Courts A family files a lawsuit against Oltra to prevent their granddaughter from being adopted
Prevarication Chronology of another lawsuit against Mónica Oltra for denying some paternal grandparents the foster care of their granddaughter
Response The Ministry has acted "always in defense of the girl"
Judicial sentence Justice, to the Consell: "His performance for family reintegration is almost nil"
The
Court of Instruction Number 3 of Castellón has admitted the expansion of the complaint
that a few months ago a family from Castellón filed against the former vice president of the Consell Mónica Oltra, as well as other senior officials and technicians of the Ministry of Equality and Inclusive Policies for the alleged crimes of
illegal detention, prevarication and obstruction of Justice
, to which is now added that of coercion.
The complaint also extends to the delegate, Luis Gómez;
former delegate Carmen Fenollosa;
María Jesús Fernández, responsible for the Families and Adoptions area, as well as the social worker Nuria Del Río.
The reasons were that the
Ministry did not recognize the paternal grandparents of the minor,
Carmen Montaño and Juan Francisco Guijarro,
for the reception of their granddaughter, who is currently under the care of an external family unit without any kinship.
In addition, they also seek that the minor is not adopted by those who, shortly after birth, welcomed her by decision of the Ministry,
and that she can meet her brother, who is in the care of her grandparents.
The department that Aitana Mas now directs
would have urged the girl's family to withdraw the complaint to access a visiting calendar
, a fundamental tool for the brothers to get to know each other.
On the other hand, the family refuses and will now attend
a hearing next Thursday, July 28,
in which they will demand urgent precautionary measures from the judge in this regard.
The events date back to 2017, the year in which the fight began, first administrative and then legal, to assume the protection of the minor since it was then, specifically on December 1, 2017, when the girl, daughter of DG (her parents are the complainants) and CJ At the time of the birth, the father was not present in Castellón after having left the province to reside temporarily in Catalonia due to personal problems.
Without his partner, the mother, CJ, gave birth to her daughter in a hospital in Castellón
.
A month after her birth, the Ministry that Oltra directed decided on January 2, 2018 to declare
the newborn in a situation of abandonment, as well as her fostering in a family outside the
biological environment of her parents.
The mother herself opposed
from the beginning the delivery of the minor to a foster family unit
and the grandparents did not take long to join
the same claim with writings without response to the territorial delegation of the Ministry to assume the guardianship and care of their new born.
In the midst of the silence of the administration, in 2018 the battle began in the courts with the opposition to the protection measures adopted by the Ministry to keep the baby in the hands of a family without blood ties.
But the court of first instance number 7 ruled
in 2019 in favor of the plaintiffs, estimating that the biological family of the two parents should have been privileged as the recipient
of the protection of the minor against the alternative of a foster unit without a family relationship. relationship.
In addition, the Justice recognized that the Ministry did not carry out an examination on the evolution of the family or on the aptitudes for the performance of parent-child obligations.
That sentence annulled the resolution of the Ministry that agreed to custody for adoption purposes and urged the department led by Oltra to develop a family intervention plan aimed at reintegrating the baby with her closest family.
Despite this, the Department never responded to the court order
.
Instead, he appealed, and first the Provincial Court and, subsequently, the Supreme Court ratified in a final judgment the ruling of the court in favor of the plaintiffs.
For this reason, the grandparents, accompanied by relatives and other people,
protested this Thursday at the door of the City of Justice
for what they consider an
"irregular attitude in the procedures for the fostering and adoption of minors."
In a statement, they explained that “the Ministry refuses to comply with the judicial decisions that have been issued in the last four years and that they agree to nullify their actions.
In addition, it refuses to comply despite the judicial requirements.
The family of the minor insists that
“an agile, effective, forceful Justice is necessary
, which is capable of making courageous and firm decisions.
We also ask that the Prosecutor's Office act, that it exercise its functions and do so in a serious, resolute and effective manner."
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