📜 SWANK Dispatch: You’ve Had 3.5 Years to Investigate. Where’s the Report?
🗓️ 15 July 2020
Filed Under: unlawful investigation, DSD misconduct, homeschool discrimination, failure to provide report, TCI legal breach, safeguarding abuse, sexual abuse by doctor, AG request for intervention, Ashley Forbes inaction, complaint ignored
“Three and a half years.
Still no report.
Still no reason.
Still harming my children
while claiming to protect them.”
— A Homeschooling Mother Still Waiting for the Law to Apply to Her Family
In this formal letter to Attorney General Rhondalee Braithwaite-Knowles, Polly Chromatic requests urgent legal advice and intervention. After 3.5 years of ongoing harassment by the Department of Social Development (DSD) in Grand Turk, and a sustained refusal to issue a legally required report, she is calling on the highest legal authority to enforce compliance with the law.
⚖️ I. The Legal Breach
Turks and Caicos law — specifically the Children (Care and Protection) Ordinance, 2015, Section 17(6) — states that a report must be provided to:
The parent of the child, and
The child, if 12 or older and capable of understanding
Unless there is a clear danger or pending criminal investigation — neither of which applies in her case.
And yet:
No report has ever been provided.
No legal justification has been given.
🧸 II. The Harm Documented
The case began with bias against homeschooling, despite approval from Mark Garland in 2017
Her children experienced:
Sexual abuse by a doctor at the National Hospital
Emotional and psychological harm from repeated unjustified inquiries
Communications with Ashley Adams-Forbes have gone unanswered
A complaint to the Complaints Commissioner was also ignored
🧑⚖️ III. What She Asked the Attorney General
Legal advice on how to compel DSD to comply with statutory law
Action from the AG to enforce Section 17(6)
Oversight to halt the prolonged harassment
SWANK Summary:
She followed the law.
They followed her.
And now — she’s asking the Attorney General
to follow through.
Labels: unlawful investigation, homeschool discrimination, safeguarding weaponisation, legal rights violation, DSD misconduct, no investigation report, AG intervention request, child trauma, doctor abuse, complaint unanswered