Date: 20 Jul 2000 09:05:25 GMT
Organization: Please try to understand before one of us dies.
Message-ID: <8l6fcl$3or$6@thingy.apana.org.au>
[Dunno how this one didn't get posted at the time. As far as I know there's been no followup on this one, so I presume it was just an accident.] [PS to the person who just sent me this clipping: your email address doesn't work! Please check it with your ISP and try again.] The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), Mon 14 Feb 2000, p9 Baby hurt in fall A BABY was in a critical condition at Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick last night after falling two floors from a staircase. Police said the 15-month-old was being minded with others at the Church of Scientology in Castlereagh St in the city, when it wandered away and fell through a gap in a steel railing about 11.30am.
From: rkeller@netaxs.com (Rod Keller)
Date: 20 Jul 2000 12:54:03 GMT
Message-ID: <8l6spb$1k0@netaxs.com>
I recently was told a story from the mid-80s where a person came to the rooms at the back of the Fort Harrison, first floor, in the same row as the room Lisa McPherson was kept. That person found 17 infants in two rooms in the care of two people, one a 12 year old, the other an adult. They were filthy, they had diaper rash that was untreated to the point where the skin was completely raw. They were all crying at the same time, and some were severely dehydrated. There was basically no care being given at all. The person made a complaint, was told that they had an overt and needed ethics handling. Since all the person had done was walk to the rooms, this didn't make any sense. It was a key moment in starting to question Scientology, and left shortly after that. I don't know what sort of child care they provide in Australia, but under the circumstances in the 80s, I can see a child getting away very easily.
From: tilman@berlin.snafu.de (Tilman Hausherr)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:31:11 +0200
On 20 Jul 2000 12:54:03 GMT, rkeller@netaxs.com (Rod Keller) wrote in <8l6spb$1k0@netaxs.com>: >I recently was told a story from the mid-80s where a person came to the
>rooms at the back of the Fort Harrison, first floor, in the same row as
>the room Lisa McPherson was kept. That person found 17 infants in two
>rooms in the care of two people, one a 12 year old, the other an adult.
>They were filthy, they had diaper rash that was untreated to the point
>where the skin was completely raw. They were all crying at the same time,
>and some were severely dehydrated. There was basically no care being given
>at all.
Similar situation happened in Hamburg, in a scientologist facility called "Happy Kids". The city had to close it. The "baby hurt in fall" story is a typical example of unsupervised children. In a real daycare facility, this would mean a lawsuit. Tilman
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