Colt children care and protection order : AKA COURT DOCS
Bobby Colt (15), Betty Colt's son; his speech was not understandable. He needed encouragement with respect to personal hygiene. He had fungal infections on his toenails. He had a walking impairment. He had a severe psoriasis of the scalp. He needed urgent dental work. He was reported to be soiling himself and wetting his bed. He had limited reading skills. He was assessed as operating at kindergarten level.
42Albert Colt (15), Martha Colt's son; his speech was not understandable. He needed encouragement in respect of personal hygiene. He had fungal infections in his toenails. He needed urgent dental work. He appeared to have a hearing impairment. He was reported to be wetting his bed. He had limited reading skills.
43Billy Colt (14), Betty Colt's son, was underweight and there were growth concerns. He had a skin condition. He had fungal infections in his toenails. He needed urgent dental work. He had ophthalmological problems, and mild hearing loss. His speech was not understandable. He had a moderate intellectual disability, with poor spelling, reading, verbal, and numeracy skills.
44Jed Colt (14), Martha Colt's son, presented with a bacterial infection on the soles of his feet. He had severe bilateral hearing impairment. He needed encouragement in respect of personal hygiene. He had a tongue infection, and fungal infections on his toes. He needed urgent dental work. He was reported to be wetting his bed. His speech was not understandable. He presented as cognitively impaired. He had limited reading skills.
45Kimberly Colt (13), Raylene Colt's daughter, was initially abusive to caseworkers, having threatened one caseworker that she was going to cut her fingers off. She also said things like, "You wait till Charlie finds out. Charlie will come and get us." She was underweight, unable to clean her teeth, use toilet paper or comb her hair. She used her fingers to eat. She required urgent podiatry attention, and was observed to have fungal infections around her toenails. She had significant dental problems, including cavities requiring urgent attention and generalised marginal gingivitis. She was also reported as having optometry, hearing and speech issues. She appeared unable to read or write. Her school counsellor reported her as having a moderate intellectual disability. Her overall cognitive functioning was extremely low.
46Brian Colt (12), Betty Colt's son, had various fungal infections and gum disease. He did not understand showering. He had extensively decayed teeth, requiring multiple extractions and restorative work. He had borderline normal hearing with mild low frequency hearing loss. His eyes were misaligned, and he was found to require glasses. He was working at a Year 3 level, though he should have been in Year 6. When he first presented at school he could not read or write, count, or recognise numbers. He continued to display poor speech, low reasoning capacity, poor literacy and mathematical skills, and low range processing and working memory. His cognitive capacity was in the extremely low range of intelligence, and he demonstrated considerable academic delay.
47Karl Colt (12), Martha Colt's son, was very thin and was underweight. His speech was not understandable and he presented with mild hearing impairment. He needed encouragement in respect of personal hygiene. He had fungal infections on his toenails. He walked in a shuffling fashion. He had a loud breathing at night and appeared to have tonsil and adenoid issues. He needed urgent dental work. He had limited reading skills and presented as experiencing cognitive impairment. In episodes on 8 and 11 August 2012 he threatened to stab staff with pencils, and to cut the throats of staff.
48Ruth Colt (9), Martha Colt's daughter, upon removal, was chronically underweight and presented as neglected and malnourished. Her toenails were in a poor state, and she required urgent podiatry attention. She was unable to bathe or dry herself. She did not know how to use a toilet, or what toilet paper was. Her features were dysmorphic, and she had a misalignment of her upper front incisor teeth. She had significant dental cavities, and required urgent dental attention. Her speech was fragmented and stunted, and she appeared to have a hearing deficit. She could not read or write. Her cognitive ability was in the extremely low range.
49Dwayne Colt (9), Betty Colt's son, had gum disease and extensively decayed teeth, requiring multiple extractions and restorative work. When he first presented at school he could not read or write, count, or recognise numbers. He had effectively missed 5 years of formal schooling.
50Carmen Colt (8), Betty Colt's daughter, was extremely underweight. She had "shocking" dental cavities, and was unable to clean her teeth. She required podiatry treatment. She did not know what toilet paper was used for. She had eye problems. She could not read and had severely delayed language development and hearing problems.
