📨 SWANK Dispatch: If You’re Planning Around My Children, Involve Me
🗓️ 6 August 2020
Filed Under: unacknowledged requests, investigation opacity, parental exclusion, statutory rights ignored, child welfare irony, legal escalation, bureaucratic deflection
“The danger to my children is not the home — it’s the department.”
— A Mother Who Requested Reports, Not Surprises
On the 6th of August 2020, Polly Chromatic sent a crisp, restrained letter to Ashley Adams-Forbes, Deputy Director of the Department of Social Development, addressing what should never have needed to be repeated:
If you’re investigating my children,
you must tell me why.
You must show your reports.
You must include me in the process.
📂 I. The Legislative Obligation
Turks and Caicos law mandates transparency in child welfare investigations. But instead of receiving the required reports, Polly has received:
• Ongoing intrusion
• No rationale
• No documents
• No involvement in planning
• No formal explanation
🧠 II. The Threat to Her Children Comes from Within the System
She writes:
“It is the department itself that has put my children in harms way repeatedly through demonstrated acts of bad judgement.”
She’s not speculating. She’s documenting.
And she has receipts — from forced hospital visits, illegal home entries, and ignored medical risk warnings.
⚖️ Final Line:
“I have decided to consult with an attorney.”
It’s not a threat.
It’s a boundary.
A formal one — drawn after too many ignored questions, and too many invisible decisions made behind a mother’s back.
No comments:
Post a Comment
This archive is a witness table, not a control panel.
We do not moderate comments. We do, however, read them, remember them, and occasionally reframe them for satirical or educational purposes.
If you post here, you’re part of the record.
Civility is appreciated. Candour is immortal.