Brant Hemingway

Albert Lea Tribune

It has been three years, four months and four days since I last saw my four beautiful children: Benjamin, 16; Daniel, 14; Naomi, 11; and Sarah, 8. In our April 2008 divorce settlement my former wife and I agreed that we would share “joint legal custody” of our four children and that all four kids and myself would participate in “reunification therapy.” That’s because at that point I had not been allowed to see my children for over a year and a half because she accused me of domestic abuse in November 2006. I denied her accusations but my attorney at the time convinced me to voluntarily agree to abide by an order for protection with “no findings of abuse.” 

Over the past three years I have been before Freeborn County District Court Judge John Chesterman numerous times and have paid attorneys over $30,000 but have yet to have even one supervised visit with all of my four children! I have swallowed my pride and jumped through every imaginable hoop in an effort to reconnect with the four kids who are so precious to me but have seen no positive results.

Source: http://www.albertleatribune.com/news/2010/feb/04/are-judges-still-biased-against-fathers/