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Doc Blue's avatar

Another one. Yet another such mother's mucking.

This is just ... ... gutting.

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Doc Blue's avatar

O. I concur. Mothers need to get BACK O U R POWER. As a class.

Gutted, though, I am just n o t with strength enough ... ... to ENDURE ... ... much more.

Doc

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The Womens Coalition's avatar

Hang in there...we need every mama for our class!

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Hayley Howard's avatar

I'm saddened to learn of the unjust deaths of sweet innocent Leo and his mother! This patriarchal system needs to be abolished and the perpetrators need to be held accountable! I too lost the right to care for my daughters full time. In an unfair abuse of power custody grab my young was taken from me. The abusive dad and his new wife continu to abuse me to this day. I am completely cut off from my daughters. My plight is in Chatham Virginia Pittsylvania county Virginia. I too called police to enforce my custody order, the police sided with the abusive dad and arrested me on trumped up charges saying that I interfered with police all because I called the higher ups to inform them on what is happening in the county in which I unfortunately reside in. I've still not seen my daughters ever again since September 29, 2024. Another heartbroken mother!

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Ina's avatar

Hayley, I am sorry to hear about your plight. I know this is a national/worldwide problem but VA is one of those states that I seem to see with a higher occurrence of cases like this.

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Hayley Howard's avatar

Thank you for caring! Not many have cared about these serious crimes against humanity. It's so heartbreaking looking and asking for help to hold the perpetrators accountable and find none. I have to find the right help that will help me sue certain individuals that have done this to my daughters and I.

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Penny Allen's avatar

I divorced in England in 1995. My ex wanted joint custody but I was told not to worry since by then there was enough evidence that joint custody was harmful to children. There has been a deliberate campaign since then to reverse these findings

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Joyce Booth's avatar

My custody case was in Guernsey County, Ohio. Franklin County, Ohio is close to Guernsey County, Ohio. There are painful similarities. The best interests of the child did not matter. Psychiatric reports not favoring the father did not make a difference. Violence was ignored. Systemic male entitlement dominates family court. Aubree and Leo should be alive today. Micah should be alive. Family court judges endanger women and children. Family court must end.

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Doc Blue's avatar

" Family court judges E N D A N G E R women and children.

Family court must end. " = A L L of this.

JURIES of mamas' peers = O N L Y = to DECIDE babes' custody ... ... post separation.

N O judges and Z E R O of judges' " affiliate personnel " of their judiciaries.

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Kitty stillufsen's avatar

I so wish I can warn women about how bad things can get - like most mammas I had no idea until I was dragged into the Family Court system myself. But! At the onset of Family Court I became obsessed with other cases - so I knew how bad it could be. I believe that this was a huge part of why my baby is safe and lives with me full time now. #10yearsofhell #FUFamilyCourt

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The Womens Coalition's avatar

Yes for sure it's better women are warned what's coming and that it is not their fault, but that probably won't make much of a difference in the outcome. You were lucky. The only fix is an entirely new system where judges are not the ones deciding custody.

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Ina's avatar

This is true. I studied every case I could get ahold of. I spent every penny I had to find a good lawyer. I appealed and made good arguments. It didn't matter - my ex's attorney was friends with the judge and was highly regarded (even though she was actually quite an awful attorney). The court of appeals LIKE my popular judge. They won't overturn her decision. I went back for a modification and the magistrate defended the judge's decision, of course. And all I asked was to have more contact - instead she reduced it.

Knowing and understanding kept me whole. But I would be better off if I were luckier.

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ButterflyJustice's avatar

Anytime we think we are safe the system lets us know we are disposable. You are lucky, I had GAL, Counselor and even the dummy himself showing the behaviors he presents and still the judge did not give a poop. disposable women, disposable children. I'm on TT - if it stays we need to band together. please find me: ChristenLunaRayBlue. stay strong mamas, so much love for you and your babies. so happy for those of you who "got out" of the American horror show aka family court crisis. xoxoxoxoxoooxoxoxo

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Ina's avatar

#10yearsofhell #FUFamilyCourt

Amen to that.

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Leila Henriquez's avatar

I didn't know her personally but she was someone i followed her story and spoke about my story too and she would take the time to give advice. I am not in total shock as this is the very out come courts strive for leaving victims re victimized . I pray her soul has reunited with her son as love can not be destroyed and can find that connection through all dimensions. Sending love to those going through this, find the strength. I will remember her and her beautiful son and continue this battle so they're lives are represented for what they were and went through. Never forgotten .

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Angelina L Woo's avatar

Too horrible for anything but rage and 😭

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Lisa's avatar

I'm so sorry to here this ...we are trying to fight CPS they took my grandkids away 1yr ago and won't give them back to my daughter or they won't let me or my ex husband have them ...they have wrong doing and the judge keeps siding with CPS and even one of they Lawers went at my son in law like he was going hit him and tried get my son in law so mad and cused him in the court room and the judge threatened to put my son in law in jail this is a mess and we can't get help at all ...please someone help me get in contact with someone that will listen to our side and proof of our paperwork that we have on CPS even the babies got black eyes and burned in there care and the judge still on there side ...please help us ...im begging for help

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Brandy's avatar

My sweet friend and her baby deserved better. Love you to the moon and back!

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Lorraine Nowlin's avatar

This was a difficult read but this quote gives me hope!——“Men are able to control the custody narrative by conditioning women to go along with it. They are winning because they’ve organized as men, as a class, under the auspices of the Old Boy Network, for thousands of years. The only way women will have enough power to take their power back to keep and protect children is for women to also unite as a class.”

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Ina's avatar

My heart breaks for Aubree and Leo. I am truly sorry.

Does anyone know who the judge is in her case?

I am familiar with this court and Franklin County, Ohio. My lawyers, even the ones who claimed domestic violence-aware attorneys, kept pushing me to agree to joint custody. And that's what I proposed, but the court decided to give full custody to my emotionally, psychologically abusive ex. One broken bone didn't matter so it wasn't considered physical abuse. And emotional abuse isn't illegal. An ODVN expert declined to provide expert testimony, that supposedly it wouldn't help. Instead, my lawyer put on such a show at trial, which I didn't ask her to do. Then during the break, she told me that if I win, he could hurt my son out of revenge. So, she turned it around, turned on me during my direct examination.

My judge was the favorite of the lawyers and was considered the best in the county to hear Domestic Violence cases. She awarded full custody to my ex. I'm going on almost 10 years of this and my ex continues to gaslight and interpret the order to his favor because he was emboldened by consecutive wins in court - just about every single proceeding. The court consistently minimized his crazy and inconsistent statements and never put it in their opinions. On the other hand, they consistently took every allegation my ex made as facts, exaggerated to justify awarding custody to him and slap me with contempt.

If I speak up, I risk losing what little time I have with my child. We are at their mercy and they get away with so much - because these lawyers, judges, GALs, and so-called psychological experts are shielded from public scrutiny. And even if something were to come out bad about them, there is no consequence. My judge automatically got her seat this new term, no voting whatsoever. It's sickening but we can't stay helpless.

If you or anyone you know has/had a case from Franklin County Ohio. Please share your story. We need the numbers. There has to be a way to bring all of this to light and to make our lives and our kids' lives better and have the justice we deserve.

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