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The Complaint on Family Law Proceedings in the UK

"A Families Torn to Shreds by the Secret Social Services and Family Courts"

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Reverend and Mrs A lived together in -shire. Mrs A suffered from epilepsy and a blood condition requiring Heparin which she took during her pregnancies. The couple had five children when Mrs T was falsely accused by Social Services some 8 years ago.

 

The family’s youngest children, boy and girl twins (A and B) were born prematurely with mild Cerebral Palsy. The little girl (B) required splints on both legs. Both children had early neuro-developmental problems. Given their motor problems, they needed to be ‘transported’ in their twin buggy for longer than other children. The little boy (A) had speech and language problems, obsessional behaviour and extreme emotional reactions.

A local Educational Psychologist, acting in concert with social workers, embarked upon an extended process of claims that the children did not have the problems which Mrs A reported. The pattern of intimidation and questioning echoed the interrogative methods directed against terrorists. As in other MSbP cases, the innocent mother (struggling to care for 5 children including twins with neuro-developmental disorders) was treated as a liar who was abusing her children. In the view of officials, she had to be broken to ‘confess’. Proven health and educational difficulties were waved away by Social Workers. Medical notes were ignored or misinterpreted.  The team of accusers were supplemented by a local paediatrician.

The family were forced to remove the splints from the legs of B; and forced to stop using the twin buggy.

The support the children required was stopped. The family lived in fear. As the proceedings moved toward taking the children into care, the parents considered suicide. False allegations, personal insults and threats were routine.  The children were terrorised by Social Workers into thinking that they might be taken from their parents.

The family still live with that fear - even though the proceedings ended four years ago. Some four years of harassment preceded the eventual court hearing. The denigration of the family continued in Court – by which time the boy A had been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome.

At the hearing, the Social Services’ barristers asserted that the mother did not have the illnesses with which she had been diagnosed.  For instance, they denied that Mrs A had a tumour which was evident on the X-Rays and described in the doctor’s notes. The Judge, who had mastered the file, threw out the case, telling the mother that she could leave the Court ‘without a blemish on her character’.  As will be seen, this was not the end of the story.

At the end of the hearing, the judge ordered an Inquiry. It was carried out internally. If any fault was laid at anyone’s door, the family have never been told. They have never had an apology. A gagging order was placed on the family. This strong and loving family, which was ruined by false MSbP allegations, will not recover from the ordeal.  

The damage did not stop after the falsity of the allegations was exposed in Court. The ongoing use of the `Read Code`, and possibly of other secret codes permanently attached to their files, means that the authorities can doggedly continue to believe that they were right – and behave as though they were right.  

In the view of Social Services, the Judge was duped and the accused ‘let off’ on a technicality’ .This ‘MSbP family’ have continued to suffer serious medical problems with no help. Their child A had to struggle and suffer (as have the schools and his family by his behaviour) with the Asperger's Syndrome. The system continues to deny the existence of his and his mother’s medical conditions, and provides no support. The family are too frightened to fight for their own rights or the rights of their children.

Three years after the Social Service process ended, the parents’ eldest daughter died on Good Friday 2004 aged 19 years. She was in the Army and in Army barracks. She had developed headaches two weeks before. She was too afraid to go to the GP for fear of re-awakening the spectre of MSbP. She reasoned that the doctors would not listen to her, as per her mother’s experience. She collapsed, was taken to intensive care, and died of a of a brain aneurysm the next day.  Her premature death cannot be separated out from the MSbP allegations and the effect of those false allegations.

As part of the MSbP process, Mrs A had been forced to remove G’s splints by social workers who had no medical knowledge.

In 2005, the twin B was at last seen by a specialist for her longstanding and officially-denied mild CP. Mrs A was now blamed again – this time for the opposite reason. She was criticised by the specialist not for taking B to the doctor – but for not taking B to the doctor with the bona-fide problem before (B’s feet were turning in).

Unsurprisingly, Mrs A had lived in fear that if she went to the doctors again about twin’s problems, the allegations would recommence. When she had plucked up the courage for a previous attempt to mention the problem to a medic who she felt she could trust, she found his letter of referral was headed MUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY in capital letters. Obviously this label would preclude access to proper diagnosis and proper treatment both for her children and for herself – as has happened. The fact that the Court case exonerated her was in small lettering at the bottom.

Mrs A’s health has now deteriorated badly. She is confined to a wheelchair with chronic health problems after the neglect of her own health needs over many years. Despite the gross errors and the Judge’s demand for an Inquiry, she has still not secured the requisite treatment for herself. What with her MSbP records, she has been left for years with obvious and serious health needs. Last time she came out of intensive care (in 2004) she was told her survival could not be guaranteed next time.

On a rational basis, one might consider that this means the medical team now understand the blood and inner organ condition which runs in her family - which was diagnosed before social workers became involved. In theory, everyone concerned should be aware of the seriousness of her condition. In practice, nothing has been done - despite the mother being told that one kidney was no longer functioning and the other very swollen.  This, notwithstanding the involvement of the MP and the GP. Attempting to hold the officials accountable has proved impossible.

This minor incident provides an illustration on what happens once innocence is proven. Social Services decline to accept the acquittal. The paperwork is distorted. As a general rule, the exculpation of parents in court simply shifts the (mis)conduct of Social Services from overt to covert.

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The Complaint on Family Law Proceedings in the UK

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