A mother left her two-year old son in a dark washing machine in order to get away from “his screaming,” a Queensland court has heard.
The mother in question has committed “cruel, physical” violence upon the children of her ex-husband leading to a Federal Circuit Court fight in Cairns.
Despite being reported as an “extremely intelligent woman,” fluent in several languages, the mother allegedly committed horrific acts of abuse upon her husband’s teen children. The court heard of one particular instance involving the woman chasing his son, who has Asperger’s syndrome, around with a stick covered in toilet paper and faeces.
She also told his daughter she was “a psycho like her father,” and had a physical altercation with her.
The couple split in 2012 when the mother left their son, then three-years-old, with the father to go on an unannounced overseas business trip.
Judge Josephine Willis expressed concern over the fact that the mother had been "grooming" their youngest son what to say about his father in court, according to hundreds of recordings.
"It is overwhelmingly clear that the mother is attempting to run a major smear campaign against the father and that she has used the child in these efforts in a direct way," said Judge Willis.
After 11 days in hearing, custody of the child has been awarded to the father with only weekend and holiday access allowed to the mother, and the boy's name has been put on airport watchlists.
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I strongly suspect a cluster B personality disorder, adn recommend she has sessions with a physcjologust or psychiatrist and considerds behavorual therpay and medicaiotn.
My mother has one - undiagnosed and untreated. Suspected Borderline and possibly Paranoid also.
She is highly intelligent and can run a household and schedule beautifully. She is artistic, loves animals, is interested in politics and travel and can be fun.
But - big but - she is sadly emotionally unstable and dysfunctional, it causes her to have shockingly poor impulse control. She has very abusive, very confrontational episodes that are scary. She rages, makes threats, feels vengeful and she cannot or will not recognise her behaviour and see others' reactions to them.
She either blacks these episodes out, forgets them, downplays them or feels like they are perfectly justifiable because she was provoked - her words.
In short, her behaviour is scary, and her professional and personal relationships have failed as people won't tolerate it. Even on her mostly good days, she still has low to mid level anxiety. If you suggest she gets some help she is offended and insulted. It makes me feel sad.
What an abusive woman. I hope she will go through some sort of counselling for anger management or whatever type of counselling will help her be a better person.