From elastic!lethe!gts!whome!infoshare!n2ott.istar!milkyway.com!n3ott.istar!news.synapse.net!news.flora.ottawa.on.ca!freenet-news.carleton.ca!cunews!hookup!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!usenet.dacom.co.kr!news.postech.ac.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.structured.net!crusty.teleport.com!news.serv.net!usenet Fri Oct 25 17:26:17 1996 Xref: elastic can.gov.general:2766 Path: elastic!lethe!gts!whome!infoshare!n2ott.istar!milkyway.com!n3ott.istar!news.synapse.net!news.flora.ottawa.on.ca!freenet-news.carleton.ca!cunews!hookup!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!usenet.dacom.co.kr!news.postech.ac.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.structured.net!crusty.teleport.com!news.serv.net!usenet From: Merrilyn McDonald Newsgroups: can.gov.general Subject: Sweden can't help molested child, PLEASE HELP!! Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 19:16:42 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services Lines: 87 Message-ID: <326ED18A.2555@serv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup108.serv.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) Please help my child! (Please feel free to re-post) After molesting my son and getting away with it in Quebec, my children's offender (father) took them to Sweden. I appealed to the Swedish child protective services to protect my children. Swedish officials have said there is nothing they can do. I have given Swedish officials full documentation of this situation including a report submitted to the courts by Quebec social workers in which it was concluded that the allegations of sexual abuse of my son by his father were founded. If there is genuinely nothing they can do, then Sweden must be seen as pro-pedophile. The offender is a Swedish citizen. Quebec's record for protecting children from sexual abuse is horrifying. Never once in the Province of Quebec have allegations of sexual abuse of a small child of divorced or divorcing parents ever been confirmed. My son was three when he disclosed sexual abuse naming his father as the offender. To defend himself, the offender hired psychologist Abe Warenklein to declare that I was insane and that the accused couldn't possibly have molested my son. Abe Worenklein had never had an appointment with me. There was no trial, there was no due process of the law for me or my children. There was just a judgement handed down after the judge had read the report of Abe Worenklein. My precious children were ripped from me and given to their offender. Unfortunately, this is a common scenario in Quebec. Despite the fact that the Quebec Child Protective Service social workers have submitted a report to the courts declaring that they believe the allegations of sexual abuse of my son to be founded, the Quebec judicial system has failed to protect my children. My son has made over 20 suicide attempts since age 5. One attempt resulted in serious injury. (For more about the situation in Quebec, see http://www.serv.net/~merrilyn) The offender is still in Sweden with my children. I have no opportunity to see my children. Please put pressure on the Swedish government by compozing and sending your own letter or by downloading, printing, signing and sending the following letter: Claes Ortendahl, Generaldirektor FAX: 011-46-8 783 3252 Social Strylsen S-10630 Stockholm SWEDEN Dear Mr. Ortendahl, I am distressed by the failure of the Swedish social services to protect the children of Merrilyn McDonald. I am concerned about the human rights violations suffered by Merrilyn McDonald and her two children. I am concerned that psychologist Abe Worenklein declared that the accused was incapable of molesting the child and that McDonald was ‘deeply disturbed', despite the fact that he had never had an appointment with her. I am deeply distressed that there was no trial for McDonald, that there was no due process of the law. It is worrisome that never once in the province of Quebec have allegations of sexual abuse of a small child in the context of divorce been confirmed. The practice of taking children from their protective parent and giving them to the accused when allegations of sexual abuse are not confirmed, must be seen as a violation of the human rights of both mother and child. It is unthinkable that you have had an opportunity to protect these children and have refused to do so. You must protect these children at once. They must be returned to their protective parent. Signed: Address: Date: Thank You! Merrilyn McDonald MSW