• 3 February 2005 – Cornelia is discovered in Baxter detention centre, after being identified in a photograph by her family
• 4 February 2005 – Cornelia is removed to an Adelaide hospital
• At this stage she doesn’t know her name or who she is
• 7 February 2005 – Cornelia’s sister (an ex-journalist) writes an article for the Sydney Morning Herald, in which she says “there are no simple answers, just as there is no simplistic question of blame or a scapegoat”
• 7 February 2005 – Lisa Davies from the Daily Telegraph feels differently. She rings Kenja 5 or 6 times asking about Cornelia. Politely, we decline to comment. We know the tabloid media!
• Intrepid Lisa refuses to comply and within half an hour, is on the steps of Kenja with her photographer.
• We do not want to see her
• Her photographer threatens to photograph everyone who comes into Kenja if we don’t comply
• We don’t comply
• Lisa and party manage to enter the lift. We are forewarned and our steel lift doors are closed.
• The dents they made by banging on the door are still there.
• We call the police who arrive and ask Lisa and party to leave.
• Lisa retaliates by writing a series of articles attacking Kenja over the next 4 days.
• 8 February 2005 – Front page article in the Daily Telegraph by Lisa Davies “Cornelia Caught by Cult”
• 9 February 2005 – Page 3 article in the Daily Telegraph by Lisa Davies and Nicole Azzopardi
• 10 February 2005 – Page 3 article in the Daily Telegraph by Lisa Davies
• 11 February 2005 – Lisa Davies claims Police are investigating Kenja. (Daily Telegraph, page 12). No Lisa – police had dropped investigations into one girl’s allegations against Ken. They dropped them in January 2005.
• This girl initially accused her father of indiscretions against her. But concerned for her father, when he was asked to leave Kenja – she agreed with him it was Ken, not he, who had interfered with her.
• This girl’s involved and confusing statement was contradicted by 2 other girls the police interviewed.
• So police closed the investigation.
• But after Lisa drummed up a storm in the Daily Telegraph and stated incorrectly that police were investigating (when they weren’t), Piers Ackerman stated that the Palmer inquiry regarding Cornelia Rau “must begin with an investigation of her Kenja episode”.
•  We found out later that it was not until at least March that the idea to go back to this girl’s story was suggested high up in police ranks (Mr Mutch’s friends on the Police Board?)
• And that is the story of the false allegations against Ken in 2005!
• Initially dismissed by investigating officers, the investigation was re-opened after pressure from the Cornelia Rau debacle.

published 4/7/2009

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