Daily Archives: December 15, 2009

How do you stop your kid joining the army?

Posted by Wendy on December 15, 2009 No comments

armyshoeI can hardly believe that it was 27 years ago this year that I was a recruit in the Australian Army – 1982 to be exact – and I was only 19 years old. It was one of the best times of my life, I made some great mates, had some wild times but I have to say I don’t want it for my son. He is 22 and threatening to ‘join up’…

He had a go at enlisting a year ago but his eyes are not the best and during a training weekend he demonstrated in several ways that he could not see the target he was supposed to be shooting at and I guess you cannot have a soldier that cannot see to shoot. Poor William, he was so disappointed. He now wants to try entrance at a different level and use the Army to gain a University degree which sounds like a good idea – so long as he does not have to get on a ship and go anywhere overseas. He has had the first lot of medicals and said he and his fellow hopefuls had to lie down on a row of power exam tables in a large room while a female doctor went up and down the row asking various questions. It is amazing how shy men get when a female doctor is involved – and interesting why the female applicants get a male doctor and the guys get a female doctor…why?

I remember my medical assessment day; I accidentally walked into the wrong room and confronted a roomful of guys in their underpants all lined up before the doctor – and one of the girls who was enlisting with me discovered she was pregnant after we submitted our ‘samples’. I had to wait a month to know if I was successful – now my ‘baby’ is doing the same thing 27 years after his Mum did. How time flies…

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Vanessa George and Angela Allen have not got the punishment they deserve.

Posted by Wendy on December 15, 2009 No comments

Give them to the parents I say. I wont publish any more photos of those two repugnant women, if you wish to see them they are elsewhere on this site and easy enough to find.

For the next seven years Vanessa George will be incarcerated in prison, her cohort Angela Allen will spend a minimum of five years in custody and after those terms are served they will each be considered for parole. To release these two monsters – ever – would be a crime in itself as these two have proven how low they would stoop to use innocent children as their victims. This week came news that Vanessa George even sent Colin Blanchard naked snaps taken of her own daughter…this is an evil individual capable of going even further to the point of the possibility of killing a young child to gratify her repulsive urges…and more dangerously, those of the next man she becomes obsessed with. There lies the real danger – just what women like this will do to please a man.

Releasing these women from prison on the basis of how well they behaved and how ‘redeemed’ they convince authorities they are could only beg this question – how the hell could they ever be trusted again…?

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15 month old Millie Martin – how could a much loved child die like this…?

Posted by Wendy on December 15, 2009 151 comments

When I wrote the other day about Baby Peter Connelly and how it was only  matter of time before another child death hit the headlines I had no idea that it would be merely days – and that the child would be a tiny 15 month old girl living just a matter of miles from me.

Little Millie Martin, 15 months old, has not made it through to see her second Xmas. The 15 month old baby girl was admitted to Belfast City Hospital on Friday where she died from what are said to have been ‘horrific injuries’ and evidence of a serious sexual assault. Medical staff at the hospital and police who attended the case are reported to have been severely traumatised by the condition the child was in when she was admitted to the hospital. The partner of Millie’s mother, Rachael Martin, has been arrested over the alleged attack on this baby girl.

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The whole community at Glebe Park in Enniskillen where Millie lived, are outraged and shocked beyond comprehension. Tommy Gallagher, MLA for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, said it was “a horrendous incident”...

“Everyone is so shaken about what happened, they don’t want to talk about it…” he said. “I get the feeling that people will shiver when the full story comes out”…

I for one am dreading to read what this little girl endured in the hours prior to her death but for now we must keep her family in our thoughts, especially at this special time of year when Millie should have been getting ready to open her Xmas presents. Increasing speculation regarding the circumstances has prompted Millie’s mother, Rachael, to speak about the families grief in a one-off interview with The Impartial Reporter.

But it still begs the question: how the bloody hell did this happen???

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Above: Barry McCarney, partner of Millie’s mother, is charged with Millie’s murder.

Updated information 24/09/10 Mother, Rachael Martin, has been charged in relation to Millie’s death.

Update 3/12/2010: Accused Barry McCarney has again been refused bail – for the 3rd time this year – and remains in custody on charges of causing the death of baby Millie Martin. Millie had eleven broken ribs at the time of her death and clear evidence of recent sexual assault, the majority of the injuries had been caused in the weeks leading up to her death. Injuries which her mother, Rachael Martin, claims to have had no knowledge of. Ms Martin is currently on bail following her recent arrest for wilful negligence leading to her child’s death in December 2009. There is a common thread here; both McCarney and Martin are said to have co-operated fully with police investigations and both claim to have had no prior knowledge of Millie’s extensive injuries. This child stood no chance at all did she?  being surrounded by such blind people…

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