JUSTICE IS A GARMENT

JUSTICE IS A GARMENT

Justice is a garment prepared for residents of this planet. It is woven from billions of threads, knit together into a strong and integrated fabric. Love is the thread and it has produced a fabric of integrity. Three year old SS’s justice garment is in tatters.

Injustice occurs when countless numbers of these threads are pulled from the garment. The wearer of the garment is then uncovered and vulnerable.

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Ayn and Mommy within the past three years

Ayn and Daddy when she was a small girl 

4 days remain for the current TCO, Temporary Court Order by which the Ministry of Children and Family Development hold Ayn Van Dyk, in foster care in her 12th year of life. She was nine years of age when she was removed from her father's custody.

CAN YOU SPELL INJUSTICE?

Ayn Van Dyk will be coming home.

Her father Derek Hoare has told us that. 

At some point in their family history, Derek and Ayn's mother Amie decided that Ayn would have her mother's surname. That's neither here nor there but it dismisses a question some people have.

The Ministry of Children in BC have not specified a date for Ayn's return, but from all reports it will entail a graduated reintroduction. My next paragraph speaks to that.

What I perceive is a psychiatry-informed caution to re-introduce Ayn slowly and safely to this drastic change from foster care to biological parent care, so the inconsistency is ludicrously apparent ... the same MCFD didn't care or didn't think it traumatic to Ayn, to yank her out of school and to take her away from her dad and mom and brothers and familiar home, into a sterile hospital environment with strangers and dumb her down with medication and finally into a foster home where she has been for 1.5 years already. Can you spell S-T-U-P-I-D and I-N-J-U-S-T-I-C-E

Justice is the Fabric of a Healthy Society

When a society such as ours creates a system to punish wrong doers, to defend innocents, to correct mistakes and to restore liberties, we expect that justice will be delivered. When within a society a ministry dedicated to children and families is empowered, we expect that it will protect the vulnerable, accurately assess people, and repair broken situations.

Love is the thread .Woven from billions of such threads, justice is the resultant strong and integrated fabric. The fabric is known by the name of integrity and it can be fashioned into a garment prepared for residents of earth. It is the fabric of a healthy society.  

Injustice occurs when countless numbers of these threads are pulled from the garment. As the holes enlarge, the wearer of the garment is uncovered and vulnerable.

A work of justice becomes essential to mend the rips and tears that have occurred in the fabric of a society and its governance. The repair consists of the replacement of frayed threads. That work must begin again with love. 

LOVE IS A THREAD

Justice is a garment prepared for residents of earth. It is woven from billions of threads, knit together into a strong and integrated fabric. Love is the thread and it has produced a fabric of integrity.

Injustice occurs when countless numbers of these threads are pulled from the garment. The wearer of the garment is uncovered and vulnerable.

The work of justice is to mend the rips and tears of injustice that have occurred in the fabric of a society and its governance. The repair consists of the replacement of frayed threads, so the work must begin with love. 

The idea for my literary fragment above was inspired by THE JUSTICE CONFERENCE that uses among its images this one. Love is a Thread. This Conference promotes dialogue around

justice related issues such as human trafficking, slavery, poverty, HIV/AIDS and human rights.

Ayn Van Dyk’s release from government care into the waiting arms of her father Derek Hoare is at the very least the requisite solution to a human rights issue. It may be much more upon closer scrutiny of the policy, interpretation and practices that make it possible for a protection agency in response to a notification of a child missing for three hours, to take that child from her family. When due consideration is given to the child’s autism, not a father’s negligence, that accounts for her nomadic excursion to a neighbour’s yard, the shredding and slashing of justice is readily apparent. Immediately following Ayn’s brief trip, protection social workers appeared with a voluntary release form for Derek to sign. That was met by his anxious and incensed refusal. Four days later, unannounced, this government agency removed Ayn from her public school classroom. Ayn’s justice garment was in tatters as was Derek’s and his sons, and the extended family’s garments. Love covered her at home in the prettiest material designed specially for her. Only love’s thread can mend the lacerations so she is properly adorned again. Over 4000 people are members of Ayn's Facebook page, called 'Help Bring Little Autistic Girl Back to Daddy." and many are actively involved in lobbying for her release. Our comments are shared all days long. Here we weave our voice and our gifts into the project of Ayn’s protection so she can wear her garment of justice with its irreplaceable threads.


