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Jury: Death for Tucson father who starved children
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.31.2009
Christopher Payne talks with Assistant Pima County PublicDefender Rebecca McLean, right, during closing arguments Monday in the mitigation or punishment phase of his murder trial, Payne was convicted earlier this month of murdering his children Ariana 3, and Tyler, 4, in the summer of 2006. A jury Tuesday said he deserved the death penalty.
OAS_AD(‘300×250_1′) Tucson man convicted of starving two of his children to death in a bedroom closet was sentenced to death today by a Pima County jury.
The jury took five hours over two days to decide Christopher Payne’s actions were so egregious they outweighed any of the 17 mitigating factors cited by his defense attorneys.
According to prosecutors, Payne locked up and began starving Ariana, 3, and Tyler, 4, following the loss of his job in April 2006.
Once they died, Payne stored the children’s remains in garbage bags for months before placing them in a 25-gallon plastic tub and taking them to a storage unit on East Prince Road.
An autopsy revealed Ariana had suffered 12 broken ribs and a broken shoulder bone in the weeks or months before she died.
Jurors convicted Payne of two counts of first-degree murder March 17 and decided last week that the age of the children, the way they died and the fact there was more than one victim warranted a closer look at the death penalty.
During closing arguments Monday, Assistant Pima County Public Defender John O’Brien pleaded with the jury to spare Payne’s life, saying his life still has value, his family loves him and he had a dysfunctional childhood that began when his late mother was diagnosed with a brain tumor when he was 8-weeks-old.
“Christopher Payne is a flawed human being. Christopher Payne was not able to overcome the risk factors in his life. Was that a conscious choice? Did he as a young man, as a young boy…..choose to become a killer?” O’Brien asked.
Deputy Pima County Attorney Susan Eazer told jurors discounted many of the “mitigating” factors brought up by the defense, including Payne’s addiction to heroin.
Payne managed to drive while high, call his father for money while high, sell heroin while high and properly care for his youngest son, Chris Jr., while high, Eazer said.
Payne did choose to become a murderer, Eazer said.
“Every day that he locked those battered and broken babies in the closet he chose to become a killer. Every day he didn’t give those children food and water and nutrients, he chose to become a killer,” Eazer said.
The jury’s decision brings to an end a saga that came to the community’s attention on Feb. 18, 2007, when a storage facility manager decided to clean out a unit that hadn’t been paid for for months.
Inside the unit, the manager found a foul smelling 25-gallon plastic tub that she dumped into a trash bin. She called police and they found Ariana’s remains stuffed inside. Police believe Tyler’s remains fell out of the tub and ended up in a landfill.
Payne was tied to the storage unit two weeks later.
Payne insisted the children starved themselves to death once they realized they weren’t going to be allowed to live with their mother.
At one point, Payne told detectives, “They were freaking me out because of how skinny they were getting, and I didn’t want anybody to know that because then they were going to take them away from me for good.”
Payne said he bought, stole or made food he thought would appeal to the children, like Cream of Wheat and pizza, to no avail.
Eventually, Payne said the children became incontinent and looked like “Ethiopians.”
Payne told detectives he performed CPR on Ariana for more than a day and Tyler died about a week later.
The children’s mother, Jamie Hallam, testified she and Payne split up about three weeks after Ariana was born in October 2002. She and the children didn’t hear anything from Payne until December 2005 when he asked if he could see them.
After the first visits went well, Hallam dropped Ariana and Tyler off with Payne on Jan. 20, 2006, for what was supposed to be a weekend visit.
Payne kept extending the visit, however, and when she asked for CPS help in getting the children back, she was rebuffed despite the fact she had sole legal custody of them.
Former CPS caseworker Cindy Graupmann testified she suspected Hallam of child neglect and using methamphetamine — suspicions that were never proven.
Graupmann also admitted she encouraged Payne to seek custody of the children although she’d never met Payne, had not done a criminal-background check on him and or asked him to submit to drug testing.
All those things would have been done if Hallam’s parental rights had been formally severed.
Hallam settled her lawsuit against CPS for $1 million last year. Her case against the Tucson Police Department is still pending.
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he two boys were reported missing in an Amber Alert earlier this month.
The bodies of the 9-year-old Duncan G. Connolly and his 7-year-old brother Jack D. Connolly, were found in the back seat of their father’s car in a secluded, remote area of Putman County, police said. The body of their father, Michael Connolly, was found about 60 yards away. At a news conference Monday afternoon, the Putnam County sheriff said they were found off Taylor Road, between Hennepin and Henry, Ill.
