{"id":1306,"date":"2010-09-13T16:42:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2010-09-14T16:44:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T16:44:14","slug":"father%e2%80%99s-appeal-against-daughter%e2%80%99s-adoption-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/father%e2%80%99s-appeal-against-daughter%e2%80%99s-adoption-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Father\u2019s appeal against daughter\u2019s adoption fails"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By MATTHEW REVILLE<\/a>
\nPublished on Mon Sep 13 09:01:54 BST 2010<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A MAN has failed in his appeal against Peterborough City Council\u2019s decision to put his daughter up for adoption.<\/p>\n

The Civil Appeal Court in London ruled that the council\u2019s adoption order was valid despite objections by the child\u2019s father.<\/p>\n

The man, who is in his 20s but cannot be named, has a history of violence against the girl\u2019s mother and his daughter was placed in foster care immediately after her birth due to social workers\u2019 concerns about both her parents.<\/p>\n

Peterborough County Court upheld the council\u2019s adoption plan for his daughter in May.<\/p>\n

At the appeal court hearing, Lord Justice Wilson accepted there were flaws in the county court ruling but rejected the father\u2019s appeal as standing no real prospect of success.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThere was so little to be put into the scales on the father\u2019s side and so much to be put into the scales on the side of adoption, that the exercise hardly needed to be spelt out at length.\u201d<\/p>\n

The court heard that the man had pinned the mother against a wall in a fit of anger when she was heavily pregnant.<\/p>\n

The judge added that \u201cgrave concerns\u201d had developed among social workers about his parenting skills despite his \u201cpersonable appearance\u201d.<\/p>\n

He was also convicted of other common assaults in 2007 and 2008 and was said to be \u201cdisarmingly honest\u201d about his limitations even openly admitting that he is a \u201cviolent man\u201d.<\/p>\n

But his lawyers argued that he has no history of harming his child and was adamant that he loved his daughter and would never do anything to harm her.<\/p>\n

They claimed the ruling violated his and his daughter\u2019s rights to respect for their family life under Article Eight of the European Convention on Human Rights.<\/p>\n

Since the adoption plan was first upheld in May, the man has attempted to prove himself capable of raising his daughter when seeing her during regular contact sessions.<\/p>\n

The council\u2019s cabinet member for children\u2019s services, Councillor Sheila Scott said she is adamant that any decision the council makes is always in the best interest of the child.<\/p>\n

Cllr Scott said: \u201cMy department will always act in the best interests of the child.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is clearly the number one priority to us.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe council is responsible for making these difficult decisions, but we do not act independently.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe courts are involved as well and the decisions are not made entirely on our own.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is also extremely important to say that we do not take decisions lightly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: http:\/\/www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk By MATTHEW REVILLE Published on Mon Sep 13 09:01:54 BST 2010 A MAN has failed in his appeal against Peterborough City Council\u2019s decision to put his daughter up for adoption. The Civil Appeal Court in London ruled that the council\u2019s adoption order was valid despite objections by the child\u2019s father. The man, who… Weiter »<\/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\/1306"}],"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=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}