[Trigger warning for violence.]
"I was treated like a criminal, like a complaining woman."—Katie Tagle, whose son Wyatt was killed by his father, Stephen Garcia, after San Bernardino County Superior Judge Robert Lemkau ignored "three motions for an order of protection against Garcia" filed by Tagle and "chose to believe her former boyfriend's denials rather than the evidence she supplied of Garcia's threats―including e-mails, text messages and voice messages. Although no extenuating circumstances were raised in court transcripts of the case, the judge simply accused Tagle of lying, and ordered that she turn Wyatt over to his father—with fatal results."
I encourage you to read the whole article, which also addresses how family courts across the country have "been affected by the rise of the Fathers Rights movement" and notes the conundrum "that efforts to give fathers more rights in custody cases have increased the odds against victimized mothers and children."
[Via Sadie.]
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