Robin Recalls The Incident When Her Son Got Arrested And How The Other Parent's Reacted

Robin Recalls The Incident When Her Son Got Arrested And How The Other Parents Reacted

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Robin here now with Koreos the podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
So the headline today is that Queensland youth crime we
have the worst youth crime in the whole country. We
have the highest numbers. Not per capita, we have the
most out of everyone, and places like New South Wales
double our population. Yeah, so we're more than We're more
like four times if you think per capita.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, it's significant and it's terrible. And you know, when
we've talked about this sort of stuff in the past,
I've always said that I do feel parents have some responsibility,
but not all right. However, it did remind me, and
I've been working a lot on my book currently, which
is going to come out hopefully by the end of
the year, but it did remind me of an incident
that I wrote about and I'd forgotten about until yesterday,

(00:47):
where I was in a situation with one of my
children and there was a group of boys and they'd
been busted on suspects suspection of using drugs, right, and
so they were taken to the Indrapilli police station. And
the reason why this story has some sort of significance
is there was about eight of us adults who were
all sitting we'd all been called by the drug squad

(01:09):
for the police. We're all sitting in the reception area
of Interrapili police station and we were waiting for one
other parent to come. So we're sitting there quietly. It
was interesting to see some parents were just kind of
fairly relaxed and calm about it all. Some of them,
like me, were like in tears and freaking out. And
then this one woman came to the sliding doors of

(01:30):
the front of the police station and started to scream,
and she was screaming at the police officers that she
demanded her child to be released back into her custody
because clearly he'd done nothing wrong. We're talking fourteen, fifteen,
sixteen year old boys. He'd done nothing wrong. That it
was obviously the fault of all the other children and
those parents, she said, with the sweeping our hands. She

(01:52):
would not step into the threshold of the police station.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
So she screamed from outside.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
She screamed from outside. It was kind of funny actually,
because the sliding door it meant that a police officer
had to come out and say to her, look, can
you please come in. We're just trying to get to
the bottom of this you know, like we're trying to understand,
and she absolutely, point blank refused. Now all the kids
had been drug tested. It turned out that her child,
even though reeked, had not actually been.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
A part of it, okay, hadn't taken it, and that.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Was the case for all of them in the end,
Like I want to protect the innocent here, but there
had been some issues around it. So yes, So the
police officer said okay, and they released the child, and
the child walked out with his nose in the air.
The kids had all heard what was going on behind
the scenes and had said that this kid was actually
one of the ringleaders. But he had proudly told the

(02:46):
other kids it didn't matter. His parents would believe that
he'd never do anything wrong and he would never get
into trouble. And I remember so clearly, and this is
what I wrote in the book that it was like
I just looked at that kid and thought, you've got
no hope. You're a fourteen year old child and your
parents are claiming that you can never do anything.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Wrong, So please let him go. He just walked out.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Smiling, Yeah, smiling, absolutely smug. If you're so interesting to
see where he is now, Yeah, yeah, of course. And
I don't know, but I mean, you know, sometimes and
I think all of us have examples of parents who
just don't believe that their child could possibly do anything
wrong or don't care that their kids are in trouble, and.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
It never turns out good. It never turns out good.
If you think your kid's perfect, right, you're gone.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
I mean, I'm curious, and you can be totally anonymous
thirteen one oh six five. But those statistics have to
be for a reason. Yeah, and you know, maybe that's
part of it. Maybe Queensland is we care too much
about the sun and not enough of it. I don't know.
I mean, I'm being flipping, but you know, it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
It is, especially that we're so much worse than the
rest of the country. Thirty one oh six five is
our number. Yeah, where does it lie? Parents? And you've
seen parents, I'm sure you've seen parents that that failed
to act or and just didn't do what they needed
to do. And it's frustrating when you see it in
public and like bullying, Oh, my kids wouldn't bully that.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
You know, my kid's not a bully. Really, you know,
someone is instead.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Of just accepting what just happened and be like okay,
well what I've got to do something? Yeah,