Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To think this is crazy <DV Trigger>

81 replies

RandomNPC · 14/02/2015 20:31

What the hell is happening here?
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-who-throat-cut-brutal-5164409

OP posts:
itsnotjustaslap · 17/02/2015 23:59

Thanks aeroflot, ohforfox solidgoldbrass

babynamechange so sorry you've been through that too. I felt too that I was being abused again.

To be honest I think it is a really twisted system that permits women with a verifiable history of dv from an ex partner (e.g convictions) is then set up to be vilified by the opposing side by twisting the evidence to deny that it ever took place or to question the mental state or sanity of the woman because the law says that dv must be taken into 'account' by the court when considering child contact which in a twisted way means the opposing side has to down play and dismiss it.

It shouldn't have happened like this. I had shed loads of evidence and he was convicted ffs. If someone has been convicted for a crime and / or there are loads of evidence it should not be possible for the perpetrator to then claim it did not happen or to villify the victim in another court. It's like setting the legal system against itself as well as being morally repugnant.

I wish Gatorade something could be done or that this would be more widely known.

I try to shrink my ex mentally in my head solidgoldbrass - at handovers I avoid eye contact but am brightly polite and in my head just thinking 'you're a dick' all the time.PS thank you a long time ago you wrote some supportive stuff on an old thread when I was considering leaving. The support on that thread gave me the strength to leave and it was the best decision I have ever made for me and my child.

sashh · 18/02/2015 06:48

surely there are circumstances under which parental responsibility can be revoked?!

I believe only with forced adoption.

Something on Woman's Hour recently about abusers who target women, coerce them in to having a child so the abuser has a child he (Don't think there was a case with a woman) has a child to abuse.

I thought, "I'd emigrate" too.

Aeroflotgirl · 18/02/2015 09:59

I wouldn't be surprised sassh, these men will do anything. It's scarey that the courts are hell bent on awarding parental rights to these children, ignoring or dismissing vital evidence.

Aeroflotgirl · 18/02/2015 10:00

To these men I meant

NeedsAsockamnesty · 18/02/2015 23:09

Sashh.

You can apply to have PR removed without forced adoption but in reality it's highly unlikely to happen off the top of my head its been awarded only two or three times in the last 15 years in the uk

Jackw · 18/02/2015 23:18

There's an online petition on this issue on change.org if anyone wants to sign up. chn.ge/17erbPi

New posts on this thread. Refresh page