CustodyWTF

The Serial Abuser and Accuser

The documented account of a father who fought to keep his child and a mother who weaponized the family court system.

What the record shows

Every figure below is drawn from court documents, Child Protective Services reports, police files, and signed confessions by the mother.

The Verified Finding Against the Mother 1 Child Protective Services verified the mother abused the child
7 False allegations against the father
5 Child Protective Services investigations against the father
5 Police investigations against the father
$473K In total costs incurred by the father
480 Pages of Child Protective Services reports filed
13 Years of active litigation

It started with the mother's chilling confession

In February 2014, a father pressed record on his phone to send a short audio clip of his child to family living three hundred miles away. The recorder kept running. What it captured next would reshape the next thirteen years of his life, his finances, and his relationship with his only child.

The mother walked into the room. She wanted to talk. Their conversation, preserved by accident, ended with a sentence that no parent should ever have to hear from the person raising their child:

MotherI've had recurring dreams of being a pedophile in a past life.

FatherIn a past life?

MotherYeah… a pedophile… exactly, yes.

The mother's statement, captured on audio recording, February 26, 2014, 7:31 p.m.

She did not stop there. She continued describing, in unprompted detail, how this past-life version of herself was able to access children. The father said nothing. He kept the recording.

The mother's retaliation begins

The father took the recording to a lawyer. Within hours of learning that he had done so, the mother retaliated. She emailed the father claiming she had gone into hiding with their child. She told police he had sexually abused the boy. She told them he had physically assaulted her.

Two police cars arrived at his home.

Two days later, in a separate recorded phone call, the mother admitted that neither the sexual abuse nor the physical assault had ever happened. Child Protective Services and police still ran a three-month investigation. The father played them the phone call. Both files closed in his favor.

For the record

In 2015, the father submitted the original 2014 recording to a forensic lab to authenticate that it was the mother's voice in the "pedophile in a past life" recording. Confronted with the forensically authenticated recording, the mother submitted a signed and dated (February 16, 2016) written response to the court-appointed clinical psychologist admitting to making the "pedophile in a past life" statement. The psychologist signed and dated (February 20, 2016) the mother's confession.

The mother's pattern of false accusations

Between 2014 and 2017, the mother made seven separate false allegations of sexual abuse against the father, his family, or both. Each one triggered an investigation. Each one closed in the father's favor. None of them stopped the next one from being filed.

  • Three false allegations in 2014 alone, all referred to police and Child Protective Services.
  • Two more in 2015, including one alleging abuse during professionally supervised visits.
  • Two in 2016 and into 2017, including a claim that the father and his sisters had abused the child during Christmas and New Year's visits, with a diaper change on Christmas Day cited as the supposed evidence.

The mother did not confine her false statements to a single agency. Across the case, she fed false information about the father to six separate institutional channels at once:

  • The police, in seven separate sexual-abuse reports between 2014 and 2017, plus the 2015 alleged break-in report.
  • Child Protective Services, in five investigations, every one closed in the father's favour.
  • Social services, in parallel filings used to justify continued supervised access.
  • The city's children's hospital, in medical complaints initiated by the mother.
  • Family Court judges, in repeated motion records, affidavits, and arbitration filings spanning thirteen years of litigation.
  • The court-appointed clinical psychologist, both during the custody and access assessment and via a later regulatory complaint that was ultimately dismissed.

Every one of those files closed in the father's favour.

The father, anticipating that the cycle would continue, video recorded every minute of those Christmas and New Year's visits. More than forty hours of footage. When a detective summoned him to the station and interrogated him during a two-hour investigation, the father played the recordings. The interview ended. The detective offered him a single piece of advice: continue doing whatever he legally needed to do to protect himself.

The mother's documented mental health history

In her own court filings, the mother lied to the court, stating that her 'mental health has not been an issue since 2008.' Her own prescription record covers Ativan, Lorazepam, Hydroxyzine, Amitriptyline, Venlafaxine, and Trazodone from 2003 to 2014. On her own signed and dated intake form (February 16, 2014), she reported drinking 10 ounces of alcohol daily while taking care of the child on top of those medications.

The custody assessment

In 2016, the court-appointed clinical psychologist completed a full custody and access assessment. His conclusions were unambiguous.

50/50 custody and access. The father did not require supervised access. He posed no established or persuasive risk to the child. The child willingly went to the father, stayed comfortably with him, and they had a positive, close relationship. There were no child protection concerns regarding the father. He was a dedicated, responsible, and available parent. Court-appointed clinical psychologist, custody and access assessment, 2016

The mother rejected the report. Without court approval, she hired a second psychologist to attack the first. That second psychologist arrived at the same conclusion: 50/50 custody. She then filed a regulatory complaint against the original court-appointed psychologist, demanding he be disqualified for, among other reasons, her belief that the father had ADHD. On April 29, 2020, the psychology licensing board cleared him of any wrongdoing.

