Geschrieben von: E-K, Wien Dienstag, den 10. Mai 2016 um 10:33 Uhr
1st International Symposium Child Abductions in Europe - a critical analysis Destruction of the Family by Child Abduction Child Abductions as Destabilisation Human Rights and Responsibility
Saturday, 28 May 2016 Grand Hotel Vienna, Kärntner Ring 9, 1010 Vienna/Austria/Europe
Mrs Beate Kelly is a grandmother whose grandchild was allegedly abducted by the youth welfare office for no obvious reason. She fled from Germany to Malta some years ago and will attend the symposium in order to speak about her experience (please see the text excerpt of her letter to the UN below). Please accept this as an open invitation to invite any other persons or bodies you feel may assist us in our worthy cause. „ … Whatever reason for Jugendamt is acting like a government organisation but it is not since thereis no supervising authority and German government does not feel responsible and keeps ignoring the situation. Since criticism did not stop a very strange development started in which social workersin collaboration with family judges and prosecutors abduct children of families without any kind of. Court decrees are issued with missing signatures of the judges, in many cases even man ipulated and children are deported by assistance of German police officers in Swat-style raids. Mothers, fathers, grandparents and/or other relatives who have care and custody of a child are a ccused to suffer from mental illness and declared to be unable to bring up a child. These decrees arebased on statements of persons in charge of the Jugendamt and expen sive psychologist’s opinions the victims are forced into, threatened by the persons in charge of Jugendamt and Family courts i they do not accept a psychologist’s opinion they would never see the child again. In result the vi ctims have no chance than to accept a psychologist’s opinion which in all cases ends up in accusing the victims of not being able to bring up their child and leading to child abduction. Furthermore pe rsons in charge of Jugendamt and family judges are issuing diagnosis on the mental health of mothers, fathers or everyone who is holding care and custody of a child. (Evidence can be provided). In the year 2014 we are talking about a number of more than 48.000 children abducted and for theyear 2015 Germany has most probably reached the number of over 50.000. This means over 100 children are being separated from their families day by day. Since these abductions have been going on for many years we must face a number of a couple of 100.000 children involved. So far there is 2/2 no proof that one child’s life has been saved by the methods Jugendamt is using. Still every second day a child comes to death in Germany due to mistreatment. Jugendamt tries to make the victims believe, they are a single case. Nearly 50.000 abductions in 2015 prove the opposite. Trying to get their children back home, the victims have no chance but to go through court sittings and in most cases spend a lot of money for lawyers and psychologist’s opinions. This does in many cases result into the financial collapse of families. The children are placed either in foster families or foster homes, in many cases hundreds of kilometres from their families or even abroad. Brothers and sisters are often separated. In some cases family members are allowed to visit the child once a week , often less, for the duration of maybe one or two hours but have to travel hundreds of kilometres for the meeting. These meetings take place under observation and inmany cases are video recorded by the authorities whereas every court sitting inGermany is taking place behind closed doors and without an independent and transparent documentation. Furthermore there are cases where families do not even get informed where their child is placed. The case of Ge lsenkirchen which has been revealed in 2015 shows that child abduction has become a highly profitable business … „ (Extract of the letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki -moon by Beate Kelly) m„ … Approximately 12,000 children are in foster care in Austria. Children are removed forcibly from their parents in a process that reminds one of the horrors of the inquisition or the GESTAPO: Chil dren are picked up from their schools, their families and other locations by the police and/or social workers as soon as the Youth Welfare Services opine that "danger is present". Such assertions -including the forcible removal of children - frequently are "justified" by accusations of neglect, parents' inability to feed their children, so-called symbiotic relationships between parents and child, suspicions of sexual and/or psychological abuse or a parents' supposed proneness to suicide. Frequently, siblings are living in different foster homes. According to several reports, social workers from the Youth Welfare Services pressured young mothers to give up their newborns. A seri es of reports will be published in order to inform the public about child abductions by authorities … „
Yours sincerely, Sissi Kammerlander Co-founder and spokesperson VICTIMS MISSION Association for the Restoration and Preservation of Dignity of Survivors of Sexual Abuse Organization to support and encourage persons who have experienced violence in Austria non-denominational