How many kids must be abused before we act?
Another survivor of forced contact with an abuser speaks.
The National Safe Parents Organization (NSPO) is out with an interesting video.
The video is of Ashton Goff, an adult survivor of the family court system.
In it, he describes how he reported abuse against his father, but a parental alienation expert turned it around.
“Linda Gottlieb convinced a judge that {my report} was a symptom of the alienation.” Goff said.
This is not Gottlieb’s only victim.
My name is Mia, and my sister Ava and I have been victims of a reunification camp. From the beginning, I’ve been told that every parent should have the right and opportunity to have a relationship with their child - regardless of what damage they’ve done. While that’s correct to a certain degree, the thing people forget is relationships can’t be forced. No one can force a genuine connection with someone, not even a biological parent. Especially when abuse has occurred with that parent and the child is completely opposed to it. Things happening naturally and organically is the only way it will work. Not by shipping children off, unwillingly, to force them into compliance.
At Linda Gottlieb’s camp, Turning Points for Families, I was told that I was "alienated" from my biological father and the way they were going to fix that was by sending me to a camp with my abuser and cutting off all communication with my support system and family. So their plan was fixing “alienation” with alienation.
My experience at this reunification camp has greatly affected my life. Linda’s agenda has affected my life. Being left alone with no one to support me and help me through this trauma has affected my life. On top of all that my mental health has plummeted, but no one cared because as long as my biological father got what he wanted and Linda could say that her program was working, it didn’t matter what was really going on. It didn’t matter that even after the camp and after the 90-day black-out period, I still didn’t want anything to do with my father. Linda and those who supported this weren’t happy because they didn’t get the results they wanted. You should be asking yourself, why the results weren’t what Linda Gottlieb said they would be? Because this “program” does NOT work. No child I’ve ever talked to has said that being forced to reconnect with their abusive parent has actually made them want a relationship.
What’s worse than having your basic human rights taken away by being sent to this place, is what happens at this camp. You’re forced to stay with an abusive parent who doesn’t actually care about your well being, and you are forced to listen to this person claim to love you, make up excuses, blame you, call you crazy, belittle you, and tell you what you’re feeling is invalid and wrong. “Not normal” is what I've been told, as well. What is not normal, is this entire process. No child should be put through this abuse and left to unpack lifelong trauma.
The kids who survive this system- one which forces them to live with an abuser because of the false label of parental alienation- are now coming forward in droves.
They’re all saying the same thing: whenever they spoke about abuse, experts like Gottlieb dismissed the abuse, and it was turned around and their safe parent was accused of parental alienation.
That’s what Samantha Rucki said in her audio.
It’s similar to what Amelia Martinez told me recently.
Here is more about Amelia.
That’s because Amelia wants to be heard: the courts, her school, the court appointed therapist, and her father have all ignored her.
She wants no relationship with her father, and it’s not because her mother, Elizabeth, is alienating her.
In the first part of the interview, she described how at thirteen her father confronted her while she showered, pulled her out of the bathroom, and forced her into a car wrapped only in a towel.
That incident escalated until police were called, her father lied she told me, and she was detained and thrown into juvenile hall.
In juvie, she was strip searched, thrown into a single cell, and kept isolated.
That and other incidents are the reason why she won’t have a relationship with her father, she told me.
The courts don’t care. They don’t listen to the children, the ones they are supposed to be acting in the best interest of.
When I interviewed Tori Nielsen, she told me that her reunification camp ordered her to do what was called a moratorium. She wasn’t allowed to talk about the past: that primarily meant she could not talk about the abuse.
Gwen and Grace Girard also described being ignored when they reported abuse.
“She seemed bored and invalidated the seriousness of the things we were telling her,” The girls described about what happened when they told the therapist about abuse by their mom.
This sort of strategy is being employed upon millions of kids around the world. While the problem continues to be ignored, people like Gottlieb make lots of money forcing kids to live with abusive parents.
Now these children are speaking up, and hopefully this scam is on its last leg.
I have a hard time seeing any fix to the pseudo PA problem in the near future without the help of all major media organizations. As long as the privately controlled Family Courts exist and corrupt state child services exist, on top of all the unethical Actors below that exist, I don't think much is going to change. Also all of these so-called reunification camps and Actors must be shut down because they all are nothing more than brain washing functions with the only goal is filling more unethical Actors pockets full with hundreds of thousand dollars. This entire child custody arena is so full of illegal and unethical actions that we don't have enough prisons to put all of those involved in them. Every child affected needs to speak out publicly and non-stop.