Derek Hoare / 778-240-6373 / Facebook: justiceforayn.com
Derek's email: iconoclast_ensues@yahoo.com
Fundraising email: aynsfreedomfund@gmail.com
WEBSITE: www.Justice4Ayn.com
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BELIEVE / 546

The Canucks are on the verge of celebrating a Game Seven Stanley Cup Victory.
Or, the Canucks are on the edge of the greatest disappointment in the 40 year history of this franchise.

Stay with me now. There’s a child welfare application here somewhere.

Some fans would challenge me right there. How dare I even suggest the possibility that the Canucks might lose tonight’s game. They might even revoke my fan credential and criticize my lack of faith. Please understand that I do not lack the confidence that the Canuck Team has a roster of players that can beat any other team in the league on any given day. They were the team that finished the regular season with the best win/loss record. Tops!

TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO / Part 417 / For Love and For Justice / Zabeth and Paul Bayne

There is a nuance to child protection and perhaps to a wider array of social services amongst us that disturbs me. I speak of the notion that MCFD must seek to make people better than they are by making them to fit standards established by others, namely MCFD or directors and social workers. Where once paternalism compelled or manipulated you to conform to something, a slight change has occurred, in that standards are being imposed upon people. Any parent whose child has been removed can tell us this. The threat is real.

This tendency among social work theorists, teachers, administrators and practitioners is born from wrong-headed thinking in behavioural sciences. Of course people everywhere act imperfectly now and again or frequently, even as a common pattern. Here then comes that paternalism about which I wrote yesterday, that has presumed that it must intervene in order to help people to be better. And if a child's lot in life can be better by removing them from an indigent parent, or the parent with few resources, so be it. Or if a parent can be better by the shock of having his or her child removed for six months, so be it. You don't think social work is done that way? Are you completely certain? How else can you explain the intrusiveness with which MCFD conducts its agenda. And what kind of trouble are we in or asking for if the very people who legislate, make policy, do the social work, practice law or make legal decisions are as imperfect as the people they are attempting to improve? That is a scenario fraught with risk of injustice. Well guess what? Injustice is here and has touched and is touching countless numbers of parents, children and family.

This Blog has been advocating the return of three children to their biological parents, Paul and Zabeth Bayne, for which a ruling is expected from Judge Crabtree within six days. We are that close. Stay posted.

TERMS OF JUSTICE / Part 335 / For Love and For Justice / Zabeth and Paul Bayne

Given our Canadian Rights and Freedoms, a miscarriage of justice within our Canadian legal and social context is essentially the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime that he/she did not commit. Synonymous with miscarriage of justice is the term 'wrongful conviction' which refers to conviction reached in an unfair and disputed trial. Occasionally the biased term 'travesty of justice' is applied to an offensive and deliberate miscarriage of justice

There are avenues by which to quash or overturn a wrongful conviction but these are difficult to navigate and achieve. We all agree that the most grievous cases are wrongful convictions that are not overturned for many years or before the convicted but innocent person dies by execution or natural death while incarcerated.

But here we are discussing not a criminal but a civil matter, a child protection issue, where the suspicion card is played as strategically and effectively as the evidence card. The suspicion card is an incredible card because it permits the player to proceed directly to the goal without passing GO and yet collects thousands of dollars en route. That's what has happened to date. Now however, the court case required the player to present the suspicion so convincingly that suspicion should be regarded as equivalent to evidence. Circumstantial is to be regarded as actual. What a leap! What an hypothesis! What fertile ground for ---------MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE.

