Parents of 'Adolf Hitler' Lose Custody of Newborn

[apples and oranges]

Heath and Deborah Campbell, the New Jersey parents of three children with Nazi-inspired names, lost custody of their fourth child 17 hours after he was born, the Express-Times of Lehigh Valley, Pa., reported.

Hons Campbell was taken into custody by the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services late Thursday night after the doctor who delivered the baby called the agency, the paper reported.

The Campbell family stepped into the spotlight in December 2008 when a ShopRite grovery store declined to decorate a birthday cake for their son Adolf Hitler Campbell’s third birthday.

The state took custody of Adolf, along with his sisters JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Himler Jeannie Campbell, in January of 2009. The three children have remained in foster care ever since.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/parents-adolf-hitler-lose-custody-newborn-020633900.html

Do you think their freedom of speech is being violated?

[pacalo]

1. No; the following passage answers your question:

A DYFS spokesperson told ABCNews.com in 2009 that she could not comment on a specific case, but said children are only taken into custody if there is a suspicion of abuse or neglect.

“We would never remove a child simply based on their name,” the spokeswoman said.

Neighbor Lori Dilts told ABCNews.com at the time the children were taken that it was certainly not because of their names.

“Those children look outwardly healthy, but they didn’t have much freedom,” Dilts said.  “Occasionally, the little boy would come over here and would hate having to go back to his house.”

[onehandle]

2. Are these idiots trying to breed their own Westboro Baptist Church?

The only opinion I have is that these hillbillies are total jerks.

[Ilsa]

3. I suspect that if they are so enamored of Nazism, then they are

also the creepiest parents in the state. I doubt it is fun or even sane to be a child in that household.

[Bjorn Against]

4. I am generally a free speech absolutist...

I think this however is child abuse, those kids are going to be seriously emotionally scarred as a result of the way they will be treated because of their names. Any parent who choose that torment for their kids does not deserve to have kids. Most of the time when we talk about people forcing their beliefs on others we are not actually talking true force, this however is a true case of a person forcing their hateful beliefs on to their children, they are child abusers and I don't think they should be allowed to have kids.

[SoCalDem]

5. They need a guardian ad litem to file name-change papers for them

Adolf could be changed to David or Donald & the girls just need their middle names" removed"

There's no way that those legal names should follow them through school & their lives

[Blasphemer]

6. I totally agree...

Apparently there are other issues (lack of freedom probably means the children are not free to interact with the world normally due to their parents' hateful belief system) but I definitely think those horrible names in conjunction with forcing those types of beliefs on them is child abuse. A young child simply cannot socialize normally if they are indoctrinated in that way. My only issue is that under different circumstances, social services will attempt to address the parents' problems with a hope of reuniting the family. I wonder if there are programs that would be both appropriate and legal under these circumstances.