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.

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    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

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      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…

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

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        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.

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    his ex-wife is in jail for objecting to court-ordered reunification therapy meant to repair his relationship with two of his sons.

    Yeah, because top priority when encountering a piece of shit incestual paedophilic rapist, is to reunite him with the children he set aside while he preyed on the others. 🤯🤬

    Be it a system or an individual - abusers defend abusers. It’s always projection in self defence, it’s why they’ve constructed an elaborate conspiracy theory about secret paedophile rings run by the rich and powerful, yet when someone rich and powerful (and white and straight) acts in direct defence of a paedophile, they look the other way.

    The judge who made this ruling, along with everyone who enabled it, need to have their hard drives searched and the children in their lives questioned and potentially removed for their safety. I don’t have a single doubt in my mind that if they did this, they would find at least one more paedophile.

    As for the mother and kids, I hope they sue the state or the court or whoever it is they can, and win millions to pay for the new life they’re going to need to build for themselves and therapy they’re going to need for the rest of their lives (never mind compensation for the obscene miscarriage of justice of locking her up).

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      The judge who made this ruling, along with everyone who enabled it, need to have their hard drives searched and the children in their lives questioned and potentially removed for their safety. I don’t have a single doubt in my mind that if they did this, they would find at least one more paedophile.

      I think it’s just the legal system protecting cops, like it always does.

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      piece of shit incestual paedophilic rapist

      Pro tip for concise writing: this can be simplified to the word “cop”.

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    Anybody who says they can’t understand how somebody would become violent can understand instantly by reading this story.

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    That site’s got some next level paywall nonsense… got about halfway through the article in my Lemmy app, decided I wanted to share the link with someone, opened in Safari and it purposely replaces the content with some kind of automatic greek text.

    It’s a shame, archive.org links tend to scare off old people…