"parental alienation" scam

Does anyone have experience with/knowlege of the "parental alienation" scam that's used in family court to get custody of children? I fell for for it hook, line and sinker and learned about the scam after the damage had already been done. Does anyone know of an individual and/or office who would investigate what happened in my daughter's case?

The "parental alienation" scam I fell for:

  1. My daughter's father was abusive toward me, threatened my life and members of my family.
  2. I left him to protect myself, our daughter and my family
  3. I asked the "family relations" clerks from the family court to protect my daughter and me
  4. The clerk wrote an "evaluation" stating that since I didn't file a restraining order against him, she didn't believe that he threatened me. (I had no idea what a restraining order was at that time.)
  5. He first got supervised visits when our daughter was 4 1/2
  6. His attorney went to court asking for overnight weekend visits because he behaved so well in front of the supervisor
  7. Overnight weekend visits "granted" by court
  8. Our daughter was traumatized by the visits
  9. I took her to a counseling office so a third person could witness what she was saying about him
  10. My daughter's father threatened to sue the counseling office if they continued to see her so they stopped seeing her
  11. My daughter continued to be traumatized by the "visits" so I took her to another counseling office so a third person could witness what she was telling me
  12. He threatened to sue that office too so they stopped seeing her
  13. He wrote bizzare "motions" to the court accusing me of molesting her, saying I was physically abusing her etc.
  14. I asked her attorney to protect her - no response from attorney
  15. My daughter disclosed to me that her father was molesting her
  16. I called the 2nd counseling office. They told me to call DCF.
  17. I called DCF
  18. DCF told me to call the police and make a report and to call my daughter's pediatrician
  19. I called the police and they told me they were going to take her to the hospital for an evaluaiton instead of her pediatrician.
  20. The doctor at the hospital said her father molested her.
  21. The police arrested him.
  22. He received $50,000 from "a friend" to hire one of the best criminal defense attorneys in CT. My daughter's attorney testified against me and said she had no concerns about my daughter's father. I am assuming that she did that so my daughter's father would not be convicted. If my daughter's father were convicted, she would have been sanctioned. She also probably knew that I was consulting with attorneys to sue her for not protecting my daughter.
  23. Trial resulted in deadlock jury on 1 of 2 counts
  24. State wanted 2nd trial, my daughter didn't want to testify again in front of her father because he was "staring" at her
  25. State asked to videotape her testimony in separate room for 2nd trial.
  26. Judge said no because she already testified in "open court" and would have to do it again
  27. Her attorney said she didn't want to/ and wouldn't testify in front of him again
  28. State didn't re-prosecute for 2nd charge and told me that the "deadlocked" jury should be enough to protect her.
  29. An "evaluator" didn't review any of the documents from the physician or counselors and never met my daughter and wrote a report stating I "brainwashed" her.
  30. I went online to find help and found info on the Leadership Council, Justice for Children and Battered Mother's Custody Conference websites and learned about the "parental alienation scam".
  31. In court, the judge asked me if I ever thought of "running" with my daughter to protect her.
  32. I was honest and I told the judge that I have learned about the "PAS" scam and I did consider running to protect my daughter.
  33. The judge took my daughter from me and gave her father and me only supervised "visits".
  34. My daughter's father lied so many times and was finally about to get caught and told a court that he was a "victim" and "couldn't take it" anymore and told the court to terminate his parental rights.
  35. He hired another seasoned criminal defense attorney to sue me for damages for reporting what my daughter told me.
  36. I represented myself in that case because I thought the case was so clear - the first judge wrote that I "profoundly believed" what my daughter told me. I assumed that if a mother believes her child is being abused, she has the right and responsibility to report what her child says.
  37. The judge in the "malicious prosecution" case would not allow me to present evidence of my daughter's fathers behavior and many documents that would have clearly shown what happened. She wrote in her opinion - which then became the new "facts" that I didn't believe my daughter and that I somehow forced the police to arrest my daughter's father. There is no evidence anywhere to support her opinion, but because she is a judge, her opinion is now "fact". She totally ignored my daughter's father's bizzare behavior and ignored expert testimony which shows that experts in the field of abuse believed my daughter. The judge decided there was no "probable cause" for me to think that our daughter was in danger.
  38. Attorneys with experience in this field represented me for an appeal. The Supreme Court took the case from the Appellate Court and unanimously upheld the lower court's ruling.
  39. By the time the Supreme Court got the case, it was 7 years later and the original facts were distorted, misrepresented and misinterpreted.
  40. For the past 7 years, when I found errors in documents, I have asked state and private agencies involved in the case to correct the errors. They didn't correct the errors and that resulted in the distortion of the case 7 years later.
  41. I am now forced to pay 3.5 million dollars to a man who molested my daughter.
  42. The Supreme Court decision means that: If a child is abused and goes to his/her mother for protection from abuse and, If the mother believes her child and calls the authorities, If the abuser is not convicted of the crime and is the father of the child, The abuser will get custody of the child and/or the mother will be fined millions of dollars for reporting the abuse.

A victim's rights advocate told me that the "PAS" scam is a "cottage industry" in Connecticut.

If you know of individual and/or office who can help, please comment. Thank you.