Zabeth and Paul Bayne – Part 59 – The Bayne Campaign for Justice

The petition

THE BAYNE CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE

Our moral support will help Paul and Zabeth Bayne. Their three children were removed from their home on October 22, 2007. It is difficult to define justice but reasonable people always know when justice is missing. It is missing in their case.

Here is a synopsis of their despair.

Paul and Zabeth have three children, Boy K, born October 18, 2004; Boy B, born June 12, 2005; and Baby B, born August 3, 2007. Baby B and her brothers were taken from the Bayne’s home by the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development on October 22, 2007. Baby B was two months old then and she has not been home since then. She has lived for two years in foster care homes.

This child was seized when the concerned parents took their struggling two month old daughter to the hospital following what Zabeth reported as an accident in which one of the small boys fell on the infant’s head. Baby B became ill and after several examinations was finally taken to British Columbia Children’s Hospital. The attending health professionals are to be commended for flagging what might have potentially been parental abuse. However, consideration of other possible causes for the baby's condition was surrendered to what has become in many cases a default suspicion that one of these parents had shaken this baby causing the head injury. The children were taken from the parents in order to protect the children.

In the months that followed, the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) was inundated with letters speaking to the parents’ character, integrity and reliability. Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigated and cleared the Baynes of liability in Baby B's condition. The MCFD however, has maintained its unsubstantiated position of non accidental injury and a presumption of guilt for the Bayne parents. The tale is tangled and does not reflect well on the Ministry at the moment and meanwhile a family has suffered for two years.

Please sign this petition so we may encourage the Baynes and appeal to the BC Ministry of Children to return the Bayne children.

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