Disgusting Magistrate Tom Altobelli’s letter to the boy…

Disgusting.

Magistrate Tom Altobelli’s letter to the boy, 11, and girl, 6, was nicely written. But it is no substitute for the love of a father whose contact has been reduced to letters, birthday cards and gifts. The mother had accused the father of sexually abusing their daughter. The court heard her belief was based on the predictions of a clairvoyant. Magistrate Altobelli, who heard all the evidence, concluded the father had not done it. Yet the father was still punished by losing his children.

“I decided that you had not been hurt by your dad,” Altobelli wrote in the letter, to be opened by the children when they turn 14. “Even after I told your mum what I decided, I think she still believed in her heart that your dad had hurt you.”

The mother had poisoned the children against their father and accused him of the worst crime possible. Yet she was rewarded with sole custody because the magistrate said she would be a better parent.