ByCharles
Pragnell
December 10, 2007
Beyond Orwell’s 1984
What has become of Britain?. And England
in particular?. When every honest parent and children live in a perpetual state
of terror that they may be separated and never see each other again?. And it is
not something that affects just those in low socio-economic groups but families
at all levels of society – no one is exempt.
Britain has become a State where mothers
are terrified to take their sick and poorly children to a hospital in case they
are accused of abusing their child by causing the sickness! – or if their child
falls from a bicycle or from a piece of furniture and injures his head they are
afraid to take the child for medical treatment in case they are accused of
causing the injury by shaking the child!. Where fathers are terrified of taking
a photograph of his two small daughters running around in the back garden
sprinklers without their clothes, in case he risks being accused of being a
perverted paedophile!. Or he will be in the same state of terror if he dares to
bath his small infant daughter.!.
Where teachers in residential schools
are terrified of touching a child, even a distressed and unhappy child, in case
they are accused of physical abuse!. Or social workers in a Children’s Home who
are placed in the same situation.
Where elderly men living alone see
glances of suspicion as they walk down the street or if they sit idly gazing
from a park bench while mothers scurry past with their prams and toddlers and
sneaking disgusted looks out of the corner of their eyes.
We have become not only fearful of the
state police in the form of child protection workers but fearful of each other
!.
So who and what has brought about this
State of Terror in every parent and adult who works with children or is simply
enjoying a day in the park?. It is the zealots of the child protection system
who have now convinced everyone that child abuse is occurring in almost every
household and park and street around the country.
It probably began in the 1980s with the
horrors in Cleveland when children were torn from their beds in midnight or dawn
raids by social workers while burly policemen held their parents captive in case
they sought to prevent their children’s removal in the dead of night. And the
children were taken off to a hospital where they were examined by doctors
repeatedly peering and poking at their rectums while they cringed in fear and
embarrassment.
Then began the purges of the teachers
and social workers who had worked in residential schools. They were taken from
their places of employment and held in the local police stations while they were
interrogated for hours about fictitious incidents which had supposedly occurred
twenty years previously and their accusers were now grown adults encouraged by
proffered financial rewards to create accusations of abuse. Some of these
unfortunate workers within the child care system were found guilty in Courts and
were sentenced to long jail terms solely on the basis of the verbal evidence of
the allegations of their accusers of fictitious events twenty years before –
with no physical or forensic evidence to support their accusations and who had
made no complaint of these alleged events in those twenty years.
Yet what is the true situation of child
abuse in the U.K. and England in particular?. According to government
statistics there are approximately 500,000 reports of child abuse every year in
England and the zealots claim that this is “Only the tip of the iceberg of child
abuse”. However less than 35,000 of such reports are found to have any form of
substance to them when investigated by child protection workers whose claims of
abuse having occurred in these small proportion of cases are of a very low
standard of evidential proof !. And only a very small proportion of these ever
reach the Courts to meet an evidential standard of proof of “On a balance of
probability” which is based on a presumption of “more likely than not’ that
abuse has occurred i.e. it only needs to be 51% proven to a Judge with no jury
present.
To arrive at a Court the parents will
have endured months of questioning – by social workers, and probably also by
doctors, nurses, police etc and most likely will have to face the unjudicial
Inquisition of a Child Protection Conference without legal representation and
without formal legal protections. Yet it is extremely rare that they will
ultimately be accused of anything so they are denied their day in Court. All
that will happen is that their children will be removed from them by Court Order
without naming the alleged abusers but by default they will be branded as the
child abusers without a chance to defend themselves or clear their names. Even
terrorists who threaten to bomb and maim innocent citizens are released from
interrogation after a set number of days or are given a fair trial and competent
legal representation to defend themselves.
This also proves that it is the small
number of false accusations of child abuse which reach public notice which are
the tip of an iceberg of such false accusations and that claims of widespread
child abuse are a fiction perpetuated to obtain increased resources for those
agencies engaged in child protection work.
And what of the many hundreds of parents
in the vast majority of reported cases of child abuse where it has been found
that such reports are false and have been made for mistaken, mischievous, or
malicious reasons?. They are left completely devastated and in many instances
their lives are destroyed and the mere fact that they have been suspects will
follow them for the rest of their lives – at schools, doctor’s surgeries, and
even at workplaces, not to mention among their neighbours and relatives who
mistakenly have the simple belief that, “Well there’s no smoke without fire”.
