Children in hiding missed ten years in school – Hufvudstadsbladet

Children in hiding missed ten years in school – Hufvudstadsbladet

The woman in Bromley in Sweden suspected of having kept their children incarcerated and shielded from the outside world is arrested for unlawful detention. According to Aftonbladet should daughters have lived in Åre for ten years – without having gone to school.

The 59-year-old woman and children reported to have moved around to different addresses for 20 years. When in the early 2000s moved to Åre appeared two of the children, who were of school age, never up at the start of school. According to Åre’s childhood and education administration, they have not even gone to school in another municipality, because the municipality never received an invoice based on the children’s schooling.

unclear circumstances

The Agency’s General Counsel Jonas Nordstrom says that the case is very remarkable and unusual – if the information is correct.

– I’ve never heard of that child fall through the cracks at it this way, he says to Aftonbladet.

Initially there are a number of suspicious circumstances surrounding the children, who today are adults, and the woman, according to police.

The mother suspected have kept their children incarcerated and shielded from the outside world for several years. Wednesday night arrested the woman for unlawful detention, and she was interrogated by the police well into the evening.

The neighbor alerted

– We need to find out about these persons have been detained or if they, for example, been voluntarily locked up for a while. There may be many reasons behind this, and that is what we are trying to investigate, said chief prosecutor Par Andersson on Thursday to news agency TT.

A neighbor tells the magazine Sydöstran that it was she who alerted police last Wednesday about the family she lived next door to two years. On Monday, she heard the sound of the brawl in the stairwell. When she opened the door hanging on one of the young women on to her and shouted: “Help, I’ve been locked up for 13 years.”

The 59-year-old mother’s defense lawyer Thomas Ljungdahl says while the aftonbladet.se:

– My principal denies the offense. She has not in any way limited plaintiffs movement.

According to a family member moves the case, however, if a custody dispute that triggered that they moved around. In contrast, the children would have been locked up.