The Battle of a Mother: A National Emblem of Judicial Controversy

Little Elisa (a pseudonym) is a beautiful eight-year-old girl, cheerful, balanced, happy, who unfortunately risks being forcibly taken from her mother these days to be placed in a foster home. It is one of the many striking and horrible cases - perhaps the most emblematic of all at the national level - on which attention has been focused both by the parliamentary commission on femicide and by public opinion for some time. Senator Valeria Valente (already president of the Commission) just yesterday requested the documents from the court to verify how it is possible that such a hellish mechanism can continue in total contempt of the Cassation's sentences. And so, in the meantime, Minister Carlo Nordio has also been involved. Everything originally stemmed from an expert report by the Venice court that identified Ms. Frida as an alienating mother, according to the parameters of that false pseudoscientific theory rejected both scientifically and legally, and for this openly condemned by Europe. Even the Court of Cassation has defined the PAS-parental alienation syndrome a theory without scientific basis, establishing that judges' decisions cannot be based on it. It's a pity that this young woman, a well-established and highly esteemed teacher, with the only daughter she had to raise alone because the biological father initially demanded that the girl should be aborted. Only later, in total conflict with his ex-partner, the man - a university lecturer - carried on the recognition of the little girl in a dramatically escalating situation. The rather complicated and heavy case for the little girl and her mother ended up at the center of the commission on femicide in the previous legislature. "I stand by mom Frida who is leading a battle that unites many Italian women. We are faced with the case of a mother who has literally had her daughter taken away following some acts of the Venice Court," reiterated Senator Valente to Dire. Valente explains that it is institutional violence, something that has condemned Frida to be the target of secondary victimization. The last act of this story that has been dragging on for at least seven years is the executive order issued a few days ago by the court without any investigation being carried out. The allegations of violence are defined as “the myth of violence” and the girl was not listened to because otherwise, she would have been conditioned, consequently arranging her custody with the services with daytime extra-familial placement. "We are faced with yet another violence against a woman who alone carried forward a pregnancy and raised, always alone, a healthy and serene girl, and in front of the worst violence, that against a girl who is no longer free to live her life, because of the protection of the father's interest, because of the imposed joint custody, because of the selfishness of the adult which is, unfortunately, the foundation of the society we live in, adult-centric and uninterested in the feelings and lives of children and adolescents," commented Veronica Giannone who encourages the Ministry of Justice, through its inspection power conferred to the officials of the appointed office, to start an investigation as soon as possible, to protect this re-victimized woman and her daughter. "The maternal relationship is the basis of human relationships for every individual."