Sunday 10 May 2009

Mother denied all access to her children

http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/news/archive/2009/may/10/01.htm

A COURT has denied the former wife of a rich City financier all access to their three children after she was found to be turning them against him.
In an extraordinary ruling, the woman, who was also judged to be too indulgent a parent, has been legally barred from seeing her children for three years. She was jailed for approaching one of them in the street and telling him she loved him in breach of a court order. She is facing a possible return to jail this summer for posting a video about her plight on the internet.
The woman judge presiding over the case justified banning contact between the mother and her children because they were being placed in an intolerable situation of conflict of loyalties resulting in them suffering serious emotional harm.
During supervised visits with her, the children made serious allegations about their father which were later shown to be unfounded. Social workers believed the mother was either prompting them to make the claims or they were saying them just to please her.
A psychiatrist who assessed the case said the mother loved her children but had harmed their development by trying to be always available to them.
The judge said she had serious concern about [the mother] infantilising the children, encouraging them to make complaints about the father and encouraging them to want to take an inappropriate part in these proceedings.

1 comment:

Kornelious said...

It is very unusual for the system to choose the father over the mother! It is about time the tide turned. The present system is immoral and is a gender issue. Equal should mean equal. It's time for mothers to back off and allow fathers to remain so.