Judge Esther Wiggins (JDR Arlington): Deriving Pleasure from the Pain of children and their Mothers

“Judge Wiggins: Deriving Pleasure from the Pain of Children & their Mothers,”...............
Opposition to Reappointment of Judge Esther Wiggins (JDR Arlington)

 December 20, 2010 - Roy Morris letter to

Members of Senate Committee for Courts of Justice

and the House Judicial Panel

c/o Mary Kate Felch, Senior Research Associate

Judicial Election Process Administrator

Virginia Division of Legislative Services
Find Complete letter -  link below

Roy Morris Letter to COJ

Re: Denial of Rappointment of JDR Judge Wiggins

opposing the reappointment of Arlington JDR Judge Esther Wiggins with additional1 specific transcripts from hearings before Judge Esther Wiggins, recent local newspaperWiggins-COJ-19 through 26]2, corrections to some of

As pointed out in my remarks, Judge Wiggin’s cases completely eliminating the mother from the child’s life. Her genocide approach to natural mothers is systematic, and
was followed in the well-publicized cases of Naomi Parrish, Nancy Hey, Benita Washington, and Dr. Ariel King.
Thank you for the privilege of speaking at the annual Judicial Interviews in Richmond on December 10,

2010 before the Courts of Justice Committees of the Senate and the House.
As the Committees requested, I am supplementing my remarks

supporting documentation, articles publicizing the problems caused by Judge Wiggins [

the misstatements of Judge Wiggins in her answers before the Committee, and documentation of the damages caused by the serious failures and misdeeds of Judge Wiggins – namely one seriously ill seven year old child, and

the destruction of her family in her JDR Court (even though the husband and wife remain married to this day)..

Arlington officials ignore jurisdiction. More about Judge Esther Wiggind Lyle

Team of Corrupted Judge Esther Wiggins Lyles & Crooked Guardian ad-Litem Deborah S. Olin on the news...Again.

A federal investigation into such violations of due process rights should be next.

Published on:  Washington Examiner

This was not the first time that violations of defendants' due process rights in Arlington's JDR Court have been reported. In September, attorney

 Roy Morris petitioned President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder to intervene on behalf of Ariel King, who not only lost custody of her then 5-year-old daughter but was barred from any future contact with her seriously ill child even though King, like O'Brien, was not an Arlington resident.`

Another anomaly: Roy Morris received two slightly different final court orders, both dated June 6, 2008, and both signed by Judge Esther Wiggins Lyles.

That same day, court transcripts show, Judge Wiggins Lyles forced a woman who had not been subpoenaed as a witness to testify on the stand without benefit of the legal representation she clearly requested. A federal investigation into such violations of due process rights should be next.

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as the grandmother's "history of instability in housing, employment and poor judgment ... [and] a history of legal problems including check fraud that is currently under investigation by Montgomery County."

But the girl and her granddaughter were living in Stafford County at the time, not Arlington. And their "home state" as defined by the Virginia statute was Maryland, not Virginia.

Arlington social workers obliquely acknowledged their lack of jurisdiction when they took the child to Chevy Chase on Aug. 31 and used her state of Maryland "Healthy Smiles" Medicaid card and her former Bethesda address to get the girl's teeth cleaned, X-rays taken and two small cavities filled. But jurisdiction wasn't the only legal requirement Arlington decided to ignore.

In a five-page rebuttal filed with the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, Delores Heffernan- O'Brien testified that she had never been served with the 2009 removal order, and only saw it for the first time on July 26, 2010 -- four days after her granddaughter was taken into foster care.

As a result, she could not defend herself against any of the charges against her in an apparent violation of her constitutional due process rights.

Then it happened again. "I never received written notice of the most important hearing of my life," O'Brien, a Mormon, former model and widow of a prosecutor, said of the Aug. 19 hearing she missed as a result.

Arlington JDR Chief Judge George Varoutsos found her guilty of neglect and abuse in absentia, and suspended her one-hour-per-week visitation with the child she had raised from infancy. The only contact she was allowed was a once-a-week phone call monitored by the foster parents so

Yet just two days later, she says, her granddaughter's court-appointed guardian ad litem allowed the same Montgomery County detective investigating check-kiting charges against her (which have since been dropped) to interrogate her granddaughter until she became hysterical.

Calls to the guardian ad litem, the Arlington commonwealth's attorney's office, and the social worker involved were not returned.

