Good News!

From The Brussels Journal:

A quote from LifeSite, 23 April 2007

German homeschooler Melissa Busekros finally returned home early this morning on her 16th birthday after having been forcibly separated from her family by the government 3 months ago. Back in February, Melissa was seized from her family home in a dramatic police raid for the crime of home schooling – illegal since 1937 by edict of Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler – and placed with a foster home in a location unknown to her family.

The International Human Rights Group (IHRG), which has doggedly championed the rights of Busekros and other German home schooling families, reports Melissa penned a note to her foster family and left in the dead of night, arriving on her doorstep in Erlangen at 3AM to the astonishment of her family.

According to IHRG, German law gives Melissa Busekros far more rights after turning 16, meaning she now has far more clout in determining her custody in German law. So, as soon as she turned 16, Melissa – the same girl whom a state official of the Jugendamt (Youth Welfare Office) described as happy with state custody – headed out the door for her family.

There is a danger the Jugendamt may order police forces to seize Melissa again. However, confident of her new legal rights, Melissa is prepared to refuse to leave home on the advice of her attorney, Dr. Hildebrandt.

I love the way that the neo-Nazi goons just had to issue the press release about how happy Melissa was to be in state custody.

It reminds me of a movie I saw some years ago. A man was arrested by the Gestapo. After being held for several days it became apparent to them that he was not the man they were looking for. They told him that he was being released, but he had to sign a form testifying that he had not been mistreated while in state custody. The man told them that he couldn't sign the form because they had broken all his fingers.