Very long story. I am married to a man who has 2 dauhters now 10, 12. I have 5 kids, and we have 1 son now 4 together. We got emergency custody of his 2 girls in 2008 due to abuse and neglect. His ex is a sociopath and pathological lier, drug addict, and alcoholic. She lies constantly, in court and gets her drug addict friends to lie in court also. She tells the kids constant lies and convinces them these things are true. We have recordings were the kids witnessed her crimes of breaking and entering and telling the girls she was going to get custody back by lieing to the court that we hit the girls. We split custody at our final hearing in 2009 due to her threats of lieing on the stand. We had this joint plan until 2010 when we moved due to jobs, 50 miles away. When we went back to court she again lied on the stand for 12+ hours and the judge gave her custody even though she was living with a convicted attemped murderer and a man who assaulted a police officer, not to mention her abuse and neglect on the childen, and evidence that she had broke into our house and stolen property. During the entire time since the divorce (7 years) she has refused visition (When we did not have emergency sole custody). We have taken her for contempt various times (also for protective order due to admitting in court she tried to beat me up when I was 7 months pregnant), the last time the judge stated "You have got to stop bringing her in, I'm not going to do anything", The judge never taking action on her refusing visitation. She has had sole custody for 18 months and we have not seen the girls for 1 year.(She blocks phone numbers, refuses calls and moves where the girls live constantly, has moved schools twice.) We found the girls sitting outside of a school this last week (waiting until the attenpted murder she lives with to get off work at 5:30 to pick them up from school). The 12yo she has convinced that we are the crazy ones and is yelling cuss words at our faces when we saw her and on the phone when we attempted to get visitation again. I do not see how we can help her right now. The 10yo I am fearful for because she is being bullied by her sister and her mom and is pretending like everything is normal when we saw her at the school. Is there anything to be done for these children esp the youngest to save her from this sociopath, and turn her around so she does not become one? I can't see how to even talk to this child due to the judges inabilty to even try to fix the situation.