Kelowna Woman Accuses Social Worker of Entering Relationship with Abusive Ex-Husband

A Kelowna woman claims that the social worker who was supposed to help protect her children from her allegedly abusive ex-husband instead entered into a relationship with him. Melanie Hatton filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of B.C. on Oct. 16, naming Kirsten Belitzky as the Ministry of Child and Family Development youth mental health social worker who allegedly chose to pursue an unethical relationship rather than providing protection and support to the family.

The lawsuit states that in September 2019, Hatton sought professional help when her child, A (name redacted as he is a minor) began exhibiting behavioural changes as a result of alleged abuse from her ex-husband, Jeffrey Maclean. At the time, Hatton was still married to Maclean. In 2019, during the family’s initial intake appointment with Belitzky, Hatton privately told the social worker about issues in her marriage and the alleged abuse that her children had suffered at the hands of their fathe

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