10-year-old boy takes own life in state care

A 10-year-old Indigenous boy has taken his own life while living in state care after being removed from his parents in 2020.

“Four days before Christmas 2020, the four children were removed from mum and dad due to homelessness — it is a poverty narrative,” Ms Krakouer said. “The day before yesterday, the mother and father saw two of their children — the first one, the four-year-old, unsupervised,” she said. In 2016, a 10-year-old Indigenous girl took her own life in the WA town of Looma while in foster care.

“We’re an affluent country. When Rudd gave the Apology in 2008 there were 8000 black kids in care — today we have 24,000 black kids in care. As a country we’re one of the worst in the world in relation to child removals.”

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