斯坦福大学华裔科学家夫妇“教训”孩子被拘捕

Pictured is Charlotte Fu, of Palo Alto. She and her husband Suwen Wang were arrested in Cass County, Nebraska in early June after witnesses reported one of the parents was seen slapping their son across the face, while the family attended an art competition. The son and their daughter were placed into a foster home while their parents' legal situation is sorted out. However, this is causing a delay in the daughter's travels to another art competition with international implications. (Courtesy the Cass County Sheriff's Office)

 
Pictured is Suwen Wang, of Palo Alto. He and his wife Charlotte Fu were arrested in Cass County, Nebraska in early June after witnesses reported one of the parents was seen slapping their son across the face, while the family attended an art competition. The son and their daughter were placed into a foster home while their parents' legal situation is sorted out. However, this is causing a delay in the daughter's travels to another art competition with international implications. (Courtesy the Cass County Sheriff's Office )

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　　【侨报记者7月8日南湾报道】一对居住在帕洛阿图的华裔夫妇因涉嫌在外州对自己小孩动粗，遭到当局强行把他们的子女送往当地家庭寄养监管。他们的行为非但惹上了官司，也成了英文报纸《圣荷西水星报》的头条新闻。

　　高知夫妇旅途遭报警

　　据报道，在斯坦福大学从事研究工作的物理学家王苏文（译音：Suwen Wang)和他妻子夏洛特傅（Charlotte Fu），上个月初在内布拉斯州开车途中因“殴打”他们的小孩，被目击者发现报警吃上官司。他们不仅被拘押，其子女也被寄养监护在当地一个家庭超过一个月。7日上午，王和傅在该州奥马哈（Omaha)的法庭出庭，试图说服法官允许他们的孩子回到家。

　　王是一位访问学者，曾在汉森物理实验室上班；傅从事法律工作。他们的12岁女儿在南湾库柏蒂诺市师从方云华老师学画，不久前参加联合国环保组织的绘画比赛获北美地区大奖。上个月6日，这对夫妇偕同13岁儿子和12岁获奖女儿，开车赴内布拉斯加州奥马哈市参加颁奖活动。

　　根据报道描述，一位目击者告诉警方，在奥马哈市外停靠在路边的一辆车上，瞧见一对父母殴打他们13岁的儿子。警方透露，这位目击者先发现傅走出车辆，“教训”坐在后座的男孩；随后，又看见王从前座转身殴打了他的儿子脸部。

　　夫妇被拘捕儿女被监管

　　这样的行径在当地引起轩然大波。非但王和傅双双被捕，关押在当地看守所两个晚上，在每人支付250元保释金后获释，他们的儿子和女儿也被当局送到当地的一个监护机构看管。

　　这对夫妇在奥马哈的辩护律师尼尔森（Michael Nelson)说明道，傅朝男孩动粗是因儿子在车上不断欺负妹妹，并咒骂傅，以致夫妇俩停下车来“教训”儿子，整个事件大约持续了20分钟。律师还表示，这名男孩并没有受到任何伤害。

　　可是，奥马哈当地报纸引用警方的报告指出，傅因鼻子被割伤血从脸上流出；他们的小孩也受到“搅扰”。当地法院指定的监护人还要求没收王和傅的美国护照，禁止他们前往韩国参加8月17日举行的联合国大奖颁奖典礼。

　　从奥马哈当地的文件显示，傅以她女儿的名义向当局提出了特殊的请求，希望能够让女儿返回加州家。她称整个事件与她女儿毫无关系，现在却成了无辜的受害者。为参加比赛女儿花了6年时间，赴韩国领奖是她一生难得的机会。如果无法前往将会毁了她。

　　东西方文化差异教训惨重

　　内布拉斯加州卫生和人类服务的官员奥斯特曼（Kathie Osterman)坦言，这类涉及跨州的因父母向小孩动粗，并由当地福利部门监护小孩的案例并不多见。她证实，法院已命令监视寄养小孩与父母沟通的电子邮件和电话记录。

