Tribunal de Menores de Mercedes - Cause number 32.202

Case Summary and Background

Tribunal de Menores de MERCEDES
Juez Dr. Julio M. Cámpora
Provinicia de Buenos Aires
Poder Judicial

Causa 32.202- menores Frouman E. y otros s/ Inf. Art. 10 Ley 10.067.
Case number 32.202 - the minors Frouman, E. and others regarding Art. 10 of Law 10.067.

On December 19, 1990, Case number 32.202 was ratified in the Tribunal de Menores de Mercedes (Minor's Court of Mercedes) in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The case was filed by an American citizen, Ruth Frouman, who alleged that Stuart Baylin and The Family refused to return four of her children after she was expelled from the group eight months after being diagnosed with breast cancer. The court ordered that her four children be returned and presented to the court. Instead, two years after her death in March 1991, Stuart Baylin and Claire Borowik presented only the two eldest children to the court on April 13, 1993. In May 1993, these two children were returned to their relatives in the United States and in the same month, Stuart Baylin fled with the two younger children to Uraguay. In September 1993, he once again fled with the missing children to Brazil and from there to Mexico.

Court Filings

• December 19, 1990 - Denuncia Original Complaint
• (date missing) - Causa 32.202-order-present-minors Judge Campora orders that the four Frouman children be presented to the court.
• Stuart Baylin Deposition - 1993-04-14
• EDF Deposition - 1993-04-15
• May 5, 1993 Social worker's home visit report [1]
• June 28, 1993 (Causa 32.202 Order 1993-06-28) Judge Campora infers the existence of the following crimes, sexual abuse, hiding of minors, fraud, reduction to a state of servitude, and falsification of documents and without prejudice to definitive jurisdiction transfers the entire record (consisting of 8 volumes, more than 1600 pages) to Federal Judge Roberto J. Marquevich in San Isidro.[2] Thus, Causa 32.202 helps lay a foundation for Causa 81/89 which eventually results in raids on Family Homes in Argentina.

Related Cases and Legal Documents

• Cause No. 317, 213. "In the matter of the marriage of Ruth E. Frouman and Cary L. Frouman and in the interests of EDF, PSF, DPF, JMF, and MQF, minor children." 53rd District Court of Travis County, Texas. USA
  • 1981-10-09 Cause No. 317, 213 - Decree of Divorce - Volume 1073 - pages 273-277.
• Causa no. 81/89 CAVAZZA, Juan C. y otros s/Inf. arts. 125, 139, 140, 142 inc.1, 142 bis, 210, 293 del CP y art.3 Ley 23592 Juzg. Fed. San Isidro 1-Sec. 2 Sala II-Reg. no 2.
  • San Martin Court of Appeals, Case 81/89 "Cavazza, Juan C. and others, on Inf. Art.125, 139, 140, 142, Par.l, 142 bis, 210, 293 of the Code of Proceedings and art.3 of Law 23,592," Federal Court of San Isidro, 1 Sec.2 Office II, Reg. 443. Federal Judges: Horacio Enrique Prack, Alberto Mansur, Daniel Mario Rudi (dissented), Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 13, 1993. (some mentions of the Frouman case on pages 22,32 and 99) [3]
    • Dissent of Juez Federal Daniel Mario Rudi in "causa seguida contra CAVAZZA, JUAN CARLOS Y OTROS S/ INFRACCION ART. 125 Y OTROS DEL CODIGO PENAL del Registro de la Secretaria No. 2 de la Sala II de esta Camara Federal de San Martin." December 13, 1993. 135 pages. In Spanish. [4]

Related Press

• Todo empezo con 4 norteamericanos — Clarin, 1993-09-02
• Cult Crackdown: Group alleged to have initated children into sex — Associated Press/Chattanooga Times, 1993-09-03
• Toronto Star: Sect members face sex, abduction charges — 1993-09-08
• Macleans: Not a normal family — 1993-09-20

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