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Baby Aria was taken from her parents just ... old without Barnevernet having prior knowledge of the family, without having seen their housing, and without having met the child's father. The case about Baby Aria, who was attempted put up for forced adoption shortly after she was abducted by employees of Barnevernet and police without court order, has faced international interest and support.
Aria is being held in state foster care despite the fact that the District Court has decided that Barnevernet made a mistake by taking Aria.
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The couple Erik and Natasha have been the subject of headlines at home and abroad, when they decided to leave a family institution in Norway, and move to Poland with their twins. These parents had already experienced to get their twins forcibly removed from the delivery room, only to have them returned. A new decision on forced removal of the babies was adopted, after the family had left Norway, and were no longer under Norwegian jurisdiction. Nevertheless, Europol was warned, and the couple was arbitrarily wanted by international police. The family has applied for political asylum in Poland to protect their children. A document showing that the date of the decision to take the twin girls into state custody, has been attempted counterfeited by Barnevernet employees, has been published on social media..
The forum Redd VÃ¥re Barn, Save Our Children also shows how national media portray the couple as criminals.
American Tyler was violently removed from his American mother, Amy, located at a secret address in a Norwegian foster home, and denied his human rights to contact with his American family, his country, language and culture. His name has been changed to a Norwegian name.
Photo: Stop Barnevernet.
Baby Liam was taken only one year old from his mother Stine, who shares openly about her past in state custody in Norway. Her past has been used as an automatic reason to deprive her of her child. Her blog provides detailed insight into a Barnevernet process and shows serious violations on national law and human rights, among others, violation of privacy, the right to self-regulation and self-determination, and attacks on reputation.
Baby Tyler
Baby Liam
Infants and toddlers abducted.
While the Norwegian authorities keep assuring us that forced removal of children only finds place as a final measure, when everything else is tried out, an alarming number of babies are forcibly removed from their families by the same authorities. This takes place without court order, and in many cases by massive force. Some of the children are subjected to forced adoptedion to foster parents, and lose consequently all contact with their parents, extended family, family history and family identity. In violation of Norwegian legislation and international conventions, Mari Trommald, Director of Children, Youth and Family Affairs, Norway, regards this as a positive development, and an infant bank (you read that right) is created for easier access to adopt foster children.
Some parents have bravely published their stories, in spite of threats and harassment from employees at Barnevernet, Norwegian CPS, police, county appeal board, their experts and judges.
Here are some of them.
Photos belong to sites from where the stories are published.
Special thanks to Knut.com for gathering testimonies on forceful child removal. Watch the video in memory of Knut Michael,
Baby Caspian
Baby Alves
Lopes
Brazilian Diana Alves Lopes was left crying in shock at the sidewalk when temployees of Barnevernet abducted her Brazilian baby, to be placed in a Norwegian foster home, without contact with the baby's Brazilian family, language, religion and culture. This story has aroused media attention in Brazil.
Baby Caspian is one of the victims of forced removal from his family. The story is shared in detail in English through the blog chrisreimersblog.com
Baby boy
When Barnevernet employees failed to force the young woman to undergo an abortion, she was forced against her will to reside in an institution until the child was born. The child was forcibly removed from his mother just one month old, and a permanent foster-home was ready within a month after the removal of the baby.
Baby boy
Five days after birth, this mother was forced into a institution for mothers by police and Barnevernet employees. One month later the baby was forcibly removed from his family, to become a part of the foster care system. The boy gets to meet his mother twice a year.
Baby boy
Baby girl
A baby boy was acutely, forcibly removed from his parents when they came home after a stay at a family institution.
A young, expecting mom was told by Barnevernet workers that her baby would be removed immediately after birth. The infant was abducted from her mother shortly after birth.
Baby Tobias
Baby girl
Twenty minutes after birth, little Tobias was abducted from his parents at the hospital.
"The pediatrician pointed out that we had to say firmly goodbye to him before she disappeared, we got to give him a kiss and she went off with long and quick steps out of there. That was the last we saw of our dear Tobias."
The pregnant woman got Barnevernet on un announced home visit when she had changed her midwife, and did not show up for an appointment with her former midwife, who had reported concern to Barnevernet . The mother was forced to stay at the maternity ward when the baby was born, then to be forced into a maternity institution. Just one month old, the baby was forced to be separated from his mother and placed with strangers.
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Baby girl
"He was born before 9 o'clock in the evening. They came for him the next day before noon. He was not twelve hours old before they came and tore him out of our hands, the father says."
Baby Maxine
Little Maxine from Slovakia, was taken from her parents only 10 weeks old, and while she was fully breast fed. Baby Maxine was placed in a Norwegian foster home, denied her human rights to her family, language, culture and country, when Barnevernet workers claimed there was insufficient eye contact between mother and daughter.
Baby Šárka
Baby Anna
The seriously ill baby Šárka who is half Czech, was placed in Norwegian foster care when the staff at the hospital where she was treated, notified Barnevernet after the father of baby Šárka complained of the lack of medical knowledge at the hospital. Again, alleged lack of eye contact between baby and parents was used as a complaint against the parents, by Barnevernet employees.
The less than one year old baby Anna was brutally kidnapped from her home and her family, as the mother of Anna was subjected to police brutality, while the rest of the family was forced helplessly to watch as Anna was abducted to a secret location.
Baby boy
"We were led into a room where caseworkers from Barnevernetset immediately began reading up an emergency decision AND that a lasting resolution about relocating our son into foster-care, would be finding place. Suddenly it dawned on me that I would not get my son back! I was in shock. I had several breakdowns."
"The woman bathes her seven-month-old daughter for the evening. The baby is gurgling happily in the tub, peace and tranquility reigns in the bathroom.
Abruptly she notices someone standing behind her. She turns and sees two uniformed policemen. She asks what it is, without getting any answers. They ask if she is alone and go round the apartment, opening doors and cabinet doors to see if there is someone else there. -We have to take her now, one policeman says, and bending down toward her and the baby. Does he really want to take the baby out of the bath water?"
Mum is subjected to police violence when her daughter is abducted by force by police and Barnevernet employees, who physically restricct her from calling her lawyer.
Translation from:
"The woman holds her baby tight.
Then the policemen take action. Pressing her against the stove, breaking her arms backwards so the baby falls. The woman from social services grabs the falling baby, and runs out with the caseworker.
With them the baby - wearing diapers, purple pajamas and purple socks. Outside there is a couple of degrees below zero.
The little girl is screaming. Nobody has asked mom what the baby needs; of food, sleep, cuddle and all other needs a seven-month-old baby has.
The women has had her shoulder dislocated and is in agony. She tells that the police put her on the floor and handcuffed her. She feels helpless there on the floor, and in despair she bites one of the policemen.
The policemen halfway carries her out to the uniformed police car. She faints three times just on the way out.
The police drives her to the emergency room. On the way she throws up."
Acute decision was made in light of concern from a psychologist specialist at Drammen District Psychiatric Center (DPC), who meant there was a risk that the mother would flee the country with her daughter. The risk was assesed by a psychologist out of a 20-minute phone conversation, where psychologist talked with the mother for the first time.
Shutup! Media reminds that this is a violation of Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and an attack on the rights of free movement, and Article 12 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.