Isaac Samuel was hailed as the "promised child" of Tracey, Golder's 40-something daughter. "I was brought back to Oz by insurance so I travelled first class, what a blessing as I needed the comfort.
(In the same newsletter, she said she had been home for a gall bladder operation. "Mummy Ruth prayed about a name and God gave her Isaac Samuel," Golder wrote. His mother couldn't care for him and had brought him to LIA's gates when he was 15 days old. Golder announced his arrival at Love in Action in a newsletter in early 2007. Ruth Golder called the kids who arrived at her orphanage names like Moses, Joshua and Daniel. Then, on August 16, an announcement that was met with glee in the city's bars and chatrooms: "Steve Morrish has resigned as executive director of SISHA." Within days, Gina Rinehart had stepped down from its expert advisory panel. Over the next three months, the rumours flew: now SISHA was in financial strife Morrish had diverted Rinehart funds donated for specific projects to cover SISHA's inflated operating expenses. Everyone, it seemed, had gone troppo.īut oppressive humidity and too much beer had nothing to do with what was to follow in the city dubbed Dodge City, Scambodia. Morrish's antics whipped up more than a little hyperbole. Afterwards, the words people threw around online to describe what happened were worthy of a film script: "a raid", "a lock-in", a "thug squad assault". Who did these parasites think they were to write such "vile dribble"? In late April last year, at an expat watering hole, he snapped after all, take a bunch of sweaty expat men with a few schooners of Angkor in them and some steam to blow off, and things were bound to go pear-shaped. Morrish, a stocky man who was known as "Bulldog" when he served in the Victorian police force, seethed as the online comments mounted. Why don't they stay at home and fight the good fight?" On one expat forum, someone calling himself "keeping_it_riel" wrote, "It sounds to me like one bunch of Aussie cowboys in the anti-trafficking industry going after another bunch of Aussie cowboys in the orphanage 'pity' industry - totally unsavoury, whichever way you look at it." Added "ken svay": "Another f.ing ex copper who likes the good life.
When observers started to criticise SISHA's role in the LIA closure, he started to get mad. Nevertheless, Morrish, 43, cared greatly about what people had to say about him and his NGO. Overlooking the main street of Phnom Penh. And, by all accounts, Gina Rinehart's injection of more than $1 million into SISHA in 20 had caused him to see stars. Another part of his brain was focused on his private security firm. He was spending time in Bangkok, where his beautiful Cambodian wife, Shuly, was having IVF treatment and he was working on opening a Thai branch of SISHA. He certainly wasn't there when Cambodian police and SISHA staff removed 25 remaining children in March.įor some time, Morrish's staff had watched him become increasingly detached. It's possible that Steve Morrish didn't know that SISHA (South East Asia Investigations into Social and Humanitarian Activities) subsequently received reports about the children's escape. At least two of them escaped over a two-metre-high gate in the middle of the night. In late January 2013, over about two weeks, 10 children ran away from the orphanage. Former volunteers and aid workers from other NGOs claim the children were malnourished and had untreated illnesses. Baby boys in her care were dressed in frocks. Ruth Golder during a raid on an Australian run orphanage in Phnom Penh.Īnd the storyline? Ruth Golder allegedly beat Cambodian children living at her Love in Action orphanage.
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