Her own lawyer, in writing, told the father's lawyer:

To be clear, the clinical psychologist's recommendations are not binding and have not been tested in court. We are not acquiescing to the clinical psychologist's recommendations at this time. Letter from the mother's lawyer, 2016

Professionals whose careers were negatively impacted by false allegations against them by the mother

The mother did not limit her false allegations to the father. As the case dragged on, her court filings and complaints reached into the careers of nearly everyone who had supported him or who had reached an inconvenient conclusion.

  • The child's pediatrician, falsely accused of stating that "COVID-19 being a hoax and that the government is overreacting." The arbitrator called the allegation "very serious given her role as a pediatrician in this community" and rejected it outright.
  • A police detective, falsely accused of being hired by the father to spy on her. The court dismissed it.
  • The court-appointed clinical psychologist, subjected to a full regulatory complaint. Cleared.
  • The father's twin sister, a substitute teacher, falsely accused of sexually abusing the child in December 2016. Seven years later, she has not been able to return to her teaching job.
  • The professional supervision agency, falsely accused of participating in the abuse during supervised visits. The agency responded with a six-page rebuttal and nine hundred pages of visit notes.
  • The supervision agency ultimately closed down, in part as a result of the mother's false accusations.
  • Her own lawyer, openly criticized by the Judge for failing to restrain the false accusations against the father.

The father and the mother had once worked at the same organization. After her false allegations reached the workplace, the father was fired. His consulting business was forced to close down. Most of his savings went with it.

The illegal school transfer

On January 15, 2016, with the child about to start elementary school, the mother forged and signed a School Transfer Form without the father's knowledge or consent. She represented to school staff that she held sole decision-making authority. This was a lie.

Eight months later, days before the school year began, the mother's lawyer informed the father's lawyer that their child had already been moved to a school in the mother's neighborhood, outside the father's school district. The father filed an emergency motion. The judge declined to treat it as urgent and scheduled the case for December. By December, the court reasoned, it would likely be in the child's best interest to remain in the new school.

The mother's misconduct was rewarded.

Reaching 50/50 custody

In November 2017, after almost four years of supervised access and constant police and Child Protective Services investigations, the father and mother attended a settlement conference. The judge, on the record, said the mother's repeated false allegations "are tantamount to child abuse." She turned to the mother's lawyer.

Judge: Why did you let her make so many false accusations? Why didn't you stop her?

Mother's lawyer: I tried to stop her.

Judge: You didn't try hard enough.

Settlement conference, November 22, 2017

The mother offered a series of staged concessions: 50/50 in seven years, then four, then two, each conditioned on her retaining sole decision-making over health, education, religion, and activities. The father refused all of them. When the judge warned the mother of the financial and legal consequences of going to trial, she finally agreed to implement the psychologist's recommendation immediately and without conditions.

Four years after the first false allegation, the father had 50/50 custody and access to his child.

Verified abuse by the mother

The mother kept fighting in court. In 2020, citing the pandemic, she demanded that the child live with her one hundred percent of the time for the duration of COVID-19, on conditions including that the father prove he had not left his house or had any visitors in the previous 60 days. She also claimed the child's pediatrician had stated that "COVID-19 being a hoax and that the government is overreacting." The arbitrator declined the custody demand, called the pediatrician allegation "very serious given her role as a pediatrician in this community," and found the mother's claim not credible.

The series of events suggests that the mother may be engaging in "doctor shopping," potentially to find a medical professional who would support her preference for their child to remain solely in her care for the entirety of the pandemic. Arbitrator's final report, March 31, 2020

In 2021, the mother launched another action seeking full custody. The child, now old enough to be heard, was interviewed by a Voice of the Child assessor. He disclosed that his mother had been physically abusing him for years. The assessor reported it. Child Protective Services investigated. CPS verified the abuse. The finding is documented as part of the 480 pages of CPS reports on file.

The double standard

CPS told the father that bruises on the child had lasted two to three days and that the bruising did not warrant police involvement. A man who had left bruises on his child for two to three days would, by the father's reading of the same agency's track record, have lost access entirely. The mother, once again, faced no consequences.

2022 to 2025

In December 2024, her last live-in partner, a military veteran, was acquitted of all charges in a three-year criminal trial built on her false allegations against him. He had endured the same pattern that destroyed the father's finances and reputation. The acquittal arrived too late to undo the damage.

