Middle Region:--- A mother of four has decided to go public after she receiving severe pressure from a particular social worker whom she said wants to remove her children from the "I Can Foundation."Kay Lake said the social worker called her on several occasions screaming at her as she told her that she will remove her 15 year old son from I Can Foundation and place him at MPO. Besides that, the social worker whose name has been provided, wants to remove her 7-year old daughter and put her somewhere else. "Even though this social worker has been calling me and screaming as she is trying her best to intimidate me, she did not say with whom she will put my daughter." Lake said her 15 year old son has refused to be separated from his sister since the two of them were placed in the same home some four years ago.
This entire situation has caused my son to do very badly at his examinations. "My son is taking on the threat of his removal from I Can and he is totally stressed out. The social worker contacted him during examination time and told him she is separating them, but to date I was not asked to sign anything. The social worker called me on Thursday and she told me that she got a court decision to remove my children on Friday. "I want to know how any judge would grant this social worker a decision and the mother and father was not present. Besides that, the head of the Court of Guardianship and others never invited me to a meeting to tell me what they are doing. The only person I am hearing from is this social worker who would scream in my ears every time she calls me."
Lake said the social worker called her and told her that her son is a fool because he refused to go over to MPO. "My children are at I Can and they are happy there, I am living in Middle Region and my son and daughter knows that I am not far away. They also know that while they are not with me physically I am there spiritually for them." Lake said her trouble started last year when she went to court to obtain a passport for her son who is taking pilot lessons. "I met this social worker for the first time at the Court of Guardianship when I attended a meeting to go to court for my son's passport and ever since then I am being harassed by this social worker. She even went as far as telling me that she will take my children (Dutch Nationals) and send them to their father who is supposedly in Jamaica. Here you have someone telling a mother that she will send my children to a man who was convicted for peddling drugs. Now she decided that she doesn't need me and she will move my children when she pleases and put them where she wants to put them." Lake further explained that she was promised that her children would move back home with her this year. At no time did they tell me that they would put my children in different homes.
Some weeks ago, the MPO foundation that has about eight teenagers in house had their electricity and water disconnected because for some reason the home did not pay its utilities bill.
SMN News further learnt that the social worker moved a teenager last week from I Can and placed the child at MPO and that same weekend the teenager was caught in a bathroom making out with one of the teenage girls living at MPO. SMN News further learnt that the Court of Guardianship is busy investigating that case.
