A retired Aurora police sergeant is facing criminal charges for raping his daughter and sexually assaulting his two adopted daughters, but remains free from custody while his ex-wife is the

A retired Aurora police sergeant faces criminal charges for raping his daughter and continually sexually assaulting her and his two adopted daughters, but he remains free from custody while his ex-wife is in jail for objecting to court-ordered reunification therapy meant to repair his relationship with two of his sons.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    109·
    18 days ago

    Her trip to jail occurs as such therapy and its potential harms are increasingly coming under fire in Colorado.

    The treatment is used by family courts to settle custody fights. Services like those provided by Bassett use confrontation and exercises to deprogram a child’s rejection of a parent. In extreme cases, children have been sent across state lines to reunification camps with parents they reject, and they are barred from having contact with their protective parent.

    The fuck

    • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
      382·
      18 days ago

      Institutionalized, systemic gaslighting, a product of fascism

      Terrifying

      Edit: not even our most horrifying fiction has imagined such a thing, yet here we are, my god…

      Edit 2: no, maybe, briefly, on a smaller scale, there was Arkham Asylum and something similar in a Star Trek TOS episode, but nothing on quite this scale, nor with children…

    • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
      16·
      18 days ago

      Seriously. What the fuck. Institutionalized child abuse. And then they say trans people are somehow the real danger.

      • gatorgato@lemmy.world
        7·
        18 days ago

        No. No it isn’t. Forced reunification to your abuser. You sick fuck. Go on and double down. Tell us all how that’s complicated. Raise your coward hand again.