Judge blanks father

Justice Frank Seepersad was adjudicating in an injunction filed by the mother from San Fernando, who has been seeking, since January 10, to have her two children returned to her .

The 38-year-old woman stated in her lawsuit, filed in the San Fernando High Court, that she and her children’s father had been in a cohabitational relationship from 2009 to 2016. The relationship, she stated, produced two children who are now four and two years old. Attorney Martin Jadoonanan filed an injunction on behalf of the mother who stated that during the course of her relationship with her common-law husband, he verbally, psychologically and emotionally abused her, and he did so in the presence of their four-year-old child .

She said her husband has violent and abusive tendencies, such that on one occasion he verbally abused her parents when they tried to intervene in an attempt to protect her .

The woman stated that she separated from him and it was on January 10, she had given the her husband the children to spend the night with him. However, the next morning when she went to fetch the children, neither the children nor the father were at home .

She stated in her injunction that when she telephoned the man, he verbally abused her with obscenities .

She alleges that she returned to the home the following day, “but he told me that I have no children and that I not going to see them again” .

Seepersad ordered that the custody order is to continue and that the father is not to have access to the children until the adjourned date of hearing of the injunction on February 23 .