TESTIMONY
In the 2000s, Marion's son was placed in a foster home. The latter considers that she was the victim of an abusive placement decision. She considers that she was not listened to and thought she was alone in this situation at the time. At the microphone of "La Libre antenna" on Europe 1, Marion tells Olivier Delacroix to have recently realized that if her son had preferred to go to a hostel rather than come back to live with her, it was to escape the bullying of which he was then a victim. .
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"Children are abusively placed at ASE (Child welfare). I am 60 years old and I was a victim. At the time, I thought I was alone in this situation. Thanks to the new means of communication, I realize that many parents are in this situation.My child was placed in the 2000s. It seems like a new phenomenon, but it has been around for a number of years. It is really very serious, I lost my son because of this procedure, the consequences are huge.
" My son and I were punished "I did not know how to defend myself as parents do now with lawyers. I was naive, I didn't think about it. At the time, I felt guilty. It is only now that I realize how much I have been dragged into a catastrophic situation. I was not heard, I was not respected. It is only now that I manage to make myself heard, because before I did not speak about it. I am beginning to understand that I have not been respected.
I found myself very isolated from this problem, even at the level of my family. According to them, if there had been an intervention of justice, it is because I had necessarily done something reprehensible, I was necessarily wrong. However, it turns out that the root of the problem was bullying. That too, we didn't talk about at the time. The other children and the parents had no problem. I feel that my son and I were punished and we got lost.
" He told me he preferred to go to the hostel "At one point, these people had the idea of bringing him closer to his father who did not live in the same area and who was remarried. I agreed. My son said he wanted to, I believed him, but it turned out very badly. One day, I received a phone call from him saying: "I want to come back. I have the choice between living with you or going to a hostel". He told me he preferred to go to the hostel. I was flabbergasted. I replied: "In that case, we have nothing more to say to each other".
He was instructed to phone me to tell me that. I did not receive a call from an educator. At that time, I did not understand that he had not made this decision against me, but because if he came back to my house the harassment would start again since the others were still there. I took it very badly and I was in a deep depression. I had been hospitalized because of this harassment. It was terrible. My front and my car were damaged. The mayor had my house put under surveillance, but the perpetrators were not tried.
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I don't see my son at all. I know he did the training he wanted to do and to which I had already started to direct him. I'm not sure those court rulings were on point. He then always lived in squats. He has even been on trial for stealing goods thrown in the trash cans of a supermarket. We can see how serious it can be not to listen to parents. Under the pretext of protecting the child, we destroy everyone. "