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CONTACT: Christopher Yavelow 410-252-3620 Christopher@yavelow.com http://www.StolenChildren.net GIRLS HELD INCOMMUNICADO BY CULT, FATHER STRIPPED OF PARENTAL RIGHTS! USA -- December 6, 1999 -- On September 21, 1999, Christopher Yavelow was led away in handcuffs following a 15-minute standoff during which his children, Celina (14) and Stephanie (11) tried to shield him from FBI agents. The children continually pleaded "Please don't take our father away. He has not kidnapped us. We are here of our own free will! We want to be in America. We are Americans!" In fact, the children are native-born American citizens who have spent more than half their lives in the United States and desperately want to return to their home country. "We want to be in America. We are Americans!" were to be the last words Yavelow ever heard from his daughters. Their Swiss mother, Monique Fasel, who had lied to a Maryland court to obtain a bogus Maryland custody order, picked the children up on October 22, 1999, and pretended to take them back to Maryland. The Baltimore County Circuit Court had ordered on September 13, 1999, that both "Plaintiff and Defendant are to turn over to the Court any passports that they have." In clear violation of this order, when Fasel reached Baltimore Washington Airport, she fled to the Netherlands using a set of Swiss passports. In other words, the moment Yavelow was finally requested to turn over the children and their American passports as well as is his own he did so, whereas Fasel kidnapped the children in complete contempt of the ruling, making a mockery of the United States legal system in the process. She had simply used the U.S. legal system to perpetrate her kidnapping of two children who are U.S. citizens. Fasel accomplished all this by way of a hearing which Yavelow was neither notified of nor invited to attend. It's called an "ex parte hearing" and it's something that United States District Court, Eastern District Of Michigan, Case No. 98-CV-73896-DT decided was unconstitutional when they ruled in favor of the federally protected constitutional right to due process of law in state domestic relations/support enforcement proceedings. Using the bogus custody order, Fasel created a riot of media attention and law enforcement abuse of power. Fasel learned a good deal from her American experience. She learned how advantageous it is to have a hearing in which the other parties are not present. Thus, in the middle of October, prior to kidnapping Yavelow's children, she had a hearing in the Netherlands. Again Yavelow was not notified nor invited to attend the hearing, neither were the children. This notwithstanding the fact that everyone involved on both sides of the ocean was in daily email contact with Yavelow at the time. The children are old enough that according to Netherlands law, their testimony is required to be considered. It is mandatory in the case of Celina who is over 12. The girls had written seven letters to the judge, demanding to be heard, expressing their desire to live with their father at his house, or if that could not be arranged, that at the very least they be allowed to live with their father half the time which is what the Dutch law officially proscribes in custody cases. The Dutch judge dismissed their letters with the ridiculous remark, "these do not relate to the requested arrangement concerning parental access" (presumeably, "requested arrangement" in this pronouncement refers to Fasel's request that Yavelow be stripped of all parental rights). Not surprising in a country like the Netherlands where father's caring about their children is a relatively new concept and it wasn't until 1990 that fathers were even granted any parental visitation rights at all, and shockingly, is was not until 1998 that the joint custody policy was incoporated into the laws! (It is a little-known fact that the Netherlands legal system is such that many of the judges are also practicing lawyers and some are even members of parliament. It is even possible to be a parliament member, lawyer, and judge simultaneously.) On November 2, 1999, the decision from the October "ex parte" hearing was made. The Dutch courts gave Fasel full custody of Celina and Stephanie. Fasel requested that Yavelow lose all his rights of parental access to the children and the court granted that request, ordering that there be no further contact between the children and their father, ever. She was also provisionally awarded his house, his office, and all his possessions including about $200,000 worth of computers and computer music equipment and all his music, his writings, books, master recordings of his works, his curricula, and paintings by his parents who are both artists. Although Yavelow had provided the court with statements from Fasel's secret Swiss accounts (which he discovered after she left and which are of suspicious origin) the courts awarded Fasel 100% of Yavelow's income, citing, as justification for this, a savings account that had been depleted for legal expenses a year ago. No one seems to notice that if Fasel only received custody in November, how could she possibly have had it at the beginning of September when she came over to the United States waving translations of Dutch language documents that she claimed were custody papers -- translations that were never authenticated and have still not been authenticated. Fasel accomplished more destruction along the way: Through legal fees she has bankrupted Yavelow and his 82-year-old mother. By lying to his best friends from childhood and working with a California anti-Christian group she has turned many of Yavelow's closest friends and relatives against him. She lied on nationwide TV and to the newspapers in an attempt to ruin his career (Yavelow is a composer, author, and multimedia producer whose works have received national and international awards in all three fields). As Yavelow has mentioned in other news releases, the scenario played out just as in the article, "America's Stolen Children" (Readers' Digest — September 1999), with the FBI unwittingly facilitating the kidnapping of my American children by the foreign parent (Fasel). Coincidentally, there were two congressional committees examining this very problem during October (links to the congressional testimony can be found at http://www.StolenChildren.net/#Congress). On November 4, 1999, more than a week after his release on $25,000 bail from Harris County jail in Houston, Texas, Christopher Yavelow