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The numbers are sobering.
By 14, a younger Perth lady had lived in 4 group houses, had been hospitalised thrice over threatening to kill herself and was bounced between 70 care preparations by the Department of Communities – all earlier than her demise by suicide in April 2022.
A coroner’s inquest is inspecting whether or not extra might have been finished to assist a younger lady who died by suicide after a life spent underneath the care of the Department of Communities.Credit: Fil photograph/John Donegan
Now, a coroner’s inquest is inspecting the circumstances surrounding {the teenager}’s demise in an try to determine any missed alternatives that might have doubtlessly saved the younger lady’s life.
The coroner’s courtroom was advised on Wednesday that the lady, identified solely as “Child RK”, got here to the eye of the division at simply six weeks previous.
She was the eldest of her 4 maternal siblings and was topic to “a number of” youngster security interventions earlier than she was taken into care at 4 after it was discovered she had been uncared for.
The lady saved up common visits along with her mom till she was seven, however needed to lower contact when an “incident” occurred, the courtroom was advised.
She bounced between foster carers, and in the end endured 70 care preparations throughout her quick life, and greater than 80 counselling periods.
Two foster carers had deemed the lady too troublesome to take care of, and counsel helping the coroner Daniel McDonald advised the inquest on Wednesday the lady had grow to be more and more violent and risky over time.
