There was no privacy in that house
Daaaaamn. More on the David and Aimee Challenor matter:
More thoughts on the #DavidChallenor case. I’ve now read about the Lifetime Ban on any pets being kept in the house, because of the hoarding, chaos, and overcrowding, that resulted in severe neglect and animal cruelty. David had a criminal conviction for this.
I’ve also read the Family Court judgement giving detail on how the children were kept in these exact conditions. Yet, three children were repeatedly failed by our community, and had to stay in the same conditions that disqualified the adults from keeping pets.
The Adult Challenors’ characters become clearer. They don’t come across sympathetically. Any reasonable adult person, upon reading what I’ve read, would have questions about their motivations in seeking political power. Any Party would advise candidates to create distance
Three children, failed by their local authority Safeguarding, as repeated attempts to engage were refused. Family Court was ultimately unable to find a way to keep those children safe, at home, as they were taken into care.
But the children had been on and off Child Protection and Child in Need Plans from the time the eldest was a mere 2 weeks old. Absolutely every chance had been given.
Given that the house was so overcrowded that Council had been offering housing to alleviate the issue for *years*, it may surprise you to learn that 1 (of 2) downstairs room(s) was entirely full of stored items. In a 2-up, 2-down. There was no privacy in that house.
In an overcrowded house, a hoarders’ house, every single thing that happens, is known. No way could David be taking children up into ‘Dad’s Space’ in the attic, without the other family members being aware.
It’s the stuff of nightmares.
And so, Aimee, as an adult, chose to return to live under the roof of an unfit-for-habitation hoarders den. And run the operations of a National political campaign from there.
The Green Party has questions to answer over the due diligence they do over candidates, and how local characters like this can become so unassailable, so fast. Who benefits? All 3 Adult Challenors should have raised red flags, with the animal cruelty and children removed.
A lawyer friend of mine with experience of criminal law has said the the police should be digging up the garden of that house – that the red flags are everywhere.
Without @TheGreenParty, Aimee would never had achieved such a position of influence with Charities, speaking to police forces, even schools, PUSHING AN AGENDA TO REDUCE CHILD SAFEGUARDING DEVELOPED UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A CHILD RAPIST.
That one left me breathless. I’d known little to nothing about either Challenor until the last couple of days, so I didn’t know Aimee had been pushing such an agenda. God damn.
I have had direct experience with the difficulty of removing children from the home of a parent, even in extreme conditions. A family member was in a similar situation – a nasty situation, where the kids were removed more than once, and returned by the courts every time. There is a strong distaste for removing children from parental care, probably because of past abuses of child-snatching (often for “wrong” religious belief or for being in some sort of minority that the state decided needed to properly assimilate) and removing children from loving parents with insufficient evidence or because of prejudices against class, color, or creed. Being cautious is good…being too cautious is dangerous. Children can be permanently harmed, or die, when the institutions designed to protect them fail to do so.
The Green Party has a lot of problems. They need to make some serious overhauls to their systems, and to their ideas, what with running a woman who was at the very least giving aid and comfort to anti-vaxxers here in the states last time. I suspect they are so eager for charismatic candidates that they are lax about checking the bona fides, and they have some problematic New Age ideas that can run into serious roadblocks when they don’t check their assumptions. I would like to see this case be an eye-opener for them, since it is dramatic enough to gain a lot of attention and criticism.
‘three children were repeatedly failed by our community, and had to stay in the same conditions that disqualified the adults from keeping pets.’ Wow.
Interesting. Coventry Pride knew and took action in late 2016:
But the Green Party was somehow caught all unawares.
http://www.coventrypride.org.uk/2018/08/28/a-statement-from-the-trustees-of-coventry-pride/
Oh my, that is interesting.
I’m getting a 404 error on the link.
The Coventry Pride one or the one in the post? The latter still works for me; haven’t checked the former.
I’m getting it in the one in the post.
Huh. Strange, I can still get it. Maybe it’s cached. Mind you I quoted it pretty liberally since it was originally tweets,
Probably just the country I’m looking at it form. Happens sometimes.