📢 SWANK Dispatch: Complaint Filed, System Indicted — A Maladministration Portfolio
🗓️ 1 July 2020
Filed Under: maladministration, forced medical exams, fence dismantling, complaint escalation, racial and philosophical discrimination, policy evasion, procedural breakdown, institutional retraumatisation
“If this is child protection, then tell me: who’s protecting them from you?”
— A Mother with a Legal Mind and an Asthmatic Lung
In this formidable submission to Mrs. Astwood of the Complaints Commission, dated 1 July 2020, Polly Chromatic brings a meticulously itemised formal complaint against the Department of Social Development in Grand Turk.
Not a grievance.
A case file.
Backed by documents, medical records, witness statements, and 19 grounds of maladministration.
Let us recount.
⚖️ I. Charges of Maladministration Include:
Unnecessary delays
Bias
Negligence
Improper procedures
Wrongful decisions
Improper service
Discourtesy
Performance failures
Discrimination (race, sex, age, education, parenting philosophy)
Harassment
Corruption
Abuse of power
Flawed internal processes
No justification for decisions
Lack of humane consideration
Unfairness
Incompetence
Arbitrariness
Mistake of law or fact
No exaggeration.
Each charge is backed by incident.
🔪 II. Physical and Emotional Violations
• May 2017: Her three sons were sexually assaulted on a hospital table by a state-appointed doctor under police and social work supervision.
• August 2019: Her fence was dismantled. Entry forced. No probable cause.
• COVID-19: Social workers entered against Emergency Powers, without masks, with no legal basis, despite her severe asthma.
• September 2019: Social workers hijacked her son’s birthday to interrogate the family over a fabricated vaccination claim.
Not a single one of these incidents was followed up with a report, a review, or an apology.
📚 III. Homeschooling as the Original Sin
Though approved by Mark Garland of the Ministry of Education, her choice to homeschool her children seems to have been the original offence in the eyes of the Department.
What followed was years of:
• Policy shifting
• Approval denial
• Truancy threats
• Investigations without cause
All while she submitted annual curricula, proof of education, and sought transparent cooperation.
🧠 IV. What She Asks for Is Not Vengeance — But Standards
She doesn’t want revenge. She wants:
• Communication
• Appointments
• Reports
• Due process
• Policy compliance
• Respect for her health and boundaries
• Consideration for her children’s dignity
💬 Final Words:
“Your assistance in investigating and resolving this matter would be extremely beneficial for my family as well as the public sphere.”
A citizen wrote a legal document.
A mother documented 3 years of unrelenting injustice.
SWANK now holds the archive.