A Tasmanian teenager says he's still trying to get over the six months he spent at a Northern Territory program for troubled kids run by Allan Brahminy.
The teenager, who is on a care and protection order, said he was not sent to the NT due to violence or bad behaviour, but because he had declined a group home placement.He claims if he misbehaved he was mistreated, verbally abused, scruffed and pushed around, and made to sit in isolation on a milk crate for hours of end.The teenager said he could not believe the Tasmanian Government was not bringing home the six children who remain in the program despite all the allegations.
He said the Government was, however, taking the allegations at face value and investigating them thoroughly.A Hobart mother, whose son is on a care and protection order and has been in Mr Brahminy's program for more than 18 months, said she was outraged. Sarah*, whose real name cannot be used, said she was notified in February that a care concern investigation had been launched by the Director of the Child Safety Service, looking into the use of restraint, general care and wellbeing, and access to family and privacy for each child.She said she was angry the children were not being brought home while the review was underway.
In a new statement over the weekend, Mr Jaensch said: "Without clear evidence to the contrary, removing these children from the program would involve returning them to other forms of care that have not worked for them in the past, which would not be in their best interest."Dan Punnell from Queensland said he was drawn to Mr Brahminy's program in 2009, with the hopes of making a difference.
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