EXCLUSIVE
It took a brave teenager and stealing time on a laptop to end the reign of terror and abuse that twisted parents inflicted on their children in the family home.
The end finally began with an email to the police that simply asked, ‘Can I get a welfare check…?’
A few days later, the teenager mustered the courage behind her anonymous email account to finally tell a police officer: “I’ve been abused my whole life and I’ve had enough…”
This triggered a raid that led police to discover the house of horror lurking in plain sight in the Sydney suburbs.
Detectives swooped on the home and discovered that the children had been beaten, starved and spanked by their parents for years.
Their scars, wounds and bruises were hidden from the eyes of neighbors because parents forbade their children from wearing shorts or any clothing that exposed skin from collarbone to ankle.
Children were prohibited from going to school, socializing with friends, attending public places or stores, or playing sports. Girls were not even allowed to cut their hair.
The large family had lived at a series of rental addresses across Sydney, often in the squalor of open sewage and vermin infestation.
The large Islamic family lived in squalor in a house with sewage and vermin, where children were enslaved to stay clean or risk having their father whipped with an electric cable.
Initially, the girls were terrified that their parents would find out about their reports to the police.
A plaintive email to police said: “Hello, I hope you are well.” I’ve been abused my whole life and I’m fed up. But I don’t want the people who did that to me to go to jail. Despite what they have done to me I will never be the same’
Their multiple children, ranging in age from five months to 19 years, had been tied inside their “disgusting and disgusting” homes and subjected to unimaginable horror.
Their father’s iron fist saw him attack with his favorite weapon, a bent electrical cord, whenever his sons failed to complete his list of slave chores.
All names and identifying factors in the case, including exact family size, are redacted under New South Wales law.
But father S, a 57-year-old Middle Eastern-born fixer, and his converted Islamic wife, C, 46, ran a “controlling and disciplined domestic environment for their children who followed strict Muslim religious beliefs,” according to police.
One daughter, H, told Daily Mail Australia they were basically fed scraps and dressed in rags.
“Used items, old things from people we knew or things rejected from the market,” he said.
“The food was food that was thrown away or would have been given to the animals because they were too old to eat, and that my father got for us,” she said.
It can now be revealed for the first time how their father beat them until they bled and how their unemployed Centrelink recipient mother complied with the assaults, as both parents pleaded guilty to multiple charges.
So may the details of the secret email campaign of two of the sisters carried out clandestinely with the police and risking violent reprisals against the terrified brothers.
More than once, the girls, then ages 17 and 19, refrained from telling the police the truth and then flirted with the danger of discovery while secretly recording attacks on their little brothers.
Father S will be sentenced on Tuesday for 26 offences, including assaulting his five-year-old sons and ten-year-old daughter on the back, legs and arms for more than 15 minutes.
The girl was unable to sit up afterwards and the scratched marks from the whip, shaped like electrical cables, were visible for weeks.
S also bit her elementary school daughter, called her “fat,” pushed and spanked her, stepped on her face, and hit her four-year-old son in the mouth until he bled for not eating vegetables.
According to New South Wales Police data obtained by Daily Mail Australia, “throughout the victims’ lives, each of them was subjected to physical abuse and mistreatment at the hands of S and C.
The 57-year-old father has pleaded guilty to 26 crimes against his own children and will be sentenced on Monday
The three older sisters gradually informed police by email about the abuse, recording video and audio on their parents’ tablets.
Initially, the police scared the sisters by demanding that they go to the police station in person.
Enslaved, starved and beaten, the older girls finally mustered the courage to secretly email the police and escape their lives of torture.
The house of horrors where historic abuse occurred against multiple children from late teens to elementary school age.
“These acts were frequent and often occurred in full view of the other victims.”
Among their list of chores (cooking, cleaning, vacuuming, mopping, wiping surfaces, doing laundry, feeding the animals, and feeding, bathing, and caring for their younger siblings), the older girls had been homeschooled.
