Hearing the dreadful news yesterday of two children murdered by their schizophrenic mother because of the nasty incompetence of Social Services reminds me that I too have been the victim of social services.
My nine year old son’s Mother became mentally ill and was treated abominably by social services, as was our son.
Mum is now too ill to be with my son and I ( almost certainly because of what social services did to her), so that is why I am a single father.
Social services did everything possible to wreck our family – and they succeeded too. They were also dishonest and utterly incompetent. They blatantly lied and made every effort to prevent me from having my son.
They told me they were considering having my son adopted rather than let me have him and openly used this as a threat to me, using the words ‘if I didn’t co-operate with them’.
At no stage was I ever accused of being a ‘bad’ or incompetent parent. In fact the Family Court specifically praised me, and even social services from time to time gracelessly said I was a ‘good’ father because they were forced to.
It is a an extraordinary tale. I am prevented from writing about it because of the law relating to Family Courts.
This has made me even more determined to write about what I legally can in relation to Social Services.
Watch this space.
Meanwhile, have a read of this Daily Mail article about how awful social services are.
Tags: DEMETRIOUS PANTON, Government, Haut de la Garenne, incompetence, Jersey child abuse, social services
