LEFT TO PICK UP THE PIECES
The one burning thing that is denied to victims of crime is the chance to be heard and tell their story of how their lives have been destroyed and the peace of mind of being safe in your own home is just a distant memory.
One lady I met when we purchased the burnt remains of her stolen car told me how they have to move from Townsville because her daughters can’t get to sleep unless every light inside and outside the house burn all night to try and keep the night crawlers away from their door.
The fun seekers used vise-grips to twist and snap the key locked front door handle when they gained entry into what was once their safe and peaceful house.
As they night stalkers rummaged through the house one daughter was woken by the blue light from their phone but lay there frozen too afraid to make a sound.
As they left with the car keys and laptops and phones she found herself paralysed with fear and waited to hear the car leave before waking her mother.
Every night since then this young girl that should be enjoying her teenage years is suffering PTSD and finds herself checking over and over again if all the doors and windows are secure and if the new alarm system is turned on.
And all the while the government is telling us they are doing all they can to stop this, but the anarchy and thieving is spreading faster than the Covid pandemic, leaving families like hers destroyed and left behind in its wake!
Nothing this government has done since it altered the Youth Justice act in 2015 has worked and that my friends is a fact backed by statistics not fairy tales that the government spin doctors create to try and hide their tracks.
The people that make the laws have absolutely no common sense and couldn’t track a bleeding bear in the snow with their level of intelligence.
If you assembled the best of the best forensic investigators on earth to search for signs of Justice in our court rooms not one ounce of the DNA of Justice would be found in the very place it should be overflowing from.
As an elderly victim said to me the other day “I have lost all faith in my government and humanity with what is happening in this town and across the nation” and his parting words were the sooner the good lord ends my time in this purgatory the better as they have turned this beautiful city into the anus of Australia!
When you voted last Queensland election is this what you had hoped for? I think not and we deserve better.
MIKE ABRAHAM,
Bohle