Almost unnoticed this past Tuesday, a jury in Santa Ana, California found Catherine Kieu Becker guilty of torture and aggravated mayhem in the sexual mutilation of her husband two years ago. Becker’s husband had recently filed for divorce but … Read the rest
Archive for the ‘Domestic Violence’ Category
Catherine Kieu Becker Guilty of Aggravated Mayhem and Torture
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.California Court Takes Child From Fit Father Despite Child’s Best Interests
Thursday, April 25th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.A California appellate court has found a way to avoid giving custody to yet another fit, loving father. Here’s an article about the case (Bakersfield Californian, 4/20/13) and here’s the court’s ruling.
In truth, it’s not the court’s … Read the rest
UK: More Married Men DV Victims Than Married Women
Monday, April 15th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.More married men (2.3 per cent) suffered from partner abuse last year than married women, according to the latest British Crime Survey. Yet help is still much harder to find for men.
See here (The Independent, 4/14/13)? … Read the rest
Study: Children Witnessing Domestic Violence ‘Not Particularly Important’ By Itself
Thursday, April 4th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.One small niche in the generally anti-father discipline known as social work has been developing over the years. It’s a subset of the larger and much more prominent area of domestic violence studies in which the preference has been … Read the rest
New York Times Op-Ed Substitutes Faith for Facts About International Child Abduction
Thursday, March 14th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Every so often, the mainstream news media awake from their slumber long enough to notice international child abduction by parents. They should’ve stayed asleep. A couple of years ago it was Time Magazine that ran a piece on the … Read the rest
Deion/Pilar Sanders Custody Case Goes to the Jury
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Speaking of abusers getting custody, that’s what a Dallas area jury will decide in the ongoing tabloid fodder otherwise known as the Deion Sanders divorce and custody case.
The former Dallas Cowboys star defensive back left his wife Pilar … Read the rest
Alisa Valdes: ‘I Can’t Support 1 Billion Rising’
Thursday, February 28th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.It’s VAWA season on Capitol Hill and throughout the blogosphere. All and sundry are shouting to the heavens that the Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized or dire peril awaits us just around the corner. Democrats particularly couldn’t … Read the rest
Jeff Chafin Wins Unanimously at U.S. Supreme Court
Thursday, February 21st, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Great news! Jeff Chafin won his case before the United States Supreme Court. He won unanimously; every single justice voted for him.
Remember Jeff Chafin? For a refresher on his case, go to my first post on him here… Read the rest
Nicole Ryan 3: Justice David Farrar Bent the Law to Fit the Facts
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Finally, having accepted at face value everything Nicole Ryan said in the absence of corroborating evidence, it was time for Justice David Farrar to decide what legal impact the facts he so laboriously found had. Anyone reading his ruling, in which … Read the rest
Erin Pizzey on the ‘Family Terrorist’
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Anyone who’s ever been through a divorce and anyone who follows events in family courts knows that divorce and custody proceedings are among the most fraught with emotional difficulty. Where one’s loveability is involved and particularly where one’s children … Read the rest
