Posted on 05/29/2003 2:48:00 PM PDT by kuma
Earlier this month, his cause was boosted by a widely reported London Appeal Court case of a man whose four-year-old daughter is not allowed even to see his photograph. An earlier hearing had ruled that it was not in the childs best interests to see her father, a 32-year-old computer engineer, because any contact between the parents made the mother "depressed and anxious".
In the Appeal Court, Lord Justice Thorpe declared that he could do nothing, short of jailing the mother or placing the child in care, neither a course he was prepared to take. And he commented that there was "a problem throughout the family justice system".
"That gave the green light to every recalcitrant mother in this country to effectively say, I find contact between my child and the father upsetting, therefore I will veto it," says OConnor. The father in the case, he adds, has since joined Fathers 4 Justice.
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