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"The boy's mother said she had been warning law enforcement and the court system for months that she and her son were being abused. Friday night, Oakland police notified the Stockton Police Department that a child arrived at Oakland Children's Hospital with life threatening injuries and the father's story was suspicious. police arrested the boy's father, Tushambi Evans, 28, and charged him with felony child abuse...

"'The baby would sit right here, he'd feed him, but the baby would throw it up and he's pick up the throw up and make the baby eat it'... Jamela Evans said she's known her husband since the sixth grade, but the abuse started after their son, Tushambi Evans Jr, was born. Jamela Evans said she left her husband last May, but through legal actions, he ended up with full custody of their son. Jamela Evans said she ran off with her son once, but was arrested for felony child kidnapping..." http://centralstockton.news10.net/news/crime/95664-2-year-old-life-support-af...

"It didn't start with Josh Powell: Dads who kill in situations involving custody/visitation...." http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2012/02/it-didnt-start-with-josh-powell-dad...

"The mother of twin 3-year-old girls killed Saturday in a murder-suicide had complained in Hanover County court documents of abuse by her husband and alleged he was mentally unstable. Kristina Hooper, the defendant in a divorce proceeding that began in late October, argued in court papers that Robert D. King, 40, 'has exhibited paranoid behavior, been verbally abusive' toward Hooper and had threatened 'to take away' Hooper's son from a previous marriage as well as the twins..." http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/jan/31/tdmet01-family-was-in-turmoil-...

"Separated parents should not share custody of babies or toddlers under two, according to guidelines released this week by a national infant welfare group. 'Prior to the age of two years, overnight time away from the primary care-giver should be avoided' ...The guidelines recommend that non-custodial parents, nine out of 10 of whom are fathers, should instead see children under two during the day, up to three times a week, gradually phasing in overnight visits after the second birthday. Families fighting custody battles in the Family Court should not share custody until the child is three, according to the guidelines..." http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/shared-custody-a-mistake-for-the-under2s...

Murderer Arthur E. Morgan III, 27. "He had been arrested Nov. 8, 2010, in Eatontown on charges of criminal trespassing and contempt of court, but the allegations were administratively dismissed the following month... He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess cocaine and was sentenced to a year of probation in January 2008, according to the records..." http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/11/nj_man_accused_of_murdering_da.html

Question for the judge and the legislature: what benefit do you believe accrues to a two-year-old girl from spending time with an unmarried criminal man?

"Edward William Crandall, 24, was sentenced to 44 years in prison on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011... guilty of aggravated child rape, sexual exploitation and aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. At the time of his arrest Crandall was not married but had visitation rights with his son, who lived with his mother..." http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/oct/31/loudon-county-father-gets-44-years-f... More at Dastardly http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2011/10/dad-raped-2-year-old-son-recorded-r...

"It was a crime scene that changed a 10-year-old boy's life..." http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/111024-nearing-finale-for-son-conv...

Father's rights groups readily blamed the mother and "parental alienation". In 2004, media widely reported the ignorant pollyanna spew from neighbors, co-workers, and casual acquaintances about whataniceguy Lohstroh was. The decision from the Court of Appeals, overturning that conviction, told a very different story. http://www.thelizlibrary.org/therapeutic-jurisprudence/lohstroh.pdf The media, still hyperventilating for the sensational, did not adequately bring out that this boy got and accepted his juvenile parole offer only because he should have been acquitted in the first place on the grounds of self-defense -- and the D.A. knew it. Copping to a plea saved his family the cost and misery of another trial. It's "sad" that he got a gun? What is "sad" is that this child's only choice was between another decade of being abused or ending it. There is no good damn reason that when he said he was scared, when he said he and his brother were being physically and sexually abused, when he said he did not want to go with his joint custody father, that he wasn't believed, and that the judicial and police power of the state would not allow him to have a peaceful childhood, that his fathers' ego wants and demands were considered more credible and more important. For what. They are not. See Myths and Facts about Fatherhood at thelizlibrary.org 

Christian Choate and his father Riley Choate were "enjoying building a positive relationship together" according to the custody evaluator's report in 2005... "Police unearthed the boy's body May 1 from a shallow grave underneath a layer of concrete and lime... Christian's father and stepmother, Kimberly Kubina, were arrested and charged... police and Indiana Department of Family Services interviews conducted with children who lived in the home depict an abusive, dangerous household...

