The horror of the Ministry for making Vulnerable Children

‘Carol’ from the Ministry 

After the horror allegations of historical state abuse, you would think this evil has been stopped.

It hasn’t.

It should shock us that the Ministry for making Vulnerable Children can still steal babies from people based on them being ‘smelly’…

Newborn baby taken because social worker thought she smelled cannabis

A social worker took an 8-week-old baby from its parents – then gave it back – because she thought she smelled cannabis.

Freyja and Laurence Maisey say the Ministry for Vulnerable Children (Oranga Tamariki) only gave them the cannabis explanation four days after their baby Charlie was taken.

They said police and a social worker turned up at their Whanganui house on October 12 without warning. Within minutes Charlie was taken.

Laurence Maisey said he did not even get a chance to kiss his baby boy goodbye.

…when the State can steal your baby with impunity, at what point do we demand massive reform inside these neoliberal welfare agencies who only serve to damage and punish the most vulnerable amongst us?

This is what the midwife was told by the Ministry for Making Vulnerable children…

“They told me they thought the parents were smelly and a bit slow. I said I don’t believe that’s grounds to take a child off its parents and we can provide wraparound services for that.

They fucking took their baby because the Ministry for Making Vulnerable Children believed the parents were ‘smelly’ and ‘slow’.

That’s the threshold for taking a baby from their parents?

Are you outraged yet?

When is the new Government going to tackle the obscenity of what our neoliberal welfare agencies have been allowed to morph into? The Ministry for making Vulnerable Children has changed its policy of whanau first to be able to just take children immediately, if they are taking children because people are ‘smelly’ and a bit ‘slow’