Dump the experts: Evaluator accuses kids of being "psychic" and reading mom's mind regarding sexual abuse by dad (Adelaide, Australia)

This is what Parental Alientation Syndrome (PAS) has wrought. You start with a garbage theory and the garbage applications just get more bizarre all the time.

PAS theorists have continually argued that sexual abuse allegations regarding fathers are always "lies" made up by hysterical mothers to get their way in court. When the children back up the mother's claims, the kids are labeled as brainwashed and "alienated." Though there isn't a shred of scientific evidence to support PAS, that hasn't stopped the popularity of PAS with defense attorneys and fathers rights types, who generally ignore any real evidence.

But of course, to make convoluted crap stick, you have to come up with stranger gyrations all the time. Stuff that utterly defies common sense. And this one takes the cake.

Not only do we have an "unqualified assessor" who labeled this mother mentally ill while ignoring all evidence to support her allegations, we have a dimwit who actually believed the kids were "psychic" and reading Mom's mind when it came to the father's sexual abuse of the children. WTF???

Of course, there is evidence of court corruption too. PAS and court corruption seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly.

And that, friends, is how pedo daddies get custody these days.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/expert-aghast-to-find-mum-was-declared-mentally-ill-while-reporting-child-abuse/story-e6frea83-1225981256959

Last updated: January 05, 2011

Expert aghast to find mum was declared mentally ill while reporting child abuse MILES KEMP From: The Advertiser January 03, 2011 8:42PM

CHILD protection expert Freda Briggs believes authorities are having mothers declared mentally ill when they complain their children are the subject of sexual abuse, because they are struggling to cope with an increasing number of victims.

The UniSA Emeritus Professor and child protection expert, Freda Briggs, has asked Families Minister Jennifer Rankine to launch an inquiry into one case in which a woman's complaint was dismissed after an assessor found her two then-pre-school-aged children were "psychic" and had read the mother's mind when she thought about the father abusing them.

Professor Briggs said the treatment of the mother - a social worker trained in reporting abuse and who by law must report it as part of her profession - was increasingly common.

She said she asked for an inquiry into Families SA's handling of the ongoing matter, which dates back to 2008, because of inconsistencies in the case involving the social worker mother, who cannot be identified. Other alleged inconsistencies include:

CCTV footage showing the children's claims against the father and highly sexualised behaviour of the older child.

FOUR psychiatrists contradicted a Families SA finding the mother is mentally ill.

AN unqualified assessor found the mother was mentally ill, which was accepted by Families SA.

LINKS between the father's family and court officials.

FAILURE by Families SA to have the children's injuries assessed because it would be too stressful for them.

AN unqualified police officer decided injuries to the older child were caused by constipation.

Professor Briggs said the trend began when under the Howard government court rules were changed to give fathers greater custody of children, criticised by some children's advocates who argue some were delivered into the hands of their abusers. "This case is typical of what I'm getting when the mother reports child sex abuse, they say she has imagined abuse and convinces the child that s/he is abused when s/he isn't," Professor Briggs said.

The Advertiser's request for a response was rejected by a Families SA spokeswoman, who said its procedures were cleared by the Health and Community Services Complaints Commissioner.