PEDROS SUSPECT of abducting their children during contact sessions – after Police dropped charges!

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The blue boys’ room

The pink girls’ bedroom

Once again, you can’t make it up what Social Services invent and fantasise about, and what Police do on their behalf – or a private ‘private security firm’ next! The privatisation of the ‘child processing industry’ is clearly in full swing already. No wonder MPs can’t and don’t want to help…

On Wednesday last week, Social Worker Graham was unable to schedule contact sessions, as he had to find time in the diary of Social Worker Malcolm Rebello to come from Lincoln to Grantham – on the phone – without letting the Pedros speak to him. After all, their case was closed in Grantham!

Today, Malcolm Rebello was unable to schedule contact sessions, as he claims he needs to have meetings with the respective contact centre!

About the two youngest children, who according to the oldest son were moved away from their sister, he said:

1. they have been moved for fear of being ABDUCTED by the parents;
2. they are up for adoption again, because the Portuguese authorities have not stepped in, supposedly.

Logic of course doesn’t count. For the Pedros were accused of abducting THREE of their children, i.e. presumably NOT the two youngest who are up for adoption – plus somebody else’s!…

But the fact that they separate the siblings doesn’t concern them either – even though it’s against all guidelines.

They will receive the ‘conditions for contact’ in Portuguese next:

1. they will get a phone call 1 to 2 hours before the event;
2. they shall be searched before contact;
3. they are to hand over their mobile phones and their ID; 
4. they shall travel in the security vehicle of a ‘private security firm’;
5. their contact will be monitored and they have to sign the agreement. 

If they breach the agreement, contact will be terminated. 

In the eyes of Social Services she has committed a crime – – despite charges having been dropped!!!

• Human rights article 8, the right to family life?
• UN Child Rights?

How do you fight the WAR of getting the family re-united, when one battle after another is put between them and their children???

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EASTER SUNDAY in Grantham – after good news – before possible reunion in Portugal

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Brussel, Grantham, Lincolnshire, Melissa Laird, Pedro, Portugal, Portuguese language, Slovak

The attache of the Embassy told the Pedros to ask me to continue helping them with their legal battles. And that after we were ordered to pay £2,000 for helping Melissa Laird voluntarily.

He managed to agree a ‘deal’ with Lincolnshire Council so that UK Social Services hand over the children to Portuguese authorities.

After nearly a year since the snatch on 23 April, this is a great success, compared with the Slovak boys who were only returned after 920 days in UK care and the involvement of the Slovak Government. More recently JOJ TV produced a new programme, as they were surprised that a year after their precedence, things had not improved in the UK.

To plan our next activities, I visited the Pedros in Grantham and let them tell their stories in Portuguese first. For after the first clip of SIC TV in Brussels, we had put high hopes on the program that RPT1 came to produce. But who would have believed that they gave her mother so much air time who was one of the reasons for leaving Portugal 11 years ago? The interviewer Rita Ramash never explained who gave her what kind of a brief and did not respond to my email.

Now we know once more why blogging needs to counteract ‘official’ messages and spin by Governments. But, hopefully, not everybody in the whole Government needs this kind of cover-up!

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

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Adoption, Brussel, Carla, European Parliament, John Hemming, Latvia, Noticias, Público (Portugal), Portugal, Portuguese language, Slovakia, Televisão Independente

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

PORTUGUESE COUPLE loses care of their children after 11 years in the UK – 3.33 mins of Portuguese TV in Brussels

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British Consulate, Brussels, England, European Commission, European Union, Kingston, Kingston upon Thames, Latvian Laila Brice, List of diplomatic missions of the United Kingdom, Petition, Petitions Committee, Portuguese language, UK Embassy

“A Portuguese couple who have lived in England for 11 years accuses British Social Services of having taken unjustly their five children, of whom two are put up for adoption. The case resulted in a petition to the EU Parliament which joins two dozen complaints by families of various nationalities.”

You may not understand Portuguese, but in these 3.33 minutes you will see the room in which we met the Petitions Committee and members of the EU Commission to present our petitions. Subsequently we visited the UK Embassy and British Consulate:

• Latvian Laila Brice and her daughter regarding Merton Council who took her little girl 4 years ago
• Lithuanian Ale Ambrasaite whose daughter was taken by Kingston-upon-Thames because she had an alcohol problem; but contrary to their promise, once the problem was solved, the daughter was not returned.
• The collective problem of Forced Adoptions and the systemic nature of child snatching in the UK.
• The visit to the UK Embassy where the folder of evidence was not accepted. Instead, two attaches were sent to the British Consulate to close the consulate for our messengers who were sent there in vain. A diplomat arriving in a posh car was surprised to find his work place closed…