A little boy is missing and his biological mother has blamed his foster parents for not keeping a proper eye on him.
Sounds a bit outrageous, doesn’t it? It’s quite a claim – and it was made last night, when the mother of William Tyrrell, Karlie Tyrrell, 29, spoke to Channel 7’s Sunday Night.
In the interview, Karlie, clearly distraught, says, “I don’t want to blame the carers, but yeah, they were responsible for looking after him, and they failed.”
Sounds a bit rich, coming from someone who wasn’t even responsible enough to keep the children she gave birth to – right? Pretty ungrateful. Well, that’s according to the social media backlash after the interview aired.
Karlie Tyrrell: ‘I don’t want to blame the carers, but yeah, they were responsible for looking after him and they failed’. #SN7: https://t.co/KKdsYFVgcx pic.twitter.com/OpTVcVRjNY
— Sunday Night (@sundaynighton7) March 4, 2018
If you were doing your job as a parent, it wouldn’t of been someone else’s responsibility to look after YOUR son. Kids aren’t removed from parents care for no reason at all, twice! Why are we pretty much praising people like this with air time and ????????
— Jamie (@theJ83) March 4, 2018
The story of the darling boy with the mega-watt smile is familiar to most Australians. Little William vanished from his foster-grandmother’s home in Kendall, on the NSW Coast, in September 2014.
His parents remained anonymous, but issued desperate pleas for his return. It was then revealed in 2017 that their anonymity was because William had been in foster care, after being removed from his biological mother, Karlie.
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My husband and I are foster carers and we absolutely have responsibility for our foster daughter’s well-being. If she went missing under our watch, I’d expect her birth family to blame us, even if it was a tragic accident, which Karlie acknowledges that it is.
Except in cases of extreme abuse or neglect, birth mothers mostly do love their children enormously, but love isn’t enough to ensure a child’s safety if they’re in a high-risk home due to a lack of parenting skills, drug use, domestic violence etc. The reasons for people to be in these kinds of situations are complex - it’s not as simple as telling them ‘do your job as a parent’.
So while it’s in the child’s best interests to be placed in foster care, I think it’s short-sighted and highly judgemental to make those kind of social media comments saying that birth mothers don’t deserve to grieve over their foster children. I feel very sorry for Karlie - and her foster carers - about this tragedy.
Totally different looking person to the one that spat in policewoman's face a few weeks ago.