In the case of the Baynes what we have is not a conviction at all because there have been no legal criminal charges brought against the Baynes. So, no, they have not been wrongfully convicted. Yet a penalty has been imposed already, not only upon a mom and dad who are suspected by the Ministry of Children of harming their youngest child, but also upon the three children whom we all would concur are truly innocent. October 22^nd is quickly approaching, the date that marks the removal of the children in 2007. This family has been enduring this penalty, surviving somehow, for the past almost three years.

How Mss. Polak and Dutoit cannot be concerned, or troubled, perhaps appalled, intelligibly sickened by the injustice of this aspect of their Ministry operations I fail to understand. At least be attentive to it. Forget that this case has been before the court since January. There was ample time before the actual court date for a top level intervention, some kind of compassionate involvement to second-guess and inquire into the case handling by the Fraser Valley Region of the Provincial MCFD mandate.

Let's suppose that the Judge's ruling does not move in favour of the Baynes. The children remain in provincial foster care. Let's suppose it proceeds beyond that to the adoption of the children.

Years in care can have a substantial, irreversible effect on the maturing child becoming an adolescent and an adult. In a case such as the Baynes, a CCO (Continuing Care Order) with its potential for adopting the child to new adoptive parents, the child will never have cause to believe that one or more parent did not abuse her when she was an infant. Their reputations will never have been officially untarnished. She may want nothing to do with her birth parents when she is of age to find them. Her sibling brothers may or may not be adopted with her. The sibling relationship will be effectively severed. And the boys if they remain together may always wonder why the parents with whom they could not live for three years but who visited them faithfully during those three years dropped out of sight and didn't visit any longer. And Paul and Zabeth, fifteen and twenty years from now will be moving out of middle age with hearts wounded irreparably and with lives scarred deeply because the children who were their life, have never been a part of it. 

Judge Crabtree must decide against the Continuing Care Order, forget the Last Chance Order/Temporary Care Order, or any other option that credits the MCFD with any credibility whatsoever. Allow the children to return to their parents. It is the right thing to do. It is IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILDREN!

INJUSTICE 101 / Part 156 / For Love and For Justice / Zabeth and Paul Bayne/

Elie Wiesel, writer and winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace wrote, “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”


I have neither delight nor pride in protesting the excessive and unreasonable treatment of Paul and Zabeth Bayne by the Ministry of Children. I must not fail to disapprove. I have such respect for the democracy in which I am privileged to live. That explains why it is unsettling for me to view a provincial ministry with suspicion. The Ministry of Children of the Fraser Valley has given me reason to worry. I seem to be far more naïve than many of my blog readers. When people like Paul and Zabeth are victimized, no one is protected. Protect children by all means. But what has been done to the Baynes and their children is patently wrong.

Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Reporters and journalists uncover stories like this. Readers raise objections when they read these articles. CBC journalist Kathy Tomlinson met for hours in conversation with Paul and Zabeth Bayne in March 2009. She prepared a couple of reports that were televised. The video interview to which I refer you now, while taped in March 2009, is the essence and truth of Paul’s and Zabeth’s story and their experience with the Fraser Valley Ministry of Children. The court case is still in a delay but when this court case concludes, reporters will be all over this. You owe it to yourself to hear Kathy’s questions and the Bayne’s responses and to form your opinions about these parents. You will gain a better appreciation for the significant obstacles which parents face when accused of an abuse that never happened.

When you suffer an injustice you must simply console yourself because the true unhappiness is in doing the injustice.

At this CBC link, the article is presented and then on the right hand side are two video interviews by Kathy Tomlinson. If you have already seen the first and shorter version, select the second video interview link and hear the fuller account.

