There's A LOT of info in this article including timelines, the foster care system, inquest, police investigation etc. BBM.
"Missing boy William Tyrrell had been “
handpicked” to be shuffled off for adoption and had a doomed life even before he was abducted, a
child welfare advocate claims.
William, who would just have turned eight years old if he is still alive, was “earmarked” for fostering and eventual adoption, child protection activist Allanna Smith said.
Ms Smith is responsible for William’s status as a foster child being revealed, after the state government tried to restrain her disclosure on social media that William was a ward of the state when he vanished.
The children’s advocate, who successfully took his case to the NSW Supreme Court, said authorities “certainly had William earmarked”.
“The removal was systematically calculated. The
plans to adopt without consent or knowledge ... was by all means heading down the path of a forced adoption,” Ms Smith told news.com.au.
William’s biological mother has already told his inquest how she was alarmed when she later found out her son was then being adopted out without her knowledge.
Under NSW law, a child can remain in short term care for up to 12 months, when they can be returned to their natural parents or moved into long term care, which requires a court order.
Also legally represented is the NSW Police, who have been riven with dispute over their investigation of missing William.
Allegations have been made of a bungled police investigation and a focus on individual suspects.
Potential persons of interest were not formally interviewed early on, the disappearance was treated as a missing person search rather than a potential case of foul play.
William Tyrrell’s doomed life
