Judge tells 'perfect son' his cross-examination of his mother amounts to elder abuse

Afterwards, the man told Judge Larkin: “I can make this commitment to you and the court that I will never speak to my mother again and never approach the house.”

The woman — who required assistance from her solicitor, Pamela Clancy to enter and exit the courtroom — was seeking a domestic violence Safety Order against her son. File picture: iStock

A man accused by a judge of the elder abuse of his 83-year-old mother arising from his court cross-examination of her has given a sworn undertaking never to go near her home again.

At the Family Law Court, the man — described in court by his mother as once the ‘perfect son’ before their relationship turned ‘toxic’ — gave the undertaking after Judge Mary Larkin said that the man’s cross-examination of his mother amounts to elder abuse.