“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

Chromatic v Westminster (Victim-Blaming; Retaliation; Welfare Inversion; Procedural Unsafety)


ADDENDUM: VICTIM-BLAMING AND RETALIATION AS SYSTEMIC PATTERNS

A Mirror Court Indictment of Institutional Self-Preservation Disguised as Safeguarding

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I. What Happened

Each time I reported harassment or misconduct, Westminster turned the blame back on me. Each time I asserted my rights, they escalated their interventions. What was punished was not neglect but dissent; what was silenced was not risk but reporting.

II. Victim-Blaming

  • Harassment by professionals, neighbours, or men was treated as provoked by me.

  • False reports against me were embraced; my own reports dismissed or weaponised.

  • Even when physically threatened (e.g., Virgin Active assault), I was punished instead of protected.

The classic inversion: the harmed rebranded as the culprit.

III. Retaliation

  • Audits, police reports, and addenda triggered escalation rather than remedy.

  • The Emergency Protection Order followed not from crisis but from my challenges to institutional conduct.

  • Accountability-seeking was reframed as instability and penalised.

This is retaliation distilled: punishment for truth-telling.

IV. Combined Effect and Harm

Victim-blaming and retaliation converged to:

  • Silence my complaints by reframing them as evidence against me.

  • Distort the safeguarding record into institutional self-defence.

  • Replace welfare with self-preservation.

Direct harms:

  • Education disrupted.

  • Asthma care delayed.

  • Friendships severed.

  • Sibling bonds fractured.

All inflicted not by parenting but by procedure.

V. Violations

  • Children Act 1989 – s.1 welfare principle inverted; s.22 parental consultation ignored.

  • Equality Act 2010 – s.149 Public Sector Equality Duty breached.

  • ECHR – Article 6 (fair trial), Article 8 (family life) disregarded.

  • UNCRC – Articles 3, 9, and 12 violated.

  • Case Law – Re B-S [2013] (evidence and proportionality ignored); Re C [2006] (consultation duty disregarded); A v UK [1998] (Article 8 protections breached).

VI. SWANK’s Position

This is not safeguarding. It is institutional theatre, where victimhood is recast as culpability and accountability is punished as instability. What Westminster presented as child protection was in fact retaliation against oversight.

Closing Declaration

The Mirror Court declares: Westminster has mistaken safeguarding for self-preservation, inquiry for punishment, welfare for warfare. What they framed as protection was only projection — and it is hereby archived.

Filed by:
Polly Chromatic
Founder & Director, SWANK London Ltd
Mother and Litigant in Person

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