Australia: Women pay to get men caught DUI - and kicked out of their parental rights

This story is amazing - it appears in the Sydney Morning Herald, but relates to the US. It appears that women have been paying to have their husbands entrapped in a DUI sting - and then using that to have them disadvantaged in court when it comes to child access. Excerpt:

'A man who once worked for Butler had blown the whistle. He told authorities Butler arranged for men to be arrested for drink-driving at the behest of their ex-wives and their divorce lawyers - and that entrapment was only one of many alleged misdeeds.

Butler, 49, a former police officer, was arrested in February. In addition to setting up at least five DUIs, he sold drugs for law enforcement officers and helped them open and operate a brothel, collecting and delivering the profits, according to prosecutors and a statement Butler gave them after his arrest.

In the March 15 statement obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Butler said his accomplices reasoned that they could shield their illegal businesses because any complaints would be investigated by a state-run narcotics task force, which one of the officers headed.

The alleged crimes implicated three law enforcement agencies - the San Ramon and Danville police departments and the narcotics task force - and took place in Contra Costa County, a collection of mostly middle-class communities that stretch from the East Bay shoreline opposite San Francisco to upscale suburbs inland.
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Susan Dutcher, a substitute schoolteacher, said in a sworn declaration that she paid Butler $US2500 to obtain evidence that her husband drove while drinking. She insisted she did not authorise Butler to have him arrested because she did not want to imperil his job and his ability to pay child support.
Her lawyer's paralegal, who had recommended Butler, "made this all seem completely legal and as though it was standard practice [in divorce cases]", she said.'

Notice how she didn't want him jailed because she doesn't want to jeapordise his ability to pay her child support!

And, notice how this is seen as 'common practice' in the legal profession. Man, I bet they are hating having their dirty laundry aired in public over this one.