Paul and Zabeth Bayne – Part 9 – The Alarming Case of B.C. Government’s Miscarriage of Justice.

The most difficult thing to do and the right thing to do are very often the same thing.

The most difficult and the right thing for the Ministry of Children and Family Development to do from the top on down with respect to Paul and Zabeth Bayne and their three children, Kent (5), Baden (4) and Bethany (2), is to immediately ask a Judge to rescind the ‘Interim Order’ authorizing custody of the children by MCFD and the Fostering program and to return these children to the birth parents without any further intrusive and insulting supervisory stipulations.

I can tell you now that with the dearth of evidence in the portfolio of the MCFD and the weight of evidence that already supports the indictment of injustice done to these children through Ministry neglect and Fostering failures, if MCFD moves this to trial, this Ministry will be humiliated at so many levels, there will be an unending chain of people rapidly offloading culpability to the person in the office one step higher or lower. You can be sure that Lloyd Robertson will be airing it on the National which is where the story belongs right now.

What has been done to the Bayne family in British Columbia for over two years is a disgrace to all of us who live here. Long after legitimate suspicion of parental abuse by the Baynes was laid to rest by the RCMP, MCFD not only held on to an infant of two months of age until she is now two years old, but has also seized her brothers and been holding them for many months on no supportable grounds whatsoever. I wish I didn’t have to use a generic MCFD attribution for this miscarriage of justice. I would prefer to deposit the responsibility upon the figures who are chiefly responsible but the truth is, elected and commissioned public servants have agreed to be responsible for those employees within their Ministry programs.

You read earlier that the authorization upon which MCFD is working the Bayne case is an ‘Interim Order.’ Guess what the duration of that order is? Did you say three months? That would be correct – not two years. Two years is a violation of the legislation that governs this Ministry. The Bayne children were removed from the Bayne home on October 22, 2007, exactly two years ago as I write these words. No Judge and no court has ever authorized this Ministry in Victoria or its offices anywhere in the Lower Mainland to hold the Bayne children for more than the first three months. Since February 2008 these children have been held by a Ministry without regard to the very ACT that is designed to protect the children. And while these children have been in other people’s custody they have sometimes been subjected to pitiless disciplines and indifferent treatment of illnesses and rashes and infections, and inexcusable child rearing practices and sometimes unclean living conditions. All of these conditions have been lodged as concerns and complaints by Paul and Zabeth which is their right to do and invariably there is no response or an unsatisfactory response. And still the mocking overriding premise upon which this torture of a family continues is that the children are better off away from innocent parents who have now spent over $80,000 on legal and medical opinion fees and had lawyers place liens against their home, and resorted to night work as custodians so they have day hours to visit their children. Innocent people do not give up.

Now listen as HONOURABLE MARY POLAK very shortly holds a press conference to announce some fresh initiatives and services to BC parents and caregivers to increase prevention of baby shaking or extreme disciplines that border on or become abuse, and also to emphasized that caregivers down the chain are going to be held very responsible for the care of the children in their charge. The Bayne case is one of those unfortunate families with whom the correct actions are missed or not taken in the busyness of a large portfolio. The most difficult thing to do and the right thing to do are very often the same thing. This time the right and infinitely difficult thing to do is to put an addendum on the press conference to announce that in the Bayne case, all three children are being restored to their birth parents immediately.

Why not write a gracious letter to her asking her to do the right thing.
HONOURABLE MARY POLAK
PO BOX 9057 STN PROV GOVT
VICTORIA BC V8W 9E2

mary.polak.mla@leg.bc.ca Cut this address and paste it into your email address line

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