I did what any vigilant mother would do. My allegations should not be used against me in court. The mother, in a January 2017 court filing, after seven false allegations had each been closed in the father's favour

The cost

The father estimates his out-of-pocket cost of defending himself, across thirteen years, at approximately $473,500. Three separate liens were placed on his home. In 2018, his house came within two weeks of being auctioned. The IRS placed legal demands on both his business and personal accounts, demands that were still in force in early 2025. His business collapsed. His consulting contracts were lost. His reputation, in the professional circles he had built over twenty years, was destroyed.

What he kept was his child.

For your repeated false accusations of child sexual abuse, you deserve the same prison sentence the father would have faced if he had been wrongly convicted. The father, in a written statement

This site exists for a single reason: to make the documented record permanent. Court orders, CPS reports, signed confessions by the mother, audio recordings, and police files all tell one story. It is the story above.

2014 · 2025

The Timeline

Thirteen years of false allegations, investigations, court orders, and the eventual verified finding of abuse, laid out year by year. Each card opens by default. Click any card to collapse it.

2014
February 26 · The recorded confession Origin of Mother's False Allegations

At 7:31 p.m., the father is recording a short audio clip of his child to send to family. The mother enters. The recording captures the entire exchange:

Mother: "I've had recurring dreams of being a pedophile in a past life."
Father: "In a past life?"
Mother: "Yeah… a pedophile… exactly, yes."

She continues describing how, in that past life, she was able to access children.

February 16 · Mother's signed medical intake form Evidence of Mother's Guilt

On a signed and dated medical intake form, the mother reports drinking 10 ounces of alcohol daily while taking care of the child on top of a long-running prescription record covering Ativan, Lorazepam, Hydroxyzine, Amitriptyline, Venlafaxine, and Trazodone from 2003 to 2014. In a separate filing, the mother lies to the court stating that her 'mental health has not been an issue since 2008.'

First false allegation, retaliation begins False allegation by the mother

Hours after learning the father has contacted a lawyer, the mother emails him claiming she has gone into hiding with their child. She tells police he has sexually abused the boy and physically assaulted her. Two police cars arrive at the father's home.

Two days later, in a recorded phone call, the mother admits both of her allegations against the father are false. CPS and police nonetheless conduct a three-month investigation against the father! Both close in the father's favor.

False allegations two and three, more Child Protective Services files False allegation by the mother

The mother reports two further false allegations of sexual abuse to CPS, including one falsely alleging the father abused their child during a supervised visit at a professional supervised access center. CPS interviews the father and the supervisor. Both deny the false allegation. Both files close in the father's favor. The investigations themselves are used by the mother and her lawyer to justify continued supervised access of just 3 hours per week.

The mother quits Mediation, court application filed by the father Legal

The father proposes mediation and the mother agrees, then walks away from the process two months in. The father files a court application requesting 50/50 custody and access. A temporary order issues, leaving the child primarily with the mother and ordering a gradual increase in the father's supervised time, contingent on participation in a custody assessment.

The mother begins arguing that the father has ADHD and is therefore unfit to parent, a claim she will repeat across multiple court and arbitration hearings in the years that follow.

2015
Fourth and fifth false allegations False allegation by the mother

The mother reports a fourth false allegation, again falsely claiming sexual abuse during supervised visits, and a fifth falsely alleging physical abuse. CPS interviews the father and the supervisors at the supervised access center. Both files close in the father's favor. Even after the investigations are closed in the father's favour, the mother and her lawyer continue to cite the investigations as a reason to limit the father's supervised access to 3 hours per week.

False break-in claim, more police files False allegation by the mother

On their child's birthday, the father drops off balloons and a card at the mother's residence with two witnesses video recording. The mother falsely reports to police that he broke in, broke into her safe, and installed surveillance devices. The father provides the video showing that all he did was drop off balloons and a birthday card. The case closes in his favor. Two additional police investigations triggered by further false allegations also close in his favor. Once again, even after the investigations are closed in the father's favour, the mother and her lawyer continue to cite the above investigations as a reason to limit the father's supervised access to 3 hours per week.

"Pedophile in a past life" recording sent to forensic lab for authentication of mother's voice Evidence of Mother's Guilt

On December 17, 2015 at 2:06 p.m., the father submits the original 2014 audio recording to a forensic lab to authenticate that it is the mother's voice in the "pedophile in a past life" recording ahead of the custody assessment.

