A child said he was being sexually and physically abused by his father. The father alleged the mother was brainwashing the child against him. One reporter dug into years of case files to understand how courts decided to interpret the facts.

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    1 year ago

    Am I taking crazy pills or is the dad clearly and obviously the abuser based on the evidence shown in this article alone? Dozens and dozens of mandatory reporters accounts being not just taken non seriously, but completely declining to investigate them? Countless statements from the child himself saying what his dad does, multiple accounts of him fearing his dad. All brushed aside as “his mother is crazy”. What the actual fuck?

    That poor child.

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      1 year ago

      I think it also serves as a warning about men’s rights movements and the phony psychology their manufacturing to support themselves

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      Am I taking crazy pills

      no, it’s just how the patriarchy works (and it somehow takes it further and uses shit like this to convince men that the system is somehow entirely geared to harm them)