Kyra Was Murdered By Her Father––Her Mom Had Begged The Courts To Protect Her 💔
Early in her pregnancy, Jacqueline had given Rumsey an ultimatum to either get help for his anger issues or she would end the relationship. He refused, so she left him. “I heard the messages that many of us heard to ‘get out’ of an abusive relationship,” she told Scary Mommy. “But they don’t tell us what happens once we leave our abuser and end up in family court. The abuse does not end … it gets worse.
In Jacqueline’s case, when she told the court that Rumsey had stalked her and Kyra and that he wasn’t following court orders or medical directives, which she says is considered physical child abuse, Nassau County Judge Danielle Peterson told her to “grow up.”It may be tempting to sympathize with judges and other decision makers in child custody battles who give parents accused of abuse the benefit of the doubt.
So we see that it is common for a mother to be punished for speaking up about an ex-partner’s abuse. When she does so, she risks losing custody of her children entirely and being forced to hand them over to an abuser. Jacqueline told me this had been the case with her too. Her attorney even initially advised her that ithad been begging the courts to keep her and her four-year-old son Greyson safe from the boys’ father, whose behavior had become increasingly erratic and threatening.
These are decisions where children’s lives literally hang in the balance. And yet, at Jacqueline’s last hearing, she said Judge Peterson literally told her, “This is not a life or death situation.” It was, though. Jacqueline will never get to hold sweet Kyra again. The courts took this from her just as much as her child’s killer did.
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