Indoctrinated 7 year old is put into care

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It was feared that the seven-year-old boy's mother, a Jehovah’s Witness, was causing him emotional harm by 'immersing' him in her beliefs






A devout mother made a legally binding promise, backed up with the threat of criminal sanctions, never to talk to her son about her religion, take him to church or even say grace at meals in a doomed attempt to stop him being taken into care, amid claims that she was “indoctrinating” him, a judge has disclosed.


The seven-year-old boy, who cannot be named, has been placed with foster carers because of fears that his mother, a Jehovah’s Witness, was causing him emotional harm by “immersing” him in her beliefs.



The child, who teachers described as “troubled, angry and confused”, rejected his own father because he said he “could not be with people who didn’t believe in Jehovah”.



He appeared fixated with the idea that his father, who is separated from his mother but had shared parental responsibilities, would not be “going to Paradise” and told adults he “did not want to go to Daddy’s because he was not a Jehovah”.


Staff at his school became alarmed when he cut up teaching materials in RE class because he could not bear learning about mainstream Christianity.


One child psychologist who spoke to him for the proceedings reported how he would react physically even at mentions of the idea that Jesus died on a cross or references to the Bible.


Teachers said he also rejected other children, had only a small friendship circle and described him as “one of the most worrying children in our school”.


Details of the case were disclosed in a written judgment handed down by Judge Clifford Bellamy, after a hearing at the Family Court, sitting in Leicester, in which he set out his reasons for making an interim care order.


He found that the boy had suffered emotional harm as a result both of the conflict between the parents and, specifically, “immersion by his mother in her religious beliefs and practices”.


He concluded that she was doing this “with the intention of alienating him from his father”.


But the judgment disclosed that a social worker at the centre of the case rejected this assessment and believed that, while the boy was damaged by the conflict between his warring parents, the mother’s religion was not the cause.


It disclosed that at one point in the proceedings the mother went to the Court of Appeal to challenge an initial care order and made a number of strict undertakings in an attempt to stop the process.


These included not to take him to her local Kingdom Hall — the Jehovah’s Witness meeting house — or any other such gatherings; not to talk to him about religion at all; not to allow him to go on to the church’s website or watch religious DVDs; and, if he raised the issue, to attempt to change the subject.


But during a later hearing she asked Judge Bellamy to relax the ban on discussing religion. In a statement to the court she said: “I would like to be able to take [him] to the Kingdom Hall once a month.


“I believe that [he] misses going there, and to be able to pray at meal times. This is a simple grace for the food and I will continue to refrain from any further discussion about religion in accordance with my undertakings.”


The judge said that while he was satisfied he had the legal power to “regulate” the mother’s exposure of her son to her religion, he was not certain it would be possible to “police” those commitments.


He ruled that the boy was continuing to suffer emotional harm and that it was in his best interests to be placed temporarily in foster care.





Indoctrinated son 'troubled’ by mother’s religion is put into care - Telegraph
 

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The judge would never have made that ruling if it had been a muslim mother and those that agree with the judge's ruling wouldn't do so if he had ruled against a muslim.