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The Stealing of Emily - It’s Mine, I Can Grab What I Like

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The Stealing of Emily – It’s Mine, I Can Grab What I Like is an investigative work examining how a child can be taken, misrecorded, and ultimately rendered untraceable through the combined failures of family courts, social services, and state data-governance systems. Drawing on primary documents, official correspondence, regulatory replies, and audit trails obtained through formal data-rights requests, Martin Newbold reveals a recurring institutional pattern in which authority substitutes itself for legality. Decisions are justified after the fact, records are displaced across systems, and responsibility is fragmented until accountability effectively disappears — not through conspiracy, but through process. The book traces how digital infrastructure, designed to manage risk and safeguard children, can instead be used to legitimise disappearance: records marked complete while the child remains missing; dashboards reporting compliance while real-world harm goes unaddressed. It shows how silence, non-response, and procedural deflection become tools of containment, allowing institutions to close files without resolving facts. Written as a factual record rather than a personal memoir, It’s Mine, I Can Grab What I Like challenges the assumption that safeguarding failures are accidental. It asks a more uncomfortable question: what happens when systems built to protect children are structurally incapable — or unwilling — to find them once they are gone?

Adult Education

Martin Newbold

2026

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