BBC aired an investigative report this week exposing how Family Court is provoking an exodus of mothers fleeing internationally into hiding after being court-ordered to hand their children over to abusive, violent, and child molesting fathers. It also brings to light the resulting trauma suffered by mothers—the damage done to their physical and mental health by this systemic persecution, with some cases culminating in death.
Mums on the run are being aided by a secret network of collaborators, a kind of international underground for women and children escaping to freedom from their abusive exes and Family Court—shades of slaves fleeing their masters a couple centuries ago.
BBC reports that there are hundreds of mothers who’ve fled from UK to Cyprus, Tunisia, Thailand, and elsewhere. They found nine who agreed to speak with them on the condition of anonymity. Four were living in northern Cyprus, so the reporter flew there to talk to them.
The Republic of Cyprus is a small, independent island nation off the southern coast of Turkey where the locals speak Greek, but the northeastern section of the island is a Turkish territory. It is not recognized internationally as a State and there is no extradition treaty, so it affords women some protection.
The report clearly invites the reader to believe and sympathize with the mothers, not fathers. It leaves no doubt they were seriously wronged and their fleeing into hiding was justified. There was sympathy for all the mothers who died, even those who resorted to the unthinkable and ended their lives.
This is great, however…
The crisis is being portrayed as a national scandal with hundreds of mothers fleeing from the UK, but really it is an international outrage. All the talk of UK mothers and not one mention of the thousands of mothers all over the world experiencing the same horrific treatment in family courts.
Source: BBC Exposé: Family Court Is Inciting International Exodus of Mothers Seeking Safety