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It wasn't an unfounded fear. In 2007, German authorities took custody of Melissa Busekros, a 15-year-old girl from a homeschooling family in Bavaria. Authorities placed the girl in a psychiatric facility, and then in foster care. When she turned 16 -- and ...Baptist Press · 4/22/2013
(Indeed, officials in the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Berlin announced they would cut ... and university in Germany before attending Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia—says the makeup of public schools varies across Germany.World Magazine · ByJamie Dean · 4/18/2013
And yet, we seek limits and restrictions. We don't really want the wretched refuse, the homeless nor the "tempest-tost" that Emma Lazarus memorialized in "The New Colossus," the sonnet that is engraved on a plaque beneath the Statue of Liberty. And yet …Appeal-Democrat · ByRose Godfrey · 3/30/2013
The courts ruled it was appropriate for a judge to order police officers to take Melissa Busekros, 15 at the time, into custody in January 2007. Officials later declined to re-arrest her after she turned 16. She was subject to different requirements and ...WorldNetDaily · 3/14/2011
Children, like Melissa Busekros, taken away in SWAT-style raids, others brought to financial ruin by huge fines, or parents simply thrown into jail. Many homeschoolers have already fled Germany. Last year an American judge granted political asylum to the ...CBN.com · 9/16/2011
The parents of Melissa Busekros, the German teen who was taken by police from her home and placed in a psychiatric ward because she was homeschooled, now are being billed by the government for the cost of her forced stay, according to attorneys who …WorldNetDaily · 3/28/2008
Last year, in an extreme example, 15-year-old Melissa Busekros was removed from her family. Her mother, Gudrun, said more than 15 policemen took her to a psychiatric unit for psychological tests. After refusing to be tested, Melissa was placed ...The Guardian · 2/23/2008
In 2007 the case of the Busekros family became internationally notorious when 15 year-old Melissa Busekros was abducted by government officials, aided by 15 police officers, and locked up in a child psychiatric unit because she had been homeschooled.Lifesite · 8/27/2009
Some children who sided with their parents, such as 16-year old Melissa Busekros in 2007, were placed in a psychiatric ward because, as the psychiatric evaluation report stated, she “considers herself healthy and her behavior fully normal” and ...gatestoneinstitute.org · 8/16/2009
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