[Margaret Pilkington]

I have been reading in the paper today about a married couple in Essex who have had their children removed from their care and forcibly put up for adoption.

The children were said to be well cared for, the home was clean.......so what was the crime of the parents that meant their children could be removed by Social Services.......they were described as 'slow'.
The husband has held down a job for the past 22 years with the same company. The wife has an IQ of 60......and the social workers judged that her 'anticipatory skills' in caring for the children were lacking.

Essex Social Services have taken the case to court and a female judge has given social services the go ahead to have the children removed and adopted. The natural parents will have no access to the children until they are 18......they will get two photographs a year and maybe a video. They will not be informed if either child has need of medical care or treatment.

Human rights.......do they have any.....?

So the courts can do this to a law abiding couple, but they cannot sanction what they see as the abuse of human rights of the hate preachers and would be suicide bombers.

What is this country coming to......? I really do despair.