was finally shown the charges and warrants against him. At his arrest and during his more than six days in jail he was never notified of the charges against him although at every opportunity he had asked every official he encountered. Fasel continues to harass Yavelow. With practically daily emails during the last week of November and first week of December, Fasel threatened to sell Yavelow's house at "60% of market value" so that he would realize no profit from the equity. Technically, the equity should go to Yavelow. Now Fasel is working around the clock to try to have Yavelow jailed for a year. He has done nothing that could conceivably deserve this persecution. She has now been granted the freedom and opportunity to continue to use the children as "sex toys" as she has done in the past. And she is in a position to carry out her vows to remove from Celina's and Stephanie's lives forever, their father, their American Citizenship, and their Christianity. Regarding Fasel's vow to remove Celina and Stephanie's father from their lives forever: Yavelow has had no contact with his daughters since October 21, 1999. Fasel changed their phone number, will not allow them to use their email accounts (Yavelow emails them every day), and held a meeting with all the parents at their school at which she requested that everyone hang up the phone if Yavelow ever called. She forces the children to attend a New Age cult school and the Anthroposophic cult that runs the school is more than willing to gather around and shield the children at the request of one of their cult-members. Many of the parents are also practicing Wicca "witches" and members of Luong Minh Dang's anti-Christian doomsday cult called "Spiritual Human Yoga" (AKA Human Universal Energy), two other cults of which Fasel is a dedicated member. Regarding Fasel's vow to remove Celina and Stephanie's American citizenship: She will carry through her attempts to erase Celina's and Stephanie's American Citizenship as she did earlier this year (see http://www.StolenChildren.net/#CSY-Citizenship for documentation of this). Fasel also refuses to allow the children to see any of their American friends. Regarding Fasel's vow to remove Christianity from Celina and Stephanie's lives: Despite pleas from Celina and Stephanie, both devout Christians, Fasel refuses to allow them to attend the English-speaking Baptist church they are a member of in the Netherlands. Further, she refuses to allow them to see any of their Christian friends. They now have a virtual army of people telling them that Jesus is not important. That the Bible is a book of fairy tales and Christianity is a ancient religion that has long since been disproved. Every day their teachers at the Anthroposophic school reinforce this as do the Anthroposophic parents of the children's classmates and all of Fasel's cult friends. Everyone is cooperating to "liberate" Yavelow's daughters from their chosen faith of Christianity and indoctrinate them with New Age rituals and beliefs. From a wider perspective it is important to note that the United States facilitated Fasel's violation of the international Hague Convention Treaty by allowing her to return to the Netherlands without having a hearing. Yavelow and his children were traveling with well-researched article 13b and article 20 Hague Convention defenses that they planned to present at the required hearing. Fasel had arrived with a Hague Convention request for return of the children. A hearing was required. Additionally, by stripping Yavelow of his parental rights against the wishes of his children, among other things, the Netherlands is in serious violation of articles 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, and 19 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Both the United States and the Netherlands are party to this treaty. Article 8 states: "States Parties undertake to respect the right of the child to preserve his or her identity, including nationality..." Article 9 states: "1) States Parties shall ensure that a child shall not be separated from his or her parents against their will... 2) In any proceedings pursuant to paragraph 1 of the present article, all interested parties shall be given an opportunity to participate in the proceedings and make their views known. 3) States Parties shall respect the right of the child who is separated from one or both parents to maintain personal relations and direct contact with both parents on a regular basis..." Article 10 states: "1) ... applications by a child or his or her parents to enter or leave a State Party for the purpose of family reunification shall be dealt with by States Parties in a positive, humane and expeditious manner. States Parties shall further ensure that the submission of such a request shall entail no adverse consequences for the applicants and for the members of their family. 2) A child whose parents reside in different States shall have the right to maintain on a regular basis, save in exceptional circumstances personal relations and direct contacts with both parents." Article 11 states: "States Parties shall take measures to combat the illicit transfer and non-return of children abroad." Article 13 states: "The child shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child's choice." Article 14: states "States Parties shall respect the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. Article 15 states: " States Parties recognize the rights of the child to freedom of association..." Article 16 states: "No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence..." Article 18 states: " States Parties shall use their best efforts to ensure recognition of the principle that both parents have common responsibilities for the upbringing and development of the child." Article 19 states: "States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse..." In summary, Celina and Stephanie Yavelow are native-born American citizens who have spent more than half their lives in America. According to reports that Yavelow has received, they desperately want to return to their own country, the United States. In the meantime, they desperately want to be allowed to attend the English-speaking church they attended all last year. They are being held incommunicado in the Netherlands against their will for further abuse by Monique Fasel (a Swiss citizen) and the cults of which she is a member. Misuse of the American judicial system to accomplish such reprehensible goals as those of Monique Fasel cannot be allowed to continue. ### |