Mothers File Suit at Inter American Commission Human Rights: Courts giving Custody to Abusers and Pedophiles

Dombrowski et al v. United States (2007) A petition filed on behalf of 10 protective mothers, one victimized child now grown to adult, and six organizations at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against the United States for the pattern and practice of courts granting custody and unsupervised visitation to abusers and molesters.

 

Claudine Dombrowski Photos of Abuse

As you view these photos keep in mind that the court awarded FULL CUSTODY of their daughter to the "man" who did this to Claudine.

To read Claudine's history that was submitted to the IACHR, click here

If you want to know some of the many reasons women stay in abusive relationships, click here

AFTER THE BIRTH OF HER DAUGHTER, 1994

AFTER EX-HUSBAND BEAT HER WITH A CROW BAR, 1996

AFTER EX-HUSBAND RAPED AND BATTERED HER, 2000

AFTER EX-HUSBAND HIRED SOMEONE TO ASSAULT HER, 2003

THE "COFFEE TABLE" IN THE FATHER'S HOME IS A CHILD'S COFFIN.  MOUNTED ON THE WALL ABOVE THE SOFA IS A GUN.

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Full Text of IACHR Petition.

On May 11,2007,  just before Mother’s Day weekend, ten mothers, one victimized child, now an adult,  leading national and state organizations filed a complaint against the United States with the Inter American Commission on Human Rights. Their petition claims that U.S. courts, by frequently awarding child custody to abusers and child molesters, has failed to protect the life, liberties, security and other human rights of abused mothers and their children. 

PRESS RELEASE

OVERVIEW and FAQ's in materials on the right side of this page.

Scroll down to read full petitition, including case histories of several of the petitioners.  You will be horrified to learn what is happening to abused women and children in courtrooms all across this country.

Exhibit 28: Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories
Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Tatge Lasseur Productions, 2006 Underwritten by a grant from the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation.
Full length of this documentary was submitted to the IACHR.  

Full Petition to the IACHR (large file)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Petitioners

• Dombrowski KS
• Titelman GA
• K.A  Amador Co., CA
• J.H.  Amador Co., CA
• Shockome NY
• Navratil CA
• Horton NY
• Petitioners A, B, C are confidential to protect their safety.  Not included in public materials.
• Organization petitioners

Court Gender Bias - academic studies

Court Gender Bias -experiential studies

Attempts to Remedy Problem

Summary of Problem

Alleged Violations of the Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man

Compliance

Additional Supporting Organizations - list

List of Exhibits

EXHIBITS

1. Photos of petitioner Claudine Dombrowski . (graphic)

2. Affidavit and book, Let My Children Go, A Mother’s Journal , Wendy Titelman, Kinderlex Books, 2005.

3. Letter from California Protective Parents Association .

4. Affidavit from Kourts for Kids.

5. Letter from StopFamilyViolence.org .

6. EXPOSE  The Failure of Family Courts to Protect Children from Abuse in Custody Disputes:   A Resource Book for Lawmakers, Judges, Attorneys and Mental health Professionals, Our Children Our Future Charitable Foundation, Los Gatos, CA, 1999.
( very large file - long time to load)

7. Chesler, Phyllis, Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody,  McGraw-Hill Book Company, NY, 1986, select pages.

8. Battered Mothers’ Testimony Project:   A Human Rights Approach to Child Custody and Domestic Violence, Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence, June 2003.

9. Common Misconceptions in Addressing Domestic Violence in Child Custody Disputes , Jaffee, Crooks, and Poisson, 57 Juvenile and Family Court Journal Fall 2003.

10. Justice in the Domestic Relations Division of the Philadelphia Family Court:  A Report to the Community, Women’s Law Project, Philadelphia, Pa, April 2003.

11. California Protective Parents Network , national survey, September 2001 to December 2004.
          Part 1 - table
          Part 2 - report

12. Jana Bommersbach, Jana’s View, Phoenix Magazine , May 2006, p. 28.

13. Article Launched: 6/18/2006 12:00 AM , Mom termed 'parental alienator' wins rare vindication in courts , BY TROY ANDERSON, Staff Writer, LA Daily News.

14. Hoult, Jennifer, J.D., The Evidentiary Admissibility of Parental Alienation Syndrome:   Science, Law and Policy,  Children’s Legal Rights Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, Spring 2006.

