Parental alienators in sheep's clothing

Conceptual challenge for the day: Those who would argue against parental alienation on the basis that it is used by abusive parents to gain control of children in divorce proceedings are actually themselves of that abusive type. They are like double agents. Which side are they actually on? If they can convince the world that parental alienation does not exist, they can practice it as much as they like. They are like the child sexual abusers who claim that because they can groom the children into what they say is willing participation, then the children are making some sort of informed choice and they should be allowed to do what they do. Charming, eh?

Single parent custody: Seven years in the hole.

Today I am appalled by a particularly extreme case from Linz, Austria.  A lawyer mother, given full custody of her three daughters keeps her, get this, judge ex husband away from them for seven years.  What he doesn't know, although getting to court for access no less than nine times, is that she has locked the girls up in a dark room and left them to stew in their own filth, for seven years.  Finally, a neighbor has to threaten the local council with a lawsuit to get someone inside to see what's going on. 

The girls were 7, 11 and 13 when it started.  Now they're 14, 18 and 21.  It's too late for at least the oldest daughter - it sounds like she's permanently catatonic. All three are scarred for life.  They speak their own language, for pity's sake.

Funny thing, the case has only just come to light, but the three children were finally discovered over a year ago.  It seems reasonable to suppose that the authorities who allowed such an appalling mess have probably been conspiring to hide their embarrassment.  I've found it reported in several locations, but media interest seems pretty thin. 

What is wrong with us?  Why do we have this horrible attitude to children of divorce?  A JUDGE has to go to court NINE TIMES over SEVEN YEARS to get access to his own THREE CHILDREN who are suffering ONGOING ABUSE of the most horrendous kind and FAILS?  No-one, not even the neighbors, has seen them for YEARS.  Could there be any more condemning example of complete and total institutional incompetence?  Could there be any clearer an example of what can happen with the blind, pathological application of single-custody parenting, allowing one parent totalitarian control and granting the other nothing?  Is this "in the best interest of the children"?  Where is the outrage?  Who gives a good God-damn?

I am sickened.