Children and Youths´ rights to be heard, taken seriously and to be protected/ En tolvåring og trettenårings rett til å bli hørt og beskyttet

Withholding evidence and 0 visitations with the children

On April 27th , 2023, marked a year since the two children were taken from the neighboring municipality at their school with 2 police and 4 social service consulants,  to where the child welfare services in Løten are based. Here they were kept for 9 hours before they were driven with one stop 6 hours to Sunndal, Ragnvald Blakstads gate at Annes Hjem as, a fostering home without approved contract with BUFETAT: 

Despite a legally binding judgment requiring at least 6 visits per year, there have only been 3 visits in the past year. The father was granted 12 visits per year but in June and August, the children were placed in foster care with him and his girlfriend, against a compensation of an estimated 1.2 million kroner per year. 

The children have been denied a trusted person. In the future, they will be denied visits and phone calls with their mother and the chuild welfare wants to remove the mothers parten rights. The child welfare services in Løten propose 0 visits and 0 phone calls without any professional justification. The mother has been denied full access to all documents, and it is quite evident from the documents received why. The discharge summary from hospital stays reveals talks about narcotic substances, suicide attempts, self hurting and the girl's desire to return home to her mother. The boy has not received any psychological follow-up during the whole year despite there enorumous traumatic events in loosing his mum, loosing his sister and again being driven from the visit with his mother by the child walefare at 27th of January withou any reason.

The children are denied a trusted person and their own lawyer. They are also denied contact with grandparents, other relatives, and friends in their old town. People that know the mother have bee threatend on the street to stay away from the kids and not talk to them by the father and his girl friend.Their phones and communication are monitored, and they live under both financial and social-psychological control.

0 Contact with the kids

April 2024 has left me utterly devastated. The recent developments in the case are nothing short of heart-wrenching.

The fact that the father and child welfare services have once again filed a report against the mother, requesting an extension of the visitation ban, is absolutely outrageous.

It's approaching one year of being denied access to her own children.

Both children are over 12 years old, yet their voices are being silenced.What's happening is beyond comprehension.

The children are assigned a so-called "supportive" lawyer, Øyvind Borg, who has ties to the father's legal firm, Consensus, and hasn't even bothered to speak with them. He's merely following orders from the municipality's lawyer, Liv Randi Dobloug, claiming that the children refuse to speak up.

And now, one of the children suddenly changes their stance after a year, advocating for a visitation ban against their own mother.

The children are living in a nightmare, under the strict social control of their father and the head of the child welfare services, Jorunn Austeng. They're denied any contact with their family, friends, or relatives from their hometown. Their every communication is monitored, and they're stripped of the basic right to express themselves freely and have an opinion about their own lives.The mother is denied access to crucial documents, including foster care contracts and reports regarding the children's health and education. The grandparents are also denied visitation rights, forced to take their plea to the county board. The municipality's actions are nothing short of sabotage, denying the grandparents their rights and subsequently denying them visitation.Løten is pushing to strip the mother of her parental rights, demanding zero visitation and zero phone calls with her children.

The leader of Child protection service Jorun Austeng is not educated as Child protection consulant, she is educated as a teacher for kindergarden. She has used sosial control on kids since early 2000 after self growing up under such terms in Koppang.

This case is a blatant violation of the rights and legal protections of the children, the mother, and the grandparents. It's a travesty of justice that brings tears to my eyes. ❤️

Not allowed to speak to my kids or see them

Today marks two months since I was last allowed to see my children and speak with them. Child protective services and their father have denied me the opportunity to communicate with them via phone or otherwise since then. Just today, a message from Karola Spone, a supervisor hired by Dinoppvekst as owned by Ina Olsen Furusth and Stine Eid Wålberg, indicated that the child welfare services claim the children do not wish to speak.

Both the Constitution and international legal obligations impose legal limits on the formulation and application of child welfare law. It is particularly the human rights obligations that are central, such as the state's duty to ensure children's need for protection and care, the best interests of the child, and the right of children and parents to family life and privacy. Other human rights obligations, such as protection against arbitrary detention, freedom of movement, the prohibition against inhumane and degrading treatment, non-discrimination, and freedom of religion, can also be relevant in child welfare cases. Primarily, questions of human rights will arise concerning children and parents, but occasionally they may also concern others, such as siblings, foster parents, or grandparents."

The situation described touches upon several fundamental human rights as outlined in various international legal instruments, such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and general human rights principles recognized globally.