15. Navigating Custody and Visitation Evaluations in Cases with Domestic Violence:  A Judges Guide , National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, 2004, revised 2006.

16. Report on Women’s Rights in the United States under International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in response to the Second and Third Periodic Report of the United States of America, July 2006.

17. Courageous Kids personal stories.
            Part 1 - Courageous Kids Network
            Part 2 - Case Studies
            Part 3 - Letter to IACHR by siblings
            Part 4 - Alana Krause, Girl, Interrupted

18. Letter from Legal Momentum to Daniel Meron, DHHS , Washington, DC dated 28 February 2007.

19. European Parliament, A6-0404/2005, Report , 9.12.2005 on the current situation in combating violence against women and any future action (2004/2220(INI)) Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality Rapporteur: Maria Carlshamre PE 364.709v02-00 2/17 RR364709EN.doc

20. Testimony to the Truth Commission , Fourth Battered Mothers Custody Conference, January 2007.

21. Examples of Injustices in NYC Family Courts , Battered Women’s Resources Center, January 2007.

22. Letter and columns from The Parenting Project , Rhode Island.

23. Letter from the Illinois Coalition for Family Court Reform .

24. Letter from Child Abuse Forensic Institute , Napa, CA.

25. Legal Momentum letter and summary of Battered
     Mother's Speak Out

26. Letter from National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

27. Letter from Justice for Children

28. Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories , Connecticut Public Broadcasting (see above for excerpt)

29. Letters of support from additional organizations.

National organizations

• National Center on Sexual and Domestic Violence , TX
• The Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence , PA 
• Sidran Traumatic Stress Institute , MD
• National Alliance to End Sexual Violence , Washington, DC
• Domestic Violence Report , Washington, DC
• Family Violence Prevention Fund , San Francisco, CA
• National Organization for Women and National Organization for Women Foundation , Washington, DC
• National Family Court Watch Project , MI

                   State Organizations

• Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence
• California National Organization for Women , Sacramento, CA
• Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Michigan National Organization for Women
• New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Tennessee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
• National Organization for Women – New York State, Inc .

• Children Who Witness Violence, Claudine Dombrowski,Custody and Abuse, Dianne Post, Domestic Violence,Human Rights, IACHR,InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, Mother's Day, Petition

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SUPPORT GROUPS FOR NONCUSTODIAL MOMS

SUPPORT GROUPS FOR NONCUSTODIAL MOMS

 

I have had a lot of mothers contact me lately, and if I haven’t gotten back with you yet, I apologize.  I am still hospitalized from an accident I had in August, trying to do something about my broken down vehicle, which also served as my home.  I continue to post as much as I can however, since I know how important it is to get information out in a timely fashion, to let new noncustodial moms know they are not alone, and to continue to highlight our issues as the White House and other agencies have been coming to my site the last couple years, more frequently lately.  The most recent visit by the White House was last month to see the pictures and other coverage we had on the D.C. Rally Oct 1st and 2nd.  I thought I’d take this opportunity to highlight some very good support groups for noncustodial mothers that are available.   Also, I have covered the upcoming Battered Mothers Custody Conference in Albany, New York, being held January 7th through the 9th 2011, for several years now.  I highly recommend this conference as it will give you the opportunity to network with the professionals working on this issue.  Here is a recent post on it:

Eighth Annual Battered Mothers Custody Conference: Start Making Plans to Attend This January

Download the brochure for the event:  BMCC VIII brochure final outsideand BMCC VIII brochure final inside.

Here are the great support groups that are available:

1.  Noncustodial Moms Breaking the Silence: A very good group with group members all over the country and some in Australia, Europe and the Middle East.  Approximately 350 members.  You must apply and talk with a moderator on the phone to gain access to the group, but this ensures safety for all the members.

2.  Massachusetts Protective Mothers for Custodial Justice

3.  California Protective Parents Association

4.  Mothers of Lost Children – California

5.  Mothers of Lost Children – Indiana

6.  Alaska Moms for Custodial Justice

Also, join the American Mothers Political Party.  AMPP is a social movement seeking justice and accountability within the family court system which includes DHHS/CPS, psychologists and other so called experts.