　　针对英文媒体的报道，王和傅拒绝加以评论。不过，获奖女儿的绘画老师方云华表示，此事件凸现了东西方文化对子女教育的差异，无疑对在美的华裔家庭是个警训。

　　他透露，事实上，王和傅对子女非常疼爱，也极为重视他们的教育，女儿来学画父母都是全程陪同。为此，方云华等人起草信函给法院，说明事实真相。

　　同时，湾区十多位同情支持王和傅的民众，8日还特别前往当地法院表示声援。

　　根据最新消息，内布拉斯加当地法院已同意，允准王和傅的儿子和女儿于本周末从该州的寄养家庭返回加州社会服务厅指定的监护机构。至于何时全家团聚，还有待加州法庭作出裁决。

Palo Alto parents fight for children's return from Nebraska foster care

By Patrick May

Mercury News
Posted: 07/07/2009 06:16:41 PM PDT
Updated: 07/08/2009 09:02:50 AM PDT


A Stanford University physicist and his wife, whose kids have been held in a Nebraska foster home for more than a month after an ugly family altercation, will appear this morning in a courtroom outside Omaha, hoping to persuade a judge to let their children come back home.

The bizarre chain of events began when the couple — Suwen Wang, a visiting scholar at Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, and his wife, paralegal Charlotte Fu — traveled to Nebraska last month so their 12-year-old daughter, Alice, could be honored in an international art competition. On June 6, a witness told police the parents had hit their son, 13, while their car was parked on a road outside Omaha.

"This is an Orwellian nightmare," said Larry Markosian, a computer scientist at NASA/Ames Research Institute and longtime friend of Wang and his family.

"Every family occasionally has difficulty raising kids, especially teenage boys. I don't know what happened. But we know they are a loving and kind family and we see no reason whatsoever to keep these kids in a foster home so far from the community they grew up in."

Both Wang and Fu deny striking their son.

According to police, a witness saw Fu get out of their car and punch the boy, sitting in the back seat, in the face several times. The couple's Omaha attorney, Michael Nelson, said "there was an incident with their son. He was needling his sister, and they pulled over to discipline him," he
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said. "He used an expletive to his mom, but beyond that I can't go into specifics."

Nelson said the incident lasted "probably for 20 minutes or so, as they lectured the son. A witness made the call after watching from their front lawn."

No formal charges

After the boy allegedly pushed his mom away, police said, Wang turned around from the front seat and also hit him several times in the face. Nelson said the boy was not treated for any injuries. Wang and Fu were arrested and kept in jail for two nights before posting a $250 cash bond each, said Nelson, adding that they had not been formally charged in the abuse case.

Wang and Fu declined to comment to the Mercury News about the incident. The Mercury News is not naming the boy because of the nature of the case.

But according to accounts in the Omaha World-Herald, the responding officer said Fu had blood on her face from a cut on her nose and that the children appeared to be upset.

The couple and their attorneys hope to persuade the judge to allow Nebraska child-welfare officials to work with their California counterparts and speed the children's return back home.

Alice's paintings clinched the North American division of the 2009 International Children's Painting Competition and the parents hope she'll be able to travel to South Korea for an Aug. 17 ceremony where the worldwide winner will be announced.

Nelson suggested that the parents' ethnicity may be playing a role in the case. "The parents and children are all U.S. citizens," said their attorney. But the court-appointed guardian for the children is trying to take away their passports.

"These are people of Chinese descent, and it's as if authorities see some dark cloud here or fear there's something more to this than this one incident."

However, the Omaha paper referred to "California documents" that state Wang and Fu have "a 'previous history of domestic violence,' explaining that the father restrained the mother after she threatened to leave during a 2008 argument."

In an interview with the Omaha paper, Fu seemed to be making a special plea to authorities on her daughter's behalf, saying "this whole thing has nothing to do with Alice. She has become the ultimate victim." And traveling to South Korea "would be a lifetime opportunity for her. It would be devastating for her to not go."

