Falsely accused, lost my kids, fighting back…
Up to half of custody-case abuse claims are false* — and feminist judges weaponize them to erase dads.
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Source: American Journal of Psychotherapy Vol 46 - false allegation rates in custody disputes 36–56%.
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Shining a Spotlight on Abusive Judges
The Wooden Railroad is a nonprofit dedicated to exposing judicial bias and the devastating impact of false allegations in family court. We fight for parents denied fairness, and for children growing up without one of the people who love them most — all because a judge chose to believe a lie instead of looking at evidence.
A System That Failed My Kids
This wasn’t justice.
The judge allowed my ex-wife to contact my boss, his wife, my former employer, friends, and family — even the Page Six gossip column of the New York Post. He let her drain my finances, weaponize the system, and publicly defame me. Each time she called the police with another false report, he rewarded her — cutting down my parenting time a little more, as if harassment were proof of guilt.
He didn’t just allow the abuse — he himself was abusive.
The system meant to uphold truth instead empowered a liar. And my children are the ones paying the price.
A Silent Epidemic: 22 Million Americans Have Been Targeted for Parental Alienation*
What happened to me isn’t rare. Thousands of parents, mostly fathers, are erased from their children’s lives every year through bias, false allegations, and unchecked judicial power.
The Wooden Railroad exists to change that — to demand accountability, expose corruption, and ensure no parent or child has to endure what my family did.
Source: Psychiatric Times, Children & Youth Services Review 2019
About the Founder
Tim O’Shea is a dad to three sons: his oldest son Timothy, and the twins William and Robert.
A lifelong tech guy and electrical engineer, he spent 15 years on Wall Street as a sell-side analyst covering Internet and videogame stocks. His research was featured in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Barron’s, Bloomberg, and Reuters, among hundreds of other outlets, and he appeared regularly on CNBC and Bloomberg TV.
In 2023, Tim’s children were taken from him through an abusive legal process.
In 2024, he ran the New York City Marathon.
In 2025, he thru-hiked the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail, posting daily videos (@thirdplaythrough) to raise awareness about the devastating impact of false allegations. On Father’s Day, while still on trail, he went public with his story — and the day he reached Canada, announced The Wooden Railroad.
Why ‘The Wooden Railroad’
The name is deeply personal to me. TWR stands for my three sons: Timothy, William, and Robert. We used to spend hours building wooden train tracks through our apartment — connecting every piece, every car, every curve.
Those magnetic connections between trains symbolize what The Wooden Railroad stands for: the unbreakable bond between parents and their children.
No judge, no lie, no broken system can ever sever that bond.
A Personal Story: Born from Tragedy and a Fight for Truth
The Wooden Railroad was born from my own experience — a story I never imagined I’d live.
I asked for a divorce.
She wanted revenge.
What followed were years of chaos and heartbreak. I was falsely accused of violence and abuse, woken by police at all hours, and dragged from my bed in front of my neighbors — as she tried to create a paper trail in an obvious strategy to win custody.
But here’s the thing: the NYPD and ACS saw through it. They investigated her reports — four separate times — and each case was closed as unfounded. The officers and caseworkers knew what they were seeing: a bitter, vengeful ex-wife weaponizing the system to get revenge.
I faced false allegations of violence and abuse, was woken by police at all hours, and watched as my reputation and relationship with my sons were systematically destroyed. I was reported to the NYPD and to ACS four times — every case closed as “unfounded” with the detectives and social workers clearly observing these were false claims. She lied, but none of it mattered.
But the trial I received was such a sham, I wouldn’t have believed it if it didn’t happen to me.
When my case reached trial, the judge — Justice Ariel Chesler — had already made up his mind. The outcome was predetermined. The trial wasn’t about truth or evidence — it was simply a formality to legally justify taking my children away.
He refused to view recordings that proved her 911 calls were fabricated. He dismissed every piece of evidence that contradicted her story. And then he went further — he orchestrated a mental health ‘hit job.’
This so-called evaluation was engineered to brand me unstable. It declared I was a gun threat to my children (I am not) and labeled me not credible, giving him the cover to ignore me entirely. That report became his weapon — a pretext to destroy my relationship with my sons and justify every biased ruling that followed.
When I pleaded for common sense, he looked at me and said, “You deserve everything that’s happening to you.”
