Swedish social services have come under fire for “kidnapping” children of Muslim families, forcing parents to protest the trend over several months and the Nordic Committee for Human Rights to criticize it.
“They are kidnapping Muslim children, that’s what I mean. They don’t accept that they have other ways to live,” said Siv Westerberg, an internationally recognized lawyer who won eight cases at the European Court of Human Rights against Swedish social services.
The country is proud of its social engineering established the Swedish Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act (LVU) in 1990, which gives authority to social service workers to forcibly remove children from their parents.
Without or even before they get the Swedish Administrative Court’s support, social agencies have the right to send their staff, assisted by the police, and take children from their homes or directly from school without their parents’ knowledge.
Children are taken far from home directly to a secret investigation home, foster home or a Home for Care and Custody (HVB).
The impunity enjoyed by Swedish social services has led to countless violations of the LVU, which gives legal grounds for forced child removal.
Lena Hellblom Sjogren, a well-known Swedish forensic psychologist who has investigated alleged sexual abuse and children’s suffering, said she believes that those judging in the social care cases lack reliable tools for the work that they are doing and that “their obligation according to the Swedish fundamental law to be impartial and to be a matter of fact-oriented is violated in every case.”
Author Erik Philipson, who chairs the group Barnets Basta (In the Child’s Best Interest), said the root cause for the failure is that social services workers in Sweden were not educated about scientific research methods “so that they can make an objective and impartial child investigation, and still they have the authority to be an expert authority on child matters and what is in a child’s best interests.”
Halima Marrie came to Sweden from the African country of Gambia with her husband Almamo Jarju and children, but after just a few months, her 6-year-old daughter was taken by social services.
Marrie claimed that from the very beginning, the school manipulated her daughter by telling her that “they will find a better home for her as we are likely to beat her.”
The young girl was moved to five different homes from when she was 6 to 7 years old due to “sexual abuse by the foster families,” said the girl’s father Almamo.
Almamo said he suspects that his daughter, now 15, “is still a victim of sexual abuse in her current foster home and the social services are not doing anything about it.”
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