Sad to say, my experience was so close to this... after 44 years I still flinch at the thought..
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Unconscionable Behaviour, Breach of Duty of Care.
13. Forbidding mothers to see their baby.
Ultra Vires Law. Unconscionable Behaviour. Coercion. Violation of Human
Rights. Violation of Statutory Rights. Duress. Element of Conspiracy to Defraud.
14. Preventing lactation by using the synthetic hormone Stilboestrol, known to be
carcinogenic since 1971, or by the method of breast binding, all without written
consent.
Common Assault. Trespass to the Person. Violation of Natural Law. Violation of
Human Rights. Unconscionable Behaviour.
15. Sedating mothers during labour with what were known as lytic cocktails
(used medically to obliterate feelings). These cocktails consisted of
Phenobarbitone, Pethidine, Sparine, and Largactyl. Post-Hypnotic memory
altering barbiturates such as Phenobarbitol, Sodium Amytil, Methadone, Heroin
and Chloral Hydrate were also the order of the day.
Criminal offence under s38 of the Crimes Act, Unconscionable Behaviour,
Conspiracy to Defraud.
16. Hiding child within the confines of the hospital and denying mothers free
access to their babies although she was the sole Legal Guardian of her child.
Conspiracy to Defraud, Criminal offence under s91. Taking child with intent to
steal. Violation of Statutory Law. Violation of Human Rights. Violation of Natural
Law. Breach of Duty. S.90A Kidnapping.
17. Transporting mothers by ambulance, whilst heavily sedated to different
hospitals without their babies, and without their permission.
False Imprisonment (common law offence), Element of Conspiracy to Defraud.
18. Shackling mothers to bedheads during labour
with either leather straps
attached to chains or bandages.
Physically restraining mothers from seeing their
babies immediately after giving birth.
Common Assault, False Imprisonment, Unconscionable Behaviour, Ultra Vires
Law, Violation of Human Rights.
19. Informing mothers their babies had died at birth when in fact they had been
adopted.
Fraudulent Misrepresentation, Unconscionable Behaviour, Element of
Conspiracy to Defraud, s91, Taking a child with intent to steal, s90 Kidnapping.
Violation of Human Rights, Intent to Deprive Owner Permanently.
20. Showing mothers the wrong baby after signing a consent to ensure no
bonding takes place.
Unconscionable Behaviour, Violation of Human Rights...
Unconscionable Behaviour, Violation of Human Rights, Fraudulent
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Misrepresentation, Element of Conspiracy to Defraud.
21. Taking consent from mothers prior to or upon birth and post dating the date
the consent was taken- to the legally required day five.
Unconscionable Behaviour, Fraudulent Misrepresentation, Ultra Vires Law.
22. Using overt and covert methods of coercion to obtain consents to the
adoption of child.
Undue Influence. Coercion. Duress. Unconscionable Behaviour.
23. Inducing mothers to sign incomplete documents of consent to adoption, to fill
in further details later.
Fraud. Unconscionable Behaviour. Ultra Vires Law.
24. Taking unenforceable (and therefore invalid consent from a minor) consent
only becoming valid at the age of majority which was 21years of age, reducing in
the early 1970s to 18 years.
Fraud. Unconscionable Behaviour. Ultra Vires Law.
25. Expecting an unskilled minor to sign a legal document without an adult or
legal advocate present and without them understanding the legal interpretation
of the document they were signing.
Unconscionable Behaviour. Breach of Statutory Law.
26. Not informing the mother of the thirty day revocation period.
Unconscionable Behaviour, Fraud, Intent to Deprive Owner Permanently, Breach
of Duty of Care, Breach of Statutory Standard.
27. Employing non-skilled and non-licenced staff to conduct legal transactions,
prepare legal documents and interview unmarried mothers without knowing the
law. (To shift the blame away from themselves, Social Workers are now declaring
that as many as 80% of people working in the adoption industry were non-
professionals)
Ultra Vires Law, Breach of Duty of Care.
28. Not advising young mothers of the permanent nature of adoption. Many
young mothers had no idea that they would never see their baby again until they
contacted the agency in order to claim their baby, or went to get their baby upon
leaving the hospital after signing.
Breach of Duty of Care.
29. Preventing mothers from exercising their legal right of revocation within their
legally permitted time by advising them their child had already been adopted
when it had only been placed in an interim placement that was not legally.....
In my case Chloroform or Eather was used, dribbled on a rag over my closedmouth. Too much was administered, I was slapped about to regain conscious these clowns in a backward private hospital, which I paid for in full, ... so as to give birth in some semblance of normality .. and not too much work for the midwives as the doctor had not arrived. Doctor Fowler was in his 70's & had been to The Russian Circus, had a few drinks, going by the stitches... which were not straight by any means I did not get this fixed & considerable pain to me for next couple of years and not fixed until the birth of my son late 1966. To those of you who say I should not make this public knowledge ... Bahh Part of
is a cache of http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/clac_ctte/recs_lost_innocents_forgotten_aust_rpts/submissions/sub02.pdf. www.discoveriesinmedicine.com/Bar-Cod/Chloroform.html