By Barry Goldstein
Imagine if the Loyal Order of Sex Abusers (LOOSA) came together to create a society in which they could prey on chil..."
The situation of family courts endangering children and punishing women must be exposed in the media. State and national policymakers in all three branches of government and other allies must be advised of the problem of family courts placing children in the unsupervised custody of abusive parents, and be told that this is happening with alarming frequency. Unlawfully abused by Virginia judicial system?? Expose & make known corruptions. Share your story to be published. Va.justlaw@live.com
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
'Farm Team’
Substitute judges academy assembles candidates for future seats on the bench.
By Michael Lee PopeThursday, July 01, 2010
Imagine the scenario. You are sitting as a substitute judge and a prosecutor slams a code book down while making a dramatic point in a drunk-driving case. Do you fine her? What if some guy is hot under the collar about a traffic ticket and wants to use the courtroom as a forum to tell off the cop in public. What do you do?
By Michael Lee PopeThursday, July 01, 2010
Imagine the scenario. You are sitting as a substitute judge and a prosecutor slams a code book down while making a dramatic point in a drunk-driving case. Do you fine her? What if some guy is hot under the collar about a traffic ticket and wants to use the courtroom as a forum to tell off the cop in public. What do you do?
Judging is full of lightning-speed judgments, often with tremendous consequences. That’s why Alexandria General District Court Chief Judge Becky Moore created the Substitute Judges Academy, inviting top lawyers from across the commonwealth to the city courthouse on King Street.
Described by one speaker as the "farm team" of candidates for future seats on the bench, participants swapped horror stories from the courtroom, learned about new laws that go into effect July 1 and sung Happy Birthday to the undisputed legal dean of Alexandria, Judge Daniel Fairfax O’Flaherty.
"Substitute judges with judicial education are better prepared to serve well in court," said Moore, who hosted the first substitute judges academy back in January. "I think it’s important to have as much judicial education for the substitute judges as possible."Lesson one: Learn the law. And starting this week, there are a whole lot of new ones. It’s part of the annual ritual in Virginia, when the actions of the General Assembly session earlier in the year becomes the law of the land.
Starting this week, sending spam e-mail messages is a crime and community centers are now considered gang-free school zones.
One of the more challenging new laws for the courts to consider is a new code section that outlaws sending obscene text messages."I think that one is probably unconstitutional," said attorney David Oblon, whose law partners include House Majority Leader Moran Griffith (R-8) and House Courts of Justice Chairman David Albo (R-42).
Oblon spoke to the institute about the raft of new laws, touring a legal landscape that included everything from the sublime to the ridiculous. Wearing a mask during the commission of a felony is now a crime, although cold weather is not one of the considerations that should be taken into account. People can carry concealed weapon into bars, although they are not allowed to drink while packing heat. Then there’s a host of new exemptions that Oblon called "exemption creep," including allowing people with suspended licenses to drive to church and adding the death penalty for those who kill a fire marshal and auxiliary police officers."This is death-penalty creep because every other group is going to step forward and say they deserve the exemption," said Oblon. "I would expect to see more of this in the future."SOMETIMES SPLIT-SECOND judicial decision-making can have drastic consequences for years and decades to come. Attorney Jim Clark recalled a routine marijuana case where the defendant wanted to waive counsel. He figured a night or two in jail was the path of least resistance, but Clark warned the pinch-hitting courthouse gang to consider the bigger picture."Gee, maybe I don’t have to tell my parents," Clark recalled the defendant explaining. "That can come back to haunt people 10 years later."Sometimes, judges make the wrong decision. This is what happed several years ago in Alexandria, when a teacher was killed after a protective order was denied. Commonwealth’s Attorney S. Randolph Sengel told the institute participants that nobody wants to see their name in a headline as the judge who released a defendant on bond before he commits a murder."The most serious cases are the easiest to figure out. The more difficult cases are not as serious ones, like petty larceny or trespass," said the elected prosecutor. "I think a healthy dose of common sense carries the day."Moore spoke to the institute about ethics in the courtroom, presenting a series of situations that the group is likely to consider while wearing the robe. Human nature being what it is, Moore said, Virginia’s courtrooms are full of boorish behavior and short-tempered litigants. She suggested de-escalating tense situations by taking a break or lowering the volume."I’ve noticed that the quieter I get," she said, "the more well-behaved they become."
