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This story has, sadly, solely gotten worse…
Back in January we reported on the surprising information that Josh Homme‘s young sons had filed a restraining order against him, claiming the rocker was “scary.” The Queens of the Stone Age frontman, the 5- and 10-year-old claimed, drank and drove with them in the car, was physically and verbally abusive, and talked about killing their mother’s present boyfriend.
Their mother is singer Brody Dalle, frontwoman of The Distillers. The rock stars separated in 2019 after 14 years of marriage, and the break up has solely gotten nastier over time. Their 50/50 custody settlement apparently disintegrated in 2021. And issues solely received worse the subsequent yr. Brody beforehand received a restraining order herself, claiming Homme had been violent along with her. Specifically she testified he head-butted her so laborious as soon as that she “saw stars.”
But probably the most upsetting half for the mother is the actual fact her youngsters had been taken from her.
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In March 2022, her youngsters had been taken straight from the courthouse to what’s referred to as a “parental reunification camp”. This was ordered after Homme complained his ex was “alienating him.” Both she and the 15-year-old daughter they share had efficiently gotten restraining orders towards the person after accusations of violence. And but he appeared to win — and the younger boys had been taken, apparently towards their will, as you possibly can see in a particularly upsetting video:
Orrin and Wolf had been taken to a spot referred to as Building Family Bridges. And their mom has not seen them since. Just dread-inducing…
Brody, Distilled
That was about 16 months in the past. Or, as Brody put it on her Instagram a couple of days in the past, 475 days. She captioned a pic along with her sons:
“My everything. My reason for living. 475 days. 1 year, 3 months, 18 days. 15 months,18 days. 41,040,000 seconds. 684,000 minutes. 11,400 hours. Into the black. Gone. Void. I’ll never get back. And for what? I’m not a criminal. For all my punk rock cred I’ve never even been arrested. Some speeding tickets, Slapped by a cop once when I was 12, but other than that, zilch. This is punishment, for reporting what they said, trying to protect. I tried to make it stop for a year and a half, until they refused.to.go. Testified. Begged. Pleaded. Sobbed. What would you do? everything, anything I bet.”
Damn straight. She lamented:
“I’m f**king broken. This has shattered me into a thousand pieces. For a long time, I couldn’t get out of bed. I contemplated what the point of going on was. I’ve been filled with so much pain and fear for so long. Fear of that split second mistake where you can’t go back. No one can sustain that state. No one should ever. I let it go. I released it. I found the ladder of light. Get the f**k up and fight for your life. For them. Always.”
We can’t think about what it should do to a guardian to have their youngsters legally taken from them — and put within the arms of the particular person from whom the regulation is concurrently defending you! It is not sensible!
How did this occur? In a followup submit on her non-public IG, she laid out the information:
“In February 2022 after an 8 day trial, I used to be granted a 3 yr home violence restraining order. You didn’t hear about it as a result of I didn’t go to the press, I didn’t parade it round, tooting it from some triumphant horn…as a result of, it’s been f**king terrifying and devastating. 3 weeks later, they took one among my youngsters. A month after that, below momentary guise they took my different two. Textbook to a T… Do not be fooled by the pr and the smoke and mirror’s magic trick of don’t look over right here.. look over there… darvo textbook madness, they’re all the identical. We all see you. My story will not be distinctive and it isn’t uncommon, it’s taking place to protecting moms (and a few protecting fathers) all over the place. There are hundreds of us. Hundreds of hundreds of us. Children are the collateral. Everyday collateral. What they endure will make your hair stand on finish. Many protecting mother and father have misplaced youngsters eternally, in horrific unconscionable methods. If you’ve got by no means been held within the coronary heart pounding, hellish vice like grip of household courtroom, and If you’ve got by no means been accused of the quack debunked, looney and very harmful declare of parental alienation and with zero proof as a result of there was none…..please, maintain your tongue, you haven’t any concept.
