My final word! I have soul searched a lot and with the consent of my wife post this as a lesson to those who castigate without proof.
Its a shocking tale but is the truth and can be proven because I have the final case closed paperwork to show from the Police.
By the following disclosure I believe that I am in a far better position to comment where many others who have made comments have not had anywhere near the same experience, if any at all.
We were lucky that all of our friends and employers at the time believed in us and supported us all the way. Real friends........
A few years ago I was accused by a single mother of the same type of heinous crime because her daughter who we were proxy grandparents to had told her in a fit of temper because there was no food in the house that she would like to stay with us and leave home. At her home this little girl had nothing, was not treated with respect, was not allowed any choices, was not taken on holiday, was not given a cuddle or shown any love, was not shown how to wash, clean herself or toilet and so the list could go on. She was even born on the toilet floor of her previous home because her mother was not responsible enough to keep her hospital appointments. The delightful Social Services Children’s Department were fully aware of the pigsty she had to live in but due to their guidelines could not do anything! Her mother asked the Children’s Department to allow us to have her every weekend and to take her on holidays with us at our expense. She never gave her one single penny to spend or provided any holiday clothes for her either. We were investigated by the Children’s Department more than once and found to be satisfactory. We were even the best way through the Fostering procedures too so there were no reasons for the unsubstantiated allegations she made against me. The police were involved and all of my pc's and paperwork was removed from our home. After twelve months of intensive forensic investigations during which our lives were laid bare NOTHING was found. Her mother had even put a 7 year old through a series of medical examinations and the usual 'play acting' by the detectives of the Child Abuse unit and again NOTHING was found! I was innocent all the way but had 12 months of hell with my car being destroyed more than once and the house windows put out on the word of a single mother who had had 5 kids all by different fathers and who loved to party at night clubs with lads about half her age! We had the little one (I will not disclose her name) with us from age 4 and a half until she was 7 and when she came to us she was in nappies, wet the bed every night, did not know how to use a knife and fork, did not know how to wipe her bum, did not know how to wash or brush her hair! What type of mother would treat a child like that? Within months she was sitting at the table, toileting herself properly, washing herself properly, was not wetting the bed. It took only a very small effort and a little patience and instruction to get to that stage and she went on to improve further until she was acting just as any little girl would act. We then asked what she wanted and she said that she would love her own bedroom to stay in when she came instead of it just being the spare room. We decorated her 'new' bedroom as she wanted (High School Musical) and put in what children of her age had including a lot of clothes from which she could pick and dress in. A choice she had never had. We never spoiled her and she received spoken discipline when necessary which was very, very rare.
Fortunately for me from the time of my arrest the male detective in charge was open minded and fair. His female counterpart would have hung me at day one. Did she apologise. NO, not a word but hung her head when I was finally informed that I had no case to answer and all of my property was returned to me for the PC's to be rebuilt at my expense. The single mother was simply warned of future conduct and that she would face prison, kids or not, if she persisted in wasting police time.
As a result of the way in which we were treated we then opted not to foster in case it could happen again and so there are probably quite a number of kids that have been denied a decent home, albeit a temporary one, who still waiting for a decent home.
That is just how wrong the present system is where allegations without proof are made and WORSE acted on by the gullible public......
NO action should be taken or decisions made until CONCRETE proof has been shown to exist. Anyone can lie and make allegations against anyone for anything for a monetary gain and lives are destroyed by it. The press are the worst offenders and should be held liable for the damage they cause. If it is proven that the allegations against Jimmy are false then anyone who has made a false allegation should be ostracised and imprisoned for very long time then have to pay his family compensation for pain and suffering....but if was guilty of some then he should rightly be punished.
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