“Don’t be surprised if you see a poor person being oppressed by the powerful and if justice is being miscarried throughout the land. For every official is under orders from higher up, and matters of justice get lost in red tape and bureaucracy.” Bible, Ecclesiastes 5:8

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When you face such evil as my grand-daughter Charlene Dobson suffered, this requires ‘deep healing’ and a Healer and most certainly – ‘demands justice’ .

The Logo:

I chose this logo in the top left-hand corner of the page, since it was the one that spoke to me when I decided to seek justice for Charlene and her siblings and others like her. I am holding in my right hand the scales of justice and with the other I am holding Charlene’s hand who in turn is symbolically holding her siblings’ hands.  They in turn are holding other children’s hands who are ‘at risk’, all being connected through their trauma.

I put a feather and a bow in her hair for two reasons: one, to represent the cross-cultural heritage she received as a result of my adopting her mother through ‘The 60’s Scoop’.

This is a true story of my journey to seek  justice for my grandchildren, and hopefully then other children would benefit.

I am confident that after you digest the content on this website that you’ll appreciate why the ‘demands of justice’ became necessary for Charlene, her siblings and those left unprotected who require protection and most often healing from their trauma.

I took the ‘path’ less traveled on, not because I wanted to but because I had to.

A Note of Caution:

Unless God leads you to the ‘halls of justice’ as a ‘self-litigant’ as I believe He did me, I would never advise to do it. Yet, if you experience similar circumstances as I did, and you have to ensure that your child(ren) and/or grandchild(ren) need your protection, then you must do it.

Sadly I learned through my experience, that the miscarriage of justice for the orphan, the poor, the oppressed, the widow and the vulnerable, like infants and children, still exists.  The scripture at the top of this page is still a reality in Canada.

You, like I, will likely face a ‘no win’ situation if you do what I did, as your claim can be defeated in so many different ways when there is a ‘judicial will’ to defeat it.

It appeared that the ‘judicial will’ and the ‘political will’ were aligned in order to protect their self-interests rather than vulnerable babies and children. 

When this happens it leads to a miscarriage of justice for our most vulnerable, undermining our collective constitutional rights. Still the cause (of seeking justice) is worth it.

In my case, taking 7 years to go through the court system gained me much needed time to keep my grandchildren protected from the Saskatchewan Ministry of Social (Protection) Services ‘ill-conceived case-plans’ that would not protect them.

Certainly it is never popular to litigate government public servants, doctors and the government itself.

        I grappled with what I should do in the wake of what I believed must be done.

My struggle as a Christian to do this lawsuit is aptly explained in the following reflections:

The waters of justice and righteousness are dangerous to those of us who have promised to follow Christ and to live in covenant with His people. God’s justice is dangerous because:

1. to ignore it reveals we are not truly his;
2. to misunderstand it can lead to depersonalizing and compartmentalizing those made in God’s image;
3. to rationalize away its demands hardens our hearts to God;
4. to seek to live out the demands of God’s justice is risky and goes against the grain of normal behavior and cultural norms;
5. to pray for God’s justice calls us into involvement with those who need justice.

Are we courageous disciples? Are we brave enough to be God’s light and justice to those in the shadows? If we are to know God fully through his Son Jesus Christ, we must live justly. If the world is to know Jesus Christ through us, we must risk entering into the dangerous waters of God’s justice and righteousness. [14] —- by Dr. Ruth Ann Foster. [Dr. Ruth Ann Foster is Assistant Professor of Christian Scriptures at Truett Seminary at Baylor University. She prepared this address for the 1999 annual conference of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission].

As a professional counselor /therapist I recognize the ‘power of healing’ that occurs when you tell your story. This is known as Narrative Therapy.

We all have a story. One is no more important than the other. What can differ is one’s response to their story. If we believe our story can bring significant closure to our ‘pain and suffering’ as well as benefit to others and/or a catalyst for positive change, we tell it -in a website, a book, and the like. Such is the case for me.  This website is intended to expose the dire ongoing state of our Protection Services  and the need for its’ overhaul. It is a venue for closure to my ordeal.

My story revolves around the Saskatchewan Minister of Social Services. Their deceptions and professional incompetence which kept my adopted daughter’s four (living) children ‘at risk’ should never happen to any other child.  They did this when they had information about her and her friends’ criminal activities towards babies and children. This ministry’s actions led to my next two grand-babies dying ‘in their care’ and ‘under their watch’.

Their gross negligence and breaches of trust and duty, directly led to their deaths.   Yet the Saskatchewan Government appointed Coroner decided their deaths did not require Coroner’s Inquests.

The first baby’s death (Autumn) – died October 28, 2005:

The pathologist’s report – noted that Autumn had a low therapeutic dose of her anti-seizure medication in her bloodstream (as the foster mother claimed she ran out of it and was not giving it to her), concluding that she likely took a seizure face-down and suffocated (since this is the way this woman slept her-on her tummy).

