I'm delighted that you've managed to achieve press exposure in the
Mail: certainly that paper has done more than most to highlight these
kinds of issues. I also note that you have a hearing coming up on the
12th. Fingers crossed the recent publicity will see these people back
down. Its especially galling to read of the Kafkaesque injustice of
the previous hearing recounted in the mail article, and disgraceful
that this decision is based on the discredited diagnosis of
Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, which has never been properly proved
to be a real syndrome, and has been responsible for the false
imprisonment of many women following Cot deaths and much human misery
To tell you a little about myself, well I am a free thinker in the
truest meaning of the word, and I am also something of a net activist,
with a lot of experience getting information highlighting issues out
onto the internet and seen by many many people. I wouldn't propose
doing anything before the 12th, which is obviously just around the
corner, but if this situation is not swiftly brought into line with
sane and reasonable thinking, I would certainly offer to go, to use a
phrase, "ballistic" and instigate a mass email campaign to place
Hexham Children's Services firmly under the intense spotlight of
GLOBAL scrutiny the like of which I very much doubt the decision
makers there could possibly imagine in their wildest dreams. I am
personally convinced that your story, strongly highlighting as it does
the struggle between the needs of the human being and the intimate
link with the unborn child you are bringing into the world, and the
dehumanising soulless application of the imbalanced system, will
resonate with untold numbers of people: I can also think of many
sources of internet based media who would most definitely want to give
your situation publicity
In closing communicating with you today, here is a link to a
discussion i've had with friends in just one location last night: one
location potentially of thousands, which has already been read by 351
people: all friends you didn't know you had!
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9103
With much Love, to you and to Molly, and wishing both of you the very
best of fortune on the 12th,
John White

Well its nice to make contact with you too Freebird
It strikes me that both you and Fran represent the proportion of 1% of
people who are the wrong people to try and push around, becuase you
dont have fear of pushing back: and all through history, its always
that proportion of 1% who make all the difference in this world