⟡ I Was Dying. They Searched My House. ⟡
Filed: 18 October 2021
Reference: SWANK/TCI/2021-POLICE-SOCIALDEV-BREACH
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I. A Breathing Emergency. A Forced Investigation. A State That Couldn’t Wait.
This document records a singular horror: a respiratory medical collapse, followed not by care or pause — but by a raid.
What the timeline shows:
An emergency ambulance was called
The parent was unconscious and removed to hospital
While she was gone, police and social workers entered the home
Children were questioned, separated, and threatened
One child — with an intellectual disability — was asked who would take care of them now
No warrant.
No safeguarding trigger.
Just institutional presumption masquerading as procedure.
This wasn’t welfare.
This was retaliation — activated by vulnerability.
II. The Scene They Created
Present:
Social worker Vernita Godet
Officer Kayon Taylor
Multiple uniformed police
Children — one still recovering from trauma, one neurodivergent, all terrified
The mother had just been hospitalised for Eosinophilic Asthma — an emergency for which she was medically shielded and previously endangered.
She returned to:
Her children visibly shaken
Her home violated
Her authority as a parent treated as null
III. Why SWANK Filed It
Because this was not an oversight.
It was a state-led dramaturgy of suspicion — staged while the mother was unconscious.
Because when social workers exploit medical trauma as a moment to assert jurisdiction, they do not protect children — they perform authority.
Because when you’re ill, and alone, and disabled —
they assume you are unfit.
And when you recover, they expect silence.
But SWANK files instead.
IV. SWANK’s Position
We do not consider forced entry during a medical crisis to be lawful contact.
We do not accept the use of children’s confusion as investigatory leverage.
We do not mistake a uniform for legitimacy.
Let the record show:
The mother was hospitalised
The children were traumatised
The state interpreted illness as abandonment
And SWANK — interpreted that as breach
This is not drama.
This is procedure deployed as punishment.