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Possible abuse at Lundsberg

8/26/2013

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Reports of possible abuse have reached us. The Lundsberg elite boarding school became noticed in the media because a boy was rushed to the hospital with severe burns after an introduction event at the school.

The school – founded in 1896 – has a number of prominent students among its alumnis. Members of the royal family have been students there as well as a number of diplomats and politicians.

Former students speak of the use of corporal punishment among the students. It seems that the students are required to keep a kind of informal standard where older students put younger students into place if they act out.

  • Among the incidents are nightly raids in the dorms conducted by senior students, so newcomers were beaten.
  • Newcomers were forced to have a broom-stick with a condom put up in private parts.
  • Rule breakers were required to receive electrical shocks with an electric fly swatter on more sensitive parts of their body.
  • Newcomers were spoken of in degrading language like slaves.
It is a degree of bullying which the official Sweden would disapprove of. In fact Sweden was among the first school to create a strategy against bullying in public schools. It is odd and very shocking that department of education in Sweden has not shut the school down.

They need to do that to show that they take bullying seriously. Nothing would do it.


Sources: (In Swedish language)

  • ’Vi blev slagna hela tiden’ (Aftonbladet)
  • Veckans kris: Lundsberg internatskola (Svenska Institutet for Kriskommunikation)
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Cheap labor - reality for children in foster care in Sweden

11/23/2011

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A report ordered by the town of Eskilstuna did show that many of the children placed in the custody of the state between 1983 and 1986 ended up being used as cheap labor instead of getting better care.

We might ask why the state did not ensure that they didn't end up living under so poor condition that the removal from their birth parents did not improve their living standards.

We also might ask if the authorities are wondering whether is time to start monitoring the conditions in the foster families.

All these questions and we do know that we will not get an answer to them because children placed in foster care are troubled youth which you do best in forgetting once they have been placed at families living far out in the forests.

Source:
Ari Niemi, 33: Fosterfamiljen använde oss som arbetskraft (AftonBladet)
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Awful habit

9/22/2011

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Meeting a young woman - even a teenage girl - where the breasts are developing is a temptation for every man. Sometime the urge to touch them and feel how firm they are can become too much.

And by nature this urge is limited for most fathers’ biological offspring, which is a good thing.

However the role of a father in a foster family can be too much for some men and in Sweden such a man had a lot of children in foster care before his wife became tired of him running around a touch the breasts of the teenage girls the parents had in foster care. She pressed charges against him.

We might ask: Why wasn't it discovered before? The answer is simple. Children in need are in many cultures thought of as troubled youth. You tend not to believe them like the Danish social worker Gitte Blume didn't trust 3 girls when they explained about alleged sexual abuse. It took years before the foster parent was brought to justice.


Sources:
Fosterpappa åtalas för övergrepp (AftonBladet)

Skælskør: Tilsynet overså rædselshus (Ekstra-Bladet)
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Are abuse investigated in the Swedish foster care system?

8/2/2011

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You may answer: Of course!

At it should be expected that such a serious accusation always should result in an investigation.

But this is rarely the case!

Out of 89 cases where the foster child reported alleged abuse only 1 case ended in the termination of the status as foster parents. In many cases the report is filed and the archived.

That is not acceptable when taken into consideration that the state placed these children at the very foster families because the birth parents allegedly did a poor job as parents.

Sweden should demand higher standards and ask that all cases are investigated by the police. Only then would Sweden be able to claim that it as a country acts in the best interest of the children.

Source:
89 misstänkta övergrepp – bara en familj förbjöds att ta nya fosterbarn (AftonBladet)
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The Swedish foster care system - not something to admire

7/8/2011

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Abroad several countries seem to view the foster care system in Sweden as one of the best.

However we are talking of a flawed system. The system functions something like placeing at-risk children at families living very far from the larger towns and then leave them there where they cannot interact with other at-risk teenagers.

It is a kind of positive peer culture system where there is very few humans to talk with at all. The risk is that the isolation in the forest areas might cure the children of choosing a criminal future, but at a prize where they don't learn to interact with larger social masses forcing them to remain living outside the cities.

As the article mentions below there are few demands put upon parents who want to be foster parents, which place the children at risk of abuse in the hands of the foster parents. Oversight and supervision from the authorities are almost entirely left out due to the huge distances.

We will publish a number of articles about the dysfuntional foster care system in Sweden so other countries may choose a different path which actually saves children.

Source:
Vad krävs för att få bli fosterfamilj? (AftonBladet)

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Massage or abuse? - Hammergaarden

9/21/2010

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A 19 year old woman committed suicide due to the depression over a massage she felt became to intimate.

The facility was for young people suffering from various abuse problems. During her enrollement she was "offered" massage from one of the male staff members.

She claimed that she became afraid over the incident but no additional supervision was imposed once she told the medical staff about the incident.

She hang herself in the shower. Suicide by hanging at such facilities are not that uncommon. If we look across the ocean two very high profile cases did happen at Spring Creek Lodge featured in CNN in a television program about the narcotic drug known as Meth. Also at Island View, which is a high profile residential treatment facility in Utah owned by one of the largest companies in the rehab business (Aspen Education Group) saw a suicide committed in the shower.

The problem is very much the quality of the staff. There must be rules which disallowed staff to handle residents on their own when the clothing is removed. The staff involved in such incident should be of the same gender as the resident.

But it always comes down to money. It might never be perfect.

References:
Nya Skandaler på behanlingshem (Expressen.se)
Spring Creek Lodge (WWASPinfo)
Teen Facility targets suicide prevention (Deseret News)
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