Friday 8th February 2013, The Jewish Telegraph

Friday 8th February 2013, The Jewish Telegraph

The Viennese custody case over three-year-old twins Samuel and Benjamin Schlesinger has been suspended after their mother, Manchester-born Beth Alexander, applied for a new court and judge.

She has demanded that the previous judge be investigated for bias.

The Viennese social services are also being investigated for their handling of the case and the boys’ father Dr Michael Schlesinger, who has been recommended final custody by the social services, is being reported to the Medical Council of Vienna for gross abuse of his professional position, as well as to the criminal court.

But, despite these legal advances, Beth is beginning to despair of her near-three-year custody battle.

She said this week: “I feel drained and I emotionally spent. I have long stopped crying for I myself. I only sob for the untold psychological damage that is being done to these two little lost souls.”

Her boys “have withdrawn into a silent parallel world”.