Martha C. Jacobson Custody Evaluation
Martha Jacobson Ph.D. Made it Possible for Laura Hohnecker and Cronies
to Abuse a Second-Grade Child for Six Months

Brief background of case:
Mother and Father divorced in 2006, with one child, a daughter then age 2. In June 2010, Father filed for modification of custody alleging parental alienation. In October 2010, Martha C. Jacobson, Ph.D. was appointed by trial judge to do a custody evaluation. In January 2011, Martha Jacobson uttered her written findings, essentially claiming that the mother was personality disordered, "enmeshed", and a PAS perpetrator. Jacobson recommended a custody switch to the Father with a period of no contact by the Mother, even though she acknowledged that this would traumatize the child.

Based on this specious and sadistic custody evaluation, which Father then distributed widely to third parties, such as the child's school, the Father then filed a series of repetitive "emergency motions" over the ensuing months claiming severe parental alienation, and all kinds of sick and disturbed behaviors by the child when she was with him (behaviors that occurred nowhere else). To back up his claims, the Father repeatedly called DCF and police when he had possession of the child, who (in the Father's custody only) was nonfunctional, crying, trembling, refusing to speak, and more. DCF as well as the Guardian ad Litem in the case, Juliette Lippman, either actually fell for this ruse or (more likely) pretended to, and in turn wrote up "findings" in their own "investigative reports" that supported the Father's PAS claims. These so-called findings in fact were based on no personal observations of anything that would tie the child's behaviors in the presence of the Father (which otherwise would look like some kind of abuse by the Father) to the Mother as causative agent; rather, their conclusions were based on Martha Jacobson's baseless speculations [note] in the custody evaluation report.

In October 2011, at the beginning of a hearing on one of the Father's emergency motions, and based on DCF investigator and GAL testimony that in turn was based on Jacobson's custody evaluation, family court Judge Renee Goldenberg -- instead of holding an evidentiary hearing -- abruptly announced that she was sheltering the child in the custody of the state. Then, instead of placing the child into foster care, Judge Goldenberg circumvented the requirements of due process and Florida's child custody statutes by "placing" the ostensibly "sheltered" child with a "relative" -- the Father! Goldenberg ordered no contact by the Mother.

Mother's counsel appealed. A favorable decision was handed down by the 4th DCA March 7, 2012. A remanded "shelter hearing" then was held in Palm Beach County juvenile court on April 3 and 5, 2012, resulting in the return of the child to her Mother.

For six months until these decisions, the Mother was barred from all visitation and essentially all meaningful contact by the Father and his so-called helping professionals (contrary to even the dictates of dependency proceedings). The head of the child's post-"shelter" "treatment team", most responsible for this atrocity, who was given authority to "treat" the child, as well as to determine (deny) contact with the Mother, coincidentally happened to be Martha Jacobson's good friend Laura C. Hohnecker, Ph.D. During the six months in question, the formerly bright, happy, healthy straight-A second-grader apparently deteriorated or freaked out so badly that she was drugged with Prozac to get her to calm down and/or make her more compliant. (What child-centered therapy -- not.)

Consider: Six months is a 1/8 portion of a 7-year-old child's cognizant lifetime. That's equivalent to SIX YEARS in the lifetime of a 50-year-old. Ever know a little kid to get homesick during a week away at camp? Here, six months. The child was abruptly wrenched from the parent who had lovingly raised her from birth. Like suffering a parental death. Permanent emotional damage. All because Daddy was resentful that the child loved Mommy more (could it possibly be his own parenting or personality?), and instead of offering sound advice, a bunch of professionals saw a profit-making opportunity. Evil.