In Mexico Custody Battles, High-Profile Fathers Gain an Edge Tracy Wilkinson - The Los Angeles Times
go to original October 10, 2013

MEXICO CITY — She was his secretary. He was none other than the chief justice of the Mexican Supreme Court.

She became his mistress, they had two children, but then they drifted apart.

It was the subsequent custody battle that was the real shocker. Ana Maria Orozco landed in prison after the father of her children, by then retired Judge Genaro Gongora Pimentel, accused her of fraud. There she languished, uncharged, for more than a year — set free only after supporters mounted a scathing publicity campaign.

The Gongora case is one of two high-profile custody fights that in recent months have illustrated how very powerful men can, critics say, manipulate Mexico's weak judicial system to their advantage over their children's mothers.

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