seeking director/producer
Thu, 23 Oct 2003, 08:24 pmWalter Plinge3 posts in thread
seeking director/producer
Thu, 23 Oct 2003, 08:24 pmDENIAL AND DISAPPEARANCE OF ARCHIVED EVIDENCE PREVENTS WOMAN BEING CLEARED BY DNA AUTHORITIES
AGAINST THE ODDS
I raise the question: 'What happens to an innocent man(person) condemned'? Drawing your attention to Australia's former Most Wanted and wrongly convicted woman Karen Tonkin who spent 18 years in prison as a result of a grave Miscarriage of Justice and a further 11.5 years on parole having been sentenced to Life. Can we imagine the terror of waking daily and knowing that 'I don't believe it! This could happen to me(you).' Don't think it cannot - it can. The accompanying adversity to the horror of injustice was a life behind bars where she was subject daily over a period of many years to drug and thump therapy, psychological mental and emotional abuse and other deprivations of liberty including sexual assault, rapes and attempts on her life. However, the Criminal Justice System has been keen to conceal Tonkin's treatment and the initial miscarriage, with everything from court orders and securely archived materials that could be used for DNA and clear Tonkin of the crime for which she has suffered in silence, Further Tonkin has been silenced by the courts, the State, the Church and the media. Don't tell me we really DO live in a free Democratic society where the basic human rights of people are acknowledged and addressed? Of course we know this is nothing more than a smoke screen. Why 'talk' Justice if you cannot actively make a stand. What happens to an innocent man condemned? Ask Tonkin who has not only survived but succeeded in overcoming unbelievable obstacles: Against The Odds. "What price human life?" Tonkin's moral and educational position has been reinforced at a cost none of would willingly agree to pay!
Asked why there has not been an effort to investigate her case Tonkin replies, "The last excuse was 'It was too long ago!' Then of course the 'evidence' disappeared. All the xhibits- the archived proof that would have proved that it was not my blood on the jeans.. They called me 'Scissor Killer for so long. The media made horrific headlines that influenced countless persons...when in reality there was and is no stab wound in or on the body. Amazingly, there is still no cause of death. Thirty years later it remains inconclusive and I am the scapegoat. I haven't killed anyone and I have yet to meet someone who is genuinely concerned with what is just and right. I have meant countless people from all walks of life over the last thirty years but I have yet to meet one just person. It is not important that I, a human have been wronged. But it will cost me lilfe. I have already lost thirty years out of my life. Do you have any idea as to what that is like? Can you imagine what it is like to be called SCISSOR KILLER by the media when infact no-one was ever stabbed!?"
1950- Born in Western Victoria, Australia
1973- Wrongly convicted and sentenced to Life Imprisonment, Queensland, Australia.
1989- Escapes: Australia's Most Wanted
1991- Re-captured New South Wales, Australia. Released on parole, Queensland, Australia.
2001- Nominated International Poet of the Year 2001
2002- Nominated International Poet of the Year 2002
2002- Admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Double Major.
2002- Commences Post=Graduate Degree: Master of Social Science (Criminology).
2003- Nominated International Poet of the Year 2003.
In more recent years Tonkin's research focus has switched to Cesare Lombroso's 'L'Uomo Delinquentes' or Criminal Man (the Born Criminal, Labelling and Social Learning Theory and Crime Prevention through Environmental Design and Education.
Inspirational Women's perspective and existentialist account of human existence. A sociological challenge for all people across the board.
AGAINST THE ODDS
I raise the question: 'What happens to an innocent man(person) condemned'? Drawing your attention to Australia's former Most Wanted and wrongly convicted woman Karen Tonkin who spent 18 years in prison as a result of a grave Miscarriage of Justice and a further 11.5 years on parole having been sentenced to Life. Can we imagine the terror of waking daily and knowing that 'I don't believe it! This could happen to me(you).' Don't think it cannot - it can. The accompanying adversity to the horror of injustice was a life behind bars where she was subject daily over a period of many years to drug and thump therapy, psychological mental and emotional abuse and other deprivations of liberty including sexual assault, rapes and attempts on her life. However, the Criminal Justice System has been keen to conceal Tonkin's treatment and the initial miscarriage, with everything from court orders and securely archived materials that could be used for DNA and clear Tonkin of the crime for which she has suffered in silence, Further Tonkin has been silenced by the courts, the State, the Church and the media. Don't tell me we really DO live in a free Democratic society where the basic human rights of people are acknowledged and addressed? Of course we know this is nothing more than a smoke screen. Why 'talk' Justice if you cannot actively make a stand. What happens to an innocent man condemned? Ask Tonkin who has not only survived but succeeded in overcoming unbelievable obstacles: Against The Odds. "What price human life?" Tonkin's moral and educational position has been reinforced at a cost none of would willingly agree to pay!
Asked why there has not been an effort to investigate her case Tonkin replies, "The last excuse was 'It was too long ago!' Then of course the 'evidence' disappeared. All the xhibits- the archived proof that would have proved that it was not my blood on the jeans.. They called me 'Scissor Killer for so long. The media made horrific headlines that influenced countless persons...when in reality there was and is no stab wound in or on the body. Amazingly, there is still no cause of death. Thirty years later it remains inconclusive and I am the scapegoat. I haven't killed anyone and I have yet to meet someone who is genuinely concerned with what is just and right. I have meant countless people from all walks of life over the last thirty years but I have yet to meet one just person. It is not important that I, a human have been wronged. But it will cost me lilfe. I have already lost thirty years out of my life. Do you have any idea as to what that is like? Can you imagine what it is like to be called SCISSOR KILLER by the media when infact no-one was ever stabbed!?"
1950- Born in Western Victoria, Australia
1973- Wrongly convicted and sentenced to Life Imprisonment, Queensland, Australia.
1989- Escapes: Australia's Most Wanted
1991- Re-captured New South Wales, Australia. Released on parole, Queensland, Australia.
2001- Nominated International Poet of the Year 2001
2002- Nominated International Poet of the Year 2002
2002- Admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Double Major.
2002- Commences Post=Graduate Degree: Master of Social Science (Criminology).
2003- Nominated International Poet of the Year 2003.
In more recent years Tonkin's research focus has switched to Cesare Lombroso's 'L'Uomo Delinquentes' or Criminal Man (the Born Criminal, Labelling and Social Learning Theory and Crime Prevention through Environmental Design and Education.
Inspirational Women's perspective and existentialist account of human existence. A sociological challenge for all people across the board.