Monday, June 28, 2010
Judge Leslie Alden Invents Non-existent Rules
Judge Leslie Alden allowed deceiving man to demonstrate forged Documents, under Oath.........
Judge Leslie Alden knowingly allowed perjured testimony in her court room.....
Judge Leslie Alden knowingly allowed perjured testimony in her court room.....
I have seen her invent non-existent rules and conditions concerning quantum merit (a type of contract case)…………..
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.
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.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Iniquitous Judge Bruce D. White of Fairfax County
Iniquitous Judge Bruce D. White of Fairfax County
By: Karen Ann DeLuca
many women in Fairfax, myself included, somewhat broken and beaten down, can testify to feeling crushed in a tantamount manner, financially and spiritually, by judges who'd rather make quota than focus on doing their best in deciding a case.
Instead of reducing library hours and cutting school funding to save money, perhaps the judicial budget should be explored for savings and salaries reduced or tied into performance as rated by the taxpayers until the purpose of the courthouse is restored.
After trying for over a year, I finally, and quite unexpectedly, was granted an Order to Show Cause by the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court in Fairfax County against my ex husband for contempt. The issues involved would sound familiar to any divorced woman - tardy (or non-payment of) alimony (or child support), failure (twice) to keep current home or work information as required by the Final Decree, and in my case, a failure to sell the marital residence within 120 days of that document. The hearing was set for May 21st; I dutifully prepared and filed a Memorandum in support of my position.
On the appointed day, I drew Judge Bruce D. White. He was running late from the 10AM (law) docket session; by the time our case, scheduled for 11:30AM, and his last one for the day, was called, it was 1PM. I was given 15 minutes to present my fairly complicated argument, which contained infractions spanning over six years, and examine two witnesses. - (Fred Rejali) An impossible task. And needless to say, the Judge's decision was that I had not proven my case. Duh! How could I? I had barely scratched the surface when he called "time up!"
Leaving out the details of my ex's long pauses in "answering" my questions as a tactic in stalling and taking up time, or his attorney's resorting to, as his primary tactic, an attempt to soil my good name to "balance" things out, because, well, that's all he had, as I was sitting in the courtroom all I could think of was why was something as important as the issue of late (or non-payment) of alimony (or child support), relegated to so little judicial concern and attention?
There is something very wrong with a system that does not honor the provisions of its own orders, by way of allowing a litigant - and in most instances, still, a female one - to fully present a case for contravention and consequential damages. It begs the question, what good are judicial dictates, if, when someone does not abide by them, a complainant is held to such an impossible and nebulous standard that the resultant message from a judge is "who cares?" As a follow up corollary, then, just what good are courts?
Fifteen minutes is not enough time to prove a case that is far from simple. But what I found even more baffling is that during my hearing, not once did Judge White admonish my ex for his flagrant, longstanding and extensive violations of the Final Decree. I would like to think that this is not a "men stick together" thing, but the absence of a scolding, on a contempt Order issued by the Chief Judge, was glaring and disappointing.
The better course on issues such as violations severe enough to merit a Rule to Show Cause would be to routinely schedule the matter on a day other than Friday Motion Day, allow at least an hour, and let each side to present all their evidence before making a decision, which might even be taken under advisement. Otherwise, why bother issuing the Order to Show Cause in the first place, except to go through the motions, no pun intended, and cruelly leave the injured party in no better position than before. It would also be helpful if the judge came prepared and was familiar with the file; in my case, the silence in response to my query as to whether my Memorandum had been read spoke volumes.
A decision is only as good as the system that generates it. Some of that has to do with personnel; most of it with institutional procedures. It all equals bad judging, and from my perspective, it appears that women, particularly those that cannot afford high priced representation, those that need the court's assistance the most, are more often than not on the receiving end of its shafting.
Instead of reducing library hours and cutting school funding to save money, perhaps the judicial budget should be explored for savings and salaries reduced or tied into performance as rated by the taxpayers until the purpose of the courthouse is restored. The legal concerns of citizens paying the tab deserve quality handling, not the bum rush herding treatment that so many of us are familiar with in another broken system - health care. How both law and medicine are practiced impact people's lives. And while premature physical infirmities and death are a more obvious byproduct of a sick mode of operation, many women in Fairfax, myself included, somewhat broken and beaten down, can testify to feeling crushed in a tantamount manner, financially and spiritually, by judges who'd rather make quota than focus on doing their best in deciding a case.
