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Justice Minister Austria
Dear Dr Zadic,
I am writing to you at 3 am because I cannot sleep, burdened by the overt injustice your Family Court has inflicted on Beth Alexander and her sons, Benji and Sammy Schlesinger. The latest appeal to the court has been denied. No access. No visits. No holidays. No phone calls.
There are very few valid reasons I can think of for a mother and her children to be denied all contact.
1. The mother is an absolute monster.
2. She is so mentally or physically sick that any contact would be upsetting for the children.
3. The other parent or guardian has manipulated the courts to carry out their will.
4. The other parent or guardian has convinced the children that their mother doesn’t care about them.
5. The children are too intimidated by the other parent or guardian to say anything that might upset or anger them.
Videos of interviews with Beth and footage of Beth and her parents lovingly playing with the boys are posted on a You Tube channel called Help Beth. One look at these videos and it is plain to see reasons 1 and 2 are not the case here.
We are left with some combination of the remaining three issues. You have to consider that the other parent, Dr Michael Schlesinger, was himself estranged from his father from the age of three when his mother denied the father all contact. Despite being a doctor, Schlesinger has grown into an abusive and vindictive father who would rather inflict the most painful revenge on his ex-wife than care about the emotional welfare of his children. All this while sending taunting text messages to Beth.
The boys are 12 years old. It is not too late to repair the relationship with their mother and their warm extended family in England before they become the next generation of angry and emotionally disturbed men in a dysfunctional family.
The path to this situation was littered with corruption and characters looking out for their own interests from the start. At the very heart is the Vienna Jewish Community (the IKG) who were eager to support one of their own, a doctor no less, and side with him against the stranger among them. Erstwhile “friends” of Beth have admitted to her that they spread lies about her mental state, colluded to trick her into a phoney psychological examination, and finally turned their backs on her. Some were instructed to do so by their husbands. One has said that she regrets her part in this charade and has apologised to Beth. Too little too late.
Rabbi Jacob Biderman, the Chabad Rabbi and Principal of the Lauder Chabad School, where the boys attend, repeatedly stated that they were doing well after being taken from their mother by police while she was feeding them their supper. This despite obvious regressions, depression and self-harming (little Benji running into a brick wall to try and numb his pain).
Biderman blocked Beth from entering the school and wouldn’t give her any information about her sons’ welfare or progress. She was not even allowed to attend their class birthday parties as all parents do. Biderman claimed that he had a letter from Schlesinger’s lawyers telling him to do this. The lawyers denied this in court and no letter has been produced. However, Beth’s pleading emails to Biderman were dutifully forwarded by him, to Schlesinger’s lawyers and a judge in the Jewish community who was supposedly not connected to the case.
The fact is that Biderman needs the support of the Jewish community or he loses his job. If two little boys and their innocent mother have to be destroyed in the process he doesn’t care. This is a Rabbi sent by the Chabad organization whose whole raison d’etre is to help Jewish people around the world by spreading love and community values. You couldn’t make it up if you wanted to.
You have the policemen who didn’t understand why they had to take the boys. Social workers who tried to help Beth because they saw no reason for this action. A judge from the community who got involved despite being a friend of Schlesinger and it not being her case.
You have the same judge residing over this case for the past decade, who would have to admit that she made mistakes in order to change her rulings. What is the point of the right to appeal when the same judge is just reviewing her own performance every time? A judge who went the extra mile for Schlesinger by visiting his home for tea in order to check his suitability as a father and homemaker. At no time did she personally check out Beth’s home – with or without the tea.
You have the leader of the IKG, Herr Oskar Deutsch, who, when asked to use his influence to try to remedy this tragic situation, replies with a letter berating Beth for not approaching him in the correct manner. A man who makes speeches on Holocaust Memorial Day saying “Never Forget!” and “Never Again!” whilst keeping silent when two more Jewish babies are torn from their mother’s arms and denied her love. Hollow words indeed.
You have the Chief Rabbi of the UK flying to Vienna to mediate on Beth’s behalf. You have her local MP speaking about this travesty of justice in the British Houses of Parliament. You have journalists, Rabbis, and 6,000 supporters on a Facebook group, all doing everything and anything we can. And Herr Deutsch suggests Beth try mediation. Ha!
Perhaps the Austrian Jewish community is untouchable due to their victim status after WWll and the residue discomfort of their countrymen? Some people think this might be true. But someone has to stand up to them when there is blatant corruption and manipulation of the courts. We are begging you, Dr Zadic, to be that someone.
Yours hopefully,
Rachel Selby
#OpenLettersToZadic #ReunitingBethWithHerSons
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| Chabad Rabbi Jacob Biderman |
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