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girl can not visit grandparents in Ethiopia
risk of genital mutilation authorities madness
or legitimate concern? Anonymous
display brings the ball rolling
A ten year old girl from Schopfheim (Lörrach district) may not visit their grandparents in Ethiopia. There is a genital mutilation can not be excluded, the court ruled. Parents were then removed from the residence determination.
From Martin Geier
The Schopfheim lawyer specializing in family law, Claus Huber, it is not edited. The same judge who in September made an interim order of the district court in Bad Säckingen adopted, moved an inch from his opinion. The parents of a ten-year-olds were "far removed from parental custody,
it as to the cause or permit international travel possible." The parents are dismayed. "How can you assume that we want to do to our daughter's suffering?" asks the father, a native Ethiopian.
Also a statement by the German Embassy in Addis Ababa, which was set out in that the grandparents convincingly expressed their abhorrence of female genital mutilation, had no influence on the decision of the Family Court. This followed the line of the Youth Office, which argued a threat by a third party for a circumcision is not ruled out a visit of the girl in Ethiopia. Against the verdict handed down in closed session, the parents put a complaint with the High Court in Karlsruhe.
a scandal Claus Huber called the "madness authorities", which took its course in the summer. The two children of the family were sitting practically on packed suitcases. The father, a German migrant, was pleased, because the sprouts should first see their Ethiopian grandparents. But the parents had long saved. But suddenly, a letter from the District Office Lörrach fluttered into the house of its contents The mother, an Italian, was first distributed with laughter: the parents, the decision of the Family Court in Bad Säckingen informed that they had been deprived of the stay-determination for their ten year old daughter in part. Reason: There was concern that the girl at the resort circumcision (genital mutilation) may be made.
The parents were horrified, as if they were able to expose their daughter to this cruel procedure that draws women for a lifetime. In the ancient African rite of passage, surgical intervention, the great pharaonic circumcision, bleeding to death every year countless Girls. For years, women make around the world to mobilize against this mutilation.
But the insinuation made the parents crazy, because the mother is a devout Catholic, the father of a member of the Orthodox Church. The entire family clan belongs to Ethiopia in the upper class. The grandfather was a colonel in the Air Force, the grandmother in Addis Ababa directs a primary school and cared for orphaned children, a sister is an active suffragette and worked at the United Nations in Geneva. The family unit is regarded as enlightened and refused for ethical reasons, the circumcision. Neither the grandmother nor the seven sisters of the father's family Schopfheim are circumcised. Circumcision of girls is illegal in Ethiopia, however, is carried out in the country yet.
An anonymous report had brought the fatal ball rolling. The mother was at work talks about the upcoming trip of their children with their grandparents in Ethiopia, this became the "Task Force for effective prevention of female genital mutilation " reported in Hamburg. This thereupon the district court in Bad Säckingen an urgent application "for threatened risk of genital mutilation of a minor daughter" and requested "the withdrawal of parental concern about the emigration to Ethiopia".
The court instructed the youth office, an opinion on German family of Ethiopian background to create. After talking with the victims of the experts came to the conclusion that the family that lived in Germany for many years, the promotion and development of children very close to his heart and they will refuse circumcision. The Youth Office was therefore "no evidence of the danger of an imminent risk of child circumcision. Just two days after the positive decision of the district court the same youth department presented clearly to the Hamburg shock troop intervention again the same request because they had apparent later in Addis Ababa that there was no functioning international social service, to the girl from Schopfheim would contact in an emergency. Compared with the "Badische Zeitung" the secretary, declared District Office, there was no reasonable suspicion, and no specific concern, but one can not rule out that the girl against his will and against the will of the parents a circumcision would be arranged . Two weeks later the parents were invited to the Youth Office and asked to sign a consent form, the daughter not to have to travel to Africa and to examine the girl regularly until the age of majority gynecologist.
The employer of the father advised against it. "This is incredible let any of us would offer such a thing ," the latter said the "Badische Zeitung". The parents did not sign, after which the youth welfare office told the court that they were not willing to cooperate. Subsequently, the District Court of Bad Säckingen parents withdrew in an interim arrangement, the stay-determination for the ten year old daughter. Her lawyer lodged an appeal, the Youth Office requires a verdict.
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