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DUTCH BAR HOSTAGE US TEENS FROM SERVICE FOR TERRORIST VICTIMS

The Hague, the Netherlands -- September 16, 2001 -- In 1999, native-born and raised American citizens Celina Yavelow (15), and Stephanie Yavelow (12) were kidnapped from the United States, shouting “We’re American citizens and we want to stay in America.” To abduct the children, their Swiss mother Monique Fasel used false documents to dupe the National Center for Missing Children, the Maryland Courts, and the FBI. She also convinced Dutch authorities that the teenagers were Dutch, even though they have no ties whatsoever to the Netherlands.

Rather than honor existing treaties such as the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, the European Convention on the Rights of the Child, and others, the Dutch decided to offer a haven to this mentally-disturbed kidnapper. They support her plans to destroy the girls’ ties to America, to remove their father and all their American friends and relatives from their lives, and to carry out an insidious persecution of their Christianity.

The latter is born out this evening in Celina and Stephanie’s absence from the “Interdenominational Service of Mourning and Prayer” held in the Hague and sponsored by Trinity Baptist International Church (of which the girls have been members for nearly 3 years), the American Protestant Church, Crossroads Church (which the girls also frequently attended), and the Church of Our Savior.

Like all Americans, Celina and Stephanie are deeply concerned about the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Devout Christians, the teens welcome the opportunity of fellowship and prayer at this gathering of their fellow Americans. However, this was not to be. At hearing after hearing, the Dutch courts have refused to consider the children’s wishes, or to examine their father’s reams of evidence, including tapes of Fasel’s therapy sessions confirming her psychosis, and countless documents attesting to her membership in three dangerous cults, two of which have been outlawed in other European countries.

Instead, the Dutch government gave this Swiss national, a criminal who, under other circumstances would have been thrown out of Holland, complete license to abuse, persecute, and de-Americanize these children. Further, the Dutch authorities continue to assist Fasel in every way possible to carry out her sinister plans. For example, with the help of the Dutch government, Fasel, aided by the cults of which she is a member, kept these American children incommunicado for 420 days from October, 1999 through December, 2000.

Although such things may seem bizarre in this day and age, these practices are all too common in Northern Europe in the approximately 1,000 cases per year in which American children are abducted to Europe and brought to the bargaining table by an abductor seeking asylum.

Through the United States Freedom of Information Act, Insight Magazine of the Washington Times recently obtained the US Justice Department’s files about the case of Celina and Stephanie Yavelow. It is now clear how Fasel managed to dupe the governments of two countries to assist her in the kidnapping of these American teens. Links to the Insight Magazine articles and many other resources about international child abduction are available at the StolenChildren.net website.

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