Nearly 5 years later.....

Still the case is ongoing..... An offer has been made by the defendants which has been 'on the table' for quite some period of time for the sum of £1500. How little monetary value is placed on the destruction of a family? I wonder if this is reasonable in the circumstances? I have until tomorrow to decide, however there has never been a contest between the truth and money.....

Still going, 4years later....

This pretty much sums up how I feel. I am making progress, as one door closes another two have opened.  Cases still ongoing, I hope to give more detail soon.


Never give up when you are right, as you have right on your side :)

To my son for Christmas x

Every day i think of you, the pain just doesn't fade,
I wanted you home but the decision had been made,
You were twelve when they took you,
You were kidnapped by the States.
A part of me has gone with you, it can never be replaced,
If I saw you tomorrow would I even know your face?

At some point in the future you will know the truth,
Of how we fought for you throughout your youth
The tears we have shed, the ups and downs
They made a mistake and you paid the price
I have a few things left of you, kept in my heart
You were torn from your family we shouldn't be apart

Very Brief Update....

There is a lot going on behind the scenes, I will one day be listened to. I thought I would like to share with you quotes from each of my last two Appeal Court hearings and then ask a question that perhaps you could help answer.....


Quote one "He (my husband) is an innocent man"

Quote two "It has never been implied that you have done anything wrong" (referring to me)


These two quotes are from Appeal Court Judge's, one as recently as last week.


Now the question is "Why did Social Services kidnap my sons?"

I know it has been some time.....

For those of you who may follow this blog who may have hoped I have faded into the background and gone away, I haven't. I am still there and fighting for justice, which will be mine one day, whether it takes just a few months or years makes no difference to me as I have all the time in the world. For those who have wronged me, their day will come as karma does have a funny way of catching up with people.

At present I have two legal actions ongoing, I have a third that I am in the process of compiling, then I anticipate at least another two. I have neglected updating my blog, but in some ways have had little to say as I don't want to give anyone an unfair advantage! I will always be available for anyone who is experiencing any problems with Social Services and can be contacted through the comments section, putting not for publication if you wish your message to be private and confidential. Earlier I was looking through such messages that I have received since the beginning of this blog and you would be shocked by some of the content.

On Mother's day the 3rd April 2011, it was the 3rd Anniversary of the kidnapping of my children. Still here, with not one person accountable for their illegal family destroying actions.

Here is the perfect definition of a Jersey Social Worker:

Vigilante

(n). A Vigilantee is an unauthorized person who conduct a trial on the accused persons with or without collecting evidences or ascertaining the truth and confer punishment to the accused considering the depth of crime involved. A Vigilantee is not legally authorized person to do such trials and order punishments. They get the authority from social status, knowledge, wealth, reputation, physical power etc.

A New Website....

I would like to introduce a new website and also congratulate its' creator, a person with courage and determination who wants to see change and help bring in the changes. 

 Copied from the main page:

"This website has been set up with the intention of assisting those families and individuals who have been abused, deceived and harmed by the operation of the Social Services, and particularly the Children's Service, in the island of Jersey. From what I have read, seen and heard, the methods used by the States of Jersey Children's Service ape those used in mainland Britain with the same disastrous consequences.

One problem that each family or individual who is subjected to abuse by the Children's Service has is that they have no idea just how common this process is and this makes it far easier for the States to ignore each injustice in turn. I am asking for a show of hands and I hope that this will lead to a formation of a local group or formal association.

Current areas of concern:
Where the staff of any of the services have acted beyond the boundaries of the law.
Where the staff have not kept to their own published procedures.
Where the staff have lied.
Where the staff have operated with bias.
Where the staff have acted with incompetence."










 http://www.anti-antisocialservices.co.uk/

Unite and Fight!

I know I have not posted for quite some time but I am still here, planning my next move in what has now become my game of chess. The Privy Council has turned down permission to appeal - so I have come up with one more path of redress before the ECHR. I will be a bit sneaky and keep my plan to myself but be assured I will enjoy it! Do I expect to win? Well for now no, but I will eventually, for every knockback it just makes my case stronger.


