I, very bizarrely, ended up following the Cambodia exploits of Ellis as they unfolded on that forum. A man had died in Cambodia, and his birthplace was listed on his passport as being from my hometown…it was in local news, out of nosiness I googled his name etc and saw the thread about him on the Cambodia expats forum….then noticed the one about Ellis that had recently begun. I couldn’t find any trace of her after she left Cambodia, her Facebook accounts went cold. Funny to see she has popped up again. Unclear exactly what her full history is, but she was awarded a large sum of money as compensation, possibly due to things that happened when she was in care as a child. The money is given to her an allowance because she isn’t considered capable of managing all the cash at once, it should have been enough to set her up for life, but something must have gone wrong. She had at least 2 children taken off her into the care of their father, she then left the uk, travelled to other places as well but it was Cambodia where she drew a lot of attention to herself. She was out drinking and touting for sex, possibly on drugs, in the evenings, then during the day she was ‘rescuing’ kids off the street or donating (out of her own money) to poor families living in horrific conditions. She was a real mixed bag of a personality, and it wasn’t clear whether there was more behind her charitable acts (acting as a pimp looking for young girls etc), or whether she is just so messed up that she believed her version of charity was genuinely helpful. She at points even seemed to be taking young children off of their families, unclear whether that was consented. She was very active on Facebook, live videos etc nearly every day, then she left Cambodia suddenly and her accounts went dormant. I believe she has returned to the uk to have another go at getting access to her children (maybe citing her charity work with children as evidence of how her character had developed).
To hear that she was being visited by authorities in the uk daily doesn’t surprise me, I think that could be mental health support workers, if she has not met the threshold for sectioning, but needs to be monitored.