Public Inquiry Requested

To:  Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm and Nova Scotia Justice Minister Michael Baker

We join our signatures and voices across Canada to those of Carline VandenElsen and Larry Finck to request a public inquiry into the actions of Children’s Aids Society of Nova Scotia in the apprehension of their newborn child Mona Clare on May 19th 2004.

SOME FACTS:

٠ Children’s Aid has never given a reason for apprehending little Mona Clare on May 21st, 2004

٠ Nobody seems to know why it was the RCMP Emergency Response Team who carried the task to deliver an apprehension notice to a home in Halifax, ordered from a judge in Ontario, after midnight, and in full anti-terrorist gear and deployment, and resulting in a three days standoff and into the death of Ms Finck (resident at that house) from a heart-attack

٠ In the criminal trial, Larry and Carline were denied 16 witnesses out of a possible 19 (including Children’s Aid representatives)

٠ Out of a possible 90 telephone intercepts by the police during the ‘stand off’, Judge Robert Wright only allowed the 6 that the crown requested, and denied Larry and Carline their selections

٠ From the beginning of the trial, Carline was not allowed to tell her story. The judge, not so much the Crown, kept cutting her off

٠ Halifax Police have been investigating the possibility of jury tampering

٠ All defenses available to Carline and Larry were denied :

- Defense of Necessity

- Protection of Home

- Provocation

- Self-Defense

- Defense of their Daughter

٠ Carline fired her lawyer because he wanted her to go against her husband Larry on all charges, and because he would not cross-examine the police involved in the standoff

٠ Larry and Carline will not receive their sentencing until the end of June. The judge said that these 6 weeks in jail would not count towards their sentence

٠ Although Mona Clare was evaluated as being a healthy happy baby at the time of the apprehension, she has needed around $500 worth of pharmaceuticals since that time (at the time of writing this petition). The judge called this evidence irrelevant. It also appears that Mona Clare is now in her second or third foster home. As time passes, baby Mona Clare has become a homeless victim of the combined Nova Scotia and Ontario legal system.

٠ We want to know what caused the Children’s Aid Society to send a RCMP Swat team to the home where parents were enjoying their newborn baby?

٠ It is to be noted that actually an order of apprehension was first issued while Mona Clare was still in the womb, yet unborn.

٠ Finally, seemingly Halifax is 1/6 the size of Toronto but has twice the number of child apprehensions

AS CONCERNED CANADIAN CITIZENS :

٠ For these reasons, we join our signatures and voices to Carline VandenElsen and Larry Finck to request a public inquiry into the actions of Children’s Aids Society and the RCMP of Halifax, in the apprehension of their newborn child Mona Clare on May 19th 2004. This public inquiry would also do well to examine the actions of the court of law which presided over the trials that ensued.

٠ We are not here to be judge and jury. It is not our intention to assign blame. However, as Canadian citizens, we stand before our elected officials and ask that they would grant Larry Finck and Carline VandenElsen a public inquiry in the matters related to the apprehension of their newborn baby Mona Clare.

٠ As Canadian citizens, we value our legal system but also are aware that irregularities can be and have been committed over the years, and that innocent people suffered from it. The apprehension of Mona Clare displays not just a few irregularities and we are eager to see a public inquiry bring to the light what these are, so that the integrity of our legal system be restored where it needs to, and our faith in it maintained.

٠ Carline has entered a hunger strike on May 21st. We hope and pray she will survive it and be able to join with her husband and daughter soon.

٠ This petition is sponsored by people caring about the treatment this family has received. We are concerned about how their story has been presented to the public and the fact that they are in jail while their baby is now in her second foster home, with so many unanswered question that any loving parent and concerned citizen would ask .

٠ This petition will be presented to Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm and Nova Scotia Justice Minister Michael Baker.

For more informative material:
http://starvingforthechildren.blogspot.com
http://justice4carline.blogspot.com
http://newsroomwatch.blogspot.com

Please, sign this petition and join with us in our request for a public inquiry. And spread the word around. We are aiming for hundreds of signatures. If you need to contact us to find out when and where the petition will be presented, or other questions, use this email address: andrelef1@hotmail.com

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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