Three children taken into care by Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council on the strength of a false allegation of sexual abuse were returned home yesterday.
Walsall’s decision to return the children came after their barrister Richard Hadley reviewed the evidence in the case following a failed prosecution of the family’s eldest boys in Wolverhampton Crown Court.
A High Court hearing later this month will rubber-stamp the decision.
This wonderful result is a massive answer to the prayers of our members.
We have been following and reporting on the case all through this year, and the Lord has used our intervention finally to bring justice.
When this author turned up to cover the case in the family court in February of this year, the judge and the advocates ran around like scalded cats. The judge granted the local authority an astonishing six-week adjournment to consider their position in the light of a journalist turning up. It was that initial six-week delay for Walsall to consider its position that led inexorably to the criminal case finally catching up with the civil case and justice being done. Delay followed delay as the hand of the Lord was heavily on the whole matter.
It is humbling to realise that if I had not turned up that day an adoption order for the children would have been made earlier this year. But my intervention was merely one of the things the Lord used.
So all praise and glory goes to him. Join us in thanksgiving to our mighty God!
Isaiah 56:1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
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Finally, a carriage of justice. Well done Stephen for all your hard work in exposing the weaknesses of the family courts. The potential for so many children’s lives and family relationships to be damaged requires us to be vigilant and call those in the judicial system to account. God bless you in all the excellent work you do and we now pray that these family relationships will be restored and strengthened. We pray too that God will use this case to bring positive change in the family courts and to give those who are involved in such cases wisdom and discernment