LA made changes in their initial report from hosp document...
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2023 11:15 pm
My husband and I have bee accused of NAI. We have identical twin boys (9 weeks when taken) and a 1 y/o (14 months when taken).
One of our boys had something wrong with his arm, we took him in. He had a fracture. We don't understand how. They had to do safe-guarding which apparently also required a social worker coming to the house to check on me and the other boys and evaluate me, them and household (is this true that this is required, can anyone confirm - this was initially under the guise of "offering me help" but then changed to requirement to check the environment and other boys). This didn't happen because it was New Years Day and staffing issues, instead two uninformed policewomen from a different area arrived (is this normal? Their report was released recently and didn't discuss the household or other boys or me) who did who didn't ID themselves and didn't even know why they were here arrived.
They did full body scan of our son as per child protection. Found multiple healing fractures. We were devostated and confused.
The next day two social workers turn up after they told me the night before at a call at almost midnight that there would be no social workers coming. They issued a letter asking us to agree voluntary placement. We agreed. ICO in place. Boys taken.
We were issued a bunch of documents. These went to a faceless court over night that decided it wasn't voluntarily placement but forced.
I have a document from them from the very beginning that states the reason the boys were taken is because NAI and because we didn't agree for them to be taken into care, which is not true atall. It also states the other two went to placement while the one with the broken arm remained in hospital. This is untrue, they all went, and when the other two went to hospital the next day for their child protection scans, the head nurse asked to check on the cast of the injured twin and was confused he wasn't there. I was reassured he was okay at placement. I had no choice but to take their word. He was fine, thankfully.
The document outlining these other fractures our 9 week-old son had made no other statement than "healing fracture" of whatever bones it was. However we recently had a document disclosure which gave us the original hospital document the LA compiled this letter from. They didn't include the descriptive words about these fractures. Words that include "miniscule", "subtle", "thin", "abnormality". While a fracture is a fracture, I feel these descriptive words are very important. Why did the LA remove them in their initial letter to us? To me, it sounds like they're claiming the fractures were worse than they were.
Is this normal? Why wasn't the initial release by the LA an accurate representation of what the hospital stated in the initial report?
Please reply. So much about this whole thing feels fishy and like protocol has not been followed. We are low-risk parents but treated like we are not. They keep acting like we have something to hide when we don't. I don't trust them. I feel like they're going to be armchair psychiatrists because we have no mental health records because we've never suffered with mental health problems (until now, I am trying to get councilling to deal with this. I have been open about this. I don't know if this will go against me. I'm not unhinged).
Thank you if you read this.
One of our boys had something wrong with his arm, we took him in. He had a fracture. We don't understand how. They had to do safe-guarding which apparently also required a social worker coming to the house to check on me and the other boys and evaluate me, them and household (is this true that this is required, can anyone confirm - this was initially under the guise of "offering me help" but then changed to requirement to check the environment and other boys). This didn't happen because it was New Years Day and staffing issues, instead two uninformed policewomen from a different area arrived (is this normal? Their report was released recently and didn't discuss the household or other boys or me) who did who didn't ID themselves and didn't even know why they were here arrived.
They did full body scan of our son as per child protection. Found multiple healing fractures. We were devostated and confused.
The next day two social workers turn up after they told me the night before at a call at almost midnight that there would be no social workers coming. They issued a letter asking us to agree voluntary placement. We agreed. ICO in place. Boys taken.
We were issued a bunch of documents. These went to a faceless court over night that decided it wasn't voluntarily placement but forced.
I have a document from them from the very beginning that states the reason the boys were taken is because NAI and because we didn't agree for them to be taken into care, which is not true atall. It also states the other two went to placement while the one with the broken arm remained in hospital. This is untrue, they all went, and when the other two went to hospital the next day for their child protection scans, the head nurse asked to check on the cast of the injured twin and was confused he wasn't there. I was reassured he was okay at placement. I had no choice but to take their word. He was fine, thankfully.
The document outlining these other fractures our 9 week-old son had made no other statement than "healing fracture" of whatever bones it was. However we recently had a document disclosure which gave us the original hospital document the LA compiled this letter from. They didn't include the descriptive words about these fractures. Words that include "miniscule", "subtle", "thin", "abnormality". While a fracture is a fracture, I feel these descriptive words are very important. Why did the LA remove them in their initial letter to us? To me, it sounds like they're claiming the fractures were worse than they were.
Is this normal? Why wasn't the initial release by the LA an accurate representation of what the hospital stated in the initial report?
Please reply. So much about this whole thing feels fishy and like protocol has not been followed. We are low-risk parents but treated like we are not. They keep acting like we have something to hide when we don't. I don't trust them. I feel like they're going to be armchair psychiatrists because we have no mental health records because we've never suffered with mental health problems (until now, I am trying to get councilling to deal with this. I have been open about this. I don't know if this will go against me. I'm not unhinged).
Thank you if you read this.