Law needed to curb false abuse allegations
Posted by EFRAIN RODRIGUEZ JR on March 11th, 2010 | Category: false allegations false allegations of abuse
As a victim of 16 false allegations made over 16 years in the never-ending "War of the Roses," please allow me to explain my position. First, no one should ever have to endure the pain and surfering of domestic violence. Laws have been created and are there because women and children have been abused for years without any protections.
• MARCH 10, 2010
Today, there are many laws that protect "true victims." But what happens as, in this case, when a spouse or other relation makes an allegation and then chooses to recant? Many hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in resources and police man hours have been spent investigating these allegations. And what of the reputation of the accused; where is his recourse?
Many men spend many days and weeks and years incarcerated on allegations of domestic violence only to have their cases dismissed because the "victim" chooses not to cooperate with prosecutors. Does anyone out there remember the Tawana Brawley case? Millions of dollars were spent investigating her claims of sexual assault and abuse, and a commission concluded the event didn't happen? And the accuser gets to walk away scot-free and face no charges, criminal or civil for the lives and careers she destroyed?
(Brawley and her advisers, included the Rev. Al Sharpton, were on the losing end of defamation claims brought by those falsely accused of being among a group of men who abducted and raped Brawley over several days in Wappingers Falls in 1987. — Editor.)
Many men have lost jobs, homes, had their reputations ruined and irreparably damaged due to their spouses or close one's false allegations. There need to be laws in place that hold accusers of alleged abuse criminally and financially responsible when they recant, refuse to cooperate or are found to have fabricated the allegation for their own selfish gains — such as to wield leverage in a custody or divorce action or as a tool to remove an unwanted spouse or gain more money for child support.
While such laws may keep truly abused victims from reporting abuse, they are not the only victims when such allegations are proven to be false.
The writer, who lives in Carmel, is past president, Father's Rights Association of New York State.
http://www.lohud.com/article/20100310/OPINION/3100319/1076/OPINION01/Law%20needed%20to%20curb%20false%20abuse%20allegations
Comments (5)
i HAVE BEEN CONTACT WITH MY CHILDREN BECAUSE I HAD REPORTED CONCERNS OF ABUSE BY THE MOTHER AND HER SOCIAL WORKERS. MY DAUGHTER GAVE EVIDENCE TO POLICE THAT HER MOTHER WAS HITTING HER AND MY SON AND TEACHING HER BAD THINGS.
MY DAUGHTER ALSO REPORTED THAT THE MOTHER'S SOCIAL WORKERS AND A MALE PSYCHOLOGIST HAD TOUCHED HER INAPPROPRIATELY AT HER MOTHER'S HOUSE WAS CONSIDERED BY THE COURT AS, "CHILD IS UNAWARE OF THE STATEMENTS SHE IS MAKING"
THIS TELL THE WHOLE STROY ABOUT HOW CORRUPT THIS FAMILY COURT IS.
You all need to be aware that Jackson's case relates to his 0WN Family Law matters from 18 years ago - NOT HIS ABILITY AS A FAMILY LAW Barrister. The Couft today fined him - NO CONVICTION - because he forged his ex-wife's signature (which he pleaded guilty to) and all of the case referred to his owj former marriage & had nothing at all to do with this practice as a Fanily Law Barrister/Solictor.
Dito, dito, dito, This will keep happening until Family Law combatents are asked to stand by their affidavits & statements..ie dont make false ones....Family Lawyers are sometimes coercing their clients to sex up, colour up, ramp up or exaggerate their histories (for a bigger slice of custody and property)to the point where the Family Law arena has substituted truth telling for story telling.
As a Govt. paid child protector told me (not long before my 10 y.o. daughter told me that she knew that her mother had written a 'false report'-Court Affidavit, about me), "Your daughters will work out who to believe and what they have to do."...True BUT...Is this in the BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD ??????
A Family Law Barrister in Ballarat, Graeme Jackson, has his next Court appearance(for Perjury and multiple counts of 'using a false document to prejudice others' )on the 7th April..If convicted his will be the first conviction for Perjury in Family Law in Victoria's history.
Lets not burden our children with judging Family Law breaches...That is state sanctioned child abuse.
Michael,
you've been dragged into what amounts to little more than organized crime. As a legally unimpeachable citizen, finding yourself forced to appear before a secret bureaucratic court, pay money to these dreadful people and then lose your children to boot, is what in the end will see the advent of civil war.
As long as "democratic" societies insist on these totalitarian traits, all in the name of "child's best interests" of course, it cannot be avoided.
Read what you can of Stephen Baskerville's. He's the undisputed expert on just what is going on in these unconstitutional, nay, criminal organizations.
One of the problems - I think - is that people just don't realize what goes on in these awful places. They get self-interested platitudes and bromides from the conspirators; the legal profession, career feminists, sham psychotherapists and compliant legislators, the whole time being kept in the dark about these outrageous abuses of power.
A good start would be if we killed all the lawyers, with apologies to William Shakespeare.
There is no law to prevent false allegations of abuse, or any other false allegations and defamations of ex male partners, because the law would not be applied.
Two days ago in family court, my ex told the panel of magistrates that my Barister had '''threatened''' her with a fine for failing to comply with court orders to allow me contact with my daughters. She then suggested that to fine the mother would not be in the best interests of the children, and the mangina on the bench nodded his head in agreement. At this point I realised I was not going to get contact, because they are not only unable to enforce it, but also have no intention of enforcing it.
In fact I have even been denied phone contact now, because it 'causes conflict in the family home' between the mother and daughter!
Stunned, devastated, horified etc.