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Judges Baker and Green are the ones who belong in prison. We stand with you Katherine!

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Family court is a chamber of horrors. Women and children are punished for doing nothing wrong. Men are rewarded for doing nothing right and everything wrong. There's strength in numbers. Women joining forces is the only way we can begin to put an end to the horrors of family court.

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Thank you for covering this. These cases are despicable and we see them time and time again, aimed against women for the slightest of so called infractions, while men’s abusive behaviors are consistently downplayed and excused.

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They only need enough of something. Anything. They can twist and manipulate. And even if it doesn’t stick. It’s used to achieve another filing or motion in the interim. After there’s so many of these “opportunities” to screw the intended parent out of their rights. Or as in my case traffick a rape victim to her abuser and exploiter. There just has to be enough of something for them to make it into something to achieve the end result. Good luck turning that ship around... And on the flip side of that coin. It’s the opposite behavior when they’re faced with blatant facts and evidence of abuse, that they cognitively and willfully (criminally imo) disregard. And the consequences for pointing this all out - well we know what those are. Might as well have painted a giant red target symbol on my head for the entire police force and judiciary of Minnesota that signaled to them “plz ruin my life”. I have been called black balled by an entire court system. Meaning Minnesota will not help me with anything I ever need, protection. Justice. Basic human rights. But if someone wanted to harm me or take from me. They were going to facilitate that no matter what. Wish I could do an interview with Sandra Grazzini Rucki - Julie FRIEDRICH is the GAL that trafficked both of our children.

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Thank you for covering this. I came across her story on another platform and was hoping Women’s Coalition would get wind of it. It is an abomination

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I have lost count of the number of court actions my ex has taken against me. He wins every time. He has the most expensive lawyers in the UK; I have none. Each time he wins I have to pay his expenses. ‘Mother to pay father’s costs’. The only action I have taken is the original divorce

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War On Women. The reason we can't get attorneys is not just the money but they Blacklist us. They conflicted every attorney I've ever talked to. And don't think they aren't tapping your phone and spying on you.

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I know. I’ve had that happen too

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The bar association is a woman hating cult

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Oh so there is a debtors prison in America for mothers who have been financially abused by the court and her ex I get it America. Although my ex was in contempt of court every year of my daughter's life he was never held accountable or for putting me in the hospital 42 stitches yada yada but when I withheld visitation because he took LSD in front of me and tried to grab the baby after he had already had a midnight ceremony with his drug Buddies and her when she was too and had a

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My phone is hacked as we speak by the cartel but I shall go on he had a sex ceremony with her when she was 2 years old and she came home and asked me if it was okay to lick bottoms and later pointed out the prostitute who had partaken in the child abuse no problem for the judge to Shield him though because the court ordered drug counselor was a former party buddy of his and made a deal with the court to blame me for his violent outbursts and his party lifestyle even though long before I met him he was arrested several times and his other children were taken away from him by CPS temporarily his first wife hired the former deputy district attorney Barfly she partied with for their attorney and by having their attorney walk into my house trespassing to hand me contempt of court papers for not putting my daughter back in that situation I had to get an attorney but I qualified for the public defender and luckily she was on her toes and with a visiting judge I was able to go no contact not just get full custody and child support but then in retaliation they disbarred my attorney and they waited until my mother was dying to put my former stepdaughter who had become co-counsel on my tail and she ended up in the courtroom where the judge the former Assistant Attorney General of California stole every penny of my inheritance while trying to kick me out of my house that was left to me and my mother's trust because I paid her to live in it she had bought it as a safe house for me because that family brokered in eviction and we're constantly trying to get me and my children out on the street as they still are to this day and I'm 66 years old they threw me in jail for 3 days on a false charge no crime no victim no property damage they just made it up because they can't wanting to hold me off my property so the enemy could get on it and then they dragged it out for over a year even though I demanded a jury trial trying to get me to have failures to appear in both States and the story is lodged with the Oregon Bar Association which is just as corrupt in woman hating as any other this makes me sick to my stomach and this should be plastered all over every newspaper in the country but of course judges own the newspapers.

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This is horrific but unfortunately common. My children regularly ran from their dad at exchanges (have vids) but I wasn't allowed out of my vehicle (he'd freak out) if I didn't leave right away he'd call police on me / yelling at them to order me to leave & they obeyed him - I have videos as well as one of him knocking my baby girl down with his van & taking off but he was never charged - he's never had any charges for the enormous abuses he heaped on precious children. Judge was never willing to view any evidence

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Yes that is so common and good support for the fact that it is systemic sexism underpinning judges' rulings.

