“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: The Punch Without Reason — On the Institutionalisation of Blame


⟡ ADDENDUM: VICTIM-BLAMING STATEMENT BY PARENTING ASSESSOR ⟡

Filed: 25 September 2025
Reference: SWANK/PARENTING/ASSESSOR/VICTIM-BLAMING
Download PDF: 2025-09-25_Core_Assessor_VictimBlamingStatement_BromleyHumanRights.pdf
Summary: A parenting assessor dismissed a disclosure of assault as implausible — a textbook act of minimisation and victim-blaming. Bromley condemns it; Amos outlaws it.

I. What Happened

• Disclosure: in 2015, the mother reported her husband punched her without provocation.
• Response: the assessor replied, “Well, usually people don’t just come up and punch someone for no reason.”
• Effect: minimisation, bias, and disbelief imported into the assessment record.

II. What the Addendum Establishes

• Factual error: unprovoked violence exists; domestic abuse includes sudden explosive incidents.
• Professional failure: duty to record neutrally breached; trauma-informed practice ignored.
• Cultural bias: entrenches the British trope that victims “must have provoked” their own abuse.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

• Because victim-blaming corrodes safeguarding.
• Because disbelief protects perpetrators, not children.
• Because when assessments import misogyny, they stop being evidence and start being prejudice.

IV. Bromley Authority

Bromley decrees: truthful disclosures must not be pathologised.
When violence is reframed as provocation, safeguarding collapses into unlawful distortion.

V. Human Rights Authority

Amos affirms: retaliatory disbelief violates Article 8.
When gender bias is added, the breach escalates under Article 14.
Articles 6 and 13 are also engaged: a fair process and effective remedy are impossible when disclosures are discredited.

VI. Violations

  • Working Together (2023): trauma-informed recording ignored.

  • Domestic Abuse Act 2021: accountability shifted from perpetrator to victim.

  • Equality Act 2010, ss.13 & 149: systemic sex discrimination.

  • Children Act 1989: duty to safeguard and promote welfare undermined.

  • ECHR Articles 6, 8, 13, 14: fairness, family life, remedy, and equality all breached.

VII. SWANK’s Position

The statement “usually people don’t just punch someone for no reason” is not an observation.
It is institutional prejudice, dressed as common sense.

SWANK archives it not as evidence against the mother, but as evidence against the system that blames victims to protect itself.

⟡ This Entry Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡

This is not commentary.
This is evidentiary contempt.
It indicts the assessor, not the victim.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd.

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