{"id":920272,"date":"2022-01-28T11:11:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T11:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/28\/court-rules-that-pretoria-mom-and-granny-be-jailed-if-they-deny-father-access-to-his-child\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T11:11:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T11:11:23","slug":"court-rules-that-pretoria-mom-and-granny-be-jailed-if-they-deny-father-access-to-his-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/28\/court-rules-that-pretoria-mom-and-granny-be-jailed-if-they-deny-father-access-to-his-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Court rules that Pretoria mom and granny be jailed if they deny father access to his child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/55c6288e-e1ab-5c02-aa03-d41aa0411a49&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x60&#038;resize=683x384.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Pretoria \u2013 The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has sentenced a mother and a grandmother to 30 days\u2019 imprisonment suspended on the condition that they allow a father contact with his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to , attorney for the aggrieved father, Vanessa da Silva-Faria, said the court ruling is a landmark for fathers\u2019 rights in accessing their children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI think this is a vindication for fathers\u2019 rights all around. This (judgment) confirms that fathers do have equal rights, and their rights are worth fighting for,\u201d said Da Silva-Faria.<\/p>\n<p>The Ulrich Roux &amp; Associates attorney scored the landmark victory working on the case with her junior attorney Matthew Temlett.<\/p>\n<p>Da Silva-Faria said the father had been denied access to the child for three years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On Tuesday, High Court Judge Munzhelele ruled that the mother and the maternal grandmother of the child were in contempt of court by \u201cdenying and frustrating our client\u2019s parental rights to exercise contact to his minor child\u201d, according to Ulrich Roux &amp; Associates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court sentenced the duo to 30 days\u2019 direct imprisonment, suspended pending their strict compliance with the high court order which regulates our client\u2019s contact with his daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attorneys said warrants of arrest will be issued immediately in the event that the mother and the maternal grandmother of the 7-year-old girl continue with their \u201cunlawful and inhumane conduct\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In addition, Ulrich Roux &amp; Associates secured a punitive cost order against the respondents \u2013 the mother and the grandmother \u2013 for their contemptuous conduct and their blatant violation of the minor child\u2019s constitutional rights to have a relationship with her father.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-8a5d4cb1f3b8ef300aad0d20b0ec8043\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria \u2013 The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has sentenced a mother and a grandmother to 30 days\u2019 imprisonment suspended on the condition that they allow a father contact with his daughter. Speaking to , attorney for the aggrieved father, Vanessa da Silva-Faria, said the court ruling is a landmark for fathers\u2019 rights in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}