THREE FORCED ADOPTION articles in the National Portuguese Newspaper Publico

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Brussel, Brussels, Court of Justice of the European Union, European Commission, European Parliament, Government, Pedro, Petitions Committee, Portugal

Ana Dias Cordeira is the journalist who wrote the most diligent and detailed articles about the Pedros at the time. Now she studied the underlying issue more deeply and wrote an article that reads a bit funny in the Google translation: Cases of children removed from families in the UK grew up with incentives to adopt.

Among the thousands of families who say they have unfairly lost the kids, in recent years, a few dozen arrived in Brussels. The European Parliament asked for an investigation to the European Commission.

The case of Pedros’ family, whose five children were removed in 2013 in Grantham, and the Portuguese mother in May this year was without the baby of five months in Southend-on-sea, are the most visible side of a situation which affects other Portuguese families living in the United Kingdom – will be at least five – and, in recent years tens of thousands of mainly British and foreign families.

The frequency and severity of cases is not now, but this year prompted a petition to the European Parliament with more than 3,600 signatures involving families who claim to be victims of unjust processes, completed, in some cases, with the irreversible adoption of children without their consent.

THE PEDRO CHILDREN are going back to Portugal – thanks to Consulate and Embassy!

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After Slovakia, Portuguese officials managed to stop a forced adoption and return the children to their home country!

The two youngest children will not be adopted and all of them will go back under the supervision of Portuguese authorities!

Carla was woken up with the good news by the phone call of TVI – one of the TV channels in Portugal: José Cesário –  Secretary of State of Portuguese Communities Abroad had asked the Embassy to make sure that the children come back asap.

These are the first articles publicising the excellent news:

• in Publico
• in Noticias ao Minuto
• and in English: “Stolen-in-UK” children coming back to Portugal.

Latvia must be next!

That’s also what Against Child Trafficking are saying in the international context.

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• WHAT HAPPENS to Children in England? Article in Portuguese Correio da Manha
• MP John Hemming and Coventry MPs alert parliament

WHAT HAPPENS to Children in England? Article in Portuguese Correio da Manha

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Child Abuse, Correio da Manha, Early day motion, England, European Parliament, John Hemming, Leah McGrath Goodman, Member of Parliament

WHAT HAPPENS to Children in England? is an extensive article in a national newspaper about the Pedro family published on 07 April 2014.

It is based on interviewing veteran advisor Ian Josephs who has been helping families since 1961 and is publishing Forced Adoption.

It also quotes John Hemming, the only MP who advances the cause in Parliament. As Chairman of Justice for Families, he has over 2,000 cases on file.

In Parliament, he has tabled a number of Early Day Motions (EDMs) to gather support from other MPs. He has also tabled the Families and Justice Bill which did not pass Parliamentary procedures to get Royal Assent. Here are his EDMs in this Parliamentary period:

Regarding the Pedros’ issues of forced adoption of foreign nationals:

• Petitions to the European Parliament
• International Concerns about UK Law
• Care proceedings affecting Foreign Nationals

Wider issues regarding the secrecy of family courts: 

PERSECUTED for petitioning against Forced Adoption in Brussels

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Brussels, European Parliament, Family court, Lincolnshire, Pedros, Police, Search Warrant, United States

The Americans say “any publicity is ok, just spell my name right.” This does not apply to the UK and certainly not to victims of secret family courts. The Pedros were the first to be persecuted for having travelled to Brussels on 19 March 2014. They were arrested on 21 March for 12 hours and the Search Warrant said that Police ought to look for evidence of the ‘Forced Adoption group’. The arrest resulted in:

• Police confiscating telephones, computers and travel documents
• Police indicating that it was Lincolnshire Social Services who had made the application for the Search Warrant – suspecting that the Pedros were conspiring to abduct their own children – a charge yet to be seen formulated on paper
• for the Police refused Carla copies of the transcript
• and the Court refused a copy of the application for the Search Warrant.

No wonder that ‘experts’ of the legal system confirm that ‘disclosure’ continues to be the most sensitive of all issues. An alternative to ‘disclosure’ is ‘exposure’:

• thanks to BBC LOOK NORTH who said that 35 of 37 adoptions in Lincolnshire were forced, i.e. dispensing with the consent of the parents; see on this Facebook page for now.

However, since then,

• Emyr Wyn Jones was punished by Carmarthenshire Council for having travelled abroad;
• Terence Steele had his article completely mis-represented in his local paper in Sutton;
• Bhupesh Patel is being punished by his son not being named according to his religious tradition but ‘the SS way’ – completely contrary to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and EU Convention on Human Rights.

Hence

• John Hemming MP’s Early Day Motion Petitions to the European Parliament [do get your MP to sign it!]
• and our press release UK VIOLATIONS of EU LAW and CHILD RIGHTS.

