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Joyce Booth's avatar

Many mothers are still standing despite being falsely accused and needlessly condemned. Many judges are falling because they cannot face their truth being exposed. Mothers fight because of our children. Mothers must continue to unite, stand and fight. We are strong. We are stronger together.

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Doc Blue's avatar

AS OF " family " " law " j u d g e s and Patriarchs' religions Worldwide =

J u d g e s 19:22 - 30 = J U S T cut Mama th' 'ell UP ... ... and be DONE with her.

These two men A R E typical / N O T Atypical:

" The Chief Institution of The PATRIARCHY .IS. ... ... The Family. "

per Dr K Millett upon p33 of her y1970 work, Sexual Politics.

This ? I NEVER EVER F O R G E T THIS. THUS, YES, protecting mamas

have NO option. Our O N L Y CHOICE ? F I G H T.

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Michelle's avatar

I testified before the state Senate on this. No one has helped us still but they passed a law. My daughter was wrongfully placed into a high security mental institution for “eating disorders” by the custodial father in August 2023 and I only learned of this through her school’s concern after I was searching for her for two weeks. No one knew where she was. We contacted the police and attempted to do a missing persons and was told to file in this court. My lawyer filed a properly filed emergency motion for a hearing and was DENIED by Judy Woodall and she waited 3 more months then said “A kid in the hospital is not an emergency. A missing kid is not an emergency either- the father knew where he put her so who cares” (para). She also denied all motions to hear the case based on my daughter having a zero grade point average in the father’s “care” during last year and now this year school year and not attending physical school in the father’s “care” now for 4 years straight -well past COVID- since 8th grade.

The father has violated/contempted the visitation order for years and I have only seen my daughter once since September (9 months ago) because of it, yet Judge Judy Woodall never allows a hearing on it but the judges did when they had me pay a multi-millionaire government worker thousands in child support.

One parent is a government lifer employee, and the other parent is not. So the parent who isn’t a govie never saw her child and cant get a court order regarding it, even with lawyers.

Judge Judy Woodall has not honored her own order she wrote about a schedule of the non-employed-by-government white single mother to see her white non-attending school daughter through the judicial branch of government on a court established in September 2020 for visitation rights access schedule set upon the custodial parent John Durniak who works for federal government to follow. Durniak continues to violate the order for every vacation and 3 day weekend as he has violated for years because this court refuses to violate him. In fact, this court has only harmed my naturally born daughter (no step mother or other females in her life) by its repeated failure for years to address the events as they transpire.

This court’s ongoing failure to execute their judicial duties in a timely fashion for urgent matters such as the minor going missing for over two weeks or not being truant for years,minor being put into an in-patient mental institution against her will by her father alone without a Dr order/script to place her there, and her not having the disease father pretended just to get rid of her, and the State of Maryland attorney’s having to represent my daughter in order to get her out against the father’s abuse of the system, this court’s failure to allow that or other such emergency hearings, and since 2021, failure to issue any orders pertaining to the father’s conduct as 100% legal and custodial parent.

The corruption that my daughters and I have faced by Lawrence Hill and Judy Woodall, experienced and been victimized by over a long period of time, is no better than Venezuela, Russia,China or other government-backed authoritarians. This is not a one-time incident- this abuse of us has been going on nearly my youngest daughter’s entire life.

Every request for this case to be heard in the county for which my daughters has been living in or anywhere else in the state for 10 years was denied. Neither party in this case has ever lived in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY MARYLAND where the case has been heard since the 2nd hearing when the father’s lawyer Michael Francis Harris, was also the town family court judge and presided in the first hearing of the case to reverse custody and child support obligations of the federally employed father. The 3 other judge’s refused to take the case in the rightful county after they reversed custody and I appealed and won- yet PG County Judge Lawrence Hill disregarded the Appellate court decision of their higher courts.

This case is a good example of why America has become a laughing stock around the world due to powerful corruption just like non-democracies and how our American youth are paying the consequences. You make me sick to my stomach, give me nightmares and I never want to see you again Woodall. You will not make me disbelieve in God, however, and I know he sees what you’ve done.

Write me at mich2020january @ gmail

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Annie Ocean's avatar

Back in the days when we had a birthing center here in So. Oregon, I watched as judges awarded children I watched being born taken from mothers and awarded to drug addicted fathers, who were scum. It is sickening and absolutely disgusting. I now know that when girls disappear, just ask the judges where they are.

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Cailin's avatar

Then, perhaps a binding prenuptial.

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Anna Kerr's avatar

I think you are placing too much faith in the jury system to correct the problem. Suggesting that women fight within a patriarchal legal system stacked against them may be self-defeating in many cases. I don't think you should dismiss the last of the three options: "leave the colony". There are ways of "leaving" that do not require physical relocation. However, it does require women talking and acting together to establish economic, political and legal alternatives.

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The Womens Coalition's avatar

What are ways of "leaving" that don't require physical relocation?

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Anna Kerr's avatar

It was a reckless statement to make and based largely on wishful thinking. However, I am working on finding an answer to your question. Some women stay separated under the one roof in the interim to ensure they are not compelled to leave their children unsupervised with a perpetrator and thereby try to reduce the risk to them. Emotional distancing is essential, as is developing support networks and safety planning etc., but unfortunately these strategies all have their limits and for many women the stress and risk of remaining in the same household is too high. However, my comment was more directed at long terms strategies like developing alternative economic systems (like Local Exchange Trading Systems) since financial dependency on males is often a significant factor constraining women's choices. I also think we need to form our own autonomous political parties and unions focused on achieving the substantial legislative changes needed and withdrawing the unpaid work which currently props up the paid workforce. All of this may be too late for many already trapped in the system. I agree that young women need to be educated about the risks before they conceive or give birth and must give serious thought before notifying a man or the authorities of his paternity if she has any doubt about wanting an ongoing relationship with him.

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Always Raining's avatar

This is ridiculous. We lost body autonomy and you’re saying women should fight for our kids? If we have no body autonomy then we are slaves to the government & they can take kids away at will.

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The Womens Coalition's avatar

Not sure what you mean...

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Joey Angelina's avatar

Think about all the moms and dads children taken away from them unjustly. The pain and sorrow that they feel is so much that they end their lives. I wish all judges would just end their lives for unjust and disgusting corrupt behaviors.

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Doc Blue's avatar

I concur, Ms Cailin. Utterly.

ONLY the Sperm Source's patriarchally claiming LAST - name

upon my children's birth certificates xthree ( within the late 1970s ... ... ALL )

was, then, a GARGANTUAN MISTAKE of mine.

A " campaign " to END this part of the patriarchy would make

a DECENT S T A R T at S M A S H I N G the Patriarchy.

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The Womens Coalition's avatar

Yes, much better to put the mother's name on the birth certificate and that would be one small step in the right direction...

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The Womens Coalition's avatar

Unfortunately, it doesn't matter if the father's name is on the birth certificate or not. A judge can give a child to a father, stepfather or anyone who has even just acted as a father for a short time.

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