It Cannot Happen in a Democratic Country

-But it Happens in Norway

 

One evening in April, a distress call appeared on facebook pages of international news channels:

Help! A mother denied departure from Norway, to grant the social services acsess to her unborn baby.

The message that put many in motion to find solutions, came from Dayane Bisbo de França, who managed to find a place of safety after she tried to leave the country, but was prevented by Norwegian authorities. As adviced by her embassy, the Brazilian mother, managed to travel safely to Italy by train and boat. The reason that the pregnant woman was alarmed and feared for her unborn child, was her earlier experiences with persecution by Norwegian authorities.

When she first came to Norway in 2011,  6.months pregnant, she could never have imagined the quicksand of despair and excruciating pain she was going to be exposed to, first caught in a web of serious abuse of power when the child she was carrying, was born. Dayane and her mother had bought tickets to return to Brazil, to their home and family.

Without a warning, the social services came, and took the baby from the arms of her mother, as they left her crying on the sidewalk. The terror did not stop there. The deeply traumatized, first-time mother witnessed the child protection staff grinning at her and her child's pain, when forcefully parting them.

As a part of a process most victims of this system, describe, she was forced to undergo a so called evaluation by an expert from social services, who was involved in producing evidence and perjury in favor of social services and their agenda for keeping the child, against the mother. The Brazilian woman, who suffered from postpartum depression, was not offered any kind of assistance -as the National Child Welfare Act and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child stresses, before her child was taken from the family.

Therefore, what the family experienced, was in fact an illegal abduction of their child.

The mother's lack of Norwegian knowledge was also used against her.
She had no legal protection and was unable to prevent her beloved daughter becoming unconstitutionally set out to strangers, in a state,-funded, Norwegian home, prevented contact with the child's mother tongue, religion, family and culture.

With the first child illegally placed in Norwegian foster care, Dayane settled in Sweden together with her non-Norwegian partner, and decided to start a family. They were happy together in Sweden when their son, Matteus, was born. All was well with the little family ...... until they took the fateful decision of  travelling to Norway with the little boy, to visit his sister who was still  in Norwegian foster care, with no family ties to Norway.
Child Welfare Services (Barnevernet) in Norway learned that Dayane was in the country, and took her newborn, without prior notice, or any evidence of suspicion indicating conditions that could justify such serious interference in a family's life and health. So the employees of the social services made themselves guilty of one more unlawful abduction. Both of Dayane's children are now denied contact with their family, their culture, their language and their religion, in violation of national child protection laws, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, the UN Declaration of Human Rights and hence the Norwegian constitution.

As that isn't enough, forceful removal of children from a group, such as a cultural, linguistic or religious group to another, is by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, defined as cultural cleansing; genocide. We expect that such a scandal of indescribable brutality that Dayane's children and her family have unfortunately been exposed to the Norwegian authorities, would make headlines in the media, and that the authorities would immediately take action to bring back the children and prosecute those responsible.

Does this happen?
Many victims have tried to contact the media after subjected to authority terror in Norway,  to discover that Norway lacks independent media, and that the perpetrators are portrayed as helpers in need of more funds to "help" others. The victims are stigmatized by the media and consequently isolated. When the man in the street occasionally hear a story like Dayane's, he assumes that this is an isolated case of system failure.

The truth is unfortunately far more gloomy.

Thousands of children are abducted from their families in a similar manner as in Dayane's case. A huge number of families have been involuntarily forced into an absurd and nightmare-like reality, as participants in a horror movie, but in real-life. It all started, maintained and stubbornly defended by the government, at all levels of politics. The brutal, if not inhuman, practice, and systematic terror, supported by staff of the county appead boads, judges, victim's own, state-appointed lawyers, and the politicians, former and present.

Many countries in the UN Human Rights Council came with heavy criticism of Norway's child protection policy under the country's hearing in April this year (2014). Nevertheless, it was stubbornly defended by Norway's representative Brende.

The state crimes cost tax payers millions in court costs and foster care expenses, not to mention compensation cases that will come. This policy that pr. definition can be described as torture, has made Norway a stain in an international context. Many countries have published critical stories and documentaries about lawlessness, brutality, lies and production of evidence and falsification of documents in Norwegian child welfare policy; recently a Lithuanian television documentary on May 14th this year (2014) pointed out the arbitrariness of removal of children from their homes and families in Norway, as well as the lack of legal protection for the victims. It has been held many demonstrations nationally and abroad. Embassies have decleared criticism. Nevertheless Norway chooses uncompromisingly to defend the terror attacks by statements about  "the best interests of children."

One family experienced  child welfare staff and 16 armed police officers rushing into their peaceful home, taking their children by force, children who desperately tried to hide in the closets in agony, to separate, secret addresses.
A mother was held against the wall by two policemen, after she had nursed her child, and the child was taken to a secret address. An other mother who is a politically active opponent, experienced being brutally mugged by several policemen, while child welfare staff grabbed  her baby. Again the child was located at a secret address. A number of witnesses have experienced staff at the so-called child protection agency, laughing at the pain of their children, and police handcuffing children to take them from their parents. These stories are unfortunately not exceptional cases. Many peoplebelieve that just disadvantaged, poor people are being hunted by the social services. The truth is that many of the victims are utterly resouceful people, not always even in a life-crisis. For some, it has been enough to desagree with public employees, or in one way or another having shown strength by having their own opinions or making non-traditional choices. Some are deprived of their children when they turn to child welfare for assistance.

 

It is also normal to assume that there must be some basis for the welfare of employees and people working in the police, to allow them to do something so drastic as to deprive the children their parents. The grotesque truth is that "evidence" is produced by the child welfare authorities and their partners, "proof" that is used in the court  to place children who have been removed from their families by force, "legally" into the foster-care system. Conditions in favor of the families, are consequently coverlooked by both child welfare staff, and by the county appeal board, by judges, and in many cases even by the victims' own lawyers.

 

Polish Helena shows in her YouTube video a document that she was asked by child welfare staff to sign, to attend a Norwegian course, while she in fact signed her daughter over to the Norwegian State. A family shows a report from one of the so-called child welfare experts, who recommend re-locating the family's children into separate foster homes, and if the family did not agree to this voluntarily, it would result in curtailment of visitation time with the children. Visitation amount would be six times per year if the family voluntarily gave up their children, less if they wanted to fight for the children's rights. Another family has a document from a representative of the county appeal board, which allows the child being unlawfully removed from the family by force, to keep the family in the country, violating their human rights.  The list of perversions goen on.
A Swedish family is now risking getting their children put up for adoption in Norway after the family's stay in the country. Swedish child welfare has conducted a survey of the family with no notes, nevertheless, Norwegian child welfare advocate adopting the Swedish children to  Norwegian families, denying them contact with their language, culture, nationality and self. And most importantly: family love. This family, like so many others, have to live with the knowledge of their children having suffered irreparably, subjected to lifelong damage. And the children have to live with the fact that the same has been done to their parents.

How long will the Norwegian citizens keep agreeing to their reputation in the world being tainted for many, many decades to come, if not longer? Next time it could be your family experiencing the same as Dayane. All it takes is for you to be misinterpreted by a neighbor, disliked by a colleague, complain about a principal, or disagree with a nurse or state employee.

You may be thinking: Such cannot happen in a democratic country.

No, it cannot happen in a democratic country.

But it happens in Norway.