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Thank you Russ and Patrick for your humanity. Thank you for your efforts to protect our children. You are heroes. You should be celebrated not persecuted.

Family court does not allow mothers to protect their children. It does not allow anyone to help these children or their mothers. Family court protects abusive fathers and knowingly places children in dangerous situations. They punish loving mothers, innocent children and humane individuals. Systemic male entitlement must end. Mothers have children out of love. We did not have children to send them to slaughter. Mothers are not surrogates or breeders. Children are not male property, but family court treats them as male property. The anguish we are forced to endure never leaves us. Mothers must let the love we have for our children fuel us. We must continue to fight for them. Mothers must demand an end to the abuse of judicial power.

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Yet when the shoe is on the other foot - when a father kidnaps a child interstate against family court orders and gets a third party to hide the child from the mother (where the father has a long history of violence against the child and where the AFP and local police know where the child is) - the police don’t pursue or charge the father, the police don’t pursue third party hiding the child (a pair of priests no less!), they don’t recover the child, they don’t even do a welfare check on the child despite having the address, but you know what the AFP do? They arrest the MOTHER claiming that the mother attending handover AS PER FAMILY COURT ORDERS is somehow breaking the law because “if the father says he’s not handing the child over, it’s not handover and therefore attending the handover location is a crime”.

In relation to the third party who helped kidnap and hide the child, the priests’ church’s hierarchy (a major Australian denomination with multimillions) knows the priests (a married couple) were involved and knows the priests knows the father is violent to the child. They also know the priests hid the child from the mother in the church rectory (I.e. the priests used church property to commit a serious crime). They also know that one of the priests made false allegations to the police about the mother, and the mother only escaped charges (and jail) because she recorded their interaction which shows the priests lying to the mother repeatedly, and also shows the allegations that the priest made to the police about the mother were blatantly false, and shows the priest admitting he and his wife were in breach of the family court orders and that they could be held legally accountable and had been involving in the planning of kidnapping the child by having gone to see a lawyer in advance to get advice on how to get away with their involvement. But what does the church do? Tell the priests not to get involved if it occurs again. Not fired, not reprimanded, not even told to withdraw the false allegations to the police (btw the police also did nothing about the proven false statement to police, despite the fact the father was allowed to use this false statement in family court with no notice to the mother, statement made the night before final hearing, and the mother not allowed to give any evidence about it or respond to it).

But no one cares. No one cares that the mother was fired from her new job (ironically with the AFP) two weeks after the allegations were made specifically due to the allegations. No one cares that the charges led to the mother being let go from the replacement job she found and her former boss badmouthing her (as he is an MRA) or that the conviction has led to the mother being unemployable as severe permanent injuries the father left the mother with limits the mother to a desk job and all the desk jobs available all require a clean criminal history.

The mother hasn’t been able to pay her mortgage in over a year, can’t sell as their is more owing on the unit than what it is worth, can’t rent because even one bedroom units in the expensive city the father forced them to move to costs more than what meagre unemployment benefits pay, so no one will rent to the mother, the mother doesn’t have a room to rent out for income and the father use family court to block the mother from living with anyone other than family (and her family live 800 miles away).

The mother has an appeal coming up because the criminal court judge decided the mother was guilty until proven innocent and ignored the evidence of the mother’s innocence.

But no one cares. No one cares the mother lives in constant severe pain from injuries from the father - some of which the father has admitted to under oath after initially perjuring himself claiming it didn’t happen but after being given immunity, the father admitted to serious assault with grievous bodily harm and having given false statements to police. The mother has severe PTSD with agoraphobia. But no one cares.

No one is writing blogs. No one is creating gofundmes to help the mother get the mere $20,000 she needs to defend herself and get her name cleared so she can work and not be left homeless and forced to give up the pitiful little time she gets to see her child occasionally. No one cares at all.

And this is only one tale of corruption in the AFP and the Australian legal system I can tell you. But I don’t think anyone cares.

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This is very obviously a state-sanctioned child trafficking ring and this is a worldwide phenomenon.

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We are behind you 🙏 don’t give up, we can do this ♥️

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