Today The Hartford Courant published the following brief report:
"WEST HAVEN — A Milford father was arrested Tuesday evening after he was found sleeping on a curb with his 4-year-old next to him in a stroller, police said.
Harry Apuzzo, 52, of Jepsen Drive was charged with breach of peace and risk of injury to a minor, police said.
Officers were called to the area of 764 Campbell Ave. at about 7:10 p.m. When they arrived, they found Apuzzo and witnesses who said they had seen him stumbling several times while pushing the stroller. He then fell asleep on the curb, they said.
Apuzzo had alcohol containers in his possession, police said.
When the officers woke him up, Apuzzo said the child was his daughter and they had been at the beach all day. He smelled of liquor, police said.
The child was taken to a hospital for evaluation for possible dehydration, police said."
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Upon seeing this article, on a hunch I went to the CT Judicial Branch case lookup and found that Harry Apuzzo and his ex wife were involved in what looks like a fairly high conflict divorce case from 2010 to 2014.
How is it, do you think, that the Family Court system where this divorce case took place failed to notice that father is an alcoholic and likely to place his daughter at risk of injury?
Isn't this typical of what battered mothers see happening all the time in family court?
Abusive fathers who are unsafe with their children, regardless of whether they are drug addicts or alcoholics, regardless of whether they medically neglect their children or place them at risk, still have unfettered access to their children.
Thus, the situation above, where the father was totally drunk and acting irresponsibly with his little four year old girl is the inevitable outcome of Family Court's attitude that no matter how abusive and irresponsible, fathers can do no wrong.
As a mother, I am aware that you could bring to court stacks of medical reports, stacks of incident reports showing irrefutable evidence that a father has and will continue to put his children at risk, and no judge will care about this at all, because the Court system is in such a rush to allow fathers full access to their children, it doesn't care how much harm such fathers perpetrate on their children.
The bottom line is that these kinds of situations which put children at risk in the hands of irresponsible and dangerous fathers are happening all over the "father friendly" State of Connecticut. This State and its Judicial System is a disgrace to the nation.
There's nothing anyone can do to stop the injustice in the corrupt courts when you have one person wielding power without a jury. You don't have to believe in good and evil, but just know that your words will never be received. They always go up empty. The family system has been permeated by something like a cancer and no one will ever be able to get rid of it. There's no justice, only the illusion. You've got the buildings and the black robes, but woe to those who venture inside the doors to see the dark and unimaginable. This is why women flee.
ReplyDeleteThe Family Court system in CT, elsewhere as well, is by far the most poisonous patriarchal system in the country. Rife with pay-offs, kickbacks, extortion and embezzlement schemes cooked up by the thieves that run it without a single check on their abuse of power. Starting with the Judges. Family court must be a coveted position for them - they surely get paid well above their statutory salary once their 'favorite son' matrimonial attorneys cut deals behind litigant's backs. And more often than not at the expense of the mother and children, the easiest of prey. The oft contrived attack by husbands on wives "she's emotionally unstable and an alcoholic" (and even if true, look what corrupt system probably made her such) is used purely for financial cudgel reasons, nothing more. This usually from Fathers, at the urging of their attorneys, to unnecessarily conflict and thereby heighten their own unwarranted fees. The biggest joke of all is that CT is but one of a handful of states that requires early on a Parenting Course....another soaker and a complete farce. I have often thought about doing some real community service and handing out to women at the door of the courses, a complete guide of what they're likely to encounter - complete with the worst offfender names of lawyers and judges - of what they're truly in for.
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