Did anyone read this story over the weekend?
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/grieving-mother-toni-mccaffery-was-vilified-by-anti-vaccin...
THE family who lost their four-week-old daughter to whooping cough have revealed the insensitive harassment they have endured at the hands of the anti-vaccination campaigners.
Toni and David McCaffery have broken their silence on the four years of vilification they have endured since baby Dana died in March 2009.
The attacks against the family include anonymous letters, cyber-attacks and heartless, abusive messages telling them to "harden the f ... up".
They have been accused of lying about their daughter's death and being part of a conspiracy to force vaccinations on others.
Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) founder Meryl Dorey even posted her own anti-vaccination information on Dana McCaffery's memorial website.
Ms Dorey also demanded autopsy reports from public health officials the day before the four-week-old baby's funeral on March 13, 2009.
When asked by The Sunday Telegraph to comment on these allegations, Ms Dorey declined, saying she would answer the questions on her own website.
Toni McCaffery said: "The lunacy and the venom directed at us has just been torture - it's been frightening, abhorrent and insensitive in the extreme."
She said she had received three anonymous letters at her home which included pamphlets from the AVN.
The family's campaign to raise awareness of the importance of immunising children has made them targets of harassment, she said.
"They hated us because our child died," Ms McCaffery said. "We were being told you're horrible and you'll kill other people, diminishing what my child went through, that she was weak anyway and it was natural selection."
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