Elder Abuse: Case Closed and Buried (Australia)
My associates and I are saddened by the news of the passing of M yesterday, in Launceston, Tasmania Australia.
M was ‘victimized’ by bureaucracy because of her inability to express herself in English.
As a resident of Australia for many years, one would have thought that what she had experienced at the hands of Organizations that were supposed to protect her.
According to our records, her case was brought to my attention a few years ago. M protested against a Guardianship ruling that she was ‘Demented’. She was placed under the ‘protection’ of the government through a guardianship decision. Her finances were taken over by ‘Public Trustees’.
I have viewed copies of medical specialists’ reports that M was not demented.
More frightening for all seniors, is the ability of government appointed organizations taking over one’s life; even if you protested through help of willing, trusted friends.
Questions we need to ask of that State government:
1. Why was her protests and assertions that part of her collection of gold coins had disappeared, were not looked into.
2. Why was a second medical report on her capacity to manage her own affairs, denied?
3. Why were details of her financial situation, not reported to her regularly?
4. Why were people who spoke up for her; threatened with imprisonment?
Where is the Elder Abuse Strategy of the state government, when it came to the protection of this elderly woman.
Yes, we have been holding our breathes; waiting for some answers.
NO SUCH LUCK. THE VICTIM HAS DIED.
CASE CLOSED. ……….. NEXT CASE, PLEASE?
Before we get threats of imprisonment..... Please note that a close friend of M has boxes and boxes of documents on this case. She is worn out by the threats and harassment, when she was fighting for M. But, I'm sure she would be too happy to pass it over to someone genuinely seeking the truth of this case.
Cases like this does not happened in a rich, developed country like Australia?
Don’t kid yourself.
.............. Andrew
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