I know there are many others who have suffered at the hands of the Jersey SS. Now is the time to take action. In England there is a class action being brought before the ECHR, which is very interesting for us to follow. Please if you know of anyone or have yourself been a victim of the procedures (or in fact their inability to follow procedure) and heartlessness of the SS in Jersey please contact me via the comments section. If you put 'not for publication' I will not publish your details and will contact you privately.  I will keep all correspondence confidential.


Unite and fight against the injustices of the family court system!

Jersey's Childrens Services Definition of Flourishing......

Now for months I have been told how my son is flourishing and doing ever so well as he is not in our care anymore. Below I reproduce a section from a letter I received yesterday:


"Dear Mrs .........

I am writing to advise you that I have recently received information that on the 22nd March 2010, (name removed) was involved in a fight at school with another young person. The police have been involved and (name removed) was Charged on the 29th March with Grave and Criminal Assault and is due to appear in Youth Court. (Date to be advised)


I would also like to inform you that due to (name removed)'s behaviour and recent suspensions from (school removed), he is due to transition to d'Hautree House School on 21st April. If (name removed) is able to work hard and improve his behaviour within school, this will allow him the opportunity to work towards attending a mainstream school in the future."



As you see by the above extract he really is flourishing, fantastic job you must get the award of Child Carer's of the Year.

Jersey's children are safer not being under the care of Social Services.

2 Years Ago Today

It was two years ago today that the Social Sevices intervened in our lives.

2 years which have seen the destruction of the relationships of brothers and sisters, of a family.

I hope they can sleep at night.

A Brief Recap of Our Last Two Years.....

All that I post below is facts, all of which I have the evidence for.... I may omit some facts as there are just too many for a brief recap!


3rd April 2008 onwards....


My 12 year old son said he had been kicked in the head by my husband.

School counselor wrote on the referral form that we had had a child protection referral before - we had not - it was the people who they placed my son with.

My husband was arrested for allegation of kicking a child in head.

Sometime before 10am the following day, police and social workers knew this to be a false allegation.

Two children were removed from my care with no emergency protection order - therefore the social services acted illegally.

They did not return my children in the legally stipulated time of 72 hours in the absence of a Court Order.

Instead of admitting there was a false allegation they mounted a campaign to try to get my husband plead guilty to an assault that did not happen.

My husband pleaded not guilty despite often being told you will be found guilty by his defence lawyer.

He was found guilty.

The policeman who transcribed my husband's interview got it wrong - a fact so wrong that it overturned his conviction.

They have imposed a care order on the grounds of the conviction.

I appealed the care order, however it now seems that they plucked my son out of thin air and popped a care order on him as a result of no incident taking place. An interesting scenario this is and one that is worth a further challenge.




Now as these years are ticking by they have sent my son's behaviour downhill, that is saying it politely, they have not acted in his best interests - just trying desparately to cover up their mistakes.


Last week after the hearing I was approached by Miss Purgery who at a previous hearing told the Court we were all moving to Australia (perhaps wishful thinking in her behalf) and said we must work together to get him home - after telling the court I was putting him at risk of emotional harm? I said I will work with you 100% once you acknowledge that no assault took place. She said we can't do that - I said well I know that otherwise you would have to admit you are wrong.


Their plan is obvious to most earthworms even - they want to slip him back home drop the care order and make it appear like it is all rosy in the garden again, and I will go away.


Today as it stands they are responsible for the destruction of another child's life rather than be held accountable for their devastating mistakes, lack of communication, incompetence and outright lies.

In the words of my 3 year old - 'Big Girls Never Give Up'

Each stage we get a little closer to getting the truth out in the open.

Still the care order remains, but now by a thread instead of a rope. I intend to cut that thread one day. The appeal was good in lots of ways that I can't explain at this moment in time.

Without giving too much away the reason for the care order still standing is that he MAY suffer emotional harm - just like I MAY get run over by a bus (probably driven by an out of work social worker).

