Power of lies. Real fathers for justice.
Rffj demand public inquiry into case of social worker coercion of child to implicate an innocent parent.
Last month the Scotsman reported a case where a father was implicated in sickening allegations that could've seen him jailed for several years, the allegations turned out to be a total fabrication by his former partner. http://news.realfathersforjustice.org...
Rather worryingly, further investigations by police uncovered a series of emails from the mother's legal team, her lawyer had asserted that should she invent allegations against her former partner the case would go her way.
What happened next was mother made statements implicating the father, making several wild allegations of sexual abuse, she allowed their daughter to be subjected to a series of intrusive examinations and intensive questioning by police and social workers.
The girl, who was 5 years old at the time of questioning, consistently denied any wrong doing by her father, under court scrutiny the judge said the methods used during questioning were flawed and amounted to coercion, he ordered that social worker Tracey Black be removed from child protection duties and the police officers retrained.
Mike Kelly said
"The sickening actions of the mother in the case are deplorable, attempting to separate the child from her father and to have him imprisoned by fabricating sexual abuse.
The fact that both the police and social workers broke all the rules, attempting to get the child to back up these sick allegations, highlights how badly the system operates.
The experiences both father and child have been subjected for two years, could be described as everyone's worst nightmare.
This woman does not deserve the loving title of mother, she should be charged with child cruelty and wasting police time"
We understand from press reports social worker Tracey Black has been removed from the case, however she is still working in child protection despite the ruling, we can ascertain from that social workers consider themselves above the law and immune from Sheriff's court rulings.
One of the policeman in question asked to be removed from duties that involve child protection in the future, we think social worker Tracey Black is a disgrace to the profession and should do the same.
We call for a public inquiry into how the case was handled so lessons can be learnt.
False allegations are rife in family courts, prejudices, bad practice and downright incompetence seem to be the norm.
Cases like this do very little to strengthen confidence in neither the legal system nor the professionals involved.
Rffj have written to Msp Elizabeth Smith asking for progress, further to her comments in the Scotsman calling for an inquiry.
unsurprisingly she has failed to respond to us.
You can write to Ms Smith here: [email protected]
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