Abusive mother allowed to keep children

In what appears to be a very unusual case a Family Court has ordered that the children of an abusive Mother are to remain living with her and the Father is not permitted to spend ay time with them at all.

The Mother had made the children so distressed at seeing their father that Justice Austin decided that they should not have to see him.

Evidence was presented that showed that the Father had warm loving relationships with the children in the past. This relationship however was undermined by the mother who instilled in the children a fear of the father.

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