FILED IN: ACTIVISM, ALASKA, BATTERED MOTHERS CUSTODY CONFERENCE, CALIFORNIA, CALIFORNIA PROTECTIVE PARENTS ASSOCIATION, CHILD CUSTODY, CHILD CUSTODY BATTLE, INDIANA, MASSACHUSETTS,NONCUSTODIAL MOTHERS, SUPPORT FOR NONCUSTODIAL MOMS

What The Kansas Court Whores do to Battered Mothers and Their Children DOMBROWSKI: POSTER CHILD FOR ALL THAT IS WRONG WITH FAMILY COURT PROCEEDINGS

Teresa says: aka Rene M Netherton

NOVEMBER 9, 2010 AT 6:18 PM

Thank god Rikki will be 18 soon and can speak her peace! Then and only then will the truth come out-what will Ms. Dombrowsky do with all her time then?

Nancy Carroll says:

NOVEMBER 9, 2010 AT 6:52 PM

@ Teresa: Yes it will be good when Rikki turns 18, but it is no guarantee she will be free. A child needs to find her own voice before breaking away from an abusive control freak, and age isn’t a factor in this. When Rikki does break free, it will be great for her and her mother, for I know they love each other. Fear is a mighty powerful factor. Once that is past, then time can be spent together, time that was cruely stolen from them.

AMPP says:

NOVEMBER 10, 2010 AT 6:56 AM

@ Teresa– You wouldnt be Rene M. Netherton The Psycho GAL who is harrasing Claudine now? tsk tsk

LetsGetHonest says:

NOVEMBER 11, 2010 AT 8:20 PM

Whoever Teresa is, she can’t spell “Dombrowski” right – which takes some doing, considered how many places this is on the internet. If she’s a GAL in the case, perhaps this might be par for the course — not reading the paperwork enough to pick up on the spelling of the client’s name.

Anne Caroline Drake, are the lights on yet? How many groups want people to believe it’s that the legal representation “just don’t understand” or are “inadequate” and not that someone has paid off someone in this case, perhaps, much? Or that Kansas, like many other states, is prime Fatherhood country, at least as to funding, organizations promoting it, etc. I’m sure that hasn’t affected anyone’s judgment in the courts yet, though. it’s all about personal vendettas, right, and not about money to be made off the case.

Summarized in August 2010 on RightsForMothers & Comments:

Claudine has been a strong voice for battered and abused mothers, having testified before State Rep Mike Kiegerl‘s (R-Olathe) Joint Committee on Children’s Issues in December 2009.

Claudine has been gagged, denied documents to her case, denied parenting time (AGAIN), and even had her phone confiscated from her. She came to court with 67 violations of the last court order of daddy Hal Richardson keeping Daughter from seeing her mother.

And Anne Caroline seemed to think that if only the Legislature would make sure that judges understand about PAS:

Bravo, Nancy! Bravo!

I’d like to know why the judges in KS haven’t had judicial training in PAS. This is something the legislature can fix immediately.

I think someone else explained that they ARE being trained in PAS (that it’s a terrible thing fathers must be protected against…..those nasty, alienating mothers, false allegations of domestic violence, etc….)

August 23, 2010 (& ff.) Comments included:

suggest we stop letting the legislators play “I see NUTTin’.” And the only way to keep on doing that is find out if they know what’s going on in their own districts, at least. Like I mentioned in comments to AnneCarolineDrake’s post (if you can wade through them), Fathers.com is based in Leawood Kansas, where the Governors live.

Also, the main access/visitation funding are coming straight to the Office of the Governor in Kansas. ALSO, wasn’t it in about 1998 that the concept of Fathering Courts re: child support, sprang forth? There’s some in Kansas City, MO, right across the border from Claudine in KCK area. Do these people really not understand that these things are affecting family law cases?

I know legislators have to delegate a whole lot, but they have aides. Who are their chief aides?

It’s not enough to know the individual cases/personnel, but also to know the context in which they set.

Speaking of which, here’s another article from last March, referring to policies kicked off by our President the previous year (2009);

Last year, Obama addressed a group of community leaders, fathers, and children from schools near D.C. in a speech meant to kick off a national conversation on fatherhood. He noted that his accomplishments were due to the efforts of his mother and grandparents but added, “Despite all their extraordinary love and attention that doesn’t mean I didn’t feel my father’s absence. That’s something that leaves a hole in a child’s heart that a government can’t fill.”