On the appointed day, I drew Judge Bruce D. White. He was running late from the 10AM (law) docket session; by the time our case, scheduled for 11:30AM, and his last one for the day, was called, it was 1PM. I was given 15 minutes to present my fairly complicated argument, which contained infractions spanning over six years, and examine two witnesses. - (Fred Rejali) An impossible task. And needless to say, the Judge's decision was that I had not proven my case. Duh! How could I? I had barely scratched the surface when he called "time up!"
Leaving out the details of my ex's long pauses in "answering" my questions as a tactic in stalling and taking up time, or his attorney's resorting to, as his primary tactic, an attempt to soil my good name to "balance" things out, because, well, that's all he had, as I was sitting in the courtroom all I could think of was why was something as important as the issue of late (or non-payment) of alimony (or child support), relegated to so little judicial concern and attention?
There is something very wrong with a system that does not honor the provisions of its own orders, by way of allowing a litigant - and in most instances, still, a female one - to fully present a case for contravention and consequential damages. It begs the question, what good are judicial dictates, if, when someone does not abide by them, a complainant is held to such an impossible and nebulous standard that the resultant message from a judge is "who cares?" As a follow up corollary, then, just what good are courts?
Fifteen minutes is not enough time to prove a case that is far from simple. But what I found even more baffling is that during my hearing, not once did Judge White admonish my ex for his flagrant, longstanding and extensive violations of the Final Decree. I would like to think that this is not a "men stick together" thing, but the absence of a scolding, on a contempt Order issued by the Chief Judge, was glaring and disappointing.
The better course on issues such as violations severe enough to merit a Rule to Show Cause would be to routinely schedule the matter on a day other than Friday Motion Day, allow at least an hour, and let each side to present all their evidence before making a decision, which might even be taken under advisement. Otherwise, why bother issuing the Order to Show Cause in the first place, except to go through the motions, no pun intended, and cruelly leave the injured party in no better position than before. It would also be helpful if the judge came prepared and was familiar with the file; in my case, the silence in response to my query as to whether my Memorandum had been read spoke volumes.
A decision is only as good as the system that generates it. Some of that has to do with personnel; most of it with institutional procedures. It all equals bad judging, and from my perspective, it appears that women, particularly those that cannot afford high priced representation, those that need the court's assistance the most, are more often than not on the receiving end of its shafting.
Instead of reducing library hours and cutting school funding to save money, perhaps the judicial budget should be explored for savings and salaries reduced or tied into performance as rated by the taxpayers until the purpose of the courthouse is restored. The legal concerns of citizens paying the tab deserve quality handling, not the bum rush herding treatment that so many of us are familiar with in another broken system - health care. How both law and medicine are practiced impact people's lives. And while premature physical infirmities and death are a more obvious byproduct of a sick mode of operation, many women in Fairfax, myself included, somewhat broken and beaten down, can testify to feeling crushed in a tantamount manner, financially and spiritually, by judges who'd rather make quota than focus on doing their best in deciding a case.
Prejudiced Judge Teena Grodner
I tried to save PEOPLE FROM THIS JUDGE, BUT MY CRIES WENT UNHEARD AND FELL ON DEAF EARS. HAD THE DELEGATE THOMAS RUST MADE AN AFFORD TO LAUNCH AN INVESTIGATION YOUR DAUGHTER " Sydney"WOULD STILL BE ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WITH THAT SAID, IF YOU OR YOUR FAMILY NEED HARD CORE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT YOUR CLAIMS I HAVE EVIDENCE OF MY COMPLAINT I RENDERED TO DELEGATE THOMAS RUST ON MARCH 29, 2009 at approximately 10 am.
