Wednesday, December 19, 2012  Schlesinger custody battle - Is
she mentally ill?   Help Beth and Her Boys - her blog with
documents  update January 8, 2013  Times of Israel  Beth
Schlesinger was at a Vienna play center with her 2-year-old
twins, Samuel and Benjamin, when the phone rang. Her husband,
Michael, had won custody of the children, social services said,
and she needed to hand them over immediately.  Because her
lawyer was away, Schlesinger phoned the only friendly face she
could think of, a local rabbi, and headed home. The scene, she
says 18 months later, was “barbaric.” Four policemen turned up
with her husband as she fed her sons supper, and the children
were taken without any of their belongings. She was crying, she
says, and so was the rabbi.  Because she had not been awarded
visitation rights, it was eight weeks until she saw the children
again.  Since then, the couple — who had a Jewish divorce, but
are still civilly married — have conducted a bitter custody
battle that is beginning to draw med