Judge: Father Must Allow Boy to Stay Overnight With Mother in Prison

	posted by Nightmist on Wednesday August 22, @03:52PM from the divorce/child-custody dept.
	cheddah writes "Risking contempt-of-court charges that could land him in jail, a father is refusing to let his 6-year-old son spend the night in prison with the boy's mother, a convicted killer." Unfortunately, the father agreed to visitation terms upon their divorce which allow the mother to have the children from Friday through Saturday. It is notable, however, that the mother is not asking the prison to change its rules to comply with the divorce decree for her 11-year-old son as well. Children do not belong in adult prisons. The story is here.

	Source: The Boston Globe [newspaper] Title: Boy, 6, is ordered to stay overnight with mother, a killer Author: Kevin O'Hanlon Date: August 21, 2001

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More of the same (Score:1) by DanCurry on Wednesday August 22, @04:44PM EST (#1) (User #245 Info) This is just more evidence of the bias' of the family courts. I think you'd be hard pressed to find many judges ordering a mother to allow weekly visits to a father convicted of murdering his spouses boyfriend. Dan Curry DanCurry.Com

Why not? (Score:1) by phil on Thursday August 23, @03:12PM EST (#2) (User #234 Info) I don't really see why this boy shouldn't be allowed to see his mother, if he wants to. How would we feel about this if the father was in prison instead? Even though this mother is a killer, she is a human being, and I don't think we should deny even criminals their basic human dignity. Not even *female* criminals. Otherwise, we'd be no better than the radical feminists (or the radical "whatevers", for that matter). If the father really gets in trouble for this, this will make a good precedent case for the enforcement of visitation rights!

Re:Why not? (Score:1) by phil on Thursday August 23, @03:16PM EST (#3) (User #234 Info) Well, okay, I admit it, I didn't read the actual story before I wrote the above. So consider it never written, okay?

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