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Mum to son: Smurfs and UFOs are real
Published: 16 Feb 12 17:25 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/39158/20120216/
A mother from southern Sweden has been reported to health authorities for allegedly holding her son prisoner for years in a fantasy world inhabited by Smurfs and space aliens.
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The boy's mother, who also serves as one of his personal care assistants, has also forced the other three assistants who care for him to live in the fantasy world as well.
“Because the lies change and are expanded, it's hard to keep track of what applied,” explains the complaint.
As a result, the boy has reacted to his mother's elaborate fantasy world with “self-destructive” behaviour.
Repeated attempts by supervisors to force the mother to change the way she cares for her son have failed to yield any results.
“The section head has written in a document that the mother must change her ways with [the boy] and live in the same reality as most others,” the complaint reads.
Instead, the mother has chosen to apply for continued personal care assistance support from another municipality.
The complaint was filed earlier this month according to Sweden's Lex-Sarah laws, which oblige staff in the care industry to report instances of mistreatment to the social services.
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P.S. Space aliens ARE real!
Merely a matter of paperwork. She simply neglected to fill out form S-3482, which is required to form a new religion in Sweden, as the Filesharers have done.
We watch science fiction, we watch p0rn, we watch dramas... to live in a world of fantasy and away from reality. Don't deprive the children of these small treasures PLEASE!
And many believe in GOD, to have HOPE of some sort. Its all to soothe oneself.
"The section head has written in a document that the mother must change her ways with [the boy] and live in the same reality as most others," the complaint reads.
I think this statement could be equally applied to a lot of the bizarre religions floating around Sweden. Especially the ones that impose strict and impractical rules of conduct upon practitioners.
both are child abuse but one is legally protected why ?
Hmmmm Jesus is probably the only one not to do fantasy as his mission was too important!
Religion, as stated above, is the most common one where people believe in magical invisible creatures (and, jimfromcanada, no, there is no evidence of Mohamed nor Jesus from the time they were meant to live and the evidence we do have for Jesus from the 1st cent says early xians believed in a spiritual, not physical, Christ).