"Evaluations conducted in February 2005 by former Southlake Center for Mental Health therapist Angie Cleveland reported that... Choate and Kubina were providing 'a safe, well-structured environment'... As the custody battle brewed, mental health officials provided insight into the family's relationships. Cleveland's evaluation asked the court to consider her report when making a custody decision. 'The family seems to have a bond that is very positive,' Cleveland wrote... Despite the DCS' substantiated claims of abuse in 2004 of children in that household, Choate was granted custody of Christian and his sister in August 2005..." http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/gary/article_2b337896-14ad-5808-b7cd-...

"Let us be very clear about the true state of the psychologist's art. Psychologists do not know any more about behavior than the average man or woman in the jury box or the judge's robes. Psychologists do not know what causes behavior and they are entirely incapable of pinpointing some hypothetical event in the past that has led to the present state of an individual. They do not know what got done, how it got done, or whodunit. And not only are they unable to predict future behavior any better than the man or woman on the street, they are actually worse at it, blinded as they are by the illusion of their own expertise. Diagnostic categories are not validly established and diagnoses cannot be rendered reliably. Neither can therapy be reliably used to change the behavior of our citizens, juvenile or adult, violent or simply wayward.

"Psychologists have no special ability to read into the soul-or mind or psyche-of another human with any more accuracy than the rest of us. Upon finishing graduate or medical school they are not given special soulographs or psychometers that let them plumb the depths of anyone's psychological being. There simply is no mental stethoscope, no matter how much our justice system wishes there were.

"Clinicians are not trained to perform the myriad tasks the legal system asks them to perform because no body of knowledge exists to support such training. It is a sorry state of affairs, but it is the only state we've got."

More at:  http://www.thelizlibrary.org/therapeutic-jurisprudence/index.html
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/therapeutic-jurisprudence/custody-evaluator-test...

"With two parents locked in a bitter back-and-forth, the family court has had to decide who can better care for a 12-year-old: A father and local lawyer who has admitted to tying up another daughter, then-15, with zip ties and threatening her with a shock-producing device? Or a mother who has been uncooperative in court proceedings and could be trying to turn her children against their father? Last month, Collier Circuit Judge Lauren Brodie sided with the father, Jon Parrish, agreeing with two impartial third-party experts. The mother, Julie Price, was offered supervised visits..." http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2011/jul/08/attorney-Jon-Parrish-zip-tie-daugh... Aberration? See family court docket HERE.

The mother is supposed to encourage her daughters' relationship with this man and his extremely disturbing behavior? (Yes. And if she doesn't she loses custody.) Never mind that a grown man who believes he has these kinds of rights to degrade and humiliate a girl's mind and body, daughter or no, is a pervert. (And the opining experts, ditto.) This is sadomasochism.

Read more at http://www.juliepricechildrencrisiscourts.org/

"Teen in custody battle has been missing for a year; father suspects the boy's Denver mother, By Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post... police don't necessarily think the 14-year-old Texas boy is in danger. He is the subject of a long-running custody battle between his father, a Houston-area neurologist [Dennis Mosier], and mother, a Denver dentist... his ex-wife never let him see his son, he said... In January 2010, Jefferson County Magistrate Judge Joel Schaefer transferred custody of Andrew to his father... Andrew accused his father of sodomy... Police and child protective service investigators determined the complaints had no foundation... Andrew went to live with his maternal grandparents... two days after he had returned home, Andrew was gone. His uncle Doug had disappeared as well..." http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_18399557 Read more at http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2011/07/teen-son-runs-away-from-home-custod...

"...his formidable career was built upon a foundation of hypocrisy and lies. In the years since Greenberg's death, while court officials wrestled over his estate, The Seattle Times worked to unearth Greenberg's secrets, getting court records unsealed and disciplinary records opened.

"Those records are a testament to Greenberg's cunning. They show how he played the courts for a fool. He played state regulators for a fool. He played his fellow psychologists for a fool. And were it not for a hidden camera, he might have gotten away with it..." http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015427070_greenberg26m.html

More at: http://www.thelizlibrary.org/therapeutic-jurisprudence/index.html
(Scroll down to the State of Washington and click on Greenberg)

How many more like this are there?

"...two young children were dead inside a burning pickup truck, a third, suffering burns to his arms and head, stood nearby, watching helplessly... the father, Martin Houle, 37, a local farmer and owner of the truck... 18-month-old daughter and eight-year-old son, who were burnt beyond recognition... evidence suggests a murder-suicide in the midst of a marital dispute... The mother of the children was in the northern United States at the time... 'It's a tragedy... a very sad story'... Houle had been granted custody of the three children after a marital split and the mother had publicly claimed to be a victim of spousal violence..." http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Murder+suicide+suspected+childrens+de...

