The Shock and the Aftershock

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The Shock

Seven years after Danielle left us, I - Leif - got a phone call from DIS.

I was asked to see a psychologist to clarify something, which has happened while D stayed with us.

The psychologist told me that she had seen an e-mail from D accusing me for a sexual assault.

It should have happened one night when D slept in her room.

No further details were available as D passed out as I should have touched her.

D did not want to report it to the police.

I have not done it.  It is a false accusation. I sleep beside my wife, Kirsten, during nights. Getting up would wake her!

The Aftershock

We proposed a meeting with DIS, to read the mail and find out what it was all about. The only answer we got

    Thank You and Goodbye (clic)

The Fate of a Host Family (.pdf)

Leif has given the psychologist reasons for why it could not have happened. One was – Kirsten must have been at home when it was supposed to have happened.

What D wrote a few hours before she left See Visitors’ book.

We wanted to see the e-mail about the accusation and find out about the background for it.

Furthermore, we wanted to see D’s comments about us in the DIS'S archives  when she left Denmark.

But we were denied access to any  information about us as a host family.

DIS’s decision to deny access to the e-mails was in conflict to Danish Law!!! 

The secrecy around it is not consistent with  Western principles of law, but resembles a Franz Kafkaian system.

DIS' Board of Directors has approved of DIS' handling of the  case!!!

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You
sometimes end up in a situation you thought would never happen to you.

 

The Consequence

Until we know if the accusation is still on or Danielle has dropped it, we cannot go to the USA!

We cannot get any  information about:

 when it was supposed to have happened,

(the first night she slept in our house, the last night or in which of the four months?)

how the American authorities have been informed about it

Danielle´s decision  about the accusation

any further details about the accusation.

Absurd?

A show case?

See next page  

 

 

All personal names except our names have been kept anonymous.

     Experiences
    Getting to know 
    A Success Story
    The Shock
    Goodbye
    A Lesson to Learn
 

About DIS from their  website:
“ DIS is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen and recognized, supervised, and financially supported by the Danish government.”
“DIS is committed to the continual improvement of control and quality development in order to secure the highest possible standards.”

 and what we learned:

despite all the efforts  DIS has lost its complete file of complains up to 2005, "unfortunately" including all the information about our case!

An additional copy of all the documentation in a seperate file had been lost at the same time, "unfortunately".

In June 2007, the Danish Data Protection Agency recommended DIS to re-train their staff in  e-mail handling and document control!

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