Open Letter To Oskar Deutsch : HOW CAN THIS BE RIGHT OR ACCEPTABLE IN CIVILISED SOCIETY

 

o.deutsch@ikg-wien.at

office@ikg-wien.at

Mr Deutsch, 

I am aware you have received many emails addressing the plight of Beth Alexander and her twin sons. With respect, I would like to add my own thoughts to you, and I thank you in advance for hearing my voice.

I only discovered Beth’s and her family situation recently, but have been deeply moved and, above all, appalled, by what I have learned. 

Since time began, the mother’s role in her children’s upbringing - her love, guidance, support and teaching - has been recognised. In the most extreme of cases only will a mother be denied access to her children. And yet I am heartbroken to read that Beth is deemed unfit to parent and has been documented as such by her embittered ex-husband, who, it appears, is being protected from any justice being served to him by the Austrian courts. Worse still, this miscarriage of justice has been allowed to continue for ten years, with no apparent end in sight. How can this be right or acceptable in civilised society?

There is no clear reason for custody to have been denied to Beth, an upstanding member of the Jewish community and a professional woman. The twins have been denied the presence of their mother in their lives. Instead, I learn that they are living in a toxic environment, poisoned by their father against Beth, and their future is being shaped without any positive input from their mother to balance this.

The Austrian courts have ruled that Beth is not a fit mother, and that the boys are best served living with their father and childminders. In whose interest has this decision been made? Certainly not the boys’. They have grown up with an absent mother, but unaware that she is fighting with every fibre of her being to be allowed to be in their lives, indeed to secure custody of them. To rebuild the relationship, and repair any psychological damage that her forced absence will have caused to them. This does not represent the actions of a bad mother. This is the behaviour of a fiercely protective, intelligent, grounded adult woman who has love for her sons in abundance. Given the chance, Beth Alexander will be nothing short of an exemplary parent. 

I implore you to examine all the positive reasons for Beth to be reunited with her two sons and exert your considerable influence to enable this outcome. 

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

With hope and anticipation, 

Tonie Jascourt