But not by NSW Department of Education standards and, as H told Daily Mail Australia, they had been left without access to television or the internet.
“You basically… taught yourself from books,” he said.
A house was deemed uninhabitable when “the bathroom was basically in the kitchen and sewage was flowing through it.”
the family moved to another house 10 minutes away by car, but The whippings and beatings continued.
In early 2022, the family’s second eldest daughter, H, who was about to turn 18, created a secret Instagram account and email address by accessing her parents’ laptop while they slept.
One of the daughters opened a secret Instagram account and email address in early 2022 and the sisters told police they had “had enough.”
His sisters, ages 19 and 16, were aware of the story. H posted photos of cats, rabbits and goats on Instagram.
In March 2022, the children’s mother, C, stridently told them that the house had to be “immaculate” for their father S.
C. ranted about how his children were the thing he regretted most in his life, how much he hated them, and how he wished all his children were dead.
Within days, H contacted the New South Wales Police through a secret email account using a pseudonym.
She wrote: ‘Hi, can I get a welfare check at (the family’s Sydney address)? I want to remain anonymous, please.’
In the exchanges that followed, mainly with an officer ‘DH’ (name withheld), the police initially did not understand how restricted H and his brothers were in reporting the abuse.
On 11 March 2022, H’s 19-year-old sister A wrote to NSW Police: ‘I am an adult daughter living with my parents and siblings. My parents are sometimes abusive.’
Ten days later, an email said: ‘Hi, I was wondering if I could talk to you about some options I have for dealing with physical and emotional abuse. Thank you.’
On March 22, the Const. DH wrote to H: ‘Good morning. What can I do to help you? How old are you too?
H to Const DH: ‘Hello, I hope you are well. I’ve been abused my whole life and I’m fed up. But I don’t want the people who did that to me to go to jail. Although what they have done to me will never be the same. I can’t tell you my name or my age.
March 24, 2022, Const DH to H: ‘Hello, I understand the situation… however I need information… so I can properly investigate. If you could tell me a time when I could attend the (nearby) police station, please.’
H’s response: ‘Please forget I said anything. I thought I deleted the message. Thanks anyway.’
On March 29, H’s 16-year-old sister heard her father yelling at someone and grabbed a tablet to start recording audio of the outburst.
He saw S get angry with 13-year-old K. for not cleaning something. K was crying. S said, ‘Do you see why you’re a pig? Tell me what you are!’
K replied: “A pig.” S replied: ‘You had no intention of ever cleaning it, next time I’ll kill you, you understand?’
On April 4, 2022, H wrote to Const DH: ‘Hey, I hope you’re okay. I have a question for you. How much evidence do you need to prove child abuse and domestic abuse as evidence?’
The now abandoned property had sewage running through the bathroom and kitchen and the children were allegedly fed with scraps and clothed in donated rags.
April 13, H to Const DH: ‘I wonder if the voice recordings, videos and photographs are enough to prove child abuse/domestic abuse.’
The police went to the family home to carry out social controls from the beginning of March, but the abuse continued.
In late April, 2022 S confronted H at dinnertime and took her to the bedroom.
“I’m not going to kill you because I don’t want your shit on me,” he said.
But I hate you and I can’t stand you. Grab your things and go… Do you want me to beat you or are you leaving?’
H replied, “I don’t care what you do to me.”
On June 17, 2022, two senior officers attended the family home.
While two of the older girls denied that anything was wrong or that they had sent emails recording abuse to the police, the 16-year-old sister eventually relented.
He told one of the officers: ‘My parents abuse all of us, they hurt us and they don’t let us do anything… all our lives.
“Not so much for us older kids lately, but I can’t take it anymore.” Can you help us?
S and C were arrested. Originally charged with a combined total of more than 60 crimes, they prepared to face trial.
However, C pleaded guilty to a shortlist of multiple domestic violence-related common assault charges earlier this year.
The father will be sentenced at Downing Center Local Court on December 17.