Manhatten, New York -- Did Judge Gloria Sosa-Lintner give custody of a little girl to her pedophile father, and destroy an innocent women's life? Did Manhattan Family Court Judge Helen Sturm throw a protective mother in jail and make it worse? Redux.

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"In 1997, the New York City Administration for Children's Services alleged that Dyandria Darel's ex-husband, a retired New York City police detective, had molested their daughter. But a series of complicated twists in Manhattan Family Court would cause judges to drop the accusation as "unproven," find Darel guilty of neglect, and place her daughter in foster care. Eventually, she lost custody for good to the man whom ACS had once accused of abuse. The outcome has fueled an eight-year war... her attorney, Robin Yeamans, a California family- and constitutional-law specialist, filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the nation's top court to hear Darel's appeal... on the question of a jury trial, asserting that the U.S. Constitution ensures such due-process protections in Family Court..." http://www.villagevoice.com/content/printVersion/201979/ (2006)

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