Open letter to the Serious Misconduct Unit

To Whom it may concern,
Over the past year, the taxpayers of NSW have had the opportunity to get an insight into the malfeasance, corruption and child abuse going on at Carenne Special School in Bathurst. Over this past year, your unit has joined in with the government in conducting a smear campaign against those releasing this information such as myself, Julie Brown and other well known activists while also trying to discredit anyone who comes forward with information.

Throughout all this, one name keeps surfacing - your assistant principal at Carenne, Lee Churches.

Churches has been accused of slamming kid's fingers in doors, shaking them and yelling abuse at them. She is a director of Carenne Support Limited, an organisation which has been shown to be abusing the SNTS, have misled the Bathurst community to obtain two buses which were purchased for the school, have had the CEO and director bully and harass parents, have a therapy program for a select few, been leaked confidential information from within the department, had a director charged over an attempted carjacking and who ran a bus for three days with human faeces on the front seat.

Churches, through her IP address has been identified as carennetruth who bullies and harasses whistleblowers and parents on internet forums. Her IP address as shown in logs for January and most of February was 124.179.35.120 and from February to early May was 121.217.216.41.

Churches has been implicated in the suppression of documents under FOI, supplying her son with alcohol when he was aged 15, ranting and raving about staff who complain about her, telling the principal that a well known whistleblower's employment should be blocked and that he has an evil plan, being involved in questionable staffing arrangements and making racist comments.

Besides this, she is facing serious criminal charges in Bathurst Local Court, believed to be prosecuted by another whistleblower and has circulated an email claiming that a student was a "slut" and that a young student was to blame for an alleged sexual liaison.

All these allegations and the woman is still employed by the department. Why?

Given the serious allegations surrounding this assistant principal which you continue to ignore she should be stood down pending a full investigation.

Joel Atkins.