A Catholic teenager is suing a Scottish council which placed her in the care of Protestant foster parents.
The girl, who is now 18, is demanding £70,000 from Highlands Council.
Judge Lord Lewis at the Court of Session yesterday gave the case the go-ahead, saying it involved "novel and difficult questions of law".'
The girl, identified only as 'AR' was taken into care in 1997 and was under the supervision of social workers and foster parents for most of the next nine years. She was sent to live with two sets of foster carers and says her needs were not properly met.
The girl claims the council failed her because she couldn't continue to follow her religion. She also claims the council's treatment of her breached the European Convention on Human Rights and as a result she has suffered depression and anxiety, and now can't get a job.
No date has been set for any further hearings.
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11 comments:
Good for her!
I think this poor girl's life is a tragic story that involves rejection as much as her faith. But I'm afraid I smell money here. She is still young enough to practice her faith freely for the rest of her life without being paid for it. I wonder who is behind this case?
sceptic,
A child has a right to choose
Did the parents prevent her from practising the faith?
This looks like more 5th column activity.We need to be careful.
Hey, this screwed up chick's given me a great idea. I did not want to be baptised or brought up as Catholic, that was forced on me by my parents. I think I'll sue them now for psychological abuse and get a cool £70,000 for the hassle they've caused me. See ya in court Mum and Dad.
This unbalanced girl has the potential for at least sixty years of life ahead in which to practise her faith without hindrance or censure. Why does she need £70,000 to do so? Tell that to the young Catholics of the Third World who, materially, have nothing yet are still believers. She should thank the social services for finding her two homes where she was fed and looked after. The people who have let her down are her own parents and family. If she wins she can enter a convent and use her damages as a dowry. I haven't heard of people who lived under Communist tyrannies in which it was sometimes impossible to openly practise their faith suing their present governments for compensation.
When a child is fostered or adopted, one would expect the child's needs to be taken into account. One of the importantant ones should be the child's spiritual needs.
There are a lot of other issues in this young womean's case, where her needs were not taken account.
In the light of gay adoption what is needed for the child is important and it is important that social services fit adoptors and fosterers to the child not the other way round.
This case is actually about the complaint that her needs were not met and she was put into a one size fits all situation.
Hopefully, this case will get nowhere.
Jesus didn't mind living with an infidel family for 30 years... unless she's superior to her own deity, this girl has a good 12 years to go before she knows what the heck she's talking about.
I didn't realise that Our Lady and St Joseph were infidels. Quite a new insight.
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