L’adolescente perde la causa in tribunale contro i suoi stessi genitori dopo che lo hanno mandato in collegio in Ghana per paura che cadesse nella violenza delle bande in Gran Bretagna
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15257297/teenager-loses-court-parents-boarding-school-Ghana.html
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Good. And good on the parents for recognising that their child was a risk and doing something about it. It should have never gone to court in the first place, who funds crap like it?
Worked with a Nigerian bloke who used to send his kids back during the summers hols for the same reason. Quite sad that many assume their kids are safer there than here.
> A hearing last month was told the boy had been involved in fights, and attempting to sell clothes and a phone that may have been stolen, while his mother found a kitchen knife outside the living room window.
Good parenting to send him off, then. If he didn’t want to face consequences, maybe he shouldn’t have done those things. Hopefully in 20 years he’ll appreciate that the stress of being sent abroad to a boarding school is nothing considering his parents have just potentially saved him a lifetime of being a low-life.
I remember this case. Lad was posting on reddit about it – inbetween asking where he could buy weed over there lol
This is a terrible precedent. I wonder if people would have e the same reaction if it was parents sending a teenage girl to Pakistan?
good on the parents, nice to see responsibility even if it is a mile or two away.. would said child object if he was sent to a boarding school here in the uk??
This has been happening since the dawn of times. People don’t realise that most west African parents were brought up by their grandparents or other relatives. I guess the tradition carries on. It is a common practice to send your child away and it’s not always due to them misbehaving.
When I saw this case, which I read about an couple of weeks ago; which I find out why it’s posted here now.
Anyhow when I read the case, I did not like the decision at the time and I thought it was an bad decision; I cannot remember if the child was sent their under false pretenses or not.
From an localised individual level; it deals with risk of harm to an individual.
From an broader perspective; it doesn’t address the actual issue(s) in society. It absolves authorities from their duty to reduce the harms present in society. Although I acknowledge the rate of certain crimes in London have reduced substantially.
The point remains that if an class of individuals with the means to, are able to remove their children to an foreign country under the guise of avoiding harm; it stands to reason the authorities aren’t doing enough to reduce the harm at the individual level. Authorities need to actually deal with these types of harms effectively, otherwise they become complacent and then this endangers the class of individuals who cannot actually escape the harms.
I am of the view that where an child has developed habitual residence to the UK, then the UK courts should have jurisdiction to order the return of the child and I think that should be the general position taken until the presumption for doing so is displaced by evidence.
But I think the approach should be pragmatic, where the child can return to the UK and resume prior education and living that is safe the child should return. If it is not possible to endure this; then we need to look at the welfare factors for and against return or the child staying in the other country.
But we must be extremely careful not to inadvertently legitimize the illegitimate remove of children from the UK or create an environment of passivity or environment of complacency.
Cases where it’s know it’s an risk then injunctive relief should be sought to stop removal until proper determination can be made.
This is an easy choice.
Get into gangs and get killed in London or move to a safe well funded boarding school in Ghana where gang violence is not an issue.
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared.
Sent me to boarding school in Ghana so I sued the fuck out of her.
The actual problem of this article is the fact of having to send a kid abroad to they dont fall into gang violence.
Crazy, institutions have failes