Battered Women Take Custody Battles to White House

By Mary Darcy

We News correspondent

Friday, May 7, 2010

Battered mothers often shy away from publicity. But this year, in a sign of their growing organization, some plan to spend Mother's Day in Washington in a White House vigil to draw attention to a court system that often gives custody to abusers.

(WOMENSENEWS)--On Mother's Day, busloads of battered moms and advocates for abused children will roll into Washington, D.C.

They'll hold a vigil outside the White House in an effort to persuade President Obama to take up their cause of reforming a family court system that they say all too often puts children into the hands of abusive parents.

For some it marks a new and somewhat frightening degree of public exposure. Some of the protesters will be shrouded in scarves, hiding from their abusers or a court system they fear will punish them for speaking out.

"They're whistleblowers," said vigil organizer Connie Valentine, policy director for The California Protective Custody Association, based in Sacramento. "The system doesn't look kindly on whistleblowers. It's a difficult situation because we have seen enormous judicial retaliation against mothers who step up in front of the problem."

Efforts to quantify the problem are just beginning but protective parents claim it is widespread. A study done by the Williamsburg, Va.-based American Judges Foundation in the early 1990s showed that in 70 percent of challenged cases, battering parents involved in custody battles persuaded authorities the victimized parent was unfit for sole custody, according to a spokesperson from the foundation.

Valentine and other advocates for protective parents call the family courts broken and corrupt and say the system not only puts children into the hands of abusive parents, it also bankrupts and punishes the protective parents who fight for them. At the same time, they say it's hard to reform the system because the people it hurts are hiding from abusers and anxious to avoid publicity.

Shifting Ground
But Valentine feels the ground shifting. "I think we're in the early stages of a civil rights movement for protecting children from physical and sexual abuse."

She said the Internet is helping battered mothers come together. "E-mail has helped. It's a good part of the reason for all of the advocacy," Valentine said. "Women are beginning to see that it's not their fault and that they are just pawns in the game."

Mo Hannah, psychology professor at Siena College, near Albany, N.Y., used the Internet to organize the first annual conference for battered women seeking custody in 2004, after her own difficult custody battle.

This past January marked the seventh gathering, which meets annually in Albany and is the major organizing and networking event of the year for protective parents.

"The first conference was about getting people to talk and validate their experiences," Hannah said. "But as the conferences continued it became very clear that we needed a national movement. Now the conference is just sort of an umbrella or structure that encourages people to share with each other."

Over the seven years, women have met at the conference and formed smaller groups, such as the Massachusetts Protective Mothers for Custodial Justice.

"Mass Moms," as it has come to be known, brings together women who have gone through custody battles with those currently in the throes. Volunteers accompany women to court and on lawyer visits and play a general shepherding role.

"We stand next to a woman who is fighting for her children while she pleads and receives orders," one Mass Mom told Women's eNews at January's Battered Mothers Custody Conference.

These volunteers have all been through their own custody battles and declined to be named for fear of retribution from their ex-husbands or the court system. Many have gag orders associated with their own cases. It is this type of fear of retribution that has helped keep the protective parents movement under the radar.
Fear Stands in the Way
The California Protective Custody Association's Valentine understands the fear that keeps women from protesting and fighting the bigger battles.

"I waited until my own children were grown so we weren't affected by the family court system," she said.

Valentine says advocates and organizers need to study and replicate the successful civil rights campaigns of the past.

"Slavery was ended with a good law but slavery wasn't ended because a good law happened to come about. The law happened because huge masses of people put their lives on the line and fought for it," Valentine said.

This year "Mass Moms" is preparing to add some more public activism to their advocacy with a demonstration taking place in Boston on a date to be announced soon. In what they're planning to call "Confetti," the moms will symbolically shred court-appointed guardian reports--which they feel are particularly unfair to protective parents--into little bits and toss them at the statehouse to call attention to the plight of protective mothers fighting for custody of their children.

In New York City, a group called V.O.W., or Voices of Women, has been working within the court system to try to provide legal counsel and one-on-one help for women. On a wider scale its mission is to "promote long-term systemic change by documenting institutional failures, testifying at hearings, creating position papers and meeting with local and state officials."

Both Valentine and Hannah say this is the right time to take the movement to the next level.

"The new president is a fatherless man with a good wife and they will hear us," said Valentine. "And if they don't hear us, Vice President Joe Biden worked on the violence against women act and he will hear us. And if they don't hear us we will keep going until they do hear us."

Mary Darcy is a multimedia producer/host and documentary filmmaker. She's a two time Gracie Award winner for her work with Kate Mulgrew on Herstory and The Sounds of Progress, public radio series about great women in science. Darcy is a co-owner in Uptown/Downtown Media, producers of Alloveralbany.com.



For more information:
Battered Mothers Custody Conference
http://www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org/

Battered Mothers Custody Conference California Protective Parents Association http://www.protectiveparents.com/research.html

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protest Against the grotesque human rights abuses against children by family courts

protest Against the grotesque human rights abuses against children by family courts.

On Mothers' Day May 9, 2010 Mothers of Lost Children and our supporters are gathering at Lafayette Park, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington DC in front of the White House at 11:00 am for a silent vigil to protest the grotesque human rights abuses against children by family courts. We will have a Proclamation asking the President to help us.

If we get our requested permit, those who are able and wish to will also march along 15th and 17th Streets with our signs.

The vigil will end at 3:00 pm. The organizers will continue to stand with our banner during the weeks following the vigil. Please go to http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103219810926&s=108&e=001lFSxyxohCPtPZJiIDbVPw_Wco_VdsQlbnrcRN3-4nManMQcSmYAzWl05uR2fdLmn0dg24XV395CGuFeSmHRvhWkddQyPRyyF7U_n0sEiPz3b3APq2dvnskNyLdfFv-ovAkcQ3VSj_-Y= for more information.

We hope everyone will come, but if you are are not able to get to DC, you can stand in vigil at your local family court. One domestic violence agency in Paterson NJ is having a rally in front of their family court on the Friday before Mothers' Day.

There is a bus coming from Albany NY to DC the night before Mothers' Day. Contact cppa001@aol.com if you would like to connect with East Coast organizers.

More Events:

1. Katie Tagle, whose baby was killed by his father in CA due to a terrible judicial decision, Kathleen Russell from Center for Judicial Excellence and John McLaughlin of Borders and McLaughlin will be on the Dr. Phil show. To go to the taping on Wed. March 24, sign up at http://www.drphil.com/shows/page/be_in_the_audience/

2. We invite you to the 16th Annual Northern CA Child Sexual Abuse Conference on April 9-10, 2010. For more information, go to http://www.protectiveparents.com/

3. Protest Parental Alienation Syndrome in the DSMIV by going to http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx

to submit your comments to the committee.

DCFS Nightmare story

DCFS Legally kidnapped............

In Virginia, my ex-husband called child services claiming I was harming my kids. They came to my house and..............

he had told the social worker, Tara Jorgenson, how he had gotten the bruises.None of this was ever documented They told my sons if they ever told me that I would go to Jail forever.

