Legal Question in Family Law in California
Failure to protect.
Blind mother of two sited girls is charged with failure to protect her children from sexual abuse by her blind husband because the husband told her a year prior to his arrest that he was molesting them. The Mother did not report the abuse because the Father threatened that he would disappear with the girls if she told anyone and she did not have any proof that he had molested the girls, nor did the girls ever tell her that their Father had molested them. The mother was pressured by jail confinement, depression and confusion into pleading guilty to a misdemenor charge of failure to protect. Child protective services is using this as grounds to take her parental rights away and place children for adoption.
What should the mother do to obtain the custody of her daughters and stop the persecution of child protective services?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Failure to protect.
It sounds to me like she was clearly guilty of the charge and she belongs in prison. I can�t imagine any reason why a court should not take the kids from her.
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