Kathie Osterman with Nebraska's Department of Health and Human Services said her agency "is working with California to get the kids back home. I don't know what the time frame might be, because there are a lot of people to work with on this."

Paul Sullivan, the Cass County deputy attorney handling the matter, did not return phone calls for comment.

Osterman could not say how unusual it was for authorities to remove children from parents visiting from another state and hold them for weeks so far from home. She did confirm that the court order required the foster family to monitor the children's e-mail and telephone calls with their parents.

And it was details like that that have rallied dozens of supporters to the parents' side, including 10 who have made the trip to Nebraska for today's court hearing.

Emotional plea

Nebraska officials said they are simply carrying out a court order meant to protect the children. But Markosian, who is the boy's assistant scoutmaster and who helped organize a news conference Tuesday evening at the Omaha Children's Museum, said Nebraska was guilty of overkill.

"These kids are very much involved in the Palo Alto community, with Boy Scouts, art and Chinese lessons," said Markosian. "And they are being ripped away from not only their family but from their whole community."

Markosian on Tuesday read aloud from an e-mail he says Alice sent June 17 to her parents.

"Dear Mom and Dad," it said. We "love you a lot. Remember that. We know you're doing everything you can to bring us back home and we are very thankful. Love you a lot."

Markosian said the girl signed her e-mail with 10 exclamation points.

他们动手的时候没注意前后左右的吗

Published Thursday July 9, 2009
Artist, brother returning to Calif.

By Karyn Spencer
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER


PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. — A young award-winning artist and her brother will return to California after spending a month in Nebraska foster care.

More than a dozen family friends flew from California and overflowed a Cass County courtroom, where a judge Wednesday approved an agreement to have authorities supervise the case in the family's hometown of Palo Alto, Calif.

California authorities ultimately will decide whether 12-year-old Alice Fuzi Wang may go to an art award ceremony in South Korea next month, but her mother's attorney expressed confidence.

“I'd say Alice is going to South Korea,” attorney Chris Costantakos said after the hearing, drawing a round of applause from family supporters.

The unusual foster care case started in June, when Wang's family traveled to Omaha for an art exhibit featuring a painting by Alice that won the North American division of the International Children's Painting Competition.

Parents Suwen Wang, a physicist, and Charlotte Fu, a paralegal, who had been taking their family to the airport after a short trip to Nebraska City, were accused of hitting their son June 6 during a roadside argument in Plattsmouth. The parents deny the allegation and declined to comment further.

The children were placed in foster care. The parents were arrested and spent a weekend in jail, and prosecutor Paul Sullivan said Wednesday that criminal charges still are pending.

As the case stretched on, the parents returned to California and worried that Alice wouldn't be able to attend the Aug. 17 global painting award ceremony. Their attorneys ramped up legal maneuvering and publicly criticized the delay. Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services officials said earlier this week that their staff followed procedures.

The children visited their parents and friends Tuesday at an Omaha hotel.

Before Wednesday's hearing, Californians held banners outside the historic brick courthouse in downtown Plattsmouth, getting a honk from a black pickup with what looked like a Rottweiler riding in back.

Family friends were stunned that the family's two-day trip to Nebraska had turned into what they called a nightmare.

Justin Zheng, 14, said the Wangs' son sent him a text message shortly after his parents' arrest.

“In the beginning, he kind of liked it here,” said Justin, who since has kept up with his friend through Facebook and phone calls. “Now he'd much rather be with his family and friends.”

Attorneys and child-welfare officials in both states spent much of the week hammering out an agreement to have California officials take over the case, and Cass County Judge John Steinheider approved the plan Wednesday.

A California court petition will allow a caseworker there to oversee the family and provide services, such as education programs or therapy.

“The most important thing has been lost: This is a case that involved alleged child abuse,” Nebraska HHS attorney Susan Buettner said at the hearing.

A Nebraska HHS employee will chaperone the children on their soon-to-be-scheduled flights and turn them over to California authorities, who will decide when the children can be placed at home.

