"ABUSE" CLAIM AS COPS SEIZE KIDS

 16-06-2007

West Midlands Police are facing calls for an enquiry after no fewer than ten officers were called in to seperate a mother from her children who were being taken into care. A Birmingham councillor says the youngsters were subjected to “institutional abuse”.

The distraught mother has told us that following the incident which happened recently in a Birmingham court room, she was left with severe bruising.

She claimed that the police used excessive restraint and described it as “like a horror story”.

She added: “I can still hear my children screaming to be with me over and over again.

“They were ripped out my arms. This shouldn’t happen in this country”.

One of the woman’s friends called Birmingham councillor Emily Cox who overheard the incident via the phone as it was going on.

Cox has no direct involvement in the case and the family involved are not her constituents but as a mother she was outraged by what she heard.

Now she has written to the West Midlands Chief Constable Paul Scott Lee demanding an investigation into the claims.

In her letter she states that she “could hear the sound of distressed children in the background screaming and shouting”.

Cox’s now wants to know what procedures the police are planning to put in place to treat children sympathetically in similar cases, adding that “the experience the …children were put through yesterday was traumatising and in my view tantamount to institutional abuse.”

The Stirrer put the claims to West Midlands Police on Friday lunchtime but we have so far had no response.

Legal restrictions mean that we are censored from reporting any of the background of the case or identifying the woman involved.