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sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 04:26 PM Oct 2017

What have we come to...Michigan rapist gets joint custody of child from rape of 12 year old.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/10/06/rape-victim-attacker-joint-child-custody/106374256/

A Sanilac County Circuit judge has granted parenting time and joint legal custody of an 8-year-old boy to a convicted sex offender who allegedly raped the child’s mother nine years ago.

Christopher Mirasolo, 27, of Brown City was awarded joint legal custody by Judge Gregory S. Ross after DNA testing established paternity of the child, according to the victim’s attorney, Rebecca Kiessling, who is seeking protection under the federal Rape Survivor Child Custody Act. A hearing is scheduled for Oct. 25.

The case, initially reported on “The Steve Gruber Show,” a Lansing-based radio program, is believed the first of its kind in Michigan and possibly the nation. According to the victim and Kiessling, it was prompted after the county surveyed the victim regarding child support she had received this past year.

“This is insane,” said Kiessling, who filed objections Friday with Ross. “Nothing has been right about this since it was originally investigated. He was never properly charged and should still be sitting behind bars somewhere, but the system is victimizing my client, who was a child herself when this all happened.”

Ross disclosed the rape victim’s address to Mirasolo and ordered Mirasolo’s name to be added to the child’s birth certificate — all without the victim’s consent or a hearing, according to Kiessling.

“An assistant prosecutor on this, Eric Scott, told me she had granted her consent, which was a lie — she has never been asked to do this and certainly never signed anything,” Kiessling said.

Ross could not be reached Friday afternoon.

Scott did not return telephone calls Friday, and Sanilac County’s elected prosecutor, James V. Young, was out of the office for the day and unavailable, a receptionist said.

Kiessling said her client was notified she was “not allowed to move 100 miles from where she had been living when the case was filed, without court consent.”

“So the prosecutor told her she had to come home immediately or she would be held in contempt of court,” Kiessling said.

That instruction, along with other matters ordered by the court, will be taken up at the hearing later this month.

According to Kiessling, Mirasolo forcibly raped and threatened to kill her client, now 21, nine years ago when the woman was 12. Mirasolo was 18 when the incident occurred in September 2008.

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He raped a 12 year old girl and now gets joint custody of the child...What the actual F.......
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What have we come to...Michigan rapist gets joint custody of child from rape of 12 year old. (Original Post) sunonmars Oct 2017 OP
In Arkansas, the rapist gets to say whether the woman WhiteTara Oct 2017 #1
This is when the mother needs to kidnap the child and disappear. DK504 Oct 2017 #2
Amen!! silverweb Oct 2017 #4
YES Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #8
You read my mind. MontanaMama Oct 2017 #13
There are underground railroads for this type of thing Doreen Oct 2017 #22
Petition to Remove the Judge: VermontKevin Oct 2017 #3
There is no proof he raped her? Cicada Oct 2017 #5
Its unbelievable, isn't it....The child is the proof full stop. sunonmars Oct 2017 #7
Maybe no one told the judge about the rape Cicada Oct 2017 #11
She was twelve. The judge doesn't need to know anything more than that. Squinch Oct 2017 #16
Who says the judge knows the moms age? Cicada Oct 2017 #21
Wow! That's reaching hard for a way to excuse this guy! Squinch Oct 2017 #23
Maybe dear dad raped her and judge doesn't care. LanternWaste Oct 2017 #25
The "father" didn't do this, the DA did it obamanut2012 Oct 2017 #27
I thought there were laws stating a criminal could not profit from their crimes?? Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #6
what country is this? God help us. spanone Oct 2017 #9
Unconscionable. This Republican and religious rule thwarting individual safety and decency. LonePirate Oct 2017 #10
That young boy needs to be protected from his "father" MagickMuffin Oct 2017 #12
But there's another problem here: musette_sf Oct 2017 #14
Justice has certainly not been served. lpbk2713 Oct 2017 #15
Ran across this Miami, Florida article earlier today regrading the situation.... Lyricalinklines Oct 2017 #17
This is HEINOUS! This man is a predator. That judge should be removed from the bench! Tatiana Oct 2017 #18
This is Monsterous Michigan trying to get out of paying welfare to the mom. erinlough Oct 2017 #19
I really hope the Christian right sleeps easier at night... Initech Oct 2017 #20
They do. Iggo Oct 2017 #24
He raped and KIDNAPPED her obamanut2012 Oct 2017 #26
tRump's and ... LenaBaby61 Oct 2017 #28
Sounds like Sharia law. SharonClark Oct 2017 #29

DK504

(3,847 posts)
2. This is when the mother needs to kidnap the child and disappear.
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 04:37 PM
Oct 2017

There needs to be an underground railroad for insanity like this.

That judge needs to be removed immediately and ALL his cases reviewed for misconduct like this. Fucking disgusting.

MontanaMama

(23,314 posts)
13. You read my mind.
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 05:01 PM
Oct 2017

I'd be cashing out my 401K and disappearing with my child. I fear for this woman and her child's lives. This doesn't bode well for either of them.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
22. There are underground railroads for this type of thing
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 09:41 PM
Oct 2017

you just have to know where the hell to find them. I saw a true story movie years ago about a woman who was trying to keep her daughter away from her father because he was sexually abusing her and the judge said it is important for a child to have their father in their life no matter what. The mother did find some people to take her daughter but she never would be able to see her again and she went to prison for kidnapping. It is both a sad and liberating movie but it was based on a true story.