She went on to blast the parental reunification camps just like the one her boys had been despatched to:
“False claims of parental alienation, wielded as weapons by abusers in retaliation for their exposure, have prompted a profound and alarming realization. This movement is revealing the systemic injustices and manipulation that occur within the family court system. Through the collective efforts of advocates and survivors, the truth is emerging, dismantling the facade of false allegations and vindicating those who have been unjustly silenced.”
She continued:
“The utilization of the Reid interrogation technique on vulnerable children, who often lack support and viable alternatives, is distressingly employed by organizations such as Family Bridges, Turning Points, and Transitioning Families. These tactics are highly concerning as they involve coercing children into retracting abuse. Furthermore, children are subjected to the distressing experience of watching videos in which other children recant their own abuse. To compound matters, these children are then instructed not to discuss or disclose the events, citing a moratorium on the past. Such practices raise serious ethical and moral concerns surrounding the well-being and rights of these children. They are cut off from their mothers and protective fathers entirely sometimes in cruel, unyielding and never-ending circumstances. Children refuse to go and then they are forced, and then they are kept away from the other parent….Make it make sense.”
Brody is way from the primary to talk out towards these locations…
Ally’s Story
In November 2022, a younger girl named Ally Cable spoke out after being subjected to the Building Family Bridges reunification remedy towards her will. Ally, who has since change into the Youth Initiative Founder for the Center for Judicial Excellence, was simply 16 years previous when she was “held captive” for days:
“My sister and I were kidnapped from a courthouse in Johnson County Kansas and transported to a remote city in Montana.”
Family Bridges’ web site calls it “the original reunification program and the gold standard for alienated children.” There’s that phrase once more. “Alienated” youngsters. These are youngsters that accused a guardian of abuse — and so they’re being handled as if they couldn’t presumably be telling the reality.
Ally says she and her sister had been abused by their father. But the reunification camp pressured them to say that was a lie — and to denounce their mom:
“We were coerced into saying that our safe parent, our mom, had brainwashed us into believing that we were abused.”
The Family Bridges program remoted the younger ladies from the skin world for 4 days — however they weren’t allowed to see their mom for months afterward. Ally and her sister had been pressured to reside with the daddy they’d already accused of abuse — and he or she says he went on to bodily and sexually abuse them.
Why would the Family Bridges program do that? Why would they assist an abuser? What’s the reply to 99 out of 100 questions: cash. The firm had been paid about $40,000 by Ally’s father to “deprogram” her, she says.
When she turned 18 Ally says she received out of there and didn’t look again — she hasn’t spoken to her father since.
There Are More…
You’d assume this enterprise can be uncovered. The unhappy truth is… it has. In 2017 The Washington Post did an exposé on Family Bridges, chatting with youngsters from seven different instances. All mentioned they’d an identical expertise — taken from the courthouse, escorted towards their will throughout state traces, remoted for 4 days, advised to reject their different guardian in favor of the abusive one — and naturally, being stored from the opposite guardian (normally the mom) for a lot of months.
These youngsters had been taken from everywhere in the nation — Michigan, Seattle, Miami, New Jersey, Utah, Montana, and Virginia — however the end result was at all times the identical. You can examine all their instances HERE.
It feels like Brody is spot on along with her judgment of those parental reunification camps. Our query now could be why any decide would ship a toddler right here!
We’ll give Brody the final phrase right here. She ended her most up-to-date collection of posts about what occurred to her youngsters by writing:
“Lastly, While I know full well that I am not without flaws and I have made many mistakes throughout my life, the actions taken to separate me from my children by paid strangers and individuals who have never been a part of their lives is an unjustifiable and heart-wrenching ordeal. It is astounding and disheartening to think that individuals who profit from court cases hold the power to determine whether I can have a relationship with my own children, whom I have carried, given birth to, raised and nurtured and profoundly loved throughout their entire lives. The blatant and deeply disturbing imbalance of authority in this situation is gravely unsettling.”
What do YOU assume, Perezcious readers??
If you’ve got honest trigger to suspect baby abuse, name the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org.
If you or somebody is experiencing home violence, assist is offered. Consider calling the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233, or textual content START to 88788, or go to https://www.thehotline.org/.
[Image via WENN/Avalon/Brody Dalle/Instagram.]
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