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State ?kidnapping? of Swedish home-schooler prompts international outcry

By Alliance Alert

The New American: "The case of eight-year-old Domenic Johansson, separated from his family by Swedish authorities last year over his parents? decision to legally home school him, has prompted an international outcry from human rights groups, American home schooling organizations, and activists on the World Wide Web. . . . [Roger Kiska], legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund in Europe, is serving as international legal co-counsel for the Johansson family. 'The state was playing Big Brother in this case in a discriminatory manner,' Kiska told The New American in a telephone interview from Slovakia. '[Domenic] was being incredibly well taken care of, and his health was much better when he was living with his parents.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 15, 2010 (boomark / email).