📨 SWANK Dispatch: If You’re Planning Around My Children, Involve Me
🗓️ 6 August 2020
Filed Under: unacknowledged requests, investigation opacity, parental exclusion, statutory rights ignored, child welfare irony, legal escalation, bureaucratic deflection
“The danger to my children is not the home — it’s the department.”
— A Mother Who Requested Reports, Not Surprises
On the 6th of August 2020, Polly Chromatic sent a crisp, restrained letter to Ashley Adams-Forbes, Deputy Director of the Department of Social Development, addressing what should never have needed to be repeated:
If you’re investigating my children,
you must tell me why.
You must show your reports.
You must include me in the process.
📂 I. The Legislative Obligation
Turks and Caicos law mandates transparency in child welfare investigations. But instead of receiving the required reports, Polly has received:
• Ongoing intrusion
• No rationale
• No documents
• No involvement in planning
• No formal explanation
🧠 II. The Threat to Her Children Comes from Within the System
She writes:
“It is the department itself that has put my children in harms way repeatedly through demonstrated acts of bad judgement.”
She’s not speculating. She’s documenting.
And she has receipts — from forced hospital visits, illegal home entries, and ignored medical risk warnings.
⚖️ Final Line:
“I have decided to consult with an attorney.”
It’s not a threat.
It’s a boundary.
A formal one — drawn after too many ignored questions, and too many invisible decisions made behind a mother’s back.