casting (seg). Being forcibly separated from their own children triggers an emotional trauma in most parents. But sometimes the youth welfare office has to make a decision if the child’s well-being is otherwise endangered. A father is now demanding compensation from the city of Gießen before the district court. 5,000 euros for himself and 10,000 euros each for each of his three children, for the injustice he suffered.
problems in the family
It seems undisputed that there were problems in the family. The youth welfare offices of the city and the district have been dealing with the family since 2018, said judge Johann-Gottfried Lessing. At the beginning of 2019, the mother then obtained anti-violence proceedings against the father, who then had to stay away from his family. But in May 2019, the woman with the children went to see the man. Problems arose, the children were apparently locked in, “the fire brigade had to open the door,” said Lessing. The next morning, employees of the youth welfare office came and separated the father from the family again. It turned out that the mother could not take care of the children for health reasons. Lessing said the issues were also about drugs.
The lawyer for the city of Giessen, Peter Michael Möller, then described the situation as follows: “The mother was acutely unable to take care of the children, and the father was not allowed to.” The employees of the youth welfare office decided that the Children have to go to a home.
The father’s lawyer, Ralf Dittmar, said: “It’s a horror scenario that the children were snatched from their father.” The children had to live in the home for 36 days before they were reunited with their father. What made things even more problematic: Neither the parents nor the children speak German, and the employees of the youth welfare office had not called in an interpreter, criticized Dittmar. As a result, parents have been left in the dark as to when they will see the children again. And the children in the home didn’t know when they could go back to their mother or father because of the language barrier.
In June 2019, the district court decided that the children were allowed to go back to their father. However, the youth welfare office initially “didn’t actually implement it and tried to create a legal basis for it,” said Lessing.
The judge said about the whole process: “It didn’t go well.” Above all, the “insufficient communication” due to the language barrier was a big problem.
The city’s attorney moved that the lawsuit be dismissed. In particular, he sees no culpable or negligent behavior on the part of the youth welfare office. The court did not reach a verdict on Wednesday and adjourned the hearing.
2023-07-20 01:28:20
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