AYLMER CHILD AGENCY TRIES TO SAVE FACE BY HARASSING ANOTHER FAMILY

ST. THOMAS, Ont., July 11, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In an attempt to deflect mounting negative publicity from their bungled Aylmer intervention/abduction, Child and Family Services of St. Thomas and Elgin County have begun harassing another practicing Christian family.  The social workers saw some local parents discuss, on TV, the use of “belts and sticks” to discipline their children—and seized on these “disclosures” as “sufficient to start a child-protection investigation,” according to Steve Bailey, the executive director of the discredited agency. “It is clear now that the social workers cannot find it within themselves to repent their previous mistake—even in the light of court evidence—and are trying to save face by putting the screws to more families,” say families close to the case.  The National Post’s Christie Blatchford says the abduction last year, based on the evidence she has seen, is “properly called” a “warrantless apprehension.” While the parents have broken no laws, Blatchford notes, they do fly in the face of the “zero tolerance” dogma that informs the child welfare subclass of social work ideologues. One of the latter, an inexperienced 27-year-old woman with a B.A. in Sociology from Brock University, led the original apprehension last year.  For National Post coverage see:  https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id={009E8071-0F00-4DD2-9C11-B2F43FFCDFF2}  For previous LifeSite coverage see: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/jun/02061104.html