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SIMONBARROW ago

What worries me the most about Fiona Barnett's story is her family background. Where were her parents when all this was supposed to have been happening? Are we supposed to believe that she lived the whole time with her grandmother without her mother knowing what was going on? Did she not tell anyone (e.g., her own parents) about the terrible things she says she had seen with her own eyes? Did she not try to run away? In the same circumstances, I certainly would have done so. I find it hard to resist the suspicion that she is confabulating. (Which is not to suggest that I don't think such terrible things can happen. I think they do. I just find it hard to believe they would happen at Bathurst City Hall! And can you really hypnotise children so that they will just stand there and allow their heads to be lopped off one after the other?)

Commonwombat ago

Bathurst is renowned for police corruption. Read into the Wood Royal Commission to learn of the level of abuse that flourished throughout regional NSW. Fiona's parents were complicit in her abuse.