Tue Oct 19, 2021 – 5:54 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – In one of the most extreme cases yet of COVID-19 “safety” intruding on Americans’ personal lives, a New York judge is citing a man’s unvaccinated status as a basis to keep him from seeing his three-year-old daughter.
“Here, in-person parental access by defendant is not in the child’s best interests, and there are exceptional circumstances that support its suspension,” Justice Matthew Cooper wrote in his October 7 ruling in the divorce and custody case, the New York Post reported.
The ex-couple’s names have not been made public, but the ruling says the mother, with whom the child lives, supervises all visitations between her child and the father due to the father’s alleged “history of substance abuse and untreated mental health issues.” Notably, however, it was lack of COVID vaccination that prompted Cooper to suspend visitations entirely.
“The dangers of voluntarily remaining unvaccinated during access with a child while the COVID-19 virus remains a threat to children’s health and safety cannot be understated,” the decision continued. “Unfortunately, and to my mind, incomprehensibly, a sizable minority, seizing upon misinformation, conspiracy theories, and muddled notions of ‘individual liberty,’ have
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