Resurrecting this thread once again.
For those thinking such events are rare or some kind of scare-mongering, here are articles from the Norwegian State Broadcasting company NRK with some admissions, facts and deep-dives into several cases. The investigative report was barely pushed through by the mayor of one commune, where several such child mistreatments happened.
In this case three kids were taken from their father and the siblings were split. The boys managed to persevere, though one, who is now 28, admits that he considered taking his own life, and did not do that only so as not to sadden his father. The girl suffered mental strain and is now in a psychiatric hospital for life. The single father worked shifts during their childhood, and on one occasion a social worked reported that he saw an empty refrigerator and a teacher reporting that one of the boys did not have food with him to school. The now-grown-up boy in question said in an interview that he gave away he food ration to a neighbour's dog as he didn't like eating at school. So the father not filling up the fridge and the boy not taking his food all the way to school resulted in the family torn asunder without parole. Teh commune will pay a monetary compensation, but 150000 NOK is not something that will repair their lives.
https://www.nrk.no/vestland/knusande-rapport-mot-barnevernet-i-samnanger_-_-ei-totalsvikt-1.14993512https://www.nrk.no/vestland/knusande-rapport-mot-barnevernet-i-samnanger_-_-ei-totalsvikt-1.14993512https://www.nrk.no/vestland/brorne-blei-feilaktig-henta-av-barnevernet_-_-eg-hadde-fa-vener.-sa-mista-eg-familien-1.15006795The last paragraph of the first article refers to a report from 2019 conducted by the State Health monitoring organisation which shows that such cases are numerous (
https://www.helsetilsynet.no/presse/nyhetsarkiv/2019/gjennomgang-av-106-barnevernsaker-om-akuttiltak-eller-omsorgsovertakelse/)
Then there is an article about a boy, who was forcibly taken from his mother and his sister and spent almost a year distribution zone, waiting for some family to adopt him. He ran way to spend Christmas with his mother, hid with relatives when the CPS and uniformed police came for him. Ultimately the police waited in ambush and 4 policemen took him away from his mother again "for his own good". In the end he, a 15-year-old, defended his case in the court and on a rare occasion managed to be returned to his mother and sister. Reason: mother had economic difficulties. The CPS used 3 million NOK to keep the boy imprisoned at the institution, money a fraction of which they could have used to give economic aid to the boy's mother.
https://www.helsetilsynet.no/presse/nyhetsarkiv/2019/gjennomgang-av-106-barnevernsaker-om-akuttiltak-eller-omsorgsovertakelse/And finally, a very rare admission, Sentral Party, supported by the Labour are calling CPS for "systemic crisis" and are calling for a full investigation of the practice:
https://www.nrk.no/nordland/krever-full-gransking-av-barnevernet_-_-dette-er-en-systemkrise-1.15038057
In the meantime, Russian independent TV channel NTV produced a 4-part documentary about the Lisov family's ordeal in Sweden, and several other similar cases, one other particular case coming from Denmark (only in Russian):
https://www.ntv.ru/peredacha/based_on_real_events/m75060/o595956/video/And the series on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5+%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%85+%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9