Small Justice: Little Justice in America's Family Courts
Friday, February 06, 2009
This is Really Hard to Believe
By Barry Nolan This is really hard to believe. I am sitting in a room filled with women who were beaten, and violated in terrible ways...read the full article
Elsa Newman is a woman who is in jail. Her case, in my opinion, is one where injustice has been rampant in several areas of the law. Her goal has always been to protect her two sons from their father, the man they have named as their abuser. View the petition to free Elsa here.
Please take a look at this article which appears on womensforum.com. The wonderful founder, Jodi Beck, gave up her monthly column so that attention could be paid to this most important issue.
Small Justice, an award-winning, independent documentary, exposes a lurking national scandal. Most people simply do not believe it is possible for a judge to hand over custody of children to men who beat their wives and sexually abuse their children. But it is something that happens every day in America, in every state, because the system is broken.