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OKLAHOMA CITY — In California, just six years ago, Nicholas Elizondo was convicted for raping his then six-year-old daughter. He took a deal and served six years in jail. During that time his ex-wife, Lisa Knight, has been raising their daughter Sarah in Norman.
After six years of little contact with Sarah, he started fighting for sole custody. Yesterday, he won.
Little Sarah’s family is shocked by the Oklahoma County judge’s decision.
Originally posted by HauntWok
reply to post by ThreeBears
Where are you getting these facts from? "70% of the time the FATHER gets custody?" What bizarro world are you living in? It's actually quite the opposite.
If true, this story is sad. I don't know why a judge would allow a child to live with a registered sex offender. If the state deemed that the mother was unfit (which takes a hell of a lot more than her just not remembering the names of her child's doctors) then the child should have gone to another relative.
Something smells about this story. A man has to go through so many hoops just to get sole custody of their children. Believe me, I know, I just got sole custody of my 10 year old son. I've been background checked so often, It makes me laugh at gun nuts whining about being checked once. and even now, several agencies visit my house on random and regular basis.
Yea, something is wrong with this lady's story. I think that the man's attorney's may be right, the daughter may have been coerced by the mother into saying the father did something to her. It's damn near impossible to fight a molestation charge.
Never mind that the Rate of deaths of children by custodial fathers with known histories of abuse that were Deliberately ignored are on the increase in our Pornified rape culture.
Originally posted by Maslo
reply to post by ThreeBears
Never mind that the Rate of deaths of children by custodial fathers with known histories of abuse that were Deliberately ignored are on the increase in our Pornified rape culture.
Are they? As far as I know, crime rates are generally declining over past two decades. Source, please.
Originally posted by sandman441
Exact same thing happened with my niece. The father who was a child molester (convicted and his father was convicted too) got part time custody of her, The only reason he stopped coming around her was because he was afraid of my mom.
Originally posted by ThreeBears
Originally posted by Maslo
reply to post by ThreeBears
Never mind that the Rate of deaths of children by custodial fathers with known histories of abuse that were Deliberately ignored are on the increase in our Pornified rape culture.
Are they? As far as I know, crime rates are generally declining over past two decades. Source, please.
Sigh, why? you'll just twist them and Rationalize with some other, this crap gets exhausting. OK then, stats it is...them ho hum wait for it....
Twisty twisty semantics and all that jazz, lol.
Originally posted by HauntWok
reply to post by ThreeBears
Your first link is just an opinion paper with no outside credible backup data to use.
The second one is a pretty much broken website with links that 404.
I'm not saying that courts don't award abusive fathers custody of children, it does happen. But I am saying that it doesn't happen often.
Taking a child away from a mother completely is a very serious decision. And the mother is often given a parenting plan to retain custody and visitation rights. If the mother fails to comply with the parenting plan outlined by the court then, and only then, are their parental rights terminated.
What I have noticed in this thread is the bias against men in general. Not all men are abusive or negligent. But there is a significant trend for judges to award the mothers primary or sole custody in divorce cases.
The incident happened a few years after Kern County prosecutors tried and juries convicted numerous people on child sex abuse charges, known as the "Witch Hunt" trials. People were given long prison sentenced. Many of those same convictions were later tossed out after an appellate court found the accused had been wrongly convicted. The last of the wrongful conviction lawsuits was settled in March of this year.
During a court hearing in Oklahoma City regarding visitation, the victim, who authorities say was molested by Elizondo, testified that she was never molested.
Knight and her attorney, Valerie Williford of Oklahoma City, said it appears Judge Haralson retaliated against Knight for fabricating a story recently in order to keep her daughter from being awarded to Elizondo.
Originally posted by ThreeBears
IN 70% of child custody cases where fathers file, they win.
As for his conviction in 1995, Elizondo said he merely took a plea bargain given what he was facing. Elizondo was facing 11 felony charges of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14, but 10 of those were dismissed in exchange for Elizondo pleading no contest to one charge.
"It never happened," said Elizondo of the charge against him.