posted on Jun, 10 2007 @ 10:03 PM
When my son was still a baby in nappies i was at work and got a phone call that my son was hurt. I told my ex to call him an ambulance. She refused
and said she had called my mother to help her. Because my ex was volatile I accepted this.
I got home and found he had a black eye. She was full of excuses. Two days later my mother who was normally banished by my ex told me he was
unconscious. This was when she arrived which was half an hour after I got the call at work.
I complained to CYFS (Child Welfare) who refused to investigate. Two weeks later my son awoke at 4am crying with a wet nappy. She yelled at him to
"shut your effing face" and then walloped him over the face.
I quickly retreived my son as his mother went beserk accusing me of plotting to take our son off her. she started wrecking the house, trashing
furniture and throwing things at me and my son.
I contacted the New Zealand Police. They refused to investigate. they said it was a civil dispute and they were not going to get involved.
Then a Professor of medicine and pharmacology read an affidavit of how she behaved, her steroid medications and about her physical appearance
(symptoms of hyperadrenalcorticism). He diagnosed that she was paranoid psychotic and too dangerous to be anywhere near my son.
It took from 2001 until 2005 before the NZ Family Court would deal with the incident. The Judge Geoffrey Ellis refused to allow my evidence and
refused to hear testimony about that and several other incidents of violence against my son during 2002.
After 9 months of agitation I forced the Chief Family Court Judge (Mahoney) to order a joiint investigation by Police and CYFS. These agencies would
not interview or take statements from any witnesses save the mother.
they reported back to the family court a year later that there was no evidence to corroborate my concerns and dismissed me as a vexatious trouble
maker.
Now that same mother has sole custody and I have no access because I am cast as the problem. The problem as defined by CYFS and Judge Ellis is that my
constant complaints about the mother's violence are causing the conflict.
Guess what ?
In February 2007 I got my son's file of case notes from my mother. they would not release it to me without censorship of several comments about these
2001-2002 assaults, but they failed to black out the passages when releasing it to my mother.
I filed it in evidence in March 2007. Judge Geofrey Ellis struck out my evidence and refused to read my affidavits. In a judicial minute, Ellis
justified this by saying he would continue to ignore my evidence in the interests of the welfare of the child.
This is the lunacy of the Family Court system.
You know what else ?
Judge Ellis is an elderly gay who has never had nor is ever likely to have children. My son's lawyer is both gay and a close buddy of the judge. My
ex's lawyer is a lesbian. None of them have ever had children. What would they know ?
[edit on 10-6-2007 by sy.gunson]
[edit on 10-6-2007 by sy.gunson]