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Un număr în creștere de români a auzit de marea nedreptate făcută Herminei Gheorghe din Danemarca. Cu mulți ani în urmă, autoritățile i-au răpit copilul la doar câteva zile după naștere. Coșmarul Herminei încă continuă. Am devenit mai familiar cu cazul Herminei la începutul anului, când am citit mai aprofundat dosarul ei.
Pe 1 februarie am transmis o notă Ambasadei Danemarcii la Washington, DC, solicitând o explicație oficială din partea autorităților daneze. Corespondența mea a fost confidențială, informând autoritățile că in cazul unui răspuns favorabil nu voi mediatiza cazul Herminei. De atunci au trecut multe săptămâni, iar autoritățile daneze nu au răspuns.
În consecință, postez pe pagina mea de Facebook corespondența transmisă ambasadei și intenționez să revin cât de curând cu alte detalii. Vă îndemn să sprijiniți acest caz drept, iar la timpul potrivit să vă implicați concret pentru reunificarea familiei.
February 1, 2022
Embassy of Denmark to the United States
3200 Whitehaven Street, NW
Washington, DC 20008-3883
Via facsimile transmission (202-328-1470)
Via Regular US Mail
Via electronic delivery: wasamb@um.dk
Re.: Hermina Gheorghe / Grievous Violations of Human Rights
Your Excellencies:
My name is Peter Costea. I am civil rights attorney in Houston, Texas. I am writing regarding the tragic case of Hermina Gheorghe whose human rights have been violated by Denmark’s Child Protection Services (CPS) in a most blatant and inhumane manner. Her case has come to my attention late last year and I have agreed to take it up as an international humanitarian case.
I suspect your office is or soon will become aware of the serious dimensions of this case and the many violations of domestic and international law this case presents. In short, and by way of introduction, Hermina Gheorghe is a Romanian citizen who settled in Denmark many years ago. In April 2014 she gave birth to a child in Denmark. The child was taken away from her several weeks later under the pretense that the child did not make eye contact with the natural mother, Ms. Gheorghe. Shocking as this may seem to civilized people, this is a factual averment which carries much credibility. Based on my conversations with Mr. Gheorghe I have found her to be very credible. Also, the motivation put forth by the authorities has additionally been confirmed to me in conversations with Danish counsel.
Particularly shocking for me and many others was to find out that the separation of the child from Ms. Gheorghe was done without court order or warrant. It has been explained to me that under Denmark’s CPS system municipalities may separate children from their parents, but then it is the burden of the parents to prove to courts that they are fit parents and worthy of having their parental rights restored by the return of the children into their custody. This process is tedious, costly and takes many years. Ms. Gheorghe has been fighting the Danish system, alone or through counsel, either appointed by the state or retained, for years. The Danish system is stacked up against parents and is designed, I have been told, to turn children of immigrants into Danes.
This is accomplished through protracted litigation until the parents are mentally and financially drained and familial feelings between the children and their natural parents attenuate completely. This is a cruel way of depriving immigrant children of their ethnicity and of violating the parental rights of biological parents.
Denmark’s CPS has also hired experts to testify in court that Ms. Gheorghe is mentally incompetent to raise her child. This is not only ridiculous, but also risible. This protocol and pattern of turning immigrant children into Danes is so frequent in Denmark, I have been told, that it gives the impression that expert testimony for hire is deliberately sought to justify reprehensible and vicious violations of parental rights.
Ms. Gheorghe, however, turned out to be a fighter. She retained her own expert who opined that she is not mentally incompetent but entirely fit to raise her own child. Nevertheless, Danish courts accept, I have been told, the opinion of the experts paid by the state and reject independent expert opinions of independent experts. Needless to say, this clearly conveys that Denmark’s judiciary and justice system in general are not independent or impartial.
Recently, the foster parents have taken Ms. Gheorghe’s child out of Denmark and the European Union to Thailand. This was done without the prior notification or approval of the mother. I have been informed that the child traveled internationally on a Danish issued travel document. This is a violation of Danish law at multiple levels, and particularly because the child is not a Danish citizen. The child is a Romanian citizen.
Danish authorities have also violated the International Convention on the Rights of the Child. Among others, the child and the mother are not allowed to speak Romanian, but only in Danish when meeting for supervised visits. The long separation enforced on the child and the mother have deprived the child of the opportunity to know his ethnic roots and be raised to preserve his ethnicity.
I have also learned, with a profound sense of sadness, that in January the child was physically abused by his teacher at school. To my knowledge Denmark forbids corporal punishment of children. This is a criminal act which Danish authorities should immediately investigate and met punishment as appropriate.
My description of the facts and their legal implications will stop here. For now. My correspondence aims to (1) inform the Embassy of the tragic violations of human rights to which Ms. Gheorghe and her child have been subjected; (2) request an official explanation from the Danish authorities regarding this matter; and (3) invite the Embassy or relevant Danish authorities to engage in relevant and constructive discussions for the immediate return of the child to the mother.
Should no response to my correspondence be forthcoming within two (2) weeks of this correspondence, I will deem the lack of response a rejection of the plea I am making on Ms. Gheorghe’s behalf. I will also make this note public.
We love and respect the people of Denmark. However, we disagree and disapprove of the inhumane manner in which Denmark treats immigrants from countries which are members in the European Union by confiscating their children, erasing their natural ethnicity, and turning them into Danes.
Thank you for your courtesies.
Very truly yours,
Peter Costea
cc:
Embassy of Denmark in Romania
Str. Dr. Burghelea Nr.3
Sector 2, cod 024031
Bucuresti
Via electronic delivery: buhamb@um.dk
