🚨 SWANK Dispatch: I Was Nearly Dead — They Called My Kids Orphans and Searched My House
🗓️ 18 October 2021
Filed Under: medical trauma, asthma emergency, unlawful search, child interrogation, disability discrimination, intellectual exploitation, emergency protocol abuse, family rights violation, safeguarding weaponisation, Grand Turk misconduct
“I was in respiratory collapse.
The police arrived asking if I’d eaten.
Then they called my children orphans,
searched my house,
and grilled my 12-year-old
while I was nearly in a coma.”
— A Mother Taken by Ambulance While Her Children Were Traumatised by the State
This formal letter from Polly Chromatic to attorney Mark Fulford outlines a devastating series of human rights violations following a medical emergency on 14–15 October 2021. While Polly was suffering a life-threatening asthma attack, social workers and police used her absence to invade her home, interrogate her children, insult her husband, and threaten family separation.
🧬 I. A Medical Crisis, Not a Crime Scene
Noelle, in severe respiratory distress, was taken by ambulance after nebuliser treatments failed
Police arrived without masks, asking irrelevant questions about food while she was unable to breathe
Children watched in horror as their mother was stretchered away
🧑👦 II. What the State Did to Her Family
Called her children "orphans" while she was alive and receiving care
Referred to the father as unfit, despite his intellectual disability and efforts to cooperate
Searched the house without permission, with no adult present
Removed children and forced them to ride alone with a social worker without explanation
Fed them allergens, worsening their asthma
Asked irrelevant, psychological questions like:
“Do you bathe?”
“Do you like your mom?”
“Do you like being homeschooled?”
All this while failing to ask if they were okay or offer any reassurance
🚫 III. Abuse of Power Under Medical Pretext
“They forced their way into my hospital room. They violated every boundary. And they tried to turn a crisis into a case.”
The social worker and officers treated the kitchen counter — not the emergency — as the priority.
Rather than assist, they chose to investigate, punish, and traumatise.
⚖️ IV. What Noelle Demands
Restraining order against the Department of Social Development
Compensation for years of state-inflicted trauma
Legal action against both the social worker (Miss Godet) and police (Officer Taylor and others)
Public accountability for the violation of medical ethics, legal rights, and child protection principles
SWANK Summary:
She couldn’t breathe.
They couldn’t care.
She was fighting for her life.
They were planning how to punish her for surviving.