Indeed, Obama has never suggested it should, but he has acknowledged the government can encourage fathers to get more involved. This marks a slight departure from his predecessor. For George W. Bush and his fellow conservatives, involved fathers were important because nuclear families were important.Advocates for anti-poverty programs grew frustrated with Bush because both his rhetoric and his policies emphasized personal and familial responsibility, as if all poor families lacked were moral values. He allocated federal money to programs that promoted marriage, but the bill authorizing the funds did not use language that restricted their use for low-income families exclusively; they were open to anyone.

{{this includes the Hal Richardsons of the world, and the professionals associated with them…}}

Now, under Obama, fatherhood programs and marriage initiatives are poised to get more funding. His 2011 budget allocates money under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, also known as welfare-to-work, for a new initiative intended to help parents with barriers to self-sufficiency.

A parallel Obama effort, the “conversation on fatherhood,” run by the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Partnerships, targets Americans of all income levels but doesn’t administer grant money.

This article quotes several key fatherhood people/organizations; we didn’t know about it, I guess… were busy elsewhere… No one telling the story about who this hurts mothers and kids was in on that conversation, called “Is promoting responsible fatherhood really the best way to lift families out of poverty?”

But if we had been, the answer would’ve been read: Just refer to FVPF’s
National Institute on Fathering and Domestic Violence

Funded by the same people making more and more cases like Claudine’s, Tammy’s and others. Solution to this: More of the same, such as:

Public and Private Partnerships:

The NIFDV has been supported by public and private partners including the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Office on Violence Against Women, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Family Violence Prevention & Services Program, Administration on Children and Families.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

This project is being developed in partnership with other national organizations, such as the Center for Family Policy and Practice [CFFPP], the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community [IDVAAC], the National Latino Alliance to Eliminate Domestic Violence, Mending the Sacred Hoop, the Domestic Violence Resource Network, and the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse.
The National Institute has three core elements:

1. Training and Technical Assistance Leadership Academy
2. Program Practice and Development Center
3. Information Clearinghouse

Fatherhood has proven to be a powerful tool to reach men in understanding the effects of family violence

Thankfully, we were “heard” recently, resulting in (yet another) initiative, grant going to the same FVPF that has sucked up the conversation and excluded the custody-switch, batterers getting custody talk.

Here is from the KS Governor’s site, soliciting grant applications for the 2011 year, I guess, SAVP — “State Access Visitation Programs.”

This is what they do:

Purpose
To provide supervised child exchange or supervised child visitation to children and families at risk because of circumstances relating to neglect; substance abuse; emotional, physical, or sexual abuse; domestic or family violence; etc.

Eligible Applicants
Funds are available to units of state or local government, for profit organizations and private nonprofit organizations. A 10% non-federal cash match is required.

Funding Source
The Federal State Access & Visitation grant program is a formula grant program to states and participation is voluntary. The federal administrative agency is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

For 2010, the recipients were:

County Organization Name Grant Award
Allen Hope Unlimited $7,338
Cloud 12th Judicial District $7,042
Crawford Crisis Resource Center of Southeast Kansas $8,780
Douglas The Farm Inc. $10,872
Leavenworth First Judicial District CASA Association $10,990
Lyon SOS $1,888
Lyon SOS $9,442
Reno Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Center $11,932
Riley Sunflower CASA Project, Inc. $7,224
Sedgwick Wichita Children’s Home $9,522
Shawnee YMCA of Topeka $2,324
Shawnee YMCA of Topeka $14,729

Conveniently, former-governor Kathleen Sebelius is at HHS watching over these things, I guess…However on 06-17-2010 (wasn’t that JUST ABOUT on Father’s Day, or right before it?) as governor, she, or she & current governor, established — through Executive Order — an Early Childhood Council. After all, Rikki is about to age out, and where will the new fatherhood customers come from (Fatherhood funding has long also been in Head Start initiatives, FYI).

Oh, and here’s a 2009 AFCC site, catching up on the most recent alienation etc. strategies:

As a strategy to help Claudine, and people like her, I think we should ignore these things.

Advanced Parenting Coordination Training

AFCC, in collaboration with the AFCC Missouri Chapter and the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law, will be offering Attachment, Alienation and Access: Advanced Interventions for Parenting Coordinators on September 30-October 1, 2009. Arnold Shienvold, Ph.D. will focus on how to work effectively with the most challenging clients and issues, including those with personality disorders and attachment problems.

