Extraordinary Justice: Father Convicted of Raping Kids—in Country Mom Fled To!

In an extremely rare Post-Separation Crisis case, possibly the only one ever, a father was convicted Tuesday of having sexually assaulted his children—in the country the mother had fled to for safety.

The Texas father was accused of repeatedly raping his two very young sons over a period of four years. He was found guilty in Russia, the mother’s homeland, of violent acts of a sexual nature committed against a person under the age of fourteen. He was sentenced to 21 years in a high security Russian penal colony.

This story has gotten quite a bit of MSM coverage, locally and internationally, but the reporting is done in such a way that leads the reader/viewer to believe the father is really innocent, a poor victim of the mother’s false allegations and an unjust Russian system.

This conviction in the mother’s home country is an extraordinary measure of justice for one of the countless victims of the Family Court systemic cover up and enabling of paternal sexual abuse.

But, despite this awesome victory, Svetlana is not completely out of the woods yet…

SVETLANA’S STORY

Svetlana’s two sons were born in 2010 and 2014 in Texas.

In 2014, when the youngest was still just a baby, Svetlana was made aware of the father’s sexual abuse, likely by her four-year-old. Four is a common age for children to first be able to put into words—as best they can—what their father is doing to them.

Svetlana reported the sexual abuse and left her husband. Later the abuse apparently escalated and involved the younger son as well during the unsupervised visits granted by Family Court.

Svetlana’s case traversed county law enforcement, prosecutors and CPS systems, just as most cases do that involve paternal sexual abuse. And, as usual, they all deemed versions of “insufficient evidence” and tossed it back like a hot potato into Family Court.

FAMILY COURT COVER UP

Family Court filings dug up by MSM show Svetlana’s ex was repeatedly granted joint custody from from 2014, when the abuse was first reported, to when she fled—despite Svetlana’s pleas for protection. Corroborating evidence was discounted or dismissed and her own belief her children were being abused was given zero weight, as usual.

In the midst of the Family Court proceedings, a judge issued a Restraining Order against Svetlana prohibiting her from making any statements about the father sexually assaulting the children—part and parcel of the systemic cover up of sexual abuse.

In 2019, after nearly five years of trying to protect her sons from their rapist within the rigged-to-entitle-fathers family court system, Svetlana gave up and fled back to Russia, her home country.

But the Old Boys have this last, desperate measure covered. This “abduction” scenario often gets better results for the father than if the mom stays and continues fighting until the kids age out—including long prison sentences for the “abductee” mom and permanent loss of custody, with perpetual supervised visits or zero contact with her kids.

So let her run…We got her anyway…wink, wink, nod, nod…

Well, this patriarchal set-up works in almost every country. Fortunately for Svetlana, not Russia—at least not in her case, for whatever reason. It may be political, may be a State propriety issue or just because they did not like him, but certainly not because Russia is any less patriarchal than elsewhere.

Predictably, the Texas Family Court transferred sole custody to the father after Svetlana fled. The collusive D.A. charged Svetlana with abduction and the case was entered on Interpol, so police could arrest her in any country. But apparently not Russia. In most countries, Interpol has no problem forcibly removing children from loving mothers and handing them over like trophies to the father.

But, thankfully, a different scene unfolded for Svetlana in Moscow.

Svetlana successfully escaped and was able to live a normal life, unlike most mothers who flee. And, most importantly, she and her children were, finally, far, far away from the abuser for good.

Well, for a bit...

Her ex, none too happy about this deprivation of his age-old right to control over his children, decided to come to Russia to pursue his property, no doubt expecting the Old Boy agenda to be enforced there as well.

Big mistake.

In November of 2021, he flew to Moscow and rented a unit in the same apartment building as Svetlana, an obvious form of stalking. He filed for custody on the grounds that he had been granted sole legal and physical custody in Texas.

What he did not know is that Svetlana had gone to the police when she first arrived in Russia two years earlier. She had given them all the corroborating evidence of the father's sexual assaults on the boys. When he came to Moscow to try and take custody of the kids, she notified the police he was there.

Less than two months after his arrival, Russian police arrested Svetlana’s ex and placed him in a 12-man cell without bond. He was charged with violent acts of a sexual nature committed against a person under the age of fourteen. He was convicted on Tuesday and sentenced to 21 years in a penal colony.

Sweet justice for Svetlana after a long, hard battle that began 10 years ago.

NOT OUT OF THE WOODS

Despite this unprecedented victory, Svetlana is not out of the woods yet. The cover up continues in Texas. The powers-that-be are not letting this uppity mother who dared challenge male entitlement escape their clutches scot free.

The Family Court order giving the father sole custody is still in force. So her ex, now a convicted rapist of their children, still has custody in the U.S.

As for the D.A.: When asked for comment by MSM after the father’s conviction, he claimed (through the A.D.A.) there had been insufficient evidence to pursue charges against the father. They confirmed that an arrest warrant remains active for Svetlana for custodial interference AKA abduction and have no plans to dismiss it.

This continuation of the criminal charge against Svetlana means there is still an active Interpol case. She will likely be arrested if she leaves Russia and her children would likely be returned to the father’s family via the colluding CPS actors. Systemic male entitlement often extends to the father’s family if he is in prison or otherwise unavailable. Whereas kids are kept from the maternal family at all costs.

THE “INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE” PILLAR

Svetlana’s case is a good example of the “insufficient evidence” pillar used in the four systems responsible for protecting children: law enforcement, prosecutors/criminal court; child protection systems, and the ultimate Family Court system—where custody and control is decided. They all have their own versions of the pillar, but it is essentially the same tactic used for the same purpose: to permit the father to abuse his children if he so chooses.

