Gopher,
How dear of you to respond...Thank you for that...
I have gone through the ringer of working through the
system...and it has been to no avail. I have had her removed
from her fathers house via the police with court order in hand...
I got her out that time but she was like a stranger. It killed me.
That time I got her out, but another time he hid her at another
elders house!!!!! I went there to his door with the only friend I had in town,
and the "elder" with my daughter safely inside his wretched little house, had the nerve to point
his finger at us and say: "DO YOU GO TO MEETINGS???" Then the police (whom I'd
called) arrived, and the jw's ushered the police in the house while my friend and I stood on the doorstep in the cold, looking in.
I could go on and on about the hellacious ordeals my daughter has been put through...frankly, I am probably
talking too much...my god, the more I write the angrier I get...to be able to get it out and have a dialogue
about it with people, who like me, are on "the outside" feels very good...it was/is so horrendous. And then, to hear my daughter screaming to them that she does not want to go with me!!!!!!! The police sided with the jws and eyed ME as though I was a wretched woman!!! I felt as though I was in some sort of surreal nightmare. The whole religious issue is practically incomprehensible to those (the police, in this particular case) who do not have a clue about JWs and their clannish closedness.
I have, at great length explored the whole "Parental Alienation Syndrome" and I realize
that it is not only jw's who are guilty of this crime, but for myself? I blame jws and their seamy judgemental mores.
My x-husband being one of the petted elders in the whole sick arrangement!!!!!!!
My lawyer has taken a stand with me and helped me as much as she can
but she can only go so far without $$$ from me, and that I do not have, to the degree
I would need to take the whole matter back to court.
I have noone back there who could force my daughter out of the house. I could barely do it
myself. What these "people" have done is the blackest and ugliest thing.
You are so right Gopher, when you spoke of "denying access to her being on par with kidnapping"!!!!!!!!!!!
First, she was emotionally kidnapped which paved the way for what was to follow.
It is all so sick and so hard for me to believe and I have stuffed so much emotionally over the past few years.
Thank you for saying this: "The natural love of your daughter was hijacked from you. That's what you get for taking a stand."
Hearing these words come from someone who has been on the "inside" is like fresh water thrown on my face and makes me cry.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Undine
