Open Letter To Oskar Deutsch : SHAME UPON THE LEGAL SYSTEM, UPON THE JUDICIARY AND UPON THE RABBINICAL AUTHORITIES

 

o.deutsch@ikg-wien.at

office@ikg-wien.at

Dear Mr Deutsch,

I writing to appeal to you to do everything you can to bring justice to the case of this wronged mother.

I live in the UK trained and practised as a lawyer and above all am a wife and mother myself.

I know that those not parties to the couple’s disagreement will not be in possession of all of the facts however in UK law the children’s rights and needs are paramount. Whatever issues there may be between the husband and wife these should be secondary to the best interests of the children. It is an acknowledged fact that only in the most serious circumstances should it be thought fit and proper for a child to be separated so completely from one or other parent. This will cause untold stress and lifelong damage to have a child believe mistruths about an absent parent. The damage to the mother should be acknowledged of course but principally I am appealing to you to consider the lifelong damage the separation will cause to both children. If one wishes to consider evidence for such damage one only has to know that the father in this case suffered similar enforced separation from his own father. What impact do we know this has had on him to move forward in his own life as a husband and as a father?

The manipulation of justice is a serious affront and to allow this within a Country where Jews suffered directly from the perversion of justice is to seriously undermine our collective responsibility. We should be a light into the nations. It is utterly unacceptable that a parent is manipulating the legal system and thereby causing the children to transgress the commandment that a child should honour its parents- parents not parent.

This case brings shame upon the legal system, upon the judiciary and upon the rabbinical authorities indeed upon all those behind by commission or omission allow this travesty to occur.

We have just observed Internationally Holocaust Memorial Day - the perpetrators could not have succeeded in committing such evil were it not for the thousands of disinterested bystanders who looked the other way.

My family have never forgotten the evil that can be allowed by becoming a bystander and got this reason I appeal to you step forward and say something to help these poor children.  It is not enough to stand idly by and allow it to happen.

Regards

Melanie Diamond