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THXFelicia
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What is the name of your state? CA
I am wondering if anyone with some prior knowledge of court cases can help me in trying to figure out how a judge/court views a biological father ( who approx. 5-6 yrs. ago was convicted of felony child abuse for shaking infant and breaking a leg) and his request to now be allowed to have unsupervised visits? The biological father, as a condition of probation in 1998, took a parenting class about children birth to age 4, attended 3 months of weekly therapy, and successfully completed his house arrest, weekends in jail. Once allowed to have supervised visits with child --he attended them, and paid his support. I am the Cp of the child and am looking for any type of website addresses or other helpful organizations that I can find out about other past rulings involving abuse. While in the same state, I supervised the visits from 9 am to 6 pm (allowing for nap time in between) two Saturdays a month. I have absolutely no problem doing this as long as it keeps the child safe, for as long as I possibly am allowed to by court. The biological father had never been abusive to me, and no record before his abuse was discovered of my infant. The biological father said things after being convicted that are bothersome. He stated that he felt like he did the abuse because "he knew the child could not talk, and was not able to do anything about it". He went out of his way to be alone with the child--often saying that he wanted time to bond alone with child--(later found out he progressed to the leg breaking--some form of abuse occured almost everytime he was alone with child). Child was 13 weeks old when leg was broken. When 'little things' were happening to the child and child was brought to the doctors before he was caught, he almost seemed to enjoy going to the doctors. The pediatrician and Er gushed over him--saying how cute to see such a good involved dad--these things scare me---he liked the attention he got when the doctor (not suspecting he had done the injury) made him feel so important. I am desperate to find out what I am really dealing with, underlying mental condition, or are lots of child abusers similiar in nature? I am at a loss as to how to gather info to fight unsupervised visits---any help so greatly appreciated.
I am wondering if anyone with some prior knowledge of court cases can help me in trying to figure out how a judge/court views a biological father ( who approx. 5-6 yrs. ago was convicted of felony child abuse for shaking infant and breaking a leg) and his request to now be allowed to have unsupervised visits? The biological father, as a condition of probation in 1998, took a parenting class about children birth to age 4, attended 3 months of weekly therapy, and successfully completed his house arrest, weekends in jail. Once allowed to have supervised visits with child --he attended them, and paid his support. I am the Cp of the child and am looking for any type of website addresses or other helpful organizations that I can find out about other past rulings involving abuse. While in the same state, I supervised the visits from 9 am to 6 pm (allowing for nap time in between) two Saturdays a month. I have absolutely no problem doing this as long as it keeps the child safe, for as long as I possibly am allowed to by court. The biological father had never been abusive to me, and no record before his abuse was discovered of my infant. The biological father said things after being convicted that are bothersome. He stated that he felt like he did the abuse because "he knew the child could not talk, and was not able to do anything about it". He went out of his way to be alone with the child--often saying that he wanted time to bond alone with child--(later found out he progressed to the leg breaking--some form of abuse occured almost everytime he was alone with child). Child was 13 weeks old when leg was broken. When 'little things' were happening to the child and child was brought to the doctors before he was caught, he almost seemed to enjoy going to the doctors. The pediatrician and Er gushed over him--saying how cute to see such a good involved dad--these things scare me---he liked the attention he got when the doctor (not suspecting he had done the injury) made him feel so important. I am desperate to find out what I am really dealing with, underlying mental condition, or are lots of child abusers similiar in nature? I am at a loss as to how to gather info to fight unsupervised visits---any help so greatly appreciated.