A Japanese mother’s nightmare in Denmark
http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/lifestyle/12753-tragic-tale-loss-world-s-happiest-country
A woman flees domestic violence taking refuge in a state-sponsored Women’s Shelter Home only to find she is stripped of her children by child protection authorities. This unbelievable sequence of events is being played out regularly all over the Western world under the direction of agencies that are supposed to be helping vulnerable women and children. In today’s Sunday Guardian, journalist Mrutyuanjai Mishra brings you one such story from Denmark about Kozue, who, like many vulnerable mothers, found herself trapped by the mother-and-baby shelter in which she took refuge to escape her violent Danish husband.
„Kozue gave birth while living in the crisis centre. It is then that the [Danish child protection services] made contact with her. They started writing reports against her in Danish [which she did not understand] and barging into her room at all hours. She felt deprived of sleep. The stress and disturbance affected her milk production, forcing her to give the baby bottle milk. She said she felt as though she was in a torture centre – these are her words to me.”
Kozue’s baby was taken at 7-weeks-old. Four years later, Kozue continues to fight for her return. This article is published as part of the Sunday Guardian’s series ‘Global Child Rights and Wrongs’ in collaboration with my website SAVEYOURCHILDREN.IN
