The ACLU rooting against America? This has to be a first.

(CNS News) — Never mind what the U.S. Supreme Court decided. An international tribunal says the U.S. government violated the human rights of a Colorado woman, whose estranged husband murdered their three children.

Jessica Gonzales, as she was known in June 1999, complained that police in Castle Rock, Colo., ignored her repeated calls for help, after her husband defied a restraining order and took their three young daughters, later shooting the girls to death.

Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v. United States is the first case brought by a domestic violence survivor against the United States before an international human rights body, said the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented Jessica Lenahan, as she is now known.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) — in what the ACLU called a “landmark” decision — is now recommending changes to U.S. law and domestic violence policy. It made those recommendations public on Wednesday.

In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that Gonzales had no constitutional right to police protection.

With assistance from the ACLU, Lenahan (her name changed when she remarried) then filed a petition against the United States before the IACHR, alleging violations of international human rights.

“I have waited 12 years for justice, knowing in my heart that police inaction led to the tragic and untimely deaths of my three young daughters,” said Lenahan. She said the IACHR decision “tells the world that the government violated my human rights by failing to protect me and my children from domestic violence.”