Comments on: A damning report (part two)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 21:16:41 +0000

The only time that victims of domestic violence will be heard is when the laws in Canada change when domestic violence is identified and No-Fault Divorce needs to be thrown out when it comes to light. More credence needs to be given to the victims, in particular children who may suffer from alienation from their only capable parent, suicide, death by the abusive parent, sustain irreparable injuries from the abusive parent, and suffer from future mental health and addiction problems. The courts effectively crazy-make vulnerable victims and legal aid only helps DV victims in final trials and not even with that. So self-representation is a vulnerable victim’s only means to defend themselves in a court system that is set against them in the first place.

The problem Ms. Cross with all these studies is that their findings and discoveries are never implemented and practiced in the real working world of the justice system. Look at Peter Jaffe’s research for decades on how abusers use alienation against victims and the court still supports the abuser and condemns and labels the victims for causing the high conflict proceedings. The findings are never instituted and are only instituted when the user who determines the outcome decides to institute them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:10:24 +0000

I was stripped of custody and all access to my soon to be 12 yr old son last year, because the father claimed alienation. We’ve been going to court for 2 yrs, and that was the temp order the judge ordered. My voice as well as my son’s ceased to exist in this case once the word “alienation” was used against me. Despite numerous agencies dealing with my family, none cared about my son’s voice. Section 30 was used to completely remove my child because of the false alienation accusations. The police in my community refused to label our case as DV, and wrote conflicting reports in favour of the father. Many advocates have tried to help us, but the single judge refuses to acknowledge actual facts and evidence. I now have had to resort to having the survivors secretariat and residential school survivors attend court dates in order to be treated fairly. A SWAT team took more than an hour to remove my son who was screaming he was going to kill himself if he had to see his father. He also disclosed that the father sexually abused him and gave a video statement which the police refuse to release to me. I go for trial later this yr, but have been told my case needs interveners and that it is a public interest case because of the accumulation of bias and prejudice against both my son and I.