An upstate New York domestic violence survivor, author, and family child advocate Francesca Amato said Ulster County Family Court Judge Anthony McGinty violated her rights by awarding custody of her teen son to her abusive ex — and she claims other female litigants are facing similar fates, an explosive federal lawsuit alleges. Judge McGinty placed her 13-year-old son with a father, who has a … [Read more...]
‘Women Are Routinely Discredited’: How Courts Fail Mothers and Children Who Have Survived Abuse
This report from The Fuller Project, in partnership with the Guardian, details the routine family court failure to believe and protect mothers and children who have survived abuse and how abusive partners using the courts to control and harass their current and former partners. “I’m losing everything,” says Marissa, who learned last September, in the middle of an already contentious custody … [Read more...]
Following the Death of Her 6-Year-Old Son While in the Care of His Abusive Father – Mom Says ‘Absolutely No One in Authority was Helpful’
Corey Micciolo, 6, was allegedly killed by his abusive father, Christopher J. Gregor, 29, of Barnegat Township. Facing charges that he endangered Corey weeks earlier, Gregor appeared via video from Ocean County jail on Friday morning for a detention hearing on the second-degree charge and was ordered released by Superior Court Judge Wendel E. Daniels. Security camera footage … [Read more...]
Arizona Judge Brad Astrowsky Sent Kids of MLB Vet to Controversial “Reunification” Camp
Judge Bradley Howard Astrowsky, a family court judge in Phoenix, sent former Major League Baseball player David Segui's two sons from Arizona to California without Segui’s permission to attend the Family Bridges camp at their mother’s request. This comes after court filings in which Segui stated he tried to protect the boys from an abusive mother and her boyfriend. Earlier this year, a video … [Read more...]
‘I will kill anybody that associates themselves with you’ Deadly Threats Ignored by Judge Results in Double Murder Suicide
Rest in peace, Ryan Lee. His mother Jaime Hunnicutt did everything she could to try to prevent this tragedy, and Judge Lisa Louise Broten of Howard County, Maryland sealed her family's fate by denying a permanent restraining order against her ex-boyfriend. Our hearts go out to the grieving family and the grandchildren, who lost their innocent loved ones. This incredible reporting by Kendall … [Read more...]