I want to start with telling you that the experiences of me and my children have made us strong. I know this is the ending but I feel it should be read first before the rest of the story. The unfairness that was executed on us does not hurt us anymore. I have 4 wonderful boys who have good grades, attend college and hold down jobs. They have loving relationships with me and my husband, each other, friends, and girlfriends. Now to start at the beginning of our nightmare.

The night my life fell apart. I had been working the swing shift as an industrial hydraulic mechanic. I went to pick my children up from my sister’s house and there was not an answer at the door. I then found myself surrounded by the Layton Utah police. They frisked me, and then asked me why I was there. I told them I was there to pick up my children. I was told to go home and there would be papers on the door explaining what was going on. I found documents stating my children had been taken into emergency custody.

A few days later we had the shelter hearing. I was accused of abusing my sons. I was accused of having gender identity issues since I was a mechanic. I was accused of using drugs. They kept asking me how my son had gotten some horizontal line bruises on his back. I did not know. I kept telling them this. A few months later I was told I could have my kids back if I admitted to abuse and went to counseling and went to parenting classes. I did this and regained my children back. A couple of months later I was accused of sexual abuse when my son fell off of a school toy, hitting his private area extremely hard causing him to bleed. They almost removed my children from me even though the accident happened at school! They could not find any evidence of abuse so they did not remove my children from my home but they did fondle and had over 5 people look at my son naked supposedly for a physical.

The next month they went to my son’s school and removed them from my home again. In the mean time I had gone to civil court and had charges dismissed against me for child abuse. I went thru all the crap for a second time and when I finished the court case and it was closed I left Utah that day with my children. By this time my credit was in the toilet because I was paying attorney after attorney in a fight to get my children back. I was using money that was to pay bills to pay attorneys. I lost my jobs. I am a service connected disabled veteran and it became even more difficult for me to gain employment. I did not know why. Until I applied to be a census worker this year and they said I had lied on my application about not having any convictions. I then requested a copy of my background check, and there in black and white it said I was guilty of child abuse. I ordered court transcripts and the judge dismissed the case, but someone put it in the system as a guilty verdict. This has prevented me from getting some high paying stable jobs unfairly. I lost a position at Chase, Beneficial, Countrywide and Wells Fargo. I had found a more appropriate job for a female and had gone to work in the banking industry; however they had prevented me from gaining employment to take care of my kids.

In Virginia, my ex-husband called child services claiming I was harming my kids. They came to my house and said what they found is not what had been described to them from the people in Utah. I then agreed to a New Horizons in Home Study. After the 10 hours per week in home study, observing me and my children I have not had any more interactions from the Children’s Services. I know they have been called by my ex-husband but due to the in-home observance they do not have a need to come back.

Last year my son, who is now a successful college student and working adult, told me that he had told the social worker, Tara Jorgenson, how he had gotten the bruises. Apparently my sisters step son was yelling at my kids to clean the house. So my son had gotten a bottle of Windex and was dusting and cleaning the TV. He was picked up and threw against the entertainment center. Rather than face me and tell me what had happened to my child my sister had taken my boys to the police station and told them she did not know where I was or how to get a hold of me. My second son who is turning 18 in a few weeks and will be starting college in September told me that he told the social workers and police the same story that the oldest son had told. None of this was ever disclosed to me. None of this was ever documented as them telling them how the bruises happened. They told my sons if they ever told me that I would go to Jail forever.

They told my kids that when the prosecutor asked them if I feed them that he was asking if I ever cooked dinner from scratch. Food that came from the freezer or out of a can did not count. They told them that the prosecutors were not talking about sandwiches, hotdogs or macaroni and cheese. I was supposed to grow vegetables for them and make homemade food for them. That I was a bad mother for feeding them already prepared food and canned vegetables. They told my boys when the prosecutor asked them if I took care of them he was really asking if they had a dad in their house to help take care of them. They filled my kids with lies and brainwashed them for court. They told my sons not to bath or brush their teeth while they were living in the children’s shelter. Then when they were placed in the foster homes they were out of practice of self care. When my sons were taken they had A’s in school. The Children’s services had report cards from a school my kids did not even attend to enter into court saying I did not go to parent conferences. My kids attended Edison Elementary; the report card is from Gramercy Elementary (where they attended while in state custody)! My son was returned back to me after my ex-husband broke his collar bone because he refused to take medication.

I have the documentation which shows the courts mistake on my record. I can fax these or scan them and email them. I will sign waivers for you to obtain documents from dcfs and the new horizon home study. My sons will be willing to testify or sign notarized documents as to what was said to them and by them in state custody. My sons will sign documents about the abuse that took place without my knowledge and that they had disclosed this not only to social workers but also to police. I will be in attendance at your rally in DC at the White House. I live in the DC area if there is any more I can do to help your cause please let me know.

Why Officials of the "Commonwealth of Virginia" can robb, steal, kidnap and kill with impunity, and often do so

Officials of the "Commonwealth of Virginia" can robb, steal, kidnap and kill with impunity, and often do so.............

People often say that it is impossible that Virginia State Officials committed crimes by kidnapping my daughter, because then they would be sued.

What they don't understand is that Virginia is the only state among the 50 states which has not waived its own sovereign immunity. This means that a Virginia state official can rob, steal, kidnap or even kill you, and will not face any trouble for this, as long as he is acting in his "official capacity".
Shelby Roberts proudly displays my daughter Shamema Sloan shortly after kidnapping her
The Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives each individual state immunity from suit by citizens of other states.
Since then, and especially in the aftermath of the American Civil War, 49 of the 50 states have waived their own sovereign immunity. This means that, for example, if you get hit by a truck driven by an employee of New York State, you can sue the state for injuries.
However, if that truck was driven by an employee of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Commonwealth is immune from suit, especially if the truck driver did not hit you by accident but rather ran you down with intent to kill you.
Because of being shielded from any sort of prosecution, Virginias officials know that they can commit criminal acts and therefore often do so. The court and judicial system of Virginia shields them from any sort of prosecution.
It is for this reason that Virginia officials have even been so bold as to venture into other states, kidnap children and bring them to Virginia. The parents of the kidnapped children never get them back.
If the child on her own runs away and escapes to another state, as Sara Wilson did a few weeks ago, Virginia officials then invoke the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution and the interstate compact and have the child extradited back, even though the child has no family members in Virginia. (Sara Wilson is still hiding out in Queens and has eluded capture thus far.)
When they kidnap children from other countries, as they did in the case of my daughter, Virginia officials have the best of all possible worlds, because they do not represent a country and therefore do not have to obey international law, and yet they are shielded by sovereign immunity from being prosecuted under US law as well.
Virginia even elected a known cocaine dealer, Charles Robb, to the United States Senate.
Here is a story about people who have been killed by corrupt Virginia State officials, and their families have no recourse: Virginia Psychiatric System Investigated. In it, an official of the "Commonwealth" which kidnapped my daughter from Abu Dhabi says: "We don't want the feds continuing to come into Virginia and tell us how to run our facilities''.
Sam Sloan

The sickness of Arlington Virginia, and Judge Esther Wiggins.

Our child was wrongly taken from us by greed, corruption and connections!

Invasion of the Child Snatchers!

My concern now is for Arlington Virginia, because I think Wiggins poses a risk to local families and children.

