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M-A-D National Spokeswoman Talks About The Epidemic Of Family Court Corruption And Her Own Personal Story Of Being Terrorized By San Mateo County Family Court In Silicon Valley. Click on the image to visit DeAnna Lorraine's Show "Shots Fired" On The Stew Peters Network or click here INTERVIEW STARTS AT 31 minutes.
Judges Use Police As Their Personal Gestapo To Violently Assault Children To Enforce Unconstitutional Orders. Video Exposes Epidemic Of Corruption - Court Ordered Trafficking of Kids For Profit. This is not an isolated incident (see article below on another Santa Cruz teen violently court-kidnapped by police). This is happening EVERYDAY in California and all over America. CLICK READ MORE FOR FULL STORY
For a year and a half, Franchetti had been trying to warn a Long Island court that Rumsey was unstable and violent and should not be allowed unsupervised time with their daughter. But the judge granted him time alone with Kyra while they awaited the custody trial. Had her concerns been taken more seriously, Franchetti believes her daughter would be alive today.
Jacqueline Franchetti with her daughter Kyra in 2016.Jacqueline Franchetti"I did everything I was supposed to do. I left the abusive relationship. I came forward with as much as I possibly could," she said. "Kyra's murder was 100 percent preventable." READ MORE... Sunday, October 18, 2020
by Tesha M. Christensen Monitor, Saint Paul Voices Against Violence Series Because fit mothers are losing custody and children are being harmed, supporters of Safe Child Act want to make sure family court focuses on child safety over parents rights...Of the moms she knows who lost legal custody and got reduced parenting time, none had criminal convictions or had been in criminal court. There was no determination of negligence or endangerment. “They hardly had a speeding ticket,” said Roy. “People just assume lawmakers and judges are looking out for children – and they’re not. “The public needs to get informed.” Evidence ignored as ’heresay’ What is the contributing factor to women losing custody? Not being heard on the evidence they have, according to Roy. She pointed to cases like that of her friend, Leigh Ann Olson Block, whose evidence of domestic violence was ignored by the Ramsey County Family Court. Having been given joint legal custody and over 50% of the parenting time, Highland High School graduate John Tester murdered their daughter Mikayla the weekend before she would have started kindergarten in September 2004. This isn’t an isolated case. Since 2008, the Center for Judicial Excellence has identified 748 children who were murdered by a divorcing or separating parent. READ MORE... ‘It takes two’ is a myth. There is the idea in family court that there are two equal parties in a divorce. “The mantra is that it takes two,” observed Richards, and that both parties are engaged in conflict. These are then termed “high conflict” cases.
That doesn’t factor in the reality of domestic violence. Where there’s intimate partner violence, one person is exerting power and control over the other and is engaged in manipulating the system. “If you have a father who has been engaged in coercive control, they’re highly skilled in using these same tactics in the family court system,” said Richards. “The general presumption is that moms get custody in divorce cases,” observed Richards. While that may be true when you look at all of divorce cases, those where couples can agree on what to do about their kids, it isn’t true when domestic violence is a factor. “If you look at the contested cases with domestic violence against the mother or child abuse by the father against the child, fathers are more likely to gain custody,” said Richards.The study looked at more than 2,000 custody cases involving child abuse, domestic violence, and parental alienation nationwide. There is no study specific to Minnesota and no state agency that looks specifically at domestic violence, but Richards believes that Minnesota mirrors what has been found at a national level. “When there are contested cases and domestic violence, fathers are receiving custody more frequently,” stated Richards. READ MORE... by Naomi Cahn, Senior Contributor
Forbes.com Emma (name and identifying details changed) was married to a man in the military for many years. During that time, he repeatedly abused her and their children. She reported the abuse to the police and to the military. When she went to court, she had recordings of her husband’s threats against her. But a court decided to award custody of their children to the father. Why? The father claimed parental alienation, that Emma was alienating the children from their father by false claims that he was abusing them. The term “parental alienation” comes from the work of child psychiatrist Richard Gardner in the 1980s to explain what he saw as a shocking number of child sexual abuse allegations in custody litigation. Gardner claimed that many of these abuse allegations were fabricated by vengeful or pathological mothers. But his theory has been subjected to strong criticism, such as that from Jeffrey Edleson, former director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse and professor and director of research at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work, who said in 2009 that, “PAS is essentially composed of unsubstantiated claims; there’s no science behind it.” Nonetheless, it survives in a gender-neutral form as parental alienation. But, that too has been discredited, and as the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, explains, it “also diverts attention away from the behaviors of the abusive parent.” READ MORE... By Samantha Schmidt
Washington Post July 29, 2019 Hera McLeod pleaded with the family court judge to keep her 15-month-old son, Prince, away from her abusive ex-boyfriend. The mother, along with many other witnesses, told the court about the man’s fits of rage, the night he threatened to kill her at gunpoint, the times he allegedly abused his older son and allegedly raped McLeod’s sister. But the judge said there was insufficient evidence of the alleged abuse by the father, Joaquin Rams. “There’s a lot of smoke,” said the family court judge in Montgomery County, Md. “With all that smoke, I can’t see clearly.” The court initially ordered supervised visits with the baby’s father, but just months later allowed Rams to keep Prince for unsupervised, all-day visits. Then on the fourth visit, on Oct. 20, 2012, Rams drowned the toddler at a friend’s home in Manassas, Va. He was found guilty of capital murder in 2017. READ MORE by Laurie Udesky (an award-winning investigative reporter) 100Reporters
EXCERPT: In family courts throughout the country, evidence that one of the parents is sexually or physically abusing a child is routinely rejected. Instead, perpetrators of abuse are often entrusted with unsupervised visits or joint or sole custody of the children they abuse, putting children in danger of serious, often life-threatening harm, according to children’s advocates. Our two-year investigation – which includes interviews with more than 30 parents and survivors in California, Ohio, North Carolina, New York, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Maryland and New Jersey – uncovered stories of children consigned to suffer years of abuse in fear and silence while the parents who sought to protect them were driven to the brink financially and psychologically. These parents have become increasingly stigmatized by a family court system that not only discounts evidence of abuse but accepts dubious theories used to undermine the protective parents’ credibility. READ MORE... |
