tv [untitled] November 27, 2012 9:30am-10:00am EST
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you didn't really think that when they bore me here the policeman asked me many times does your mom abuse you my said no she didn't. you know i've recently been to stonier and brought in town a present i always bring him some presents candies sweets for miss tonia. the russian citizen of this brief packing ritual means the weekend has begun. it's also a time for celebration she's going to see her son. at weekends they make me an appointment in their on saturday or in sun and are now with the subject so i take the strain. over all it takes me one day to get there and meet
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with anton and return. nothing is that you need under supervision and spent three hours together there are supervisors and an interpreter present at the meeting or on their behalf so they can write of course last there that it takes two hours by train to reach poultry on the west coast of finland from temporary in the south even this link fee journey there was enough to tell the entire story of three people at all those with two countries in the mid ninety's i remember. from finland they were in a relationship for some time before getting married they lived together for ten years then they divorced. after about nine months after palmer and i got divorced and tun was born on october the second two thousand and three with poverty israelis went on tun was a month and a half old cover is saved paternity status. and then nine months later he became
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his legal guardian. and i called him to the court judgement i'm told was to stay with his mother during the week and spend weekends with his father some time later for my husband's attention began to trouble river so she decided to take a break from and go to russia. and they left. when we arrived i called and told him that we were in russia that we wanted to take a little break for a couple of weeks and then we were going to come back he seemed ok about it but that very day i received a call from the finnish police quest me on what grounds i left for russia they said that the child's guardian reported to the police that he suspected me of kidnap of the devices as she. even though he was just nine years old. is all too familiar with having cameras pointed at him and he never fails to
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live up to mass media expectations this time to his finnish citizenship in public tearing the passport of his birth country into pieces. this is for my mother this is for my father and this is for me. unfortunately children. change which. my daughter and i lived in finland for two years i worked she started then i met my future husband and children. was born all the time we lived in a house of our own and dreamed that it would be studying english. class. did join an english language class as a good school where staff paid close attention to their students and then one of his classmates shared the story with the teacher he said mother sometimes disciplined. with more than just words of wisdom for the nationals i was
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summoned to school to pick up my son's homework and while i was in school they came to our house to remove him from our home in other words they made me leave on purpose once i realized something was wrong i rushed back to see a car driving on. only to rob it was sent down in front of a police officer and started on soaring questions and i invited you here so we can talk some of what is your name robert run tyler we go now i would like to ask you several questions about your life at home and your mother well sometimes we have arguments with my mum but on the whole everything is ok let's agree that you will tell only the truth i only tell the truth. there when they brought me there the policeman asked me many times does your mom abuse you should
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be you up my said no she doesn't. hear you. after the interview robert was taken in by an orphanage mostly welcome to the intensive treatment care unit this is the place where children are living actually we have seven children here and this is our kitchen and this is the place where we gather every day to have meals break first lunch the nurse. sometimes school together. bake some things together and this is the place where we mostly see it when we are all together here and here we have our living room actually as you can see it slow them playing here a little bit. this center is aimed at dealing with problem children it looks like a regular boarding school at first sight but on closer inspection there are some key differences like magnetic locks on the doors to which only stuff keys our
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children they can go out with the burmese and also adults here of course because we have children sometimes they need guidance that's why. we always talk with the children when they go home. the methods used in finland to protect children from their own parents a complex and often contradictory they became even more severe after the adoption of a new law in two thousand and eight giving unprecedented power to social workers an anonymous call a report by school teaches or a complaint from neighbors any one of these is enough to bring social services to someone's doorstep the social for it is in the frame of they have a right to come to your home any moment if they think that they have any kind of suspicion about the wellbeing of the of your children but they have
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a right to come to your home any moment you have to live the mean if you don't let them in they really do that you are on corporate. and being on a corporative is also a reason to take the children to children's home social rights activists and bachmann is well known in finland for his controversial views he's an outspoken critic of juvenile justice and calls finland's child protection system fascist and believes that shifting the functions of state to private companies is a flawed process. we have an industry that is. concentrated on the counter for trade with children so they the social workers and their close relatives or friends or whatever they establish private children's homes and we have in finland according to the official statistics we have approximately six hundred private private children's homes which are private companies and they are allowed to. earn for every
