I have a friend going through a really difficult time right now and I know this is a really crazy situation but I don't know where else to turn and you guys are always so amazing so I'm hoping to get some helpful advice. I will try to keep this as short as possible..

My friend lives in Southern California and is going through a nasty divorce right now and they have an adorable five year old who unfortunately is stuck in the middle of an ugly custody battle. This woman he was married to is just trash and this custody battle has been going on for over a year. She first went into this telling everyone that my friend was a wife beater and horrible father etc etc.. Every accusation she made he was able to prove wrong. Now we all know that its very hard to take a child away from their mother but finally 4 weeks ago after CPS investigated them both and all the claims that were made against the mother from the school and spoke to the son who is terrified to be with his mother my friend was awarded primary custody of his son. Since then she has been doing everything possible to try and take custody away from him. She called social services a couple of times complaining he was beating their son and watching porno with him and they of course proved that was yet another malicious attempt from the wife. Then last week he dropped their son off to visit with his mother for the night and he was at home when the police showed up and arrested him. They never asked him what happened & they never even read him his rights so he didn't know what the hell was going on until he was down at the station. The only thing the officer did say when he arrested him was "I hope you like getting Butt****** in Jail".. Of course it has to be his luck to get such an arse. Apparently his ex wife called the police right after he dropped his son off and said that he grabbed her and threatened to kill her. Because this was over the weekend he was in jail for 4 days, during his arraignment they dropped charged to a misdemeanor and his trial was scheduled for this morning. When he got out of jail he went to work that morning and then went to pick up his son at school and he was notified of a retraining order against the wife and the son because of everything going on. The courts took her son away from her because she was neglecting him BIG TIME. The stories they had against her are horrid and I cant believe that this is even happening. He has no idea where his son is, the school called him yesterday and said that they were concerned because his son had not been in school for 2 days and he cant do anything. Then yesterday he was practically ran off the freeway by this man in a car and later that evening he saw the same guy driving out of his complex. His wife started hanging around some crazy people so about 5 months ago or so another guy on a motorcycle followed my friend to work for almost a week and it finally stopped after he mentioned it on one of their court dates. He went into his trail today with a private attorney and they rescheduled the court date for the28th . I cant even believe this is going on, this happened in a parking lot with video cameras all over and they are taking forever to look at the evidence. In the meantime my friends life is in jeopardy, his son is around a crazy woman who does not have his best interest at heart and there is nothing he can do..

So I'm asking, is there anything he can do? There has to be some kind of protection here.. I'm so upset that the San Bernardino Judge would fight this long to make sure that this little boy is safe and with his father and now the courts are allowing her to make these false allegations because "one courtdoesn't talk to the other"... I'm sorry if this story is written all over the place but I'm so upset and worried for both of them and my heart is sinking because I feel completely helpless.