{"id":1005,"date":"2010-05-15T16:08:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T16:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2010-09-03T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T16:11:07","slug":"britains-child-snatchers-are-a-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/britains-child-snatchers-are-a-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s child snatchers are a scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/columnists\/christopherbooker\/7728931\/Britains-child-snatchers-are-a-scandal.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s system of forced adoption requires the Government&#8217;s urgent attention, says Christopher Booker<\/p>\n<p>By Christopher Booker<br \/>\nPublished: 6:15PM BST 15 May 2010<br \/>\nComments 0 | Comment on this article<br \/>\nIs any human instinct more fundamental than the love of a mother for her  children? Last week I reported how Maureen Spalek from Liverpool had  been arrested and held in a cell for 24 hours for sending a birthday  card to her son, one of three children taken away from her by a family  court, despite its agreeing that she was &#8222;an excellent mother&#8220;.<!--more--><br \/>\nIn Runcorn magistrates&#8216; court on Wednesday Mrs Spalek was told she must  return for a pre-trial hearing, before her criminal charge of sending a  birthday card goes for trial at a Crown Court. Last month, Mrs Spalek  was one of 200 mothers who gathered in Stafford to set up a group known  as Child Snatching by the State. They were addressed by Ian Josephs, a  businessman based in Monaco, who has championed the cause of parents  whose children were unjustly removed by social workers ever since he was  a Tory county councillor in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Related Articles<br \/>\nAll our ministers are &#8218;Europe ministers&#8216; now<br \/>\nChris Huhne will ensure the coalition is soon out of power<br \/>\nAs Mr Josephs describes on his Forced Adoptions website, he has dealt  with hundreds of such harrowing cases (always being careful to check  that there was no evidence of physical or emotional harm to the  children). One is that of Sarah White, repeatedly arrested for  attempting to contact her &#8222;stolen children&#8220;, including an instance when  she was jailed for a month for waving to her son when she unexpectedly  saw him across the street. Two weeks ago, she was again held in custody  for five hours, after her brother posted a YouTube video describing her  plight.<br \/>\nJulie Cipriani is another mother arrested for waving to her child in the  street and forbidden from further contact after reading out in court  her daughter&#8217;s loving birthday card.<br \/>\nWhen another mother threatened with having her baby abducted recently  fled to Ireland, her family were repeatedly visited by police, demanding  to know her whereabouts. She is now receiving much more humane  treatment from Irish social services. (Britain is almost the only  country in Europe that permits forced adoptions against the wishes of  loving parents.)<br \/>\nIn the Commons last October, the Tory MP Tim Yeo described a case where  Suffolk social workers waited until the father was out of the house to  snatch an 11-week-old baby from the arms of its distraught mother, in  order to put the child out for adoption. Until recently social workers  were set &#8222;adoption targets&#8220; by the government, as part of a system where  it seems they, the courts and the police are too often conspiring to  abduct children from loving parents in the name of what amounts to  heartless &#8222;social engineering&#8220;. Few scandals call for more urgent  attention by our new Parliament than this.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk The UK&#8217;s system of forced adoption requires the Government&#8217;s urgent attention, says Christopher Booker By Christopher Booker Published: 6:15PM BST 15 May 2010 Comments 0 | Comment on this article Is any human instinct more fundamental than the love of a mother for her children? Last week I reported how Maureen Spalek from Liverpool&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/britains-child-snatchers-are-a-scandal\/\" title=\"Read Britain&#8217;s child snatchers are a scandal\">Weiter &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}