I think that all of us who have been done wrong by Judge Easther Wiggins;Lyle have a right to expose her, and also to publicize the names of other people, such as CPS social workers, who have used her to steal our children from us.

If she had listened to me, my daughter would not have been abandoned
by her father for all those years.

Watch the videos below:

Wiggins poses a risk to local families

Invasion of the Child Snatchers

The sickness of Arlington Virginia, and Esther Wiggins. Nancy's Story

The Court failed to give appropriate consideration to and grant custody of Sabrina to her relatives, specifically Christopher Slitor and her maternal grandmother, Louise Hey. It was established by a preponderance of the evidence that Christopher Slitor or Louise Hey were willing and qualified to receive and care for Sabrina; were willing to have a positive, continuous relationship with Sabrina; were committed to providing a permanent, suitable home for Sabrina; and, were willing and had the ability to protect Sabrina from abuse and neglect. Further, the preponderance of the evidence established that Louise Hey would submit herself to any terms and conditions which would promote Sabrina’s interest and welfare. The Department’s failure to follow through with its affirmative duty and to meet its burden of proof to investigate all reasonable options for placement of Sabrina with relatives, specifically the Department’s failure to explore many identified potential relative placements other than Louise Hey.

FULL STORY HERE

Investigation against corruption at Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA)

Testimony Calling for Independent Investigation of CFSA
Before the DC Counsel CFSA Oversight Hearing of Mar. 11, 2010
-- Roy Morris, Esq.--
See Testimony here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuCZ1qXcEl0

we can do something about this use/sex-corruption-coveruop- criminal scandals that have affects our children!

you understand the custody-visitation beinggiven to users/abusers.... and the corruption that islikely connected to our children being used and abused!
There is at least one (and likely more) Virginia-DC link - child protective service corruption, cover-up and criminals!
Testimony by Roy Morris on 11 March 2010 in DC!
The CPS Executive is a "sexual offender" working with children in the upper office of DC CPS and personally helped abuser father cover up abuse (sexual and medical harm and drugging!)

there is a very big VA-DC corruption connection... stayed tuned!

Chairman Wells, and Members of the Committee, my name is Roy Morris, and I
am here as a public interest advocate. Today I urge the City Council to initiate an
independent investigation by either Federal Authorities or an independent counsel, like Mr. Bennett, to look into the depth and breadth of the corruption at Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA).
It has been almost a year since I last came before you highlighting the case of
how CFSA failed a now six-year- old child living in Ward 2. It is my opinion that by any
reasonable standard, CFSA failed to properly investigate complaints filed by mandated reporters in that case. In this case, CFSA went out of its way to avoid finding abuse and neglect.
My experience supports many of the allegations found in the December 6, 2008
letter of the “Concerned Social Workers.” That insightful letter was sent to the
Washington Post, Chairman Wells, and Federal Judge Hogan. It spoke of unethical CFSA practices in closing cases, including cases being closed by administrators and lawyers at CFSA.
For the suffering little girl mentioned, her situation appears to me to have become worse due to CFSA’s failures. Those failures have left her in unnecessary danger with severe chronic neutropenia of undiagnosed cause -- a life-threatening very rare blood disease, which evidence strongly suggests is induced by drugs commonly used for covering up abuse. CFSA ignored these and other facts.
When I came before you a year ago, I sincerely believed that the irregularities we
had witnessed were simply caused by an agency that did not have the will or skill to do
its’ job. As the irregularities have become greater and certain CFSA employee
actions more antithetical to the agency’s purpose..... including attempts to prevent
other institutions from finding abuse and providing help for this child –- an innocent
explanation no longer seems plausible to me.
Disturbing facts have come to light that give answers, I believe, as to why high
ranking CFSA employees have abdicated their responsibilities, interfered with the
CFSA investigations, and, also in my opinion, have acted beholden and protective of
abusers and their attorneys.
Today, we must take a stand to save this child, and others like her, by giving them
immediate relief and safety. Organizations from around the world and the US,
including members of Congress, have been made aware and are looking for this
situation to be corrected.

Will Washington DC once again make the headlines and
have to explain why another child’s life was lost while this agency looked the other way?
The explanation for this corruption that I refer to is both disturbing and appalling.
One very egregious example involves one key high-ranking official of CFSA. Not a
widely known fact, it involves a high ranking CFA official who was arrested for a
sexual offense, and went into a sex offender diversion program that included: one year supervised probation, and psychological evaluation.
Why would a person with such a background be allowed to work in CFSA, or any
other agency involved with the welfare of children?
How was the District made aware of this person’s background, and what did it do
about it? What is the magnitude of the impact this little known fact can have on such a
person’s independence to advocate for abused children, rather than for suspected abusers -- who would be inclined to use this information to pressure such a CFSA official to prematurely close and improperly dismiss abuse cases?
Only through an independent investigation can the depth and breadth of this
problem be uncovered, and the damage it has caused to the children of Washington DC
corrected. In the interim, we ask that the DC Counsel order the immediate reopening, investigation, and corrective action in all cases, including the case of the six year old neutropenic little girl, that were wrongfully interfered with by those corrupted employees.
Background
Based on my understanding, the six year old child lives isolated in a small onebedroom
apartment, in a windowless bedroom, sleeps in a queen sized bed that takes up most of that windowless room. She has – on a number of occasions – told medical and psychological personnel and forensic interviewers that her father sleeps in her bed, the “poppo gets harder and harder,” and that her father does “bad touch” while pointing to her inner thighs. Consistent with medical harm, she now has a very rare blood disorder, that only appeared soon as she disclosed that her “papa gives me green medicine to make me sick. But don’t tell him I told you.” Dr. Joy Silberg, a mandated reporter who is an internationally recognized specialist in abused children, submitted a written complaint to CFSA. However, even after CFSA social workers claim to have visited this one bedroom apartment that is used as an a multibedroom living quarters, and examined these documented facts, that was not enough for CFSA to investigate further. The six year old child suffers from a very rare blood disease called severe chronic neutropenia that can be induced with drugs, – a condition similar to AIDS –that leaves
the body with little defense to fatal infection. With this disease, one day the patient can look fine, ....the next day catch an infection,.... and the next day die from the infection that your and my body can easily tolerate, but hers cannot. However, when the father failed to take the child to a hematologist/oncologist on his own for months – it hardly raised an eyebrow at CFSA. This is despite the fact that at least two medical experts had expressed concern that the suspected abuser failed to take such basic diagnostic actions. One of the world’s leading pediatric severe chronic neutropenia expert researcher and physician who is the Co-Director of the Severe Chronic Neutropenia International Registry, has reviewed the same records as CFSA, and concluded that the child’s severe neutropenia is likely due to toxins/drugs – including the type that a neurologist, such as the father, would have access to. Again, this CFSA did little for the
child, and failed to follow its own protocol for independent evaluations.
Based on the records, a sexual abuse investigation at Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC) appears to me to have been made purposely superficial and misdirected by the unexplainable actions of CFSA. The CFSA social worker involved -- who had already preliminarily concluded that there was no abuse – allowed the suspected father to accompany the little girl to CNMC. Once there, the CFSA social worker appears to have instructed CNMC not to interview the child, misinformed them by telling them that the mother was the source of the reports about abuse, and failed to mention that the written complaints were submitted to CFSA by multiple mandated reporters. As any person familiar with sexual abuse investigations knows, an interview can only be successfully done without the abuser present and such an interview is critically important to such an investigation. To make matters worse, CFSA used that superficial sexual abuse investigation as a fraudulent basis for claiming in other venues
that the medical neglect concerns involving the severe neutropenia were “unfounded.”
In addition, even without speaking to the child, the records show that CNMC diagnosed her with “post traumatic stress disorder,” and recommended regular therapy for the child but there is no record of any follow-up by the father or CFSA to assure that therapy was provided. That alone should have been a basis for finding neglect.
After that very brief irregular investigation was quickly opened and closed as “unfounded,” a high level executive of CFSA demanded medical records from Georgetown University Hospital – where the CFSA request made the material isrepresentation that the child was a “District of Columbia committed ward.” When questioned, Dr. Roque Gerald wrote a reply claiming that the high level CFSA executive was simply the using a generic form – but he did not explain why a generic form having such a material misrepresentation was used. No explanation was given why additional inquiry was being made by CFSA after it supposedly had closed the earlier investigation as unfounded. Were those earlier cases really closed? Where they really found to be unfounded? Was CFSA having second thoughts? Did CFSA know that the records it received from Georgetown were incomplete because they did not include all test results? How many other instances has CFSA used this generic form to obtain information knowing that it contained misrepresentations of the status of the child.
When asked for a report on the investigations, one CFSA official told us in writing that we would get a summary report. Later, when asked again, we were told that such reports are not provided for “unfounded cases.” However, the suspected abuser father received not just one, but three different reports – including one faxed to him at 6:30pm in the evening from CFSA’s offices. Those reports were never forwarded to the mother.
in what appears to me to be a wholesale cover-up, CFSA refused to provide copies of any documents in response to a FOIA request, including even documents it had filed publicly, documents it had previously exchanged with the abusing Father and his counsel, and as well as those it had exchanged with the mother and her counsel.
No attempt was made to even provide a Vaughn index, nor redacted versions of the documents – even though required by law for documents even when they contain FOIA exempt information. Furthermore, given that CFSA’s FOIA statistics from the City’s Secretaries office indicate that a complete denial of a FOIA request by CFSA is rare [none out of 19 FOIA requests in FY2009 were denied in whole]1 – it only adds to further evidence that CFSA is attempting to cover up the corruption in its ranks.
Disgraced & Shameful Judge Easther Wiggins & GAL Deborah S. Olin, Do you remember Little Ariana Leilani daughter of Dr. Ariel King? See what you have done to her........Just a reminder to you , Judge Bruce D. White, Judge Finch, &......that Ariana & her Mom (Dr. King) became thousands of Moms & Children who are not going any where til they see justice being served.

