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He Bled in Silence
Regal’s Knuckles, Prerogative’s Arm, and the Sound of State Neglect
Filed:
2 August 2025
Reference Code:
SWANK-ADDENDUM-0825-INJURYVISIBLE
Filename:
2025-08-02_SWANK_Addendum_Knuckles_BruiseEvidence.pdf
1-Line Summary:
Visible injuries on Regal and Prerogative observed during contact — unexplained, unreported, and indicative of ongoing abuse in state-arranged care.
I. WHAT HAPPENED
On 1 August 2025, during a supervised contact session at the Contact Centre, the mother, Polly Chromatic, observed that:
Regal’s knuckles were scraped and bleeding.
Prerogative had a distinct bruise on his upper left arm.
Both boys appeared frightened, subdued, and emotionally flat. Regal, age 16, dismissed the injury by claiming he "fell," while visibly avoiding eye contact and showing signs of emotional distress. No explanation was offered by the carers. The children’s affect was markedly different from previous visits.
Regal discreetly handed his journal to his mother — a coded attempt to speak without words. His entries further confirm degrading conditions in the foster placement, including water restrictions, surveillance, emotional abuse, and coercive control.
II. WHAT THE INJURIES INDICATE
This is not hygiene oversight. It is not playtime bruising. It is institutionalised harm manifesting on skin:
Scraped knuckles are consistent with defensive injury or punishment.
Unexplained arm bruising may reflect restraint, rough handling, or physical discipline — all categorically prohibited.
Refusal to speak is not “reluctance”; it is fear.
Journal entries are now forensic artefacts — testifying in ways the children no longer feel safe to.
These are children who know they cannot tell the truth without punishment. That silence is itself the evidence.
III. WHY SWANK LOGGED IT
Because the bruises are real.
Because the silence is coerced.
Because Regal, a child with asthma, is bleeding and no one in authority has sounded the alarm.
And because if you can see this and still do nothing — you have no business in safeguarding.
IV. VIOLATIONS
Children Act 1989 – Duty of protection and care violated
Article 3 ECHR – Inhuman and degrading treatment of a child
Article 8 ECHR – Violation of bodily integrity and private life
UNCRC Article 19 – Failure to protect child from all forms of physical or mental violence
Fostering Regulations 2011 – Breach of standards for safe placement
Health & Safety – Negligent oversight in safeguarding of minor
V. SWANK’S POSITION
Regal bled. Prerogative bruised.
And the carers — agents of the state — offered no explanation, no record, no care.
The mother filed a police report (Ref: TAA-38034-25-0101-IR) and submitted sworn evidence. Yet the foster carers remain in charge, and the children remain under control.
This post stands as record, reproach, and retaliatory mirror. It declares:
You may try to bury the truth —
but bruises surface.
And the SWANK Evidentiary Catalogue does not forget.
Filed in unshakable fidelity to the children’s pain,
Polly Chromatic
Director, SWANK London Ltd.
www.swanklondon.com
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