One Thursday afternoon in December, a father and two of his estranged children boarded a flight from Salt Lake City to Texas, beginning an effort to repair their fractured relationship. A family court official had ordered them to attend a reunification camp, Turning Points for Families Texas, to repair damage that the judge said the boys’ mother had inflicted by alienating them from their … [Read more...]
Mom Denied Custody Day Before Son’s Fatal Beating Sues Agency After Reporting Abuse for 20 Months Before Death
The mother of a New Jersey boy allegedly murdered by his father has filed a wrongful death suit against the State of New Jersey, Department of Child Protection and Permanency (DCPP). Bre Micciolo says in her civil suit that her son Corey might still be alive had the agency and its case workers "adequately, properly, and fully [investigated the] reports of abuse" she made concerning her son and … [Read more...]
State Lawmakers Consider Bill Banning Controversial Reunification Therapy and Camps
A bill known as Piqui’s Law would prohibit court-ordered family reunification therapy or “camps” as part of a child custody or visitation rights proceeding, that is predicated on cutting off a child from a parent with whom the child is attached, is moving through the legislature. Authored by Senator Susan Rubio, the intent of SB 331 is to increase the priority given to child custody court … [Read more...]
A father shot his daughters. A mom wants to know why her warning was ignored
CITRUS HEIGHTS, Calif. — The three little graves are covered in artificial turf, bright green on a cold winter evening. The gravestones are hand-painted in swirls of purple and a darker green, with cloth butterflies centered above the names: Samarah, 9; Samantha, 10; and Samia, 13. Three little butterflies dead and buried, shot b their father, David Mora, with a homemade ghost gun one … [Read more...]
Four times in the span of a month children have been killed by a parent in Colorado
DENVER — It’s the type of tragedy that should never happen and yet, in Colorado, there have been four instances within the span of a month of children dying at the hands of their fathers in murder-suicides. …“We're going to have more kids murdered if you're not going to look at the domestic violence,” McLean said. She wants to see more training for court personnel who are making custody … [Read more...]
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