Fears Baby Asha About To Be Removed

[icyfroth]

Asylum seeker baby Asha's advocate says she has been banned from seeing Asha's mother by immigration police, as fears mount she is about to be taken away.

Twelve-month-old Asha was taken to Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane suffering burns she received from boiling water while in detention on Nauru.

Although she has recovered, doctors and nurses at the hospital are refusing to discharge Asha unless she is provided with a safe home.

Former Nauru detention centre caseworker and family advocate Natasha Blucher says when she spoke to the baby's mum on Saturday morning, something was wrong.

'I called mum at 9am, and she told me that about 7am, some immigration officers had come to her room and told her she was leaving,' Ms Blucher told AAP on Saturday.

She said Asha's mother was told she would need to leave with plain-clothes officers waiting for her downstairs and that she needed to go quietly.

'When asked, 'where are you taking me', they declined to tell her, and said it was neither the community, Nauru or a detention centre,' Ms Blucher said.

But at 8am, a doctor came in and told Asha's mum that she was safe, as he would not be 

discharging her unless he was satisfied a safe home was waiting for Asha.

That was the last Ms Blucher heard from the mother.

When she called at 3.15pm, she says she was told by immigration officers that Asha's mum could no longer make or receive calls.

'The Serco officers said they had been informed by border police that she was not allowed any calls - not even from her lawyers,' Ms Blucher told AAP.

'To hold someone incommunicado like that to me says you're about to do something that's not in their interest,' she said.

Refugee advocates have since surrounded the hospital in hope of blocking any officers who attempt to take Asha away.

GetUp Queensland spokeswoman Ellen Roberts said about 200 protesters were outside the hospital, and would maintain a 24-hour presence until they received confirmation about the family's plight.

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Hmmm...sinister moves afoot?

[debra9275]

no idea   

but you did bring that up

hope you've read what he said... he is implying that it will encourage refugees to harm their children just as was mentioned earlier in posts 5 and 7 I think it was.

[icyfroth]

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@debra9275 wrote:

because posts 5 and 7 made me think of the type of things bolt would put out

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How would you know what he puts out if you don't read him?

[debra9275]

that's a bit petty isn't it???

because I know the spin he usually puts on things

hope that answers it for you  

[icyfroth]

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@debra9275 wrote:

no idea   

but you did bring that up

hope you've read what he said... he is implying that it will encourage refugees to harm their children just as was mentioned earlier in posts 5 and 7 I think it was.

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So you do read him?

[Anonymous]

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@debra9275 wrote:

no idea   

but you did bring that up

hope you've read what he said... he is implying that it will encourage refugees to harm their children just as was mentioned earlier in posts 5 and 7 I think it was.

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but that was not what you said.

you said:

nowhere have I read any report that the mother harmed  her child on purpose either btw  - but then again I don't read Bolt

i can't see anywhere where bolt 

accuses the mother of harming her

child on purpose. 

the article you posted says she

was accidentally burned with baby

formula. 

[debra9275]

geez... that article I did after it was suggested that I face a lawsuit  

why do you insist on knowing that?? is it important to anyone??

[debra9275]

nowhere have I read any report that the mother harmed  her child on purpose either btw  - but then again I don't read Bolt

which means exactly what I said 

[Anonymous]

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@debra9275 wrote:

nowhere have I read any report that the mother harmed  her child on purpose either btw  - but then again I don't read Bolt

which means exactly what I said 

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yes, no argument there 

[debra9275]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

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@debra9275 wrote:

no idea   

but you did bring that up

hope you've read what he said... he is implying that it will encourage refugees to harm their children just as was mentioned earlier in posts 5 and 7 I think it was.

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but that was not what you said.

you said:

nowhere have I read any report that the mother harmed  her child on purpose either btw  - but then again I don't read Bolt

i can't see anywhere where bolt 

accuses the mother of harming her

child on purpose. 

the article you posted says she

was accidentally burned with baby

formula. 

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yep it was an accident--- 

bolt says She was burned in the Nauru detention centre in what we’re told was an accident

and then goes on to say

I’ve already noted curious things about their parents’ refugee claim and warned about the signal this will send to other parents with children in Nauru

[moonflyte]

Well yes it is important when you say Bolt said something he didn't and then you say you don't read Bolt. So you are just making it up or can you explain what you meant by Bolts comments you used to make a point if you don't read Bolt.