“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

In Re: Interrupted Adolescence – State Custody, Sibling Burdens, and the Silence of the Phone


🪞 SWANK London Ltd.
Mirror Court Dispatch – Journal Series, Vol. II

I Left Her on Read in the Office

In Re: Sibling Protection, Lost Conversations, and the State-Induced Collapse of Normalcy

Metadata

Filed: 1 August 2025
Reference Code: SWANK-JOURNAL-0825-SIBLINGS
Filename: 2025-08-01_SWANK_JournalEntry_SiblingBurden_InterruptedDevelopment.pdf
1-Line Summary:
A teenager documents the silent costs of foster separation: missed love, lost motivation, and forced emotional labour.

I. WHAT HAPPENED

This handwritten page, drawn from the same protected journal as the “Bike Ban” entry, reveals the burden of sibling protection that has been shifted — unfairly and invisibly — onto the shoulders of a 16-year-old boy with chronic asthma, emotional acuity, and the right to a life.

In it, he writes:

  • That he’s working harder than the state to protect his siblings’ happiness

  • That his own coping tools have been confiscated or restricted

  • That he was building a friendship with a girl he met during office visits, but the separation — including lack of digital access — ended it

  • That he was planning for his future, including exams and GCSEs, before the removal

  • That he now struggles to find motivation or meaning

  • That he is trying, maturely, to make peace with an injustice no child should have to rationalise

This is not a behavioural note.
It is a witness statement in longhand.

II. WHAT THE COMPLAINT ESTABLISHES

Regal’s entry demonstrates:

  • Emotional Labour Transfer – “I’m working harder than them to keep my siblings happy”

  • Suppression of Joy and Tools – “So far I can only do one of those things…”

  • Social Isolation – He lost contact with a peer he was bonding with after weeks of silence

  • Academic Interruption – “Planning for next year’s GCSEs… now it’s hard to find the motivation”

  • Internalised Resilience – “I’m sure I’ll be reading this back in a couple years and laughing about it”

This is the documentation of an interrupted adolescence — a text of quiet rebellion, grief, and astonishing insight.

It reflects not instability, but unacknowledged stability.
Not dysfunction, but structural betrayal.

III. WHY SWANK LOGGED IT

Because emotional survival is not a safeguarding plan.
Because confiscated relationships are not neutral.
Because when you isolate a child who was thriving, you owe the world an answer.
And because resilience should not be necessary to survive state care.

This page is evidence that love existed — and was interrupted.
That a child was building a future — and was sidelined.
That a system tried to erase normalcy — and was noticed.

IV. VIOLATIONS

  • Children Act 1989, s.1 – Best interests principle fundamentally compromised

  • UNCRC Article 12 & 13 – Right to express feelings, communicate, and maintain relationships

  • ECHR Article 8 – Family and private life obliterated by systemic obstruction

  • Procedural Negligence – Failure to support sibling relationships and academic continuity

  • Safeguarding Ethics – Emotional harm via institutional overreach and interpersonal denial

V. SWANK’S POSITION

This entry, like those before it, remains in the evidentiary archive not as trauma porn — but as testimony.

This boy had plans.
This boy had love.
This boy had a support system — internal and external — and it was all thrown into crisis for reasons that cannot withstand scrutiny.

He is not being dramatic.
He is being articulate.
He is narrating the scene of his own detachment — and documenting the state that caused it.

Filed with mirror-clarity and ceremonial scorn,
Polly Chromatic
Director, SWANK London Ltd.
www.swanklondon.com

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