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Chromatic v Grand Turk – On the Illegality of Being Too Brilliant for Your Social Worker



I’m Raising Children — You’re Raising Suspicion

⟡ A Complaint of Maladministration, Institutional Cruelty, and the Weaponisation of Procedure

IN THE MATTER OF: Social Development vs. Maternal Competence, Clean Homes, and Fully Clothed Children


⟡ METADATA

Filed: 1 July 2020
Reference Code: SWANK-TCI-COMPLAINT-ASTWOOD
Court File Name: 2020-07-01_Records_ComplaintAstwoodGrandTurkAbuse
Summary: A 19-count formal complaint to the Turks and Caicos Complaints Commission, detailing years of unlawful, inconsistent, and medically harmful interventions by the Department of Social Development. The letter includes allegations of bias, harassment, racial and educational discrimination, COVID violations, and literal medical assault. It is a civic cathedral of composed outrage.


I. What Happened

Polly Chromatic (then known as Noelle Bonneannée) submitted this formal complaint after the Department of Social Development repeatedly:

  • Entered her property uninvited

  • Forcibly transported her children

  • Withheld communication

  • Acted on false neighbor reports

  • Ignored asthma and disability documentation

  • Weaponised mothering choices like sugar limits, trampoline assembly, and the location of her toilet.

It culminates in a tragic account of medically unnecessary and invasive examinations inflicted on her children under state watch — an act that still has not received institutional apology or accountability.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • That the state acted outside its statutory powers

  • That investigators repeatedly failed to follow procedure, maintain contact, or provide written updates

  • That false allegations were treated with more urgency than lived evidence

  • That social workers attempted to separate the children from their mother with no lawful cause

  • That medical misconduct occurred in the presence of multiple officers, professionals, and a silent curtain

  • That homeschooling, disability accommodation, and environmental parenting were all treated as threats, not rights


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because the truth is unbearable to institutions that function on narrative control — and this complaint removes that control. Because documenting one's own mistreatment should not require a law degree, a Royal Brompton medical file, and four traumatised children. And because there is no recovery without record — and no record as sharp, as damning, or as unignorable as this one.


IV. Violations

  • Trespass and unlawful entry

  • Medical assault and breach of bodily autonomy

  • Pandemic protocol breaches under Emergency Powers

  • Harassment, racial and philosophical discrimination

  • Failure to provide reports, updates, or procedural basis

  • Emotional and psychological abuse through forced separation and misinformation

  • Retaliation, surveillance-style visitation, and service refusal

  • Breach of maternal data privacy via third-party contact


V. SWANK’s Position

This complaint is a legal novella of state misconduct, written not in anger but in devastating clarity. SWANK London Ltd. recognises:

  • That lawful parenting does not require state permission

  • That the dignity of a child includes not being dragged to a hospital on their birthday

  • That medical procedures without necessity or consent are not “check-ups” — they are abuse

  • That systems which cannot define their own rules should not be allowed to enforce them

We file this entry in solemn recognition of the families harmed by the illusion of safeguarding, and in awe of the woman who — while baking a cake and holding a toddler — still managed to cite the law more accurately than the department assigned to uphold it.


⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡ Every entry is timestamped. Every sentence is jurisdictional. Every structure is protected. To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach. We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence. This is not a blog. This is a legal-aesthetic instrument. Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation. Because evidence deserves elegance. And retaliation deserves an archive. © 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved. Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.

The Law Says I Get a Copy — So Why Am I Still Asking?

 📜 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-KnowlesPolly 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

A Timeline of Harassment Dressed Up as Protection — Filed for the Record

 🛑 SWANK Petition: The Human Rights They Pretended Don’t Apply to Homeschooling Mothers

🗓️ 15 July 2020

Filed Under: human rights violations, emergency powers abuse, forced medical examinations, lawful homeschooling, child trauma, privacy breaches, misogynist oversight, procedural corruption


“I filed a curriculum. They sent police.”
— A Mother Whose Children Were Educated, Not Enrolled

On this solemn date, the 15th of July 2020, a ten-page petition was filed with the Human Rights Commission of the Turks and Caicos Islands by Polly Chromatic, a legally approved homeschooling mother, researcher, and writer — whose children were assaulted, her body medically endangered, and her home repeatedly violated under the grotesque excuse of “child welfare.”

Let us be precise.


⚖️ I. The Legal Right to Homeschool — Documented and Ignored

Permission was granted on 26 June 2017 by Mark Garland, yet the Department of Social Development—led by Ashley Adams, Jaala Kennedy, and Ashley Smith—refused to respect this approval.

• Curriculum: submitted yearly
• Degrees: provided (Bachelor + Master’s)
• Income: disclosed
• Communication: constant

Instead of de-escalation, they escalated surveillance. They questioned her about spanking. They challenged her religion. They dismantled her fence.


🏥 II. Medical Assault and the Weaponisation of Hospitals

May 2017: Her sons were sexually abused during an examination at the National Hospital in Grand Turk. The room had nine adults. No privacy. The mother objected — they ignored her. The doctor told her to forcibly retract her children’s foreskin with lotion, a direct violation of UK NHS guidelines, which state:
“Never try to force your son’s foreskin back… it may be painful and damage the foreskin.”

No accountability followed.
Only more visits.


🦠 III. High-Risk Asthma, Emergency Laws Broken, No Excuse

Despite Emergency COVID Powers and her documented eosinophilic asthma, social workers entered her property against her express instructions on 26 March 2020.

The law:
❌ They were not essential workers.
❌ They had no authority to bypass the Emergency Powers.
❌ They endangered her life, knowingly.


🧾 IV. Fundamental Rights Violated (as listed in the Constitution):

  • 🏠 Right to private and family life

  • 📚 Right to education

  • ⚖️ Right to lawful administrative action

  • 🧠 Freedom of conscience and belief

  • 👩‍👧 Protection from inhuman treatment

  • 📢 Freedom of expression

  • ♻️ Environmental beliefs and practice

She did not invent these rights.
They simply failed to respect them.


📅 V. The Timeline That Won’t Be Forgotten

This petition meticulously documented nearly four years of violations, with dozens of emailshospital visits, and unlawful property entries. It named names. Dates. Laws. Ordinances. Attachments.

It was not a cry for help.
It was a case file.
Bound in evidence. Sealed in truth. Ignored only by cowards.