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The Ugly Truth about Child Focus

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 Alexandria, Virginia. Deheane eventually led a small delegation to the State Department in Washington, D. C., and to the organization in Alexandria to seek help. Above all, he sought to publicize an association with the U. S. State Department and the Alexandria 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.

U. S. State Department, Belgian Federal Police and NCMEC complicity in the traffic in children

Child Focus was established by the Belgian government with the assistance of NCMEC personnel. A Belgian federal police official from Brussels, Jeam Tooms, was assigned to the task in 1997.

An American consular official in Brussels, Ted Halstead, met routinely with NCMEC and Child Focus personnel.

It should be noted that in Child Focus's first weeks of operaton, Halstead, Tooms, and NCMEC personnel saw irrefutable documentary evidence of Child Focus complicity in fraud, kidnapping and the traffic in children but remained silent about it.

Child Focus personnel traffic in children

It was not the American Embassy in Brussels that referred Dehaene to NCMEC in the U. S. Dehaene's reasons for seeking association with NCMEC were entirely political. His government faced a pedophile scandal. He did not want to involve American police or the F. B. I. So he sought out an NGO.

It is true that Child Focus, from the first, was a front for pedophiles, traffickers and procurers, as the collusion of its personnel with pedophile rings demonstrated. Two case workers with Child Focus - Isabelle de Schrijver and Heidi De Pauw (pronounced "De Pyu") - are particularly notorious for their ties to kidnapping and trafficking rings. Personnel of NCMEC and numerous embassies in Brussels, including the American Embassy, were shown evidence of the fact early on. But the American Consulate ignored it. NCMEC refused to consider the matter.

Both de Schrijver and De Pauw are still with Child Focus.

They are just two criminals in Belgium using NGOs as a front for their activities. They have ties to many known homosexuals, pedophiles, fraudsters, traffickers, procurers in the Belgian government, Belgian NGOs, the Belgian Catholic Church and the Belgian press. The American Embassy in Brussels is probably still one of their contacts.

update telephone number

On 2009-04-17 Child Focus has send out a press release to inform that the will fade-out there old telephone number 110 and that the new telephone number is 116000. (116 telephone number).

It states that this number works now, besides in Belgium to call to child focus, currently in Hongarije, Polen, Nederland, Griekenland, Portugal, Roemenië en Slovakije. Soon also in France and Italy. You get there the local version of Child focus on the line.

Press release

--Walter (talk) 22:25, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed external link because of possible hijack

Just a head-up, I commented out the supposed official external link www.childfocus.be because it redirects to prize7580.nonamebiaso48.live. 84user (talk) 21:26, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]