Denver Call for Presenters
AFCC’s 47th Annual Conference, Traversing the Trail of Alienation: Rocky Relationships, Mountains of Emotion, Mile High Conflict, will take place June 2-5, 2010 at the Sheraton Denver. If you have an interesting workshop idea that you would like considered, please submit a proposal prior to October 5, 2009.
Click here to view Call for Presenters…
Click here to submit a workshop proposal…

I wonder where the professionals are getting all those ideas about alienation from…..
Gotta run. Pardon me, but I have a 17 yr old, a 19 yr old… Miss them …. Too bad someone didn’t tell me this stuff 5 years ago, I’d've known which trees to bark up and which not to bark up.

 

RIKKI DOMBROWSKI:

 

Rikki Dombrowski, as shown on Guardian ad Litem M. Jill Dyke's Facebook page.

Rikki is often on my mind.  Granted, not as much as on her mother, Claudine Dombrowski’s, mind.  I was also a child victim of family courts, just as Rikki is.  Just as my children are now, although I don’t write about them at all (too traumatic).

Rikki was taken to talk to the judge (alone, no witnesses), Judge David Debenham, a couple of weeks ago, while her mother Claudine was in the midst of another judicial smackdown.  Although she had been given the right to see her daughter after years of no or limited (supervised) contact in the January 2010 hearing that I attended as a court watcher, daddy Hal Richardson did everything in his power to not allow the visits to take place.  He had 83 violations of the court order up to a point this fall…read about the case here.

Witnesses have told me that when daddy Hal Richardson brought Rikki to be interviewed by the judge, he was acting very sternly towards her, and she was crying just before going in. Knowing that the last time Rikki was “allowed” to call her mother this past spring to cancel her two hour Sunday visitation, daddy Hall Richardson was yelling at Rikki in the background and Rikki was uncontrollably crying while she was telling Claudine she couldn’t see her that day.  That was the last phone call to take place.

My point is Rikki is one of many children in a situation like this, threatened to follow the abuser’s script or face the consequences.  In Rikki’s case, there is a child’s coffin in Hal Richardson’s living room ready for use.  If the corrupt court officials in this case actually did their jobs, Richardson would be in prison and Rikki would be with her mother.  There is a movement now to disbar Rene Netherton.  M. Jill Dykes lunged at Claudine in the courthouse hallway, and had her husband call to threaten her…actions will be filed on this also.   Snorting Topeka attorney Jason P. Hoffman continues to lie in court about anything to help his abusive client Hal Richardson, including claiming Claudine Dombrowski is me when he knows she is not.   No, Rikki Dombrowski is a cash cow to them.

Children like this are often a big source of income to people like this.  Snorting Jason L. Hoffman used the term “parental alienation” so much during the January 2010 hearing, I lost count.  This term, and syndromes/disorders associated with it, were invented by people (like Dr. William Bernet) who make lots of money from it, using it to sell books and sell their “testimony.”  It is well known by judge’s associations as a tool for abusers to get custody of children.  It certainly worked in this case…imbecile Judge Debenham fell for it (or maybe was paid off).

When I think of Rikki getting threatened in the courthouse hallway and her crying, I get really mad.  This is what our children are going through.  When will it stop?  The White House addressed family court cases during it’s press conference somewhat due to this case (afterall they have beenreading about it here), but when is something actually going to be done?

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THERE ARE 11 COMMENTS TO "RIKKI DOMBROWSKI: POSTER CHILD FOR ALL THAT IS WRONG WITH FAMILY COURT PROCEEDINGS"

• papsutter says:

  NOVEMBER 8, 2010 AT 8:40 AM

  We need more courtwatchers to let these abusers, abusive attorneys, and abusive judges know that we are not going to take it any more. We need courtwatchers so that we can document this crime against children & moms. We need to keep writing, keep networking, keep protesting wherever we are, for this injustice will not continue.

• lisa040970 says:

  NOVEMBER 8, 2010 AT 8:41 AM

  One would think that after the little to no contact that Claudine has had, the parental alienation would bte thrown out. What does this say about the judge. It’s time for the olaws to change and allow us to go after obviously corrupt or ignorant (ignorance is not an excuse) judges.

• Anne Caroline Drake says:

  NOVEMBER 8, 2010 AT 11:08 AM

  Joe Biden, who is a steadfast champion for abused women and children, said that one of the greatest obstacles for women is access to competent legal representation. I have examined this case in-depth and believe that’s what’s going on here.