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children that is taken by the authorities to the children's private children's home even several hundreds of yours per day. backman is an active participant in practically every child case associated with the removal of children from russian mothers in autumn twenty twelve he did everything he could to help honest as he is a good man. yes september two thousand and twelve the finnish social authorities decided to take four children from a loss to see a. woman living very close to thank you. first they took three children from her when she was pregnant and when she gave birth to the fourth children the new born child was taking police to children's home where the child was five days of. the russian woman's confusing explanation very general
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picture to be formed. the alleged reason for the harsh measures was that her eldest daughter claims to have been beaten by her sudanese father on sunday for their fishel version was that the girl's father allegedly spanked her on the bottom of the full view which picked up on enough to just know. they confused two different situations decided resupplied at first it was me who addressed the social protection service complaining about the school school native children from another class that had been our child said the girl suffered a concussion but they decided to shift the responsibility saying that it has happened. to us. anastacio decided against reaching an agreement with the finnish authorities and appealed instead to media and. the case became an international scandal even though there are around fifteen thousand such cases recorded in finland every year the last stop you met me
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being the last stop get very leave and then not get married right yet i give you russian parents have declared boycotts the fifty finished goods for fifty kidnapped russian children they began. i women's group called russian mothers organize a rally outside the finnish embassy in moscow to support. they plan to boycott finished products and the campaign begins with the symbolic destruction of a nokia cell phone all of them which. we couldn't have imagined that the situation with the children taken away from the us to see would develop this way she hasn't been proven guilty in any respect and. sympathy i arrived on march two thousand and eight young and turn was kidnapped on april twelfth two thousand and nine and we got up early in the morning it was
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a holiday it was sunday we usually went to church on sundays the weather was wonderful but then the door opened and pelvis suddenly jumped ten grabbed the child and pulled him out to the car. wash. what happened next to anton reads like the plot from a second rate spy thriller he was put into a car and taken first and petersburg where he was kept at the finish concealed for some time then the boy was put into the trunk of a diplomatic and taken to federal and the diplomat who helped cover was declared persona non grata by russia following the incident but anton's father insists that the kidnapping was the only way to save his son. the diplomats help to me and i am very grateful to them for that and i don't but he simply had no choice and i was very much afraid of losing my son and i once again thank the staff of the consulate i tried to act according to the law but to no avail. but mr.
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anything tim's mission to teach me. this is why you should care only. i do think we got the right of course these are parents who give children love to take care of them give them education years but despite this it is provided by the law that the government has to support families. every week river
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meets with russian women living in helsinki region during a short seminar shakes plains the basic principles of local child protection systems that fellow works for a nonprofit organization that helps families who've moved to finland from russia. the following story happened to me whilst i was called in to school where there was a mother and a child and the mother said if you don't take her away today i will kill her i have this mother was russian she came from moscow it was clear that she was not in the right mental state but the in the morning we came to social services and the girl was taken and then we learned that her mother was suffering from psychosis and had been admitted to hospital in such critical cases a social worker i cannot ignore what's going on i was obliged to do what i had.
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that same evening ella visits yet another troubled family she's been working with them for the past two years. hello. is your mother at home. hello sergei i know the facts which we keep working with your family. and there are glad to see you again today after a while how are you actually live ok next month actually how are things at school i'm much good tell me about the school what subject still like most mathematics i think. leon of smoove to fill in for mr o'neill in
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two thousand and eight but it wasn't always easy fights broke out and there were problems with the eldest daughter who ran away from home the family was on the verge of falling apart and that was when they chose to turn to social services for help. so that things got out of control my wife and i did not know what to do we decided to ask the child protection services or systems and we received help immediately so the social services here are in no way coercive they help both children and parents. you know the. same with them and for a child to be taken from a family something really serious and extraordinary must happen that if a family decides to become a client to social services we assign a social worker to it to alter legal powers he needs to the family needs to discuss what support they need if this doesn't work then
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a child may be taken in. rubbish rental or believes that social services decided to take him. in his family far too quickly he spent two months in an orphanage and all the time parents tried to prove that they happened to be used their son but finnish social services rarely change their minds. that. he was more than the shot you know most guys when my child was taken away from someone. says my instincts told me that i had to save him so there was no fear. yes i knew that i would fight for him fight until the very end. in the meantime social services began to look for robots future guardians. they even let the adoptive parents take
