Protecting Abused Children from the Court System
U.S. judges routinely force abused children to live with their abusers.But after nearly a decade of trying, I have given up on the mainstream media doing any significant investigations into this...
View ArticleThe Most Powerful Person in a Child Custody Case Isn't the Judge
Courts in the U.S. have sentenced thousands of children to live with a parent who abused them. The family court judges who reach this decision — and restrict or end the relationship of the parent who...
View ArticleThe 'Silent Scandal' of Courts Putting Children With Their Abusers
Sitting on a flowery couch, a 10-year-old girl recalls the first time her father raped her. She was three years old and tried to roll away, but there was little she could do when he pulled her towards...
View ArticleMaking Washington Hear the Children Forced to Live With Abusers
Speaking to a group of parents struggling to protect their children, a White House advisor assures the room of mostly women that she understands courts are giving abusers custody of children and she is...
View ArticleIf You Want Custody Of Your Kids, It's Better to Be a Criminal Than a...
They had both lost, one mother in criminal court, the other in family court. But Mary Winkler, convicted of voluntary manslaughter for shooting her husband, got her children back. The other parent...
View Article'Mandated Reporters Fear Retaliation, and Their Fear is Legitimate': Tom Ridge
After two preschool children indicated their father was abusing them and one child tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease, a health care professional treating the youngsters followed her...
View ArticleWhen Are Police Allowed to Do Nothing After a Child is Abducted?
When Jessica Gonzales’ three daughters disappeared while playing in their Castle Rock, Colorado, front yard in 1999, she knew her estranged husband Simon had taken them and they were in grave...
View ArticleLawyers Who Criticize Judges Are Being Punished — Jonathan Turley
One is a California family law attorney documenting alleged judicial crimes, the other a Pennsylvania civil rights attorney who has lost his law license for speaking out against judges. Both say they...
View Article‘If You Dare to Come Forward, If You Dare to Talk, Watch What Happens’
Even though the sexual abuse of children is a crime, such cases frequently end up in family courts and not criminal courts when the alleged perpetrator is a parent. Experts in child protection say this...
View ArticleWhy Claire Fights: ‘No One is Listening to the Children’
To onlookers it was just a group of children playing in a sunny California park, but to child sexual abuse expert Dr. Claire Reeves it was the highlight of her career.“To watch them play and laugh like...
View ArticleDocumentary Exposes Our $50 Billion a Year Divorce Industry
More money passes through family law courts than all the other courts combined. Corrupt judges have unchecked power over your personal finances and your childrens’ lives. The lawyers are likely...
View ArticleJudge: I Gave a Child Molester Custody of His Daughter
Despite a mother’s cry for help, San Diego Judge DeAnn Salcido signed a court order in 2003 giving a father custody of his six-year-old daughter. He still had custody six years later when he was...
View ArticleThe Psychological Test That Fails Sexually Abused Children
Critics of family courts in the U.S. say the system has developed practices that protect abusers. Ironically, one of the worst is a test that’s supposed to detect when a parent is a danger to a child:...
View ArticleFamily Court Judge Gives Custody of 6-Year-Old to Registered Sex Offender
Last year, an Oklahoma family court judge ordered that a six-year-old girl’s father be given sole custody even though he’s a registered sex offender. The decision was so egregious it made headlines...
View ArticleAttorney Fights to Reform Family Court, May Lose Law License
Fed up with family court judges ignoring evidence of child abuse, last year Louisiana attorney Nanine McCool announced she was running for state district judge. A week later she was fighting to keep...
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