A 3-year-old boy named [name]Adolf[/name] Hitler and his two Nazi-named younger sisters were removed from their New [name]Jersey[/name] home last week and placed in state custody, police said.
[name]Adolf[/name] Hitler [name]Campbell[/name] and his sisters, JoyceLynn [name]Aryan[/name] Nation [name]Campbell[/name] and Honszlynn Hinler [name]Jeannie[/name] [name]Campbell[/name], were taken from their [name]Holland[/name] Township, N.J., home on Friday by the state’s Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS), Sgt. [name]John[/name] [name]Harris[/name] of the [name]Holland[/name] Township Police Department told FOXNews.com.
Their father, [name]Heath[/name] [name]Campbell[/name], is expected in court Thursday in Flemington, N.J., in connection with the case.
[name]Kate[/name] Bernyk, a spokeswoman for the DYFS, said confidentiality laws barred her from commenting on the case or even confirming that the [name]Campbell[/name] children were involved.
“DYFS has their reasons and they normally don”t release any information, so we kind of have to go on faith with them,” [name]Harris[/name] said. Police were not told what the agency was investigating.
“I”ve dealt with the family for years and as far as the children are concerned, I have never had any reports of any abuse with the children,” [name]Harris[/name] said. “As far as I know, he”s always been very good with the children.”
Speaking generally, Bernyk said the state’s “decision to remove a child is based on the safety and well being of the child and the risk to that child, and that decision is made in conjunction with the courts and the county family court judge.”
The Campbells made national news last month when a ShopRite supermarket refused to sell them a birthday cake with [name]Adolf[/name] Hitler’s name on it. The story generated a slew of angry Internet chatter.
Forensic psychologist N.G. [name]Berrill[/name] said naming a boy Hitler could be considered child abuse.
“Part of it is the infantile nature of the parents” behavior,” [name]Berrill[/name] said. “You can name your dog something weird, but they think they”re making some kind of bold statement with the children, not appreciating that the children will have separate lives and will be looked at in a negative light until they”re able to change their name. It is abuse.”
Last year, a New Zealand court removed a 9-year-old girl from her parents in order to change her birth name: [name]Talula[/name] Does The Hula From [name]Hawaii[/name]. In that country, officials do not deem a name abusive unless it causes serious bullying.
[name]Heath[/name] [name]Campbell[/name] told the [name]Easton[/name]-Express Times last year that he named his son after [name]Adolf[/name] Hitler because he liked it and “no one else in the world would have that name.”
A paper to be published in [name]March[/name] in Social Sciences Journal by economists [name]David[/name] E. Kalist and [name]Daniel[/name] Y. [name]Lee[/name] of Shippensburg University found that unpopular first names, when mixed with factors like a disadvantaged home life, can increase the tendency toward juvenile delinquency.
[name]Lee[/name] told FOXNews.com that [name]Adolf[/name] and Hitler were not names they looked at for the study.
“Hitler most likely would be an unpopular name in the sense that not many people name their children with a name [like Hitler], but we didn”t particularly look at particularly bad names like that,” he said.
New [name]Jersey[/name] officials said [name]Wednesday[/name] that it is not just a matter of names.
“DYFS would never remove a child simply based on that child’s name,” Bernyk said.
[name]Do[/name] you think the parents really are white supremacists? Or are they just trying to get media attention?
I hope that everything works out for the children.