The couple formed by Ulises and Gloria continues with their fight so that the Government of the Canary Islands does not give up for adoption the child they have been fostering for two years and has now started a collection of signatures, together with the biological parents of the minor, through the change.org platform.
This marriage has been claiming since last June the permanent foster care of the child, which the General Directorate of Child and Family Protection intends to give "up for adoption". Something that both foster and biological parents oppose, who last month already carried out a protest in Arrecife.
In the collection of signatures that they have now started, they state that on August 28, 2018, the one that "the four consider their son" was born, explaining that a month later and "due to different circumstances of the biological parents, the General Directorate of Child and Family Protection declared the situation of provisional helplessness of the minor and decreed temporary family foster care for Ulises and Gloria.
This marriage insists that, during these two years, the minor has enjoyed "a peaceful childhood" in their company and making periodic visits to his biological parents." Time in which he affirms that the authorities "have not worried in any way about the well-being of the minor or the monitoring of the same."
However, he points out that "on October 15 of this year" they were notified "the confirmation of the provisional declaration of helplessness of the minor" declaring "his situation of adoptability." "This means snatching the child from his foster parents, placing him in a juvenile center until a decision is made on his adoption and preventing the minor from ever seeing his biological parents again," the writing accompanying the collection of signatures points out. "We cannot allow this situation to continue and that the only one harmed is a minor and his emotional stability", is added.
"The child's file does not appear anywhere"
In the same, they remember that this "infamous attitude" of the administration has meant that they have to file several criminal complaints against the Canarian Government. Specifically, as La Voz already reported, Ulises and Gloria filed two complaints in the Courts against the coordinator of the General Directorate of Child and Family Protection, one for insults and another for prevarication. The latter was also addressed against the general director of this area and against the Head of the Child Prevention and Protection Program.
In addition, as Ulises Montesdeoca has confirmed, they have also already filed a lawsuit to stop the adoption process of the minor, although he points out that the Court has not yet made a decision "because the child's file is missing" and "does not appear anywhere."
"20 business days have already passed and the administration has not given the judge the file," said this father, who believes that the General Directorate of Child and Family Protection is "delaying it, because on December 3 the contract expires" of temporary foster care