Talk:Child Focus

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There are several very misleading statements in this Wikipedia site about Child Focus (Belgium) that Wikipedia and the public should be made aware of.

To begin with, the claim that Child Focus "is active in the prevention of missing children and the abduction of children by a parent or stranger (child stealing or kidnapping)" is false. Belgium is full of people who have lost children and were rudely turned away by vulgar case workers and their supervisors at Child Focusin Brussels. In many cases, the conduct of Child Focus personnel, in response to requests for assistance in searching for and recovering kidnapped and missing children, has been flagrantly criminal. Child Focus personnel have often conspired openly with pedophiles and traffickers among the police to cover up kidnapping and trafficking.

The claim that Child Focus personnel "help and spread the information about missing children by publishing their pictures and descriptions in newspapers, magazines, etc." is also false. Child Focus personnel have refused to cooperate in many cases. Thus, the public is unaware of many missing children.

The statement that "Child Focus was created on Jean-Denis Lejeune's initiative in June 1996, one year after the abduction of his daughter Julie and her friend Melissa by Marc Dutroux" is also false. As Wikipedia maintains, statements must be backed up by verifiable sources. None is provided in this article. That is because the statement is incorrect and the article was posted as advertising. The story is a recent invention by Child Focus personnel. In fact, Child Focus was first suggested to the Belgian prime minister, Jean-Luc Deheane, by the American Embassy in Brussels, to whom Deheane turned in desperation in mid-1996 when numerous Belgian government officials were implicated in the Dutroux pedophile scandal.

It was not Lejeune, as this article claims, but personnel of the American Embassy in Brussels who referred Dehaene to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in Arlington, Virginia. Deheane eventually led a small delegation to the State Department in Washington, D. C., and to the organization in Arlington to seek help. Above all, he sought to publicize an association with the U. S. State Department and the Arlington organization.

NCMEC personnel themselves have often been uncooperative in kidnapping cases and trafficking cases.

Child Focus was set up with funding from the Belgian government. A Belgian federal police official of dubious qualification remained in the office until it opened in 1998. There were occasional visits to Brussels by NCMEC personnel.