There can be no debate that some vaccines cause very serious injury and even
death, to some children. This has been recognised by both the British
government(1980) and the U.S.A. government (VAERS Act 1986) for over 20
years and both governments have provided compensation schemes to families
with children who have suffered such adverse reactions. Under both Schemes
doctors are required to report every adverse reaction of a child to a
vaccine to a central government body but it is reasonably estimated that
less than one in ten are so reported.
Many parents in many places around the world have given personal testimony
that following the administration of vaccines to their child, the child has
become seriously ill within hours or days. Such illnesses have taken many
forms but commonly they are febrile, listless, and some are reported to have
experienced epileptic seizures.
Within days or a few short weeks, parents report that their child then takes
on a totally different personality – they are distant, unable to make eye
contact, they are constantly restless and hyperactive – “they have gone into
their own little world” is an often stated assessment by the parents. The
parent, quite naturally, becomes extremely anxious and fraught as they lose
contact with their child. They want their child to be healthy and normal, as
the child was in the first few weeks after birth. So what has happened they
wonder?.
In the Britain, the parent will usually seek help and advice from the Health
Visitor and perhaps their General Practitioner but this is when they are hit
with the first of the `Double Whammies’.
The Health Visitor reports them to the Child Protection agencies as their
child is “failing to thrive” and is not reaching its expected developmental
milestones. They are seen as over-anxious and if they seek a second medical
opinion, they are accused of `Doctor-shopping’. In the UK they are then
called to a Child Protection Conference with all the assembled professionals
usually after being subjected to an extremely invasive child protection
investigation. They are not allowed representation although they are being
accused of a criminal offence of neglecting their child and they are
summarily found guilty merely on the opinions and suppositions of the
professionals present, many of whom they have never met before. Their
child’s name is placed on the Children `At Risk Register’ and they are now
branded and stigmatized as `Child Abusers’ in their local community. They
can expect no sympathy nor understanding from their neighbours, friends, or
even some of their relatives, many of them with the horrifying thought,
“there but for the Grace of God, go I” .
If they are fortunate, the parents will only experience this state of
stigmatization and the accompanying isolation and societal condemnation, if
they are unfortunate the matter will be taken to Court and the child will be
removed from their care, often permanently. Child Protection agencies are
reluctant to take this latter step, not because they think the parents are
innocent or can manage the care of the child, but because such children with
mental and/or physical disabilities are not usually suitable for adoption or
long-term fostering which would be immensely expensive to the agency.
Health Visitors, Doctors, and social workers lack the knowledge, or find it
incomprehensible, or simply collude in the Dept of Health propaganda that
“vaccines are safe” and deny even the possibility that the vaccines are to
blame for the child’s mental or physical disabilities and developmental
delays. To challenge the received wisdom of the Department of Health would
be a heinous sin in professional circles with appropriate chastisements and
sanctions likely to follow.
But worse is to follow for the parents of the mentally and/or physically
disabled child. Firstly they are left to cope alone with the demands and
needs of their child who requires almost 24 hours a day supervision,
sometimes has to be fed, and their personal care needs met. The parent
becomes gradually and totally exhausted and emotionally and mentally
drained. But worse awaits them – the Triple Whammy!. If they have been
persistent with seeking help for their child or just lucky, they may have
obtained a diagnosis by a psychologist that their child is autistic within
the Spectrum of Autistic Disorders and requires special education provision
suitable to his/her needs. The child is probably now aged 7. 8. 9, or 10
years. They then face years of battling with the Education Authority to
obtain a Statement of Special Needs and even when this is finally achieved,
and usually only after appealing to a Special Tribunal, the Education
Authority can’t or won’t make the appropriate provision. Either because the
Special Schools in the area have all been closed under the central
government policies of `integrating’ all disabled children into mainstream
schools or because the Education Authority do not wish to bear the very high
costs of such special education.
Although it can occur earlier, it is usually at this point that the parent
is accused of `Fabricating or Inducing the Child’s Illness/Disability’ a
catch-all theory of child abuse based on the scientifically fraudulent and
infamous `Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy’. The parents are stunned – it is
unbelievable!. They are now accused of causing their child’s autism or other
disability, perhaps Asperger’s Syndrome, or ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or
Cystic Fibrosis, or ADHD, or any combination of these disabilities or
diseases. !.
