Claire Hawley

Representatives: I am speaking up against HB553 for multiple reasons. 1) New Hampshire has failed multiple audits from US DHHS as regards to the DCYF, vetting of foster and other caregivers for children. There has been no effort to rectify these issues despite the fact that they have been recorded and documented for decades. It is therefore unconstitutional for the State to determine what is appropriate care for any child until the State, its agencies, its non-profits, investigators, social workers, affiliated non-profits and so called “Child Advocacy Centers” investigate and prosecute their own failures which have led to extreme child abuse, neglect. Child trafficking, denial of children’s rights. Child Trafficking exists within the State’s agencies and non-profits - any person who is coerced into saying or not saying something for the benefit of the adult agency and who is coerced through deceit, is a victim of trafficking as defined by the UN and others. There are clearly documented cases of child trafficking in New Hampshire by State agencies and the State has failed to address these cases. Additionally, Children’s Advocacy Centers are single investigator models requiring adult caregivers or guardians or parents to leave their child alone with state investigators who may be police officers with qualified immunity to manipulate, lie to the child. The Children’s Advocacy Centers have received extremely mixed reviews across the nation and should be shut down until the State holds dishonest investigators accountable for traumatizing the children under the guise of so-called “trauma informed” practices. These practices have been widely criticized and in many cases trauma is implanted by the investigators where no trauma existed. NH PD have been documented telling children lies, telling them they can’t talk to their own mother for “the integrity of the investigation”. This is rubbish and dishonest and leads to life long trauma for children who are force-fed tales in order for investigators to get the result they want instead of what is honest and right and in the objective interests of the child. In 2020, Governor Sununu invited members of the public to write to the LEACT commission. I wrote a letter about my concerns regarding the coercion of minors in sexual assault investigations. I cited three criminal cases. To my horror, my letter was intercepted by the NHCADSV who then proceeded to cyberstalk me and share my letter to third parties who doxxed me and accused me of being a rape apologist. It has become crystal clear that children in New Hampshire are a lucrative business for the State’s agencies, non-profits, police , courts and attorneys with zero regard given to the welfare of the children, their families, siblings and homes. This bill should be scrapped and a fulll investigation carried out into the state’s business of child abuse, trafficking and neglect. There are plenty of receipts and to fail to address this is an overt demonstration of negligence towards children.