Children jailed for not speaking to abusive father

Hundreds of parents have held protests outside the Oakland County courthouse after learning three children have been in a juvenile detention facility for two weeks after refusing to speak to their father.

Parents and lawyers have expressed outrage after it emerged the children — two boys and a girl aged 9, 10, and 15, have spent the past fortnight in detention for refusing to speak to their father — whom they have accused of being abusive.

The family was in court for a hearing on supervised parenting time when the judge made her ruling.