Prejudiced Judge Teena Grodner
The Bias Judge Teena D. Grodner feels as though she is making me pay for......... talking to a White Social Worker the way that I had spoken to her on March 15th of 2000. In all fairness the way I express myself is being up front and very blunt, especially if it concerns my only child.Read more: http://socyberty.com/work/my-fall-and-rise-in-fairfax-county-virginia-part-three/#ixzz0rmkQyzyM
In the middle of a nightmare…the Judge that ripped my only child away from me. Never thinking to have anymore children because I was mourning the loss of my first. This has been one of my most difficult challenges to prove the injustice that has been impeded upon me by, 1) The Four Police Officers 2) The Social Worker 3) The Judge; In Fairfax County Virginia. Part three.
Fred Rejali & Judge Teena Grodner.
As part three begins, I want my readers to feel all that I’ve been through. Believe me when I say,” This isn’t a matter of pulling the race card, it’s truly about revealing how our justice system allows BIAS authority figures to use their Power Of Authority to render down harsh and unusual punishment.” I cannot sit no longer while all those that was related to my case continue to be promoted for their Inaccurate Investigations, Fabricated testimonies, Kangaroo Court Room, Inappropriate Behavior, and Labeling me a racist.Read more: http://socyberty.com/work/my-fall-and-rise-in-fairfax-county-virginia-part-three/#ixzz0rmjy2V9P
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Teaching the Courts Their Alphabet
Teaching the Courts Their Alphabet
By: Karen DeLuca.Alexandria, VirginiaEditor, Times-Dispatch:
While campaigning, Bob McDonnell's "one new idea" was divestiture of the state liquor stores. Now, schools, social services, public safety, and state employee pensions are on the commonwealth's GPS. Virginia is for S's. Why not shift gears? Backpedal closer to the top of the alphabet, rather than fuel taxes and gun sales, and privatize the courts. Portions of their functions already are privatized -- for example, through the increased use of mediation. In many instances, a judge's signature is just a rubber-stamp of an out-of-court compromise or one party's position. With more legal issues being resolved the DIY way, there is less need for the traditional role of the judiciary, or for the pricey courthouses that garage them.
Or they could become self-funded, or the "public option" in a hybrid system, forced to upgrade the quality of their product to maintain traffic on the theory no one will pay for a lousy, accelerated job. This would mean parking the best, most experienced personnel in the lower courts, where decision-making is typically determinative. If litigants are satisfied below, such positioning could eliminate the need for some of the vast appellate bureaucracy -- more potential budget savings. Because here's the clunker we have now: There's the "avoidance canon," where judges either don't decide or rule on a ground which really doesn't resolve anything, but disposes of a matter to get it off their desk. Expensive and inconclusive for litigants who expect and deserve more than a drive on the road to nowhere.
Another major problem, at all levels, is law-clerk justice. Just out of school, a bunch of mostly 25-year-olds in training, making impactful decisions that their bosses blindly sign off on. As these rulings travel up the system, they are routinely rubber-stamped by more apprentices, who cover their peers' tracks in this self-interest network where everyone's paving the way for their next career move. A stop sign should be put to this extra-constitutional exercise of judicial power and payment of redundant salaries.
In a Virginia running on fumes, officials need to look past their blind spots to non-retread solutions. That includes the commonwealth's side street and back alley courts. It's as easy as A, B, See . . .
Karen DeLuca.
Or they could become self-funded, or the "public option" in a hybrid system, forced to upgrade the quality of their product to maintain traffic on the theory no one will pay for a lousy, accelerated job. This would mean parking the best, most experienced personnel in the lower courts, where decision-making is typically determinative. If litigants are satisfied below, such positioning could eliminate the need for some of the vast appellate bureaucracy -- more potential budget savings. Because here's the clunker we have now: There's the "avoidance canon," where judges either don't decide or rule on a ground which really doesn't resolve anything, but disposes of a matter to get it off their desk. Expensive and inconclusive for litigants who expect and deserve more than a drive on the road to nowhere.
Another major problem, at all levels, is law-clerk justice. Just out of school, a bunch of mostly 25-year-olds in training, making impactful decisions that their bosses blindly sign off on. As these rulings travel up the system, they are routinely rubber-stamped by more apprentices, who cover their peers' tracks in this self-interest network where everyone's paving the way for their next career move. A stop sign should be put to this extra-constitutional exercise of judicial power and payment of redundant salaries.
In a Virginia running on fumes, officials need to look past their blind spots to non-retread solutions. That includes the commonwealth's side street and back alley courts. It's as easy as A, B, See . . .
