Dear Mothers and victims of an unreal court system.

Yesterday I had a hearing at the Family Law Court.

A man who kicked is own son in the balls with workboots on, punched him in bed in the chest, threw him on the couch and then put pillows over him and sat on him so he couldn't breath as he screamed die you little f**ker, chased him down the street, stumbling drunk and screaming at him I'm gonna kill you. My son's only protector was his dog who bit him to try and stop the father from hurting him anymore and was kicked in the guts. This man has gone from having supervised contact at a contact centre for 4 hours fortnightly to the following:

3 weekends out of 4 per month contact from Friday night to Monday morning. My son is ten. What of his sports? His friends? His feelings about all of this? No count - father wants contact. And its the weekends when he drank the most.

He has been ordered to attend counselling for alcohol abuse.

He has been ordered to abstain from drinking 12 hours before contact and during contact and taken an undertaking to do so. How easy for him. Who will monitor this? Who will enforce this? The effects of binge drinking do not abate in 12 hours and the withdrawal time is so very dangerous and unpredictable.

The counselling my son was receiving has been court ordered to stop because the father had not attended. The judge said that the counsellor was putting negative thoughts about the father into my son's head because the counsellor had 20 years experience as a DV and child abuse counsellor???? (This is madness and a crock of s**t)
Kangaroo court?

No!! Welcome to the real world of the lawyers getting richer and fatter and the system getting further corrupt by the second.

There is no doubt why children are dying when they are forced to have contact with abusers. I pray my son is not next on the list.