Dearest IRENE, my heart goes out to you here in New Zealand. I hate this horrible injustice. I am the mother of 3 children, Bernadette nearly 13, Gina-Marie 9 & Chavez 5. Gina & Chavez were uplifted from me 3 years ago by child, youth & family services. Without proper legal representation nor the right to a trial. The Department have put them in permanet placement with the father of my oldest daughter (*note: he's not the biological father of the younger 2 children) Then the evil lying Department have the cheek to tell the family court that my blood family agreed to this placement - they did not! The Department have branded me a insane mental-case & a danger to my 3 children, providing them with an unsafe enivronment,charging me with
subserquent neglect. (what a load of crap) Social workers said that I strangled my youngest child while breast-feeding him in a psychotic episode, Lies, lies, lies. Then they say that I beat up my daughter bernadette black and blue and that her wounds turned into cysts. (more shocking heart-breaking lies) What's even worse is that they have written into court documents that I sexually abused my own daughter, Bernadette, this she knows is just not true, and I know that there's just no reasoning with lying NAZI social workers', their sick and evil minds were made up long ago. I can't even get a Lawyer decent enough to represent me, they all seem to be working for the system over here. court psychologists and court appointed shrinks + child counsel are paid off by the department to lie and rubbish anyone who is up against the corrupt system. I will never give up, and I will never bow down to a system of fear. Check out http://www.panic.org.nz It's shocking over here. Each day they are stealing our beloved children and branding innocent parents as criminals, sometimes going as far as throwing them in jail. I noted down something that the chid counsel wrote in her paper work, that I had had Gina out in the middle of the road riding a bike - unsupervised. I have seen this happen in my street - but it's not my child but the next door neighbours kid who is younger than my gina. I know what you're going through over here, I'm not nearly as dumb as the department of child youth & family have made me out to be. Take care IRENE, and as we say in Maori over here Kia Kaha - be strong. Michelle in Aotearoa, New Zealand.