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Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

In Re: Romeo v. The Contact That Forgot to Include Him Or, How the State Discovered That Silence Is Its Favourite Custodian


⟡ Romeo Was Missing, and the State Did Not Blink ⟡

Or, When Three Children Were Delivered and One Was Quietly Withdrawn

Metadata

Filed: 4 July 2025
Reference Code: SWANK/CONTACT/ROMEO/ABSENCE
Filed by: Polly Chromatic 
Filed from: W2 6JL
Court File Name:
2025-07-04_ZC25C50281_Immediate_Concern_Regal_Missing_from_Video_Contact.pdf

I. What Happened

On the evening of 4 July 2025, the Claimant participated in a scheduled video contact session with her four children. However, only three were present.

Regal, aged 16 — the eldest and most protective sibling — was missing.

When asked, the other children casually replied:

“He’s riding his bike.”

No professional offered explanation.
No documentation was provided.
No supervision intervened.

This is not a scheduling error. This is procedural gaslighting by omission.

II. Why It’s So Disturbing

Just two days prior, Regal:

  • Requested his belongings from home

  • Asked to speak to his father and grandmother

  • Expressed eagerness to join calls

Romeo has never missed a session voluntarily. His absence was:

  • Unnotified

  • Unexplained

  • Unnatural

The only plausible causes:

  • Improper restriction

  • Punitive withdrawal

  • Unrecorded safeguarding incident

  • Coercive silencing of the only teenager capable of naming the abuse

This was not benign. It was strategic removal by passive force.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because when the state subtracts a child from a contact session without reason, it’s not administration — it’s emotional anaesthesia.

Because contact is not an optional performance. It is a right.

Because Romeo — as the eldest and most articulate child — is uniquely vulnerable to institutional efforts to curate what gets seen by the parent, the court, and the archive.

Because if Regal were visibly distressed, bruised, or vocal, withholding him would become a legal tactic.

Because his silence was not absence. It was edited out.

IV. SWANK’s Position

SWANK London Ltd. recognises this event as:

  • An incident of parental erasure

  • A symptom of safeguarding choreography

  • And an urgent signal of either concealment or coercion

We now file this moment — not as a mystery, but as a milestone in the archive of procedural harm.

To exclude Regal without explanation is to rewrite the family script under state direction.

To do so in silence is to assume no one will ask where he went.

We are asking.

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