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Dec 11, 2023Liked by Michael Volpe

I recorded all my sessions with Shawn Bukgatz. He explained his role was not to interpret whether Hazel was being sexually abused by her father. But to convince Hazel that what she was going through wasn’t abuse; and it was only problematic that her mother had a problem with it. And her mother would be punished if she continued to address this concern

Other google reviews of Shawn Bulgatz show prior and post cases he’s been used to falsify child therapy notes for the GAL’s intended purpose. And inappropriate therapeutic techniques. He was also ripped apart during my custody trial by the forensic expert we hired. Bulgatz didn’t show for trial. He wasn’t called. He was on their witness list. But not used.

The recordings I have of him are soo creepy and eeery. He just repeats “I just don’t see it” - referencing “seeing” Hazel was being sexually abused.

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It'll be interesting to see how these kids feel in a decade, when they are also parents. It seems as if we have parentalized kids too much and given them the wrong impression, which is not helpful to them because it's too much power and too much responsibility for a kid.

Things should be dealt with by parents and with reasonable boundaries that listen to their kids, , but don't give them the control for important decisions...the way we used to.

Strangers have no way of knowing what is going on within a family and have even less business trying to pretend they do.

We are going to look back on this age and cry at what we did to destroy families, by removing the rights of the parents to decide what's best for their children until they literally leave the nest.

I'm not naive. I've lived this nightmare...as a kid, a provider, and a mom.

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