⚖️ SWANK Dispatch: When a Lawyer Has to Ask Why Your Children Were Touched
π️ 25 August 2020
Filed Under: legal intervention, forced medical exams, investigation without cause, rights breach, family life violation, child protection misconduct, lack of disclosure, systemic harassment, trauma documentation
“Was there a report of abuse? If so, where is it?
If not — then what gave you the right to examine my sons’ genitals?”
— A Mother, Represented and Still Waiting for Answers
This letter from attorney Lara Maroof of James Law Chambers to Ashley Adams, Deputy Director of Social Development, formalises the case that Polly Chromatic has been trying to make for over three years:
That no lawful cause has been given for the intrusion, medical violations, and trauma inflicted upon her and her children.
π§Ύ I. What This Letter Demands
Twelve direct legal questions, including:
Was any report of suspected abuse ever made in 2017 or 2019?
Was any assessment carried out before police and social worker visits?
On what grounds were her three sons subjected to genital examinations?
Why was no interview conducted with Polly prior to these exams?
Why were the children not spoken to before being touched?
What legal section was used to justify action — or inaction — under the Children (Care and Protection) Ordinance?
What lawful grounds existed for the 26 March 2020 home intrusion during national lockdown?
Is there an active investigation or not?
These are basic statutory questions.
Yet none had ever been answered.
Even after three years.
Even after a lawyer asked in writing.
⚠️ II. What This Reveals
There is no record of a proper cause for any investigation
The department violated both medical ethics and legal procedure
No closure was given. No actions were explained.
The result has been chronic, legally sanctioned distress for Noelle and her children
“After three years, it is reasonable to expect your Department would have been able to form a very clear opinion…”
Instead — they formed no opinion, no case, and no lawful conclusion.
π Final Note:
The letter is from a lawyer.
The trauma is from a government.
The burden is on a mother.
And the silence, still —
is from the State.