I am a father of 5 boys, 3 from my first marriage and 2 from my second. I have sole custody of my 3 oldest sons. I have visitation with the other 2. I had custody of them at one time after my wife walked out and gave them to me (Jan 2003). We got back together after 7 months but split up again after 5 months (Jan 2004). When we went to court we had a different judge and he gave them to her (March 2004). It did not matter to him that she had voluntarily gave me custody and had also agreed to not leave the boys with her step-father (whom she was and is still living with to this very day - Dec 2008) because of physical and sexual abuse by him upon her when she was a child. Our divorce and custody fight has dragged out for 4 yrs. We had our final hearing in April 2008 and the judge gave her full custody, even after she admitted to trying to kill herself on several occasions during our marriage (she said she only did it for attention), when confronted with court records about her father getting custody of her due to her saying her step-father molested her she said she lied and made it all up (she was 13 and had to testify before a judge about being molested), she was caught in a couple of lies but the judge did nothing about it (she had testified that she did not drink but when i produced a witness that saw her drunk in a bar she changed her story and said she only drank that one time. The judge did not care that I have custody of my other children. He did not care about the facts in the case. He did not care about what my ex-wife said or did. I have appealed my case to the Mississippi State Supreme Court. I am on my 6th lawyer. I will never give up my fight for my sons. The system is broken and until it is fixed, children will suffer.