https://www.jwire.com.au/praise-community-writes-gabrielle-upton/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Sun, 02 Nov 2014 09:46:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.jwire.com.au/praise-community-writes-gabrielle-upton/#comment-121987 Sun, 02 Nov 2014 09:46:22 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=47113#comment-121987 Everyone was delighted that Michelle was found safe and well. But the whole episode is very odd with significant questions hanging:
– the obvious question of what causes an 11 yo to runaway is not clear
– what sort of 50+ yo man takes into his home an 11 yo girl for two days before alerting authorities
– why in interviews was the father so apparently unconcerned as to who this man is and what happened
– what’s with the assault charges faced by the father
– DOCS must answer “no comment” but what did the journalist who made enquiries with DOCS have any reason to do so
– most worrying of all, why did the police initially NOT return Michelle to her parents, but to other relatives?
All quite odd.

]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/praise-community-writes-gabrielle-upton/#comment-121983 Sun, 02 Nov 2014 03:05:42 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=47113#comment-121983 Good that the 11 year old was taken in by someone and then reported to Anglicare staff who contacted the parents. Michelle look Celtic or Nordic so was she adopted as she does not look like her parents at all? Michelle has caused a lot of trouble and expense for her run away stunt.

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