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Parental Alienation & US Congresswoman Maloney's National 'Bridget's Law'--a New Attack on Target Fathers & Mothers?
From The New York Post's Buxom Bridget Goes Feminist (4/5/09):
Bridget Marks says her nasty custody battle with a philandering ex-lover has transformed her from a buxom nude model into a full-blown political activist...
Last year, the former Playboy pin-up, now 43, got state Assemblyman Jonathan Bing and Sen. Tom Duane (both D-Manhattan) to craft "Bridget's Law," which protects parents from being penalized in custody cases for making "good-faith efforts" to protect their kids from child abuse. It was signed into law by Gov. Paterson.
"And with the help of Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, we'll have a national 'Bridget's Law' in the foreseeable future,” Marks told us. “It's a silent national crisis of women losing their children for no good reason..."
Five years ago, Marks lost custody of twin daughters Amber and Scarlett, now 9, in a battle with gambling tycoon John Aylsworth...
Mothers (and fathers) do sometimes make good faith reports that they're children are being abused, and Marks is correct that they shouldn't be penalized if it proves that their reasonable suspicions are groundless. However, that's not what both courts found that Marks did. To Post writer Richard Johnson's credit, he doesn't pretend that it is, writing:
The court found Marks had coached the girls to lie that Aylsworth had molested them and poisoned their relationship with him. An appeals court returned the girls to Marks in 2005, saying what she'd done was 'abhorrent,' but there was no reason to remove the kids from her custody.
As best I can tell, this Post article is the first public mention of a national "Bridget's Law" and Maloney's role in it... Read more |
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