4 January - The Depraved and the Disappeared
In
2014 and 2015 the number of reports of Bexley Council taking children from
their parents in what appeared to be dubious circumstances was reaching
epidemic proportions. I surmised that ‘kidnapping’ was a reaction to Bexley Council’s
failure to save Rhys Lawrie but the
common factor of Social Workers allegedly lying to Family Courts was
impossible to ignore. I thought it might be a good idea to bring the parents together so that they could compare notes and maybe work
collectively against Bexley Council.
I can tell you from personal experience, hand on heart, that in the community of people who have had experience of social workers - myself included
- it is a frighteningly common experience to find social workers lying outright without shame. And on two separate occasions I have been surprised
to see that judges turn a blind eye if they are presented with such evidence! I’m sure they scratch each other’s backs.
The meeting plan fell apart to some extent because several parents had
fled from Bexley Council’s clutches and were now living too far away to come to
Thamesmead and the
meeting was not reported here because with the necessary suppression of names and case details it would
not have made much of a story.
Ten years later I can only remember that one parent was a lovely lady who kept a
spotless home which I visited several times who had been briefly partnered by a
man who lived on a gipsy camp in Sidcup and he had abused her terribly. Her son
was taken from her and Bexley Council’s justification for the kidnap was in part
that his mother was too good to be true and her house cleanliness was a sign of
obsessive behaviour. Another parent was a local political party activist who had
stood to be a Councillor. His name appears more than once on
the election leaflets page.
A Bexley Councillor attended the meeting, about which I recall almost nothing.
All I had done was bring everyone together.
Similar complaints of child abduction continue to come in occasionally and there
is absolutely nothing that I can do about it. A Court is usually involved and
Bexley Council is absolutely shameless and not a little vindictive so it is
doubtful that publicity can ever improve matters. The latest such report is a
little different; it is more reminiscent of something that came my way in 2013.
A correspondent wrote
about his experience in a Sidcup Care Home the important bit of which is
reproduced below…
The next few years are a bit of a muddle, I just remember we always seemed to be
moving around and there were lots of uncles involved. We used to have to sit
with mum and recite the address of where we were living in case we got lost. I
remember Redhill, Kingston, Richmond, Leatherhead, Surbiton; we never seemed to
be anywhere long. The upshot of it is that Shaz and I ended up in a foster home and then Hoblands, a children’s home in Sidcup.
The man who ran the home lived there with his family, his little boy (who we
weren’t allowed to talk to) had a huge shiny blue pedal car that was kept in the
area below the main staircase. It wasn’t in a cupboard or anything, just sitting
there being all shiny and new and pedally. I SO wanted to have a go. I was only four or five I guess.
At night Shaz and I were split up and I hated it because that was when one of the staff used to go round deciding
which boy he was going to have that night. We used to hear him walking up the
corridor and pretend to be asleep hoping he was going to go straight past us to
another room or better still, just go back downstairs on his own. His name
was Stan, we used to call him Stan the Man. I was reading the BBC news website
about 15 years ago and saw that Stan the Man had been arrested for child sexual
abuse going back years so that turned out OK for him didn’t it? Hopefully he had
his bollocks ripped off when he was inside.
Mum eventually came to get us and we got out of Hoblands and went to live in
Orchard Villas in Foots Cray, Kent.
Google revealed in 2021 that Stan the Man (Stanley Sinkins) was jailed for 12
months in 1995 for his activities “in Kent”. That information seems to have
disappeared from Google and The National Archives sealed the Court papers for 50 years.
Rechecking today found that the page that confirmed it has gone too. Who might have arranged all that?
Surely Bexley Council’s influence does not extend that far.
Upon release Sinkins moved to Cornwall where residents living in the same road
as him (along with a number of his pervert friends according to those residents)
asked the police for protection for
their children but It was refused on the grounds that they must “uphold the rights’
of paedophiles who had served their time.
The Cornish residents were right to be worried about Sinkins, in 2001 he was
jailed for ten years for more sex offences including “buggering a seven year
old boy”. The vicar at Sinkin’s church is reported to have said “there had been cases where
such allegations had been fabricated or guilty pleas had been entered under
duress, and he would be contacting a Liverpool group concerned about false
accusations made against carers”. A second conviction and a vicar sought to find
excuses! Sinkins was 65 years old when he was jailed for the second time.
And now there is similar allegation from a young man. Detained by teachers at
the end of the school day and frog marched to a black car and flown to be
abandoned overseas. “Kidnapped” by Bexley Council is his description.
Now an adult and doing reasonably well for himself he wants to tell his story.
Today’s news (Pakistani rape gangs) demonstrates that no perversion is beyond
belief and I await with
some trepidation of what more might be revealed to me.
There is a 14 minute video about how Bexley Council Social Services ‘kidnaps’
children linked from a blog posted on New
Year's Eve 2015. Ironically this case did have its roots in false
allegations made by children. Well worth a listen. The Social Worker is alleged
to have justified the kidnap because “she hates Christian parents”.
Note: To be fair to the Cornish vicar, my journalist daughter told me that one of her investigations led her to youngsters who the
police had persuaded to tell false stories because they would help to ensure a
conviction and be due significant monetary compensation.