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Maryland Judges Must Be Trained on Child Custody and Abuse – Opinion

February 18, 2022

There’s this place around the corner from you, seemingly insignificant, but it hosts a house of horrors. It’s a place where the same therapists, medical providers and teachers who are legally required to report suspected child abuse are not allowed to save a child before more abuse occurs. Where truth is obsolete, and right and wrong don’t matter. It’s called family court. And I’ve been trapped … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: child abuse, child sex abuse, Family Court, HB561, judicial accountability, judicial training, maryland, opinion, SB17, sexual abuse

The Failure of French Justice in the Face of Child Victims of Sexual Violence

January 24, 2022

(Translated from French) Child victims of sexual assault suffer from a denial of protection due to the increasingly frequent use, particularly in the French judicial system, of anti-victim speeches using the concept of the “parental alienation syndrome”. Many personalities are asking that “Parliament take up this need for protection”.   Read more here. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: child custody, child safety, france, french, international, Parental alienation, parliament, SAP, sexual abuse, sexual assault

Victims of Domestic Abuse Find No Haven in Family Courts

December 3, 2021

Author Joan Meier, Professor of Law, George Washington University The #MeToo movement may have shifted the balance of credibility on sexual abuse and harassment at work more toward victims and away from alleged perpetrators. But the same cannot be said regarding men’s violence and abuse at home: In fact, women’s reports of domestic violence are still widely rejected, especially in one … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: domestic violence, Family Court, joan meier, me too, sexual abuse

‘Women Are Routinely Discredited’: How Courts Fail Mothers and Children Who Have Survived Abuse

August 17, 2021

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...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: abuse, coercive control, domestic violence, Family Court, family court failure, family court reform, financial abuse, judicial accountability, sexual abuse

Williamson County Family Exchanges Litigation Over Accusations of Child Abuse, Murder

June 18, 2021

Gracie Solomon, a brave young woman and abuse survivor is speaking out about her abusive father, sharing her belief that her father killed her older brother Grant, her protector. She is also a survivor of the corrupt and inept family court system that ignored her abuse and forced her into the full custody of her violent father, despite her mother's attempts to protect her and her brother … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: child abuse, gracie solomon, homicide, sexual abuse, survivor, Tennessee, Williamson County Circuit Court

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