Murcia judge removes custody from mother because she is lesbian

Murcia judge removes custody from mother because she is lesbian
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By h.b. - Jul 23, 2007 - 5:47 PM

Murcia instruction judge, Fernando Ferrin

Instruction judge Fernando Ferrin said the woman should chose between her daughters and her new lover

'Your partner or your children'.

That was the stark choice offered to a mother in Murcia, by the judge Fernando Ferrin. The judge made the ruling because the woman’s partner in this case is another woman –
‘The mother will have to chose between her daughters and her new partner’ said the judge, who continued ‘It’s impossible that two homosexual parents can give a child complete education’.

Judge Ferrin is already reported to be undergoing an investigation by the Murcia Supreme Court following an official compliant placed by another pair of lesbians in Murcia who claim the judge was holding up the legal adoption of the daughter of one by the other woman.

The latest case came to light when the woman’s husband came home to find his wife in bed with another woman. He then launched divorce proceedings and was awarded custody of the couple’s two daughters, because ‘it was proved that the mother is a lesbian’.

Judge Ferrin continued ‘It is the homosexual environment which is prejudicial to children, and notably increases the risk that they too become homosexual’. The Spanish Federation of Gays, Lesbians, Transsexuals and Bisexuals say the case goes against basic human rights, and there has been no such case of this kind since the arrival of legal gay marriage in Spain. They remind the judge that the law states clearly that the custody of children should be decided independently of their parent’s sexual orientation.

The judge first came to light when he ordered the arrest of two nudists on the beach as he felt ‘a lack of respect’. He’s also known to be against top-less bathing.

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