To whom it may concern,
Please allow me through this letter to introduce myself to you. I am a Harvard-educated composer, author, and multimedia developer. My works have received national and international awards and honors in all three fields. My family and I lived in the Netherlands from October 1993 through August 1999. I was the lead programmer/developer of the first VPRO CD-ROM. Since the opening of the newMetropolis in Amsterdam, I have had the only artificial intelligence exhibit there (The Music is the Message), and I also developed LEGO's first CD-ROM while living in the Netherlands. Further, I taught many of the multimedia developers currently working in the Netherlands.
I have two daughters: Celina Yavelow (13) and Stephanie Yavelow (almost 11). Both are native-born American citizens, who have spent more than half their lives in the United States and their native language is English. I am also American. My wife is Swiss. None of us are Dutch.
On Saturday, January 2, 1999, I discovered my wife (Monique Fasel) abusing one of my daughters and I informed my wife that I would take the children to the authorities on Monday, January 4, 1999. My wife is a member of at least three cults, Anthroposophy, Spiritual Human Yoga (a Luong Minh Dang doomsday cult), and Wicca witchcraft. Before I could take my children the authorities, she abducted both my children from the family home into the house of he so-called Wicca high-priestess, Liduina Deering, in Haarlem (Wicca witchcraft was founded by Gerald Gardner to justify his own sexual abuse of children and is based upon the work of notorious Satanist, Aleister Crowley).
I fought with the Dutch courts for the return of my children from January through July, 1999. There were four hearings and early on, my youngest daughter was able to escape from the cult house for a period of ten days. My children both wrote many letters to the judges informing them of their desire to come home to me. All their letters were ignored.
While I was trying to make sense of how my wife could have committed such atrocities upon my daughter, I by chance uncovered a region-wide conspiracy to protect child molesters. I turned over that information to investigative reporter Peter van Vanhove of the Haarlem's Dagblad and I have posted that information here: http://www.yavelow.com/abuse/NLpedprotect.html
When I discovered that the Raad voor de Kinderbescherming (Child Protection Agency) had ignored my request for an investigation of my daughter's sexual molestation by my wife, I had my daughter examined by registered psychotherapist Claire Boers-Stoll in Amsterdam and this examination, along with subsequent discussions with my daughter confirmed that she had been sexually molested by my wife, Monique Fasel.
When I brought this information to the attention of the Haarlem court on July 22, 1999, Judge A.J. Milius refused to consider it, refused to contact the psychotherapist, and refused to discuss the matter with my daughter who had written him a letter begging to discuss the molestation with him. He even refused to read the letter. Instead, he cut my children's access to me down from 50% of each month to every other Saturday. He did this, he said, because I had tried to deliver a letter from my daughters to him.
At this point, according to Dutch law, my wife and I had joint legal custody although she had been temporarily given "toevertrowen" which, as you know, has no legal force, is not enforceable, and is not "custody" (voogdij or gezag) in any legal sense of the word. We had not even had a custody hearing.
My children were with me in America at the end of August and I was completely within my rights to have taken them there. Because of the incredible injustices wreaked upon us by the Dutch courts and the Raad voor de Kinderbescherming, we decided to stay in our native country for good.
The realization that we are not Dutch and the feeling of finally being home at last was overwhelming. They finally realized why they had never felt that they "fit in" in the Netherlands. They repeatedly stated that it was "a dream come true!"
Within hours of our decision on September 1, we emailed my wife and informed her of our intention to have a fair hearing in the United States at which she would be invited to attend. I also stated that our intention was not to remove her from the children's lives but to maximize the contact of both of us with the children.
My wife came to America and lied that a temporary access agreement from Holland was a custody order and she had it converted into a U.S. custody order in the state of Maryland. She had some assistance in this deception by mw mr. S. A. M. Oostvogels of the Ministrie van Justitie in the Hague who cited the Hague Convention (and also mentioned that custody had not been decided yet). Although we were under photographic surveillance by detectives hired by my wife, my daughters and I were not notified of the hearing in Maryland or we would have attended and defended ourselves with article 13b and 20 exceptions to the Hague Convention Treaty. Further, the state of Maryland has no legal jurisdiction over our case.
By spending a good deal of money my wife was able to enlist TV stations and newspapers in the search for me and my daughters. Until the end, we had no idea law officers were even looking for us. She also deceived the FBI who eventually arrested me and returned my daughters to her even while they were protesting, "We are here of our own free will! We are American citizens! We want to stay in America!" She immediately escaped to Holland, in violation of a Maryland court order that stated she must hand over her passport and my children's passports and attend a hearing in Maryland. Further, she has placed the Netherlands in violation of two international treaties: the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
My wife, who is a member of the dangerous Luong Minh Dang cult (outlawed in many European countries), forces my daughters, who are Christian, to attend an Anthroposophic school (also know as a Rudolf Steiner School, Waldorf School, or Vrije School). Every reference on cults lists Anthroposophy as a cult. As you may know, there are many lawsuits pending against the Anthroposophic schools in practically every country in the world, including the Netherlands. The Netherlands has a special agency to deal with complaints against Vrije Schools.
