A child protection worker has told the trial of two Floreat parents their attempts to get the girl medically assessed were ignored and dismissed as ‘ludicrous’.
A child protection worker’s repeated attempts for four months to have a Perth teenager medically assessed were dismissed and ignored by the girl’s parents, a court has heard.
On Friday the worker told the court that dance school teachers, and parents of other children who danced at the school, lodged complaints with Western Australia’s Department of Communities over the girl’s emaciated appearance. After the GP refused, the man then emailed the Department claiming the girl had been medically assessed by his mother, a retired nurse and midwife. But the child protection worker told the jury further investigations found that was untrue.
By April 1, 2021 after pressure from the child protection team, the parents did take the girl to see a GP at Hollywood Medical Centre in Nedlands who then told a child protection worker she was “gravely concerned”.The parents allegedly filled out paperwork at the surgery stating the girl was 14, which they later claimed was a mistake. She was in fact nearly 17 years old and on that day weighed 27.3 kilograms at 147.5 centimetres tall.
Instead they allegedly insisted they would “take her home and feed her up” but refused an ECG saying it was “too intrusive”.
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