Turning a Blind Eye to the Horrific Human Rights Abuses in Family Courts

Bandy X. Lee
5 min readJan 14, 2024

I Have No Knowledge of the Person who Copied Me in this Letter, but I Vouch that All is True — Even Worse in the U.S.

Dear BBC journalist Dan Johnson and BBC Director General,

Having seen your segment on migrants complaining about unstable Wifi connection, etc., and you being super worried about it, may I ask why you and the BBC and all the other media have been ignoring the stomach-churning human rights abuses and corruption in secret family courts that have resulted in thousands committing suicide over several decades with their families, apparently, gagged?

Hundreds of thousands of us have been deprived of all rights — our children taken away from us due to corruption and fabricated “expert” reports, xenophobia, racism, our babies ripped away from us abused and battered mothers and given to abusers who likely paid bribe, some children have been taken into care and adopted based on totally fabricated or exaggerated reports. Many abused mothers, especially foreign ones, have been forced to sign off their entire divorce settlements and thrown out on the dole, childless and penniless, almost certainly as the lawyers who forced them into forgoing the money they are entitled to took huge chucks of that money as bribe depriving the victims, including children, of the basics and deliberately pushing them into abject poverty and some into suicides.

Some judges even fabricate facts in judgements to stage cases for monied abusers to win, again due to rumored bribe, CAFCASS [CPS in the U.S.] officers lie in reports and form very close relationships with manipulative abusers whose battered wives and children they then destroy and laugh at them.

Perjury by abusers, wife batterers, the most negligent fathers and by corrupt court staff is encouraged by judges and ignored, in some cases 50–150+ pieces of it per case! Yes, it is that bad and criminal!

Marital promiscuity is treated as a virtue and regularly rewarded, while the reaction of its victims to it is regularly punished to extremes, likely as the judges back up their own immorality and treatment of their own spouses and children.

Rights to religion or basic moral engagement in family life and monetary marital expectations are totally withdrawn, non-existent, as those who are capable of lying under oath to remove young children from their devoted parents or take bribe for that evil are the worst of atheists imaginable — truly sick people who believe they are God and must be worshipped.

It’s a never-ending revolving door of corruption, perjury en masse, sadistic retraumatisation of victims of domestic abuse, rewarding of the most extreme forms of immorality and spousal humiliation, rewarding of children being at the bottom of the pile for the pet parents, deliberate sadistic creation of extreme poverty the already-abused victims of DV are pushed into, the misuse of public funds so that abusers maintain their opulent lifestyles while their abused spouses and children go on the dole, breaches of all national and international laws and those of basic humanity.

All complaints procedures are fake and in reality do not exist. No matter what documentary evidence for criminality you provide, and in some cases it is 50+ documents, like in mine, all complaints procedures scrape excuses not to punish the criminals but support them — those for judges, CAFCASS officers, barristers, solicitors…. Even High court judges and President seem to fully back up the most horrific forms of abuses of power in those courts and almost never rectify anything, even if the children’s lives are clearly being shattered.

Many victims report intimidating and threatening behaviour by the most senior judges if they fight to expose child abuse and criminality in courts. They tell them that their other children will be taken into care or all contact with their children already given to abusers will be completely banned. Closing ranks and silencing the victims is always top priority as they know what has been going on and the scale of it.

The positions of Attorney general, Justice minister, Children’s minister, Mental health minister, etc., are also all decorative, and they have been abetting these human rights abuses for many decades, and even some have sacked top whistleblowers for “not working as a team.” So, one has to collectively abuse people and ignore what their corrupt and sadistic colleagues are doing while destructing all their conscience?

123 MP’s (Members of Parliament), over 80 lawyers, and scores of charities, academics and a few brave journalists have demanded an independent investigation of those torture chambers, just to be blocked, as always. It happens in other Western countries, as a globally-organized crime, with millions of protestors and campaigners, some of whom are judges themselves and who demand justice and the right to speak out.

Oceans of lives have been destroyed as a result of these anarchic and unaccountable institutions, and even the families of those who have committed suicide, apparently thousands in UK alone, can never get their voice as the media side with the abusers in power.

Even the police do not act to the files brimming in criminality, even when lower-court judges send the files to them. They seem to be scared and say that senior judges are too powerful and clearly allowed the criminality to occur and they are more powerful than the police. In the country that purports it is the paragon of human rights.

Like all your media colleagues and the BBC DG (Director General), you know all this already. It is an open secret, and you all cowardly turn a blind eye, so it makes your migrant laments hypocritical and unfair on us, too.

Some family court victims have recently made fresh complaints against lack of complaints procedures and even against their police forces, who never reacted to the criminality and likely bribe in their cases where babies were removed from their mothers on totally fictitious judgements, where their own legal teams stole their divorce settlements and pensions by deliberately siding with the abusers’ side likely due to being bribed, in some cases tens, in others hundreds of thousands of pounds have been stolen, yet the police said they could not act as obviously judges allowed that to happen because they wanted it to happen. Well, we can guess the reason!

So, why your DG allows for the plight of migrants, who I have nothing against and wish them great futures, about Wifi connection to be reported upon and the government shamed while us hundreds of thousands of victims of serious crimes by the very people meant to deliver justice and implement human rights are always ignored, hence silenced? You are the watchdogs of human rights, yet abet the most extreme breaches of them to please those who should not come near any power over people, especially children.

Stop being self-serving hypocrites and do the long-overdue right thing.

Regards,

S.K.T.

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Bandy X. Lee

Forensic psychiatrist, violence expert, president of the World Mental Health Coalition (worldmhc.org), and New York Times bestselling author.