Welcome to British hell! LV citizen Laila about forced adoptions in London 4.09.2015

• published: 28 Oct 2015
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Judge Munby thought for three and a half months and still decided not to give Laila a chance to contest the decisions of the previous courts. That left Laila and other parents shocked and with lots and lots of questions –especially after the way the judge conducted himself at the trial – as there were many witnesses in the room. They heard – in his speech he was straightforward to the limit, did not hide that he was shocked by scandalous breaches, that had been committed in respect of the mother and the child by social workers. Yes, employees of Merton social services breached the Vienna convention, made mistakes in documents; clerk accounts of the mother and child contact contradict video-evidences of Laila herself… Yes – on the videos of the rare contacts with Katya, pictured by the mother, we don’t see a “dull and downtrodden girl, suffering from the poor care”, as it is indicated in the reports, but an active and buoyant child, the girl is singing, dancing, communicating with joy. АijaOsmane Attorney-at-law And still this law deprives a child of everything: roots, language, and closeness with relatives – this is not considered important… The child had a head injury – all this happened – how is it possible then to say that in the best interests of the child it will be to hand her to the family we know nothing about how it will be there? Really, according to the court’s decision, one can see that the court pays attention to the fact that once in years there was such a situation, and it is written: “the Mother has not changed.” How did she have to change? How did she have to change? She works, she is a cultured woman, has worked both as an editor-in-chief in a magazine, now she works… works as an interpreter. How did she have to change? She is not considered to be either an alcoholic or a drug addict. How did she have to change? I don’t understand. According to the data of the Latvian ministry of justice, only during last year 20 children were removed from families of Latvian families living abroad. And this year already 15 have been removed. Moreover, during the last 5 years in 10 cases social services of other countries did not think it necessary to inform the Ministry of Justice of the removal of the little citizens, as the Vienna Convention requires. That means diplomatic relations were breached. As a result, consuls couldn’t hand the children over to their relatives in Latvia in time, and, in spite of the protests of the parents, our little citizens have been adopted abroad. In our Ministry of Justice, alas, they don’t know precisely how many such cases of forced adoption happened in Great Britain. However, parents from the group of support for Laila and Katya Brice have the first-hand knowledge of this. As soon as the first alarm bells ring, mothers from abroad now call them. Latvian parents have united so that with joint efforts – advice and action –we save our children who’ve got into trouble. Irina Bobkova Leader of the group of support for Laila and Katya Brice: - Taking into account the fact that tens of thousands of Latvian citizens have set off for the Misty Albion for material gains, it is from there that we get the most alarming signals. According to official British government accounts, only last year more than 70 thousand children were removed from families, it is almost a thousand more than the year before! Children are removed before any clarification – on most various excuses, 5 thousand children a year are adopted, and only 5 per cent return back to their family. Only last year 50 thousand children in Britain were handed to temporary foster parents. And besides, more than 80% of all these children are Europeans and more often immigrants. They have a big demand among foster families. Sue Reid, a Daily Mail journalist (Great Britain) has been busy investigating forced adoptions of Great Britain already almost for 20 years; she has to be careful to the limit, hitting the sore spot of the British system of secret family courts and those who successfully subsist owing to the system. There is only one solution – don’t keep silence, but tell people about your problem. Only in reality, according to the laws of Great Britain, for that action parents can be even sent to jail. It is customary to keep silence about your misfortune - in the interests of the child. It is possible to quietly cry in the pillow so that no one sees. Fighters for their children, who are too active, are quickly recognised to be inadequate and capable of only causing harm to the child. Idea and camera - Svetlana Ginter Translate in English - irina Maya Birdwood-Hedger Reading the text - Roman Testelec