  Claudine has been accompanied to court by attorneys, but I don’t see much evidence of vigorous representation of her interests.

  The lights are on at the American Bar Association’s DV commission, but nobody’s home. As Joe Biden said, women need more help than somebody getting them a restraining order. The KS governor and first lady both claim to be champions for abused women and children. Why aren’t their buddies stepping up to the plate with some real pro bono representation of Claudine???

  My two cents,
  Anne Caroline Drake

• Mama Liberty says:

  NOVEMBER 8, 2010 AT 4:40 PM

  These Kansas oHfficials are so backwards assed they would rather pick on an abused woman than DEFEND her! Someday and somewhere over that rainbow skies are blue…and a mother and child will NEVER have to deal with such wickedness!

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• Abused mom & son says:

  NOVEMBER 13, 2010 AT 7:28 PM

  My abusive X would not give my son back to me in the custody battle and went and disowned him and placed him in foster care. Now foster care is abusing him and placing him into this program called Intercept where he does not belong My son is not fighting back and has learned helplessness how do they think this is helping my splitting the family up so I can not drive for 3 hours to visit my son in Richmond and they know that! They are locking my son away because it is the easy thing for them to do.

  The Trial is this monday the 15th at 11 in JDC in Fairfax county third floor for Folse if you can come out and provide your support please

• Rajab says:

  NOVEMBER 14, 2010 AT 5:42 AM

  I guess Oklahoma (home of the Good Ole Boys) is bad too. Sounds just like California. Do they collect C.A.F.T.A. funds form the feds in their courts too?
  Here is a post about an Algerian daughter of a 30yr. now retired, Algerian Senator. She had her child taken away and given to her HIV pos husband when she divorced him.
  She divorced him for marrying her without disclosing that he was HIV positive, for not telling her he had been arrested for sex crimes, etc. During the separation the daughter had visits at the husband’s home. After the visits to daddy’s house she started telling mommy stories about daddy making movies with her, licking her legs like a dog, putting his finger in her, eating her poop….and then there was the Children’s Hospital report of a torn hymen and a vaginal infection wherein the daughter told the doctor that daddy gave her a big boo boo in her vagina. Guess what??? The court awarded sole custody to the father. We have the videotaped discussion of the girl with her mommy. In it, she is describing things only a child being molested would know. She was three years old then. A very articulate, warm girl. Her mother is a doctor of veterinary and totally sane. She had no criminal record and owed no taxes.
  http://legalizedpedophillia.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html

• Nancy Carroll says:

  NOVEMBER 14, 2010 AT 6:05 AM

  @ Rajab: Oh wow! This is happening FAR TOO MUCH! It is to the point I almost look at disgust if I see a father alone with children. This is the fault of all the courts giving so many children to abusers and rapists, it is almost guaranteed they will get custody. Please never stop trying to do something about this! Everyday people and the media is finally starting to take notice of this. The White House and the U.S. Department of Justice has been on these posts a few times lately, especially looking at these posts. I’m sure they will read your comment.

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Disbar Rene Netherton GAL in Kansas FACEBOOK PAGE

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GAL (child's lawyer) in Kansas has overstepped her boundaries. She accuses a battered mother of posting confidential information about the child, yet this was not a medical report, nor was it a psychological or psychiatric evaluation. This was an opinion based letter concerning visitation with her child. The child she has only seen for a total of about 100 hours (possibly not even that much) in the last 10 years.
This GAL and her cronies have tried to remove this mother from the child's life permanently. They have allowed the father to abuse and batter and rape the mother with no consequence. A different court in fact feels this mother to be in such mortal danger that she is a participant in the Safe At Home address confidentiality program.
So for Rene M Netherton's behavior, I want this page to grow, I will be putting up a petition page tomorrow and hope we can get enough signatures to give to the Kansas Bar Association and Rene will soon enough be stripped of her license to practice law. She can threaten an abused and battered and raped mother with the law, but not follow it herself? Let's gather around and show Rene we mean business and we will not take it anymore. (read less)

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2010 Jan 29 Transcript Hearing Richardson v Dombrowski

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"I'll tell you point blank, I have not once ounce of remorse for TereseAnn's death. It could have all been prevented. All you had to do was let me see my kid. Now you're never going to see her again.

"You give me every single item you took back from my property and I might consider giving them back. If not, they can burn in hell. I don't care. You'll never see them again.

