Leigh Ramsay
Citipointe church
322 Wecker Rd
Carindale QLD 4152
24th Oct
2012
Dear Leigh
Following on from my
letters of 21st. August and 12th Sept, along with the 10 or so others sent to
you this past few months - all of which you have failed to acknowledge or
respond to.
I am back in Phnom Penh.
Nothing has changed. There is no family re-integration program in place. R and
SM are still in the custody of Citipointe church's 'She' refuge despite their
mother's repeated requests, the most recent in writing, that her daughters be
returned to her care. You took custody of R and SM years ago now in a manner
that was illegal, immoral and contrary to all the basic precepts of
Christianity as I understand the religion. You hoodwinked C into placing her
thumb print on a piece of paper (one page) that you then told her was a
contract giving Citipointe church complete control of R and SM until they were
18 and which severely limited C's visiting rights. This was a lie. The 'contract
', unsigned by anyone from the church, gave Citipointe no such rights. Indeed,
it gave you no rights at all and contained no details other than that C wished
Citiopointe to help her care for her daughters. Rather than assist the whole
family (as you promised both C and myself) Citipointe took control of C's
daughters in a way that you knew caused her a great deal of anguish and have
held the girls for around 4 years now. How dare you do this, Leigh! What kind
of a Christian are you?
I cannot speak on behalf of
the other girls in Citipoint's 'She' refuge (though I have been told that not
one of them has been rescued from the sex trade!) but I can say, with a mass of
evidence to back me up, that in relation to R and SM, the 'She'refuge is a
sham, a scam - passing off the daughters of a poor family (C's) as having been
victims of child trafficking or having been rescued from the sex trade. That
Citipointe conducts 'poverty tours' that enable young Christians to fill
Citipointe's coffers by paying to come to Cambodia to hang out with cute young
girls whom they believe have been rescued from the sex trade is a form of
exploitation in itself.
I will continue to fight
for the right of Chanti to have her daughters returned to her care and trust
that you will accede to her wishes and think of the mother's and daughters
rights primarily and not of the benefits to be reaped by Citipointe church in
retaining custody of R and SM.
best wishes
James Ricketson
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