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SWISS CULT-MEMBER DUPES FBI TO STEAL CHILDREN
The United States -- October 20, 1999 -- As seen on ABC, NBC, and CBS, police in five states, the FBI, and an army of private detectives and media vultures are chasing award-winning composer-author Christopher Yavelow and his daughters, Celina (14) and Stephanie (11) across America in an attempt to send the children back to the Netherlands at the request of their Swiss mother, Monique Fasel.
Surprisingly, Fasel is not a citizen or legal resident of the United States. Conversely, Christopher, Celina, and Stephanie Yavelow are American-born U.S. citizens who have spent more than half of their lives here. The children have no desire to return to a foreign country and language; they desperately want to stay here.
But things get worse. Fasel, a confirmed pedophile, has vowed to remove from the children's lives: their American father, their American citizenship, and their Christianity. Not content with simply removing them from their American church, Fasel, since 1997 a fanatic follower of a Luong Minh Dang cult, Anthroposophy, and Wicca witchcraft, has been known to slap her daughter's ears when the word "God" is mentioned. She is funding her crusade with millions hidden in numbered Swiss bank accounts -- money that mysteriously appeared shortly after the disclosure of the Swiss-Nazi money-laundering scandal.
Although Fasel does not have legal custody of these children, within 48 hours of her arrival in Maryland she managed to enlist the aid of every law enforcement agency in the United States, the three major television networks, assorted missing children agencies, and newspapers across the land.
Fasel arrived on September ninth with a temporary access arrangement issued in the Netherlands. Not a custody order. Without notifying Yavelow of the hearing, Maryland's Baltimore County Circuit Judge John O. Hennegan converted the temporary access arrangement, which has no legal force even in the Netherlands, into a Maryland Custody Order. This, in spite of the fact that Maryland has no jurisdiction over the case: None of the parties are residents of Maryland. Judge Hennegan executed this violation of Yavelow's Sixth Amendment rights without even authenticating the legalities of the translated Dutch document. Ironically, the most recent (July 22) Dutch court decision ordered that Fasel undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Under Dutch law, parents share equal custody until a custody hearing rules otherwise. The Yavelows have not had a custody hearing or a divorce hearing and none are scheduled. During their eight-month separation no hearing has mentioned the word "custody. " All court orders carefully use the word "access" instead of "visitation" which might be construed to imply that one parent had greater custodial rights.
Further, according to Dutch law, children over 12 are not bound by any custody decision -- they can freely choose with which parent they live. Celina (14) has chosen to live with her father in the United States.
Without a Dutch legal expert present and without consulting the Dutch law books that Yavelow brought with him, Judge Hennegan closed his eyes to justice and simply let Fasel call the shots. A CBS newscaster revealed that as of October 5, there had still been no authentication of the Dutch legal paperwork.
The bogus custody order allowed Fasel to obtain parental child abduction warrants for Yavelow's arrest.
Using the warrants to bolster her credibility, Fasel listed Yavelow with Interpol, the NCIC, and the Center for Missing Children, and she convinced major newspapers such as the Baltimore Sun to devote front-page coverage to her fabrication. Continuing her path of deception she persuaded Maryland Deputy State's Attorney Howard Merker to agree to "pay to extradite Yavelow to Maryland if he is found out of state." Next she talked the FBI into issuing a federal warrant and placing Yavelow on their "Most Wanted" list.
Most of this was unbeknownst to Yavelow and his children throughout their leisurely drive to an undisclosed location where they had planned to initiate a custody proceeding upon their arrival.
While visiting the Laura Ingalls Wilder house in Minnesota, a chance call to Yavelow's mother revealed the situation. Police waiting at their destination prompted the Yavelows to head South. Settling in Fairhope, Alabama, they met with realtors to find a house. They joined a church. Celina squealed with delight, "We finally have a zipcode!" Yavelow took the children to register for school. After the school tour Celina, who has been forced by her mother to attend a new age cult school in Holland said "this is what I've always dreamed of, to go to an American high school... with lockers and everything. It's like a dream come true."
However, the dream was short-lived. The next morning Yavelow noticed an article placed in the Mobile Register by Fasel. It was necessary for the three of them to move to an undisclosed location and start home-schooling.
So one wonders: if the father is in the right, why doesn't he simply come forward?
Yavelow, justifiably, has no faith in the legal system. He's seen the Dutch courts refuse to consider psychological examinations of his daughter and wife confirming sexual abuse by the mother. He's seen the courts, in the name of over-zealous tolerance, force his children to participate in new age rituals and prevent them from attending church. He's seem them sanction his wife's sabotage of their American citizenship. And he's painfully watched the courts systematically remove him from their lives because he had the audacity to deliver letters from the children in which they begged to be allowed to return home to their father. Perhaps this shouldn't be surprising in a country like the Netherlands where 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!
Furthermore, Yavelow has done his homework. Standard operating procedure in international custody cases is for law enforcement agents, such as the FBI, to return the children to the non-American spouse for 48 hours before the hearing. Not surprisingly, this is exactly what Judge Hennegan ordered in Yavelow's case. During those 48 hours, the non-American parent invariably returns to the foreign country, never to be seen again -- the American parent and his or her children never see each other again.
This is exactly what has happened to 13,000 American children, often with similarly misguided FBI help, as reported in the September 1999 issue of Readers Digest: "America's Stolen Children" (by Daniel Levine). So many Americans like Celina and Stephanie have been stolen by foreign countries with the aid of the U.S. government that the Senate is looking into the matter. Some of the testimony is available on-line.
The Netherlands, like many European countries, has no concept of "contempt of court" and therefore, Yavelow has no remedies if the children are sent back. In fact, if the FBI return Celina and Stephanie to the Netherlands, they will be removing Yavelow, the children's father, from their lives forever.
Christopher, Celina, and Stephanie Yavelow remain in hiding. The financial requirements to remedy this violation of their First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights are far beyond his meager savings. And now that Fasel and the FBI have prevented the children from enrolling in school, Yavelow spends much of his day home-schooling his daughters. Now that Fasel and the FBI have made it impossible for Yavelow to get employment he must conserve what remaining funds he has to provide for his children.
While Celina and Stephanie are overjoyed at being back in their home country, overjoyed at being able to speak English again and have American friends, they are also sad that the FBI has prevented their dreams of attending American schools from coming true.
Yavelow tries to shield the children from the details as much as possible. They have no idea that hundreds of law enforcement agents are working around the clock, spending a fortune and countless resources on the task of sending them back to be abused by the cults from which they thought they'd escaped, removing America and their father from their lives forever, and sending them away permanently.
Says Yavelow, "After finally rescuing them and they are so happy to be home, how can I tell them, 'I'm sorry kids, American doesn't want you to come home. America wants to send you back for more abuse. In fact they want to get rid of you so much that they'll spend millions of dollars and devote hundreds of law officers' time to prevent you from living in the country of your birth and citizenship. They'd rather do anything they can to prevent us from living in our country... Anything but say 'welcome home.'"
Celina and Stephanie continue to believe, "Daddy will make this come out right in the end."
For more details see: http://www.StolenChildren.net/pr/liberty.html
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