A 15-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy refused to leave their grandmother’s Santa Cruz, California, home in October 2022 when transport agents from a private company arrived to enforce a “reunification therapy” court order by a local family court judge.
At the beginning of a video of the incident, the agents appear to reason with the children. When that fails, havoc ensues, with the agents dragging the children and forcing them into a car.
The incident ignited protests, spawned local media outrage, and led Santa Cruz lawmakers to impose a no-touch policy on the transport agencies.
The video, which has since been watched at least 40 million times, was just one flashpoint in a long-running controversy over family courts ordering therapy in private custody disputes and forcing children into relationships with parents that they say are abusive….
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