10 September 2008

Divorce Judge: Harrassment of Wooten by Palin and Her Family "A Form of Child Abuse"

According to Newsweek, in 2005 a judge repeatedly warned Sarah Palin and members of her family to stop disparaging Mike Wooten, the Alaska state trooper who divorced Palin's sister Molly and was alleged to have been targeted for termination by Palin when she became Governor. (Click here for more on "troopergate")

Court records show that Judge John Suddock heard testimony from a representative of the Alaska State Troopers' union about how Palin and her family filed as many as a dozen complaints against Wooten with the state police. The representative testified, inter alia, that the complaints were "not job-related" and that Wooten was being "harassed" by Palin.

Judge Suddock called the conduct of Palin and her family "a form of child abuse" and believed their conduct so reprehensible that he threatened to award Wooten sole custody of the child. In granting Wooten and Molly a divorce, Judge Suddock warned Molly that he would consider limiting her custody rights should she prove unable to control Palin and other members of her family.

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