For Love and For Justice / Part 94 / Zabeth and Paul Bayne

An original song entitled ‘Justice’ written by Tom Simanek and Rob Elliott is performed by Rob Elliott in dedication to the struggle to reunite families that have been shattered by the family courts. A video using this song’s lyrics has been prepared by Linda McDermott, Dave Ellison, Shaun O'Connell, Layton Bevan and Julia Langmaid. You can listen and watch this on YouTube at this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkWQDWnsyfw

Justice

The race-car bed is empty,
no toys are on the floor,
not many changes you can see...
but Johnny doesn't live here,
doesn't live here any more...
never coming through that door.

Feel what I feel
my heart bleeds...
Show me mercy,
hear me plead...
Give me justice,
give me justice,
It's what I need.

A scrap of legal paper,
an expert testifies,
the child you love is taken...
but justice doesn't live here,
doesn't live here, it's a lie...
nothing you can do but cry.

Feel what I feel
my heart bleeds...
Show me mercy,
hear me plead...
Give me justice,
give me justice,
It's what I need.

A judgement not of Solomon,
no wisdom in the words,
and after all is said and done...
your Johnny doesn't live here,
doesn't live here and what's worse...
nothing lives here but the hurt.
Nothing lives here but the hurt.

Feel what I feel
my heart bleeds...
Show me mercy,
hear me plead...
Give me justice,
give me justice,
It's what I need.

copyright 2009 Simanek/Elliott

Zabeth and Paul Bayne – Part 55 – The Bayne Campaign for Justice

WE ARE STALLED

503 people have signed the petition and that number was reached several days ago. If you haven't signed yet, would you please do so. Or, perhaps you can forward this invitation to some friends who may similarly assess the facts and conclude that the Bayne children should be returned to their parents. Like many of us you may acknowledge that the children were removed back in 2007 for the legitimate reason of investigation of a potential case of child abuse, but the suspicion can no longer hold up. All of the reasons for discounting the suspicion have been laid out in many previous daily posts on this blog. Paul and Zabeth are fit parents who deserve the right to raise their children and end this nightmare.

I want you to add more signatures to this petition. I am going to make sure that newspapers know the strength of this support.

Here is the Petition for the Bayne Campaign for Justice At the petition site, sign your name, when you move to the donation page, just exit the site. The donation request is not for the Baynes but for the site developers. Your name will still have been recorded for us, thanks.

Zabeth and Paul Bayne – Part 52 – The Bayne Campaign for Justice

I can’t stand it.
The Bayne family of five should be together permanently. They should be together for Christmas. It should one of the innumerable family sleepovers until those three children are responsible adult children.

This is not merely an emotional response for me. This is a deeply felt sense of what is right. I am horrified by the perceived if not real callousness of some public servants involved with this case.

Understand this please. I believe that with sincere professionalism, a medical practitioner made an informed diagnosis about Bethany’s condition and the cause. I surmise that this doctor may no longer be convinced it was the right call, particularly when the Baynes can call a medical expert for each of the twelve days of Christmas to contest the diagnosis as faulty.

Paul and Zabeth Bayne have borne an undeserved penalty far too long now – over two years without their children living in their home. They have endured the suspicion of a government ministry the power and authority of which is offloaded down so many layers of bureaucracy, the crown doesn’t know what the foot soldiers are doing. In stark contrast to the paper policies and media pronouncements of disclosure and openness, the decisions about the childhoods of three Canadian children remain concealed in a secrecy that is guised as protection of privacy. Those who have directly affected this injustice against an entire family rarely communicate with the parents; seldom provide the courtesy of an acknowledgement to correspondence. Officials higher up the agency chain refuse to comment because they can refuse. In order to protest their innocence, a Canadian couple can be compelled by this fat citizen funded system to forfeit all economic collateral in order to hire legal representation. They have.

