you regarding the above pupil, who is my son.

My involvement in his life is a very sad one.

My son came to be born as a result of a six week liaison between his mother and myself when she was visiting London (i.e. she became pregnant in London but returned to Australia to give birth).

I paid voluntary maintenance for my son’s first five years (something I can prove despite the mother’s claim to only have received a few payments.)

I could not, however, afford to visit Australia and I do not have residency rights to live and work in Australia.

When my son was eight years of age I could afford to visit him.

I immediately ran into problems with the mother regarding access. I ended up going to Court for access and back to Court to enforce that contact (i.e. she ran away with my son).

As a result of that contact I found my son displaying the most shocking sexual behaviour.

He would repeatedly try to grab my groin, rub himself up against me and ask for sex (“let’s have sex”). Overall his behaviour and language, especially at bedtime, was bad enough to be shocking from an adult, let alone a child.

Worst, when I tried to tell him that such things were wrong, he argued back with me that it was acceptable for adults to have sex with children.

As my son’s mother has always made a fuss out of saying that she was abused as a child, how could she raise a boy with such an attitude? Especially as my son was not a wild child but a gentle shy boy who (in public) was extremely well behaved.

In addition there were signs of such sexual behaviour from other children in the family. This included a girl of less than three years of age pleading to see my penis.

Further the family background emerged as very odd, the mother having worked as an administrator for a brothel owned by her father and there being an extensive maternal family background of working with children.

I reported the matter to the Department of Community Services who were reluctant to investigate. I had to push them to do so.

Their investigation was farcical. They bluntly asked my son to confirm the abuse in a way that was bound to make him clam up.

And that was that. I was told to go away. I was given no other advice or information.

I therefore pushed for a Family Court Investigation.

The Family Court imposed on me Dr.Brent Waters as the investigator.

I was unhappy with Dr.Waters being imposed as he had been recommended to me by numerous Family Court officials who had lied about the issue of my abuse allegations.

I nevertheless wanted to help my son and co-operated with Dr.Waters.

However, he did not ask me one single question about my abuse allegations.

What he did do was cover up my allegations with complete fabrication. Most often he put the exact opposite of what I said.

What lies he could have stated about what my son said I do not know, as the Court had already suspended my contact (which left my son in the total control of his abusers).

I was now in a state of ill health having contacted diabetes and pernicious anaemia (the symptoms of which I had ignored as I thought my illness was “just” stress.)

In a state of depression and ill health I returned to London.

However, after many months of investigation I found out that Dr.Waters had appeared in one of Australia’s most prestigious newspapers as someone who has a long history of covering up child sex abuse.

The article had appeared in The Australian, on June 3^rd 2000. The press article makes it quite clear that Dr.Waters is more than someone who is incompetent or biased but someone who deliberately covers up child sex abuse.

The press article also detailed how the Prime Minister, John Howard had previously called for an enquiry into how Dr.Waters had been involved in covering up child sex in regard to one case of horrific sexual and physical abuse.

I also uncovered other cases where Dr.Waters had been accused of covering up child sex abuse.

Armed with such information I now thought I could do something to help my son. I repeatedly wrote to the Prime Minister and the Attorney General. I waited up to six months a time for their replies. The replies I received simply ignored the issues.

One reply said I should go to the Police. However, the Police advised me that they had no powers of investigation in this matter. They stated that my abuse allegations were a matter for DOCS and the Family Court; and my allegations regarding Dr.Waters being used by the Family Court to cover up abuse, a matter for the Attorney General.

I never expected my word alone to be enough for action to be taken to protect my son.

I did, however, expect a proper investigation.

There has not been any investigation.

The investigation by DOCS was a farce that has become corrupt in respect to the officers of DOCS subsequently becoming so defensive about their inadequacies as to lie about, and even suppress, information that would help me. (E.g. when I subpoenaed their records, information that I had previously been told existed that would aid confirmation of my allegations had disappeared).

As for the “investigation” by the Court appointed Dr.Waters, this was nothing more than a deliberately planned cover up.

Under such circumstances I can only plead with you to give my son all the care and attention he needs in respect to his unhappy life.

I would be desperately grateful if you could do everything you can to guide him away from being corrupted into his abuse and becoming an adult abuser himself.

For your information I enclose a copy of the press article on Dr.Waters and a copy of my Official Notice of Abuse Section 66 that I filed with DOCS and the Family Court.

Please help my son.

Yours sincerely,

P.Royan

Enc.Press article on Dr.Brent Waters from The Australian

Official Notice of Abuse Section 66 Parts 10&11