A detective who investigated the claims said in a confidential email that the mother was “a drama queen who is out to get her ex-husband”.
Police and child protection authorities had found the claims to be unsubstantiated and Family Court judge Justice Peter Murphy said the mother had emotionally abused the children in the way she had encouraged the claims of sexual abuse.
The judge said he had no criticism of the detective. “My impression was of an experienced, committed police officer doing a difficult job offering a private comment to a work colleague,” Justice Murphy said.
“Sometimes unguarded opinions from people experienced in dealing with cases of this type say as much or more as their formal comments. In my view, such is the case here.”
He found the father was not a risk to his children and granted him custody. The children will spend five nights per fortnight with their mother.
The judgment of His Honour Judge Peter Murphy cn be found here under the pseudonym Carpenter and Carpenter.
If you read the full document you’ll see that the mother:
- attempted to extort money from the husband in exchange for a relationship with his children;
- threatened to go to the police with false accusations if he didn’t agree
- made the false accusations when he didn’t play along
And was there any criminal charges laid against her? No, she got the worse that a manipulative, deceitful woman in a custody battle can get: reduced custody of her children.
She still ended up with more access to her children than most men have, which is only every second weekend!
Where is the justice? Why wasn’t the friend who passed on the extortion threat charged? Why wasn’t the woman herself charged with filing a false police report, blackmail, extortion, falsify evidence or giving misleading statements? Oh that’s right, because it’s not longer illegal for women to do that in custody battles. We have Nicola Roxon and Julia Gillard to thank for that!
I couldnt agree more that the (thankfully) former Attorney General and current Prime Minister have a lot to answer for when it comes to the imbalance in justice for mothers and fathers. I have recently published http://www.tillysfather.net which goes into details about my experience, some of which is very similar to yours.
My ex bribed me into paying the mortgage on our flat we used to live in together (which she got me chucked out of by playing the false domestic violence card) so I could see my daughter, then only allowed me to see her for a couple of hours at a time. She got no recrimination for making the false allegations of domestic violence, nothing for blackmailing me and still had more credibility than me, the father, even though the Magistrate said she was obviously “riding all of this out”!
My 3.5 year old, Australian born and bred daughter was permitted to be taken to France with her mother, who claimed she was suffering from mental illness and had to go back to her country of origin to recover. My role as her father, who was proven to have a very positive relationship with my daughter, was completely ignored.