In Sweden, a Christian couple is going through a nightmare that captures the growing bias and targeting of religious families in Europe. Daniel and Bianca Samson have been fighting to regain custody of their daughters since 2022 after the government cited their regular church attendance and faith as warranting their removal.
The parents, with the help of the Alliance Defending Freedom International, were delivered another blow after the European Court of Human Rights refused to accept their appeal as “inadmissible.”
This saga began when their eldest daughter had a fight with her parents over being denied a smartphone and makeup. She contacted police and made a false report of abuse.
However, Sara, quickly retracted the allegation and police found no evidence of abuse. Nevertheless, the state took both girls — aged 10 and 11 at the time –and refused to allow them to return home.
The government alleged that they found evidence of “religious extremism” and, according to ADF, cited the family’s habit of attending church three times a week. It also cited strict religious upbringing in the home. In the United States, the findings would be glaring violations of the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. In Sweden, it is a viable basis for taking away your children.
So these girls want to go home and the parents want to restore their family. The Swedish government and courts refuse to allow it.
They are still separated after the parents successfully completed state-mandated parenting courses. They also were denied requests to move the girls into foster homes in Romania, where they live. The Swedish Supreme Court refused to hear the case last year, but the European Court of Human Rights said that they had failed “to exhaust legal remedies in Sweden.”
Now, according to the ADF International, the government is moving to place the girls up for adoption.
The children have moved from foster home to foster home, including allegedly one placement that resulted in one of the girl’s suffering physical and mental health issues. She ultimately tried to commit suicide, according to the family.
I have only found articles attesting to the removal on the grounds of the family’s religious faith and practices. The implications are chilling if true. This family appears to have done everything demanded of them as their daughters begged to return home.
It is a case worthy of inquiry by the Administration in defense of religious liberty.
1) Euro court rules parents must exhaust all remedies in Swedish Courts.
2) Swedish courts drag their heels and throw process at the parents
3) Children years later turn 18
4) Euro court dismisses case as moot
5) Parents discover swedish court under In Loco Parentis renounced Romanian citizenship of children 1 day before turning 18.
6) Romania denies entry to children.
7) Sweden then passes resolution supporting Muslim children and parents who pray five times per day. Passes law that Christian Children may only attend church once a week, justifies action against Romanian Family on this new law.
It would be nice if someone in the Trump administration were to embarrass the Swedes on this case.
The Swedish Supreme Court refused to hear the case last year, but the European Court of Human Rights said that they had failed “to exhaust legal remedies in Sweden.”
The parents inexplicably failed to appeal to the Svensk superduper högsta domstol som sitter över den vanliga högsta domstolen, du (the “Swedish super-duper supreme court that sits over the regular supreme court, yo”).
Our worid is becoming a sick place to live.
Still better than the alternative…many say we are due a population decrease and that would make the world a much better place for the survivors.
My goal is to make sure my family survives.
Sweden passed a law banning construction of new minarets, there are 4. A party in Sweden is pressing to deconstruct all mosques. Resident immigrants are being offered 37,000 dollars to leave. It’s a secular country.
The parents in this article have gone back to Romania. We’re they paid 37,000?
NEI
The US will face issues or turn a blind eye to Moslem practices. They are marrying minors, do have multiple wives, do maim and disfigure female babies, do beat their wives and other currently in the US. I expect the US to turn a blind eye being unable to separate behaviors from religions.
Toodles
Swedish constitution does have freedom of religion. Switzerland has banned minarets.
Scandinavia really dislikes immigrants it appears. Those are tiny cultures.
But your Honor shouldn’t we ask the children what they want before proceeding to judgment? No, absolutely not, the children are way too young to make the correct selection. But your Honor didn’t your son have transformation therapy and surgery? How old was he anyway, I heard he just turned 9. Whimsical as in freakish, is the mind set of American and Western Leftists who are over-educated and little learned, who “….endeavor to invade the property of the subject, and to make themselves, or any part of the community, master or arbitrary disposers of the lives, liberties, or fortunes of the people”, [John Locke ‘The Second Treatise on Civil Government” #221}
To define the Swedish officials I turned to, The Law.com Dictionary:
Scurrilous: The making or spreading of defamatory statements about another person, typically of a scandalous, vulgar and denigrating nature, with the intention of damaging the victim’s reputation. Slanderous of defamatory statements that are intended to be malicious in nature.
he wrote in he the sand and asked “where are thine accusers?”