Family Court Judge Orders Kids Into Intensive Therapy At Hotel With Father

PONTIAC (WWJ/AP) - An Oakland County judge who sent three kids to juvenile detention for refusing to have lunch with their father has ordered the family to intensive therapy at a hotel.

After a national outcry over the children's detention, Judge Lisa Gorcyca sent the children of Maya and Omer Shimoni to summer camp.

She called the case one of the worst she's ever seen of parental alienation, where one parents poisons the minds of the kids against the other, even comparing the children to the Charles Manson cult.

Now ready to be released from summer camp, Gorcyca Wednesday ordered the children, ages 14, 10 and 9, into a five-day intensive therapy session with their father at a hotel.

The order came over the objections of the children's mother.

The judge in July found the siblings in contempt and sent them to juvenile detention for refusing lunch with their dad.

After widespread publicity, they were released after two weeks and sent to camp.

If the therapy works, the children will spend three months with their father.

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