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Jönköping District Court.
Parents were afraid of covid-19. So they nailed the door shut and kept the children at home for four months.
On Friday, the administrative court approved the forced care of the three children.
– During the 16 years that I have been working, I have never been around anything like this, says the lawyer for minors Mikael Svegfors.
The Jönköping County Administrative Court writes in the judgment:
“The mental illness of both parents and the fear of covid-19 cause them to seriously lack care for their children and deny them their rights. When the board took over the children on July 9, the children had not been allowed to leave since March 2020 and the door was nailed. They had not been allowed to meet friends or go to school. They were also not allowed to be together in the apartment. “
The parents come from a country where society has been closed with blockades. They have been in contact with a family member who has influenced their opinion about the corona pandemic.
The mother and father do not believe they have isolated the children, two girls aged 15 and 17 and a boy aged 10. Parents claim that the children have been allowed to go out but have voluntarily chosen to stay home and study remotely.
This is contradicted by the children’s information that they were not even allowed to speak to each other except exceptionally for several months. They also say that they were allowed to stay in their rooms, where they ate themselves. The 17-year-old has also told social services that she does not want to go home until she is allowed to leave or go to school.
Social services already knew the family and several investigations have been carried out in recent years.
The administrative court rules that the children were also not allowed to go to the dentist.
On Friday, the court approved childcare by social services in accordance with the Youth Care Act, LVU.
Children’s lawyer Mikael Svegfors tells Aftonbladet:
– This is extremely unusual, in the 16 years that I have been, I have never been close to something like this. This is a culture shock. But I don’t think it’s incredible that there can be similar phenomena in the outer areas of Stockholm. You just can’t absorb the news – you may not have contact with society in a way that we otherwise think is normal, Svegfors says.
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