An Arizona mother is suing because authorities placed her name on a registry for child abusers after she left her son with a friend to go grocery shopping a few blocks away.
One of her lawyers said the legal process that she has been subjected to denied the mother due process and is so unfair it is “Kafkaesque.” The adjective describes the novels of the Czech writer Franz Kafka, in which bureaucracies are oppressive or nightmarish and is often used in tandem with “Orwellian,” after the novels of George Orwell, in which governmental structures are overbearing or totalitarian.