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a look at me they wanted me to become their first child but i told them. never be your child i have my own mom and. in finland foster parents raise a child only for a limited time at the very most until they come of age and there are unable to conceal information about their wards biological parents local authorities reimburse substitute parents expenses associated with caring for a child. from the very beginning that she was not our daughter some time started living with us the mother began to visit all the time that has been living here she's been aware of the fact that biological parents talk school at different ages she has reacted to a different left course as we get to make us. better and her husband became yasmin's foster parents when she was just eighteen months old now the girl is
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finishing school. not my bit and i keep in touch with my biological mother i have her contact details but i got used to this family and it had become close. and do you write to me about my biological family that has. a new policy as another prominent social activist fighting the finnish child protection system my son was bullied at school. saw this it was some of the what's right my son is bullied so sima it on the last month or the social workers. it was about four months from this announcement that the social workers came to my home door and took my children away it was not that this isn't of course. she says her child was given to her ex-husband who i knew had divorced because of his alcoholism and violent behavior and despite this he still managed to become his
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son's legal guardian. and my son. started to come to me to look for food. his clothes were moving. on. and i had to wash them and he told me that father is beating him. and he wrote many official request over several years she spoke to the press and even stood in local elections but the nightmare ended as unexpectedly as it had begun just social workers that they just gave my children away back to me and just one night yes yes yes my lawyer it is called me. now you can have your children back when i have been system has decided something there is nothing. then the banks it's not a mistake for them it's just how they want. the
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commotion anastasia's i've got i've never stood up in the russian media helped cause the authorities decided to return her children after they'd spent a month at the help center just today if this story hadn't received so much publicity the children could have spent the time before the court hearing at an orphanage or in an adoptive family that might have been six or in ten months that was the prospect we were facing he will block the guy. however social workers promised to paste. special attention to the russian sudanese family. they still have some concerns but since we have been arguing a lot with the staff working at the center and they don't know how to work with us they decided to let us go home and sing at their hope that it will be more open and it will be easier for the social workers to get on with us.
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but ellis does he have failed to live up to the social workers expectations once her family was released from the center she began to prepare to leave for russia but local social services opened a new investigation and just as your story is far from over. in two thousand and nine remus element was brave enough to return to finland knowing she was wanted there for kidnapping her son endless trials explanations and meetings with parvo followed and rimmer endured the process she now travels every week by train to the city of poetry on the west coast of finland where it takes ten minutes to walk to the orphanage. nobody when we have arrived in port at the local orphanage where my son and i meet under supervision every week or we meet in a room inside this building. the supervisor has the keys he writes me in and closes the door that's why the cameras cannot coming from. visits last three hours and so
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on can barely remember the russian language so rimmer has to speak to him with the help of an interpreter it gets the three r.'s passed by like five minutes i've just come and have to go away already. it's my son always waits for me and the meetings are always very very warm i would say. it's emotional for the both of us. we meet as if we've seen each other for the first time. and part as if it were. our last is. rima takes the last train home to temper she has no regrets about returning to finland even though she can only see her son for three hours a week in the presence of other people she wouldn't have even this chance if she had remained in russia. the child does not belong to us parents but rather to the
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state and the state thinks it can remove him and raise him the way deems appropriate. it's possible little experience could have been very similar to. if the boy hadn't decided to run away from the orphanage. doesn't she just they said they would let me go in four days but they didn't when the lessons were over there i ran home around his fosters i could tell my. son i called social services myself and told them not to worry as the boy was at home and we're not giving him back he was very excited and i asked to give us the chance to spend time together but they replied that if i didn't bring him myself they would come to our homes for. social services eventually made
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a concession and offer the rental as ten meetings with social workers but the family only went to two because i had heard rumors that a criminal case might be brought against her she and her son moved in with relatives in st petersburg and after a while robert's father joined them. but just as well of course it was hard to make the decision to move to another country but in our case it was an assessor. they persecuted us in finland and they were not likely to give up on us so two years ago we had no other alternative like us i took this decision to be together with my family my son and my wife. know the rundle as live in a small one room apartment on the outskirts of some petersburg but that doesn't matter to him she says her family is happy now because they are at last together. they watched us closely because we were we only ones who dared to rebel and fight
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for our child we were with they were interested in us not because they wanted to see if we did anything wrong or not. it was because we were just nobodies who didn't want to conform to the system the system that is well established and for a long time has been functioning without paying. plug michigan free to critique should be free transport charges free to make minced free tickets free studio tide free.
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