Nothing specific or verifiable in Paul’s and Zabeth’s personal or family history supports prolonged suspicion. There is no incontestable evidence that either parent injured their baby daughter. Police abandoned that investigation hours after it was first reasonably conducted. The Ministry’s own lawyer has informed the Ministry many months ago that the two boys should certainly be returned to the parents because there is no defensible ground to keep them. This is a ministry that affirms that one of its principal objectives is to restore custody of children to parents.

Paul and Zabeth are fit parents. They have demonstrated this valiantly under the most trying circumstances, with just a few hours of visitation privilege each week, and with understandable calls and letters regarding their children’s health and well being when they flag concerns that are missed within the foster parenting program or ignored by MCFD that do not want to fund further medical examination. All three children should be returned to Zabeth and Paul.

Tap this line & Please sign this Online Petition.
As soon as you provide your name, it is recorded.
When the Donation page appears, EXIT the program. DO NOT DONATE to the Baynes on this site since as it clearly states, donations here go to the site designers.

Zabeth and Paul Bayne – Part 29 – The Bayne Campaign for Justice

HELP THEM TO HOPE

I have told you before that Paul and Zabeth are people with a personal faith in God and are committed Christians. Faith plays a role in coping with heartache as great as theirs has been and still is. In fact they would say that without a belief that Someone beyond this realm is looking after their life and their interests, they would despair. Almost everyone in an elected or hired position of authority that might influence this case and to whom they have appealed, has declined, or not answered, or found a conflict of commitments or protocol. But they truly believe that God has introduced into their lives some people who are vitally interested in helping them and who can speak for them to present a reasonable claim for the return of their children. Further, they believe that this agony has extended this long for purposes not yet revealed but that far exceed the expectations of the Ministry of Children and Family Development.

They say that they must purposely entrust their children to God’s care each day and they are comforted in knowing that so many people are praying for them and their children. If not for this comfort they would be overcome with worry not only for the children’s present emotional and physical well being but for the ultimate outcome of this hard passage in their lives. They admit to losing hope or composure at times when they have to say goodbye yet again or they pass a room where the children might be.

They have told me. “We have made each visit with our children one that contains Bible story time, prayer before snacks, prayer before we part, encouraging them to talk to Jesus when they are afraid, lonely, wanting to come home, etc. Time is so short and we do see evidence of the foster homes set of ethics and values. What we had wanted for our children in training as well as in preserving their innocence and growth feels so threatened, but again we have given our children to the Lord to care for and He does watch over them. We will continue to do all we can to foster their love for Jesus and their trust in Him to bring them home.”
While you sip your coffee today, please go to the petition page to sign for them, and send this link to your friends.
Please Don't Hesitate to Sign this Petition. Click the Link below..

"Bayne Campaign for Justice Petition"
Join the growing number of people who are signing a petition to have the children returned to Paul and Zabeth. It's free and takes less than a minute of your time. Please sign your full name, even though the anonymous option is offered. The name counts.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Baynekids?e

Zabeth and Paul Bayne – Part 28 – The Bayne Campaign for Justice

As I write, 302 people have signed the online petition. At the petition page you will read the following text. If you haven’t yet signed, please consider doing so. I desire 1,000 signatures before December 1st. Send this link to your interested friends.

Paul and Zabeth Bayne need our help. 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.

If you are unfamiliar with all the details of their story my brief synopsis of their despair will introduce you. Your interest may translate into justice for them.

Paul and Zabeth have three children, Kent, born October 18, 2004; Baden, born June 12, 2005; and Bethany, born August 3, 2007. Bethany and her brothers were taken from the Bayne’s home by the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development on October 22, 2007. Bethany was two months old at that time and she has not been home since then. She is two years old now and those years have been spent 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. Bethany became ill and was taken to various hospitals and finally to Vancouver’s Sick Children’s Hospital in the ensuing days. On the one hand medical professionals are to be commended for doing their job and flagging what might have potentially been parental abuse. But careful analysis and courtesies and common sense and wisdom were surrendered to the easy 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 weeks and months that followed, the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) was inundated with letters speaking to the parents’ character, integrity and reliability. There was nothing to suggest their guilt other than an unexplained head trauma. RCMP investigated their case and cleared them of liability in Bethany’s condition. The MCFD has maintained its position based on an unsubstantiated presumption of non accidental injury and parental guilt and risk to the children. The tale is tangled and does not reflect well on the Ministry at the moment.