51Nadia Colt (7), Martha Colt's daughter, upon removal, was significantly underweight and presented as neglected and malnourished. Her feet were unclean and black. She was unable to bathe or dry herself, including an inability to wash her hands, and her hygiene skills were described as primitive. She did not know how to use a toilet, or what toilet paper was. She had not seen a toothbrush before. Her teeth were decayed. She had speech delay, requiring therapy, and she was delayed educationally. Her visual comprehension index was in the extremely low range.
52Cindy Colt (5), Rhonda Colt's daughter, was medically examined on the day of her removal. She had a viral cold, but her health and hygiene was otherwise observed to be good, and her clothes were clean. She was suffering from an ear infection, although her mother had taken her to hospital two weeks prior to her removal to have this problem treated. She was unable to brush her teeth properly, though it is to be noted she was only 4 at the time. She could not bathe or dress herself, but unlike other children was reportedly capable of using toilet paper. But she preferred to eat with her fingers. She also required dental treatment, although it was submitted that her needs in this regard may not have been readily apparent to a lay observer, given the apparent absence of complaints of pain. Unlike the other children, Cindy presented as a well-spoken polite, bright, intelligent girl whose development was normal for her age. As previously noted, of all the children, the genetic testing demonstrated that her parents were not related.
https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision ... 94513db1b2
NEW SOUTH WALES
CLAN’S INCEST RAPE ‘NO SECRET’, JUDGE TOLD
Incestuous rape was "not a secret" in the infamous Colt family with a 17-year-old allegedly sexually assaulted by her uncle told to keep her mouth shut, a judge has been told.
Frank Colt, a pseudonym, is facing a judge-alone trial in the Sydney District Court eight years after authorities discovered about 40 members of the clan living in squalor on a rural property in NSW.
The 50-year-old has pleaded not guilty to raping his then-17-year-old niece, Petra, in the back of his car in February 2010.
The court heard that the two - like many others in the family - shared the same father.
"I tried to fight him off but he wouldn't listen," Petra, also a pseudonym, told the court on Tuesday.
"I was kicking and punching him, pulling his hair."
The Crown alleges another uncle began sexually assaulting her when she was a child.
"This was not a secret in the family," crown prosecutor Katharine Jeffreys said.
"The complainant's parents knew and ... told her to keep her mouth shut."
The court heard a recording of Petra telling police in 2018 that she, Frank and her mother shared a biological father - Tim Colt.
Tim was also father to her mother's 11 other surviving children and all but one of her aunt's six children.
The family moved across the country on several occasions, staying in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia at times, Ms Jeffreys said.
"This family was a most unusual one.
"This was a large family that lived together in relatively isolated locations and the complainant didn't go to school."
After the death of patriarch Tim Colt in Western Australia in 2009, Ms Jeffreys said the family spent 18 months at the rural property in NSW where the alleged sexual assault occurred.
Caravans and tents were the living quarters and no toilet or shower facilities were available.
Children spent the vast majority of their time on the property but some older adults including Frank would come and go, the court was told.
One night in February 2010, after Petra had a fight with her mother and went for a walk, she passed Frank's car.
"He grabbed me from behind and he threw me headfirst into the car," Petra said, detailing how she was held down as he forced her knees open.
The incident lasted 10 to 15 minutes before Frank threw her and her clothes out of the car and called her an "ungrateful bitch and a pig", Petra said.
Under cross-examination, the now-27-year-old said Tuesday was the first time she'd mentioned the specific slurs.
The court heard Petra told Victorian police in 2013 she was living in "a cult" only to retract it later before NSW detectives.
"I live in a cult, I never went to school," she told police during a visit alone to Swan Hill.
"All my aunts, uncles, cousins have all been sleeping together."
But after she returned home to Orange in NSW, she told police there she hadn't been in her "right mind" and had been "high on OxyContin".
Petra on Tuesday said she didn't recall withdrawing her original statement.
"No, I didn't say that," she said.
She denied making up the allegation that Frank raped her.
In August 2018, three years after breaking away from her family, she told police Frank raped her.
The trial resumes on Wednesday.
https://www.boorowanewsonline.com.au/st ... d/?cs=9397
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