Pregnant Mother Driven To Suicide By Social Services

Pregnant Mother Driven To Suicide By Social Services
By Teresa | 17th Feb 2009 | in Forced Adoption Stories

The tragic story of a desperate mother who’s two children were put up for adoption by social services in East London brought about a tragic end to her young life as pregnant mother Angela Franklin 30 was found dead by police. Angela in need of support after the forced removal of her two children was instead bullied by the system leaving her in despair in what Angela described in writing “ i lost all my children due to lies being told in court by social services” just before her suicide

In Angela’s own written words just over a week before she takes her life and that of her unborn child we see the desperation of a mother who is lost and despite friends she made on the social networking site facebook who done thier best to support her she couldn’t bare to let social services take another one of her beloved children.

03 February 2009 at 05:05

“i felt suicidal after a bad relationship but after a while i got over him and i was able to move on. i now have someone who i love but still my life is not happy. i lost all my children due to lies being told in court by social services. i cant see or speak to my children.
this is one thing that i would not get over. my children meant the world to me and still do.

i have somehow detached myself from the man i love. the children look like him and they are everything like him. everytime i am with hime i get upset.

i dont know where to turn or who to turn to now.

i feel lost.
i am pregnant again and i dont want to live.
some may think i am being selfish because i should be thinking about he baby inside of me. but social services want to take this baby too and i would rather die.

i just dont know what to do. i want out
the sooner the better”

The sad truth is Angela Franklin took her own life as she couldn’t live her life without her children and she knew she was never going to see them again and she also knew that if she continued with the baby she desperatly wanted growing inside, her only hope to cling onto life would disapear as Social Workers would rip the baby she loved from her at birth. A social worker tipped her over the edge when Angela was informed by a social worker of their intentions shortly before her suicide.

Seeing no way out Angela gave up her fight with Social Services and the Court who let her, her unborn child and two young children down.

Angela done the only thing she felt she could to stay with her baby and that was to take her baby with her.

Mothers, Fathers, Grand-Parents, Aunts and Uncles face long lengthy battles with social workers who target them and remove their children based on false accusations and problems that do not render childen at risk but in need of family support so why do these families not get the support they need? The system has failed thousands of families as organisations and self help groups struggle to cope with the growing numbers of parents facing the systems failures.

Social Workers may well take the attitude of “oh well she must of been depressed so we done the right thing removing her children” but it is in fact the system that drives mothers and families to this despair in the first place.

Families are pushed to the extremes as they battle it out with Social Services in a desperate fight for their children as social workers misuse every thing in their power to leave parents mentally and phisically exausted and poweless as they say their last goodbyes to their children.

Parents are slowly worn down over the coming months and years as social workers get more and more funding and the more the parents fight for their children the more resources the social workers get with the never ending pot of tax payers money they misuse to pay for those resources. The resources on Social Services side do well out of it because they make millions.

Whilst all this is going on the children in danger and at serious risk are being slowly pushed aside and end up dead whilst Social Workers continue their onslaught to innocent families who not only don’t have the resources of which to fight the social workers on the same level but also don’t have the same support at hand to fight their corner. Whilst the families are being dragged through the onslaught of social workers they are being effected emotionally, phisically and mentally by the negativity, the lies social workers tell, the inaccuracies by professionals, having to fill out endless forms themselves, learn the law as they go along and the constant rejection by Judges who dont always bother reading the parents side or find it easier and quicker to go along with social workers. Are courts now so over loaded with cases that they just want to rush them through so they can get on with the next one and then get home in time for tea?

When Social Workers get it wrong there is nowhere to complain and there are no professionals that can give decent second opinions because the families are not only denied a second medical or psychaitric opinion by the courts but many of those professionals are financially thriving by acting on the sides of the social services. There are no resources for the families dragged through the system nor the support they need.

Social workers demand psychiatric evaluations of parents who have been fighting for months for their children and the psychiatrists brand mothers with BPD or mental health problems if they dare as to fight for their children or show signs of distress. How can any parent be fairly evaluated after social workers have staged a mass onslaught to these families using the most horredous and bullying tactics possible in order to break the parents before they are even evaluated?

After years of fighting for the rights of children in care to be given a voice if they are suffering abuse and to expose it, and just as families have fought to speak openly about the injustices they have faced, the public got excited when the anouncement arrived that the Family courts are to opened in April and with it came the false sense of security.

And just as no2abuse suspected as stated in a previous article, whats the catch?

Well that catch or should I say blow came when Jack Straw announced that as from April at the same time the courts are supposed to be opened in order to allow the media to report on the injustices to families and children he is not only reversing a previous decision but also ensures that families facing injustices and children in care will not be allowed to openly expose their abuse anywhere if they identify themselves. They are not allowed to be named and they are not allowed to tell anyone who they are publicly.

Jack Straw has done this to protect soclal workers and professionals who fail families like Angela Franklin and he has not done it to protect any child or family. His decision will see more and more families ruined by injustices and we will see more children abused in care and more children will die. Its inevitable because that’s what secrecy does. It ruins lives. Many survivors of abuse lived in fear of their abusers and now they are finally speaking up about the abuse they suffered Jack Straw has decided to gag them as well so the abusers can carry on with the security of secrecy.

Thankyou to those who provided information to make this story possible and to give Angela the voice that was taken away from her by the system failures