Yes, hard agree with all of this, that's how it works here too (I'm speaking on behalf of NB here, not NS, mind you, but they operate pretty much the same way.) The question wasn't about removal, it was about access to the child. When a child is removed from their parents, the parents usually still have, at the very least, supervised visitation rights. In my jurisdiction they have a special room for those at our regional office. For him to have been denied access to his child means several home visits happened, multiple people were interviewed, massive brick-like documents were prepared by over-worked social workers (they are seriously insanely dense, it's wild,) everyone went to court, a judge made a decision...etc. At this point in time they would still be in the investigation stage, and he made this claim what, a handful of days in? Impossible.
I'm in ireland and this would be the usual protocol here .
It actually flabbergastes me at times ,that parents with severe histories of neglect ,physical abuse , drug abuse and or criminal records for above towards children are still allowed access to those children abet as you say supervised in a room with social workers .
The reluctances of the child protection services to break up the " family unit" is why I questioned what DM said . Unless he was asked the question " was he still seeing the toddler or how is the toddler coping by a reporter and rather than say Maleyha won't let him see her , he blamed cps . But that exposes himself as a liar and at the very least that he will bend the truth when it suits him . And also put the microscope of scrutiny around why she won't allow him see his child
I'm going to look up historical cases where child siblings have gone missing together and the outcomes of those .
That's the part that is putting the skids on my thoughts on this case because at every angle I think it is very rare that two children let alone siblings would be killed ,abducted, sold ,have an accident together and it is covered up. So all the usual scenarios don't seem to fit logic .
As we see in Admiral Rock a few days ago two children were present but only one grabbed.
One child having an accident, parents panic ,cover it up , tell child (B) child (A ) went to live with bio parent in case of step parent involvement etc. Or in the case of a beatings gone too far .The siblings are too much in fear to open their mouth about anything in case the abusive / killer parent turns on them as I seen in the Sara sharif case on WS
Usually with siblings there is one a bit daring and one a tattle tale so even the possibility of kids wandering far enough for it to be beyond the boundaries of safe return for child (A) not to run back to parent and say child (B) is going to far
Two children let alone siblings getting into a car with a stranger would be unusual too . Usually one will get away and run tell an adult . It is very hard for an abductor to grab / escape/ hide / control one child let alone two unless the perpetrator is known to them and they go willingly like in the Holly and Jessica case in England .
