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The Strasbourg Human Rights Court has rejected the case because it has not reviewed the Norwegian legal system.
– The parents did not further appeal the district court ruling. It is a requirement for the human rights court to continue investigating these cases, says Marius Emberland of Government Advocates.
He believes that the family cannot advance in the Norwegian legal system.
– From what I can see, all appeal deadlines expired several years ago, says Emberland.
The case of the Norwegian-Romanian Pentecostal family of Naustdal in Sunnfjord who lost their five children received enormous attention four years ago.
In more than 20 countries, there were large protests against the evacuation of children, several places with thousands of participants.
The child welfare service blamed the parents for the choice of guardian and the five children were urgently placed in different foster homes. After a quarter of an hour, the parents were also accused of choosing a father.
Crushing criticism of child welfare
At the same time that the child welfare service believes that children should be permanently removed from their parents, a full expert report has been submitted that includes criticism of the child welfare service in particular.
It was pointed out that foster care would represent a “significant deterioration” in the provision of child care. In addition, it was noted that parents were “humble and willing to learn who put the children’s needs before their own” and that, in general, they had good caregiving skills.
The report’s conclusion was clear: “After a general assessment, experts believe that the children’s care needs in the foreseeable future will be better met if everyone returns to the parental home.”
The then Naustdal Municipality (which is now part of Sunnfjord) tried to have the report declared invalid. But the municipality did not succeed and, after a few months, the five children were able to return to their parents.
He agreed to slap the children
The parents agreed that they had slapped the children as part of the parenting, but the experts thought that the parents had a different attitude and that there was no danger of it happening again. “Neither parent believes in the appropriateness of the physical demarcation,” the report said.
The case took a dramatic new turn when the trial reached the Sogn og Fjordane District Court four years ago.
The parents did not show up and instead took the five children with them and moved to Romania. The parents justified the move by saying that they did not trust the Norwegian child welfare service or the Norwegian judiciary. They believed that people would improve in Romania.
In a letter to the municipality, the parents wrote that the local child welfare service was “unprofessional, empathetic and inhumane.” The local child welfare service has always rejected criticism.
One of those who became strongly involved in the case was the specialist psychologist Einar Salvesen, who described the management of the child welfare service as “a tragedy and abuse of children.”