This was now the second baby who died in this foster mother’s care as one died a year earlier.

The Coroner’s report documented that her ‘death was undetermined’.

* The pathologist’s report ruled that the ‘probable cause of death was due to suffocation from being laid face-down and her taking a seizure.  In his report he noted that the low therapeutic level of the drug Phenobarbital to prevent her from taking seizure was too low because the foster mom reported that she had run out of it and had not gotten it refilled.  No inquest-no recommendations – no one had to take responsibility.

The Second Baby’s Death (Lily) –Autumn’s Sister -died  March 28, 2007                                                                                        After reading Lily’s autopsy we noted that alcohol was found in her blood, yet the Coroner concluded: cause of death was due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) – * but the toxicology report found alcohol in her blood.  * Charlene and I are asking ourselves: was there enough alcohol in her bloodstream to kill her?  If there was this would be ‘murder’. We think any ethyl alcohol in a two month old baby’s bloodstream would be lethal. We need answers.    

Framed!   When Charlene and her infant brother Jonathan were examined by Dr. C. Norman 21 days after my reporting their injuries, she documented in their medical reports that photographs were taken.  She also said that she’d compare them with photographs she had taken three months earlier.

When I requested copies of these photos for the court Saskatchewan, Regina Children’s Justice denied ever taking any photographs.

Instead this same doctor drew diagrams instead or in addition to.  She drew on the outlines of children’s bodies where she found injuries on their bodies.

She dated the ‘healing time-line’ of the burn and ligature marks to be about 10 days old.  That would the occurrence of their wounds occurring in-between the 21 days that we had Charlene and Jonathan in our care.  No photographs but this! 

This ‘integrated sexual abuse team under the Regina Children’s Justice (Saskatchewan) who were employed or were contracted by this ministry, manipulated the entire process to frame us and avoid taking responsibility. Collectively they had no conscience.

For those of us who love babies and children we must promise that we as a nation will endeavor to ensure their protection.

When I took a stand with this ministry to protect my grandchildren in opposition to their irrational and unprofessional case-plans for them, they made sure I’d pay -and pay I did, as did my family-we paid dearly even to date.

   

In the fall of 2002, this ministry invited me to attend Regina Children’s Justice Department and bring Charlene with me.  So I did believing they may interview Charlene and that she could tell them in her own words what happened to her as she had told them already.

Instead it turned-out that they wanted to talk only with me concerning a report I’d made about a disclosure that I became privy to from a third party. This report focused on what a teenage girl told her foster-mom, of her having witnessed a baby killed by the same person whom Charlene had named in the killing (sacrificing) of babies.

          living in a ‘fish bowl’

When I arrived at their office, Charlene was led into a play-room and I to another room. I soon realized it was a ‘set-up’.

Sergeant Szabo who was in-charge, and indicated that he had a letter to read to me from Chief Cal Johnson.

Further he disclosed that the protection worker and others on this team were behind a ‘one-way’ glass watching me-hence the ‘fish-bowl’ experience.

When I took them to court I received a copy of this videotape as an exhibit for the defendant.

In watching this videotape I learned that the first half hour of that interrogation /interview was not recorded but ‘dead-air space’. I realized that the contentious comments where used as a primer ‘to hopefully work me up’ to discredit me.

The foster mother and this teenager, were the ones they needed to talk with, but they never did. Why?   One can only surmise that ‘getting at the truth’ was not their priority but ‘to get at me’ was. The visit was all self-serving. 

Certain of our grand-children’s day-cares, school principals and teachers let us know that we were put on their alert list.

The ‘fish bowl’ experience was always with me.  It felt like paranoia, but it was based in fact

One of Charlene’s teachers Ms. Lewis knew what they were up to, trying to discredit my husband and I.

Ms. Lewis was diagnosed with terminal cancer and before the end of school she asked me, without my ever asking her to do this, if she could write a letter in support for my husband and I regarding Charlene, providing it to the Director of the Public School System.  Here is the copy she gave us.

link: https://www.scribd.com/doc/235015998/Letter-From-Mrs-Lewis

The improvement with Charlene’s anxiety and trauma reactions never lasted long.

There would be an exacerbation (return of the symptoms) when she’d get triggered, like when we took her to the exhibition, or when we enrolled her into an Aboriginal Christian camp or after she saw her mom. In all my years of counselling and nursing, I have never experienced such trauma as I witnessed with her.

Thank-you Jesus for being there with me through those dark and painful nights with her, telling her she was safe and no one could hurt her anymore. 

If I had not known you (Jesus) and if I hadn’t the training and experience to deal with this, I would have ‘gone over the edge’. 

Yet I was not prepared to witness the ‘depth of fear’ and ‘pain & suffering’ she expressed several times a week.  I know now there are many other children like Charlene and we as a nation need to bring them healing. 

