"This book is about the organized crime of Family Courts in the United States," writes Snow in the preface to this book. Keith Harmon Snow is an award- winning journalist, photographer and writer who has worked in 45 countries. He worked as a journalist accredited with the United Nations Observer Mission in Congo (MONUC), as a human rights investigator for Genocide Watch, and as genocide investigator for the United Nations in Ethiopia.
In this compelling and disturbing book, Snow has launched an expose of Family Court in Connecticut, although his research and findings are echoed in courts across America. The victims in his study, like the victims of guardianship court, are vulnerable and cannot protect themselves. However, unlike the elderly victims of guardianship court, these young victims are just beginning their lives. The scars from the abuses that Family Court refuses to address, refuses to protect them from, will be carried throughout the rest of their lives. Through no fault of their own, through the unfortunate happenstance of being born the child of a predator, these children have received, as Snow so aptly states, a life sentence.
Snow writes:
His investigation reveals a seamy web of professionals—lawyers, judges, guardian ad litems, psychiatrists and supervised visitation companies—whose back room connections well serve their own financial interests at the expense of an abused child's welfare. As Snow repeatedly demonstrates in multiple case histories, the protective parent's resources are drained by these professionals, as she seeks to do whatever is financially necessary to protect her child.The problem with Family Courts is that financial interests outweigh the judicial issues, and the entire legal system has been geared to support the financial plunder of clients. This is most evident by examination of the behavior of lawyers who take cases for both perpetrators of abuse and protective parents (not only, but usually, the mothers).
Comment: On top of trafficking and exploiting abused children and families for profit, it sounds like a pedophile ring in Connecticut is being exposed. Unfortunately for these mothers and children, the psychopathic legal system cannot help them. There is a large slimy web of pedophiles in powerful places who protect each other, hidden from the public's view. It's much worse than you can imagine. See: