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by Laurie Udesky (an award-winning investigative reporter) 100Reporters

EXCERPT: In family courts throughout the country, evidence that one of the parents is sexually or physically abusing a child is routinely rejected. Instead, perpetrators of abuse are often entrusted with unsupervised visits or joint or sole custody of the children they abuse, putting children in danger of serious, often life-threatening harm, according to children’s advocates.

Our two-year investigation – which includes interviews with more than 30 parents and survivors in California, Ohio, North Carolina, New York, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Maryland and New Jersey – uncovered stories of children consigned to suffer years of abuse in fear and silence while the parents who sought to protect them were driven to the brink financially and psychologically. These parents have become increasingly stigmatized by a family court system that not only discounts evidence of abuse but accepts dubious theories used to undermine the protective parents’ credibility.

by Alex Jenkins VICE
Children can be abducted against their will with varying degrees of force resulting in psychological trauma.
Note: These “transportation services” are often used when children who are alleged to have PAS are court ordered into reunification programs

(NPEIV) condemns degrading language and behaviors concerning sexual assault.
Words matter. Actions matter. Attitudes matter. Recent comments spoken by persons of influence and leadership endorsing sexually assaultive attitudes and actions have made news headlines and highlighted an important issue related to the culture of sexual violence and abuse in our society, and the role language and words play in supporting and condoning all forms of interpersonal violence.

Detroit Free Press,
By Steven Pepple
A special master appointed by the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission says Oakland County Judge Lisa Gorcyca was guilty of misconduct when she held three children in contempt of court in a contentious custody case and sent them to juvenile detention after they refused to interact with their estranged father.

Read report of Special Master

by Anonymous, Huffington Post
The family court system is broken. We cannot shout about it because every case has a privacy clause in it forbidding discussion of the case in public. So, we suffer in silence. Our children are left to be tortured, as abusers are using the court system to abuse them more.

U.S. News & World Report,
By Michael O. Schroeder
For “Mia,” the decades since she was sexually abused as a young child have been marred by psychological distress, from her battle with disordered eating to recurrent major depression, debilitating anxiety and a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder – all stemming from the abuse.

A Perfect Tool for Harming Children. Psychology Today,
By Jennifer Baker
Michigan Family Court Judge Lisa Gorcyca, working in concert with friends and lawyers, has banned three children from seeing their mother for months, but without any evidence against the mother. The story has repeatedly made national news headlines  since the Judge also happened to jail these children for contempt of court. 
The Judge’s poor ethics, manner, and understanding of the law is being reviewed, (link is external) thankfully, by Michigan authorities who have filed a complaint against her. 
But her method will not get attention in that process. Her method is to cite “parental alienation syndrome”  as the reason she does not need any evidence against the mother in order to deem her abusive….

BREAKING NEWS in the Tsimhoni vs. Tsimhoni case in Oakland County, Michigan.  20151214
The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission has officially filed a formal complaint against Judge Lisa Gorcyca of Oakland County, Michigan, due to her behavior in the Tsimhoni vs Tsimhoni case. They’re asking for the Supreme Court to appoint a special master to oversee and investigate the matters of the complaint.

The Huffington Post.
By Hope Loudon and Elizabeth Loudon
Written by two young adults who were incarcerated as children. “When we refused to go with our father at the age of 14, a policeman and a school official scorned us for the way we treated our “loving father.” At the juvenile facility where we were taken, we were mocked by the social workers and staff members who asked if we “provoked” our parents and accused us bluntly of “causing a fight” between our parents. They treated us like criminals, and immediately invalidated our abuse because our father was smart enough never to ‘leave a mark’.”

Psychology Today
Discusses five basic human rights crucial to the well-being of children that were violated by the family court judge in Michigan case.