Yet there has been no fire and all there has been is smoke and mirrors. Such an
experience affects parents very deeply especially where only one has been
accused of the abuse – even the other partner is left with unanswered suspicions
and this gnaws away at their relationship until they finally separate leaving
the children with only one parent and the continuing fear that they may be
removed from their beds by mysterious and compassionless adults in the middle of
the night.
Living with constant terror is extremely
disabling and it can be extremely difficult to continue to live normally –
merely going to the shops becomes a chore when there are stares and whispers
behind hands. For those with strong religious beliefs they can be banished from
their churches with no compassion or support shown by those who profess the same
religion. The established churches have no compassion for anyone accused of
child abuse – even if such allegations of child abuse were proven, wouldn’t the
principles of such churches lead them to give some support and compassion for
the transgressors and to help them redeem themselves?.
The zealots have their own religion. It
is based in the unproven and unscientific theories of psychologists,
psychiatrists, doctors, and social researchers and which are based at best on
anecdotal stories and at worst on junk science and many of which have been
proven by authentic research to be fraudulent. Yet these theories become the
basis of the belief system of the child protection world. They hold regular
conferences to re-assure themselves and each other and new converts that such
theories are valid and to press their beliefs regularly through training
courses and other conferences. Such theories include Satanic Ritual Abuse,
Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Repressed Memory Syndrome
etc etc. All serve to confuse and confound the uninitiated in Courts and other
venues. When the theories are exposed as fraudulent then the titles are merely
changed and claims are made that the new theory is different but with the same
definition.
These theories have been rampant in
child protection work for over three decades largely promoted by the social work
training institutions but there is some slight hope for the future as some
Courts are beginning to rule that such theories are inadmissible as evidence and
are no substitute for facts on which Courts should have been making decisions.
But the real masterminds of the reign of
terror by the child protection system in the UK are the faceless bureaucrats in
the Department of Education and Skills who promote and enforce the policies
which the child protection workers must follow. Yet when things go wrong, as
they oft times do, these bureaucrats sit back in silence knowing they will
escape the subsequent fallout but will be quick to mount their own inquiry
afterwards and find fault with the front line workers who have failed to carry
out their policies.
Is there any hope of bringing this State
engendered terrorism to an end?. Sadly not much!. The present government are
implacably engaged in an ideological social engineering experiment based on
beliefs that they, and not parents know what is best for children, and if
parents don’t comply with their ideas of child care and upbringing, then the
children will be removed into substitute care with adopters or foster carers.
Further to this end such workers as midwives and health visitors are now to
become their espionage agents – prying into people’s lives and reporting them if
they do not meet the State’s requirements. This will be extended into schools
and other points where the public come into contact with education, health, and
welfare services. The information they gather will then be fed into a nationwide
database with subjective decisions by these workers that a parent may be
alcoholic, engaged in prostitution, have a mental illness, is a drug taker, or
has a criminal conviction etc. Any two of these subjective accusations will
immediately trigger off a child protection investigation with the accompanying
devastating consequences.
Even George Orwell in his worst
nightmares could not have envisaged what is happening in Britain today. It only
requires a camera in every home linked to the local child protection office and
the circle will be complete. Beware of Room 101.
You have been warned Britain!.
ByCharles
Pragnell
(UK/Australasia)
December 10, 2007
Diploma in Social Work and Letter of Recognition in Child Care
Expert Witness – Child Protection
and Social Care Consultant
and Child/Family Advocate.
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Doctors in a Dilemma
Are you an `Appropriate’ person?
Childrens Plan
State Terrorism
The Seriously Unhealthy State of Paediatrics
RAD – the Return of a Nightmare
Persecution of Children and Families
Why I am Petitioning the Prime Minister
Vaccines and Child Abuse Accusations
Why did Sally Clark Suffer and Die?
Perverse Reversal of Child Custody
Child Protection in Kangaroo Courts
Fabricated and induced illness in Children
A History of Man’s Inhumanity
A System out of Control
Forced Adoption