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• DEAR SIR JAMES: please return our children and make forced adoptions reversible!
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• FAMILY from Almeirim loses five children in England – published in Portugal – just before Brussels
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• DEAR SIR JAMES: please return our children and make forced adoptions reversible!
• WHAT NEXT after our Pilgrimage to Brussels? Individual Petitions and Collective Cries for Help to the EU Commission!
• FW: This ranks with that by Martin Luther King! – Norman Scarth
• Abolish Adoptions without Parental Consent – before EU Petitions Committee in Brussels

 

“CAN WE GO BACK HOME, please?” – the voice of the Pedro children in The Portugal News Online

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Brussel, European Parliament, John Hemming MP, Member of the European Parliament, Pedro, Portugal, Television, What Next?

This is a well rounded article covering institutional dilemmas of responsibility and accountability between national, international and local representatives in The Portugal News Online.

Meanwhile, children are screaming to be heard, parents are punished without crime and ultimately even taking their lives, if not also of their children, in some cases…

John Hemming MP has now agreed with the Pedros’ local MP Nick Boles that he’ll lead the action. We couldn’t get better news!

Meanwhile I have put these summaries together for parents and supporters to take action:

• Dear MEP, if you want to be re-elected, will you commit to our ‘pro child’ agenda?
• Dear Sir James, please return our children and make adoptions reversible!
• What Next? After our pilgrimage to Brussels.

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PORTUGUESE IMMIGRANTS caught up in UK ‘adoption scandal’ – in an English paper in Portugal

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Brussels, Canada, English language, European Parliament, Immigration, John Hemming, Member of Parliament, Portugal

An article for English speaking residents in Portugal!

HOW DO WE CRIMINALISE parents after we take their children? Let’s start with a Search Warrant!

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Adoption, Belinda, Duty solicitor, European Parliament, Grantham, Netherlands, Petition Committee, Police officer

These are the 10 pages with which the Pedros were released from their police cell, after 12 hours of shivering: Carla with 2 cups of tea, Jose with nothing. Belinda described their ordeal in her latest Battle News.

I had to redact pages 1 and 3, as they contain the names of their children and two other people, one of whom the Pedros don’t even know. The other one is the mother of a child who once fled back to her country of origin to save her child. But, foolishly, she came back, and lost it to Social Services.

So it appears as if somebody suspects that the Pedros also want to ‘take their children and run’ and asked for the help of the Police to stop that from happening – no matter how much hardship that creates, e.g. by Jose not having been able to go to work on Friday.

The 10 pages document a little what has happened:

• a Police Officer made an application to get a ‘search warrant’ (page 5)
• note the reference to ‘Forced Adoption group’
• on 21 May they have to present themselves to the Police again (bottom of pages 1 and 3); until then they are on ‘bail’.

PORTUGUESE immigrants caught up in UK adoption scandal

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Brussels, Children, European Parliament, Family court, Foster care, Lincolnshire, OFSTED, Pedro

This is a very good article about the Pedro’s situation and fight to get their children returned by Lincolnshire County Council.

Here’s my latest summary of What Next after our Pilgrimage to Brussels? for all other parents concerned.

And below is the 6-minute video where I speak on behalf of the

• 1,000 children taken by Social Services every month
• 100,000 children currently in foster ‘care’
• 50 children dying a year, whilst in ‘care’
• 10,000 children running away from care and / or go missing
• 200 parents imprisoned a year in the privacy and secrecy of the family courts.

These are official statistics provided by OFSTED and the Minister of Children and Education Edward Timpson MP.

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• UN-BELIEVABLE FACTS about UK CHILD ‘PROTECTION’ to be heard in BRUSSELS
• ABOLISH ADOPTIONS without Parental Consent – to be presented in Brussels on 19 March
• THE PEDROS ARE FREE but… without mobile, laptop, ID cards, receipts of Brussels trip, even tablets of their children!
• PRESS RELEASE about the UK Delegation in Brussels to Abolish Adoptions without Parental Consent
• APPEAL HEARING on 06 December – with or without the prisoners?
• MEPs must investigate this child-snatching scandal
• PORTUGUESE COUPLE loses care of their children after 11 years in the UK – 3.33 mins of Portuguese TV in Brussels

 

THE PEDROS ARE FREE but… without mobile, laptop, ID cards, receipts of Brussels trip, even tablets of their children!

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Truth is stranger than fiction once again. The details are on Belinda’s latest Battle News.

In bullet language (corrected after we spoke with them in person and saw the papers):

• the Pedros were arrested by 4 Police Officers at 7am with a search warrant that is part of these 10 pages with which they were sent home;
• released after 12 hours – having been seen by a good duty solicitor who has even won against Social Services – but they’ll have to pay for him if they want to keep him;
• they have to go back to the Police on 21 May;
• their warrant mentions the Forced Adoption ‘group’.

Here are my six minutes addressing the topic:

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