She said she knew what the show was going to be about and was there while it was recorded. "When I refused, they started intimidating me by saying that my child will be moved into foster care," the woman, who insisted on anonymity, told the website. One of the parents of the children in the video told news website MBK over the weekend that investigators had insisted on questioning her son.
There was only positive feedback from the parents and the children involved in the video, she said. She said she didn't expect such a reaction from the authorities while producing the show as there are a lot of similar videos online and the channel wasn't a political project. Even though I am far away from Russia right now, I am very scared," she told CBS News in a telephone interview. The Russian show was launched last December and has featured children interviewing a woman with an eating disorder, an African man, a former porn actress and others.
The video was published by the "Real Talk" channel as part of a series modeled on the American YouTube show "Kids Meet," in which children talk to adults about their life experiences. Russian national Maksim Pankratov is seen in a video posted to YouTube answering questions from children about his life as a gay man in Russia. But several months after it was posted, the video caught the attention of conservative lawmakers in Russia's ruling party, and an investigation was launched. None of the questions or answers included any discussion of sex. In the video, several children between the ages of 7 and 13 ask Maksim Pankratov about his life as a gay man in Russia. Both the man and the producers of the video have gone into hiding since the criminal investigation was announced last week.
In all honesty 70% of the time, they do see sense once it’s explained to them.Moscow - Russian investigators have opened a sexual assault investigation over a YouTube video that simply shows a gay man answering questions from curious children about his life and homosexuality. I do find myself correcting silly naive comments. “To me, they are just comments I can handle it. “I often get passing comments like ‘it’s not right’ and ‘because you are gay then all of the children will be gay then won’t they’ other comments I get are he must be doing it for money?” says Ben. This super-dad says that all this comes with struggles and he still hears a lot of different opinions about being a single gay dad, but he couldn’t be happier with his choice.
It took 3 years for Benjamin to convince authorities that he is really serious about adoption, and to become one of the youngest gay men in the country to adopt a child. The youngest member of this family is 2-year-old Joseph who has Down’s syndrome and many complex needs associated with it. The whole family has learned British Sign Language (BSL) in order to communicate effectively with her. 5-year-old Lilly is Ruby’s biological half-sister who is deaf and severely impaired, too. 6-year-old Ruby has mobility issues and physical disabilities. The boy is now 10-years-old, he has autism and OCD which means that the whole family should adapt daily to Jack’s needs. “Often children with an additional need can be overlooked, in in a lot of cases be classed as “hard to place” however I totally accept that not everyone can care for a child/children with an additional need and quite rightly you have to be true to yourself when on the adoption journey about the type of children you feel best suits you and your family set up!”īenjamin’s journey began 10 years ago when he first adopted his oldest child, Jack. “Growing up within a religious family I always had a caring disposition instilled in me, adoption was always at the forefront of my mind as having biological children was never a priority for me,” Carpenter told Unilad. Benjamin admits that from a very young age he already had a desire to be a parent.