In life people have to accept that there is going to be flaws in things. Things such as computers, movies, and even the current legal system has flaws, some bigger than others. One of these flaws being that the legal system neglects to protect children. Where that an abusive and neglectful parent can be granted unsupervised visits with their child. This is due to the corruption in our local judiciary systems as well as a lack of laws that proctect children from this exact situation. A flaw in our law system is that there is a lack of children protection laws and a lack in laws that limit local judges. In my community this has been very evident expecially with one judge in particular. In 2015 a baby girl was born. Her mother has a
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When the child was born that was when all hell broke loose. They were living together in New York City and nobody really knew what what was going on. A few months later the woman who had the baby called her mother and told her what was going on. She had caught him doing drugs in the bathroom of their apartment. She also told her mother that he was abusive towards her. When she got this call she told her daughter to pack up her important belongings and take the next train out of there. She packed her and her two month old daughters belongings as fast as she could and made her way back to our small town. Months went by and then all of a sudden the uphill legal battle began. The mother of course had complete custody of their daughter. One reason being that they were not married and second he was not a legal citizen of the United States. He brought her to court for visitations. The family was fine with him having supervised visits. This is where the judge comes in. The second they knew who the judge was all hope was lost. This judge was known to hate all lawyers and to rule in favor of the father often. The judge allowed visits and they would be supervised but in the home of the grandmother of the child. This would not seem like a problem,
When the child was born that was when all hell broke loose. They were living together in New York City and nobody really knew what what was going on. A few months later the woman who had the baby called her mother and told her what was going on. She had caught him doing drugs in the bathroom of their apartment. She also told her mother that he was abusive towards her. When she got this call she told her daughter to pack up her important belongings and take the next train out of there. She packed her and her two month old daughters belongings as fast as she could and made her way back to our small town. Months went by and then all of a sudden the uphill legal battle began. The mother of course had complete custody of their daughter. One reason being that they were not married and second he was not a legal citizen of the United States. He brought her to court for visitations. The family was fine with him having supervised visits. This is where the judge comes in. The second they knew who the judge was all hope was lost. This judge was known to hate all lawyers and to rule in favor of the father often. The judge allowed visits and they would be supervised but in the home of the grandmother of the child. This would not seem like a problem,