HUH?

"Newman's (the mother's) former divorce lawyer, Stephen A. Friedman, testified that he believed there is evidence that Slobodow (the father) had been abusing at least one of the boys, citing a report from Children's Hospital."

http://www.equityfeminism.com/articles/2002/000087.html

Surfing the net last night--looking for new information about the Elsa Newman case, I came across the preceding quotation, from the site given. Now wait a minute...Stephen Friedman was Elsa Newman's divorce lawyer, right? And he was the one, in her first criminal trial, who testified against her--despite supposed lawyer-client privilege which the court set aside, to allow him to testify against her.

But he "testified that he believed there is evidence that Slobodow (the father) had been abusing at least one of the boys...." He cited a report from Children's Hospital to back up that belief.

And then he gave testimony which helped place those boys in the custody of the man he believed to be a pedophile?????

Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like something rotten in the state of Maryland?