Okay... let’s say that the Mom truly is poisoning her kid’s mind. (I’m saying this simply because we don’t know all the details). Then why couldn’t the judge place custody with the Dad and allow the Mom visitation? I just think that kids are caught between a rock and a hard place. Show Dad some love.. get rejected by the parent that has you most of the time. Not show Dad some love.. get thrown into jail. IMHO.. the judge should see the kids as being manipulated vs criminal. The fault lies with the adult(s).. perhaps Mom should be thrown into jail vs the kids. IMHO.
Good point. Why cannot custody be changed?
Maybe the kids would refuse that, too.
Good analysis. Parent alienation is real. And the kids “love the one” that they are with. The one who feeds them and buys them clothes. Its the known versus the unknown. I had a case where mom was isolating and alienating the kids from my client and we got a change of custody order when she moved in violation of an order that she could not do so. She also lied about the location. We went with the sheriff and picked them up. Within 24 hours the kids were smiling and laughing with their dad. He has worked on letting them have a safe relationship with their mom. Life is good for them now.
Two things. The kids are not being thrown in jail, that’s part of the sensationalism of the story. They are being remanded into the custody of the State.
The second is this. If the kids won’t even sit down to have a lunch with their father, then the father cannot have custody of them. They would likely run away from him or put themselves in danger to avoid him.
It’s likely that the mother will be put in jail for violation of court order as well. Since the children refuse to be with their father, and mom will soon be in jail, then state custody is the only place left for these children.
The judge can’t give custody to the father now. He is in Israel.
The kids don’t want to talk to the father because they’ve seen him beating their mother. Who knows what is really going on.
The judge is crazy. She thinks the kids are like Manson? They all sound loony.
“Then why couldn’t the judge place custody with the Dad and allow the Mom visitation?”
The father is not living in the country so he isn’t available to take custody.