“It's been very hard, very hard,” Fu said, holding back tears. “I just hope the kids can be home.”

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Family, friends back parents

by Karyn Spencer
World-Herald News Service
Published: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 8:46 AM CDT

Friends of Alice Wang's family will be traveling from California to Plattsmouth to support her parents at a Wednesday court hearing to get the children returned home from foster care. Alice is the young artist who was placed in a Nebraska foster home after her parents allegedly hit her brother in the face on their way home from an Omaha art exhibit that featured Alice's painting, which won the North American art competition. The family is trying to get her free in time to attend the global competition in South Korea next month. The mother's lawyer also has filed new motions to get the case dropped.Family friends back the parents and plan to attend a Wednesday hearing.

California authorities are willing to take over the juvenile court case of a young award-winning artist and her brother, who have been in a Nebraska foster home since an argument during a family trip a month ago, court documents say.

Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services authorities are working this week with their California counterparts, hoping to develop recommendations before a Wednesday court hearing, a top official said Monday.

Meantime, friends of Alice Fuzi Wang, 12, and her 13-year-old brother are traveling today from their hometown of Palo Alto, Calif., to attend the hearing in Plattsmouth, Neb.

Dozens of friends and colleagues signed a petition and wrote letters supporting parents Suwen Wang and Charlotte Fu and asking for the children's return.

"These are highly educated, well-respected people," family friend Sharon Silverman said Monday by phone. "They are devoted to their children. This is just frightening."

Attorneys for the children's parents have filed a flurry of

motions to at least allow Alice to attend an international art competition next month, if not dismiss the case entirely.

The family had traveled to Omaha for an art exhibit that features Alice's painting, which won the North American division of the International Children's Painting Competition.

The family was scheduled to go to an Aug. 17 ceremony in South Korea where the worldwide winner will be announced.

That plan was upended when Wang, a physicist, and Fu, a paralegal, were accused of hitting their son June 6 in Plattsmouth. The family was passing through after a brief trip to Nebraska City before their flight left Omaha for home, said the father's attorney, Michael D. Nelson.

Both parents deny striking their son.

Their friends describe the couple as loving, devoted parents with talented children involved in many activities. Several friends said the son is a typical rebellious adolescent.

Lawrence Markosian, the son's Boy Scout leader and family friend for 10 years, was stunned that the roadside incident has kept the children nearly 2,000 miles from home. "This Orwellian nightmare should be ended at once," he wrote.

A Nebraska HHS caseworker told the parents Thursday that the department will begin the process to transfer the case to California, according to an e-mail filed in court.

HHS staff members are trying to protect and look out for the children's needs and develop a plan, which takes time, said Todd Reckling, director of the children and family services division. The agency hopes to have at least a partial plan ready for Wednesday's hearing, he said.

Nelson said that the case transfer should have happened within days.

In an unusual step, the parents reported themselves to California's social services department based on the Nebraska allegations, hoping to speed the children's return, Nelson said. "That's how much these parents care about their kids," he said.

California officials have proposed "an informal supervision agreement," according to a motion by the parents' attorneys, Nelson and Chris Costantakos.

The agreement would require the parents to complete a 16-week "Parenting Without Violence" program, continue family therapy, allow social worker visits, refrain from corporal punishment and complete other services requested, according to a copy of the agreement filed in court.

The case could return to court in California if the parents don't comply, the agreement says.

California documents also say the family has a "previous history of domestic violence," explaining that the father restrained the mother after she threatened to leave during a 2008 argument.

The parents' attorneys also have objected to HHS' restrictions on communication between the parents and children. The case manager had required the family's monitored conversations be in English, even though the family's preferred language is Chinese, the motion says. HHS has monitored communication as part of the court order to supervise visitation, and had the bilingual family speak English to be understood during monitoring, Reckling said.

