Le Royaume-Uni a kidnappé leur fille

[Alison J Stevens]

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nternational United Kingdom controversial practice of forced adoptions system , justified by the protection of children. A British couple chose to flee rather than be deprived of his second child. Testimony.

Gary laid upon the table a scrapbook . Smiling Judi , 1 year and a half at the time, illuminates the cover. The pages are full of colored paper pictures taken at three months in the center where Gary and his wife Karen (1) were able to visit their daughter , somewhere in the east of England. Judi guard was withdrawn their four days after his birth, in 2011 , the British social services saying that Gary and Karen had a profile parents likely to suffer psychological abuse ( emotional abuse ) their daughter in the future . However, parental love sweating clichés. And a letter from a center manager , testifying at Karen and Gary " deep regret " following placement Judi ensures that they are " great parents " . "They have not given the court " , where the couple attempted to retrieve her child, Gary laments . This separation , Gary Justice " worse than death . After death, you can make your mourning. Here, we do not know where and with whom is our daughter ." Or if they never see , because Judi was adopted .

Karen and Gary are one of the thousands of couples whose children have been removed improperly by the British Social Services " preventive measures " and placed in foster care before being adopted. The press revealed early December , could go far this Kafkaesque obsession prevention. In 2012 , social services Essex received the right to remove her baby by caesarean forced an Italian with psychiatric disorders.

Refuge on the mainland

Jaimie , tonic toddler three months passes arms to those of Gary Karen . Two months before his birth , the couple fled the UK to avoid being withdrew his second child. They found refuge for three months at David and Laura , in a country of the European Union (2) . David , social worker, and Laura , a teacher , discovered the scandal in the media forced adoptions. After digging the subject, they came into contact with a person engaged in the defense of parents. " We asked what we could do , said Laura She told us : . Accommodate a couple who wants to flee. " Gary and Karen . "We just thought before saying yes , says David . We are not rich, but we have a big house . Conditions were that these people are financially independent , and they have no problem with alcohol or drugs. We welcomed because we believe that these forced violate human rights , "adds David adoptions. For welcoming and welcomed, this leap into the unknown is not without apprehension. "We were scared to death ," admits David . "Me too , Karen slips . But I am very grateful for allowing me to have Jaimie . "

The life of Karen , 33, has not been smooth sailing . After a modest background, she had three daughters - the first 16 years - and a boy of first union. When the couple separated , the father keeps children. Karen new life with a bar owner . While she was pregnant with him , her husband is imprisoned for having misbehaves with a minor . "Social services have told me that I had to leave and that I could keep the baby. But I believed in his innocence ," said Karen . She raises her daughter alone for a year and a half before the social services removed him , always under the hazy concept of "emotional abuse in the future ." Since the "last goodbye" , the two letters and a response adoptive parents, Karen has not taken further , " that writing to a child who does not know you anymore? "

After leaving his second violent husband, Karen gets her three daughters. " We lived in a one bedroom apartment . I called social services for help, they welcomed me . " Comes the meeting with Gary , twenty years older , divorced after twenty- five years of marriage and the father of an adult daughter . The couple moved into a bigger place . The two eldest Karen , however, accuse large academic and psychological problems. Social services decide to place the three little girls . "I explained that they had problems since they had lived with their father. Whether things would " indignant Karen was pregnant Judi . In vain.

Judi was born in 2011. Karen is still in the hospital when Gary gets a call social services on a Friday night . "I was summoned to court on Monday morning and I had to find a lawyer. I took a random Monday in the directory I found the court. She obviously did not have time to read the file . "

Judi is placed, but his parents get visitation several days a week in a center. At the same time , they began a lawsuit to recover . Gary held the string of humiliations . Whose schedules changed, visits after he found an arrangement with his employer. "If you do not go, you said you did not take notice of your child. They advised me to quit my job , then the court was told that my income was not enough . " Or: . . "Social services referred to our unstable Couples We have done everything to prove otherwise then in court they argued that our relationship was so strong that it left no room for a child before . I thought parents that their child was removed had done something that warrants it. Until that happens to us , " Gary breath .

Folder only dependent

Karen became pregnant with Jaimie . " In the seventh month , we received a visit from a social worker . She cooked on our relationship. She had come back, but it is we who have been called , recalls Gary . They told us they the withdraw . This is where we decided to leave. " Karen first, who gives birth prematurely in the host country , while Gary is busy selling everything they have in England to build a nest egg .

Gary and Karen exclude resettle in Britain . But they can stay where it is, at least one of the two must find a job. Quickly , otherwise they will be returned to the UK. Where Karen is missing. "I called the police to say that we were fine and that they could stop harassing my family," Gary plague . As they are not residents of their host country , the couple may be sued by the British social services. "They have taken children abroad, but Justice of these countries were forced to make " Laura tip .

Gary and Karen do not give up hope of recovering Judi . " Adoptions are irreversible , but if we can prove that social services have lied in court ... I do not know ," sighs Gary .