As big girls never give up, I am preparing my next appeal on this decision which will go to the Privy Council in London. I think it was their last ditched attempt to shut me up. The lawyer behind me with a fondness for yellow shoes, said at the end 'well that's finished', as she shut her files. Well actually no it isn't.

As the saying goes it isn't over till the fat lady sings - well I'm not even humming yet.

Very Appealing!

This will be a short post almost two years to the day Social Services kidnapped my son. Anyone who has followed this blog will know our story, and will know we appealed the conviction against my husband and won. Next week will bring my appeal against the care order imposed on my son, which is now as a result of a lawful punishment for my son's behaviour. Imagine having a child taken from you for grounding them and being told they are at risk of significant harm.

These two years have seen the destruction of my child's education, after numerous suspensions he has now been expelled. They have not only destroyed our family but my son who they are supposed to protect. Shame on them. They have my utter disrespect. Any child in their care is at risk from the incompetence and negligence of these so-called professionals.

If I win, what have I won? I have been told that 'if you get him back he's not the child you once knew' (from a professional referring to his downward spiraling behaviour). There's a old saying that the social services should have taken note of two years ago 'Mother knows best'. No-one knows my son like I do, they should have listened to me.

If You Tolerate This Your Children Could Be Next

We are the Social Services
We will screw up your kids alright
We've got to keep them in the system
We need them there for life.


We don't want happy families
What we want is for you to fight
Not us you see, amongst yourselves
So our case is watertight.


It's not just us you keep in a job
Just think about all the services
That without your kids would collapse
From child psychologists to prison services.


So if you're in a quandry
You just don't know what to do
Don't approach the Social Services
Or your kids will soon go too.


We may moan about our workload
But really it is a front
We have targets to reach
So excuse us if we're blunt.


Few of us care about our job
Or the kids that are involved
But since the beginning of abortions
This forced adoption racket evolved.


We have all these childless couples
That we're sure are better than you
So we'll pass your kids on to them
Then go on to family number two.........




Written by: One Day!

Does the JEP print all letters to the editor?

This is a letter that has been forwarded to me, I have removed the sender's name and address although I have it and had they printed this letter, it would have also been printed. Looks like the answer to my question is no they do not! When the letter below did not appear in the JEP, the author phoned to ask why it had not been printed. The answer was along the lines of 'we have more newsworthy stories'.

22^nd November 2009

The Editor

Jersey Evening Post

Guiton House

Five Oaks

St. Saviour

JE4 8XQ

Dear Sir

The recent headlines

Boy in Care after beating

The Report went on to state a beating by his step father in April 2008.

Perhaps a further report mentioning that the conviction has since been quashed regarding his clipping the boy around the ear – who knows an apology by the JEP for the disgraceful headline and reporting would not go a miss.

Also the authorities concerned could learn from this they could have used more common sense and understanding where a verbal caution was sufficient instead of wasting tax payer’s money to bring this matter to court.

Yours faithfully

One Year Ago Today

One year ago today the 25th November 2008, I started this blog to bring issues such as we have been through out in to the open. I felt I had no alternative, I was not being listened to whatever avenue I chose to persue. Basically all State's employees told me if I had a problem, to have it addressed legally. This piece of advice was no doubt given as we did not have the funds to pay a proper advocate and we would have to turn to legal aid, where for the sake of their easy paycheques they do no work on your behalf and you pay in reality for them to aid your opposition.


Well actually I now would like to thank them for that advice, as we spent since July preparing my husbands criminal appeal against sentence and conviction on the main ground of the error in the transripts of my husband's interview - I wrote a post about this in August.


I thought for the blog's anniversary I would have a good news theme........



The appeal against my husband's conviction and sentence was granted and we won the case and the conviction has been quashed.



So here's a interesting point for discussion - they kidnapped my son for nothing, they applied for the care order solely because of the conviction - there's no conviction - perhaps they would like to apply to discharge the care order..... Slowly but with determination we are proving we are right.