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引用第2楼username于07-09-2009 16:38发表的  :
他们动手的时候没注意前后左右的吗

打人之前还要看前后左右哦。。。 能 pause  的话， 当然够理智可以不用打了。。。。 不过也可能是打惯了， 就这次比较倒霉， 被人看到。。。。

http://www.ketv.com/news/19990769/detail.html

去上面的网页看视频吧。论坛不接受java script.

拿的是美国护照，说明在美国呆的有够久了， 在外面还敢打小孩， 真是有够白痴。。。。。

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引用第5楼jasmine于07-09-2009 16:54发表的  :


打人之前还要看前后左右哦。。。 能 pause  的话， 当然够理智可以不用打了。。。。 不过也可能是打惯了， 就这次比较倒霉， 被人看到。。。。

我是觉得华人如此着迷于藤， 又有这么多小孩藤上， 大概和藤条多少有点关系。  毕竟藤那种学校，就算是美国普通白人也会觉得很难上， 我个人实在不觉得华人的小孩只只是天才。

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引用第9楼username于07-09-2009 17:05发表的  :



我是觉得华人如此着迷于藤， 又有这么多小孩藤上， 大概和藤条多少有点关系。  毕竟藤那种学校，就算是美国普通白人也会觉得很难上， 我个人实在不觉得华人的小孩只只是天才。

当然， 我看到很多中国人说， 我们华人是全世界最优秀的。。。。。。。。。。。

跟藤条有关？     

很同情那些被家长逼着学这学那的小孩。。。。。。 好好的韭菜苗子， 非得拔着长。。。

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引用第8楼于12-31-1969 16:00发表的  :

视频在右上角。。。

大家都接受教训吧。。。。。。

You can't abuse your own children,  that's the law. You break the law, you face the consequences.

They certainly don't deserve my sympathy.

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引用第8楼username于07-09-2009 17:05发表的  :



我是觉得华人如此着迷于藤， 又有这么多小孩藤上， 大概和藤条多少有点关系。  毕竟藤那种学校，就算是美国普通白人也会觉得很难上， 我个人实在不觉得华人的小孩只只是天才。

有色很幽默地。 确实的不是华人的小孩个个是天才。

http://www.action3news.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=3938361&h1=Parents%20Fight%20For%20Custody%20of%20California%20Kids%20in%20Nebraska&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=120200&LaunchPageAdTag=News&activePane=info&rnd=65877359

这儿还有个视频，这对夫妇比照片上漂亮多了。

嗯， 去 court 之前， 有整理过。。。。

来源：星島日報


　　( 本报记者张耀鋈史丹福报道)

　　史丹福大学一名华裔物理学家与华裔妻子因上月在内布拉斯加州与13岁儿子在车上发生争执后，妻子在盛怒下涉嫌在车厢中掌摑儿子数掌，两人后被指虐儿，儿子及12岁女儿因而被送内州一託养家庭代为照顾逾一个月，两人昨日飞往内州奥马哈(Omaha)市出席聆讯，希望争取回照顾儿子的权利。

　　被指涉嫌“不当教子”的史丹福大学物理学家是王树云(Suwen Wang)，是史大一名访问学者，在史大的汉生实验物理实验室(Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory)工作。他的12岁女儿Alice参加一项国际艺术比赛获奖，故他上月与妻子Charlotte Fu，13岁的儿子Oliver及女儿同到内布拉斯加州出席女儿的颁奖礼。一名目击证人则称6月6日见到王氐夫妇其中一人在停泊在哈马哈市外的汽车上打儿子。

　　内州法庭同意送回加州

　　内州有关当局昨日耹讯终同意将案件转交圣他克拉县儿童福利官员处理，预料两兄妹日内将可返回湾区。王氏夫妇则仍因被指掌摑儿子而要在内州面对刑事指控。据代表律师透露，两人都否认殴打儿子，已否认伤人、虐儿及扰乱治安等指控。

