Maine's Top Court Gives Bradeen Final Say On Daughter's Church
Judges cited a pastor's six-minute prayer branding the father 'the enemy,' and the eleven-year-old's panic attacks, as proof of harm.
- Pastor Travis Carey's six-minute prayer named Bickford, Bradeen and their daughter nearly thirty times.
- Bickford told Bradeen she lives under God's law, not the state's, and refused to co-parent.
- The ruling also gives Bradeen final say on vaccines, favoring CDC guidance over Bickford's online research.
Why it matters: The court replaced a parent's religious right with a judge's opinion of which parent is more reasonable.
Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Bickford v. Bradeen, 2026 ME 94 ↗ · Sep 3, 20269/3/26