Her Harbor picks up the Berezow story
The Washington based non-profit organization is highlighting the shocking order from Judge Lapin.
The reverberations from last Friday’s shocking ruling by Washington Judge Matthew Lapin. Judge Lapin gave a man who acknowledged to fantasizing about molesting his daughter sole custody over that daughter.
Her Harbor, a Washington based non-profit which helps female domestic violence victims, has highlighted my work.
In the Nightmare Circus of Family Court, the King County Berezow Case makes a national example of Washington State, particularly in the shadow of Washington's HB2237. It exemplifies the horrifying implications of judicial discretion, particularly in the context of "abusive use of conflict" and "parental alienation." These terms are considered pop-fiction by many experts due to lack of scientific backing and clear definitions. They have become tools for drastic outcomes, leaving a trail of irreparable harm across Washington State.
The Berezow Case, meticulously dissected by Chicago-based journalist Michael Volpe, offers an illustration of how increased judicial discretion and the pending dismissal of decades of established case law will continue to wreaking havoc on the lives of Washington's children. The court's decision to impose restrictions on the mother, Anna Berezow, citing her "abusive use of conflict" and withholding of the child without cause, stands as a contentious example of how subjective interpretations can lead to grave injustices.
The article goes on to note that Washington state ranks in the bottom ten for domestic violence incidents, according to the website domesticviolence.org
This case highlights a broader issue plaguing the Washington State family court system, a system already ranked as one of the ten worst in the country and currently proposing the erasure of established protections under the guise of judicial discretion. By sidelining 40 years of case law under HB2237, the court has opened the floodgates (even more) to a subjective and dangerous interpretation of family dynamics. This shift endangers the community it is entrusted to protect. As seen in the court's refusal to assess the implications of the father's admitted thoughts and behaviors.
The potential harm to survivors under WA HB2237 can be understood concerning the bill's increased judicial discretion and the evidentiary standards required. This bill, intended to offer protection, will place survivors and abused children in a more vulnerable position due to the variability in judicial decision-making and the high evidentiary thresholds set for proving abuse.
The article continues.
Washington State's struggle with domestic violence and the lack of stringent regulations in family courts further exacerbate this crisis. The absence of clear guidelines, liability, and accountability for judges, whose training is decades behind, allows for decisions that can drastically alter the lives of families, often to the detriment of the most vulnerable. Increased Judicial Discretion, according to many experts and published by the Yale Law Review, leads to an increase of racial and gender disparity in outcomes. These are outcomes backed by data, unlike the horrific outcomes experience by children under full control of Family Court and Domestic Violence Industrial Complex in WA state.
The Berezow Case is a testament to the urgent need for reform, highlighting how the system has no gatekeeping for the whims or bias of court officials, to the disadvantage of protective parents. Unfortunately, the Berezow case is not an exception. It is one of thousands across the state. Most of the protective parents in these cases cannot afford the 200k plus that the average high conflict family court case can cost—just for one party to defend themselves and protect their child.
Alex Berezow made a series of shocking acknowledgements during his custody case: including fantasizing about hurting and molesting his daughter and even to ejaculating while feeding her.
Judge Matthew Lapin, having heard all this evidence, said all these disclosures were harmless, the product of the aptly named Harm OCD. Nothing to worry about.
In fact, the only parent he was worried about was Anna Berezow, who was obviously committing parental alienation by not dismissing these disclosures and keeping their daughter safe away from the man who wants to molest her.
Judge Lapin ordered Alex to get sole custody, Anna to have supervised visits, while ordering her to have a mental health assessment and to apologize for alienating Alex before she can increase her custody time.
In 2021, Megan Fox from PJ Media covered another case from Washington state: Burkhart V Adkins.
In that case, the mother, Ms. Adkins, abandoned the family multiple times with drug problems. Once sober, she wanted to move forward as though nothing happened. When the kids resisted, the courts blamed Jake, accusing him of parental alienation.
Guardians ad litem across the country are in the spotlight after many cases of abuse have been discovered both in the care of the elderly and with children in family courts. Documentaries such as The Guardians, directed by Billie Minz, and movies such as Netflix’s I Care A Lot have spotlighted these heinous crimes against powerless and vulnerable populations. Little to nothing has been done to hold them accountable. Only one guardian ad litem (to my knowledge), April Parks, is serving time in prison for her crimes against the elderly.
In the state of Washington, Jacob Burkhart is fighting against guardian ad litem Shannon Moreau, who has been diligently working to reunite his children with their mother, who abandoned them twice, over many years, for drugs. The children were raised by their father and have no desire to have a relationship with their mother, whom they don’t know. Instead of listening to the children’s concerns about abandonment, Moreau has steadfastly ignored their concerns by blaming Burkhart for “parental alienation” (a discredited pseudo-scientific theory that has been linked to Nazi ideology). Moreau constantly makes claims that the children, 13 and 14, are simply parroting their dad’s opinions and not their own.
During discovery, Burkhart obtained transcripts of his first meeting with Moreau that showed her berating and threatening him with the loss of his children if he did not submit to her demand that they be forced into “reunification therapy” with the abandoner parent. Reunification therapy is highly controversial and is being compared to gay conversion camps that abuse children. David Segui, a Major League Baseball player, was forced to send his children to a reunification camp called Family Bridges. His 12-year-old son desperately tried to reach the media by posting in the comments section on a website called Celeb to report that he was being forced into a relationship with his abuser. Video later surfaced of his mother’s boyfriend, another MLB star, Mark Grudzielanek, allegedly abusing one of Segui’s children. Grudzielanek is currently under police investigation. Celeb reported:
Check out a hearing from that case.
For the love of my life I will never understand how these alien judges/lawyers/GALs/Actors were allowed to enter Earth's atmosphere to be put in positions of authority to move a child/children into isolation with a very mentally sick person that will cause that child/children to develop horribly troubling psychological issues as they enter their adult life. No wonder we have school shootings, street shootings, tons of criminal actions and on and on. The family courts needs to be renamed - FUBAR Court not Family Court, it better describes the actions taken.