Members of the Parliament of Ukraine

                                 Children’s centres – children’s prisons

Dear Sirs and Madams,

the Parliament has registered a draft law “On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Child Welfare” № 10625 which establishes a mechanism for the juvenile justice system with its characteristic priorities. The right to the child, besides the natural parents and later on even in place of them, is given to different services, carers, foster parents or adoptive families. This legalizes criminal stealing of children.

However, this is not the end of the list of claimants to children. Amendments have been inserted into §11-1 of the Act “On the Bodies and Services for Children and Special Facilities for Children”. The amended law legalizes reception camps for children. These include centres for social and psychological rehabilitation of children. The founders of these centres are civic charitable organizations and funds, including international ones. These cover groups of perverted LGBT people. This Act will enable

1) LGBT people to obtain their own legal facility for demoralization of the Ukrainian children;

2) various organizations involved in child prostitution or trafficking in human organs to use these centres;

3) experiments with children /e.g. Project Childhood 2030 involves a) chipping of children in the head, b) elimination of moral and Christian values, c) freedom of whatever form of sexual perversion./

Centres for social and psychological rehabilitation are funded and maintained at the expense of their founders! This means that nobody will be able to interfere with this system of crimes against children, not even government authorities.

This criminal system, which is now to be adopted under vague formulations (§11-1), runs counter to the fundamental moral principles of society and the nature of the Family Code of Ukraine which gives priority to educating children in their own family.

If children are counted among those “who have found themselves in difficult living conditions”, social workers have the powers to place them “provisionally” either in so-called foster home services for children or in centres for social and psychological rehabilitation. The term “provisionally” in the new law legitimizes deceit. In practice, as evidenced by the experience of the western EU countries, the parents are told that their children are taken only on a provisional basis, but in fact social workers just gain additional time to process documents necessary for permanent deprivation of parental rights.

Children who “have found themselves in difficult living conditions” include those who:

- systematically without permission leave their place of residence – for example, regularly leave the town to visit their grandmother living in the country.

- suffered so-called physical violence – the child hurts itself somewhere and receives a small bruise. This is attributed to parents as violence.

- suffered so-called psychological violence – normal sound upbringing, orders or prohibitions of the parents.

- suffered economic violence – the child is denied money for narcotics, alcohol or cigarettes.

- were involved in the worst forms of child labour – any help in the home or garden.

The bill deliberately omits to define what violence is and what it is not. Therefore, whatever may be classified as violence and the reason for removal of the child.

The bill proposes the creation of a registration database of children, which in essence is a precursor to chip implantation. This database will reportedly contain only the data of children found to be living in difficult conditions. However, from the above concept of violence it clearly follows that this applies to all children. The database will ensure strict control, so parents with children have nowhere to hide from modern-day piracy. 12,000 social workers have by now been involved in creating this database in Ukraine and by the end of 2012 members of the probation service and mediators will come to their assistance.

What a cynical deception – stealing of children and child abuse is being made law under the term “child welfare”.

Dear Members of Parliament, the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate appeals to You: Wake up! Do not participate in the atrocious crimes against Your own children and grandchildren and against Your own nation. These are crimes against children, the most serious crimes against humanity! Do not pass criminal bills!

For God and for Ukraine!

                                                                            + Elijah

                                                Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

                                                   + Methodius OSBMr       + Timothy OSBMr

                                                                     Secretary Bishops

                                                                                                                                Lvov (Ukraine), 22 June 2012

Cc to:

President of Ukraine V. Yanukovych

Prime Minister of Ukraine M. Azarov

President of Russia and Members of the State Duma of the Russian Federation

Prosecutor General of Ukraine V. Pshonka

Director of State Security Service of Ukraine I. Kalinin

Presidents of the EU Member States

Members of the European Parliament

Mass media