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
5. There is no proof he raped her?
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 04:47 PM
Oct 2017

Did I read that he was not prosecuted for rape?

DNA proves the child is his, born to a 12 year old or 13 year old girl. I guess his sperm could have been self-injected by the mother with a turkey blaster.

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
11. Maybe no one told the judge about the rape
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 04:58 PM
Oct 2017

Maybe the dad filed papers without checking the box “child was product of rape by petitioner”, sent notice of action to mom at bad address, mom failed to object, and judge ruled based on incomplete information.

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
21. Who says the judge knows the moms age?
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 09:02 PM
Oct 2017

In an action for child custody I don’t think you have to mention the age of the mother.

Squinch

(50,949 posts)
23. Wow! That's reaching hard for a way to excuse this guy!
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 03:29 PM
Oct 2017

I feel certain that in an action for child custody, each side explains why they think the other should not be granted custody. If the judge granted custody and visitation based on only a form from one side with no other information, he's still culpable.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
25. Maybe dear dad raped her and judge doesn't care.
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 04:04 PM
Oct 2017

Maybe dear dad raped her and judge doesn't care.

Since we're rationalizing our biases and narratives with little more than simplistic, unsupported "maybe's..."

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
6. I thought there were laws stating a criminal could not profit from their crimes??
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 04:48 PM
Oct 2017

This criminal is profiting ........... claiming a child from rape
He is breaking the law again

MagickMuffin

(15,942 posts)
12. That young boy needs to be protected from his "father"
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 05:00 PM
Oct 2017

He doesn't need parental guidance from someone like his "father", the boy needs to be shielded from his "father's" influence.

musette_sf

(10,201 posts)
14. But there's another problem here:
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 05:04 PM
Oct 2017

Kiessling is an evil person, and she is using this case to grandstand with the intention to catapult her anti-woman agenda - while appearing to be "anti-rape" and appearing to be an advocate for women's rights, when she is NOTHING of the kind.

Kiessling is a rabid anti-American enemy of innocent female US citizens and their sacred civil, human and Constitutional rights to 14th Amendment protections; and a rabid advocate of mandatory gestational slavery for innocent rape victims who are impregnated by the rapist.

Kiessling wants for rapists, and fertilized eggs, to have MORE rights than innocent female US citizens between menarche and menopause.

https://sashasaid.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/conceived-in-rape-tours-rebecca-kiessling-is-much-like-daddy/

Lyricalinklines

(367 posts)
17. Ran across this Miami, Florida article earlier today regrading the situation....
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 07:23 PM
Oct 2017

...I question how this all had come to this point. Seems like a bizarre string of events. Sure hope the victim has someone she trusts involved and has her best interests at heart.

Regardless, I imagine the victim may be reeling from disbelief. Jeez I hope she'll be tended well.

[link:http://amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article177818781.html|]

Tatiana

(14,167 posts)
18. This is HEINOUS! This man is a predator. That judge should be removed from the bench!
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 07:36 PM
Oct 2017
Christopher Mirasolo held the girl and her sister captive for two days, impregnating her during that time. Under a plea deal, he served only six and a half months for the rape and the victim and her family were told they don’t like to send first-time sex offenders to prison because “people come out worse after they go there.” He later raped another child and spent four years in prison for that.

Because his first rape victim was getting public assistance (food stamps, etc.), the local prosecutor compelled Mirasolo to take a paternity test so they could force him to start paying child support. Once paternity was confirmed, Judge Ross took it upon himself to award joint custody without the rape victim’s consent. Presumably this was so they could extract support from him and relieve the government from that financial burden.


http://www.eclectablog.com/2017/10/judge-who-awarded-michigan-rapist-joint-custody-with-the-woman-he-raped-as-a-child-had-other-options.html

There is also a petition to get the judge removed:

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/860/171/905/remove-judge-gregory-s-ross-from-the-bench/

erinlough

(2,176 posts)
19. This is Monsterous Michigan trying to get out of paying welfare to the mom.
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 07:36 PM
Oct 2017

“Chris was notified of the paternity matter and an order of filiation was issued last month by the court saying he had joint legal custody and reasonable visitation privileges,” she said. “He never initiated this. It was something routinely done by the prosecutor’s office when a party makes application for state assistance.

“I don’t know what his plans or intentions might be regarding any future relationship with the child,” Yockey said. “This might be something we will have a conversation about, but he has not been served with any other court papers and is not scheduled to be in court.”

He didn’t ask for custody, the state gave him the custody when his rape victim applied for help. Michigan has become the poster child for the America Trump supporters want. It’s mean and uncaring.

Initech

(100,075 posts)
20. I really hope the Christian right sleeps easier at night...
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 07:43 PM
Oct 2017

Knowing the horrors that they have wrought on this world. Is this really what Jesus would want? Fuck these fuckers.

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