The interfering and draconian state is to seize a woman’s baby as soon as it is born, because the quacks believe that she “may” abuse it:
A pregnant woman has been told that her baby will be taken from her at birth because she is deemed capable of “emotional abuse”, even though psychiatrists treating her say there is no evidence to suggest that she will harm her child in any way.
That this is jaw dropping arrogance ceases to surprise me. The psychiatrists state that there is no evidence yet…
Social services’ recommendation that the baby should be taken from Fran Lyon, a 22-year-old charity worker who has five A-levels and a degree in neuroscience, was based in part on a letter from a paediatrician she has never met.
Astounding. Someone she has never met has assessed the level of risk and a conclusion has been determined. Hexham children’s services, based upon this hypothetical nonsense are going to take the child:
Hexham children’s services, part of Northumberland County Council, said the decision had been made because Miss Lyon was likely to suffer from Munchausen’s Syndrome by proxy, a condition unproven by science in which a mother will make up an illness in her child, or harm it, to draw attention to herself.
This, despite Munchausen’s by Proxy being an invented syndrome created by a discredited quack. It gets worse, the social services will truck no challenge to their totalitarian behaviour:
Under the plan, a doctor will hand the newborn to a social worker, provided there are no medical complications. Social services’ request for an emergency protection order – these are usually granted – will be heard in secret in the family court at Hexham magistrates on the same day.
From then on, anyone discussing the case, including Miss Lyon, will be deemed to be in contempt of the court.
These people are evil – and I don’t use that word lightly.
Miss Lyon, from Hexham, who is five months pregnant, is seeking a judicial review of the decision about Molly, as she calls her baby. She described it as “barbaric and draconian”, and said it was “scandalous” that social services had not accepted submissions supporting her case.
Yup, barbaric, scandalous and draconian are all valid descriptions and are all the consequence of ten years of New Labour; a party so wrapped up in its own stupendous arrogance that it thinks that it can dictate our lives for us and empowers the little Hitlers in the town halls and the social services, giving them carte blanche to bully, intimidate and in this case; steal from us. To make a decision based upon a letter written by a person who has never met the mother concerned and cannot therefore make an accurate assessment defies belief, yet believe it, I do.
John Hemming, the Liberal Democrat MP and chairman of the Justice for Families campaign group, said the case showed “exactly what is wrong with public family law”.
A classic example of understatement.
Miss Lyon’s best option is to flee the country. It’s what I would do.
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
There is something spectacularly ghastly about this as there is with all child cases. What are Social Services to do? They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
That said, this sort of caper is beyond belief. They only have to obstruct for a short time – say a year – the eminently reasonable requests for court transcripts or any sort of justification for the original action before such request become moot: the child has been adopted and cannot be “unadopted”.
Which is why the Social Services need to ensure that they have their incentives correct: if they f*ck up in this manner, a child’s life is trashed. Ergo… Failure to do everything possible to ensure that the family’s case is properly heard – i.e. evidence of intent, whether to cover incompetence or with malice – should be punishable by something similar. The case worker in question needs to be publicly humiliated, then jailed. Oh and EVERY SINGLE CASE that that worker has EVER touched needs to be automatically subject to independent review. More than one actionable offense of this sort and the death penalty seems about right. They need to feel the weight of the responsibility – personally.