THE AMERICAN FATHER IN SWITZERLAND IGNORED BY HIGH-UP GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN BOTH THE U.S.A. AND SWITZERLAND, WHILE HIS TWO SONS CONTINUE TO SUFFER IN SWISS CPS CUSTODY FOR MORE THAN 3 YEARS

(Screenshot of Neal Sutz, from Twitter)

The case of an American whose two children have been legally kidnapped by Swiss authorities has heated up.

On July 25^th, 2017, Neal Sutz two children were taken temporarily by the Switzerland version of Child Protective Services which is called SPMi.

More than three years later, the two children remain in the custody of SPMi.

Sutz story has been covered extensively; for instance, the website, MedicalKidnap, covered their story in July 2019: It was also previously covered by NOQ Report and Northwest Liberty News. 

Sutz also wrote a book entitled: “Scream of Silence – A Father’s Unfathomable Story to Save His Sons”.

The Set Up

Sutz left the State of Arizona in 2017 after receiving proof of child molestation allegations against the family of Sutz then wife, Cortnie.

Sutz, whose mother was born in Switzerland, was thereby both American by birth, as well as a Swiss citizen.

He, his wife, and two children moved to Switzerland at the end of June 2017.

On July 14 or 15, 2017, his wife had an episode and tried to kill herself and her son.

“It was during the night of July 14 or 15, 2017, that Cortnie, who suffers from serious psychiatric disorders as a result of the abuse she suffered throughout her life at the hands of her family and their associates, made then much worse by her exposure to seeing her nephew being molested by his step-father (also non-biological grandfather) on video tried to end her life in our apartment in Geneva, with severe serious threats of committing a double suicide with our son,” Sutz said in a lawsuit he filed last year.

Sutz continued that he got the situation under control, “Fortunately, I was able to retrieve Skyler from Cortnie’s grasp, place him in safety in a separate room and then talk Cortnie out of killing herself.”

Though the situation was eventually calmed down, SPMi came to visit Neal and his two sons less than 24 hours later saying they were concerned about the well-being of the two boys.

“Just nine days later, on July 25, 2017, completely as a surprise to me, social workers from Geneva’s Child Protective Services (further referred to as SPMi), in company with multiple doctors, nurses, social workers, and two HUG (Geneva University Hospital) hospital security guards, tore both my sons from my arms, during a physical exam, and placed them immediately in a small hospital room in the pediatric ward of HUG.” Sutz stated in the same lawsuit. “The SPMi and HUG Hospital authorities then had me physically removed from the HUG Hospital, by two security guards, having shown me no paperwork whatsoever, upon seizure of my sons, and told me only, ‘We are keeping your sons here at the hospital. Get a lawyer.’”

The nightmare was only beginning

Here is some more from the Medical Kidnap article.

“His wife is allegedly part of an influential family in the Mormon Church in Arizona. She claims, and has testified in court, that she and other members of her family were sexually abused as children, and she feared her own children were in danger. (Link to her handwritten letter submitted in court.)

“Both boys are special needs children needing medical care, and shortly after arriving in Switzerland, they were allegedly medically kidnapped under the authority of Swiss child protective services (SPMi) after their mother experienced a psychotic breakdown in Geneva.

“SPMi brought in an American psychiatrist living in Geneva, Dr. Daniel Scott Schechter, to handle the Sutz case.

“One of Dr. Schechter’s special interests is the effect of mothers with post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) on their children. He was the winner of an award for this work shortly after taking on the Sutz boys’ case (link), and continues to win awards for his work on studying the effects of mothers with PTSD on their children. (2019 award link.)

“Neal has been fighting the system for over 2 years (3 years and 3 weeks as of the publication of this article) to try and get his children back, and even took out a full page advertisement in the Washington Times to publish a letter written to President Donald Trump asking him to intervene in Switzerland. He does not believe President Trump or anyone (high-up loyalists to President Trump) in his administration ever saw it.”

ISS (International Social Services)

Recently, Sutz discovered a shadowy group called the International Social Services (ISS), which Sutz told me was the “International CPS.”

They have been involved in the Sutz Family case for about three years according to court-certified documents, from just days after the boys were first seized.

