(PRNewsChannel) / January 20, 2009 / London, England / When she first waged her battle against the UK government, her friends didn’t think she could actually win. Carmen Semaski accused the UK government of racism and sexism. Though Semaski has not won the war, she has won a big battle against the UK government, the first of many steps to go in order to win back custody of her only daughter, Victoria.
But Semaski fears the story may not have a happy ending. She hasn’t seen her daughter in a year and the only recent photo she has is one of her daughter with a bad bruise.
“I finally have an acknowledgement that secrecy was responsible for injustices but my gut tells me my daughter is not safe,” says Carmen Semaski, who claims her daughter was taken by the UK government and awarded to her alleged abusive father, James Peter Semaski of Massachusetts.
She says she has not seen her daughter since April 2007 and while she is starting to win battles in the legal system, she says with no proof of Victoria alive, she must assume the worst.
As Semaski tells it, she fled Florida to London a few years ago to escape the abusive relationship. After many threats on her life, she decided to run again but this time, she says, her daughter was taken from her. And the case landed in the London’s court.
This case is now filed under articles 6 and 8 of the Human Rights European Convention under the name Carmen Semaski v United Kingdom. Semaski is determined to take her case to the International courts so that more people can witness the harm coming from the UK government.
“Florida courts have called my estranged husband ‘dangerous and psychotic,’ but UK judges still ruled in his favor because of my ethnicity – I have Latin roots and speak Spanish and that has been deemed ‘inappropriate’ by a judge in the UK who wrote those very words in her judgment against me,” says Semaski.
One year ago this month Semaski went on a hunger strike and launched the ‘Old Red Shoes’ campaign, represented by her daughter’s red shoes she has in her possession.
Semaski has also protested at the UK Parliament, in Trafalgar Square, to the Prime Minister and even at Buckingham Palace for Mother’s Day. She set up a Web site to help the world see her struggle with the UK government and says so far, many people have listened but she is still without her daughter or any news regarding her welfare.
This past summer, she was able to form alliances with many groups around the UK and a member of the Parliament whom she says is backing her campaign. Semaski has landed coverage in the Times Online and led a double-decker bus around Great Britain with other victims of the UK legal system to make the public aware of what’s going on in the United Kingdom.
Semaski says she believes her estranged husband, James, or someone he knows might have killed Victoria and she will not stop her fight until she knows the truth.
“We have come this far… too far not to continue,” says Semaski. “We need justice for Victoria.”
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