Isabel Raad (27) demands compensation from the home municipality for lack of follow-up from the child welfare service. Randaberg municipality believes the case is obsolete.
“The reason why the plaintiffs decided to file a claim against the child welfare service was because in connection with Isabel’s book project they became aware of the extent to which the child welfare service had failed” it is stated in a final post sent from Isabel Raad’s lawyer to Sør-Rogaland District Court.
In April, it became known that influencer Isabel Raad is suing Randaberg for lack of follow-up from the child welfare service. The concluding remarks state that the Raad demands redress for this.
The case will be heard in Stavanger District Court on 18 and 19 October. The court documents state that it has been decided that the case will be divided, so that it will only be a question of limitation that will be dealt with during this main hearing.
The court will therefore not in this round decide whether the child welfare service failed during the upbringing of the Raad, and the final statement is limited only to the question of limitation.
VG has been in contact with the Council’s lawyer, Alexander Nyheim Jenssen, and the municipality’s lawyer, Carl Aasland Jerstad. They have no further comment on this matter.
The municipality believes that the case is obsolete, and that the Council had or should have acquired the necessary knowledge about both the damage and the person responsible long before the limitation period of 22 February 2018.
The municipality therefore states that Raad can not claim compensation, something Raad and her lawyer disagree with, according to the final post.
They point out that the Raad obtained child welfare documents in connection with its book project in the autumn of 2018.
“It was only after this that she and her sister became aware that the child welfare service had failed to such an extent that it provided a basis for promoting a claim for compensation.”
In the court documents, the sister of Raad is also listed as a plaintiff.
The influencer has previously talked a lot about growing up in Randaberg municipality.
In episode eight of her first season of “Isabel” on TV 2, she was open about her frustration with the home municipalities’ handling of her upbringing. It has also been a theme in her book “Shirog – the girl I once was” which came out in 2018.
In March, she posted several posts on Instastory which included:
“My sister and I have chosen to take a case further, and maybe there will be a trial this year. Taking up the fight for little Shirog (Isabel Raad’s previous first name, journ.anm.) Has always been important to me, but also some of the scariest I can think of. It’s scary to start digging into insanely deep wounds and memories that I’ve worked so hard all these years to displace. “
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