Travesty of Justice
Shortly after my face was plastered all over the Leader newspaper in the Sydney region of Australia, (see Leader article) a man named David Reid who was 48 years old at the time stabbed (murdered) both of his parents and then tried to suicide himself.
David Reid grew up in Sylvania which is the next suburb across from Sutherland where I attended the St. John the Baptist Anglican Church.
The article published in Leader at the time ‘Sydney son jailed for killing parents’ dated May 7, 2021 paints a picture of a loner, deranged, and deeply disturbed man. The fact is I knew this man when I was a child and he was younger than I was and attended the same Church activities that I was involved with.
“… Reid told a psychologist he felt a failure, his job was meaningless and he felt defeated. He felt his parents had given up on him, but the judge noted there was no evidence they ever neglected him and his feelings were based on his distorted perceptions. His parents had cared for him and provided accommodation for him throughout his entire life.”
Now, why do you think a devoutly Anglican pair of pious parents would be stabbed by their Son when my justice case which arrived by the local newspaper landed on his doorstep hey?
I was questioned by the Police soon after my case of sexual assault as a child had been heard through the Dowling Centre courts in NSW Australia, as to my knowledge of David Reid, and at the time I indicated that I have recollections of after-service visits to the Reid household as a child. It was common for parishioners to bullshit their virtuousness to each other after their obligations at the Church grounds.
I think it is a travesty of justice that a man who has been declared as ‘unsound of mind’ was not able to speak his truth no matter what he brought forward as to the reasons underpinning why he had remained single his whole life, had no children and no partners known and was still living with his devoutly Anglican parents at the age of 48. Put the jigsaw puzzles pieces together and it’s obvious to me what the fuck happened and why he felt “… a failure, his job was meaningless and he felt defeated.”
How do I know how he felt and why do I have empathy for David Reid? … because for a brief moment, in my own state of abject anger, I felt like doing the same thing he did to my own devoutly Anglican parents who had failed to report my own case at age 15, 19, and 22. I sought my own justice and brought my case forward through the criminal proceedings nightmare route and that’s why my mug landed on David’s doorstep … so I attribute and always will that despite my emancipation it has led to murders and suicides ever since… alienation from my family, countless death threats and vile shit thrown at me despite my own relentless pursuit of truth and justice.
Links
Sydney son jailed for killing parents - The Leader, May 7, 2021.
Sydney man David Reid charged with murdering his parents after being released from hospital - News.com.au, August 11, 2019.
