Court forced me to keep seeing my killer parents
Chair woman...Sienna, 37, poses for photoshoot A WOMAN who as a child saw one of her siblings killed by her parents was forced to keep seeing them by the Family Court.
Rosie Jefferies was six when she witnessed the killing, the second child in the family to die at her parents’ hands.
But even though she and her siblings were put into care, the parents enjoyed “visiting rights”.
Mrs Jefferies said: “It was through the Family Court that we had contact, which was supervised by social services.
“How is the Family Court allowed to put the rights of the parents first and allow them to have contact with their children?
“It has affected every single aspect of my life – they were the scariest people in the world.
“It’s been debilitating, my anxiety levels are really bad.
“Without therapeutic parenting, I would never have been able to recover. I feel failed by the system.”
In court, her parents were found guilty of child cruelty and neglect.
Mrs Jefferies said that in the family home the children were never fed proper meals and their needs were never met – leading to regular hospital visits.
She said: “We didn’t have beds and were often unfed – my little FILM star Sienna Miller beams as she admits she has finally found the right balance between work and fame.
The actress – whose early career was overshadowed by her relationship with actor Jude Law – has told how it was initially “a battle” to be seen as anything more than his girlfriend.
Sienna, 37, met Jude on the set of the 2003 film Alfie.
The couple got engaged the following year but split in 2006 after Jude’s affair with his children’s nanny.
In an interview with Elle UK magazine, Sienna said: “I fell brother was just left in a cot.” She also claims she was hurled down the stairs by her birth father and although the school reported it to social services “they did nothing”.
She added: “You do not make a rape victim go and see their rapist every week – why would you make children see their abusers? That’s what my adoptive mother said.
“I witnessed the murder of one of my siblings and had to give a witness statement to the police against my birth parents.
“I was scared of my birth father – I did not know what to do.
“I felt paralysed by the system.” It was only after her birth parents were jailed for several years that she and her siblings were no longer required to see them. They were found new families to live with.
Mrs Jefferies, managing director of the National Association of Therapeutic Parents within the in love with someone very famous and that became the story – it was bad timing.
“I had an amazing time, but it would have been nice if that hadn’t happened before I was known for something else.
“It was a battle to be seen as something else.”
The mum-of-one, who has starred in films such as Factory Girl and American Sniper, also admitted there are “always good and bad elements to fame”.
“It would be ridiculous to say it’s not beneficial,” she Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma, said her “trauma was so entrenched” she was too terrified to speak out until she was 21.
She was also told her birth mother went on to have more children.
She added: “It saddens me to have to speak out as in my job, every day I still hear from other adopters or foster parents who are forced to keep taking children to mentally abusive contact.”
The Daily Express launched its End This Injustice crusade to help bring reform to the Family Court by urging MPs to support MP Louise Haigh’s Parental Rights (Rapists) and Family Courts Bill.
It aims to remove the rights of fathers of conceived through rape.
It also wants an inquiry into the handling by family courts of domestic abuse against women and girls in child arrangement cases. parental children said. “It was extremely fun and exciting and I’ve had experiences I couldn’t dream of.
“But the experience that I had with it? It’s not worth it for me. It was way too intense.”
Sienna’s next project is the film American Woman, in which she plays a single, workingclass mother who has to put her life back together after her daughter goes missing. ● The November issue of Elle UK will be out on Thursday.