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THE VOICE OF NORTH

August 10. 1986 News 985-2133

Classified 986-6222

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A DISTRAUGHT North Vancouver mother is battling the
Ministry of Human Resources (MH) for the return of her

child.

Living on a monthly MHR
allowance of $460, Karmel Fair-
chels said she initially approached
the ministry to have her [0-year-
old son Jayeson placed in short
term fos.er home care.

“fo veas going through an ex-
tremely stressful period. | needed
help. | went to them for help, but
they said they couldn't help me on
such short notice. They satd |
needed psychiatric care.”

Fed up with the MHR’s Lower
Lon.dale office, Fairchets said she
went to the ministry’s emergency
services office on Drake Street at
approximately 4:30 p.m. Aug.

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By TIMOTHY RENSIEAW
News Reporter

there told her they would put
Jayeson into a foster home, but
only for a week, not the month
Fairchels wanted. She said they
told her there would be no visiting
rights until the following Tuesday
and that her file would then be
returned to the North Vancouver
office.

Fairchels said she got upset.
Because she is moving to Van-
couver and because of what she
describes as her bad experience
with the North Vancouver office,

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Fairchels said she did not want to
be sent back there.

Fairchels, who has been a single
mother for the past 10 years and
has supported her child with no
help from Jayeson’s father, said
she went with Jayeson and a male
friend to a nearby coffee shop. An
MHR_> worker approached — her
there. An argument ensued.

In a cops and robbers style
back-alley chase, Fairchels sitid she
escaped through the cafe’s back
door with the police officer and
MHR officials hot on her cail.

After a screaming dash down
Vancouver City alleys, Fairchels
said she and her son ran into a
police barricade at the corner of
Richards and Davie.

Javeson, she said, wus taken
trom her, kicking and screaming.

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She has neither seen nor spoken
to him since.

But cistrict. superintendent for
MHR’s Lower Lonsdale office
Paul McKibben said Friday that
Fairchels needs more than simple
help from his office.

“She is very paranoid and
hostile,’’ Mckibben said. ‘We are
not trying to be difficult. The
whole thing is very frustrating. All
she has to do is to be open to tatk
tous, but she doesn't seem to want
to do that. Really | don’t think she
knows what she wants. She needs
psychiatric treatment."”

McKibben added that) Fairchels
initially wanted the ministry .o
place Jayeson in a foster home and
now that he is there she wants him
out.

He said Jayeson was fine and

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would be contacting his mother
next week,

On Wednesday, a date of Sept.
24 was set in North Vancouver
provincial court as a hearing to
decide custody of Jayeson.

Saying she had no faith in the
court system or MHR, Fairchels
said she would not be attending the
scheduled hearing.

Instead, she said she will attemp:
to have Jayeson represented by his
own legal counsel. Thus far she
has been denied that opportunity
by the attorney general's office.

Said Fairchels: ‘‘f trusted the
system and it has failed me."’

An acquaintance of Fairchels
decribes her as ‘‘a loving mother, 2
decent person. She is just tired of
MEIR’s storm-trooper tactics.’*

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