Karen DeLuca.
Alexandria.
My Judge was convicted of fraud and ....
"My Judge was convicted of fraud and still managed to ignore the law, deny me legal representation, and send my children to live with their abusive dad.
I had sole custody of the children (ages 13 & 16) since birth, they were both on honor roll and living well. The law was clearly ignored, despite the mountain of evidence presented at trial. I was given total decision making over education and therapeutic needs - basically, am required to babysit the dad and report back to court each time that he harasses the school -- so that I can be harassed again. Weekend visitation only. How do you start the process. So far my written complaints have been ignored. "
by: Carmen Coleman
One corrupt evil judge down and 100's to go
"One corrupt evil judge down, & 100's to go...
The judge who gave my ex husband custody of my two kids was later found to be on heroine & other illegal drugs, & used it quite regularly while doing his job.
He slept through most of the trial the day I lost my kids in 1998. (signs of heroine use) I got a recording of this trial because I wanted to prove that he slept through it, unfortunately the courts conveniantly cut out the part of him snoozing in the court video. And I didn't get 5 & a half hours of trial recording either, I think I was lucky to get 1 hour of the recording after they were done editing it.
There were reports that Judge Ray Harding Jr. was very abusive to his wife & children. He was sent to prison, for idk how long. But I was never able to get a retrial, no attorney I hired, dared to do it. And to this day, the 4th district court in Provo, Utah has nothing bad to say about Judge Ray Harding Jr. The heroine addict....> > I feel these Judges NEED to be held accountable for the decisions they make that destroy ppl's lives... It makes me sick to see the consequences of the rulings they make, after blatently ignoring evidence of abuse or threats made. Their decisions have effected too many children to count. Makes me wonder how they would feel if they got letters from some of these poor kids after they age out of the system, telling them how they destroyed their lives?... Maybe a class action law suit should be filed against all of them!> > Thank God this judge lemkau, will no longer beable to hurt or effect another child with his biased decisions.... Too bad an innocent life had to be lost to have him removed though.... I saw the mother of this child on the Dr. Phil show, I just wept when I heard her story. This never should have happened...."
We have suffered at the hands of Fairfax County Judges in the Family Court system
We have suffered at the hands of Fairfax County Judges in the Family Court system in 2006,and again in 2009.Hoe effective have you been in getting any action against this biasised and corrupt system?
Debra Woodward
Children took hostage by Corrupted Virginia Judicial System
Children took hostage by Corrupted Virginia Judicial System.
Scott D. Landry Esq. was appointed Guardian ad Litem
Good Afternoon,
My name is Lisa Parenti and I live in Midlothian, VA. My daughters were taken away from me on July 23, 2009. at the time my oldest daughter just turned 5 and my youngest was 10 months old.
I started dating my husband in September of 2001. The relationship was very rocky, but in July 2003 I found out I was pregnant with my first child. After I told him I was pregnant he packed up and moved to West Virginia with his dad. In October 2003, he contacted me and stated that he wanted to work things out and he wanted me to move to West Virginia, so I did in hopes that we could work things out and my child wold have a family. In March 2004 my daughter was born, in August 2004 we moved back to Virginia. The very next day he left us. He did not pay child support nor did he return until she was 2 years old. At that time he once again wanted to work things out and I went back to him and a month later we got married. in May 2007 i noticed a change in his behavior, he became increasingly verbally abusive, threatning, volitile and distructive. Often trowing furniture at me, calling me a "worthless piece of shit", and telling me " Do you have any idea how much easier my life would be if you were dead" He also started drinking heavily. In April 2008, I discovered that he was having an affair with our daughter's friends mother. After I found out his drinking and his behavior became even worse. On June 1, 2008, 6 months pregnant with my second child (whom he openly denied was his until she was 3 months old), I took my daughter and left him and went back to live with my parents. In August 2008 I deneid him visitation due to him constantly threatning me over the phone that he was gonna kill me. In September 2008 shortly before the birth of my second child I filed divorce papers. Scott D. Landry Esq. was appointed Guardian ad Litem in my case and, after lengthy trials and litigation from September 2008 through July 2008 of he and his mother stating that I abuse and neglect my children, which couldn't be further from the truth, and making him out to be the victim. he was awarded full physical custody of my children.