It's like playing a part in a film....

Mrs Hardy: Wheres the clock you bought?

Stan: I don’t know. Ollie said he was gonna keep it in the dark and if I kept my mouth shut no one would be any the wiser ;

(Thicker Than Water)






I think that events are taking a turn into the realms of comedy now, you wait 18 months and slowly but surely you get the proof you need.

A brief round up of the crimes committed against me by Social Services, Children's Services and their Legal Misrepresentatives:

Kidnapping - forcibly keeping my children away from me with NO Court Order.
Assaulting one of my children by dragging him from me, another by snatching a phone out of her hands, making her cry.
Perjury
Forging a letter from my son
Perverting the course of Justice
Defamation of character
An advocate pretending to represent me to obtain 'personal information' that she was not entitled to have.
Publishing of my husbands name in JEP- illegal
Breach of PPCE law - 2 counts
Police unlawfully changing evidence

Failure to follow procedures and numerous other events to date.


Oh and to remind you of my most heinous crime in this:

NOT AGREEING WITH SOCIAL SERVICES OTHERWISE I COULD HAVE MY SON BACK!

(Oh and add black mail to that list)

Approach Social Services With Extreme Caution

As a result of the way we have been treated I applied for access to records held by social services. I picked these up a few days ago, and have only looked at a couple of pages from the files so far. However I feel there is an important issue that people should be aware of.


Around 6 years ago, we contacted Social Services as my son who at the time was receiving speech therapy, and was not able to communicate fully with us about a large burn he had received on his wrist whilst in the care of another person. The relationship was such that we could not approach him directly to ask (he had only just started being allowed unsupervised visits by the Court after around a year of them) so we thought we would get in touch with 'professional people?' who could help investigate for us.


Well I was disgusted by what I read - there was a conversation recorded between a Social Worker where he told the Head Teacher of his primary school to listen out for what my son was saying about us - in other words - investigating us!!! We did not know anything about this until the other day, these records are something you have no control over and they seem to have a license to write whatever they want never letting the truth get in the way of a good story....


This is just a warning to those of you who may be thinking of approaching Social Services for help - do so with extreme caution - it could be turned onto you.

Gone for good

Well one full care order imposed.

This was imposed as a result of the conviction against my husband. The conviction that was attained by one friendly DC policeman who managed to completely re-write his own version of events for a do not disclose case summary and also change what my husband told him in his interview in the transcripts - obviously he liked his own version better. One thing I wonder do they get a bonus for each conviction?

With a bit of a battle and a long court case (well for me it was), I managed to get most of the other accusations against us quashed - apart from my most heinous crime to date in this mess - not agreeing with social services or working with them - since November last year.


I fail to see why I should work with people who refuse to acknowledge the truth of the situation. So in the words of a not missed social worker 'bring it all on' - I accept your challange and I will.


So it looks like a few more court appearances for social services et al., I will not give up and I may have lost a battle but they have not won the war.

'Where did you slap him?'

In April last year this was the question that was put to my husband:

'Where did you slap him?'

Now, would you like to hear the actual answer my husband gave in the taped interview, or would you like to hear the version that was transcribed by this policeman? What is even more interesting is that the version that was transcribed by the policeman, was a material fact mentioned several times by the judge when she found him guilty in September 2008.

Compare the below answers:

My husband: 'mainly his elbows'

Mr. Policeman: 'I moved his elbows'


You would be forgiven if you did not immediately spot the importance - we didn't until recently.

Mind you we did rather stupidly assume the following:

• A policeman would not make errors. I'm not talking just this one error, there are in fact 4 in total.
• The prosecution would check the evidence they offer to the Court.
• Your defence lawyer would check the case against you and even find the time to listen to your taped interview and check it with the transcripts, seeing as we paid her £1200.00 out of fees of £24,000.00 (yes legal aid).

You see the version of Mr Incompetent Policeman, was just what they needed to find my husband guilty of 'child abuse' as it indicated a deliberate attempt to get to his head and deliver several blows to his head - as the judge stated. When all my husband had said was 'mainly his elbows'. Doesn't really have the same mental imagery does it?

