Oh Australia

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**Hlaine Larkin mk2**

http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/12/incestuous-family-of-40-found-sexually-abusing-each-other-in-ramshackle-colony-4227611/

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Incestuous family of 40 found sexually abusing each other in ramshackle colony

A family produced by four generations of inbreeding have been found living in squalor in a remote valley in Australia, it has emerged.

The colony of 40 adults and children was discovered in a convoy of two broken-down caravans, a pair of sheds and two tents, with no running water, sewerage or electricity.

The ‘Colt’ family’s children were found to have severe physical and mental deficiencies and were regularly sexually abusing each other.

Kimberly, 13, spoke of committing sex acts with her nine-year-old uncle Dwayne, while her aunt, Carmen, eight, looked on.

She also told a clinician that she had had sex with Dwayne, had slept with her cousin Joe and regularly performed oral sex on another of her 12-year-old uncles, Brian.

Kimberly had problems with hearing, speech and sight, could not read or write and did not know how to use toilet paper or comb her hair.

Jed, 14, and Karl, 12, told their carers that they had had sex with their sisters Ruth, seven, and nine-year-old Nadia.

Police and social workers, alerted by concerned members of the public, were stunned when they found the community living in the hills near Yass, New South Wales.

The details of their case emerged from New South Wales children’s court which, in a rare move, agreed to make its findings public.

Court documents say there were five family groups, including Betty Colt, 46, who had 13 children with her brother, Charlie, father, Tim, and other family members.

Betty Colt’s daughter, Tammy, 27, had three inbred offspring, one of whom had died from the rare genetic disease Zellweger syndrome.

One local resident said he saw two women with ‘about ten children’ make sporadic visits to town.

‘They were never clean looking,’ he told news.co.au.

‘We always used to make jokes that if you came from that area, you’d be inbred.’

In September, children’s court judge Peter Johnstone ruled that the offspring be permanently removed from their mothers, one of whom is awaiting trial on charges of ‘procuring the removal of a child from care and recruiting a child for a crime’.

Some children have since been placed with foster families, while others are in treatment programmes for sexualised behaviour and psychological trauma.

However, Betty Colt has disputed the court’s account of their lives.

**djones520**

Words fail me.

**Medium of Death**

I wonder how they found them? Seems like a fairly massive area.

Pretty disturbing.

**chaos0xomega**

Wow, thats messed up... incidentally, that area appears to be absolutely gorgeous and contrary to my impression of Australia as "a whole lot of nothing thats trying to kill you, with a tiny bit of green along the southeast coast filled with stuff thats trying to kill you." Going to have to make a visit there if/when I ever get to Aus.

**Frazzled**

chaos0xomega wrote:
Wow, thats messed up... incidentally, that area appears to be absolutely gorgeous and contrary to my impression of Australia as "a whole lot of nothing thats trying to kill you, with a tiny bit of green along the southeast coast filled with stuff thats trying to kill you." Going to have to make a visit there if/when I ever get to Aus.

Agreed. Other then evidently having to deal with real life familes from The Hills Have Eyes this is a gorgeous revelation.

**motyak**

'Straya!

But seriously, not too surprised. There are bound to be some crazies living on the fringe.

**-Shrike-**

That's pretty fethed up.
As for the picture, Australia has forests? I thought y'all just lived in deserts with a couple o' rocks for company.

**motyak**

Nah we have some lovely looking forests. Full of poisonous murder bugs/murder reptiles/birds that kill you with a kick/STI-riddled bears, but lovely looking forests none the less.

**Soladrin**

Am I the only one thinking of the movie wrong turn right now?

**gossipmeng**

First thing that came to mind was the hills have eyes - I bet they were one generation away from ambushing travelers.

**Frazzled**

gossipmeng wrote:
First thing that came to mind was the hills have eyes - I bet they were one generation away from ambushing travelers.

Or one generation since they started ambushing travelers...

**master of ordinance**

Frazzled wrote:
gossipmeng wrote:
First thing that came to mind was the hills have eyes - I bet they were one generation away from ambushing travelers.

