"Auld told me to say nothing or lie": hatho

Carenne Special School employee hatho has told Carenne Gate about an conversation she claims to of had with Michael Auld on 29 January 2010 where she claims that Auld told her to say nothing about the circumstances leading to Nathan Carter's stress leave in 2009.

hatho claims that Auld told her that Carter had been sacked from Carenne and that he expected there to be some "fallout" from the decision to sack him. hatho then alleges that Auld showed her an email which Lee Churches had received informing her that Carter had a solicitor looking after his harassment claim. hatho claims that she had already been shown a letter from Carter's solicitors about it by Neil Moon.

hatho says that Auld then told her "the same thing applies as last year, just do what Janette said and we will be OK, if you are asked anything say nothing, you cant comment on anything because of all the other stuff going on."

Auld is alleged to have then said "if something does happen with all this, you might have to think of who we are going to blame for this, if we have to blame Lyn and say she told us to do those things."

Carenne Support puts teacher/parent before others again

One of Carenne Special School's newest whistleblowers "Karachi" has claimed that Janelle Kemp, a teacher at Carenne who received a permanent appointment under suspicious circumstances (much like her niece who also teaches at Carenne) was given special treatment by Carenne Support when it purchased a walker for her son valued at $6,200 last year.

Karachi claims that this purchase, authorised by Carenne Support CEO and director at the time Christine Porter took precedence over students who had been waiting for equipment for much longer with one student's equipment needs being valued at $800 still not being purchased due to the student's parents not being popular with Ms Porter.

Janelle Kemp first came to Carenne Gate's attention when it was revealed that she had been given special transport assistance through Carenne Support while a parent who lived out of town had been refused.

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.

Lee Churches calls student a "slut", claims to have been "burned" by family

Once again, former Carenne Klansman turned whistleblower nedkelly has provided evidence showing how Carenne Special School assistant principal and Carenne Support director speaks about people when she believes they can not hear or see what she is saying.

This new piece of evidence also gives us an insight into the operation of the Carenne KLAN. In the email, sent to seven people, Churches calls on them to go to the principal next week and tell them that the placement of a student who she calls a "slut" is a bad idea after Churches' discussions failed.

Churches also claims that the student should not be at Carenne but Bloomfield, which nedkelly tells me is the local mental hospital in Bathurst. She says that the student would ruin "our beautiful school."

The email goes on to provide copies of emails sent to the principal by Churches about the student, presumably to keep her Klansmen informed of where she is up to.

Churches claims there to be a "deep history" with the child from their previous enrolment at Carenne, that she had a "worrying and intense" family and claims that they certainly got their fingers burned with this student before.

Churches goes on to blame the student about an alleged sexual liaison and claims that the student made it up and instigated it and claims that "some of our beautiful boys will be at risk of serious accusations."

Lee Churches' unprofessional behaviour

nedkelly has once again provided some evidence about unprofessional behaviour exhibited by Lee Churches, assistant principal of Carenne Special School and alleged leader of the Carenne KLAN in an email she claims she was forwarded by Churches.

nedkelly claims that she was with Churches when she was told by principal Lyn Duncan that there was a complaint about her and Margaret Rowe for swearing in the staffroom. After being told of the complaint, Churches said "That fucking slut Coleen, I am fucking sick of her bullshit, she is nothing but a trouble making slut, I am going to make life so hard for that bitch". nedkelly claims that Margaret said nothing about the allegation.

nedkelly says that Duncan then printed and showed Churches a copy of an email that Coleen Leis had sent her complaining about the conduct of staff in the staffroom.

That night, Churches sent another rant to Duncan about the aide who had complained about her, firstly apologising for her unprofessional behaviour and then launching attacks on Mrs Leis, saying she was "nasty to many staff members and is a difficult aide to work with".

The email and her conduct show how assistant principal Lee Churches will cause trouble for anyone who dares to complain about her.

hatho provides partial proof of email being leaked

Former member of the group of staff at Carenne Special School identified as the Klan turned whistleblower, "hatho" has provided Carenne Gate with partial proof that special transport manager Gail Vasic and Carenne principal Lyn Duncan leaked a complaint email to a hacker via Carenne Support CEO and then director Christine Porter.

We reported last month that Vasic had been involved in the leaking of a complaint by "Jake Rosenberg"

In the email, Duncan acknowledges that the contents must remain confidential as a student is named. Hatho claims that Duncan provided the complaint email to Porter so that a hacker known only as "Nick" could trace who Jake Rosenberg was.

It shows the dirty tactics senior DET staff will go to to protect themselves.

Carenne Support acknowledges faeces in bus

On 15 February 2010, parents were sent home a letter from Bus Co-Ordinator Christine Porter acknowledging that there had been a "faeces stain" on the front seat of the bus for the afternoon run on 8 February 2010 as reported on this blog.

In the letter Ms Porter apologises for students being subjected to a "health risk" and for having to "endure the smell for the duration of the trip". In the letter, Ms Porter also states that Carenne Support has introduced new procedures to ensure that students would not be exposed to health risks.