Ruth And Joseph Breton : Ruth Ortiz Spent For The First Time Mother's Day Without Her Two Children.

Two days after declaring for the first time before the judge, Ruth Ortiz, the mother of two missing children from Cordoba, last seen seven months ago, spent her first Mother's Day alone without her two children Joseph 2 and 6 year old Ruth . Ruth Ortiz is now convinced  that her ex-husband, Joseph Breton, killed the toddlers for revenge: "He is a murderer and while they were away, killed them and hid them," she said during a ceremony at the gates of the prison Alcolea (Córdoba), where the children's father has been incarcerated since last October.

Ruth Ortiz accompanied by one hundred cyclists marched from the bridge of El Arenal of Cordoba to the provincial prison to demand the release of her two children. "I am very grateful for all who come. Thanks for helping us remember that my children are still missing," said Ortiz.

During the march Ruth Ortiz made ​​a stop at the estate of the Quemadillas owned by the family of Joseph Breton and where the search for the missing children has been concentrated on by the police.  After hanging up some posters with photos of  her children, their mother said she  feels "powerless".

Ortiz said she did not feel anything special for it being the Mother's Day: "Any day is the same without my children. I have no hopes of finding them."

The ceremony ended with the release of doves at the door of of the prisons gate. An hour and fifteen minutes before the march reached the vicinity of the prison, the parents of Joseph Breton were seen leaving in a taxi after visiting with their son.

#Mallorca :Spanish doctor ordered to pay for the upkeep of a child after a failed abortion

An expectant mother having an ultrasound scan. The mother of the child born in Palma de Mallorca had a scan which she was wrongly told showed the abortion had been a success. Photograph: Chad Ehlers/Getty Images

 

A Spanish doctor has been ordered to pay for the upkeep of a child after a failed abortion operation meant the boy's mother was obliged to see her pregnancy through to the end.

In a unique case, a court in Palma de Mallorca ordered the unnamed doctor to pay almost €1,000 (£800) a month in maintenance for the child until he reaches his 25th birthday.

"There has never been a case like this before in Spain," said Eva Munar, lawyer for the 24-year-old mother. "We don't know if it has ever happened anywhere else in the world."

The boy was born in October 2010, six months after his mother had gone for an abortion at the city's Emece clinic. The operation had been performed when the mother was almost seven weeks pregnant. The doctor told her two weeks later that a scan proved she was no longer pregnant.

In his sentence, Judge Francisco Pérez said the doctor had paid virtually no attention to the scan, though Munar said the clinic had not produced a copy.

"The scan lasted three minutes and I was out again," the mother told journalists on Thursday. "It was: 'You are fine, off you go and carry on with your life as normal.' " She did not return to the clinic for three months, and only after becoming convinced she must have become pregnant by mistake once more.

A fresh scan revealed, however, that this was the same pregnancy. She was already into her sixth month and past the 22-week limit for abortions in Spain. "I sought advice and was told that it would be a crime to abort at that stage," she said.

The woman, who had hidden her pregnancy from her family out of fear at their reaction, was forced to confront her parents with the news. She and the child now live with them. Despite the fact that a suction technique had been used to try to remove the embryo, the boy was born healthy.

The mother sued the doctor for damages, with the court awarding her €150,000 (£120,000). It also decided the doctor and his insurer should pay maintenance of €978 a month for 25 years, or a further €293,000.

"I am living off my parents now, and it shouldn't be like that," the mother said.

Among other things, Pérez pointed out that the mother had suffered huge stress because she did not know whether her child would be born healthy after the failed abortion attempt.

The consequences of the doctor's error, Perez said, would be with the mother forever.

"I am OK now, because I have had to accept things. There is no other option. I'm happy with my son," she said. "When I have to explain all this to him, I'll try to make sure that he feels OK about it. It was back then that he was not wanted, not now."

Munar said: "Obviously this has changed her life. This is not what she was planning and she certainly didn't expect it to happen after visiting the clinic.

"I am just glad the child was born healthy and we didn't have to bring a different kind of negligence case."

The doctor's lawyers are reportedly set to appeal against the decision.

Source : The Guardian

#Bedindorm:Andrew Dmytruk Held In A Spanish Jail For 17 Months Without Trial.

A mentally disabled British man, held in a Spanish jail for 17 months without trial, has become suicidal and should be released, his elderly mother said yesterday.

Andrew Dmytruk, 51, who was brain damaged after contracting meningitis as a baby, has been on remand since being accused of arson when a fire broke out in his Benidorm hotel in December 2010. His widowed mother, Doris O'Brien, who insists he is innocent, said he recently became so desperate that he slashed his wrists and throat.

"He couldn't stand it any more. This chap found him lying in his own blood, convulsing. He so nearly died," said Mrs O'Brien, 77. "It is disgusting. He was 13 stone when he went into prison. Now he is about eight stone, his bones are sticking out and he has lost teeth. He can't eat the food so he is refusing it.

"He is like a 10-year-old, quite jovial but when he gets mad he has childish tantrums. He can't understand why he is in jail and nor can I. He has never harmed anybody, never been in trouble with anybody," said the retired factory supervisor from Nottinghamshire, who has been borrowing money from family to fly to Spain monthly.

Mr Dmytruk's case has now been taken up by the charity Fair Trials International, which is calling for him to be either tried swiftly or released on bail. Its chief executive, Jago Russell, said yesterday: "Andrew has been held in prison for nearly 18 months with no trial date in sight. We are very concerned for his well-being so far away from home, in a world he struggles to understand, and hope the Spanish authorities deal with the case as quickly as possible and reconsider the decision to keep him in prison."

Mr Dmytruk was holidaying with his mother when a fire broke out in the early hours of the morning in a fourth floor room of the Ambassador Playa Hotel. The guests, who were mostly British, had to be evacuated and several were treated for smoke inhalation.
Despite his mother's assertions that he was asleep in their room on the second floor at the time, the hotel claimed he had been spotted on CCTV near the site of the fire. Mrs O'Brien said her son was terrified when he was arrested and taken away by Spanish police: "He just screamed, 'Mum what are they taking me for? What have I done?' It was terrible. I was in that much shock that I didn't know what to do."

Mrs O'Brien, who has been Mr Dmytruk's sole carer for many years, said that on 21 December 2010, he returned from a night out with friends and mistakenly got out of the lift on the 4th floor but was "fast asleep" in his room when the alarm was raised.

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