August 28, 2025

Today, my lawyer sent a letter to MCFD titled “Immediate Attention and Action Required.”

Those words shouldn’t have to exist in the same sentence when it comes to a child’s safety — but here we are.

This letter wasn’t about a technicality or a delay. It was about my son, Bennett, a medically complex little boy whose needs have been spelled out in every report, letter, and meeting for months — and yet, still, were being ignored. The correspondence included letters from his doctor, his behavioral analyst, and his play therapist — professionals who all echoed the same message: the current situation was unsafe and unsustainable.

For context, this wasn’t the first time MCFD had been told what needed to happen. My team and I had been asking for coordinated medical oversight, proper staffing, and trauma-informed care long before this crisis reached a breaking point. But after repeated pleas went unanswered, my lawyer had to intervene — just to get the Ministry to acknowledge the gravity of what was happening.

This letter made one simple demand: act now. Not eventually, not after another “review,” but now — because every day that passed was another day my son’s health, safety, and emotional stability were at risk.

And the evidence was overwhelming.

The doctor detailed medical neglect concerns that could have been prevented.

The behavior analyst outlined safety risks and regression tied directly to system failures.

The play therapist described emotional harm — the kind that doesn’t show up in lab results, but in a child’s eyes when he whispers, “Mommy, come back.”

I’ve learned that in this system, you can do everything right — gather the evidence, follow the channels, stay polite — and still have to beg for someone to read what’s already been written in plain English. Advocacy becomes survival.

This letter shouldn’t have been a last resort. It should have been a reminder — that bureaucracy has no place in a child’s pain, that responsibility doesn’t disappear into email threads, and that parents like me shouldn’t have to hire lawyers to make government listen when a child’s life is at stake.

The truth is, the system doesn’t fail all at once. It fails in small silences — in every “we’re still reviewing,” every missed callback, every meeting where decisions are made without the people who actually know the child. And each silence adds up until the only way to be heard is through a legal demand marked urgent.

I don’t know if this letter will finally make them move. But I do know this: it’s on record now. It’s written, signed, and sent. And one day, when people look back at how this unfolded, they won’t be able to say they didn’t know.

They were told.

They just didn’t act.

Document Description

Attached below is the formal email sent by my lawyer on August 28, 2025, titled “Immediate Attention and Action Required.”

The letter was addressed to the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) and includes professional support documentation from Bennett’s care team:

• Letter from Bennett’s Doctor (August 6, 2025)
• Letter from Behavioral Analyst (August 25, 2025)
• Letter from Play Therapist (August 28, 2025)

These documents collectively outline the Ministry’s repeated failure to provide safe, medically supervised, and trauma-informed care — despite ongoing warnings from multiple professionals and my own documented attempts to collaborate.