Leigh Ramsay
322 Wecker Road
Carindale
QLD 4152
5th Dec. 2013
Dear Leigh
Following on from my letters of 29th
Nov and 3rd Dec.
Last week, when Chanti, Chhork
and myself met with LICADHO, Chanti was in very good spirits, having yet again
been told by Citipointe that Rosa and Chita would be returned to her soon.
Then, when the LICADHO representative spoke with Citipointe on the phone and
was informed that the girls would not be returning home, Chanti’s smile was
wiped from her face. The following day she was ill with a fever. There was
nothing medically wrong with her. My own feeling was that, yet again, her heart
has been broken by Citipointe’s false promises.
It was at this point that I
decided, finally, to pursue Citipointe through the court systems of Cambodia
and Australia – starting with Cambodia.
This morning I drove to the
Citipointe centre at Sangkat Boeng Tompun, Khan Meanchey to deliver a court
document to Ms Nicole Robertt (attached), whom Chanti and Chhork are suing for
‘illegal detention’. The relevant part of this document reads, in a
less-than-perfect translation:
Regarding
to the above subject and reference, I would like to inform His Excellency Mr.
Prosecutor that the facts of this issue are as follows: I have two children—one
is PHOUN ROSA, female, aged 11, and the other one is PHOUN THIDA, female, aged
9. In 2008, I took the two children to seek temporary shelter with Citypoint
organization because at that time I was very poor. In 2012, I had been working
very hard to earn my living that I had quite better living standard enabling me
to raise and send them to school like other children. I have been to the
Organization to ask my children back many times, but the Organizagtion refused
to give.
His Excellency Mr.
Prosecutor! In the name of their parents, I have been missing them very much
and wanted them to come back to live with me. As for the two children are
concerned, they also wanted to come and live with their parents. Obviously,
every time when I went to meet them, they would cry by asking me to take them
out from the Organization so that they can come and live at home.
His Excellency Mr.
Prosecutor! I saw that this act done by the Organization is a human illegal
detention because:
- My two children have no willingness to
live with this Organziation anymore.
- The thing that the Organization took my
two children for raising is not a normal adoption or acted as a legal gurdian.
Now the two children need to re-unite with their parents, but this Organization
used detentive measures. This act breaches article 1020, 1023, 1024 of code of
civil procedure.
Actually, the law does
not allow any one to take minor children to raise in such ways. This act is an
explicit breach to code of criminal proceudre in article 253.
Regarding to this
case, I would like to make the following request:
1. Punish Mr. Nicole Robertt in accordance
with laws.
2. Request the above named person to give
the two children back to me to take care of them personally.
As above mentioned, Please His Excellency Mr. Prosecutor, deliver
judgment as I requested above at your favorable decision.
Given that the ‘Anti Human Trafficking
and Juvenile Protection Department’ had no interest at all in the evidence I
had to present to it and given that the Ministry of Social Affairs has taken no
interest in the matter, I will introduce the audio-visual evidence that I have
which will leave little doubt in the mind of an impartial court as to the
sequence of events that led to Citipointe not only illegally removing Rosa and
Chita from the care of their family but of retaining custody for five years
after the parents, Chanti and Chhork, expressly asked that their daughters be
returned to them.
best
wishes
James
Ricketson
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