When we came into this system in 2001, I could not believe that by asking for protection from abuse, we were inviting years of continued abuse and trauma from the family court system. The goal was not protection from abuse but reunification with abusers and this was stated over and over even in court literature. Criminal felony charges were not enough to protect my children from unsupervised contact with their abuser through the process of the criminal case compliments of Judge Kathleen R. Mulligan. No amount of evidence was sufficient to prove abuse or to be protected from abuse. After a no contest plea on lesser charges, the same custody order for unsupervised contact remained in place. The five year custody case created additional trauma to four children who have suffered serious health issues as adults. One is permanently disabled and others have developed autoimmune disorders and more. The family was forced into family court created poverty, stripped of healthcare, child support and a divorce settlement, as a punishment for reporting sexual and physical abuse to the family court that resulted in criminal charges. They are destroying the health of families far into the future. I hope and pray that this nightmare will end with the education of court personnel and the re-organization of this entire system and it's response to reported abuse.
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