Today the Bayne family desperately needs someone with your objectivity to become interested enough to help them recover their family.

I am asking you to consider signing this petition so we can ascertain the level of support for the Baynes that may influence our BC Ministry of Children to return the children to their birth parents. Please inform yourself by reading some of the blog posts at http://ronunruhgps.blogspot.com/
We should sign with full names rather than the anonymous option if possible.
Please Don't Hesitate to Sign this Petition. Click the Link below..

"Bayne Campaign for Justice Petition"
Join the growing number of people who are signing a petition to have the children returned to Paul and Zabeth. It's free and takes less than a minute of your time. Please sign your full name, even though the anonymous option is offered. The name counts.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Baynekids?e

Zabeth and Paul Bayne – Part 24 – The Bayne Campaign for Justice

Zabeth Bayne – Concert Pianist
Piano has been sold to pay legal fees. House is gone to pay legal fees. Children are gone. She needs them. They need her. She wants to have them returned to her. She is planning to play at some fund raising concerts if they can be arranged. She can play… I have heard her.

Zabeth trained with the Royal Conservatory of Music program and completed her ARCT with them. Zabeth has studied with many teachers including:
Dietmar Schmeuker, who is a pianist who has travelled and performed internationally. He is to be her partner at the dual piano concerts;
Alice Enns, who is a professor at UBC;
Walter Bresch who is a pianist, performer and composer.

ZABETH has been a member of the British Columbia Registered Music Teachers Association and has taught piano for over eighteen years. Her music instruction includes music history, harmony, counterpoint, analysis and rudiments of music and she teaches styles that include classical, improvisation, popular, religious and jazz.

ZABETH has taught private and class lesson at Carillon Music, Regent Academy, White Rock School of Music and also started her own studio, The Kristensen Music Studio and also The Hope Art and Music School. The latter School was terminated when this family tragedy erupted in the autumn of 2007.

ZABETH has adjudicated at international and regional competitions at the request of Regent Academy and provided piano accompaniment for solo instrumentalists and vocalists and choirs. Zabeth has worked with a number of churches as pianist and has assisted with many productions for local churches and schools.

ZABETH has performed with chamber groups including members from the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, UBC Orchestra and other classical artists. Zabeth has also performed duets and solo piano on many occasions.

Zabeth is seeking to raise some funds through piano concerts to finance this legal action. She has a friend who is also an accomplished pianist and together they will perform an extraordinary evening of dual piano. Of course she requires a venue or two. It helps when the venue has a grand piano and the musicians are required only to bring one other grand in for such an occasion. The idea is that attendance will be by donation.

One venue is scheduled but one concert is not enough. Time will soon run out in 2009 because Christmas events will prioritize so many venues. It would be a marvelous provision if there are other churches or organizations that will offer to host and publicize a fund raising event for the Baynes. If you have an interest in this please contact Zabeth and Paul Bayne at pzandkids@gmail.com .

"Bayne Campaign for Justice Petition"
Join the growing number of people who are signing a petition to have the children returned to Paul and Zabeth. It's free and takes less than a minute of your time. Please sign your full name, even though the anonymous option is offered. The name counts.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Baynekids?e

Zabeth and Paul Bayne – Part 23 – The Bayne Campaign for Justice

Paul and Zabeth Bayne have been petitioning to have their children returned to them for the past two years. Sadly they cannot expect grace from the Ministry of Children and Family Development and they will be compelled to go to a court of law to reclaim the custody of children. They have yet to have that day.

