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Chronology of a Scandal, Part 1

08 Thursday Jan 2015

Posted by commonpurse in Eyewitness Account, Kuhnigk, Pingen Family, Serrano Family, Stark Family, Wetjen Family

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Forum for Freedom of Religion in Europe

Police Raids in Nördlingen and Wörnitz – 41 Children Hauled off, Search Warrant was “Faxed in Later”

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Klosterzimmern: 5 September 2013

FOREF—”On September 5th, 2013, in the early dawn, around 30 police emergency vehicles pulled into Klosterzimmern, the property of the “Twelve Tribes” in Nördlingen, Bavaria. Since on that day the community was keeping a holiday1, the morning gathering, which usually would be at 6 o’clock, took place later and most community members were still sleeping. A 23-year-old brother in faith who was milking the cows shortly after 6 o’clock, was the first one to see the massive presence of police. He asked the officers what was going on and asked for a search warrant. Rather than showing it to him, they threatened to arrest him if he “continued to resist.” The police surrounded the entire property only to storm the celebration hall where they were suspecting the morning gathering. Instead they found an empty hall.”

A most threatening and blood-curdling effect

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Yakol & Chemdah Gonzales Rodriguez Serrano, Ye-eseyah Wetjen, Ma’aminah Pingen.

“Shortly after, the inhabitants of every house on the property were woken from their sleep. The officers ordered the completely perplexed community members to gather in one of the living rooms. According to their own words the more than 100 officers equipped with battledress, truncheons, and pistols had a most threatening and blood-curdling effect on parents and children alike.”

Johanna and friend mourning

Police and Jugendamt at Klosterzimmern. Miriam Stark and her sister.

No evidence found

“Since the members of the “Twelve Tribes” had insisted on seeing a search warrant, this was faxed in at 8 o’clock. After the children had been led away, the police was searching for evidence on site in order to subsequently justify the order to seize the children by the Jugendamt.

“Yet to no avail. The doctors who medically examined the children that same day, did not find any evidence of acts of abuse.”

Background to the Raid

The background of the large-scale operation: On August 16th, 2013, Sabine Rieder, the “sect commissioner” of Sekten-Info NRW2 along with the RTL reporter Wolfram Kuhnigk got the District Court of Nördlingen involved in order to take action against the “Twelve Tribes.” Shortly before, a local head of a Jugendamt also was initiated into the operation.

camera-pressureRTL Reporter Wolfram Kuhnigk with Jugendamt leader Herr Kanth.3

(Screenshot of RTL report of September 9, 2013.)

“As early as two weeks later, on September 1st, the District Court decided to have the children of the religious community in Klosterzimmern and in Wörnitz taken by means of a police raid and put into state care.”

Authorities rely on anonymous reports!

sabine riede - sekteninfo nrw Sabine Riede – Protestant „Sect Expert“ and FECRIS Member.

“Even though there was no evidence proving sustainable physical or psychological damage in the children of the religious community, interim custody was collectively transferred from the parents to the Jugendamt. After all, the authorities preferred to rely on an anonymous report of a supposed ex-member that Kuhnigk(!) mailed in August 2013 and which was published on the website of Sekten-Info NRW, rather than on careful sociological studies about the religious community of the “Twelve Tribes”.

 

 

 

  1. Yom Teruah, the Day of Shouting or Day of Trumpets (September 4, 2013) ↩
  2. Sekten-Info NRW is a member organization of FECRIS, see also the comprehensive expert study about FECRIS. ↩
  3. To Kuknigk’s left is Sabine Riede of Sekten-Info Nordrhein-Westfalen, one of many state-funded anti-cult groups! ↩

Personal Papers

31 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by commonpurse in From the parents, Schott Family, Serrano Family, Tlapak Family (Noah)

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The Tlapak, Schott, Rodriguez Families

Noah-MoedahDownload this paper, “An Open Letter to the Judge at the Family Court of Ansbach.” It is in German with illustrations.