Another anomaly: Morris received two slightly different final court orders, both dated June 6, 2008, and both signed by Judge Esther Wiggins Lyles. (Supported by Guardian ad-Litem Deborah S. Olin)

That same day, court transcripts show, Judge Wiggins Lyles forced a woman who had not been subpoenaed as a witness to testify on the stand without benefit of the legal representation she clearly requested. A federal investigation into such violations of due process rights should be next.

Judgeswield enormous power, but that power is not absolute. They are duty-bound to obey legal rules that protect defendants' constitutional rights. One of those rules is jurisdiction, loosely defined as the court's authority to hear the cases before it. On July 22, Arlington County social workers took a 10-year-old girl away from her 64-year-old grandmother and placed her in foster care based on a Feb. 19, 2009, emergency court order that cited "allegations of neglect" as wellO'Brien would not upset her granddaughter with her "adult" problems.

Dec 14 2010 - 8:05pm

Speech given to VA legislators re. Judge Esther Wiggins Lyle

Judge Wiggins-Lyle signed an Emergency Removal Order, presented to her by Arlington Child Protective Services without allowing my husband, myself or any legal counsel to be present to challenge the removal order.

Speech given to VA legislators re. Judge Esther Wiggins Lyle

by Nancy Hey on Friday, December 10, 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Virginia General Assembly, Judge Esther Wiggins-Lyle is a danger to innocent families in Northern Virginia.
Why? Judge Lyle has put the well-being of children second to the interests of people like lawyers with money and political influence. 

Because of Judge Wiggins-Lyle, my daughter Sabrina and I will never be able to see each other until after she turns 18. She is five years old now, and my husband and I have not been allowed to see her for the last two and a half years.

 My baby girl Sabrina lost about 10 ounces after birth, within the 6 to 10 per cent weight loss that is NORMAL for a newborn.  As a first time mother, I expressed concerned to my doctor, who admitted me with my baby to Arlington Hospital.  In 5 days at the hospital, my baby gained 11 ounces, then at home with me, gained 12 ounces in 4 days, before Judge Lyle accepted the false statement of Arlington CPS that I was "starving the baby".

Judge Wiggins-Lyle signed an Emergency Removal Order, presented to her by Arlington Child Protective Services without allowing my husband, myself or any legal counsel to be present to challenge the removal order.

 Judge Lyle then placed Sabrina in the custody of an assistant federal prosecutor for the Department of Justice and his wife.  

Arlington CPS leveled a charge of the highest level of child neglect against us. This charge, however, was later overturned upon appeal to a hearings officer in Richmond, who stated that CPS lacked evidence for this charge. 

Nevertheless, the series of court trials we went through with Wiggins-Lyle to try to regain custody of our child were always rigged against us. She showed favoritism toward Sabrina's foster parents, allowing them to show her photos they had taken of Sabrina, but not allowing Kit and I to do the same. She had no objection to the fact that early on, the foster parents were referring to themselves as “Mommy” and “Daddy” to Sabrina, or to the fact that they presented her with a videotape they made of Sabrina, in which they bragged that they would show the video to Sabrina on her wedding day. 

When Arlington CPS alleged that I suffered from a learning disability and a form of autism that presented me with challenges in interpreting non-verbal cues from an infant, Judge Wiggins-Lyle did nothing to compel the agency to comply with the American with Disabilities Act by providing me with services to help parents with disabilities. 

Throughout our year-long series of hearings before Judge Wiggins-Lyle, she acted in an unprofessional manner. For example, she would always allow witnesses for Arlington County to go on the stand first, whereas our own witnesses would be put on last, thus causing them to have to charge us more money for their time in court. In some cases, she would swear one of our witnesses in, then leave her on the stand for a long time before being interviewed while she casually discussed procedural issues with County prosecutor Mary Craig. 

Judge Wiggins-Lyle was continually rude to myself throughout the hearings as well. On one instance, she accused me of “lacking maternal instinct”. At another hearing, she asked my to respond to charges made against me by CPS. I stated that I loved my daughter, and wanted her returned to me. In response to this, Judge Wiggins-Lyle rudely said to me “Well, this isn't about what you want, it's about what's best for Sabrina”. On another occasion, she asked my lawyer “what makes you think that Sabrina should be returned to Kit and Nancy’.

