Unlike the names Hannah Clarke, Jill Meagher, Daniel Morcombe and most recently Cleo Smith – another WA child that went missing in the night – the story of what happened to the Mullaleys in 2013 hasn’t been seared into the psyche of Australians in quite the same fashion.
Time and time again the Mullaleys were faced with what they say was blatant discrimination at the hands of police. Like the police request that Tamica go home and produce a birth certificate to prove that the man who took Charlie wasn’t his birth dad – as if who took him mattered. Like the six thousand Google hits Charlie had in media mentions compared to the 70 million for Cleo.
Because this isn’t just about police discrimination – it was media discrimination, too.
“If you’re a white baby and you’re abducted, everyone knows your name. People know Cleo’s name, they know the Beaumont children. But I challenge people to name the Bowraville children who were murdered, and no one outside of the Indigenous community in WA have even generally heard of baby Charlie, ” Mr Newhouse told Mamamia.
Source: Justice for Tamica and Charlie Mullaley: 9 years, no action.