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Darcey Freeman: high emotions that lead to tragedies : Comments
By Barbara Biggs, published 3/2/2009There should be a review of Family Court procedures as a result of Darcey Freeman’s fall to her death at the hands of her father.
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Can anyone here imagine how soul-destroying it is to be told, "There is no supporting evidence, but we can't take the chance that the mother's allegations may be correct" as a justification for making interim orders that say (effectively) "this man is a danger to his children and can't be trusted alone with them"?
The next element in the mix is the letter from the CSA telling him that as he is not caring for his children, he must pay more to the person whose unsubstantiated word put him in the position in the first place. If he objects he gets "don't you care about your children?".
The next piece of the jigsaw is his "contact" in a "contact centre", assuming he can find one with a timeslot free. That will be after some months on a waiting list and having attended at least one pre-appointment interview. There will be a significant fee for him to pay out of whatever the CSA has left him and his "contact" is entirely at the whim of the people running the centre. He may arrive and be told "sorry, not today", after not seeing his kids for months.
At what point do you think you might snap and do something regrettable?