House votes to impeach US Judge

House votes to impeach US judge from Louisiana

FULL STORY IN: Washington Post House votes to impeach US judge

By LARRY MARGASAK

The Associated Press

Thursday, March 11, 2010; 6:26 PM

WASHINGTON -- The House voted unanimously Thursday to impeach a U.S. district judge from Louisiana, who lawmakers said avoided likely criminal charges related to alleged payoffs in part because the statute of limitations expired.

A Federal Judge who came up from the lower courts, and who apparently had a history of corruption. As usual, the statement is made that a small minority give all the overwhelming number of honest judges a bad name. While I am sure that is probably true, just think of the tremendous amount of damage this one judge has done to individuals who believed the judiciary is 100% honest.

If you read this news story and see of what he has been accused, think about the questionable situations of which you know, here in Virginia.

A Satirical Look At Esther Wiggins - Arlington Court Judge

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My beautiful child was taken from me when she was a year and a half.

I want as many people around to know that economics is the factor that determines who gains custody of children.

If you do not have the money to hire competent lawyers, you will lose.

I told Esther Wiggins Lyles that my daughters father was threatening to send her to France, and erase me from my daughters life. I told her in testimony and in writting. She did not believe me.In 2000 my daughter was shipped off to france and abandonned by her father for over five years.

He sent Judge Lyles fraudulent letters maintaining an elaborate lie, that our daughter was living with him in the United States.

He did this to continue collecting child support and also because he knows Lyles is stupid enough to automatically believe everything he says.

Lyles is very proud, and will never admit making a mistakeBecause of her pride, this man will go unpunished.

The community has the right to know what She did to my daughter and what this has done to my life.

I live with a deep pain every day, I think of my daughter day and night, and the worst part is that I know that I can do nothing for this poor little girl

Any human of morality and conscience will agree that Esther Wiggins Lyles is harmful to the State of Virginia......

KS wrote:

Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:06:11 -0500>

From: cwes@.....com>

To: va.justlaw@live.com>

Subject: TERRIBLE RANKING for Esther Wiggins Lyles and James F. Almand

Both the Judges, Esther Wiggins Lyles (Family Court, Arlington, VA) and James F. Almand (District Court, Arlington, VA) are just rubber stampers.

They do not follow Virginia statutes.

They very probably commit ex parte communications with County employees and/or simply do not follow the dictates of COMMON SENSE and HONESTY when arriving at their decisions. They do not follow the STATUTES when arriving at their decisions.

Tear down Corruptions in Virginia Judicial System

Mr. Albo; It's time.......
For Judge Bruce D. White to step down

Dear Mr. Albo;
Judge – hiring and firing expert and chief, Delegate
DaveAlbo@aol.com

When evidence emerges that a Judge is abusing his/her judicial office for his own advantage, the integrity of the judicial system becomes compromised, and the House of Representatives has the duty to investigate the matter and take the appropriate actions to end the abuse and restore confidence in the judicial system.

It is not a satisfying task to impeach a judge, yet when a judge so clearly abuses his office, as in the case of Judge Bruce D. White of Fairfax County it becomes necessary to take the appropriate action in order to restore the confidence of the American people in the judicial system. The Constitution gives the House of Representatives the power and responsibility to impeach federal judges and it is a power that Congress utilizes only in cases involving very serious allegations of misconduct. The Task Force on Judicial Impeachment, the House Judiciary Committee and the full House of Representatives should work together in a bipartisan fashion to ensure that rapid action is taken to Eradicate corruption in our judicial system.

Below are different cases, different people who were abused by Judge Bruce D. White......
We think.....It's time for this Judge to step down.
More stories to come..........

Sign Pettition - Biased Judge Bruce D. White of Fairfax Circuit Court Must be Discharged immediately.

My life is currently in danger because of corrupted judge Bruce D. White!

Immoral Judgment by Fairfax County Judge Bruce D. White - Washington Post

I am an EX husband....my Experience with Judge White

I was insulted and discriminated by Judge Bruce D. White for no reason.

I have some real hard evidence against Judge Bruce D. White. said.......

Judges knowingly allowed perjured testimony

Judge Mary Waterstone is Charged with 4 felonies.

She is accused of allowing witnesses to lie..........

Do you see a similarity between Judge Waterstone's felony charges with "JUDGE BRUCE D. WHITE" of Fairfax County??????????? Shouldn't he be charged????