And there is no possibility whatsoever that their child will receive the
special education to meet his or her needs nor the support which Social
Services Departments are required to give to children in need under the
Children Acts. If they ask for such services, they are simply told, “There
are no resources”. And if they ask why there are no resources, they are
told, “Well because no one asks for them!.” Or “all resources are invested
in child protection services”. – Cach 22.
If they are lucky, the parents will be subjected to the rigours and shame of
the Child Protection Procedures again, or perhaps for the first occasion,
but again can expect no help. They will be placed under the supervision of a
`Keyworker’ which amounts only to being under constant and intense
surveillance of the health and social worker and medical professionals and
even the most innocent event of a child falling from a bicycle and getting
bruises, will be investigated in minute detail and with barely veiled
accusations that they have harmed the child. If they need to visit a
hospital they will be grilled by nursing and medical staff regarding the
child’s illness or injury and no rational reason will satisfy their
accusers.
If they are unlucky, the parents will be brought before a Court in Care
Proceedings but again this is unlikely, for the reasons given previously.
So this is a brief glimpse into the world of the vaccine-damaged child,
their parents, and their siblings and other family members who may be
involved. But the experience is far more heart-rending and devastating for
those involved. Every day brings its miseries and heartache, and
infrequently some joy as small achievements are made. The care, compassion,
concern of parents with disabled children is absolute and immensely
admirable. But their rewards are few and their setbacks and sufferings are
many. Many marriages break under the strain and many individuals need
psychiatric help for severe depression. The bitter irony is that such a need
for professional help is used to condemn the parent in child protection
proceedings and is often used against them in Courts. Heads you lose, tails
you don’t win.
And this situation prevails because the central government Department of
Health and the Department of Education and Skills cannot accept the
testamentary evidence of many thousands of parents that their child’s autism
or other illness is related to the administration of a vaccine.
Yet to simply assert, as such Departments frequently do, that "there is good
evidence that immunisation is beneficial" and the usually accompanying
statement beloved by vaccine supporters that "Vaccines are completely safe"
are untrue and irresponsible when unaccompanied by a caveat that for some
children they can be deadly or can cause them serious harm. The positions of
the respective U.K. and U.S.A. governments is that vaccination is for the
benefit of the many (the belief in herd protection) whilst only tacitly
acknowledging the sacrifice of the few. Unfortunately, the few are becoming
the many in the case of autism where it is now claimed with reasonable
evidence of numbers, that there is an international pandemic of autism.
Such beliefs by vaccine adherents obstruct, prevent, and denigrate any
reasonable attempts to investigate why vaccines cause death and serious
injury to some children, which children are most likely to be adversely
affected, and what can be done to help such children.
Studies linking vaccines to SBS, SIDS, and autism, such as those
respectively by Kalokerinos, Clemetson, Scheibner. Sprott, Wakefield,
Blakemore-Brown, etc should be welcomed and seriously examined and openly
debated in a scientific medical, educational, and social work community
concerned about ALL children and particularly those who suffer deaths and
serious injuries from vaccines in whatever form that may take, rather than
having the dead hand of controls and propaganda placed on them by
governments and their blindly defensive acolytes.
In a world of increasing communications via the Internet, concerns regarding
the damage caused by certain vaccines will inevitably and increasingly reach
the ears of the general population, as is happening, and the days of fearing
to `let the cat out of the bag' are long since gone. If the percentages of
the child population receiving vaccines continue to decline because of fears
by parents of vaccine damage to their child and therefore the `herd
immunity' is ineffective, then the blame for such will lie with those who
are complicit and collusive in attempting to stifle scientific research and
debate and to seek answers to help those children who suffer death and
serious damage from vaccines.
This is no longer an issue where heads can be buried in the sand, nor
scientifically-based research and reasoned propositions regarding vaccine
damage, can be denied. To continue to do so will continue to condemn many
thousands of children and their families to the tragedies of death and
disability (with minimal or no support by State agencies), the horrors of
child protection suspicions and investigations and the extremely high costs
of such investigations, and the removal of children from their families by
misguided and ill-informed State officials.
ByCharles
Pragnell
March 28, 2007
Diploma in Social Work and Letter of Recognition in Child Care
Expert Witness – Child Protection
and Social Care Consultant
and Child/Family Advocate..
Please read...
Petition answered with Spin and Sophism
The Silence of the Media Lambs!
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
