To all,

This was in Melbourne's Herald Sun yesterday.

Given the secrecy / unaccountability provisions of the Family Court how is it that this sort of one sides story can get published?

Just about every father that has fought for inclusion in his children's lives in the Family Court has to contend with abuse alligations (after all abuse now has 5 definitions including "percieved abuse")

I do not know the circumstances behind these public alligations nor does anybody else. All we know is that a father has been denied contact with his child as consequence of these vague "abuse" alligations.

Needless to say if the father was as "abusive" as accused I would support his exclusion from his child's life. However this must first be found to be the case - not based on accusation. After all we are supposed to be living in a civilisation.

All of us that have been through the Family Courts know how spurious these alligations can be.

Please contact Melbourne's herald Sun to ask what the Fathers story is - Ph 03 9292 2000 (he'll be in tomorrow).

Ask him if he knows the father's story. And have these alligations been proven? Has the father admitted these alligations?

Couldn't get his email address. Its probably Tamea@rossn@heraldsun.com.au

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Simon
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Chilling portrait of violent dad

Adrian Tame

July 30, 2006 12:00am

EVIDENCE has emerged of the violent, unbalanced mental state of an abusive father whose former partner has been threatened with jail if she refuses him access to their five-year-old daughter.

Solicitors' letters and court documents reveal a chilling portrait of a seriously disturbed and brutal man.

The Sunday Herald Sun revealed last week "Bella" and her mother have been ordered by the Federal Magistrates' Court to leave their haven in country Victoria and return to Tasmania by August 10.

"We cried ourselves to sleep the other night and Bella is starting to blame herself, because she knows I face jail if I keep her from her father," her mother said this week.

"She is terrified at the prospect of seeing him and hiding, curled up in fetal positions."

"Bella", who cannot be identified for legal reasons, and her mother fled Tasmania late last year to escape the threat of violence from the child's father.

Court documents reveal the father has spent time in prison, suffers from schizophrenia and has bashed at least one other partner.

Joe Tucci, chief executive officer of the Australian Childhood Foundation, this week asked the federal court to reconsider its decision.

"This decision, and others like it, don't recognise the overwhelming evidence of the impact of the trauma on children's development," Dr Tucci said.