I Stand With Sophie

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[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sorry, even if a parent or other adult thinks and claims that putting this sort of footage on the internet is for the child's protection and "own good," it's actually not - this is a form of child abuse and exploitation.

Children cannot consent to having the intimate details of their private lives, traumas and family dramas played out in front of the world.

Parents have been having acrimonious break-ups and long, drawn-out legal and personal battles over custody, visitation and matters like their children's medical care, education, religious upbringing and so on for eons. One of the first rules of dealing with these situations is to leave the children out of the fighting between adults as much as possible; don't play kids against either of their parents; and respect children's privacy!

[–]FlippyKing 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If we take the child's statements at face value, what non-violent options does the father have to protect the child from abuse? Sorry, but you have to put your self in that person's shoes before you can speculate about what they should or shouldn't do. At the very least no one seeing the video can say "wow, I had no way of even suspecting this was going on." The system in the case is obviously failing the child. What system? Probably many. Why is this down to which of these parents is custodian and why is this down to having to believe one side or the other? The system or systems in play here are not well reasoned and rely on authority and power not to solve the problem but to exert its own force upon the situation, and to try to wipe the internet of the child literally crying for help only helps those who abuse power.

How is the child expressing vulnerability bad? Should she get her act together and speak calmly? Should children be seen but not heard? You are blaming the victim, and even if nothing bad at all is happening to this child by the mother and her boyfriend and if it is the father pushing her to make up stories, regardless of what is exactly at play here, the child is obviously the victim. None of this is the child's fault. She has nothing to be ashamed of or feel guilty about. What ever the truth of the matter is, she can at least speak the truth about it and be proud of that and grow into the best person she can be. Silencing her will create more damage than letting her state how she feels. The judge is in fact silencing her, but not addressing her expressed fears and not addressing the alleged abuse. The difference between documenting her fears and not documenting it comes down to this: is no one on her side, or are some people in her side? Is this a case of an abuse of power, or is it a case of a system out of control with no accountability and no ability even to speak out and expose it? Is the kid and her father truly at the mercy, or lack there of, of the system or can people still us the public forum to shine light on abusive power? You are more concerned of the child's privacy as if the father is invading her privacy, than what she is alleging. What a mile in that kid's shoes and the father's shoes. If you still will insist on going along to get along with the judge's wishes then you might be the villain, playing the role of Eichmann, here.