Stop putting children back into the hands of their abuser

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Dear LawMakers:


I am asking people to sign this petition so that no other child has to go through the system and have the judge laugh at them or get put back into the home the terror is happening at.  I am asking that, at least Dakota County, looks at their current rules and regulations and realize that just because the father doesn't have access to a lawyer or that the witnesses can not miss work to attend court doesn't mean that it isn't a serious situation and should be checked into further.

 

My brother’s son has been terrorized and emotionally abused by his mother’s boyfriend.  My nephew told our family two weeks ago how the mother’s boyfriend, who has open warrants in NE for domestic violence amongst other things, has been carrying him to the oven, opening the door and acting or actually putting my nephew in the oven.  It’s called the oven game.  My brother immediately called police and then took out an Order of Protection for his son, which was temporarily granted.  Today, at court, my brother turned in our written statements, and his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend’s lawyer cried “Hearsay”.  The judge sided with her.  Her and her boyfriend admitted to haven measured the oven and said they never put him in there because he was too big.  Her boyfriend admitted to the judge that he played this game with my nephew and the judge chuckled with him!  My nephew is five years old and has a learning disability and the schools will be watching him next year for ADHD and Autism.  The Order of Protection was lifted because my brother didn’t bring all the witness’s to his son’s statements, just one.  My dad went; my mother, sister, a cousin, my nephew’s daycare teacher, his school counselor and I were unable to make it. 

After court today, my brother called to speak to the detective, who’s name he just got on Friday finally, who was assigned to the case and my brother was told that the case was closed because the police were unable to get a hold of his ex-girlfriend.  Social services were also brought in but they never spoke to anyone in the case either.  In fact, my brother was told that because my nephew did not tell the officer that he was actually in the oven that the seriousness of the case wasn’t great enough for the child to be pulled from the home.

We are just afraid that he will be abused worse now. 

Some other sad factors regarding this situation is that my nephew's mother is a school bus driver.  She is also pregnant with her boyfriend's child and has another child from another ex-boyfriend.  The other child is a teenager so I can not see them doing something this terroristic to him but I am worried about the boyfriend and how he will treat the new baby and since all she did was yell at him to put my nephew down, how far is she going to let him get with the new baby?

My brother did call NE to let them know where the abuser is living and they haven’t done anything regarding his warrants (three of them) either.


The judge didn't even ask my nephew to tell him what happened!