The follow-up to the post above.
http://www.divorcelawyerillinoisblog.com/2010/12/are-courts-rewarding-bad-behavior-moms-fight-back-p-2.shtml
Are Courts Rewarding Bad Behavior? Moms Fight Back (p. 2)
On behalf of The Law Office of Cynthia L. Lazar posted in Child Custody on Wednesday, December 1, 2010
In our last post, we started talking about a group of mothers and organizations from different states, including Illinois, who have taken their argument with the U.S. courts to an international body. This group petitioned the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, claiming that U.S. courts have violated their human rights by granting custody and unsupervised visitation to fathers who have abused both the mothers and the children.
In U.S. courts, mothers reporting domestic violence or sexual molestation of their children by the fathers are often labeled as mentally ill or "diagnosed" with Munchhausen's by Proxy or Parental Alienation Syndrome. PAS is used over and over again to punish the protective mothers, even though the so-called syndrome has no scientific validity -- in fact, PAS is used as a weapon almost exclusively against mothers in custody battles.
There have been other reports of mothers reporting abuse getting jail time and losing custody altogether. Mothers who fail to report abuse face similar punishments, though. Protect: Lose your child to the abusive parent. Don't protect: Lose your child to government agencies. The petitioners believe the US courts, despite a 1990 Congressional resolution, continue to put children into the arms of abusers.
The declaration's establishment of a right to family helps to frame a particularly strong argument for the petitioners. All of the petitioners had been denied access to their children in cases that lacked confincing proof that the petitioner had harmed her child. They say that the courts have no valid reason for taking a child from a mother who is trying to protect him or her and that the separation of that mother and child clearly violates the mother's right to establish a family.
Powerful as the arguments may be, the IACHR has not acted. Mothers who have been fighting for their children for 10 years or longer have been met with the same apparent indifference on the international level that they faced at the state court level. The question of how best to protect these children remains unanswered.
Resource: Huffington Post "Failures of U.S. Courts Forces Mothers to Turn to International Law" 11/16/10
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Dad on trial for trying to smother baby, poison him with codeine (Newcastle, England, United Kingdom)
UNNAMED DAD is on trial for attempting to smother his infant son and poison him with codeine. It's suggested that Daddy did this as a "ploy to stay close to the child's mother."
Hmm. Interesting, in that we're always told that only mothers engage in this kind of behavior. You know, Munchausen by proxy syndrome.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/2010/02/16/newcastle-dad-tried-to-kill-baby-court-told-72703-25844553/
Newcastle dad tried to kill baby, court told
Feb 16 2010 by Rob Pattinson, Evening Chronicle
A DAD tried to murder his baby by smothering him and poisoning him with powerful painkillers, a court heard.
Making his baby unwell was part of the accused father’s ploy to stay close to the child’s mother, Teesside Crown Court was told yesterday.
The defendant, from Newcastle, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has denied giving his son the adult painkiller codeine to endanger his life.
He has also denied child cruelty, attempted murder and grievous bodily harm with intent.
The four charges relate to autumn 2008 when the child was still only weeks old, jurors were told.
Shaun Dodds, prosecuting, said: “During the first two months of life, the baby was admitted to four hospitals because of episodes of apparent illness. The doctors involved were perplexed by the child’s symptoms.”
Medics became suspicious about the pattern of his admissions and the police and social services became involved, the court heard.
Most times when the child fell ill – becoming limp, pale and unresponsive – he had been in the sole care of his father, the prosecution alleged.
The court was told hospital staff were alerted when they witnessed the defendant remaining unemotional as his son received emergency care.
One episode of illness was so bad he would have died but for the hospital treatment he received, the prosecution said.
“He was stiff and kept arching his back,” Mr Dodds said. He began to go into cardiac and respiratory arrest.”
Afterwards, the painkiller tramadol was found in a sample of the baby’s blood. Previous tests had found codeine in his system.
Other times the boy suddenly deteriorated, then rapidly improved following treatment.
The court heard that four days after returning from the hospital with the baby, the mother first became concerned when she was unable to wake her son.
The boy was taken to one hospital and given emergency treatment before being transferred to two others.
Giving evidence, the baby’s mother told the jury: “Around September 23 I was picking the baby up from his Moses basket and I saw something which I thought was a bit of tissue.
“I went to flick it away and I saw it was a pill. It just looked like one of my codeine tablets.
“I said ‘How the hell did that get there?’ He (the baby’s father) didn’t react. He just picked it up and took it away.”
The prosecution said the defendant and the baby’s mother met on the internet and soon she became pregnant.
The trial, expected to last up to four weeks, continues.
Hmm. Interesting, in that we're always told that only mothers engage in this kind of behavior. You know, Munchausen by proxy syndrome.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/2010/02/16/newcastle-dad-tried-to-kill-baby-court-told-72703-25844553/
Newcastle dad tried to kill baby, court told
Feb 16 2010 by Rob Pattinson, Evening Chronicle
A DAD tried to murder his baby by smothering him and poisoning him with powerful painkillers, a court heard.
Making his baby unwell was part of the accused father’s ploy to stay close to the child’s mother, Teesside Crown Court was told yesterday.
The defendant, from Newcastle, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has denied giving his son the adult painkiller codeine to endanger his life.
He has also denied child cruelty, attempted murder and grievous bodily harm with intent.
The four charges relate to autumn 2008 when the child was still only weeks old, jurors were told.
Shaun Dodds, prosecuting, said: “During the first two months of life, the baby was admitted to four hospitals because of episodes of apparent illness. The doctors involved were perplexed by the child’s symptoms.”
Medics became suspicious about the pattern of his admissions and the police and social services became involved, the court heard.
Most times when the child fell ill – becoming limp, pale and unresponsive – he had been in the sole care of his father, the prosecution alleged.
The court was told hospital staff were alerted when they witnessed the defendant remaining unemotional as his son received emergency care.
One episode of illness was so bad he would have died but for the hospital treatment he received, the prosecution said.
“He was stiff and kept arching his back,” Mr Dodds said. He began to go into cardiac and respiratory arrest.”
Afterwards, the painkiller tramadol was found in a sample of the baby’s blood. Previous tests had found codeine in his system.
Other times the boy suddenly deteriorated, then rapidly improved following treatment.
The court heard that four days after returning from the hospital with the baby, the mother first became concerned when she was unable to wake her son.
The boy was taken to one hospital and given emergency treatment before being transferred to two others.
Giving evidence, the baby’s mother told the jury: “Around September 23 I was picking the baby up from his Moses basket and I saw something which I thought was a bit of tissue.
“I went to flick it away and I saw it was a pill. It just looked like one of my codeine tablets.
“I said ‘How the hell did that get there?’ He (the baby’s father) didn’t react. He just picked it up and took it away.”
The prosecution said the defendant and the baby’s mother met on the internet and soon she became pregnant.
The trial, expected to last up to four weeks, continues.
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