Zabeth and Paul Bayne – Part 22 – The Bayne Campaign for Justice

The Abbreviated Version - Reason Enough to sign the petition

Over two years ago Zabeth, mother of Bethany who was two months old at the time, saw her second son Baden, fall on top of Bethany. Zabeth was coming from her bedroom which opened directly to the living room. Baden was running around a corner at the other end of the room when he stumbled and fell over her baby. Bethany had been resting on a blanket on the floor to the side of the room. That location had seemed to Zabeth to be a safe placed for Bethany to lie as the boys played in their own bedroom. Her husband Paul was assisting with the dinner Zabeth had begun in the kitchen and periodically he came in and out of the living room to check on Bethany. Zabeth had left the kitchen to go to her bedroom for a few minutes to express milk following a normal feeding of Bethany. While the accidental fall and collision alarmed the parents, it was gradually dismissed because in the minutes that followed Bethany showed no indication of health issues.

Certain symptoms occurred later. Zabeth and Paul repeatedly reported this accident to the hospital nurses and doctors. This incident was the only time in the girl’s brief life that something injurious like this had occurred that might cause the symptoms they were witnessing. The recounting of the accident was repeatedly dismissed by the immediate medical service providers and Bethany was consequently misdiagnosed with shaken baby syndrome. Of course I am making this categorical statement based on Zabeth’s and Paul’s testimonies. A court of law has yet to confirm that legally. But here is that allegation status to date, even as Bethany is still in the custody of the BC Ministry of Children, and worse, so are her two brothers.

Only one doctor made that initial diagnosis. It is not confirmed that this doctor will now be willing to testify in a court of law. Upteen other medical opinions dispute that initial diagnosis, have written reports and would testify if asked. An appropriate investigation took place. The RCMP did their analysis and dismissed any liability by the Baynes. Bethany should have been returned at least three months after being taken from Zabeth and Paul. She was not returned. She has not been in her parents’ custody for two years. Two Years! Compounding the Ministry’s culpability in injustice with respect to the Baynes, is their seizure of the boys. All three children were taken initially in October 2007, but the boys were returned albeit in a supervised arrangement whereby Paul and Zabeth had to live with their sons in Zabeth’s parents’ home rather than their own house. Then without cause, the boys were taken on June 2008. No cause has ever been stated or presented. Documentation shows that the Ministry lawyer advised the Ministry to return the boys. They are still held. And here is the appalling coincidence. Because Paul and Zabeth were still trying to get their daughter back, Global TV negotiated an interview with the Baynes, and shortly after that aired, the Ministry accompanied by the customarily assigned RCMP officers showed up to take two crying boys from grandparents and parents. It smacks of vindictive game playing with the lives of children to which the Minister of Children and the Ministry is committed. This Ministry should consider cleaning house quickly before the ceilings come down on many heads in a very public debacle. I believe that very soon newspapers, magazines, television networks will be blasting this story of injustice.

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