I have some real hard evidence against Judge Bruce D. White. said.......White's misconducts was even more apparent than Judge Waterstone. Seeing White in action on my proceeding I am convinced that Judge Bruce D. White is notorious: worse than Ex Judge Waterstone.

How about Judge Leslie Alden who allowed deceiving man to demonstrate forged Documents, in her court room....under Oath......... ????????

Judge Charged With Allowing Perjury Argues For Immunity From Prosecution

Michigan recently indicted one former judge Wayne County Circuit judge (Mary Waterstone) for allowing perjured testimony during a criminal trail..

the judge and a prosecutor knowingly allowed perjured testimony in the first trial

she allowed the jury to receive testimony she knew to be false.

It is astonishing that a judge would blame a defense lawyer for attempting to learn the truth -- a truth the prosecution had a duty to disclose and that the defendant had a constitutional right to know. It is even more astonishing that a judge would conspire with a prosecutor to conceal a violation of that right, placing a defendant at risk of being convicted on the basis of perjured testimony. For that judge to claim to be unbiased is more than astonishing; it is sickening....................

There is a huge cover up in the Judge Waterstone corruption case. Judge Waterstone has been fixing cases with prosecuters for her entire time on the bench...........

Judge Mary Waterstone, Prosecutor, and Two Inkster Cops Face Life In Prison
Detroit -- Wayne County Circuit Judge Mary Waterstone (retired), former Assistant County prosecutor Karen Plants, and Inkster (MI) cops Scott Rechtzigel and Robert McArthur were each charged with several counts of misconduct while in office in an indictment handed down on March 24. Plants, Rechtzigel, and McArthur also face multiple counts of perjury, each of which carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.
Wayne County Judge Mary Waterstone
(retired)
The charges stem from a March 2005 cocaine bust involving Alexander Aceval and Richardo Pena, both of whom are currently serving prison sentences. Plants and the two cops covered up the fact one of the prosecution's witnesses was a paid police informant. Judge Waterstone than signed an order, banning the defendant's attorneys from accessing the paid informant's phone records, which would have shown he had spoken to the officers.
SOURCE: The Detroit News

Dr. Ariel King Virginia Judicial Corruption and Supreme Court Case Documents‏

We have seen and experienced so much. We hold on to hope that one day, these human rights atrocities will never happen to another family or child again.

The issues of court corruption, children's human rights, due process, domestic violence, child abuse, court litigation abuse... are all issues cited in the supreme court briefs (1)

Supreme Court Brief (2)

Supreme Court Brief (3)

Arlington JD&R Document

phony trials, extortion by lawyers

America's Corrupt Legal System
Rigged courts, bribed judges, phony trials, extortion by lawyers, and over 2 million prisoners in the USA gulag
by Les Sachs

The recent pattern of American violations of international law are ultimately based in the corruption of the USA domestic legal system. Phony USA courts are very dangerous even for travellers and visitors to America, who can easily wind up among the USA's more than 2 million prisoners, or lose all their family's possessions to corrupt American lawyers.

All world citizens should know how the corrupt USA legal system, is a danger to every traveller, visitor, and guest worker from overseas, and to every individual who takes the risky step of entering upon American territory. Just ask the overseas families of prisoners who were put to death inside the USA, with their embassies never even being informed that they were arrested - or the many foreign people serving hugely long prison terms in America, after they were jailed on flimsy tainted "evidence" from criminal snitches.The reality is that the United States of America, which proclaims itself the "land of freedom", has the most dishonest, dangerous and crooked legal system of any developed nation. Legal corruption is covering America like a blanket.The corruption of the USA legal system is well-known, but also well-hidden, by the news services of America's corporate-owned media. The US media companies are afraid both of reprisal, and of the social revolution that would come from exposing the truth.

Here is what the US media companies know, but are afraid to tell you about American "justice".

Reform on Virginia General Assembly 2010 agenda‏

Domestic Relations

HB 14 Domestic relations cases; witness refusal to answer question on ground that it may self-incriminate.

HB 39 Bigamy; person found guilty may be ordered by court to make restitution to other party of marriage.

HB 40 Disabled parent; cannot be guilty of criminal nonsupport if child is in necessitous circumstances.

HB 66 Child and spousal support; court to appoint vocational expert to conduct testing and interviews.

HB 67 Domestic relations cases; party/witness refusal to answer question on ground may self-incriminate.

HB 146 Child support; court may order continuation for child over age 18 who is attending college.

HB 165 Virginia Military Parents Equal Protection Act; stay of proceedings.

HB 216 Assault and battery against a family or household member; protective order, penalty.

HB 377 Equitable distribution; monetary award in a divorce case is enforceable in same manner as judgment.

HJ 55 Constitutional amendment; repeals 2006 referendum dealing with marriage (first reference).

SB 69 Surrogacy; permits contract to be entered into by an unmarried person, a surrogate, etc.

SB 157 Preliminary removal orders; required to specify frequency, location, and duration of visitation.

SB 161 Divorce proceedings; service requirements and waiver of notice of further proceedings.

Legal Kidnapping in Virginia Family Courts

Legal Kidnapping in Virginia Family Courts

on December 17, facing the Judicial Subcommittees of the Virginia House and Senate Committees for Courts of Justice in Richmond General Assembly Building, an attorney from the District of Columbia named Roy Morris spoke to press for the summon up of Arlington County J&DR Chief Judge Esther Wiggins-Lyles,

No Justice, Due process or protection for children Mr. Roy Morris declared on December 17th, 2009.

THE HAND OUT by Mr. Morris …..Reputation in DC area of violating children & Mothers human rights with ex parte hearings, without legal representation, or due process for Mother or child.
Illustrative cases of poor Judgments & Decisions

…Mothers like:
Naomi Parrish,

Nancy Hey,

Benita Washington

and…

Dr. Ariel King.

Speech by

Mr. Roy Morris

Judge Leslie Alden- Fairfax County Circuit Court

Judge Leslie Alden allowed deceiving man to demonstrate forged Documents, under Oath.........

in regards of Judge Leslie Alden .....My Lawyer put my Ex husband on the stand and asked for his Driver’s License in the Judge Alden's Court room. Under oath of course, he presented a fake Washington DC, Driver’s License!!!!!!!!!

The fake Driver’s License had the Holliday Inn Hotel address in Washington DC with the room number!!!!!!!! The forged Drivers license was too evident, like printing $3.00 bill and try to shop with it.

Judge Leslie Alden let him to deceit under Oath.

The man testified that yes I’ve been living in Fairfax County for the 5 years (The address that was given by him to the Court & Dept. of Child Support for 5 years), but because I’m traveling for business to Washington DC , I often stay in this Holiday inn Hotel ....Hummm usually staying in the same room, so I got the Driver’s License with the Hotel address!!!!!!!

First of all from his apartment in Fairfax county to Washington DC is only 30 minutes drive, second of all Obtaining Driver’s License with the Hotel address?????

Judge Leslie Alden knowingly allowed perjured testimony in her court room.....

How bizarre is that?

Erratic and Legally Challenged
Although Judge Alden seems generally polite and respectful (better than other judges), her understanding of the law and concern for accurately following the law is very weak.

