An Arizona mother is suing because authorities placed her name in a registry for child abusers after she left her son with a friend to go grocery shopping a few blocks away.
One of her lawyers said the legal process she has been subjected to denied the mother due process and is so unfair it is “Kafkaesque.” The adjective describes the novels of the Czech writer Franz Kafka in which bureaucracies are oppressive or nightmarish and is often used in tandem with “Orwellian,” after the novels of George Orwell in which governmental structures are overbearing or totalitarian.
The woman, identified in court papers as Sarra L., is being represented by Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a national public interest law firm headquartered in Sacramento, California, and the Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute, which describes itself as “the nation’s preeminent liberty organization.”…