She held her baby for an hour, then the state took the child away

The efforts of Bronlund’s efforts to reclaim his baby gathered supporters and led to protests and became another painful place in Danish’s long and complex relationship with Greenland.

The case appeared in an intense time for Greenland, a gigantic island of the North Atlantic and the North Pole Oceans, which US President Donald Trump promised to be “somehow or like that”. Trump is very important for American security.

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Denmark is trying to keep the Greenland with him. Suddenly, he does all kinds of things that Greenland people have demanded for years. One of them was to replace the parent’s proficiency test, which was mentioned with a long word in Danish: forældrekompetenceundersøGelse. Another was to deal with historical mistakes.

Last week, Danish and Greenland researchers published a 347 -page report that detares the Danish government’s birth control campaign in the past, some of them resisted a generation Greenland woman and her daughter, many of them in the dark. The Danish Prime Minister presented a long -awaited official apology for this and other mistakes made to Greenland.

The activists say that Bronlund’s case is proof of how the mistakes are never over when it comes to Greenland women.

Najannguaq Hegelund, Vice President of Sila 360, an organization that focuses on the rights of Native peoples based in Denmark, said, “History is only repeating itself,” he said. He described the case as “colonial debris, and that he was the proof of the stubborn cliché that Greenland people cannot look at their own children.

“He is so buried in the Denmark community that Greenland parents are automatically defined as inappropriate.”

Bronlund’s ordeal began in December, 17 years old and learned that he was pregnant. He went for a scan and said, “A small heartbeat – it was incredible.”

He wondered if abortion would harm something that could prevent him from having children on his body.

“All of this was running in my mind,” he said. “But most importantly, I couldn’t stand the idea of ​​killing the fetus. So I decided to hold it.”

‘He is so buried in the Denmark community that Greenland parents are automatically defined as inappropriate.’

Najannguaq Hegelund, Sila 360 Vice President

According to the documents he shared New York TimesChildren and Youth Committee in the municipality of Copenhagen, launched a welfare investigation in January.

BronLund said he was subjected to interviews with psychologists, meetings with social workers, standard psychological evaluations and forms, and IQ tests that measure his ability to make mathematical problems that say that he is never good. Traditionally, parenting investigations contained a number of interviews and standard tests.

Municipal officials refused to discuss the details of Bronlund’s case by stating confidentiality concerns.

Bronlund never fit into a smooth category. He was born in Greenland, accepted by a couple who moved to the motherland Denmark and left school in the seventh grade. He worked as a babysitter and played for Greenland’s national youth handball team. He was sexually harassed by his father while he was growing up. He was finally convicted and sent to jail.

The documents said that he was treated as Grönland, not as Greenland, as he grew up in Danish culture and with Danish language ”.

Authorities in Denmark use parenting tests, but they are not applied to the entire population – only to families with prosperity concerns. Danish has recently strengthened the laws of child protection, and as a result, it facilitated the state to invalidate a parent and even remove their children from their homes.

New rules on how these evaluations should be applied to the Greenland community in Denmark entered into force in May when Bronluund was six months pregnant. In accordance with new rules, standard psychological tests should no longer be used; Instead, Greenland families need to make more culturally sensitive special scans.

This did not happen and was called for a meeting in June.

He met with a psychologist for the evaluation. Psychologist advised: Bronlund’s baby is taken after birth.

Bronlund said he was shocked in the news and sat down in one room and cried.

“He said that I can’t have what the child needs,” he remembered in an interview “And I’m not ready to be a mother.”

According to the documents, the evaluation team concluded that “his child cannot provide prosperity and development” and that his family believed that it was an unfair result based on sexual abuse he was exposed to as a child.

He and the activists gathered around him believe that the judiciary is wrong at many levels.

“His father did something to him many years ago, and now he has to pay?” Maria Rubin Nicolajsen said, a volunteer who helps families walk around the bureaucracy in the community of Bronlund.

Nicolajsen completed these thoughts at the beginning of this month as a refresher with megaphone, posters and a icy tea cardboard, except for the municipal government headquarters.

“[Bronlund is] A very sweet girl. Does not drink. He doesn’t smoke. Nothing, Nic Nicolajsen said. ” And he’s fighting for his baby. Isn’t that what you want a good mother to do it? “

Bronlund continues to pump milk. He gets up in the middle of the night to do this. Every two weeks, a two-hour visit was allowed with the baby named Aviaja-Luuna.

He appealed his case and will review the findings of a national committee on Tuesday. Denmark’s Social Affairs and Housing Minister Sophie Hæstorp Andersen said that local authorities did not comply with the new law and said that “a serious mistake was made”.

Local authorities shared by the family in documents TimesWith the new policy, they applied a standard psychological test with the new policy.

“Such tests should not be used in cases including Greenland families, ve and local authorities wrote, and“ The municipality regrets this mistake ”.

However, in the documents, the municipal officials said they did not completely trust the tests and that they would be a “sufficient basis üzere to put the baby in protective care without even them. Local officials said they trusted many inputs to achieve their results, including talks with BronLund and referral from the police.

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If he loses his charm, there is no convenient way to keep Bronlund’s baby in his family. If his mother took the baby, he said he was told, that he would have to move. Refused to comment on the baby’s father and TimesIt is not mentioned.

BronLund said that the most difficult part of the entire experience was the moment he said goodbye to his daughter.

Two people from the municipality entered the delivery room.

They were dressed in white.

They said he had an hour left with his baby and then he would have to give him a protective couple.

“It was the best time of my life, Bron Bronlund said. I grabbed him and felt against me.

He whispered to his child that he loved him more than anything in the world and that he would fight him every day and night.

Then he wrapped him into a blanket, handed him over Aviaja-Luuna to his mother, and watched his baby’s transport.