My ex husband has been indicted by a grand jury on three felonies involving the sexual abuse of a child. His arraignment was Wednesday, March 8th. He waived his right to arraignment, and his attorney showed up instead.
Meanwhile, I have been working in family court for the last year trying to gain full custody of my children. I don't think a man who sexually abuses children should be given open access to children. Thursday, one day after the arraignment hearing, this man's attorney goes before the judge in family court and is granted an order for me to produce these children for an unsupervised visit with their father over the course of Spring Break. My attorney was out of town and was not aware of this order. I was not aware of this order until I got a phone call from my attorney's secretary, asking me why I had not produced these children. Since then, the guardian ad litem's office (children's attorney) has called twice, wanting to know if I would produce them. I was supposed to bring these children to the guardian ad litem's office, but they cancelled the appointment. I now suspect that without even talking to my children, the guardian ad litem had made up his mind to side with my ex, a man accused of child molestation. I am almost certain that my children were supposed to be taken away from me at this meeting and that I was supposed to be served with papers regarding this order in the guardian ad litem's office.
This man does not live in the same state as I do. My children do not wish to see him, because they know what he did. Now I might be risking jail time if I do not produce these children to a child molestor. I am waiting until I hear from my attorney as to how to procede. Until then, I could use your prayers to keep my children safe. They need them. And if anyone knows a friend in the media, I think a little bit of news coverage about a family court judge granting visitation to a man indicted on 3 felonies involving sex with a child would be a very interesting story.
Thanks,
Mystified One.