Leigh
Ramsay
Citipointe
church
322
Wecker Rd
Carindale
QLD 4152 21st August 2012
Dear
Leigh
Another
week has passed and you have yet to make even one suggestion as to
how best to proceed with the re-integration of R and SM into their
family. Re-integration was your goal you told me a month ago,
remember? But then re-integration was your stated goal when I first
met you in Phnom Penh four years ago. You lied to me (and, more
importantly, to C) in 2007 and you are still lying in 2012. If your
goal really is re-integration set the ball rolling by formulating a
plan, on paper, that C can understand and agree to; a plan that can
be presented to the Minister of Social Affairs for his approval.
I
have a few questions for you that I hope members of your church might
ask you:
1.
How much money does ‘She’ raise per annum in donations made by
people who believe that they are contributing to the rescuing of
girls and young women from the sex trade?
2.
How much capital do Citipointe’s ‘poverty tours’ to Cambodia
generate for your church?
3.
How much does it cost to run the ‘She’ refuge each year?
4
How much financial assistance does Citipointe church provide to the
poor families of the girls Citipointe has ‘rescued’? (In the case
of R and SM’s family the answer is zero. You do not help them at
all – not even when there is a medical emergency or when C’s
other children are suffering from malnutrition and have no roof over
their heads.)
These
questions could be subsumed under one question:
5.
Is Citipointe church making a profit out of the running of its ‘She’
refuge?
As
with all questions put to you, Leigh, you will not answer these. And
of course you are under no obligation to do so. I do hope, however,
that some of your donors ask these questions before they make their
next donation.
I
have three more questions:
6.
How many of the girls in the ‘She’ refuge have actually been
rescued from the sex trade?
7.
How many of the girls, like R and SM, have merely been ‘rescued’
from their poor families?
8.
Is it true, as C has been led to believe, that after re-integration,
Citipointe will provide no further assistance of any kind to her
daughters, R and SM?
best
wishes
James
Ricketson
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