Earlier this week, numerous feminist blogs were proclaiming the April Griffin custody case to be the new “Woman victimized by sexist family courts” outrage (aka “Custody-visitation scandal case”). Past ones have included Genia Shockome, Sadia Loeliger, Bridget Marks, and others.
According to the feminist website MotherWarrior, which is leading the charge for Griffin, she “has been in the Milwaukee County Jail since May 14th, 2007 because she refuses to give up custody of her nine month old son. Mr. Sebuliba [her ex] was trying to obtain full parental custody of their infant son.
“Griffin, representing herself, asked Judge Goulee how he could consider giving custody of a 9 month old breastfeeding baby to a man who: Is on record for having beaten Griffin during her pregnancy; Is not a US Citizen (Mr. Sebuliba wants to send the baby to Uganda for his mother to raise); Wanted the baby to be aborted; and Openly had nothing to do with Ms. Griffin during her pregnancy?”
Read her full blog post here. MotherWarrior also asserts, “Ms. Griffin has no criminal record, no parental issues, and no mental health issues.”
I’m not very familiar with the April Griffin case, but a new article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel by Diana Sroka, Father wins custody of baby son (6/19/07), tells the story quite a bit differently. According to Sroka:
The judge granted joint custody to the parents, but Griffin insisted the father be stripped of all parental rights.
It was Griffin who was arrested for “battering” Sebuliba.
The judge criticized the mother’s behavior in court and at the visitation center. Griffin’s former lawyer called her behaviour in court “outrageous.”
Griffin severely interfered with Sebuliba’ s visitation. At a May 4 visitation at a visitation center, Griffin arrived almost a half hour late and then declared that Sebuliba–who is a nurse–was not allowed to change the baby’s diaper because it is “against her religion.”
At the visitation Griffin insisted that the visit “had to be done her way.”
“While Sebuliba was with the child, Griffin became hysterical and asked for the infant to be returned to her, the report states. When the social worker brought the baby to her, Griffin had her sister call 911 because she believed the baby was having trouble breathing. The report says that when paramedics arrived, they determined the baby was fine, but Griffin insisted the baby be taken to a hospital.”
Read the full Journal-Sentinel article here.
Other feminist commentaries on the case can be found at Amanda Marcotte’s Pandagon here and SuperBabyMama’s blog here.
To learn about other “Custody-visitation scandal cases,” click here.
To read more on similar issues, visit Glenn Sacks’ blog here.
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5 users commented in " Turns out the April Griffin Custody Case is a Little Different than Feminist Bloggers Say "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackApril Griffin belongs in jail. Her only goal is to sue the city of milwaukee. Her sister Inez Griffin has convinced her to stay in jail and advising her that she will win Tens of Millions of $s. They filed a $150Million lawsuit in October 2008 after April was arrested for hiding her son from the court.
Her sister, Inez Griffin, is completely crazy and has also claimed the police and state of wisconsin conspired to deny her and her sister’s civil rights.
Her sister, Inez Griffin has 2 kids and she keeps them all locked up with no sunlight so she can file lawsuits and hope to get paid off. She is costing the city and state Tens of Thousands of dollars by filing these lawsuits and should be sent to prison.
marc clingaman, who posted that comment is currently facing criminal prosecution for pulling a gun on april’s sister, and is constantly stalking her-also-this blog post will be sued as well for posting FALSE information and defamation of character
The comments left on this post by Marc Clingaman matches e-mails he has sent to April’s sister stating he and the Milwaukee police were working together to do illegal activities, he is on medication, and there is electronical proof that he used racial comments, sexually harassed April’s sister, and there is also a young man, when he was a minor, marc Clingaman accosted trying to get him to us e florescent lights to grow marijuana, there is also a woman who is ready and willing to testify he was attracted to her young son-his mounting legal problems, he has a scheme that is being uncovered as we speak that he has done to numerous black people stealing there money, some of his victims include Lee Foster, LaKeycia Howard, Tyrone Keith, he flew an immigrant to Milwaukee who is an expert on computers, trying to hide his assets from the federal government, and do illegal trading i Europe, all these hings HE THINKS he has gotten away with-but the devil is a liar, as is Marc Clingaman!
What? No mention of the police tasing, pepperspraying, and beating her? And you have nothing to say about a man who isnt even a citizen of this damn country, that was beating her ass everyday? It would figure. I’d file a lawsuit too!!! Get out of here with that foolishness.
they posted links that back up everything they are saying about her .
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