Every year, tens of thousands of children in Germany are taken into state care by youth welfare offices.
According to the Federal Statistical Office, there are more of them than in any other country in the world.
In 2014, around 48,000 children were taken into care, in 2019 it was already 50,000 children and in
2023 the number had already risen to 80,000 children.
This means that on an annual average, around 220 children are separated from their families every day
as a result of being taken into care by the state.
In around 90% of cases, a lack of parenting skills is given as the reason for taking the child into care.
Youth welfare offices are the decisive authority in this regard and are allowed to arrange temporary
placements if there is an acute risk to the child's welfare.
However, this is at the discretion of the respective youth welfare office.
There is evidence and files that testify to the fact that many adoptions were carried out unlawfully and that
very often false expert opinions, such as an allegedly too close mother-child bond, were drawn up.
The German lawyer Rainer Bohm complained that in 2015, for example, over 35,000 children were torn
from their families by the youth welfare offices.
In "only" 12,223 cases was there a suspicion of mistreatment or abuse.
According to his statement, around 23,000 children, more than half of the children, were removed from their families solely due
to relationship problems, illness, depression of one parent, difficulties at school, excessive demands
after the parents' divorce or rivalries between siblings.
These are circumstances that could occur temporarily in any family.
Basically, no family is immune to losing their child through unlawful custody.
In over 90% of cases, the judges follow the recommendations of the experts.
It is not uncommon for these reports to be overly biased and lack professional neutrality.
This means that often only one parent has the favor of custody, often the one who has the longer leverage.
The other parent, on the other hand, is left without a chance, usually discredited and without further support.
But the expert opinions are just the beginning of a big business.
A German institution receives up to €5,000 per month from the Youth Welfare Office for one child.
For taking in a foster child, families receive a monthly care allowance of €700 to €900 depending on the age of the child.
However, if the facility sends the child to a foster family in neighboring Poland, for example, only 600 euros per
month must be paid for the child's placement in this family.
What happens to the rest of the money is often not checked.
Taxpayers pay €4.9 billion a year for these measures.
The process of removing children from their parents is often delayed for years and very often treated as an irrevocable case.
These figures, data and facts already provide an insight into a cartel-like system - but the following two examples illustrate
what this means for the families and children affected.
These are just a few examples of the many other cases that Kla.TV has received in recent years.
Example 1: A 2-year-old girl was awarded to her biological father on the basis of false expert opinions.
The mother was only allowed to talk to her daughter on the phone.
The child cried a lot during the phone call and talked about "bad men" and "ouch".
She got an umbilical hernia and had cocooned herself.
After some time with her father, the girl stopped talking.
The mother feared that the child had become involved in pedophile circles.
She tried to free her daughter, which ended with the mother being framed for the attempted murder of the child's father.
Since then she has been in prison for 1 1/2 years without any contact with her daughter.
Example 2: A married couple with 4 children had their newborn baby given away to a foster family while they
were still in hospital on the flimsy grounds of lacking parenting skills and without their knowledge.
The parents are only allowed to see their son for one hour every two weeks, under strict supervision.
The mother is not even allowed to hold her child in her arms, let alone breastfeed it.
The hardest thing for the mother is that she is not allowed to show any feelings during the short visits, she just
has to be strong when the foster mother presents herself as a mommy to her child and acts as if she owns it.
The trial of this case has now been delayed for almost a year without any prospect of the
biological parents getting their child back.
Have you also been affected by unlawful detention or do you know families who have suffered such injustice?
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According to international reports, this injustice extends far beyond Germany's borders.
This applies not only to taking children into care, but also to child trafficking.
These cases should also be recorded and made visible.
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