1. The Right to Family Life: Both the ECHR (Article 8) and the UNCRC (Article 9) emphasize the right to respect for private and family life. The UNCRC specifically states that a child shall not be separated from his or her parents against their will, except when competent authorities subject to judicial review determine that such separation is necessary for the best interests of the child.

2. The Best Interests of the Child: A fundamental consideration in all actions concerning children, as stipulated by Article 3 of the UNCRC, mandates that the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration in all actions concerning children.

3. Right to be Heard: According to Article 12 of the UNCRC, children who are capable of forming their own views have the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting them, with due weight given to those views in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.

4. Protection from Arbitrary Interference: The protection against arbitrary or unlawful interference with one's family, as guaranteed by Article 16 of the UNCRC and Article 8 of the ECHR, is also relevant.

In applying these principles, child welfare services and courts are required to carefully balance the need to protect children with the fundamental rights of children and parents to family unity, ensuring that any intervention is lawful, necessary, and proportionate to the aim of protecting children's welfare and rights.

Time with their mum is reduced even more

The latest development is that child welfare services want to remove the mother's parental rights. Additionally, they want to reduce the supervised visits the children have with their mother.

The court ruling specifies 6 supervised visits with the mother and 12 with the father per year.

The solution conducted by child welfare services is to place the children in foster care with the father, goving him an income of 5-600,000 kroner per year per child, while they now intend to pursue a case in the county board to further restrict the children's visits with their mother.

This is based on false reports from the latest supervised visit with the mother. They have brought in a company called 'Din oppvekst as', which then hired another company called 'Sammen om', to produce an untrue report based on inaccurate claims. The supervised visits are documented with both audio and visual evidence, making it easy to refute these falsehoods."

The childrens visutation with their mum canselled- again

In the judgment rendered on April 26, 2023, it was decided that the mother would have 6 visits per year with each of the children, while the father would have 12 visits per year with each of the children. Those familiar with the case know that the father is now a foster parent to his own children and receives financial compensation for this. It has been almost a year since the child welfare services took the children, and the mother has only had 3 visits with each of the children. The mother was granted an additional visit, but the child welfare services terminated it without providing any professional justification. The judgment also states that the mother should be allowed to call the children every 14 days. However, this has been prevented since the children were placed with the father in foster care. Initially, the father was present for all the calls, monitoring what the children said, and the child welfare services also participated in the calls. Subsequently, the conversations became shorter and shorter until it became an established truth from the father that the children do not wish to talk. It is very understandable that the children do not want to talk when they have to have conversations with their mother with their father present, often with their stepmother present as well as other siblings, and they have no privacy. Violations of human rights in this case so far include violations of the right to privacy. It violates the children's right to family life. It violates the children's right to express their opinions, participate, and have freedom of speech. It violates the children's right to have a trusted person and a lawyer. It violates the children's right to maintain the biological bonds with their mother and maternal family and their own friends in the city where they come from.

Still no justice for the kids

Summary so far: Mother has been subjected to 6 reports from Løten municipality and Løten municipality’s management. Children’s rights are still not in line with the European Convention on Human Rights. For nearly a year now, the children have been deprived of their mother, their family, their friends, and their own living situation in the city where they lived. The children refuse contact with their mother. They have had three visits in the past year. One of the visits, on January 27th, was interrupted without reason, where supervisors forcefully took the children by car without allowing the mother and grandmother to say goodbye. The mother is denied phone calls with her children. It is primarily the foster father, who is the children’s father, who tells the supervisors that the children do not want to speak to their mother. Otherwise, it is the child welfare services who say that the children do not want to speak to their mother. It seems quite clear, without discussion, that the children are manipulated. They are denied the freedom to have their own will, to have independent opinions, and to speak freely. They are denied a lawyer and an unbiased person to support and guide them in their situation. The mother is denied follow-up by child welfare. They have not answered the phone for almost half a year. There have been no meetings with the mother in the year the children have been in public care. The mother is denied conversations with the children and denied visits with the children. In this way, the biological bonds are broken again and again. The losers of the situation are the children, who face an enormous conflict of loyalty, worse than the family conflict that was there before child welfare intervened. There was a parental conflict between mother and father. This is a conflict that has escalated over the year, where child welfare intervenes and believes and asserts the father’s innocence in what has been alleged against him. While they demonize and write untruths at length about the mother. The children are given a portrayal of the mother as if she is not mentally stable, that she has mental challenges, and that she has different perceptions of the world and reality that are not the same. This is not correct. The actual facts are that the mother fought for her children. One child was bullied. The mother obtained rulings on this. The mother has a total of 14 rulings where she has been upheld against the municipality. These are matters that are set aside and not weighted by the municipality. Children’s rights should also apply in Norway. Please help my children.

