Bodnariu family to get children back following an agreement with the municipality of Naustdal in Norway

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Bodnariu family hs announced on Friday that it has reached an agreement with the municipality of Naustdal to get all five kids back home and called for observing the need for ‘calm and undisturbed privacy’ of the family in the coming days.

“The municipality Naustdal agreed with the parents to bring all five children home! Thank you all for your love, support, prayers and your commitment! May God bless you and reward you!” reads a release issued by family Bodnariu and signed by Pastor Cristian Ionescu.

The children of the Romanian IT engineer Marius Bodnariu and of his Norwegian wife Ruth, nurse, have been taken away after the two daughters of the couple, the eldest ones, allegedly have told that they were getting physical correction from their parents. At the same time, the Norwegian authorities argue that the parents were suspected of religious indoctrination.

The five children have been placed within three surrogate-families, while the international adoption procedure has been initiated in their case.

The Bodnariu family’s case in Norway, separated from the five children in December, has sparked extensive debate in the public and triggered a wave of reactions in the Romanian society and beyond.

In an exclusive interview for Ziare.com, the Child Welfare Service in Norway, Barnevernet, conveyed that “according to the Norwegian Children’s Act, religious reasons may not lie beneath a child’s placement in custody.”

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