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Hi again, I've decided to post this again because I left a few things out somethings that I found hard to put into words
Hello my ex wife and I divorced 5 years ago we have one son who is now 9 years old 2 years ago my ex and her new partner and our son moved from London to Folkestone (on the south coast) this changed the contact I was having with our son I was seeing him 9 nights a months they lived in London but when they moved to Folkestone midweek contact became very difficult so I had 6 nights contact a month and 50% of the school holidays I travel down to Folkestone to collect my son and I return him to his mum or to School.
2 months ago my ex phoned me to say that her and her partner and our son were planning to move to france sometime next year, this is where it gets slighty complex my ex's partner is being investigated by the police for for having evidence of child pornography on his computer he was arrested and bailed and then rebailed and as a result he is only allowed supervised contact with our son so my son and my ex are now staying with her eldest daughter who lives nearby, when I was told of the planned move I contacted a solicitor who told as I have PR they can't leave to country without my permission the solicitor sent my ex a letter explaining this, my son does not want to go and live in France, he's mother is filling his head with how wonderful it will be he has asked her to stop talking to him about it because it is upsetting him, they have no ties to the country no family no friends no support network and with these aligations aginst her parnter social services told me that even if the police choose not to pursue the case their will always be a sense of doubt and as my ex wife is standing by him
I'm very worried for my sons safety the bottom line is I don't trust my ex to do the right thing by our son (I feel very bad saying that) the reason being, she has two children from another marriage two girls when we first got together in 1996 the girls were 11 and 13 I'd known the family for about 4 months we on got on well, at christmas that year (96) the eldest child was sexually assaulted by her step grandfather the child in question told me about what happened she said he came into her room when she was asleep and put his arm around her, kissed her and touched her, she asked me not to tell her mum but I said we had to what he did was wrong and your mum needs to know, so we told her as you can imagine there was lots of tears and upset the next thing the grandmother arrives at the house she is told what has happened what her husband has done, she says she's going to stand by him no matter what he's done because she loves him so my ex decides she can't loose contact with her mother so it's decided ''it will never be mentioned again'' the girls can still see their step grandfather because '' he wouldn't be as stupid to do anything like that again'' I asked her did she think she was doing the right thing she said yes and I was told it was family business so in other word butt out, anyway 18 months later the step grandfather does the same thing to the younger girl, this time however the SS and the Police are involved because the girl told a teacher and they informed the SS so my ex was unable to brush it under the carpet.
So it goes to court we all give evidence (also about the first assault) the step grandfather goes to jail for 1 year, a good result. my ex is like her mother in the way she is standing by her partner her partner as I said is being investigated for having evidence of child Pornography on his computer I'm not happy about my son being taken to live in France with this guy, I've contacted SS and told them I wish to be consulted and involved at every step I see my son every weekend I phone him 3 times a day the idea of my son being in contact with someone who is being investigated and currently on police bail for evidence of child pornography being found on his computer fills me with horror, He's saying the images where sent to him in ''junk mail'' I know these are alligations and it's currently being investigated and innocent until proven etc etc but I'm really worried ........... what else can I do? sorry I've ramble on
I'm not entitle d to legal aid as I earn just over the amount you need to earn, and as the cost of solicitors is so expensive, so any advice at all would be greatly received Thanks
Dermott
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