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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 childs 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 victims 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 victims address to Mirasolo and ordered Mirasolos name to be added to the childs birth certificate all without the victims 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 Countys 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.......
WhiteTara
(29,715 posts)can have an abortion!
DK504
(3,847 posts)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.
That judge is a disgrace!!
MontanaMama
(23,314 posts)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)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.
VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)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.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)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.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)In an action for child custody I dont think you have to mention the age of the mother.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)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)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..."
obamanut2012
(26,076 posts)Snd teh judge eagerly okayed it.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)This criminal is profiting ........... claiming a child from rape
He is breaking the law again
spanone
(135,832 posts)LonePirate
(13,423 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,942 posts)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)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/
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)This is insane.
Lyricalinklines
(367 posts)...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)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 victims 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)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 prosecutors office when a party makes application for state assistance.
I dont 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 didnt 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. Its mean and uncaring.
Initech
(100,075 posts)Knowing the horrors that they have wrought on this world. Is this really what Jesus would want? Fuck these fuckers.
obamanut2012
(26,076 posts)Seven months in JAIL, not even state prison.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)putin's AMERIKKKA