Many on reserves are teens trying to commit suicide because their pain is so great and they see no way out. 

They want help and we need to respond! 

In ‘telling all’ I hope public servants mentioned or not, who were aligned with this ministry and those who are ‘like-minded’, will never put anyone ‘through the hell’ they put my family and I through, but provide us support..

Children’s Justice (Regina) and this ministry and those contracted with them, need to STOP giving the ‘politically correct’ answers and overhaul the entire protection services system across Canada, since it is systemic.

This would save the lives of thousands of babies and improve greatly the protection of babies and children. 

In reading this website you will learn that this ministry and the police knew the people whom Charlene alleged as her abusers and still left them unprotected.  They knew that her mother and friends were involved in a cult and had to realize that her and the other children would be at tremendous risk to being abused.

Corporal Ferguson indicated that ‘they’ may not live the way we would, implying they had a right to live the way they wanted.  Yes, they do have the right- but without their children. 

On the other hand it was Corporal Ferguson who encouraged me to go to the top, as nothing in protection services would ever get any better unless I tried that.

So I did try that. I wrote a letter to the Saskatchewan Premier, Mr. Roy Romanow, whose office passed my concerns to Mr. Lorne Calvert who was the Minister of Social Services (Protection) then. He in turn passed my concerns to Mr. David Hedlund, the Regional Director of Saskatchewan Social Services.

It was Mr. Hedlund who was instrumental in ‘blacklisting’ the rehabilitation program I began: Healing the Nation-One Family At A Time’ by sending a memo to the participants’ social workers telling them to advise their clients to not enroll in our program and to warn them that if they did enroll, they’d risk losing their Social Assistance check.

Such a threat was unconscionable and a stark example of their control and toxic ‘mindset’.

‘Continuous Injury’

Liar-Liar…

Part One details the adoption.? The adoption process was based on a ‘string of lies’ and deceptions (half-truths) which began in 1971 and carried on throughout my journey with this ministry.

Part Two of the lawsuit is at the ‘heart of” this litigation describing the culpable actions of this ministry in not protecting my grandchildren. 

Part Three was the ‘final straw’.  Here I describe their culpable and collective aggression towards me/us in orchestrating two hostile evictions. They were out to hurt me /us with loss of employment and reputation, resulting in ‘pain and suffering’ to not only me but my family. 

* Deceptions and lies were the ‘hallmark’ throughout all three parts of my journey.  

* Tragically and shockingly, this also went on during my legal journey, undermining justice for us.

The 7 years in the judicial system (2005 to 2012) for me as a self-litigant was an education in how they do things.  This is described on this website.  

Did the ‘devil” make them do it?   When I told protection services what happened to Charlene and her brother, they ignored this, supported those whom Charlene alleged as her abusers, put other siblings of theirs ‘at risk’ so that I had to go on the offensive.

‘quit blaming me!’

All the while the focus should have been to validate my granddaughter Charlene and I, they did the opposite, threatening me and making my life ‘hell’ worrying what they’d do next.

After we re-established a counselling business Anchor Inn Rehabilitation & Counselling Center we never fully recovered from their rumors and the damages they caused us.* Did the ‘devil’ make them do all of this? Perhaps even the devil would be upset being blamed.

With this lawsuit now ended and Charlene’s website and mine going viral, I no longer feel that I’m swimming ’round and round’ in a ‘fish bowl’ and I am able to tell my story.

In fact it is time for my voice to be heard, as it is for Charlene’s.  Her voice can be heard at: http://www.voicesofthebruised-reeds.com

When family members are ignored, maligned and attacked for telling authorities what has happened to our babies and children and grandchildren, and are denied appropriate help when we ask for it, and when they orchestrate malicious acts of retribution, we will continue to litigate them, even if we lose – we must! without fear of retribution, because: 

“Power at its best is love implementing ‘the demands of justice’.  Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love”. Martin Luther King Jr.    

Note: * This website is not only my journey for personal closure but is a venue for me to share my views and my faith, as well as my struggles.  At times I am candid in my remarks, but then they are mine after all and agreement is not required.

Charlene (now an adult) and I, would like to resurrect the vision of ‘healing the nation’ by revising the program:

Healing the Nation-One Family at a Time.  This program proved to be very successful and is ‘one path for healing’ for First Nations/Aboriginal peoples and other nations.

Christian content will be contextualized and traditional ways offered. A sample of some of the  program content to be delivered is described on the non-revised brochure, attached at the Tab. HEALING THE NATION…

* Please govern yourself accordingly in reading certain documents if you are a Survivor of a Satanic cult or have suffered severe trauma, as you may find them disturbing.

 I would love to hear from you.  Please contact me:

– Arlene Lowery, 

Cell: (306) 540-3286

Tel: (306) 205-4160

Fax: (306) 205-4161

Email: anchorinn@ymail.com