🧠 The Law Is Clear. The Department Is Not.
⟡ A Second Letter to the Attorney General Concerning Social Development’s Legal Amnesia, Homeschool Sabotage, and Psychological Harm
IN THE MATTER OF: Institutional Harassment, Legal Violations, and the Unacceptable Cost of Having an Intelligent Family in a System Built for Compliance
⟡ METADATA
Filed: 15 July 2020
Reference Code: SWANK-TCI-AG-HOMESCHOOL-HARASSMENT
Court File Name: 2020-07-15_Court_Letter_AG_TCI_SocialDev_Harassment_Homeschool_Trauma
Summary: A calm but brutal letter to Attorney General Rhondalee Braithwaite-Knowles requesting legal intervention after 3.5 years of unlawful surveillance by Social Development in Grand Turk. It outlines repeated statutory violations, emotional harm to the children, and total disregard for the legal rights of the mother — including her right to receive a formal investigative report, as required by the Children Ordinance. It is simultaneously a request, a warning, and a record.
I. What Happened
After homeschooling her children with formal approval since 2017, Polly Chromatic (then writing as Noelle Bonneannée) found herself locked in an ongoing battle with Social Development — one defined by unannounced visits, gendered dismissal, and total procedural incoherence. This second letter to the Attorney General makes several things clear:
That her children have suffered trauma due to departmental interference
That no report has ever been issued regarding the so-called “investigation”
That statutory law requires such a report
That the department has never articulated risk, resolution, or purpose
That her patience has limits, and her legal literacy has not
II. What the Complaint Establishes
That the Children (Care and Protection) Ordinance, 2015 §17(6) requires delivery of an investigation report to parents
That this report was never provided, violating clear legal mandate
That the Complaints Commissioner has also failed to respond
That the social work department is operating beyond the bounds of its legal authority
That institutional involvement has caused documented psychological and emotional harm to the children
That the mother’s educational rights have been obstructed, not protected
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because no mother should have to beg the Attorney General to get the state to follow its own laws. Because quoting subsection 17(6) is not a flex — it’s a survival tactic. Because legal letters should not be the last refuge of families trying to be left alone, but they are. And because if trauma is caused by the very system tasked with preventing it, then the system is not broken — it’s abusive by design.
IV. Violations
Statutory breach of §17(6) of the Children Ordinance
Failure to produce mandatory investigation report
Inaction on formal complaints submitted to oversight bodies
Psychological harm inflicted on children through needless surveillance
Harassment under the guise of safeguarding
Gendered and philosophical bias against lawful homeschool families
V. SWANK’s Position
We log this letter as a formal record of legal insubordination by the state, and a tribute to the author’s relentless command of dignity under duress. SWANK London Ltd. affirms:
That quoting the law to the state is not hostility — it’s clarity
That 3.5 years without findings is not oversight — it’s state gaslighting
That trauma inflicted under the name of protection is still trauma
And that a woman who writes two letters to the Attorney General in the same week while raising four children and running an educational programme is not to be underestimated