freediver wrote on Sep 5
th, 2019 at 11:02pm:
If they put an AVO on a stepfather to keep him away from the kids, it basically forces him and the mother to separate.
Indeed. An exclusionary AVO would of course have that effect. Usually, the cops start with the standard one not to "threaten, intimidate or harass". It would apply to his partner, as cops don't muck around with any alleged abuse of kids.
A stepdad alleged to have sexually abused his kids would be given an automatic exclusionary AVO.
I know of a father who had an exclusionary AVO slapped on him by his daughter. She told her teacher that she feared going home after she lost some keys and upset her dad.
What would he do?
She didn't know, she just didn't "feel safe". She came from a strict Hindu family.
Has he hit you before?
No, but he was so angry he might.
The school called the cops.
Dad couldn't go within a hundred meters of his daughter until it made court, a few weeks later. By then, the cops had calmed down. But by then, the daughter was refusing to go home. She'd moved in with her boyfriend and his family. Worse, she'd gotten pregnant. She was 14.
Dad wanted his daughter home, but he wasn't allowed to know anything due to "confidentiality".
Then the girl told all these porkies about her older brother getting her up the duff, even though he was in India at the time. She pretended she didnt know how you get pregnant.
Dad wasn't told any of this. He got a lawyer writing letters to everybody. Nothing happened. His daughter refused to return home. Child Protection got involved. It was a right old mess.
But this is the world of modern policing. The state does indeed get involved in micromanaging its citizens' lives, and these stories are becoming more and more common.