Call from Fabrizio Barretta on social networks: “Help me, they want to move my 4-year-old son to England”

“I am desperate, help me express this injustice.” The message published on Facebook by Fabrizio Barretta ends with this appeal, introducing himself as follows: “I am a divorced father with a 4 and a half year old boy named Christian who lives with me in Quarto (NA)”. For a few years, Barretta lived in England, but as of 2021, she resides in Italy with her son. Or at least for now. Indeed, due to a bureaucratic technicality, the Naples juvenile court ordered a new transfer of the little Christian to British territory. “I would like to point out – writes Barretta – that the mother of the child, also Italian, still lives there but cannot keep the child with her because she has mental health problems, more precisely a personality disorder “. According to what the man said on Facebook, British authorities had taken the woman away from her ex-husband and her son in 2021, “because she was violent and unstable.” The judges in the Campania capital demanded that Christian be sent back to England, where he will not be able to live with his mother.

“He would be put into foster care and I would completely lose track of him because I can’t go back to England. There, I have no house, no job, no family or friends who can accommodate me or help me,” writes Fabrizio Barretta. To complicate this step, there would also be a language barrier. The man adds on Facebook : “I am Italian, the mother is Italian and the child is Italian. Christian does not know English, he suffers from a speech impediment and has difficulty speaking. He would find himself in an unfamiliar environment , without anyone capable of understanding and/or helping him.” Barretta said that at the last hearing, the prosecutor and social workers “spoke against the decision to transfer Christian, believing that this act would be detrimental to the child's safety.” Despite this, the judges decreed the transfer of little Christian, leaving his father with only one option: make his appeal public and hope that someone will listen.

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