Sutz even claims, and offers extensive written documentation, that the US State Department was in cahoots with ISS and SPMi.

I reached out to ISS and Swiss CPS but received no response.

The Bivens Suit

All these allegations are part of an explosive lawsuit which he filed in April 2020.

It is called a Bivens action and the lawsuit is below.

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A Bivens action is named after the 1971 US Supreme Court Case Bivens Vs. Six Unnamed Agents. A Bivens action, “generally refers to a lawsuit for damages when a federal officer who is acting in the color of federal authority allegedly violates the U.S. Constitution by federal officers acting,” according to Cornell Law.

The U.S. State Department

A State Department official provided this statement, “The U.S. Embassy in Switzerland is aware of the case. Due to privacy considerations, we have no further comment.”

The official continued explaining what services an American abroad would receive in Neal’s situation, “Regarding support provided by consular officers, consular officers generally provide all appropriate consular services to U.S. citizens overseas. Consular assistance may include:  attempting to monitor the legal process and access to legal counsel; visiting U.S. citizens to ensure that they are receiving humane treatment, including medical treatment if needed; and with the individual’s permission, facilitating communications with their families or others as they wish.”

Remarkably, Sutz filed his lawsuit on April 27, 2020, by April 30, 2020, it was dismissed.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson

The judge who dismissed it is one who has found her way into the news a lot recently: Judge Amy Berman Jackson.

Judge Jackson presided over the trials of Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.

Just on August 10, 2020, Judge Jackson made a significant ruling on executive privilege. Here is part of a story in Politico.

“A federal judge has rebuffed the Trump administration’s attempt to invoke executive privilege to withhold a batch of emails about a hold President Donald Trump put on U.S. aid to Ukraine in 2019.

“U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Monday that the government had failed to make a convincing showing that the 21 messages between White House aide Robert Blair and Office of Management and Budget official Michael Duffey were eligible for protection under legal privileges protecting the development of presidential advice or decisions made by other government officials.”

In the Sutz case, she seemed to have dismissed the case before the lawsuit was even served to the defendants. She ruled before the defendants themselves had provided a legal reasoning for the case to be dismissed.

Sutz insisted to me that her legal reasoning was defective. That is difficult to assess, but even if Sutz lawsuit should have been dismissed, it is rare a judge decides to dismiss it before the defendant has had an opportunity to raise an argument.

I called her chambers for an explanation but received no response.

Daniel Scott Schechter, M.D.

Another interesting detail in this case is the presence of Dr. Daniel Scott Schechter. Dr. Schechter is a world-renowned child psychiatrist.

In 2019, he received the Sandor Ferenczi Award, which is given yearly “ the best published psychoanalytically-oriented clinical or research paper on trauma and/or dissociation in adults or children,” according to the award’s page.

Dr. Schechter was an American working at the University of Geneva who was summoned onto the case before the boys were even seized at the Geneva University Hospital.

Medical Kidnap had more, “As we stated in the introduction, SPMi brought in an American psychiatrist living in Geneva, Dr. Daniel Schechter, to handle the Sutz case.

“The first thing he reportedly did, was to go visit Cortnie at Belle-Idée, the Psychiatric Hospital of The Canton of Geneva.

“Dr. Schechter’s is world-renowned for studying the effect of mothers with post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) on their children. He was the winner of an award for this work shortly after taking on the Sutz boys’ case (link), and continues to win awards for his work on studying the effects of mothers with PTSD on their children. (2019 award link).”

The article continued, “After Cortnie’s 60-day confinement was over, Dr. Schechter reportedly advised SPMi to allow her to have almost unlimited visitation rights to the two boys, while advising that Neal have very limited contact with them, and requiring Neal to get psychiatric treatment.

“So the mother, who had just spent 60 days in a psych ward for an attempted double suicide, was granted more visitation rights than the father, who was previously a successful writer and film producer for mental health advocacy work.”

It is noteworthy that Cortnie eventually left Switzerland, have already signed the rights to her children to Neal before the Sutz family even came to Switzerland. Switzerland’s Family Court never acknowledged the validity of that American document.

