July 10 - A Michigan judge released three Israeli siblings from juvenile detention on Friday two weeks after she sent them there for defying her order that they have lunch with their father when he was visiting from Israel, ABC affiliate WXYZ reported.
At an emergency hearing, Judge Lisa Gorcyca said the children - whose parents have been involved in a custody battle for more than four years - could leave detention and attend a camp for the rest of the summer.
"The court agrees with the children's guardian's recommendation as to the best interests of the children," Gorcyca said this afternoon, reported the Detroit Free Press. "The court finds that is in the children's best interests to grant the father's and the guardian ad litem's motion to allow the children to attend summer camp. Children's Village is to facilitate the transportation."[///]
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MY Fox Detroit
Three children are in an Oakland County detention center after refusing a court-ordered lunch with their father.
Protests
formed outside the Oakland County courthouse Wednesday after Bloomfield
Hills students, parents and teachers learned the Tsimhoni children were
sentenced to Children's Village until their 18th birthdays for not
wanting to spend time with their dad.
On Tuesday FOX 2 first
showed court transcripts which describe exactly how family court Judge
Lisa Gorcyca handled a hearing which was suppose to deal with supervised
parenting time.
She berated the children, comparing them to
Charles Manson and his cult. And claimed they were brainwashed. The
judge made threats saying if they didn't apologize and go to lunch with
dad they would live in separate cells where they would have to go to the
bathroom in front of others.
When they refused to spend time with
their father - Judge Lisa Gorcyca found the kids in civil contempt and
had the kids locked up.
Larry Dubin, an attorney who has been a law professor at the
University of Detroit Mercy for the last 40 years, was also stunned by
Gorcyca's decision.
"To treat this like a case of contempt where
she sends them away until they're willing to comply with court order
seems harsh with respect to young children," Dubin said. "It certainly
can raise all kinds of Constitutional issues."
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