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U.S. Justice Department files 40 page brief VS Murdered Abused Children OF Battered Mother In International Human Rights Court...
Human Rights Court Say US Didn’t help Battered Mother & Murdered Abused
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..> IACHR-update; Jessica Gonzales v. U.S. - Favorable Admissibility Decision
Below is an email from Carrie Bettinger-Lopez, our co-counsel on Jessica Gonzales' case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, with an update about recent developments.
Sandra Park, Staff Attorney
Women's Rights Project | American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004
T: 212.519.7871 | F: 212.549.2580 | spark@aclu.org
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For Sale: American Murdered, Abused Children OF Battered Mother In America |
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For Sale: American Murdered, Abused Children OF Battered Mother In America
Mother’s File International Complaint Against United States, violation human rights of abused
www.StopFamilyViolence.org
MOTHERS FILE INTERNATIONAL COMPLAINT AGAINST UNITED STATES Mother's day complaint claims United States courts violate human rights of abused women and children. NEW YORK, On May 11, 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. The case 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 ab...
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The American National Organization OF Women "Disorder In The Courts I" |
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National Organization OF Women "Disorder In The Courts I"
F m i l y L a w : D is o r d e r i n t h e C o u r t s
Introduction
By Helen Grieco, Rachel Allen and Jennifer Friedlin
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the country's largest and longest running women's rights organization. NOW is committed to fighting discrimination against women and girls, and ensuring their equality in every aspect of society. NOW is structured in chapters, and California NOW (CA NOW) is the largest chapter in the country, with 100,000 members and donors. Imagine this: A mother endures years ofabuse at the hands of her husband. One day, her husband strikes the children or gets caught in the act of sexually abusing one of the kids, and she decides she has got to break free. She files for cu...
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America'sCalifornia State University, The Book "Disorder In The Courts II",A Study of Judicial Abuse |
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California State University, The Book "Disorder In The Courts II",A Study of Judicial Abuse
Disoder In the Courts II
Protective Mothers in Child Custody
Disputes: A Study of Judicial Abuse
By Geraldine Butts Stahly, PH.D., Linda Krajewski, Bianca Loya, Linda Krajewski, Bianca
Loya, Kyra Dotter, Kimberly Evans, Wesley Farris, Felicia Frias, Grace German, Nancy Stuebner,
Kiranjeet Uppal, And Jenna Valentine
California State University, San Bernardino
Abstract
This project is a p...
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In America 75% Rate At Which Batterers Get Custody Of The Children |
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Rates At Which Batterers Get Custody Of The Children In America
Rates At Which Batterers Recieve Custody
by Joan Meier, Esq.
One statement in Breaking the Silence: Children's Voices that has provoked controversy was my statement that "the studies are showing" that up to 2/3 of accused or adjudicated batterers receive joint or sole custody in court. While no empirical study can definitively determine a universal statistical rate, the key point is that the research consistently shows that accused and adjudicated batterers receive joint or sole custody disturbingly often. This confirms the anecdotal experience of domestic violence attorneys and victims around the country. The following research supports this perspective.
I. A History of Domestic Violence is Common among Contested Custody Cases.
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American Northeastern University Press The Book "From Madness To Mutiny" |
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Northeastern University Press The Book "From Madness To Mutiny"
From Madness to Mutiny
Why Mothers Are Running from the Family Courts -- and What Can Be Done about It
Amy Neustein, Michael Lesher
Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law
Northeastern University Press
University Press of New England
2005 • 316 pp. 6 x 9"
Gender Studies / Law
"This book is essential reading for any health or mental health professional or legal advocate for children."—Family Violence and Sexual Assault Bulletin
A powerful exposé of the family court system's prejudice against mothers trying to protect their sexually abused children.
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The Video Excerpt From American "Breaking The Silence The Childrens Stories" |
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The Video Excerpt From "Breaking The Silence The Childrens Stories"
Breaking the Silence the childrens stories and they were there on google.
Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories -... 5 min - Jun 2, 2006
video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6185457755296524489
Also this is the film company that made the PBS Documentary :
http://www.tatgelasseur.com/pages/our_reel.html
www.courageouskids.net
Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation :: Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories Aired on PBS http://www.mkacf.org/BreakTheSilence.html
Breaking the Silence
http://sev.prnewswire.com/entertainment/20051019/CLW50819102005-1.html http://www.tatgelasseur.com/pages/bts.html
Battered Women, Abused Children, and Child Custody: A NATIONAL CRISIS
http://www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org/
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The American Documentary "Small Justice" |
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The Documentary "Small Justice"
The Making of the Documentary Small Justice
By Garland Waller
Diane Hofheimer, a paralegal and child advocate, handed me the VHS tape with a warning: The video would chill me to the bone. She told me itshowed a three-year-old girl clinging to a banister, begging not to be sent to live with her father.As Diane explained, a family court judge had awarded custody of this little girl to her dad despite evidence that he had sexually abused her. The thought of this made my skin crawl and part of me refused to believe that our court system would do this to a child. So I did what many people in my situation would do: I put the tape on top of my "to do"file. And there it sat, staring me in the face, for six months. About once a week, Diane would call tocheck in and see if I had watched the tape and each t...
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The American PBS Documentary "Breaking The Silence The Childrens Stories" |
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The PBS Documentary "Breaking The Silence The Childrens Stories"
What Breaking the Silence Means
By Dominique Lasseur
Documentary film producer Dominique Lasseur set out to explore the failures of the family court system in "Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories." But when public television broadcast the program in the fall of 2005, the father's rightsmovement was quick to react with scathing criticism and a deluge of viewer complaints. What compelled you to take on this issue? We didn't set out to produce a piece about custody issues. We had planned to make a documentaryabout the impact of domestic violence on children. We really wanted to show stories of what was being done to help children who wereraised in domestic violence environments. What we found was one story after another of protective mothers having their children...
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U.S. Journalist Kristen Lombardi Phoenix Globe Article The "Custodians of Abuse" |
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Kristen Lombardi Phoenix Globe Article The "Custodians of Abuse"
Custodians of Abuse
by Kristen Lombardi
IF YOU'RE A PARENT, it's your worst nightmare: finding out that your child is being molested — by your spouse. If you seek a divorce as a result, or are already going through one when you make the discovery, you hope that family court will do the right thing: grant you sole legal and physical custody of your child. In fact, you can't even imagine that there could be any other outcome in the custody judgment. But for many parents — in nearly every instance, mothers — just the opposite occurs: the alleged abusers don't just get unsupervised visitation rights, they get full custody. How can this happen?
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