Illinois mom Aneta Hadzi-Tanovic has filed an $8 million federal lawsuit against Family Court judge Robert Wade Johnson, the GAL, and her ex for conspiring to deprive her under the color of law of her right to due process and equal protection, as well as for the intentional torts “abuse of process” and “intentional infliction of emotional distress”.
Aneta’s custody nightmare mirrors women’s cases all over the country and world in which Family Court judges disregard substantial negative evidence about the father, and fabricate negative evidence about the mother, in order to justify switching custody to the father.
In Aneta’s case, the judge ignored substantial evidence of physical, psychological and emotional abuse by the father, much of it gathered by police, a forensic interviewer and social services.
Instead of protecting the children, the judge falsely found Aneta to have coached them to report abuse (i.e. alienation), hence emotionally abusive, despite no evidence to support that finding. Then he allowed the father to alienate the kids from her, to the point that they now refuse to talk to her on the phone and are so badly behaved in supervised visitation that she cannot keep a supervisor.
42 U.S.C. §1983 does not provide for injunctions against state judges, so it will not affect the custody ruling or bring her children back. But Aneta hopes publicity on the injustice she has endured, and especially a win in her suit, will help her case moving forward and help expose the injustices women everywhere are being subjected to.
Source: Mom Sues Judge, GAL, Ex for $8M in U.S. Federal Court – The Women’s Coalition
I knew of a case like this with Magistrate Harmer on the Bench! Following complaints about his finding he was found to be ‘unwell’ at the time of the case!
I am going thru the exact same thing currently. I loss my children and nearly my sanity. I have collaborated with others to expose and fight this, however this has been going on soooo long without justice, the Courts don’t even try to hide the abuse and take pride in destroying children and families. Working with The Anti-Alienation project and PAS-Intervention, I have witnessed countless families in crisis and many silenced voices (children and adults) that has unalived themselves due to the brutality and abuse. Please continue to spread awareness and expose. Our nation children need us.