Leigh
Ramsay
322
Wecker Road
Carindale
QLD
4152
10th
Feb 2013
Dear Leigh
In the four days that have
elapsed since my 6th Feb letter neither you nor anyone else
associated with Citipointe or the ‘She’ refuge has made any enquiries regarding
Chanti’s illness. It seems not to have occurred to you that Chanti’s illness
might be serious or that, in her misery and distress, she might wish to see
Rosa and Chita or that they might wish to visit their mother in hospital. Has
Citpointe even told the girls that their mother is ill and in hospital? Are you
and Citipointe completely devoid of compassion, empathy, understanding and
basic human decency? I will leave it up to readers of my blog, viewers of my
completed documentary and readers of my book to determine.
Further blood tests revealed that
Chanti has pneumonia. The pneumonia itself does not present any real danger to
her baby (another girl). The danger to the baby, when Chanti was admitted to
hospital, was the high fever she had – a fever that could, if uncontrolled,
damage the baby’s health. The fever was quickly brought down by the hospital with
medication and, after four days and many plastic bags of intravenous fluid,
Chanti has been discharged from the hospital and is now at home again with her
family.
Chanti was not looking forward to
spending the Chinese New Year holiday in hospital. She wished to spend it, as
do all Cambodians, with her family. This she will do for the remainder of the
holiday, though two members of her family will be conspicuously absent since
you refuse, Citipointe church refuses, the ‘She’ refuge refuses to allow Rosa
and Chita to celebrate any Buddhist or national holidays with their family.
This is unsurprising since, amongst other human rights abuses practiced by
Citipointe, alienating Rosa and Chita from the Buddhist religion of their
family is the church’s way of guaranteeing (it hopes) that these young girls
can be indoctrinated into Citipointe’s warped form of Christianity – lacking in
the generosity of spirit and compassion that Christ taught. I wonder what your
God make of your total lack of interest in Chanti’s welfare, Leigh? How sick
would she Chanti need to be before Citipointe would put its hand into its very
full pockets (thanks in part to Citipointe’s practice of ‘poverty tourism’ and
dishonest online advertising) and pay for her to see a doctor when she had a
high fever?
Chanti is very thankful that I
took her to the doctor and paid her hospital bills. “You have saved my life,”
she says. This is not strictly speaking true. Her pneumonia was not life threatening,
as long as she did not maintain her high
fever for long enough to damage her soon-to-be-born daughter. However, Chanti
was very scared that she would die because she could not afford to go to
hospital and receive the treatment she knew she needed and which Citipointe, as
a matter of principle, will not provide or even make a contribution to. All in
all Chanti’s hospitalization and medicines cost me $160. Not a lot of money
when you consider the possible ramifications of Chanti not receiving the
medical attention she needed. If Chanti
were dying and I were not in a position to help, would Citipointe?
In a few weeks Chanti’s new baby
girl will come into the world. The cost of the baby’s delivery will not be
great (less than $100) but does it even occur to Citipointe to make a
contribution to the expenses involved in the baby’s delivery? And what ever
happened to the counseling in birth control that Citipointe promised Chanti
more than four years ago? As with all the promises made to Chanti (and myself)
it never happened. You lied to both Chanti and myself back then and it is clear
from your actions since that your intention right from the outset was to do
whatever it took to steal Chanti’s daughters from her – only 15 months later
obtaining validation for your actions from the ‘Trafficking’ section of the
Ministry of Social Affairs. How on earth Citipointe has managed to convince the
Ministry that Rosa and Chita were ever involved in the sex trade, had been
trafficked or were in danger of being trafficked, is a mystery to me. You know
that they were not and that any implication they are victims of the sex trade
in any of its many manifestations is yet another lie perpetrated by yourself
and Citipointe.
Quite apart from the distress
Citipointe’s dishonest representation of itself as having, in some sense,
‘rescued’ Rosa and Chita, has had on Chanti, Citipointe’s actions in this
regard are an insult to those organizations that are genuinely involved in
rescuing victims of the sex trade; that are genuinely involved in working
towards the re-integration of these girls and young woman back into their
families and communities.
On July 28th last
year, after a meeting with you in Phnom Penh, I wrote: “It was good to meet
today and talk about the re-integration of Rosa and Srey Mal back into Chanti’s
family. Whilst there are some things we disagree on, there is more than enough
that we agree on to put a plan into action to facilitate this re-integration
along the lines I have mentioned already in my letter of 24th July
or in some alternative manner that Citipointe might like to suggest.”
You indicated in this meeting
that of course you wanted Rosa and Srey Mal to be reintegrated back into their
family. What have you done since to make this promise a reality? Nothing. Quite
the reverse. You continue to severely restrict Chanti’s access to her daughters
(a few hours a month) and they to their mother with no regard for the feelings
of either mother or daughters. You have
never, this past four years, come up with any kind of re-integration plan, as
promised. You are a liar and a fraud, Leigh Ramsay and a day will come when you
will no longer be able to ignore me, ignore the express wishes of Rosa and
Chita’s mother, ignore the laws of both Cambodia and Australia. The day will
come when you are publicly exposed as a fraud. If you wish to sue me for
defamation for referring to you as a liar and a fraud in
public please do so. In a court of law it would be easy to prove you to be a
fraud. You would not be in the position you have maintained with me of refusing
to answer any questions at all – even in my capacity as Chanti’s advocate. The luxury
of refusing to answer questions would not be afforded to you in court.
As will be apparent to you by
now, I have no intention of resting until Rosa and Chita are re-united with
their family. You will, of course, put up a fight since you have decided that
these girls are now church property and that their mother is just a nuisance.
This blog, a complete record of how it is that Citipointe got to steal and retain
custody of Rosa and Chita will, in the fullness of time, leave interested
onlookers with few doubts as to what has taken place over the past four years.
And it is to be hoped that at some point the person or organization asking you
and Citipointe to answer question in relation to how you came to acquire
custody of Rosa and Chita, how you have retained custody, will also be in a
position to instruct you, with appropriate directness to release Chanti’s
daughters back into her care immediately.
best wishes
James Ricketson
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