　　内州法官批准了多个机关之间的协议，相信两兄妹日内将可回到湾区，但能否回家则还未清楚。

　　能否团圆尚待分晓

　　圣他克拉县儿童监护机关的首席副律师Carol Robinson説，两兄妹都是本地居民，所以希望他们能够回到本地。她説，社工先要完成调查，才确定如何安置这对兄妹。她説，当局首选当然是让他们回家回到父母身边，但倘若不能让父母接回，或者会考虑让他们亲戚朋友照顾。她指根据新闻报道，她认为这家人有许多朋友都应该适合照顾他们，当局一定会考虑。

　　根据内州警方的资料，一名证人看见王妻下车和挥拳殴打当时坐在车后座位的男孩脸部数下。王氏夫妇在内州的律师Michael Nelson表示，“ 王氏夫妇的儿子当时是做了一些事，在车上用针刺其妹，所以他们停车教训儿子。但儿子咒駡説话顶撞回母亲，除了这些，我不能再作详细透露。”

　　Nelson説，王氏夫妇教训儿子，事件大概20分鐘便结束。 一名证人在前园目击事件发生后致电报警。

　　警方透露，在儿子推开母亲后，王氏本人亦在前座驾驶座位转过身来，亦打了儿子的脸部数下。Nelson则表示，该名男孩后并没有受伤，不需送院治疗。但王氏夫妇则被到场的警员拘捕，和羈留所过了两夜，后凖两人每人以250元现金保释外出。但两人并没有被正式落案控告任何罪名。

　　王氏夫妇两人拒絶对传媒就事件作出回应。

　　不过，根据奥马哈市的地方报纸Omaha World Herald报道，当时到场调查的警员説，傅氏(Fu)当时因鼻子受伤故面上有血跡，而两名孩子表面看来很不高兴。

　　王氏夫妇一名在美国太空总署(NASA/Ames)研究所任职电脑科学家的老朋友麦高西敏(Larry Markosian)説，“ 这是一宗不幸的误会，亦是文化差异的悲剧。”

　　律师认为有种族因素

　　王氏夫妇和代表律师希望可以説服该案的主审法官，准许内州的儿童福利官与加州相关部门合作，加速让王家子女返回加州。

　　王的女儿Alice参加2009年国际儿童绘画比赛北美地区组而获奖，王氏夫妇希望女儿可以在8月17日到南韩参加颁奖仪式，届时会宣佈该项绘画比赛的世界得奖者名单。

　　律师Nelson认为王氏夫妇的族裔在事件中沾上关系。他説，“ 父母和两子女虽然全部都是美国公民，但是法庭指派两儿童的监护人正企图没收他们的美国护照。”

　　他指出，“他们是华裔，而当局似乎对他们的族裔存有偏见，恐怕当局对这宗事件不会简单处理。”

　　不过，奥马哈当地报章根据加州的档案指王氏夫妇以前曾有家庭暴力的纪录，王氏在2008年在一次与妻子争执，在妻子威胁离开时曾禁止妻子离开。

　　但王妻在接受奥马哈报章访问时，则为女儿向当局作出特别求情，説“整件事与女儿无关，但女儿却成为受害人。而到南韩是女儿难得的机会，如果因这件事不能成行将对女儿造成严重的打击。”

　　内州卫生及社会服务局的Kathie Osterman表示，她的部门正与加州合作，让两孩子可以返家。她不知道甚么时候可以实现，但已有很多为此而在做事。

2009-07-10

很多即使读书成才了父母， 也是手很贱的， 总是痒痒要动粗， 我就见过好几个， 我对动手却不愿意动脑和动心的成年人， 不仅没有同情心， 更是鄙视， 有本事管住自己， 要比拿孩子撒气好的多。

这两个父母， 不是我有偏见， 面相上就缺人味儿， 属于冷血无动于衷一类人。

我觉得打孩子是很无能滴表现。。。。。。。。

我有点不厚道。

有点不明白，美国法律不允许13岁，或者小孩坐在副驾驶的位置上吗？

我乱讲讲，以我的办法就把两个孩子分开好啦，至于要“以暴制暴”吗？即使中国文化也不带这么拉偏架对孩子的。