Nevertheless their efforts have cost the Baynes so much. They once owned a new home in Hope, B.C. but they have lost that. Liens were put against the house by two lawyers working for them previously. They are now renting in Surrey. They have not been able to sustain day jobs and instead are working as night custodians so they can be free in day hours to visit their children during brief windows of time. Zabeth, a concert pianist, was compelled to sell her grand piano in order to generate funds to assist them with legal debts incurred by their struggle with a government agency which is lacking in the very commodity it espouses to us as tax payers – compassion.

This case will go to court in the new year - 2010. It appears to be the only course of action by which justice will be realized for them.

Zabeth is seeking to raise some funds through piano concerts to finance this legal action. She has a friend who is also an accomplished pianist and together they will perform an extraordinary evening of dual piano. Of course she requires a venue or two. It helps when the venue has a grand piano and the musicians are required only to bring one other grand in for such an occasion. At the present time, a contemporary church called Tapestry Church in Richmond has offered to host one concert in November. The idea is that attendance will be by donation.

One concert is not enough. Time will soon run out in 2009 because Christmas events will prioritize so many venues. It would be a marvelous provision if there are other churches or organizations that will offer to host and publicize a fund raising event for the Baynes. If you have an interest in this please contact Zabeth and Paul Bayne at pzandkids@gmail.com .

"Bayne Campaign for Justice"
Join the growing number of people who are signing a petition to have the children returned to Paul and Zabeth. It's free and takes less than a minute of your time. Please sign your full name, even though the anonymous option is offered. The name counts.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Baynekids?e

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.

Join the growing number of people who are signing a petition to have the children returned to Paul and Zabeth. It's free and takes less than a minute of your time. Sign your full name. That’s what counts.
"Bayne Campaign for Justice"
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Baynekids?e

Zabeth and Paul Bayne – Part 21 – The Bayne Campaign for Justice

Sign a Petition please!

Some supporters of the Bayne Campaign for Justice have left notes for the rest of us to read on the Signatures Page of the Petition Site.

Here is one.

"The Baynes are past clients of mine and they are the finest type of people, the ministry needs to give them their children back asap and investigate themselves."

Another.

"Given the unqualified commendation of mutual friends, and the results of the RCMP investigation, I strongly advocate that the Ministry reverse their decision in this case."

The previous blog posts have been intended to inform readers to garner support for Paul and Zabeth Bayne to recover their children from the Ministry of Children and Family Development. You can do that by writing authorities. Presently I am inviting your signatures to a petition site called Bayne Campaign for Justice. When you go to the site, you can press the signatures tab to see who has signed before you. You have the option of leaving your full name, a first name or even remaining anonymous. Please at least go to the site and read the petition statement. Perhaps our gathered advocate voice can influence the media and the Ministry personnel to change a very bad course of action. Thank you.

Here is the petition page called Bayne Campaign for Justice.

If you are a praying person, pray for Paul and Zabeth and Kent, Baden and Bethany.

Would you consider sending this url to your friends? http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Baynekids?e

Zabeth and Paul Bayne – Part 19 – The Bayne Campaign for Justice

Sign a Petition please!
If you have been informing yourself about the plight of Paul and Zabeth Bayne, or when you do inform yourself by reading some of the posts on this blog site, and if now you feel that you want to assist and support them, a further way to do that besides writing to my recommended names of key influencers and decision makers, is to sign the petition referenced here by this address. It will take you to the petition page.

Thanking you for coming to this site and for looking at the next page. Have a good day. If you are a praying person, pray for Paul and Zabeth and Kent, Baden and Bethany.

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

I understand that readers may not want to read my sympathetic treatment of the Bayne dilemma without knowing what the Ministry of Children and Family Development has in the Bayne Case File which MCFD is forbidden to make public ostensibly to protect the children. Zabeth and Paul Bayne however are under no such restriction and having gained those MCFD files they have submitted them to the media. Both Kathy Tomlinson from CBC ‘Go Public’ and Robert Freeman of the Chilliwack Progress have seen copies of those files.

