Dale Hurd

Melissa Busekros, the 15-year-old German girl who was put in a mental hospital after the state stripped her parents of custody, has been removed from the hospital and taken to an undisclosed location.  The state is not telling the parents where Melissa is now.

 
You can read more about this case here. German officials have decided Melissa suffers from "school phobia."

I will be interviewing the Busekros family next week in Bavaria and will also try to question German officials. 

At an appeals hearing last Friday the judge reportedly sent the case back to the lower court without doing anything. One lawyer involved in the case told me “The German court system can put out warrants for the arrest of American officials, but can't help a little girl.”

 

A German in the homeschool community wrote me to say “this is the biggest outrage to date... I don't think the German authorities understand (what) they are getting themselves into...and it's most interesting that this case seems to be getting no coverage in the German news.”

But outrage is building in the United States, if not around the world, for what looks like an egregious human rights violation.