The abusers drove past the child’s house again and again, just to scare him.
A group of bikers decided to stay. They camped outside that house for 16 days, dressed in black and wearing leather vests, until fear no longer ruled.
They are members of Bikers Against Child Abuse (BACA), a nonprofit charity with about 3.000 members around the world and eight chapters in Australia. They accompany child abuse victims to court, keep watch over their homes, and give them something they’ve almost never had: the feeling that someone big is on their side. Sometimes the roar of the motorcycles is enough.
Each came because of a wound of their own. ‘Reaper,’ a truck driver in his 30s, worked as a gravedigger and buried too many teenagers who lost their battle with depression. ‘Bull Ant,’ who has six grandchildren, wanted to give something back after a happy life. ‘Gidget’ joined out of guilt over what her children suffered, and her son ‘Young Dingo’ still breaks down when talking about his childhood.
According to ABC News, while the bikers accompany these children, some state agencies still question whether they should do so.