Lack of Children's Rights and Unfair Practices in Child Welfare Cases

It has been almost a year since the children were taken by Løten municipality and placed first in an emergency home in Sunndalsøra, then in an emergency home at a hidden address in Asker for the girl, before finally being placed in foster care with their own father - first in June for the boy and then in August for the girl. The boy was separated from everybody for three weeks without a phone and anybody to talk to. The girl was separated 3 monhts and treathened with beeing placed in an institution. 

This process has been characterized by serious violations of rights, which are still maintained by Løten municipality:

• The children are denied a trusted person.
• The children are denied a lawyer.
• The children are denied personal contact with mother, family, friends, and other professionals.
• The children are denied contact with a psychologist and doctor.
• For almost a year, the child welfare service has not held a meeting with the mother, and they believe there is no reason to work towards reunification with the mother.
• There are currently six lawsuits initiated by the child welfare service in Løten in collaboration with the father.
• There are no approved contracts for foster homes in Sunndalsøra, Asker, or with the father/stepmother. The father/stepmother works for Løten municipality and Løten Eiendom AS.
• There are a total of 42 private actors making money in this child welfare case as a result of the children being placed in care by Løten municipality. There are no contracts with any of these private actors.
• Among these private actors are, for example: a. Din Oppvekst AS, where mother Inger E. Furuseth has worked both as a supervision person during visits and as a case manager with dual roles and personal gain. b. Sammen Om, which was hired as supervisors and interrupted visits on orders from child welfare leader Jorunn Austeng. This happened when the children were brutally taken away in a car by Camilla Bjørke and Karianne Lund Boge. Boge, the author of the book "The Girl in the Yellow Dress," should have an understanding of the background being withheld in this case. c. Familiehjelp AS, with foster home responsibility held by Geir Arne Sunde, who followed up on the children at Annes Hjem AS in Sunndalsøra. Bufetat has no contract with Annes Hjem AS. In Familiehjelp, there were also individuals who followed up on the child in an illegally placed hidden address at Kirsten Bulow Lilleng's. Among these were Kristine Nesgård, Thomas, Heidi Nergaard, and psychologist Sandra Ofstad. Furthermore, Anne Rustad Willhagen was responsible for Camp Fagernes, where the girl was exposed to drugs and medication during the summer of 2023. d. In Løten child welfare, it is Ingrid Myhr Solheim, now Solheim Consulting Services, who has been the caseworker under Jorunn Austeng. Mother's friend since 2017, Mette Dahlseng, who has been on vacation trips with the children and mother, was the one who decided on foster home placement in April and was involved in moving and medicating the child in the car from Sunndalsøra to Asker together with Jorunn Austeng. This is documented.
• The children have gotten 3 meetings and 1 hour witht their mum in a year. 
• All phonecalls between the kids are beeing cut off totally or reudeced to 5 minutes or their father saying "the kids do not want to talk to you.". 

Childrens rights to be heard in the year of 2024

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Un Rights: 

https://www.regjeringen.no/contentassets/ee6e51e5dd154da186dc86511e970f03/crc_poster-un0332751-engelsk.pdf 

Barnas rett til å bli hørt

Tusen takk for din støtte. Det betyr enormt mye. 

Det har nå gått 68 dager siden barna ble tatt. Barna har fortsatt ikke tillitsperson eller advokat som jenta har krevd hele veien og de er begge fratatt sine mobiler som straff siden de rømte fra fosterhjemmet i Sunddalsøra 24.5.23. De ble splittet rett etter dette.

Gutten er plassert hos far i fosterhjem, etter at han ble igjen alene i Sunndalsøra 3 uker, uten telefon og uten kontakt med søster eller andre. Mor har ikke fått samvær med noen av barna enda. 

De største lovbruddene i saken er måten barna blir behandlet, ikke hørt, respektert eller behandlet som jf.grunnloven 104 med respekt for sitt menneskeverd: 

Grunnloven: 

§Born har krav på respekt for menneskeverdet sitt. Dei har rett til å bli høyrde i spørsmål som gjeld dei sjølve, og det skal leggjast vekt på meininga deira i samsvar med alderen og utviklingssteget. Ved handlinger og avgjørder som vedkjem born, skal kva som er best for barnet, vere eit grunnleggjande omsyn. 

Born har rett til vern om den personlege integriteten sin. Dei statlege styresmaktene skal leggje til rette for utviklinga til barnet og mellom anna sjå til at det får den økonomiske, sosiale og helsemessige tryggleiken som det treng, helst i sin eigen familie. 

Lillian 

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