No! Family Court is corrupted and handled by Narcissistic, abusive, bullies. The United States is one of the most depressed country in the world according to The World Health Organization. 

Does Family Court care about children’s mental health? No

What is mental health?

Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. (CDC.gov) 

Is it not evident that if we took care of our most precious little people we could change this? Is it not sad enough to learn this data? Is it fair that 1 in 5 children either currently or at some point during their life, have had a seriously debilitating mental illness? What’s more frightening is those that go into adulthood and have never been diagnosed which leads us to having 1 in 5 adults experiencing a mental illness! No wonder our incarceration rate is also at its highest  compared to the world!!

What are we doing about it? Where do we start? 

Well we focus on pushing legislation to improve the way Family Court deals with our family our children. We forced them to pay attention to each case individually instead of assuming and implying they know what is going on with the cases presented to them. We push legislation to get judges like her to pay more attention on each individual case and not allow them to be corrupted when  it comes to our family, our most precious thing as humans. We hold them accountable for deciding what we need to do with our children and getting it wrong because they failed to do their job as it has happened in this one particular case.

On February 7th 2022 the child in the video was picked up from school by his father a few minutes before he was scheduled to be released for the day. The father felt he could do this because it was his visiting days with his son and the mother had been keeping him away from him because she suspected some type of abuse or neglect from the father or at his place of residence. The mother noticed the child would become very distressed and under severe anxiety on the nights before the schedule visiting times with his father. She tried getting the father to understand that something was not right and she asked him and pleaded with him to attend some therapy with his son, he ignored her concerns and simply replied, “follow the court order”

The child’s pleads and mental health only became worse as the days preceded until she just couldn’t stand seeing her son suffering. She thought of the damage this was causing her son’s mental health. She took a stand and showed up at her son‘s school on the days that were scheduled to be the father’s pick up days she would make it a point to be there earlier and she communicated with the father that she would be picking him up and asked him not to show up. 

So on February 7th the father showed up earlier before the released time and took him without notifying the mother. 

At about 3:11pm he sent a text to the mother letting her know that he had picked up his son early then asking her to come pick him up. She thought about the reason why he was asking her to come pick him up but she didn’t question it when she gets to the father‘s house the child is in severe distress it is very noticeable, they noticed he had urinated himself! At this point there’s big concerns. When they question the child the child informs them about the incident that had just occurred. He tells them that he had just attacked his father with a kitchen knife. He says he wasn’t successful because the grandpa was able to react fast and stopped him. At this point mom asks the siblings not to question the child further. 

She proceeds to text the father to ask him further details, he doesn’t respond to her, ever. He doesn’t confirm or deny what has just happened. 

After this it is evident that something is not right so she decides to keep her son safe at home and not send him to school. She restarts him in the homeschool curriculum she had been doing before she was ordered to put the child in public school. Something she has never trusted in especially after working for many years for the public school district in El Paso. She pleads to the father several times to fix the situation acknowledging that there’s an issue and maybe attend therapy with his son. She begs him to agree to transfer their son to another school where he won’t suffer from fear of him coming to get him. She begs him to agree he won’t come to get him and instead call his son several times to discuss what the issue might be. Or maybe through therapy find out what is happening. Anything that will make their son more comfortable and not live in fear. He continuously ignores her messages. He shows no interest in the findings of the cause of his son’s emotional distress. 

The mother speaks to her son several times and she observes his distress and anxiety of the thought on going back to school because that is where his, “dad will come get him” he repeats on several occasions.
She is aware and fears the consequences, but the pain of not being able to find another solution to help her son are greater, she fears for her son and wants to protect him. She prays that the judge will see the severeness of the situation and maybe help her son. She contacts her attorney at the time Veronica Lerma who does nothing about it. Very incompetent attorney who is eventually informed about her incompetence, so she withdraws from the case in the future by the way. (Which will discuss later)

By the time the next hearing is held the child had missed about 40 days of public school never neglected of an education and instead receiving an education at home. Which the judge failed to acknowledge after the mother confirms in the stand; yes she in fact has been teaching her son at home. The mother has evidence but the court never even asks for them the mother is unsure if her attorney has presented them. At this point she has no idea why they are not believing her. Later when she asks her attorney her attorney informs her that homeschool doesn’t matter, what matters is that she chose to broke the judges order by not allowing him to stay in public school. 

The decision was made based on the fact that the child missed 40 days of public school. (not neglected of an education and instead being taught at home) Never acknowledging that the child had suffered a mental breakdown/trauma when he attacked the father with a kitchen knife. Although she demonstrated an appalled reaction when she first heard about it during a zoom hearing but quickly diverted her attention to the fact that the child was not in public school. Even though the mother had repeatedly mentioned it during a zoom hearing and on June 9th where the father while on the stand denied. The court has also failed to acknowledge the mother’s pleadings to the father to get their son help. She fails to see the father’s negligence of the child’s emotional damage. How does she take her power that the people have entrusted her with to hand over an innocent already severely damaged child, to a negligent father.