I have seen her invent non-existent rules and conditions concerning quantum meruit (a type of contract case) so as to screw a guy out of $50,000. Even though the law was clear, she was utterly confused about what the legal requirements of quantum meruit are, and announced an opinion that based her decision on non-existent requirements. It was clear to me that she really did not care all that much about what the law says, but was more interested in her own opinions of what the law should say. That is, she paid no respect to the precedents, but just made up "Alden's Law" to suit her own fancy.

Fairfax delegation selects judges

By Alan Cooper

December 15th, 2009 ·

Fairfax Circuit Court, Judicial Elections
The Fairfax delegation to the General Assembly has selected General District Judge Lorraine Nordlund and substitute judges Michael F. Devine and Brett A. Kassabian to fill pending vacancies on the county circuit court.

Del. David Albo, the Republican who chairs the House Courts of Justice Committee, said members of the delegation interviewed candidates for the positions last night.

Under the delegation’s procedures each delegate and senator gets a vote, and the candidate with a majority of those votes gets the nod.
All members of the delegation accept the vote of the majority and back the candidates in the General Assembly, where support by the local delegation is tantamount to election.
Nordlund was elected to the general district bench in 1996. She is a former prosecutor in the county, and her practice before joining the bench included domestic relations and criminal and employment matters.
Devine is a partner in the firm of Devine, Connell & Sheldon PLC and has tried more than 100 jury cases since he began practicing in the county in 1991.
Kassabian is a principal in Kassabian & Kassabian PLC and started his career as a Fairfax prosecutor in 1985. He has a general practice that includes criminal defense and personal injury work.The Fairfax Bar Association’s judicial nominating committee highly recommended Devine and Kassabian and found Nordlund to be qualified.
Kassabian and Devine were two of the three most popular candidates in an electronic vote on the candidates by 714 of the association’s 1,715 members. The second most popular candidate, General District Judge Michael J. Cassidy, was highly recommended by the nominating committee.
The votes for each of the candidates are here. Members have a choice of voting “endorse,” “not endorse” or “no opinion” if they do not know enough about the candidate to vote one way or the other.
The vacancies were created by the retirements of Judges Gaylord L. Finch Jr., Stanley P. Klein and Michael P. McWeeny.

Just seven federal judges have been formally disciplined in a decade, based on court statistics and documents:

Judging the judges
Does secret process let errant jurists get away with breaking the law?
By LISE OLSENHOUSTON CHRONICLE
Dec. 13, 2009, 5:31PM

Only seven judges in the last decade have faced formal disciplinary action as a result of the nation's secretive misconduct review process. In that same period, citizens filed more than 6,000 formal misconduct complaints, the Chronicle found.

Judicial misconduct rules say that when facts are reasonably in dispute, a chief circuit judge can form an investigating committee.

One federal judge got arrested for driving drunk while dressed in drag. Others stood accused of frequenting prostitutes, a strip club and a shady escort service; sexually assaulting female court employees; sucker-punching a stranger; or slapping a spouse.

Federal judges have made illegal campaign contributions, falsified court records, and illegally concealed cash gifts and gambling debts. Many more have engaged in unethical or irresponsible acts, according to an investigation by the Houston Chronicle of more than 3,000 judicial misconduct matters nationwide and analysis of related records over 10 years.
Most get away with it.
Only seven judges in the last decade have faced formal disciplinary action as a result of the nation's secretive misconduct review process. In that same period, citizens filed more than 6,000 formal misconduct complaints, the Chronicle found.

One judge was punished anonymously — shielded from shame by the same peers who voted for discipline.
Just two judges who admitted to breaking laws were recommended for the maximum punishment: impeachment and removal from office.

Most disciplinary reviews remain forever shrouded in secrecy to protect federal judges' privacy and ensure their reputations remain unsullied by scurrilous or absurd allegations from prisoners or disgruntled litigants.

“The federal judiciary takes its ethical responsibilities with the utmost seriousness,” said Chief Judge Anthony Scirica, a spokesman for the Judicial Conference of the United States in a statement to the Chronicle. “Every misconduct complaint is carefully reviewed and results in a public written order by a judge. Years of experience has shown that the overwhelming majority of misconduct complaints are from (unhappy) litigants. … Yet, when circumstances warrant, Circuit Judicial Councils have not been hesitant to impose a variety of public and private sanctions, as history has demonstrated.”
Other experts argue that disciplinary probes of high-profile or even criminal allegations should be more open for the sake of the public and the judges.
“Any type of misconduct impacts upon the integrity of judges and erodes public confidence in the federal judiciary,” said U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., who has fought for years to improve judicial accountability.

Appointed for life
The nation's 1,700 full-time federal judges constitute a caste of elite jurists hand-picked for the difficult and sometimes dangerous job of enforcing our nation's laws and protecting our rights.
Appointed for life by U.S. presidents, district and circuit judges can be removed only by acts of Congress. Bankruptcy and magistrate judges serve limited terms but enjoy formidable power over life, liberty and the assets of others.

