Parents accused by ACS have only one forum to address the allegations. The Family Court judge.There are no juries to decide wether a parent is acting appropriate with their child. We desperately need a jury system in Family Court for ACS cases. Just like a jury decides if a person is guilty of a crime, the community, through a jury should decide if a parent is neglecting or abusing their child. In fact, while we force juries to hear a vast array of complicated cases, they would be uniquely suited to serve if they raised. a child. However, that is not the system we have.
What we are left with is the singular and autocratic rule of a Family Court judge. The unfortunate reality, I that many Family Court judges are mere rubber stamps for ACS. Why is this so? It is very simple, when a judge disobeys ACS they run the risk of ACS attacking him/her publicly for their position. ACS routinely accuses judges of wrongdoing to cover up the incompetence of its own making. All a parent can do is hope that the judge she appears before is fair and simply not a foot soldier that does the bidding of ACS.
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