Or one generation since they started ambushing travelers...

Frazzled, you stole my line

That is fethed up, and has only served to convince me too be well armed when i travel to remote places.

**Snrub**

I blame this on England. This is what happens when you abandon your colonies.

Makes you wonder how they got this way in the first place.

**Bullockist**

I wonder if they are relatives of the famous Bean family from Scotland.

**OIIIIIIO**

Sure glad my country has gun problems rather than this. What would possess people to think that this is somehow okay? Do they not have access to sheep or some other kind of farm animal? I mean seriously, I would be a Dendrophiliac before I would engage in sexual congress with anyone that could even be REMOTELY related to me ... even if they were related by marriage.

**Matt.Kingsley**

There are crazy people out there, OIIIIIIO, really crazy people...

And unless it wasn't obvious this isn't the norm, indeed I doubt there are more than a handful of cases like this in Australia.

Honestly, I can't see how the hell this even happens, especially when they are that close to a town... Crazy inland folks...

**Ensis Ferrae**

Matt.Kingsley wrote:

Honestly, I can't see how the hell this even happens, especially when they are that close to a town... Crazy inland folks...

Perhaps its a lack of that ocean air? Salt deficiency from the same? Maybe you should start a business selling bottled, salted air to these crazy inland people

**sebster**

I saw this and thought "outskirts of Adelaide or country NSW", and sure enough...

Australia is a great place, but there are places on the periphery that collect some really strange sorts. We've had more than our share of whackjob cults and crazy family sects.

**chromedog**

There are a number of "remote" valleys even within NSW and several of them contain inbred populations. Not all of them are on the eastern side of the GDR (Great Dividing Range, the mountain range that runs a large chunk of the eastern side of the country, through three states.

So that alone is not enough of a clue to narrow down where in this state it could be.

-Shrike- wrote:
That's pretty fethed up.
As for the picture, Australia has forests? I thought y'all just lived in deserts with a couple o' rocks for company.

Oh, we have forests. Full of trees that EXPLODE.
And we're so generous, we GIVE them to other countries as expressions of good will.

"Here's your trees, hope you die in a fire." doesn't have quite the same positivity to it.

**motyak**

I was on exercise once and someone managed to lodge a tracer round in a gum tree in summer. Long story short, gak got hectic and just fire and ash everywhere.

**whembly**

sebster wrote:
I saw this and thought "outskirts of Adelaide or country NSW", and sure enough...

Australia is a great place, but there are places on the periphery that collect some really strange sorts. We've had more than our share of whackjob cults and crazy family sects.

Weird people... they're every where. I know we have ours here in the states. o.O

**Jimsolo**

I thought this was just a movie.

**hotsauceman1**

This is just vomit inducing, preteens with uncles and aunts younger then them, Women with 13 kids from their dads, brothers and uncles, who are somehow the sameperson, just UGH

**MRPYM**

I have no idea how to feel about this.

**Ouze**

When I saw this thread was about Australia, I thought it was going to be something awesome about Australia, and I was going to be able to post about how I'm not much of one for travel but I've always, always wanted to visit Australia.

But now if I do it just implies that I'm into incest so.... maybe I'll just keep that to myself.

**djones520**

Ouze wrote:
When I saw this thread was about Australia, I thought it was going to be something awesome about Australia, and I was going to be able to post about how I'm not much of one for travel but I've always, always wanted to visit Australia.

But now if I do it just implies that I'm into incest so.... maybe I'll just keep that to myself.

Keep that your into incest, to yourself?

**motyak**

Jimsolo wrote:
I thought this was just a movie.

Ha we do have a town called Wagga Wagga though, so good good they named it twice.

**Alfndrate**

>_>

<_<

Where's Kronk, we need someone to clean up that gene pool

**Palindrome**

Bullockist wrote:
I wonder if they are relatives of the famous Bean family from Scotland.

They hadn't started on cannibalisim yet....or did they......

How on earth did this situation come about?

**Monster Rain**

That's my main question as well., Palindrome.