I see my girls once a week on Wednsdays from 6pm until 9am and every other weekend from Friday at 6pm until Monday at 9am. I am not allowed to be apart of my oldests education, or do any extra activities with my children. And 95% of my monthly salary goes to him for child support. He doesnt work and has a full time nanny at the house to take care of the children.
I am completley heartbroken. I went from being their primary caregiver (he did absolutley nothing for them or with them) to only having a limited amout of time with them while a nanny raises them.
This is a very long story and there is alot more detail, please feel free to contact me by email, or phone ........ Any information I can receive to help get my girls home will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Lisa Parenti
My name is Lisa Parenti and I live in Midlothian, VA. My daughters were taken away from me on July 23, 2009. at the time my oldest daughter just turned 5 and my youngest was 10 months old.
I started dating my husband in September of 2001. The relationship was very rocky, but in July 2003 I found out I was pregnant with my first child. After I told him I was pregnant he packed up and moved to West Virginia with his dad. In October 2003, he contacted me and stated that he wanted to work things out and he wanted me to move to West Virginia, so I did in hopes that we could work things out and my child wold have a family. In March 2004 my daughter was born, in August 2004 we moved back to Virginia. The very next day he left us. He did not pay child support nor did he return until she was 2 years old. At that time he once again wanted to work things out and I went back to him and a month later we got married. in May 2007 i noticed a change in his behavior, he became increasingly verbally abusive, threatning, volitile and distructive. Often trowing furniture at me, calling me a "worthless piece of shit", and telling me " Do you have any idea how much easier my life would be if you were dead" He also started drinking heavily. In April 2008, I discovered that he was having an affair with our daughter's friends mother. After I found out his drinking and his behavior became even worse. On June 1, 2008, 6 months pregnant with my second child (whom he openly denied was his until she was 3 months old), I took my daughter and left him and went back to live with my parents. In August 2008 I deneid him visitation due to him constantly threatning me over the phone that he was gonna kill me. In September 2008 shortly before the birth of my second child I filed divorce papers. Scott D. Landry Esq. was appointed Guardian ad Litem in my case and, after lengthy trials and litigation from September 2008 through July 2008 of he and his mother stating that I abuse and neglect my children, which couldn't be further from the truth, and making him out to be the victim. he was awarded full physical custody of my children.
I see my girls once a week on Wednsdays from 6pm until 9am and every other weekend from Friday at 6pm until Monday at 9am. I am not allowed to be apart of my oldests education, or do any extra activities with my children. And 95% of my monthly salary goes to him for child support. He doesnt work and has a full time nanny at the house to take care of the children.
I am completley heartbroken. I went from being their primary caregiver (he did absolutley nothing for them or with them) to only having a limited amout of time with them while a nanny raises them.
This is a very long story and there is alot more detail, please feel free to contact me by email, or phone ........ Any information I can receive to help get my girls home will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Lisa Parenti
Thursday, June 10, 2010
CFSA of DC Criminal, Corruption and Cover up
we have come across the little known fact that James P. Toscano, Esq., the General Counsel (top lawyers) for DC Child Protective Services (CFSA) has an arrest record in Arlington, Virginia for indecent exposure (masturbating in a urinal in a public bathroom (frequented by children) while looking into a bathroom stall) at a shopping Mall.
When a Child Protection Executive Employee is a sex offender, likelywith minors involved, should they remain in the public's trust and continue to work, especially when they use their influence to help suspected abusers to not be detected and accountable?
This arrest occurred 2004 when Mr. Toscano was an attorney recently transferred to Child Protective Services (CFSA) from the DC Attorney General’s office.
He was charged, and through his attorney who specializes in "park arrests" with sexual activity made a deal with the Arlington County Prosecutor that the charges would be dropped after he finishes a year of supervised probation and complete a sex offender evaluation.
After the one year probation, in 2005, the charges were dropped just before his scheduled trial.
Despite this arrest and the nature of the charges, Mr. James Toscano who works alongside the Director, Dr. Roque Gerald as an Executive who sets policy for all, and an employee arrest policy that states automatic termination, he is allowed to continue working at DC Child Protection Agency (CFSA) on children’s abuse cases. In addition, he was promoted in 2008 to the General Counsel of CFSA.
