Wednesday 10 March 2010

STAFFORD EPILOGUE: THE MADNESS THAT IS THE SECRET FAMILY COURTS SYSTEM

This is taken from another blog called THE SLOG. I recommend you have a read of his blog, it is very informative and very interesting.

You can read this blog here, but i have copied it here as well.

Last week, the Slog revealed several aspects of secrecy surrounding medical, social work, psychiatric and judicial personnel. We end the series today with the maddest case of the lot.

I can't show you the baby in the above picture - even though the shot was taken three years ago, and the kid would be unrecognisable.

I can't tell you the name of either mother or child. I can't tell you the names of any of the controlling clowns who have made this mother's life a misery.

I can't tell you the name of the judge who consigned her into the hands of a bent psychiatrist.

I can't tell you the name of the social worker and judge who preferred, as a custodian of the child's welfare, a man with a history of violence (on remand for shoving a broken beer glass into the face of a fellow customer in the local) to this mother.

I can't tell you the name of this violent thug, nor give you the identity of the child he deserted when it was a three-month foetus.

I can't tell you the name of the social work director who deliberately stalled on showing the mother her case history notes; nor the name of the lawyer who helped the mother put in a freedom of information request until this arrogant senior manager was forced by law to comply.

I can't tell you anything identifying this case until 2022. Because a judge (and guess what, I can't give you the name of this pillock either) has deemed it right and proper that I shouldn't.

This scandalous silence has been fixed - I use the word advisedly - on the ludicrous basis of protecting the infant child's identity. And although Jack Straw at long last has come to realise just how pernicious, illiberal and downright creepy the whole disgusting apparatus of Secret Family Courts is, his hands are increasingly tied by lobbying from the judiciary and social services professionals.

They simply do not have a leg to stand on. Time and again inquiries into the system have recommended that media reporting be allowed - while not including the names of victims. But a rearguard action against Straw's abysmally late conversion is now engaging in venom of the sort you'd expect. The sort spat out by unpleasant people desperate to hide evidence of cynical target-setting, corrupt use of funds, police collusion, incompetent or delusional social workers and yes, even paedophile judges.

What I can do, however, is give you the names of the two Government Ministers concerned who - despite endless promises since 2006 to members on all sides of both Houses of Parliament - have done three-fifths of Fanny Adams about any of it.

Harriet Harman and Ed Balls.

They are both overt or covert candidates for leadership of New Labour. They should be ashamed of themselves, but of course they are not - and nor will they be in the future. For they are the living proof of what's wrong with the UK: government by a selfish and heartless deranged minority at the expensive of the good and honest majority.

To bloggers everywhere: I really don't care if you won't give me a credit or link to this article. But I would be very happy if you'd give the details of this case enough publicity to ensure those who perpetuate the system are brought to justice at last. If we as an online community can't do that, then what on God's Earth are we for?


Posted by John Ward at 15:58

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