I heard from the parent of one of my daughter's friends that the Rudolf Steiner School of Haarlem held a meeting for the parents on November 8 at which my wife and a teacher (Marie Roos Kopel, who I had charged with discrimination in February and assault in March) told horrendous and malicious lies about me in order to place people in a position where it would seem to be a moral imperative to prevent any communication between me and my children. It seems that parents were instructed by the school faculty not to give any information or messages about my children to me or from me and above all just to hang up on me if I telephoned (which the person to whom I was speaking promptly did). Many of the parents at the school are also members of the Luong Minh Dang cult and are involved with Wicca witchcraft.
On the same day, the Dutch police telephoned friends of mine and informed them that the Dutch courts had given my house in Zandvoort, my office, and all of my personal and business property to my wife. The Dutch police have threatened to arrest my friends to whom I gave Volmacht (power of attorney) for the purpose of watering my plants and the Dutch police have sent hate-mail to me via the Internet.
In fact, on November 2, 1999, the Haarlem courts, without me or my children present, gave my wife sole custody of my children and granted her request that I be stripped of all parental rights to access. In doing so the court violated Dutch laws by not even considering the children's wishes in this matter and the court violated articles 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, and 19 of The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, an international treaty to which the Netherlands is a party. My wife had already violated the Hague Convention with the help of the Netherlands.
Besides giving her my house and all personal possessions, office and all business equipment, the courts gave her 100% of my earnings citing a savings account that had been depleted for legal expenses a year ago as justification for this. I had submitted bank statements proving that my Swiss wife has millions in Swiss bank accounts. The court refused to consider these.
And all this took place again, at a trial at which I was not invited to attend. Nor were my children allowed to express their wishes even though they are of legal age to be heard. In many letters to the court and in video testimony, Celina and Stephanie stated that they wanted to stay with me and further, the stated that the Raad voor de Kinderbescherming (Child Protection Agency) had misrepresented their wishes. I know of no civilized country in which such a trial would be considered justice in any sense of the word.
I have more information about our case available at my website: http://www.StolenChildren.net/
In summary, I had committed no crime in the Netherlands and I was completely within my rights to move myself and my American children back to the country of our birth and citizenship. My wife obtained a U.S. custody order by deceiving the U.S. legal system with bogus documents and used that U.S. custody order to unleash the entire law enforcement community of the United States upon me and my children. Now, thanks to the FBI, she has been able to kidnap my children back to the Netherlands and I sit here, after six grueling days in jail, out on bail with the state of Maryland vowing to put me in prison for a year.
At no time was I ever notified of the charges against me. Only at the very end of this ordeal was I even aware that law enforcement agents were chasing me. At no time was I ever provided the opportunity to defend myself, speak to a judge, or even examine the charges against me. Further, I was never notified of the basis for any charges, orders, or warrants against me. At no time was I afforded any right to file an exception to the Hague Convention documents (I was carrying well-documented article 13b and article 20 defenses). At all junctures my children and myself were denied our rights of due process.
My Swiss wife has made a mockery of both the American and Dutch legal systems. In the Netherlands she moved out of our marital bedroom just one week after we received our permanent resident permits (class A, meaning that she was no longer "tied" to my permit) defrauding the Dutch immigration police in the process. Later, in an effort to destroy my children's ties to America, she illegally changed my daughters' official registrations in every computer in the Netherlands to falsely state that they were not American citizens and had not come from America. Additionally, although I have proved to the courts that she has millions hidden in Switzerland, she has obtained every Dutch governmental subsidy available.
Again, I remind you that I and my children, Celina and Stephanie Yavelow are native-born American citizens who have spent more than half their lives in America. They desperately want to return to their own country. 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.
I beg you to honor my children's wishes and return them to their home country, the United States of America.
Sincerely,
Christopher Yavelow
ADDENDUM:
First, let me remind you that my children Celina (13) and Stephanie (almost 11) are both native-born American citizens who have spent more than half their lives in the United States. They desperately want to return to their home country, the United States, to go to American schools and churches and to speak English (their native language) with their American friends. I am also an American citizen. My wife is Swiss. None of us are Dutch.
Against my children's wishes and without giving them a chance to be heard, the Dutch courts have removed all my parental rights. From the beginning of this case in January of 1999, I have asserted that I will provide unlimited access of the children to their mother by whatever means desired, phone, email, personal visits, etc. My children want this and they know that they will only have access to both parents if they are living with me. They are very unhappy in the present situation.