A 2007 memo of the then CFSA General Counsel stated that a Probation before Judgement (PBJ) for indecent exposure is grounds for termination — but Mr. Toscano was not terminated. As explained in the letter to Mr. Wells and Dr Gerald, Mr. Toscano has helped the suspected abuser by personally interfering and providing false information in at least one case helping to cause the investigation to be improperly done. Mr. Toscano actively worked to help the alleged abuser/neglectful parent and appeared to act beholden to the abuser’s attorney (who is from an old Arlington family and knows his way around its courthouse very well — and no doubt knew about Mr. Toscano’s background). In 2009 and 2010, Roy Morris, Esq. testified before the DC City Council Chair, Tommy Wells Committee regarding this matter twice, and in neither instance was there any followup or expression of concern from any DC officials.
They act as if they know all of this already, and are intent on doing nothing about it.The problem here is too obvious, based on the documentation attached.
James Toscano and Child Protective Services are intent to hide the truth from the public.
James Toscano and Child Protective Services are intent to hide the truth from the public.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Mothers of Lost Children Hold Silent Vigil at the White House
CNN iReportMothers from across the country gathered at the White House today on Mothers Day to stand in silent vigil for the children who are now in the custody of abusers.
CNN producer NCarroll is the founder of the Indianapolis chapter of this organization and posted these photos, telling me, 'We tried to all dress in white as a sign of peace (as the Liberian women in "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" did). We had about 120 participants. '- Thanks, CNN iReport producer
Raise awareness of this crisis in family courts
Children who are now in the custody of abusers.
Claims of domestic violence are often dismissed by family court judges during divorces or child custody proceedings, even though the American Bar Association found false claims to be rare.
Children who are now in the custody of abusers.
Claims of domestic violence are often dismissed by family court judges during divorces or child custody proceedings, even though the American Bar Association found false claims to be rare.
AnneGrant
May 10, 2010
Thank you for spending your Mother's Day taking this urgent stand for children held hostage by custody courts and child protective agencies despite the best efforts of dedicated mothers to protect them.
Comments:
EarlRichards
June 6, 2010
Any family court judge who grants custody of children to a wife-beater, should be charged with child endangerment. If the wife-beater is a danger to his (ex)wife, then, he is a danger to her children. One does not need to have a law degree to know this. Family courts are powerful, secret societies. Wife-beating cases belong under the jurisdiction of a criminal court, and not the farce and fraud of a family court. If judicial immunity is not ended, then, the family court judges will keep-on breaking the law. The family courts should be open to the public, to the press/media and to court watchdog organizations, especially in secret courts the deal with children, that have done away with court reporters and the evidence. The taxpayers are supporting these courts, so the public and the public's elected representatives should have access to the family court records, at any time and without delay, in the public interest and in the children's interest, to weed out corruption and negligence and to ensure that that the taxpayer's dollars are not being squandered.Less
EarlRichards
June 6, 2010
Any family court judge who grants custody of children to a wife-beater, should be charged with child endangerment. If the wife-beater is a danger to his (ex)wife, then, he is a danger to her children. One does not need to have a law degree to know this. Family courts are powerful, secret societies. Wife-beating cases belong under the jurisdiction of a criminal court, and not the farce and fraud of a family court. If judicial immunity is not ended, then, the family court judges will keep-on breaking the law. The family courts should be open to the public, to the press/media and to court watchdog organizations, especially in secret courts the deal with children, that have done away with court reporters and the evidence. The taxpayers are supporting these courts, so the public and the public's elected representatives should have access to the family court records, at any time and without delay, in the public interest and in the children's interest, to weed out corruption and negligence and to ensure that that the taxpayer's dollars are not being squandered.Less
Monday, May 10, 2010
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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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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.
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.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
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.
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.
Friday, March 19, 2010
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
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.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
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.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
A Satirical Look At Esther Wiggins - Arlington Court Judge
WATCH THIS VIDEO......This channel is dedicated to sharing information with the public about Esther Wiggins Lyles, Family Court judge in arlington virginia
Please go to the following links
Go to RateThisJudge and leave a comment about Lyles!!!
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.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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
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
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
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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)
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