"Fighting for custody of his two children in 2008, Clem Beauchamp preached of the meaning of fatherhood, extolled his parenting skills and told of how he helped with homework and gave life lessons... So compelling was his combination of self-promotion and denigration of the children's mother, the court awarded him custody... Now those two children he fought so hard to keep are in the state's custody and two others who lived with Beauchamp are dead, found stuffed in luggage last week and dumped in a Delray Beach canal. Their mother is dead, too, finally identified after her body was found in a landfill... Beachamp has not been charged in the deaths, [but] authorities say he is the sole suspect in all three killings... of 10-year-old Jermaine McNeil, 6-year-old Ju'tyra Allen and 25-year-old Felicia Brown..." http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20110310/APN/1103101257?p=all&tc=pgall

"...Family Court Judge James Stewart... hired a Menlo Park-based psychologist, Leslie Packer, to evaluate both parents.... After a series of interviews and personality tests, such as the Rorschach inkblot test, she delivered her opinion: Karen's fears for her daughter were unfounded. 'Karen's suspiciousness goes to the extent of paranoid thinking...' Packer wrote in an evaluation delivered to the court... Today, Rex Anderson is serving a 23-year sentence... he pleaded no contest to 25 counts of sex crimes against his daughter, including child molestation, sexual penetration of a child with a foreign object, and use of a minor to create pornography...

"Seldom are a parent's allegations against an estranged former spouse rejected out of hand, only to be vindicated so completely. Yet observers say the Anderson case represents just one unfortunate outcome of systemic problems in the family courts' methods for investigating accusations of abuse.

"Looking out for the children who find themselves in the middle of bitter divorces is the most important function of the state's family courts, and arguably one of the most significant duties of the judiciary as a whole. Yet evidence has mounted in recent years that it is a responsibility in which family court officials are sometimes failing dramatically..."

Read this article at http://www.sfweekly.com/2011-03-02/news/family-court-parental-alienation-syndrome-richard-gardner-pedophilia-domestic-violence-child-abuse-judges-divorce/

Give this reporter the Pulitzer.

For more information on the failure and inability of psychologists engaged by the court system to come to the correct recommendations, see http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/child-custody-evaluations.html

Just a tally of some fathers responsible for child deaths in situations involving custodial fathers, or child custody, visitation, and/or child support legal issues. Most are recent, but some stretch back a few years, as the wheels of justice turn so slow. http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2011/02/175-killer-dads-fathers-who-ended-t...

"...the child was in the care of her father, Sergio Thomas, 21... Detectives and medical authorities questioned the girl's father and mother Monday at Phoenix Children's Hospital... pediatrician determined the girl suffered abusive head trauma. Thomas and his wife are separated and have another child, a 2-year-old son... they had a verbal custody agreement and shared the children on a weekly basis, each with set days of the week... During further questioning, Thomas changed his story and admitted he was frustrated with his daughter for waking up in the middle of the night and handled her roughly because of it. He told police he has an anger problem and admitted to hurting her because he was frustrated she had not been sleeping." http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2010/12/14/20101214ch... Commentary at http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2011/02/dad-with-joint-custody-history-of.html

From Kathleen Russell at the Center for Judicial Excellence 415-388-9600:
             JOSH (age 16 in video, now 17) in San Diego County - "Somebody with a voice needs be able to bring the light to what's going on." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBEkEWntC74
             DAMON (age 13 in the video, now 14) in San Diego County - "I was just making this video to to inform all of you of the clear and present danger that I am in right now." http://www.savingdamon.com
             REBECCA (age 14 in video, now age 15) in Sacramento County - "I am only 14 years old, and already am I a victim of abuse from my biological father, many therapists, and family courts. I have been forced against my will to be abused in such a manner that no child should have to face. I and many other children have had no justice or liberty at all." https://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewvideo/1693 [Scroll up to 20:09 minutes into the hearing to hear Rebecca's testimony. Her mother speaks right before she does.]

Jason Cardinal, 31, whose mental health and treatment of his young children had been a concern for at least 10 months, strangled his little boys with towels. "The documents show Cardinal was the primary custodian of the children in 2008, but when concerns about his mental state

"Holding on tightly to a picture of a missing child, a family asks why authorities won't issue an Amber Alert for a little boy they say was taken by his father [Joe Marin] -- a man charged with capital murder... Marin shares custody of Jaiden, and because he's never posed a physical threat to the child before, neither Houston nor Stafford police will issue an Amber Alert. It's considered a custodial issue. Stafford police calling Joe Marin and the others both armed and dangerous does not make a difference..." http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7862566