My name is Jen Burnell-Dieleman & I am the mother of 5 wonderful children. They were all taken away from me by London & Middlesex CAS on November 14th 2012. My children were only removed because of CAS Workers acting in malicious & vindictive manners. 

On November 5th 2012 London & Middlesex CAS sent me a letter stating that they were leaving all my children in my care but they would be taking me to court to obtain an order for supervision. I responded to this letter on November 11th 2012 stating that I would be happy to meet with these workers & provide the documented evidence they were asking for in this letter. I also told them that I would be happy to agree to an order of supervision because at least the Society would have a clear set of rules to follow & so would I therefore there could be no more he said & she said circumstances going forward. 

Please keep in mind that the CFSA & The Child Protection Mandate that CAS is required by law to follow was NOT followed in this case because the law states clearly that the onus is always on the Society to prove their case & Apprehension is to be a LAST RESORT! Instead of the Society following this law they opted to lie to the Family Courts & obtain warrants for the removal of my children. On November 14th 2012 CAS Workers & police entered my home before telling me why they were there & presenting these warrants & attacked my oldest daughter then 14 year old Kristen Burnell she was thrown into a glass patio door by a police officer put in handcuffs & dragged from the house before even being told her rights. CAS refused for 20 minutes to show me the warrants they claimed to have. My Son Donovan then 12 years old was picked up at the same time at his school & told he would be going to a group home for the night then sent to his fathers home in Cornwall -  a home in which he was refusing to return too because he had been abused by both his father & fathers girlfriend. Donovan threatened suicide in front of these workers he was subsequently left in a group home in London where for 2 years he was beaten up by CPW workers & had his rights regularly violated by CAS Workers. This led Donovan to finally run away in October 2014. CAS & CPW workers from the group home lied to me about my sons whereabouts for 6 days last year when I called I was always told my child was unavailable to come to the phone & that he would call me back. I never received any phone calls but 6 days after he had run away CAS workers & police started coming to my home regularly demanding to search my home for him telling me he was "missing" & that according to them I must have helped him run. I did NOT help him run & to date 9 months later I do not know where he is or how to locate him. I received 1 phone call from my son in December 2014 where he simply told me he was in hiding & was not coming out of hiding until CAS signs a legal document agreeing to return him & his siblings. My fear is my child could be dead as I haven't heard from him now for 6 months. On January 22nd 2015 CAS Admitted during a settlement conference that they were not helping Donovan by keeping him in care & they were prepared to return him to me however to date CAS has not done this therefore they are not acting in Donovan's best interests 2 months after CAS made this statement in court they lied once again to a JP at the Ontario Courts in London in order to obtain a search warrant for my house at which time they showed up & searched my home & they did not find Donovan in my home because again I had been telling the truth & did not know where my child is.

CAS has left my 10 year old daughter Lauren in the care of her father who in June 2014 beat me up in front of Lauren I was in a neck brace for 1 week from my injuries & Lauren is regularly punished by her father for contacting me & trying to come see me she regularly runs away & shows up at my house & refuses to go back to her fathers. Her father George Adams was given a court order under good faith to provide me with regular access to Lauren for 11 months now he has failed to provide access to Lauren regularly & violated this order many times he uses the excuse that "CAS tells him not to let me see Lauren" Lauren is living in a messy home with my ex's drug addict friend who is a criminal drug addict & alcoholic Lauren has told me that this man who's name is Chris Shannon has attempted to sexually assault her many times while intoxicated & George's other Daughter Meaghan Adams has told everyone who will listen that George's ex girlfriend Cheryish Loyal who lives in Windsor her son had sexually assaulted & raped Meghan when she was only 8 years old the Son's name is Spencer. George is aware of this & he claims Meaghan is a liar. I know Meaghan she is not a liar! 

My 2 youngest children Leaylani who is now 6 years old & Phoenix who is now 4 years old have been blocked by CAS from seeing me & their father who is my husband. CAS claims that my husband is not their father despite the evidence that I have proving otherwise. When my husband & I got married on June 21st 2014 CAS promised to accommodate all the children to attend our wedding but at the last minute they refused 1st using the excuse that they could not attend because my oldest Daughter Kristen made allegations of abuse against me & my husband which we had already proven to be false. Since Kristen was removed from my care in 2012 she has become a daily drug & alcohol user she is now 17 years old & pregnant claiming she doesn't know who the father of her child is & Kristen has changed her story about me & my husband yearly. once a year Kristen calls me asking me to help her claiming that her father is beating her Kristen has already been proven to be unstable a liar & a substance abuse user. 

In August 2014 CAS illegally cut off my access between me & my children this happened after I presented CAS workers with their own letter stating what they wanted me to do to have my children return along with evidence that I had done everything asked CAS saw this as a threat to them being able to keep my children & cut off all contact & access between me & Leaylani, Phoenix & Donovan. 

The onus is on the society to prove their case & to date they have NOT proven their case but my children still sit in the temporary care of CAS on a without prejudice basis. Why is that I ask? Why was the original supervision order not put in place & these children left at home in my care? Why are my children still away from their mother & father? I ask that you recognize the illegal actions of London CAS & return these children right away to their mother & father who have never hurt them.

You need to issue an order returning Leaylani Phoenix & Donovan Burnell to their mother & issue an order removing Lauren Burnell from the care of her father & back to the care of her mother as none of these children are thriving right now. Please don't allow these children to continue to suffer out of their family home please take a look at the evidence I have being letters, documents, pictures recordings & videos all proving that the mother should have custody of these children now!