“Insufficient evidence” is the catch-all conclusion made by these entities that allows them to cover up and enable paternal sexual abuse, while at the same time to discredit and disempower mothers trying to protect their children.

Law enforcement has the power to determine there is insufficient evidence to give the case to the D.A. The “Special Victims Unit” as depicted in the TV series Law and Order Special Victims does not work the way they portray it. Detectives know the father is molesting his children but they are also pressured by the Old Boy Network [OBN] to allow otherwise respectable fathers to get away with it.

And, even when police do the right thing and give the case to the D.A., fathers are rarely prosecuted. The D.A. simply declares there is “insufficient evidence” and the case is dismissed or pled down in some ridiculous deal that lets fathers off with community service or a DV course or the like. The case, hence, returns to Family Court where the lack of prosecution or conviction is used against the mother.

As for CPS: their dispositions are almost always labelled “unsubstantiated”, “inconclusive”, or “unfounded”, all levels of “insufficient evidence”. Mind you, none of these social services verdicts mean the abuse did not happen and two could actually still meet a preponderance burden, but no matter. It is the pillar upon which they shunt the case back into Family Court, where they are fully aware the child will not be protected, and where these dispositions are also used against the mother.

Finally, Family Court is the only system that has the power to decide custody in divorce cases. There the “insufficient evidence” pillar is used often in and of itself, while also taking many other forms. But judges don’t usually stop there. They buttress it with all manner of discrediting the mother, including findings that she is lying, alienating, or mentally ill.

The important thing to note with this patriarchal pillar is that it confirms the Post-Separation Crisis [PSC] is a power issue. All four systems are endowed with the power to derail cases by deeming there is insufficient evidence—even when there is clearly, to any sane member of the public, much more than sufficient evidence necessary to protect children.

The fact that this power is, not so coincidentally, bequeathed upon systems responsible for stopping men from molesting their children speaks to the patriarchal underpinnings of all of them: their power is used to empower fathers.

MEDIA SPIN

MSM is all over this case, locally and internationally. Not one is objectively reporting. All lean severely towards the father being innocent and a horrible injustice occurring in Russia.

Lots of space and air time is given to those with reason to side with the father: the father’s family, police and D.A. But nothing about the corroborating evidence of abuse.

Here are some examples of the spin:

• the mother accused the father of child sex abuse even though US police found no basis to charge him  

• the defense attorney says there is almost no evidence

• the sex abuse allegations are just a claim made by the father’s Russian ex-wife

• the D.A. never found cause to file charges

• nobody found the mother’s allegations credible

• multiple U.S. investigations resulted in no charges 

A few outlets included quotes by the mother responding to the conviction buried deep in the article.

I didn't steal anyone. I was just protecting my kids.

One outlet reported that Svetlana told them the father had repeatedly raped his sons in Houston and the Woodlands from 2014 to 2018 during visits. Speaking to another outlet, Svetlana said that her ex had caused her children suffering and pain and that her actions were motivated by a desire to protect her children. 

So while they were interviewing her, why did they not ask for the evidence that supports her “allegations” and “claims”?? This keeping of important facts that support the mother’s side from the public borders on unethical journalism—but is typical of reporting on PSC cases.

TAKE AWAY

The cover up of sexual abuse in Svetlana’s case must be seen in the context of the thousands of cases just like it. There is a pattern. Children report sexual abuse by the father and each and every system acts to conceal it. The tactic of declaring “insufficient evidence” is the main one used by all the systems in the cover up.

But the Family Court system is the main staging grounds for this cover up. It alone has the power to empower the father to continue to sexually abuse his children via custody/visitation. And that is exactly what is most often done.

These cases in which a father is permitted to sexually abuse his children are a subset of the Post-Separation Crisis, which is comprised of three prongs: women losing custody, being unable to protect their children, and being financially devastated. They come under the second prong and are, arguably, the most serious cases in the Crisis.

NOTE: The systems responsible are not broken, as they are often portrayed in these cases. The systems are doing exactly what they are designed to do: keep men empowered over their children after separation or divorce—and permit them to continue to abuse them if they so please.

CONGRATS TO SVETLANA!

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IN OTHER NEWS

FATHER PERMANENTLY DENIED CUSTODY

There is more good news on the PSC front. In a Canadian case, a father was permanently denied custody of his child. This is partially because the child was born of the rape of the mother, who was still legally a child at the time.

It is unclear whether the judge would have come to this same conclusion if the father had “just” raped a child resulting in a pregnancy. His ruling does not even mention he is a child rapist, just that he was violent with her, that he had a criminal history, and is at risk to reoffend. This suggests that the father may not have been an “otherwise respectable” male, thus not a card-carrying member of the OBN.

At any rate, the child is protected and the mother does not need to endure the father endlessly torturing her in Family Court.

For more on this story: Quebec man ’not worthy’ to be parent of child fathered during sexual assault, judge rules

These good news stories today follow three others covered in the UPDATES section of the WCN&V last column: Dr. Pridgeon’s child abduction case was dismissed; Narkis’ son was protected after her death; and MP Kate’s ex was permanently denied custody and visitation with her violent ex.

Nice to have so much good news all at once in re PSC cases! Highly unusual.

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SISTERS IN SOLIDARITY

Thanks to all SIS activists who joined our February forum yesterday to learn about and discuss the Post-Separation Crisis. We had a great discussion.

If you’d like to join SIS, please read this column and fill out the linked form. You will be notified of the date and time of the next forum a couple weeks before it (check alternate boxes and spam).

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