November 2015 · Mother's false ADHD claim filed with the court False allegation by the mother

In court filings dated November 2015 and December 2, 2015, the mother falsely claims the father has ADHD and uses this to argue he is unfit to parent. She repeats the same claim in her March 2020 filings. The court and the psychology licensing board ultimately reject the claim in full.

2016
January 15 · Illegal school transfer Illegal Misconduct by the Mother

Without the father's knowledge or consent, the mother forges and signs a School Transfer Form (January 15, 2016). She falsely states that she has sole custody of their child. She even writes on the form that the school is not to contact the father in case of an emergency, and that only she and her mother are to be contacted. Eight months later, days before the start of the school year, only then does the mother's lawyer inform the father's lawyer that the child has been moved to a school in the mother's neighborhood.

The father files an emergency motion. The judge declines to treat it as urgent and schedules a hearing for December, four months after the start of school. He then reasons that given that the child would have been in the school for four months by the time of the next hearing, at that point it would likely be in the child's best interest to remain in the new school.

February 16 · Mother's signed confession Mother's Confession

Confronted with the forensically authenticated 2014 recording, the mother submits a signed and dated (February 16, 2016) written response to the court-appointed clinical psychologist admitting to making the "pedophile in a past life" statement. The psychologist signs and dates (February 20, 2016) the mother's confession.

Sixth false allegation False allegation by the mother

A sixth false allegation of sexual abuse during supervised visits is reported to CPS. The father and the supervisor are interviewed. Both deny the false allegation. The case closes in the father's favor.

Custody assessment recommends 50/50 Custody and Access Assessment

The court-appointed clinical psychologist completes the custody and access assessment. He recommends 50/50 custody and access, finds the father presents no established risk to the child, and notes a close and positive father-child relationship.

The mother rejects the recommendation. Without court approval she hires a second psychologist, Dr. Leonif, who produces a four-page critique attacking the recommendations of the court-appointed psychologist. When even Dr. Leonif's review does not give her what she wants, the mother proposes hiring yet a third psychologist, Dr. Harris, to implement a modified version of the original custody and access schedule. The father refuses. The mother then files a regulatory complaint against the original court-appointed clinical psychologist. The psychology licensing board later clears the court-appointed clinical psychologist of any wrongdoing.

Ironically, on October 4, 2016, the second unauthorized psychologist also recommends 50/50 custody and access.

May 10 · Court-appointed Supervisors push back Supervisors fight false allegations by the mother.

After the mother falsely accuses the professional supervision agency of allowing abuse to occur during supervised visits, the agency issues a six-page rebuttal and attaches nine hundred pages of detailed supervisor notes covering every recorded visit. The supervisor's records contradict the mother's false allegations.

December 10 · The seventh false allegation begins, targeting the father's twin sister False allegation by the mother

Following the Christmas visit, the mother begins making her seventh false allegation, naming the father's twin sister, a substitute teacher, as having sexually abused the child. The accusation expands in early January 2017 to include the father and his sisters together and is formally reported to police (see below). Seven years later, the father's twin sister has not been able to return to her teaching job.

2017
Seventh false allegation, forty hours of video clears the father False allegation by the mother

Two days after the New Year's Eve visit, the father is contacted by police. The mother's seventh false allegation claims the father and his sisters sexually abused their child during Christmas and New Year's visits, citing a diaper change on Christmas Day as the supposed evidence and triggering a CPS file that targets the father and his sister together.

Anticipating this possibility, the family had video recorded every minute of both days, more than forty hours of footage. In mid-January 2017, a detective conducts a two-hour interrogation. The father plays the recordings. The interview ends. The detective tells him to continue doing whatever he legally needs to do to protect himself.

January 10 · The child's police interview Father Cleared

Between 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., two detectives interview the child. The child denies having told his mother that the father touched him inappropriately, states no one is hurting him or making him uncomfortable, and confirms there is no inappropriate touching.

January 2017 · Mother defends her false allegations in court Court filing

In a court filing, the mother claims she "did what any vigilant mother would do" and insists that her false allegations "should not be used against [her] in court." She effectively concedes that the allegations were untrue while arguing they should carry no consequence for her.

November 22 · Judge rebukes mother and her lawyer Angry Judge

At a settlement conference, the judge, on the record, says the mother's repeated false allegations "are tantamount to child abuse." She turns to the mother's lawyer and asks why so many false accusations were permitted. The lawyer answers that she tried to stop them. The judge replies that she did not try hard enough.

The judge describes the clinical psychologist's reports as glowing for the father and not so great for the mother's interactions with the child, and strongly encourages the mother to follow the 50/50 custody and access recommendation.