Sutz told me that Dr. Schechter was and continues to be instrumental in keeping him away from his two sons.

I reached out to Dr. Schechter at the University of Geneva, but he did not respond to my questions.

Recent Media

Since the Spring 2020, Neal has been able to get all sorts of new attention.

He has appeared several times on The Steel Truth with Ann Vandersteel, with RedPill 78, Jeff Dornik, Eric Matheny, National File, and others.

All that media attention culminated in three Arizona political candidates coming out publicly in backing Sutz.

Two of the candidates - Steve Robinson and Shelby Busch - were write-in candidates for the Arizona legislature, but the third - Josh Barnett - recently won his primary for the US Congress in the 7^th District as a Republican.

The three initially put a statement on video on July 25, 2020.

     (the three politicians making their announcement from left to right: Robinson, Barnett, and Busch)

“We are Arizona candidates,” Busch says in the video speaking for the three, “that have been provided extensive files, and videos, and audio footage regarding a case of a father and his two sons. We are here today to make a diplomatic demand.”

Barnett continued, “We are here this evening to formally and collectively make disclosure demand as a matter of international humanitarian urgency in support of an American citizen and father, Neal David Sutz, and his two sons, who have been detained by the Child Protective Services in Switzerland for three years now.”

The video was put out on the three-year anniversary of the seizure.

I spoke with Busch and she said Sutz’ case is like many she’s been exposed to.

“You’re talking to somebody who’s seen a lot of corruption within the CPS and DCS system,” Busch said, “A lot of people are under the impression that these organizations are just about protecting children and that mistakes can sometimes happen. I guess I’ve been looking into this too long to realize that’s not really the case.”

She said in 95 percent of CPS cases she believes people are denied due process, “In Neal’s case, he was most definitely denied any form of due process.”

She continued, “There’s no crime committed here. Neal’s not being charged with harming his kids, sexually abusing his kids, doing drugs.”

Busch said one thing which stands out about this case is the US government’s failure to protect its citizens, “Our government is not doing its job to protect American citizens from this kind of egregious intrusion into our lives by foreign governments.”

I had been working on my own article when he sent me an email on July 31, 2020, stating in part, “If there is anything else you need re details to finish the article, I have to ask you to do it yourself.  I received one more severe warning this afternoon here in Switzerland and I am now off social media totally and not doing any more interviews for the foreseeable future.”

I would speak again with Sutz, after having contacted the State Department, Dr. Schechter, and others, and he sounded more hopeful, but he has done only one brief interview in August.

Conversation with Omar Agustoni, Swiss Film Maker and Journalist

 I spoke with Omar Agustoni to get some context on all this.

 Agustoni is the only person to produce a documentary to examine the Swiss social service system; that documentary is entitled, “Trees of Shame – Switzerland’s Crimes Against Children.” Sutz and Agustoni initially met last Autumn when a mutual acquaintance

Introduced the two of them, this meeting resulting in Sutz translating the film from its original French/Italian version into English, including both English subtitles and Sutz doing an English voiceover.

 “For the last five years, I see this reality every day, “Agustoni said, “The system is well built by psychologists and judges: they all work together.”

 Besides Agustoni’s film, Swiss CPS was previously the subject of scandal when it was revealed that many foster children had been turned into “slave children.”

 Neal had mentioned that he believed that approximately as many people were in foster care in Switzerland as in the US; this would be a dramatic number given that the population of the US is 330 million people while in Switzerland is about 8.57 million.

 I asked Agustoni about this, but he said it was impossible to know because the government does not compile such statistics, despite the Swiss Government’s detailed statistics on the swiss cattle population throughout that Alpine nation.

 Neal also mentioned that due to Switzerland being a socialist state, the free speech is not altogether free.

 Agustoni explained that about 90% of all media was financed by the government and as such journalists need to tip toe around sensitive topics like a broken social service system.

 Mr. Agustoni had only this to say in conclusion, “How long will this go on before this father’s two sons are unconditionally returned to him? How many more powerful politicians and journalists will choose to bury the nightmare story of this wrongly persecuted father and his two, now horrifically sad, abused and alienated sons?”