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A Queensland mother describes the "soul-destroying" ordeal of her teenage daughter being sexually abused by paedophiles and becoming addicted to ice while ...

"I was scared she was going to kill me. That means we need services focusing on the underlying causes that are making children unsafe. She doesn't. No child deserves this. Helena said because her child was in care, as a mother she was "perceived as the bad person straight away". She said it was only after the paedophile went to prison and her daughter was moved to a bigger city that life started to improve. She said a safety plan was put in place for her daughter but she later discovered that a case worker "was contacting the paedophile to check if [my daughter] was ok … and transporting Xanthe to the paedophile's address". Helena said she was "shut out" by the department. She said her daughter would constantly go missing — "she was with the paedophiles". "When her drug addiction started, the department refused to accept that it was happening," she said. - Helena said at eight separate meetings, she begged the Department of Child Safety to transfer her daughter to another location, but was "shut out" "They injected her with meth (methamphetamines) in the neck and she has been addicted to it since," she said. A Queensland mother has described the "soul-destroying" ordeal of her teenage daughter being sexually abused by paedophiles and becoming addicted to ice while she was under the care of the Department of Child Safety, saying every day was "just waiting for her to die".