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I’m also in the Louisiana court system and (at best) it should be called the Modern Stanford Prison Experiment. The Judge serves as the Family Court Prison Warden and all these over-paid, under-qualified, morally skewed court-appointed people (custody evaluators, Coparenting therapist, reconciliation therapists) behave in various degrees as sadistic, but completely legally immune, prison guards. You are punished for non-compliance, perceived insubordination, and as a show of unquestionable power. It’s unhealthy and unconstitutional. Yet, continues on. Here is my story… https://thelensnola.org/2022/05/07/the-first-lie-wins/

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It's the same everywhere.

Plz consider that it is not that "the first lie wins" as your article states. If you had told the first lie, say that your ex had Borderline as he accused you, you would not have won. The judge would have most likely found you to be an unfriendly parent or alienating or any of a number of routinely used false findings about women/mothers. Your ex won because the family court system is designed so judges can entitle and empower men post-separation. For more info on how women are being misled, check out our Down the Rabbit Holes series: https://womenscoalition.substack.com/s/rabbit-holes-of-the-post-separation (especially the Rights & Laws one since it appears you are advocating for legislation).

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State Sanctioned Torture!! Nothing less!

When will we mother's realize we're not dealing with courts. We're dealing with corporations and they're evil!

When will we mother's take action together to go get our babies?

Everything that these so-called courts are doing is unlawful.

I don't see any other way. Our governments don't act our courts don't act, our advocacies don't act. It's not about passing laws as much as it is about responding to the need!

I've had to come to the conclusion by ways of no other choice; that domestic violence and sexual abuse are of no concern in our country!

Women and children are of no concern in our country! It's all gas light. after gas light...

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I would encourage you not to use the phrase alienation or parental alienation as that is directly from the Father's Rights playbook and commonly used against safe parents by abusers. The correct phrase is abuse by proxy. Please look up Dr. Richard Gardner and his association with parental alienation to protect pedophiles.

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It will not help and actually will hurt mothers to not be able to use alienation. You can read more about it in our column: Down the Parental Alienation Rabbit Hole: https://womenscoalition.substack.com/p/down-the-parental-alienation-rabbit.

Another column is in the works going into more depth about why it hurts women to not be able to use alienation.

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Yes - my children's abuser used PAS & judge ordered me to take my children to her PAS expert who immediately told us this is about their father's rights because we dont have any & commenced to tormenting my children for over a year - they'd come out of his office crying every week until he completely broke them down

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WE Mothers NEED to keep the word itself = ALIENATION.

Due to what the Executive Director states is SO = " the word or the concept " should NOT be banned. Women NEED TO GET THE T R U T H OUT BY ... ... USING IT. "

In re TRUTH, MOTHERS and RESEARCH = from wikipedia's account of MISOGYNIST GARDNER's entry there = " He is said to have estimated deliberate false reporting among mothers at 90%, which experts have disputed, citing research commissioned by the United States Department of Justice that found an actual rate less than 2%. "

Characteristic of MISOGYNIST MEN = in re 90 to 2 ratio of ACTUALITY / of REALITY.

TIME it is NOW to FLIP / REVERSE the ACTUAL U S E of the word, ALIENATION.

MISOGYNIST Gardner is fucking DEAD. Finally.

JUDGES, ALL of their Family Court Obsequious, Sycophantic ENABLERS, Our Xes ?

THEY ALL STILL A L I E N A T E US MAMAS. BY THEIR D E S I G N to do so.

so: the TRUTH O U T. NOW.

Dr Blue

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Just because you were falsely accused of alienation does not mean the word or the concept should be banned. Quite the contrary. Women need to get the truth out by using it.

In a nutshell: Judges are routinely falsely finding women to be alienating, using that to switch custody, and then allowing the father to alienate children from the mother.

There is no other word that accurately describes alienation.

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I learned all I could find on PAS & added it to my anti human trafficking presentations for service provider trainings

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I am going through a similar situation where judge Pamela Baker took my children away from me in April of 2021 based on false accusations made by my ex husband, Kyle Hudson and his attorney Karen Downs.

The last 3 years have been a nightmare and heartbreaking not able to watch my 2 little boys grow up.

The financial devastation and repercussions of not being able to afford to pay and then being in contempt of court is scary after seeing what has happened in Katherine’s case. Our children are being trafficked and finding help has been a daunting task. It feels like the twilight zone with all of the nonsensical rulings made in EBR family court, but it is very real and is ruining lives. Hopefully this article will continue to gain attention and raise awareness. We are mothers who need help with shedding light on the egregious abuse and suffering that we are experiencing on account of the EBR Family Court. This is a Family Court Crisis and our children are being taken away from us by a corrupt system and its players.

Please share this information and help expose what is happening

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