"I want to apologize to Todd Roland for shooting him. You know that day when you were laying on the ground behind the police car, Todd, I could have killed you. I could have shot you 25 times. I chose not to. Because you didn't pull your weapon on me. If you would have pulled your weapon on me, I'd have been her for another murder charge.

"I hope there's more cases just like this where people that don't want to let their spouse see their kids, I hope it happens more and more

"I had several no contact orders on me and you know what the funny thing is? The day after a no-contact order was put on me, that girl was laying in my bed with me. So she wasn't too worried about anything, it was just something to get a piece of paper to get me away, but then they always came back.

"The only thing I've ever done is push a woman in my life. You can think what you want, but that's my side of the story and I'm sticking to it."

In His Own Words: Judge Novak

RAW VIDEO: Judge Novak

"There's certain lines that a judge should not cross in terms of judicial propriety. I've always tried to live by that rule. And sometimes you just have to throw caution to the wind. And if I do cross that line today, I'm willing to cross it and pay the consequences.

"Let me start off by saying if anything should burn in hell, it's not TereseAnn's yearbooks.

Novak talked about two other murder cases he has tried, including one on I-235 and a strangling case. "You three have so much in common. I can't believe it. Yeah, shake your head because you know you do."

"I can't believe what I've heard, but I'm really glad you had your right of allocution and you could say everything you said because if anybody didn't know what a piece of work you were before you started talking, they know it now.

"It's been said before and it can't be said enough. You're cowards. You truly are cowards. You prey on women, they give you their love. They give you their trust and you betray them. You betray it by physically and or mentally abusing these women and they stay with you.

"You guys can't understand why they leave such wonderful men, like you.

"You give a new meaning to the word evil.

"I've been doing this 31 years. I've never ever seen anybody like you. And I hope I never ever see anyone like you again.

"It means joined or attached. Now isn't that something? Because you've made sure that Levi can't be joined or attached to his mother again.

"I'm going to tell you something. I really would have to think that the Good Lord looks at somebody like you and has to say to himself 'Maybe there should be some exception to forgiveness and redemption for somebody like you.'"

In Her Own Words: TereseAnn's Mother

Video: Lynch Talks After Sentencing

Once Randall Moore was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences, TereseAnn's mother, Sheila Lynch, told KCCI the blunt words from the judge were awesome.

"What you did to my daughter, TereseAnn Marie Lynch was evil, hateful and despicable. You couldn't destroy her spirit, so you took her life instead.

"Your evil, dark and disgusting persona could not stand to see her free and happy and so you brutally murdered her.

"There is no way to convey how much TereseAnn is missed, but she lives on in the hearts of her family and her friends and her son.

"You, on the other hand, will always represent the evil that I previously only guessed must be in this world.

"You are evil, hateful and disgusting. You are now dead and rotting and repulsive to me, but with timing and with God's help and with the help of TereseAnn's loving spirit, soon you will be absolutely nothing to me. I hope you forever remember the difference between TereseAnn and you."

Sheila Lynch Talks After Sentencing

"I'm OK, I'm more OK now than I think I have ever been through this entire process. It was better than I could have even hoped or dreamed for. Everyone got to say what they wanted to say including him and all he did was bury himself with what he said. He's going to be gone and that's what we want, more than anything. He's going to be gone and my daughter's going to live on in our hearts, in our memories and in our love for her. And he's going to be gone," said Sheila Lynch.

"The only thing that can be better is to do more for future domestic abuse victims. To have things in place that will help them more than the help that my daughter got at the time she needed it," said Sheila Lynch.

"He's very full of himself and you saw not one bit of remorse there. In fact, really arrogance toward the court and toward the whole process," said John Sarcone, Polk County Attorney. "He hasn't changed."

"A couple of times I wanted to laugh at the arrogance, at the stupidity," said Sheila Lynch.

"I shouldn't have been surprised. I know how arrogant he is. But the shock of what he could actually sit there and say and think that he's justifying what he did was amazing to me. He could say nothing worse than what he did to her. No words can be worse than what he did. He hung himself. I didn't have to do it for him," said Sheila Lynch.

"My daughter touched so many lives and in a way she also touched the judge," said Sheila Lynch. "The judge showed the humanity that all of us felt but he said it straight and directly from the legal system's point of view and it was wonderful."