Yet, when it comes to misconduct reviews, federal judges privately judge themselves. At the pinnacle of the power structure stand chief circuit judges — a dozen men and women who quietly dismiss about 98 percent of the 700 complaints that arrive annually at regional U.S. courthouses scattered from San Francisco to New Orleans to Washington, D.C., the Chronicle found.
In 2006, a Supreme Court-appointed committee, formed in response to congressional complaints, released a report on the secret disciplinary system. The committee, led by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, found supervising judges handled run-of-the-mill matters well, but committed embarrassing errors in controversial cases.
Judges botched five of 17 high-profile reviews, the committee said, describing that “error rate” as “too high” and recommending standardized rules for disciplinary matters. In the aftermath, the Judicial Conference adopted the first national rules on handling complaints against federal judges and, for the first time, all circuit courts made complaint forms available on Web sites, Scirica noted.
Chief judges alone generally decide whether to conduct even a “limited review” — which usually involves reading case documents or sometimes asking a judge to respond. Rarely, those judges form committees to formally investigate — but findings are almost never revealed.
Russell Wheeler, a fellow at the Brookings Institution who helped research the Breyer committee report, told the Chronicle: “If there are credible public allegations that a judge has done something wrong, you ought to show the public you're dealing with it, either to establish the wrongdoing or to clear the name of the judge.”
Former U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent, of Galveston, was convicted of obstruction of justice this year after admitting he lied to judges who in 2007 secretly investigated allegations that he had molested female court employees. In March 2007, his former case manager, Cathy McBroom, filed a formal complaint accusing Kent of repeatedly trying to sexually assault her. But the 5th Circuit's judicial council first described the matter only as “sexual harassment” in a September 2007 reprimand.
The 5th Circuit has never released its investigative records. Ultimately, a criminal probe was launched, but only after the Chronicle documented McBroom's allegations and only after McBroom went to the FBI. Kent was subsequently impeached and imprisoned.
Other documents show Kent had drawn complaints about bias and bursts of temper that were quietly and anonymously handled years before his admitted alcohol, emotional and judgment problems landed him behind bars.
Even when criminal behavior is uncovered, some investigating judges have decided not to share it with the public or police.
In fact, the Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section, whose prosecutors specialize in rare criminal allegations involving federal judges, has no public record to show whether any case has ever been referred to them as a result of a judicial disciplinary review, DOJ spokeswoman Laura Sweeney told the Chronicle.
A case in point
Few cases better illustrate the judges' insistence on secrecy than that of former Colorado Chief District Judge Edward Nottingham.
Records show that Nottingham faced at least seven formal complaints over the years, initially for abuse of power and bias, and later for potential criminal allegations. None resulted in formal disciplinary action or prosecution.
Yet in 2007 and 2008, enough had surfaced about Nottingham to prompt creation of two investigating committees, documents released by the Denver-based 10th Circuit show.
First, he was reported to have run up a $3,000 bar tab at a strip club and claimed he drank too much to remember doing it. A disabled woman alleged he'd threatened her over a handicapped parking spot. Later he was accused of frequenting prostitutes and an escort service, using his government-issued cell phone to make dates with call girls, and cruising porn sites on courthouse computers.
“This conduct, whether alleged or admitted, has brought disrepute to the judiciary. To contend otherwise is to declare that, ‘The King Can do No Wrong,' ” one of four complaints said.
The two committees submitted a secret report to the 10th Circuit judicial council on Oct. 8, 2008.
Two days later, a self-described prostitute filed another complaint, claiming Nottingham coached her “to lie to federal investigators” about having paid her “in exchange for sex.”
Abruptly, Nottingham resigned. He said his decision was “in the public interest and the interest of the federal judiciary.”
The misconduct complaints were dismissed as moot. The disciplinary system does not apply to ex-judges, and its findings and recommendations were never released to the public.
Nottingham, now an attorney in Colorado, did not respond to a request for comment.
“This is a democracy. People ought to know what public officials are doing — even those who have life tenure,” said Steven Lubet, a law professor at Northwestern University. “The public would be better served if the circuit councils and the chief judges provided more and better information.”
Most federal judicial misconduct complaints deserve dismissal. Unreadable rants regularly arrive from litigants or prisoners who misuse the process or fling outrageous claims.
Some involve alleged or perceived criminal behavior outside the courtroom — matters supervising judges are often reluctant to investigate.
In one complaint, U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa M. Smith, assigned to the Southern District of New York, stood accused of encouraging her nephew to cover up knowledge of a summer night's attack on teenage skinny-dipping girls — and hitting a distraught mother who questioned Smith about it, records show.
Smith was approached at a beach campfire by the woman, who swore at the judge and her family, and claimed they were lying to protect others who assaulted her daughters and stole their clothes.
Smith struck the woman and screamed: “You can't call me a (expletive) liar — I'm a U.S. magistrate judge,” a related civil lawsuit alleged.
The judge later denied she'd intentionally hit anyone, records show. “The plaintiff was screaming and yelling obscenities in front of the judge's children … and there was contact between the plaintiff and the judge, whether intentional or not, we'll never know,” Smith's attorney, Kevin Hulslander, told the Chronicle.
A ‘private dispute'
Judicial misconduct rules say that when facts are reasonably in dispute, a chief circuit judge can form an investigating committee. The chief circuit judge for the New York-based 2nd Circuit alone reviewed the complaint and dismissed it in 2007 as a “private dispute between private citizens, one of whom happens to be a judge.” He did not name the judge.
His order concluded that alleged illegal behavior should not automatically be classified as judicial misconduct, even if it involved a crime: “Categorization of an offense under state law is not a sufficient basis for a finding of misconduct,” wrote Dennis Jacobs, chief judge of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
In December 2008, a civil jury found Smith had committed battery, but awarded no damages.
In February 2009, a New York City bankruptcy judge, known for presiding over the breakup of Lehman Brothers, allegedly slapped his wife, who phoned 911, records show. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James M. Peck was arrested, and his wife was taken to a hospital. But charges were dropped after she decided not to cooperate. The judge's attorney described it as a “private matter” and got the record sealed. Peck's attorney did not respond to requests for comment.
The New York 2nd Circuit's chief judge did no public review of the matter.
In February 2008, Boston-based U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Somma, wearing a cocktail dress, was arrested after crashing his Mercedes-Benz into a pickup in New Hampshire. Somma later was convicted of drunken driving and, after taking six weeks of paid leave, resigned.
The judge did not respond to requests for comment.
It's unknown whether there was any formal disciplinary review.
Susan Goldberg, deputy circuit executive, told the Chronicle: “Information pertaining to the referenced matter is confidential.”
Sarah Hinman Ryan of the Albany Times Union contributed to this report.
mailto:lise.olsen@chron.com

Judge Grodner is up to be Re Appointed on December 14 2009

Re: the Honorable Chief Judge Teena Grodner
Judge Teena Grodner is up for reelection on Monday 12/14/09

Posted by: Judicial Activist ()
Date: December 12, 2009 09:53PM

The judicial interviews for the local Northern Virginia judges will be this Monday, Dec 14 from 5 pm - 9 pm in Fairfax. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD - ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT JUDGE GRODNER WHO WISHES TO SPEAK NEEDS TO BE PRESENT MONDAY, OTHERWISE THIS JUDGE WILL BE RE-APPOINTED!! The Judicial interviews will be held at the NVRC (Northern Virginia Regional Commission) building. The NVRC is on the 5th floor of 3060 Williams Drive Fairfax, VA. That building is South of Merrifield. The conference room is at the back of their offices. I am sure they will have someone at the front desk who will be checking people in. That person should be able to direct you to the room. The Google web site for the map is [maps.google.com] The Judicial interviews are scheduled from 5 PM to 9 PM. Plan to be there a little early.

Re: the Honorable Chief Judge Teena Grodner
Posted by: Ashley ()
Date: December 11, 2009 02:57PM
my sister was an amazing girl, my mother did raise myself and my older sister whom are both making great lives for ourselves. All of these awful comments, these people dont know my family, we loved Sydney, she did make a bad choice and the fact, most dont know, she did not first shoot heroin into herself, someone else did, that person is already DEAD from an overdose, the peole Sydney was with the night she died had hours to save her, they did NOTHING! They called our family and lied about who they were and where my sister was, we were on the other side of the country and could only beg these people to bring her to the hospital, TEN, count them, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ten hours later they realized she was not okay and brought her to the hospital, but it was too late, she was brain dead and died shortly after. We have to live with those memories! Sydney, made the choice, when she was a child, and reality is that it could have been anyone child. NO ONE can watch their child 24/7.

Re: the Honorable Chief Judge Teena Grodner
Posted by: Ashley ()
Date: December 11, 2009 03:34PM
rehab or jail would have been better, 18 yes, but a child, as any adult knows, that is exactly what an 18year old is. My sister was ill, she did not deserve to die, she loved life, she made a big mistake when she was 16 and all it took was one time to become addicted, and although we are told not to do things, like drugs, speeding, smoking, they all kill, but im sure we have all done one of them before. My sister was so smart, in so many ways, she greaduated high school a year early, she was funny and soooo beautiful. She had the biggest heart and loved her highschool sweetheart so much that after him begging her time and time again she finally caved and tried heroin, which we know now he was already addicted too. NO ONE SANE wants this for someone, and all the horrible things people have wrote, you do not know my sister or my family. Evil comments are just that, and unless you have lived with an addict, you know NOTHING!!!

