❤️HER NAME IS: CLEMENTINE WILKES!❤️

‘It’s hard to believe you are six, my beautiful girl’
Some 17 months after posting these words about her daughter, Tiffany Wilkes murdered her.
Clementine was killed by Wilkes, 54, at a property in Kenmore Hills, Qld, on September 29. Wilkes ended her own life. Clementine is the 19th Australian child lost to violence this year.
The repercussions around the eight-year-old’s death will reverberate for lifetimes and making that impact worse is the knowledge that the system failed the eight-year-old girl and her mother.
On the surface, or at least on social media, it appeared Wilkes was living the dream – raising her daughter in a loving home, going on holidays, achieving in her career.
But in 2023, around the time she wrote the words about her daughter, she was experiencing deep mental distress and had been sectioned under Qld’s Wilkes Mental Health Act.

Clementine was missing far too much school and then she was removed from mainstream education all together.
People close to Clementine are saying the little one should have been identified as being at risk and that her mother needed much more support than was available.
“Clemmie should have been known to the Department of Child Services because Tiffany was extremely mentally unwell,” a colleague of Wilkes told the ABC.
I wish I could say this is a rare case of falling through the cracks – every death I document has at least one point where that person could have been saved but the system designed to protect her, failed her.
Losing an eight-year-old girl in a domestic violence murder-suicide should be the reasons authorities need to fix the systems but I suspect, long after Clementine’s peers grow up and long after the headlines and the coronial investigations are forgotten, we will still be wondering ‘how could she do this?’.

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