Father granted 50/50 custody and access Milestone

Under judicial pressure and warned about the cost of trial, the mother agrees to implement the clinical psychologist's recommendation of 50/50 custody and access without conditions. Four years after the first false allegation, the father has 50/50 custody and access to his child.

2018
Father's Day denied for the fourth time Court order breach

Despite a court order requiring Father's Day to be spent with the father, the mother denies access for the fourth consecutive year. Parental alienation tactics continue alongside the new shared-parenting arrangement.

Father's home was less than 2 weeks away from being auctioned off Father's Financial Ruin

Three liens on the father's home, accumulated through the cost of defending against the initial custody and access action, leave the property within two weeks of a forced auction. The father manages to stop the sale at the last possible moment. The IRS places legal demands on both his business and personal accounts.

2020
Covid-19 Pandemic used by mother to demand full custody Arbitration

The mother launches new proceedings, withholds the child from the father for thirty consecutive days at the start of the pandemic, and demands one hundred percent custody for the duration of COVID-19. Her conditions include requiring the father to demonstrate he has not left his house or had any visitors in the previous 60 days, and to allow police enforcement of any deviation from the access schedule.

She also claims the child's pediatrician stated that "COVID-19 being a hoax and that the government is overreacting." In the 2020 arbitration award (March 31, 2020), the arbitrator writes that "the allegation that the child's doctor made a comment about the Coronavirus being a 'hoax' is very serious given her role as a pediatrician in this community." The arbitrator finds the mother's claim not credible and writes: "The series of events suggests that the mother may be engaging in 'doctor shopping,' potentially to find a medical professional who would support her preference for their child to remain solely in her care for the entirety of the pandemic." The arbitrator orders the existing 50/50 arrangement to continue.

April 29 · Court-appointed Clinical Psychologist cleared Psychologist Cleared of Mother's False Complaint

The psychology licensing board clears the court-appointed clinical psychologist of any wrongdoing in the regulatory complaint filed by the mother. Her central argument, that the father's claimed ADHD should have disqualified him from 50/50 custody, is rejected.

June 21 · Mother eavesdrops on father-child phone calls Court order breach

In an OurFamilyWizard email dated June 21, 2020, the mother references having overheard the father's side of a private call with the child, confirming she was listening in. The March 31, 2020 arbitration award expressly requires communications between the child and either parent to be private.

When the father raised the broader pattern, the mother's only defence was that on "two or three occasions" the child "came into my vicinity while he was talking to you, which I cannot control", an implicit concession that she was within earshot during the calls.

2021
January 6 · Mother slams the child to the ground Mother Physically Abuses the Child

The mother becomes angry with the child and slams him to the ground, injuring his neck and back. That evening she emails the father claiming the child has "head and neck pain" and that she will be taking him to a chiropractor the next day, concealing the cause.

The following week, during the father's access time, the child tells the father directly that his mother grabbed him, slammed him to the ground, hurt him, and that he cried for ten minutes afterward. Audio recording of the child's disclosure is on file.

January 20 · Mother leaves the child alone in a running car at night Mother Endangers the Child

The mother leaves the child alone inside the car with the keys in the ignition, and walks into a restaurant to get food. The child is alone in a dark, running car, scared enough to call his father from it. Audio recording is on file.

Voice of the Child assessment Custody and Access Assessment

The mother launches further proceedings seeking full custody. With the child now old enough to be heard, both parents agree to a Voice of the Child assessment. During the interviews, the child discloses that his mother has been physically abusing him for years. The assessor reports the disclosure to CPS.

Child Protective Services verifies abuse by the mother CPS Verifies abuse by the mother

CPS opens an investigation and verifies that the mother has been physically abusing the child. The child reports the bruising lasted two to three days. CPS advises that this does not meet the threshold to involve police. No meaningful consequence follows for the mother.

Mother's false accusation against her veteran live-in partner False allegation by the mother

The mother falsely accuses her last live-in partner, a military veteran, of assault, triggering a three-year criminal trial. The pattern that consumed the father's first four years now consumes another man's life.

2024
December · The mother's last Live-in partner acquitted Veteran Acquitted at trial After Mother's False Allegations

After a three-year criminal trial, the mother's last live-in partner, a military veteran, is acquitted of all charges. The pattern of false allegations is now documented across two separate men, multiple investigations, and one verified finding of abuse against the mother herself.

2025
The record stands Status

The father continues to share 50/50 custody of his child. IRS demands on both his business and personal accounts remain in force into winter 2025. The total documented cost of defending the case stands at approximately $473,500. The mother faces no consequences for the verified finding of abuse or for the documented pattern of false allegations.

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