Some readers may surmise that although the parents have stated that one of their small sons fell on the baby, we really don’t know what happened to baby Bethany back in September 2007. I answer that with Zabeth’s own testimony that she knows what happened and she has told us that she watched her second child Baden turn a corner running, then stumbling and falling on Bethany. This accident scenario was reported and recorded in all medical records at various hospitals and clinics over three weeks following the accident. A later CT scan of Bethany’s head confirmed internal bruising precisely at the spot on her head which Zabeth had identified as the area of contact between brother and sister. The attendant physician verified that this bruise was consistent with a contusion at that head location. That evidence is in hand and public.

I have earlier stated that Paul and Zabeth Bayne have been given no hearing and that statement has been challenged as inaccurate by someone who knows that BC law requires that when a child is removed from parents, social workers must appear before a judge within 10-12 days to explain why and justify the removal decision. Parents are permitted in the court together with a lawyer of choice or a legal aid lawyer and the assigned Judge determines whether the child or children will remain in Ministry care or be returned to the parents. This is what should ideally occur. In point of fact, after the children were removed on October 22, 2007, a presentation hearing did occur in December 2007 at which their lawyer was present. That is the only court hearing there has been. On that occasion, the MCFD which is required prior to the court date, to provide to parents a written copy of what MCFD intends to present, failed to do so, handing the affidavit to the birth parents as they entered the court, affording them and their legal counsel no time to process it. Moreover, the Baynes were not allowed to present any evidentiary information themselves. On that occasion the judge issued an ‘Interim Order’ because he wanted to first learn the outcome of the police investigation which as it turns out resulted in RCMP dropping all potential charges on the grounds of insufficient evidence. The aforementioned ‘Interim Order’ is what the title implies, a three month interim arrangement after which if the MCFD deems it necessary it can petition the judge for an extension of the ‘Interim Order’ or for a ‘Temporary Order.’ This formal request of which Baynes should certainly have been apprised has never happened although they have been told that MCFD is acting under a ‘Temporary Order.’ The Case files to which Baynes are entitled contain only the ‘Interim Order’ and perhaps more disturbing is the conflicting interaction between Baynes and MCFD representatives who have stated that MCFD is leaping from ‘Interim Order’ to ‘Continuing Order’ by which the children may be adopted out. If there is another order, the parents of these children have never been told. Here is the kicker. The inviolate law is that children under five years of age may not remain in the care of MCFD jurisdiction for a period over twelve months. This law is designed to limit the damage sustained by a child by removal from parents.

Someone has suggested to me that because the Ministry has had the care of the children since 2007 that this is indication it possesses sufficient evidence to convince a judge that the child should remain in care. The truth is MCFD has not been before a judge since December 2007 in order to present such convincing data. At that first presentation hearing MCFD stated it had no concerns and no evidence was presented. In the many months that have followed, MCFD’s own lawyer is on record as having told the Ministry that the Director does not have a compelling case and should at the very least return the boys to the parents. A quotation from a letter written by a community manager to the MCFD lawyer states, "Dr. Korn's medical report of November 2007 completed shortly after the two older children came into care indicates that there was no evidence of harm or injury to the children"… "At this point it is your belief that the Director should consider a return of the two older children to the parents."

Please consider writing a gracious letter to two important people who can make a difference. Forget writing anything inflammatory. A passionate civil letter of appeal is what I am asking.
1) Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Children and Family Development
LESLEY DU TOIT
PO BOX 9721 STN PROV GOVT
VICTORIA BC V8W 9S2
E-mail: MCF.DeputyMinistersOffice@gov.bc.ca

2) Minister of Children and Family Development and Minister Responsible for Child Care.
HONOURABLE MARY POLAK
PO BOX 9057 STN PROV GOVT
VICTORIA BC V8W 9E2
Email: mary.polak.mla@leg.bc.ca