The courtroom was filled and about a dozen deputies were present during the sentencing.

Look for much more on their emotional victim impact statements later today on KCCI.com and on KCCI-TV.

Previous Stories:

• October 13, 2010: Jury Announces Verdict In Moore Trial
• October 6, 2010: Jury Hears Opening Arguments In Moore Trial
• November 13, 2009: Friends Remember Slain Air Guard Member

Ms.Magazine---The Huffington Post Censors Mothers’ Rights Activists

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November 11, 2010 by Elizabeth Black · This week, Arianna Huffington announced the Huffington Post’s latest section: HuffPost Divorce. Her plug: “Breaking up is hard to do… but reading about it isn’t.” Upon Monday’s launch, however, there appeared a column that women’s rights advocates took very hard: a piece by Dr. Richard Warshak promoting the discredited “Parental Alienation Syndrome,” or PAS.

Parental alienation is a dangerous custody-battle concept that has been used primarily against mothers–and in particular, mothers trying to protect themselves and their children from hostile or abusive ex-partners and fathers. As R. Dianne Bartlow explained in her Summer 2010 Ms.article, “There’s Nothing Friendly About Abuse”:

PAS theorizes that most accusations of child abuse (especially sexual abuse) made during a custody battle are actually fraudulent. Not only are the charges false, says the theory, but they are deliberately undertaken by one parent (in most cases, the mother) to “alienate” the child from the other parent (generally, the father).

Frighteningly, PAS has allowed abusive or otherwise hostile fathers to gain custody of their children and then forbid the children contact with their mothers.

Yet parental alienation is not accepted as a valid theory by the American Psychological Association, and was rejected from the DSM-V. Without a real psychological definition, it has devolved over the years into a label for any negative testimony about the father by the mother (even if it’s true). It’s also now promoted as gender-neutral, but the parent most often labeled the “alienator” remains the mother. It’s also one hell of a cash cow for psychologists who make a living from it.

In keeping with all this, Warshak’s post, “Stop Divorce Poison”, gives an overly simplified description of “alienation” that could describe nearly any hostile or cantankerous relationship: “persistent bad-mouthing, lies, exaggerations, overlooking positives, and drum-beating negatives.”

A half dozen domestic violence and motherhood activists, including myself, descended upon Warshak’s column to leave comments describing how discredited PAS really is. But, as I witnessed and others report, by the evening of November 9, most of the comments (nearly a dozen) posted by critics had been deleted in the space of five minutes. According to those I’ve spoken with, deleted comments contained valid source material from professional organizations citing:

• how discredited parental alienation really is
• how parental alienation did not make it into the DSM-V
• how it is used primarily as a weapon by abusive fathers against protective mothers

Here is an example of a comment that was removed:

Another activist and I wrote to David Flumenbaum and Arianna Huffington to inform them about the censorship of opposing, critical views. Both of us received an email in return from Social News Editor Adam Clark Estes, who wrote:

I’ve double-checked the comments and all of those missing were removed in accordance with HuffPost’s commenting guidelines. You can read more about those here:

www.huffingtonpost.com/p/frequently-asked-question.html#moderation

That said, we’re in touch with Dr. Warshak about his comments and will do our best to keep the conversation flowing in the future.

When considering the above screenshots (pure facts devoid of non-objective commentary) it’s unclear which part of these guidelines apply:

(I) The Huffington Post welcomes all users to join our community and to comment and treats all members of the community equally.

(II) We want the Huffington Post to be home to open, transparent conversations in which people connect, discuss, share ideas, and debate the issues.

(III) We are also committed to maintaining a non-toxic atmosphere.

(IV) In order to preserve a functional and civil conversation, we do not allow trolls, trollish behavior, or stalking.

(V) Members of the HuffPost community deserve to be free from spam, and we do not allow posting the same comment multiple times within one thread or on multiple threads.

It’s frustrating that the supposedly progressive HuffPost has given a platform to Dr. Richard Warshak, one of parental alienation’s most fervent supporters, but won’t give the same platform to its commenters.

On November 10, activists returned to the article to comment; it remains to be seen if their comments will be deleted–or whether they’ll fall victim to HuffPost-moderation’s thin skin. If a blog can delete comments opposing their viewpoint, then what’s the point of comments? You might as well change the name to “compliments.”

Censored Venus Photo via Wikimedia Commons user Durova under Creative Commons 3.0.

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