Paul and Zabeth Bayne – Part Five – the Alarming Case of BC Government’s Miscarriage of Justice.

Information Capsule:
1. Two month old Bethany was injured at home. Paul and Zabeth believed one of their young sons accidentally fell on the infant and that was their story.
2. Paul and Zabeth took the baby to the hospital where a conclusion was drawn that the baby’s difficulties were consistent with being shaken. Paul and Zabeth became suspected child abusers.
3. On October 22, 2007 all three of their children were removed from their home in Hope, British Columbia.
4. While their infant daughter remained in Ministry care (MCFD), the two sons were permitted to live with their grandparents (Zabeth’s mother and father).
5. In November 2007 Paul and Zabeth were permitted to live in the grandparents home with their two sons, provided the grandparents were always present ('a supervised living arrangement', meaning Baynes did not have custody of their boys. MCFD did.).
6. On May 16, 2008 the Ministry (MCFD) returned the two boys directly into the care of Paul and Zabeth under what was termed a ‘supervision order,’ which meant the boys were now in the Bayne’s custody yet MCFD could pay unannounced visits and there were other provisos as well.
7. Following the airing of a Global TV interview with Paul and Zabeth which in a desperate appeal for help, had been recorded prior to them knowing the boys would be returned, the MCFD cancelled the ‘return under supervision’ authorization and reverted to the earlier ‘supervised living’ arrangement in the grandparents’ home.
8. Then, on June 12, 2008 MCFD came unannounced to the grandparents’ home with two RCMP officers to remove the two boys, and this was done, and it is now October 19, 2009 and Baynes have had no recourse, and no hearing, and no communication from MCFD and no children in their home.

I have asked you to become an advocate for Paul and Zabeth by writing on their behalf urging the MCFD to consider diligently reviewing this case and he principals, Zabeth and Paul, because they have surely assessed them incorrectly. If for any reasons this agency will not respond with some grace, then ask that a Minister or even the Premier will look exhaustively at this case, listen to this couple or their representatives and change a course of action that is ruining the lives of these three children whom MCFD is designed to protect. Surely the Baynes do not have to confess to something for which they were not responsible in order to have their children, I underscore their children, returned to them. It is time that the MCFD which seeks to deal wisely in all of these cases, steps away from this case and returns the children to their birth mother and birth father without further conditions.