Judge Enables Father to Murder Mother & Daughter
Denies Mom's Multiple Desperate Pleas for Protection
Lindsay tried multiple times to get a Restraining Order against her ex protecting her five children and her from him. He had threatened to kill her.
But Judge Patrick Esser repeatedly denied her desperate pleas, saying, “If I can’t decide who’s telling the truth, I have to side with the defendant.”
A short time later, “the defendant” murdered Lindsay and her 16 year-old daughter Meadow.
NOT A HE SAID, SHE SAID
Judge Esser reduced an extremely dangerous situation to a “he said, she said”, which it clearly was not. Lindsay had a ton of evidence validating her fear and concern and need for protection.
Lindsay’s ex had a long criminal history of abusing women and children. According to a local ABC news station, he had been charged with child sexual assault, child abuse, illegal drugs, and had two Restraining Orders issued against him, at least one of them still in effect.
Additionally, he was currently on intense supervised probation with an ankle monitor for violating one of the protection orders.
This father had an ankle monitor on from a violent crime against another woman when Judge Esser denied Lindsay’s Restraining Order!
Judge Esser disregarded ALL of this evidence and enabled him to easily murder Lindsay and Meadow by denying them a protective order.
The local CBS station first concentrated on the failing of the police to protect Lindsay. A co-worker had reported the father said he was going to kill Lindsay and the police dropped the ball. They said if there had been a protection order in place, they would’ve have taken it more seriously.
So the reporter looked into why Lindsay did not have a protective order.
The Colorado Attorney General, Phil Weiser, deflected blame from systems that are supposed to protect women and children to society in general. He said, “It can't just be, 'law enforcement: act differently' or 'judges: act differently.' All of us have to ask, 'what can we be doing better?’”
Even worse, when the reporter interviewed a DV expert, she disseminated the same propaganda as most DV and Protective Parent organizations have for decades: judges need training.
MISINFORMATION: A HUGE PROBLEM
It is incredible that, in the face of Lindsay’s and Meadow’s murders—with all the evidence Judge Esser had the father was a clear danger, a DV expert would have the nerve to go on TV informing the public the problem is that judges just don’t understand DV.
And the other overused deflection “not enough resources” came up as well. A suggestion was made that a special DV court would help but there were not enough resources for that to happen—not to mention that is an ineffective solution anyway.
This misinformation, this misleading of women and the public as to the real cause of post-separation murders and loss of custody to abusive fathers, is a large part of the reason nothing changes.
Until women come to understand it is NOT lack of training or resources or new DV policy or child safety laws that is causing the crisis, that it IS judges having the power to entitle and empower fathers regardless of facts and evidence, nothing will change.
Until women unite as a class and demand a new system in which judges, like this disgusting Judge Patrick Esser, do not have the power to dismiss women’s concerns and endanger them and their children, nothing will change.
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This is absolutely an obscene respect to Justice. I had something similar whereas, my ex was charged with neglect and abuse of a toddler where he hurt her leg for having a tantrum, squeezing it until he bruised it. There was noted in a court appointed evaluator that underage kids were drinking, smoking weed, which is very potent now, and having sex in his basement among other things, the judge made an "executive decision" and would not allow the case to go forward, allowing my ex to continue to violate the custody order and allow the eldest child who he damaged the most, to have full physical custody of her. He denied me access or influence over her since she was fifteen. She is on my health insurance and I found out while she was still in high school through a health statement that she had surgery. He has abused her so much and destroyed her self esteem to the point where she is involved in trafficking. She is in a relationship with someone who abuses her and reportedly trades her. The other thing he did was took pictures of the girls' nude in the shower and and several of the youngest daughter's pubic area. Nothing and I mean nothing has been done in that Family Court to protect the kids. The Best Interest Attorney told someone in the court that her hands were tied in my case. By the way, the husband of the Best Interest Attorney was my ex'es Constitutional Law Professor. The Family Court I observed made a perversion of Justice.
This is so horrible.
I've been asking the courts and police to remove my son's father's (30) guns from his house. Despite all the abuse and warnings they never do. Last weekend he and my son had a physical altercation and I called my lawyer for a temp emergency order but instead was advised to get therapy. Tomorrow I'm telling him no thanks. I'm so over it.