Should a judge like Esther Wiggins-Lyle, who has shown a clear bias against the birth parents of children be allowed to continue to make rulings from the bench that will tear apart yet more loving families? I say no, she should not be reappointed.

Ferocious Judge Esther Wiggins Lyles - JDR Arlington County

This is more than enough reasonable doubt for legislators to decide that judge  Judge Esther Wiggins Lyles needs to step down.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2010/12/three-strikes-arlington-judge-0#ixzz18081ChC7

Last year, before the same legislative panel, veteran attorney Roy Morris blasted then Chief Judge Wiggins Lyles’ handling of a custody case in which she completely terminated a mother’s contact with her five-year-old daughter. “I’ve never seen a worst run court in all my years of [litigation] experience,” Morris told legislators on Dec. 21, 2009. “My client was dragged into the Virginia court even though Virginia didn’t have jurisdiction… Why would a judge have taken a case that they didn’t even have jurisdiction to hear?”

neither of these mothers were ever charged - let alone convicted - of child abuse or neglect. After their children were snatched by Arlington social workers, Judge Wiggins Lyles rubber-stamped their legal kidnapping.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2010/12/three-strikes-arlington-judge-0#ixzz1807Bz8ZJ

On December 10th, 2010 in Richmond, members of the General Assembly’s Courts of Justice Committees will hear public testimony to help them decide whether a group of Virginia judges should be recommended for reappointment to the bench. One of those judges, whose term expires Jan. 31, 2011, is Arlington.
neither of these mothers were ever charged - let alone convicted - of child abuse or neglect. After their children were snatched by Arlington social workers, Judge Wiggins Lyles rubber-stamped their legal kidnapping.

Domestic and Juvenile Relations Court Judge Esther Wiggins Lyles, the same judge who terminated the parental rights of Nancy Hey and Benita Washington despite the fact that

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2010/12/three-strikes-arlington-judge-0#ixzz1805aYwZu

Judicial Interviews notice from House of Delegates December 10th, 2010

Mark your Calander We meet up on December 10th, 2010 to confront our Judges who are up to be "re SELECTED" for another term.
Re:Judicial Interviews on Fri., Dec. 10, 2010

Meeting Date: 12/10/2010

Meeting Time: 8:30:00 AM

Meeting Location: House Room C, GAB
FOR INFORMATION, PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING LINK -->

http://dela.state.va.us/Dela/ComOpsStudy.nsf/82965f555b18a72185256c330058a983/89EF66953D4471C8852577C2004F1F1F?OpenDocument

List of the Judges who are up for reappointment in this coming year and who will be evaluated during the coming legislative session.

— General Assembly BuildingSCHEDULE for 2010 'JUDICIAL INTERVIEWS' OF INCUMBENTS now viewable! Your offending judge just might be up for re-appointment this year! Look for that judge’s name in this list. If you have something to say about the performances of Judges Bonnie Davis, Gerald Daltan and Esther Wiggins-Lyles, please join your sisters in saying it. Sign up with Mary Kate Felch today! Several aggrieved moms are booked to speak already! MEETING INFO AT http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?111+oth+MTG, scroll down to "12/10/10 8:30 a.m."


 

JUDICIAL INTERVIEWS - Judges Interview Time table

Senate Committee for Courts of Justice and the House Judicial Panel

Friday, December 10, 2010., House Room C

Substitute Judge Sandra Havrilak should be disbarred

She’ll spit on justice even if it means spitting on our children...
Support disbarment of Sandra Havrilak on the Facebook.
Recently, Fairfax Circuit Judge Jonathan Thacher ordered a mother to foot the father’s legal bill totaling $53,000.00. The lawyer representing this abuser is Sandra Havrilak. Judge Thacher gave mom 10 years to pay up.

 

Judges on our 19th Judicial Circuit of Virginia adore her. They will do just about anything to see her win, to churn her fees, and to make sure she collects. If you have witnessed misconduct by this attorney and substitute judge, if you have been the victim of judicial responses that support her unethical practices, chronicle your experiences here and let's together as friends begin to push for the disbarment of Sandra Havrilak.

Havrilak lies, Havrilak cheats, Havrilak steals: http://www.box.net/shared/4lv1tb8rz8

MARK E. RUBIN SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE GOVERNOR:

“I can assure you that this information will be considered if Ms. Havrilak’s name comes up…”

Mommy go bye bye

An uneven amount,
Debt into bond,
It’s illegal...

The same judges do it,