Kudos to EU Delegation Leader MEP Angelika Werthmann for Taking Court Licensed Abuse Seriously---Possibly 800 Cases in Denmark---and Ministers Avoid Questioning! cphpost.dk/news/eu/investigating-child-custody-claims-eu-delegation-ignored-government “We have cases of abused children being sent back, by the courts, to the parent that has abused them,” she said. “There is something wrong here.” Werthmann said she had hoped to show Bødskov documentation from specific cases showing the Danish courts had ruled incorrectly. “This is an international case,” she said. “The petitioners come from EU member states, the US, Australia, Russia and other places around the world.” Among Werthmann’s other concerns was the government’s lack of urgency when it came to child abuse cases. “We are talking about children, and no matter how many people try to tell me that there is nothing wrong here, that children often just ‘make things up’ I believe that there are serious problems,” she said. The committee is currently investigating seven Danish child custody cases – brought by both Danish and foreign parents. But Werthmann said that based on results of a four-hour meeting with some of the petitioners, she believed number of cases the committee will be called on to investigate will grow considerably. “At least 50. Maybe 150. The number 800 has been mentioned,” she said. Angulo praised the women and said that he was “proud” that they had the courage to come forward with their stories of the abuse of both themselves and their children at the hands of their former husbands and partners. When Werthmann advised them to keep up the pressure and keep their stories in front of the media, one frightened mother said that the risks of going public were just too high. “I was in the media a few years ago and it nearly cost me my child,” she said. The woman claimed that she was stalked by members of the fathers’ support group, Foreningen Far, who tried to get her fired from her job, declared mentally unstable and, she said, turned her medical records over to the media because they revealed that she had been under psychiatric care. “They are a bunch of violent men that support other violent men,” she said.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:15:03 +0000
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