It is translated at the post, “A Young Family in Court.”

SerranoFamilyDownload this paper in German: “Family Gonzales-Rodriguez Serrano. . . were visiting Germany.”

A portion of this is available in English at “The Sad Fate of a Spanish Family in Germany.”

SchottFamilyDownload this paper in German: “An Open Letter from the Schott Family to the Family Court Judge in Nördlingen.” Translations (hopefully) to soon follow.

The sad fate of a Spanish family in Germany

28 Thursday Aug 2014

Posted by commonpurse in Court Decisions, From the parents, Serrano Family

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Abuse in Foster Care, Child Rearing, Food for Thought, forcibly taken, Justice, Plea to go home

The family of González Serrano Rodriguez
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I‘m Hispanic and my wife is American. We do not live in Germany; our home is Spain. I have a senior position in a Spanish company that operates in the field of solar technology. My company has a contract with the German company of the Community of Twelve Tribes. I had worked for three months in Germany and lived during this time in the Community in Wörnitz [a community of Twelve Tribes]. Because my wife was expecting a child during this time, we signed up to there to get a birth certificate.

Shortly before our return to Spain I was the victim of government crackdown on the Twelve Tribes communities, and my three children were taken away from my wife and I and put into state custody!

Our children were 5 and 3 years old at the time. They are American citizens. They are not Germans and they spoke only Spanish and English. Now they are staying with a German family and are being incorporated forcibly into German society. In the meantime, I can hardly talk to my children — because they only speak German.

During one of our visits, our three-year-old son said at the outset that he would now come home with us. In the course of an hour he repeated this again and again. He began to cry. I took him on my lap, comforted him, and told him how happy we would be take him home…but that we still had to wait. He did not understand that. When our visiting time was over, he still sat on my lap and refused to go along with the foster mother. The two women who supervised us came now and tried to end the crying, and with all their might pulled the child out of our arms. My son Yakol would not let go of my arm and screamed all the way to the car. The pain was almost unbearable for both of us.

We are charged by the Jugendamt (youth welfare office) with abuse of our children and with breaking their will. My children have never experienced abuse until they came into the care of the Jugendamt and were separated against their will from their parents. The Jugendamt breaks the will of the children. They are guilty of what they charge us of.

We are still waiting for the court to return to us the custody of our children. At each visit, our children ask again the question: “What did the judge say?” One big disappointment for our now six-year-old daughter was to hear that the little Argentine child, who was also taken in the raid, had been returned to his parents and allowed to go back home.

Why him and not me?” she asked.

“He is not a German,” I told my daughter.

“And I’m not German,” she replied.

“Yes, that is true indeed!” was all I could say.

The Jugendamt is planning to send our daughter to the new school year in a German public school where until the fifth grade no English is taught. We were told that is due to the fact that our children are housed in an exclusively German-speaking foster family and so to lose their native language is totally irrelevant. It was “only for a short time“…

Six months ago we submitted a complaint and requested that our children be assigned to an English-speaking teacher. To date, nothing has been done in this direction.

We have been through several court hearings and a ton of paperwork with the German Jugendamt, but without any success. Our children are now almost a year kept separate from us! To this day we do not understand what has put us under this heavy load.

There is no evidence against me and my wife that we had done something wrong with our children. The medical examination on the day of the raid showed that my children were healthy and without any signs of abuse.* We have always loved our children and cared for them.

We hope that we can teach our children the language and culture of their parents, their grandparents, and all their other relatives. We have considered that we were in Germany as guests and have been very shocked at how unjust and cruel the German state is with us.

We do not know how we can get out of this terrible nightmare in which we find ourselves. We want to return to our homeland, where we have our permanent residence and where we can live in peace with our children.

Read more about the Serrano family.

*Read “My Fellow Citizens” for more about this and a link to the September 6, 2013 newspaper article stating it (in German).

Read more about the Jugendamt.

 

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