Of course on the face of it is unlikely that that any policeman, prosecutor and defence lawyer would collaborate together to simply ‘invent’ a scenario which would ensure that my husband was found guilty, to cover up the gross incompetence of 'come in no. 1 you're sacked' when she removed two of my children from my care on a false allegation (recently admitted in court). Some scenario involving confusion on their part or the mixing up of notes from two separate cases might explain matters..........

NSPCC in Jersey

A short while ago the Jersey Evening Post reported about the high cost to the Island of bringing over Guardian's from the NSPCC in the UK. It reported that there was one case. There are currently 3 cases that I know of using the NSPCC. They are bringing over these people to act as Guardian Ad Litems. This is a term used for the representation of a child in Court Proceedings by a Guardian who then also has to have local council. They are there supposedly employed to act on the behalf of the child in their best interests. Their role is ended on the conclusion of proceedings. These Guardian Ad Litems are not to be confused with the role of a Guardian who has care and control of a child.


One question is why are we not using local staff to fulfill this position, we have social workers here, and that is the profession of these guardians. Why are we importing these people at great cost to the tax payer. I can total approximately 20 visits I know of, just how much does a visit cost?


I also want to know why we are using these Guardians who operate with knowledge of UK law and not Jersey Law, and are therefore not from the same jurisdiction. How can a person from England claim after a couple of hours with a child and maybe the odd phonecall, that they know what is in their best interests?


The Guardian we have had the pleasure of a brief aquaintance with has not conveyed my son's wishes. In fact I have a copy of email correspondence in which the person writing the email states that all the 'guardian' wants to do is discredit me in Court.


The function of a Guardian Ad Litem in many cases in simply a sham, a device used to prevent the Court hearing the true wishes of the child.


If you are ever unfortunate to be in the position that you wish your child to attend court in care proceedings, below is a draft letter you can use, it would be up to you if you decided to appeal when your request is turned down as the opposing parties will object to this:

DRAFT LETTER:


I wish my child to come to court to testify. Children suffer far more from a perhaps permanent separation from their families than from a few hours in court. Children who WANT to come to court to tell the truth will suffer far more from being forcibly prevented from doing this than from being allowed to do so. There cannot be a fair hearing if my principal witnesses are prevented from giving evidence, and therefore I shall appeal if this happens on the grounds that my human rights have been infringed.



Convention on the Rights of the Child
Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989
entry into force 2 September 1990, in accordance with article 49
Article 12 of the United Nations convention on children's rights gives a parent the legal right to call their children in judicial proceedings as quoted below.


Article 12 (child's right to participate in decision making)
1. Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child, the views of the child being given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.
2. For this purpose, the child shall in particular be provided the opportunity to be heard in any judicial and administrative proceedings affecting the child, either directly, or through a representative or an appropriate body, in a manner consistent with the procedural rules of national law.


Any claim that this clause is satisfied by the appointment of a "guardian" or "independent solicitor" to represent the children's views by stating in court an opinion diametrically opposed to that of the children concerned should be exposed; this is simply a device to keep the children's true opinions and desires from reaching the court and as such a clear breach of the spirit of the convention.

In Mabon v. Mabon [2005] 2 FLR 1011, the Court of Appeal considered Rule 9.2A and the older line of authorities in the light of Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989, and Article 8 of the ECHR. The court acknowledged the greater appreciation and weight which must now be attached to the child’s autonomy and consequential right to participate fully in the decision-making process that fundamentally affects his life. It held that
"in the case of articulate teenagers…. the right to freedom of expression and participation outweighed the paternalistic judgment of welfare."[paragraph 28].
However, if direct participation would lead to a risk of harm that the child was incapable of comprehending, then a judge could find that sufficient understanding had not been demonstrated. Judges must equally be alive to the risk of emotional harm that might arise from denying the child knowledge of and participation in the continuing proceedings [para.29].