Protests in Europe, the US in support of Romanian family whose children were taken by the Norwegian authorities. Prodocens Media on Dec 24, 2015 Hundreds of Romanian Pentecostals from all over the …More
Protests in Europe, the US in support of Romanian family whose children were taken by the Norwegian authorities.
Prodocens Media on Dec 24, 2015 Hundreds of Romanian Pentecostals from all over the United States and Europe gathered at the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 8, 2016, to protest the taking away of 5 children from their parents, Marius and Ruth Bodnariu.
Prodocens Media on Dec 24, 2015 Hundreds of Romanian Pentecostals from all over the United States and Europe gathered at the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 8, 2016, to protest the taking away of 5 children from their parents, Marius and Ruth Bodnariu.
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The Norwegian authorities already opened the international adoption procedure for the five children of the Bodnariu family.
More than 2,000 people gathered in Bucharest’s Victoriei Square on Saturday, with similar protests being organized in other cities across the country such as Cluj-Napoca, Constanta, and Timisoara, reports local Mediafax. The protesters said they wanted the social investigation …More
More than 2,000 people gathered in Bucharest’s Victoriei Square on Saturday, with similar protests being organized in other cities across the country such as Cluj-Napoca, Constanta, and Timisoara, reports local Mediafax. The protesters said they wanted the social investigation in Norway to be done faster and the Romanian authorities to be more actively involved in resolving this case so that the family could be reunited.
Thousands of people also protested in front of Norway’s Embassies in the US, Canada, Ireland, Spain, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Denmark. With banners saying “Norway, stop child kidnapping,” “Reunite the Bodnariu family,” and “Children belong to the family,” the protestors asked Norway to stop what they called the abuses in this case and return the children to the Bodnariu family.
Romanian IT specialist Marius Bodnariu and his Norwegian wife Ruth Bodnariu, who is a nurse, have lived in Norway for the past 10 years. In mid-November last year, the Norwegian child protection services (Barnevernet) took the family’s five children and placed them in three separate foster homes. The Norwegian authorities took over the children after receiving a complaint from the principal of Vevring School, where two of the children went. In this complaint, the principal “expressed her concerns regarding the girls’ religious upbringing, her understanding that the girls were being disciplined at home, and that she considered the parents and grandmother to be radical Christians,” according to a press release of the Bodnariu family.
After arresting and interrogating the parents, the Norwegian authorities decided not to return the children to their family and accused the parents of physically abusing their children.
At the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ request, the National Authority for Child Protection and Adoption in Romania started a social investigation and decided to ask the Norwegian authorities to place the children in the family of the paternal uncle living in Romania.