VIOLATIONS (BY THE NETHERLANDS): The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
The Netherlands is violating articles 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, and 19 of The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child concerning my children.
Article 8 states: "States Parties undertake to respect the right of the child to preserve his or her identity, including nationality..."
[With the assistance of the Dutch government my wife has attempted, once successfully, to erase my children's US citizenship and country of origin from all Dutch data-banks. I corrected it once. Now she is trying to do it again. She refuses to let them associate with any of their American friends or to attend their English-speaking church.]
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..."
[My children stated to all officials the following "We are American citizens and we want to stay in America! At an October hearing to decide their fate they were not allowed to make their views known. They are being held incommunicado by a cult in the Netherlands and I have not been able to contact them for days.]
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."
[My children are being held incommunicado by a cult in the Netherlands and I have not been able to contact them for days.]
Article 11 states: "States Parties shall take measures to combat the illicit transfer and non-return of children abroad."
[My children were brought back to the Netherlands in violation of a Maryland court order ordering that their passports be turned over to the court and that they and my wife stay in Maryland to attend a hearing.]
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."
[My children have no rights to communicate with me. They are not being allowed to use their email accounts to read email from me.]
Article 14: states "States Parties shall respect the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion."
[The Dutch courts have increasing attempted to make it impossible for my children to attend the Christian church of their choice. The court's latest decision allows my wife to forbid my children to go to church. My children are members of the Leidschendam English-speaking Trinity Baptist International church]
Article 15 states: " States Parties recognize the rights of the child to freedom of association..."
[The Dutch courts have increasing attempted to make it impossible for my children to associate with their American friends. The court's latest decision allows my wife, who is a member of three dangerous cults, to refuse to let my children associate with any of their American or Christian friends.]
Article 16 states: "No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence..."
[The Dutch courts have increasing attempted to make it impossible for my children to correspond with me. he court's latest decision allows my wife to forbid my children access to their email accounts or to access their home page (where I have letters to the children as well.]
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."
[The Dutch courts removed all my parental rights at a hearing at which neither I nor my children were present. My children had written seven letters to the courts expressing that they wanted to live with me or at the very least live with me half the time and these letters were ignored.]
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..."
[The Dutch courts are well aware of the fact that wife sexually abuses my older daughter. It's what caused the breakup of our marriage. Yet they ignore this fact even though my older daught
er wrote a letter to the judge begging to discuss this with him.]
These are serious matters. I hope you will give these matters the attention they deserve.
VIOLATIONS (BY THE NETHERLANDS): The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
First and foremost, in violation of a Maryland court order, my wife Monique Fasel, took my children from their home country the United States of America without the required Hague Convention hearing. Because she had started a Hague Convention procedure, a Hague Convention hearing was required before she could remove Celina and Stephanie Yavelow from their home country. In fact a hearing was order by the Maryland court order. My children and I had prepared a well-documented article 13b and 20 defense. The Dutch government facilitated Monique Fasel's deception through mw mr. S. A. M. Oostvogels of the Ministrie van Justitie in the Hague.
Article 13b states: "...requested State is not bound to order the return of the child if the person, institution or other body which opposes its return establishes that -... b) there is a grave risk that his or her return would expose the child to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place the child in an intolerable situation."
[Monique Fasel abuses my children Celina and Stephanie Yavelow sexually, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I have documented this with physical evidence, photographs, and testimony. This constitutes both physical and psychological harm as defined by the Hague Convention. The children are willing to testify about this. Both the Raad voor de Kinderbescherming and the Haarlem court refused to consider any of these facts. They are government organizations who have aided in violating the Hague Convention. Because the Haarlem courts have removed all my parental rights, they have removed me from the lives of my children. This is also considered to be psychologically harmful to children. Therefore we invoke the article 13b clause twice for psychological damage and once for physical damage to my daughters.]
Article 20 states: "The return of the child under the provision of Article 12 may be refused if this would not be permitted by the fundamental principles of the requested State relating to the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms."
[The right for a fair trial with due process of law is taken for granted in the country of our citizenship (the United States). I and my daughters are not getting such a trial in the Netherlands and thus our human rights are being violated. Furthermore, the judge's ruling of July 22, 1999, and again on November 2, 1999, effectively sets up a situation in which my children may no longer practice their chosen religion of Christianity. This sort of religious persecution that has not been tolerated in our own country, the United States of America, for over 200 years! This is a fundamental freedom in our home country, Therefore we invoke Article 20 of the Hague Convention once for the violation of human rights of my daughters and once for the violation of fundamental freedoms of my daughters.]
Again these are serious matters. I hope you will give these matters the attention they deserve.