As recently as June 2016 , the U . N . Secretary General Ban Ki-moon admitted that he removed a country from a blacklist of child killers three days after the list was published because of a threat of extortion . That country was Saudi Arabia .
THREATS OF VIOLENCE
Threats of violence against the leadership of the NCPA and the families and children who were willing to testify at the ITNJ trial have been alleged . Among the culprits cited are militant fathers groups in and around Melbourne .
Historically , these angry fathers groups are not unknown in the family court of Australia , with a series of family court bombings in the 80s leading to the shocking death and assassination of Mrs . Pearl Watson , wife of Justice Ray Watson , who was one of the drafters of the Family Law Act .
Ten there are the black shirts , a group of men who picketed family courts in Melbourne for over a decade up until 2004 , threatening biblical violence to women who they accused of being adulterers , in the biblical sense . One lone man whose actions could be classed as psychopathic motivated these men .
Violent men whose rage results in such terrorist actions and threats are often the same fathers who want custody of their children . Are they the same fathers that the NCPA stated in their directions hearing , the family court was forcing children to live with ? Fathers known to have criminal records for sexual abuse and / or violence in the home ?
At this point the NCPA leadership has failed to attend an interlocutory hearing to address their fears and concerns , and has been unwilling to elaborate on the threats they have purportedly received . If it is these groups of fathers who have used threats and intimidation to stop this case coming to trial , to justice , then they have succeeded only in highlighting the plight of these children even more . If there is some other group of people who want to maintain the status quo of court-ordered and governmentsanctioned child abuse , then who , and why ?
We can but wonder what really derailed this trial , the trial that never was . Is corruption so rife within the family court system of the Commonwealth of Australia that they couldn ’ t afford to have the spotlight of natural justice shone upon them ?
What we do know is that the NCPA failed to rise above the threats and bring the case to trial , whereby corruption and systemic failures could have been exposed . Thus a vital opportunity for all children who have been harmed by the actions of the family court , past , present , and future , has been lost .
However , there are good people within all our systems who have the ability to do what is right , to rise up and stand in their humanity , their integrity in the face of so much corruption . Is this really that big of a challenge ?
Are there others willing to pick up this case and bring it to the ITNJ ?
Herein sits the challenge .
Jenese James ~ Member of the Committee to Support the ITNJ