Chromatic v Hornal On the Emotional Misuse of Professional Authority by a Local Authority Social Worker

Mirror Misconduct: An Institutional Profile of Covert Harm and Superficial Politeness
The Emotional Misuse of Professional Authority by Ms. Kirsty Hornal

Filed by: Polly Chromatic

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I. Introduction
This document provides a behavioural and evidentiary profile of Ms. Kirsty Hornal, Social Worker at Westminster Children’s Services, whose sustained engagement with the undersigned has displayed a deeply troubling pattern of superficially polite conduct masking sustained emotional harm, retaliatory behaviour, and misrepresentation of safeguarding authority.

Her actions, while outwardly framed as compliant or procedural, reveal a consistent and escalating misuse of professional discretion to isolate, undermine, and emotionally destabilise the mother and four affected U.S. citizen children.

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II. Behavioural Indicators and Emotional Misconduct

The following characteristics were consistently observed in Ms. Hornal's conduct:

1. Superficial Politeness Concealing Hostility

   • Although often adopting a calm and measured tone, Ms. Hornal regularly engages in veiled reprimands, insinuations of noncompliance, and boundary violations under the guise of professional concern.

2. Emotional Micromanagement of Contact Sessions

   • Children appear visibly anxious when Ms. Hornal is present.

   • Emotional expression (affection, laughter, spontaneous conversation) is suppressed in her presence.

   • Parenting behaviour is policed, often reframed as "sabotage" or "undermining" despite its ordinary and protective nature.

3. Retaliatory Responses to Procedural Objections

   • Following any legal challenge or addendum submission by the parent, Ms. Hornal escalates restrictions or administrative burdens.

   • Procedural tools (e.g., requiring materials pre-approved, limiting topics of conversation) are used to disempower the parent.

4. Manipulative Framing of Concerns

   • Safeguarding "concerns" are invoked not as responses to real risk, but as rhetorical shields for limiting rights-based action.

   • These concerns are never formalised, nor is the mother provided with procedural due process to respond.

5. Failure to Recognise or Accommodate Trauma

   • The children's eosinophilic asthma, institutional trauma, and the mother's diagnosed vocal impairment are repeatedly ignored or minimised.

   • Instead of trauma-informed responses, Ms. Hornal enacts stress-heightening routines that aggravate known medical and emotional vulnerabilities.

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III. Professional Misuse and Institutional Consequences

By maintaining a veneer of politeness, Ms. Hornal has effectively shielded herself from institutional scrutiny while causing significant psychological and procedural harm. The damage inflicted is more severe precisely because it is invisible, emotionally sophisticated, and professionally dressed.

Her pattern of behaviour has created an environment in which:

• The children feel emotionally surveilled.

• The parent is portrayed as reactive or noncompliant for asserting legal rights.

• Legal objections are procedurally "punished" by escalating restrictions rather than being addressed through lawful channels.

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IV. Request for Judicial Recognition

This brief is submitted in support of:

• The criminal filings currently active against Ms. Hornal (see SWANK evidentiary catalogue);

• The request for her removal as safeguarding lead or supervisor of contact;

• The broader audit of Westminster Children’s Services for sustained safeguarding misuse, disability discrimination, and retaliatory tactics.

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V. Concluding Note

It is the position of the undersigned that Ms. Kirsty Hornal's continued involvement in this case not only jeopardises the procedural integrity of these proceedings, but also causes preventable emotional harm to vulnerable children already subject to institutional separation.

The contrast between her polished tone and her operational decisions is not incidental. It is the mechanism through which harm is done.

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