Re: the Honorable Chief Judge Teena Grodner
Posted by: Ashley ()
Date: December 11, 2009 03:47PM
She was on probation, she had a dirty pee test and the probation officer let her go! As oppose to do her job and lock her up. Fairfax County failed my sister. She should have been locked up and put in rehab, and given a chance. We her family were trying to get her help. We didnt know enough about the drug or the addiction. We still dont. She had us fooled, and I say she, but Sydney was no longer Sydney, she was a addict, the drug, is what spoke to us,that told us all was fine when in reality it was not. We loved her so much and we trusted her. And if it had been Sydney, trust would have been enough, with an addict it is hard to know when they are well or sick, this is a horrible way to lose someone. Sydney was loved by so many people. She did not want to be sick. She in 2 weeks of moving cross country had a job and had applied to UNLV. She had big hopes and dreams for life, she wanted to one day get married and be a mother, she wanted also so badly to be an auntie. Her life was cut short. Laws need to change, people who let hours pass without getting an overdosed person medical help need to be criminally charged. If the world and people were not so money hungry, drugs would go away.

Bribery in Fairfax County Circuit Court

Bribery in Fairfax County Circuit Court

next time, if these judges are not stopped from running the court system as they please, it could be you.

My journey in the Fairfax County Circuit Court began in the Spring of 2004 and continues to this day. CH2003-182004 for the curious, as I can only touch on a few details of the egregious miscarriage of justice in this post.

The Commissioner's Hearing in March 2004 was presided over by Steven Garver of Reston. The thrust of his subsequent report was to strain to make everything 50/50.

He minimized my ex's lengthy massage parlor/prostitute/pornography habit, despite his testimonial admittance and documented social diseases, equating it on "fault" grounds as tantamount to my fibromyalgia, which he seemed to imply may have justified and provoked it. Apparently he missed the part in the transcript where the ex admitted his habit had begun well before I met him, porno at 13, prostitutes at 20, and was concealed in whole or in part for most of our 20 year marriage.

Mr. Garver is still a Special Commissioner and in my opinion, a spouse behaving badly's best friend. The next stop was the Equitable Distribution Trial, now retired Langhorne Keith presiding over a two day debacle and most of the post Final Decree hearings. He allowed, over my fervent opposition, the marital residence, with its multitude of hidden problems, to be sold without full disclosure at the top of the bubble real estate market, specifically ordering me to be gagged and evicted when it was shown. For my efforts on behalf of truthtelling, I was heavily sanctioned. The marital residence was subsequently foreclosed upon and Fairfax County's own property records indicate it was sold at an "invalid sales price." http://icare.fairfaxcounty.gov/Forms/Datalets.aspx?mode=SALES&taxyear=2010&ownseq=1&jur=&card=2&item=1&State=11&items=1&sIndex=0&idx=1 Then came Jonathan Thacher, still on the bench, who rubberstamped most of Langhorne Keith's handiwork in February 2005, and accepted and charged me with a variety of questionable bills, some clearly fraudulent on their face, associated with the ex's sale of the marital residence. About the same time, fed up with the antics of the ex and his new wife, noting his behavior got infinitely worse after he hooked up with her in the fall of 2002 , a "prize" just six weeks off her last affair with a married man (admitted under oath) when that happened, I brought two tort suits, L226331 and L226453, because of their distressing conduct - such activity as rerouting my mail, canceling my credit cards, and an IRS audit which resulted from the ex's claiming as "alimony" money he gave me in early 2002, when we were separated but trying to work things out, as his share of the running of the marital residence which he still frequented. The Pendente Lite Order was not entered until January 2003. Judge Arthur Vieregg, now retired, ordered a sanctions trial on my Motions for Judgments, and in his Letter Opinions called the ex's tax fraud "...not taken steps related to income tax returns..." and "...not filed the necessary tax forms...". You can read the Tax Court opinion which ultimately went against the ex to see how off base the Fairfax County Circuit Court judge was. www.ustaxcourt.gov/InOpHistoric/katchmeric.sum.WPD.pdf In June of 2007, a hearing was held, motioned by the ex's attorney, Michael A. Ward of Fairfax, but intentionally not noticed to me so that I would not have knowledge of it until after the fact, seeking to get money from the joint escrow account from the sale of the marital residence for all these bogus judgments aforementioned against me. Judge Gaylord Finch presided and less than 30 days later, in violation of the court's own "default" judgment rules, $76,957.21 was released to my ex and his new wife and his attorney.

I did not find out until November 2008. Almost from the start, the ex has been non compliant with the Final Decree. The alimony payment was rarely on time. His work information changed twice. I found out about it, but not because he ever informed me - or the court - per the dictates of the Final Decree. The first time he wrote me a note, signed and dated, copy in the case file, saying he did not have to comply; the second time, it was because he lost his high level security clearance and good government job, in part over the tax fraud which Judge Vieregg had found so insignificant, and there has been no response to my letters, from the ex, or from his attorney, who drafted the Final Decree. For years. Fed up, I filed Motions for Contempt and Sanctions and Motions to Compel thinking that might prod compliance. Nada. The motions were finally docketed per order of Judge Marcus Williams, to be heard on November 24, 2008, for a full day trial. That day, the judge was Leslie Alden. She was in and out in less than an hour, spent most of that time listening to Mr. Ward, never heard my Motions for Contempt and Sanctions and banned me from bringing any further ones. In January 2009, after bombarding all the members of the court with my complaints, I received a letter from her allowing me to bring these motions in Motion for Order to Show Cause form. The documents were promptly filed against the ex, the new wife and Michael A. Ward. And then began the stall to hear them by Erica Everhart, Judge Alden's then law clerk. I would have to come on three separate Fridays, and would at best get part of thirty minutes. Portions would not be heard. Not necessary to be on Judge Alden's docket, although in her letter dated March 26, 2009, the judge specified they were to go to her and her alone. These particular type of motions require a judge's order, which to date, almost a year later, despite being promised but has not been forthcoming. Fed up with the run-around from Erica, I contacted the Chief Judge.

His July 7, 2009 response indicated a willingness to assign a particular judge and give me the entirety of a Friday motion day. I argued for the original full day trial on a day other than Friday, in line with how the original Motions for Contempt and Sanctions and Motions to Compel were scheduled.

His response, a letter dated September 21, 2009, was a blow off where he went back on his word, claiming these were appellate matters, which they could not be, since they were just filed and never heard. Nonsense. I wrote back to him at the beginning of October and there has been no response to date. All of the court's ex parte communications, noting mine were not, have been placed in the file.

The ex's violations of the Final Decree continue, and shortly they will impact my rights to his retirement account, if he hasn't raided it like all the others already. You can't make this stuff up, and this is just a thumbnail tip of the iceberg rendition. The file is not sealed; read it for yourself. Because next time, if these judges are not stopped from running the court system as they please, it could be you. And check back for future installments on my experiences with the Fairfax County Circuit Court and with their appellate brethren in this state.
Karen Ann DeLuca
Alexandria