Collins? claims that her husband was an abuser never stood up to scrutiny, but for years, the Minnesota family court allowed her to have primary custody. But the children fared so poorly and Collins lied so regularly, that eventually custody was transferred to her ex-husband, where they miraculously improved.
All that was meticulously documented by seven separate Minnesota courts. Each and every claim of abuse by Collins was investigated and found to be unsubstantiated. Essentially every judge, mental health expert, guardian ad litem and witness said her claims were either unfounded or actually fabricated.
Indeed, many of her own relatives, including her own mother, stepfather, brother, sister and grandparents, testified against Holly Collins. Mental health professionals diagnosed her as ill.
In December of 1992, Minnesota Family Court Judge Michael J. Davis found ?the evidence is overwhelming that the children are at great physical and emotional risk if the children remained in Holly Collins? care? and awarded custody of the then-9 and 7-year-old children to Mark Collins.
So Collins abducted the children to Holland where she was able to convince a gullible government that what seven U.S. state courts had found to be untrue, was true. That was before the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction had come into being, so the children?s father had no recourse.
It should come as no surprise that, once abroad, Holly Collins apparently continued her campaign of parental alienation. Entirely cut off from their father, the campaign worked. It?s in the nature of parental alienation that, when one parent has exclusive control over the kids, they will try to please that parent. So if it becomes clear that Dad is persona non grata to the mother, he?ll become that to the kids as well. So Holly Collins? children, now grown, are happy to describe their father as the evil abuser their mother always said ? and no court has ever found ? he was.
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