⟡ Nine Adults, Three Sons, and One Curtainless Examination ⟡
Filed: 8 November 2020
Reference: SWANK/TCI/2020-CTMC-FORCED-EXAMS
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I. They Called It Examination. We Called It Violation.
This complaint was filed after Dr. A. Benjamin of Cockburn Town Medical Centre allegedly performed:
Forced physical exams on multiple children
Without curtains
Without parental consent
With multiple unrelated adults present
While the mother, a disabled foreign national, was ignored and intimidated
What began as a welfare check devolved into institutionalised medical trespass.
The children were not ill.
The doctor was not accountable.
And the parent — was documented.
II. A Timeline of Medical Horror in Plain Clothes
This record documents:
The absence of written consent
The presence of nine adults and a single minor patient
The removal of clothing without procedural justification
A doctor who refused to stop
A hospital administrator who later claimed the incident "did not happen"
The complaint was submitted to the Ministry of Health.
It was never answered.
So SWANK answered for them.
III. The Secondary Violations
Beyond the trauma of the exams themselves:
Medical records were withheld for months
No safeguarding report was ever produced
The hospital refused to confirm how many staff were in the room
The experience caused lasting distress — for both the children and the mother
This was not a misstep.
It was a state-enabled bodily breach.
IV. SWANK’s Position
We do not believe trauma must be televised to be real.
We do not require institutional permission to define violation.
We do not consider Caribbean neglect culturally exempt from accountability.
Let the record show:
The complaint was written
The names were preserved
The trauma was real
The file — is permanent
This is not defamation.
This is documented procedural violation with a SWANK header.