Authorities said the father apparently killed the boys in a double murder-suicide.
Michael Connolly was said to have been depressed, despondent and “unstable” when he disappeared with the boys following a custodial visit.
The boys’ mother and Michael Connolly’s ex-wife, Amy Leichtenberg, had said Connolly was scheduled to drop the boys off at the LeRoy Police Department on Sunday, March 8, but never showed up. She had an order of protection against Michael Connolly because he had been abusive, she said. Leichtenberg issued a statement that a friend read at the news conference, while choking back tears:
“My heart is broken and there are no words that express my pain. No parent should have to bury their babies. Duncan and Jack, Mommy loves you to the heavens and back. I feel that the judicial system failed me. I pray that the courts listen to the warnings from other parents like me. Thank you everyone for your prayers and support. The family respectfully requests that we have privacy as we cope with this horrible tragedy. Please keep our family and friends in your hearts and prayers.”
Leichtenberg had made numerous attempts to try to stop her ex-husband from having unsupervised visits with their children. And over the past several weeks, she told anyone who would listen that she felt her children’s lives were in jeopardy, and that her ex-husband was suicidal.
McLean County Sheriff Mike Emery was himself nearly overcome with emotion during the news conference Monday, pausing several times while he described the scene where the boys’ bodies were found.
“Today, Amy, her family, friends and many people are overwhelmed by sadness and pain,” Emery said. “That’s such a horrible crime that has been committed.”
After the Amber Alert was issued, a wave of support spread out over the Internet, with a lot of sites for missing children posting the Connolly story. A Facebook group was created for the Connolly boys, where photos of them with their father and his car were posted. On Monday, the Facebook group was filling up with comments of sympathy for the boys’ mother.
By Craig Johnson
Special to CNN
Special to CNN
(CNN) — Slain attorney Chiquita Tate was such a believer in the legal system that she had a tattoo of Lady Justice on her back, college friend T. J. Crawford recalled.
Chiquita Tate was in the midde of a high-profile murder trial when she was stabbed to death in her law office.
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“She just had an attachment to justice and doing what’s right by people. She was always very serious about that,” said Crawford, a teacher and community organizer in Chicago, Illinois.
But Tate, described by colleagues as a tenacious defense attorney who fought for her clients, could not save herself.
Family members and friends in Chicago; Atlanta, Georgia, and Tate’s adopted home — tiny Baker, Louisiana — are reeling from the grisly details of Tate’s slaying, and police say it was at the hands of her husband, Greg Harris. They had been married about 14½ months.
Harris, 37, is in custody, accused of stabbing Tate to death. He is charged with second-degree murder and the illegal use of a dangerous weapon. A judge last week set his bond at $500,000.
In a phone interview with CNN, Harris’ attorney, Lewis Unglesby, said police have the wrong man.
“Greg Harris by all accounts … is innocent. I don’t know anybody that thinks he did it, except the police,” Uglesby said. “There’s nothing in his background. He has cooperated completely with the police; he’s signed everything they’ve asked him to sign. He’s let them search his house, his car.”
Tate, 34, had started her own law firm in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and was doing well, family and acquaintances said.
“She was up and coming,” said Cpl. L’Jean McKneely, a police spokesman in Baton Rouge.
Tate was representing a defendant in a high-profile murder trial when, police say, she became a homicide victim herself. Her body was found inside her law office on February 20. Tate was stabbed 38 times, according to a police warrant for Harris’ arrest obtained by CNN.
While questioning Harris about Tate’s death, police discovered an outstanding warrant for him in connection with a battery-domestic violence case. It stemmed from a December 22, 2007, incident at the couple’s home.
Harris was accused of using “force and violence” against Tate, according to Baker City Court records. The court said Harris entered a not guilty plea on March 6, 2008, but did not appear for a May 8 pretrial conference. A warrant was issued for his arrest for contempt of court.
When Tate met Harris in late 2007, she fell for him, head over heels, said East Baton Rouge Parish Juvenile Court Judge Pam Taylor Johnson, Tate’s mentor and former boss.
“She came in my office one day: ‘I met the most wonderful guy! I need you to perform our marriage — tomorrow,’” Johnson recalled Tate gleefully telling her.
“I told her she had to wait three days,” as required by Louisiana law, Johnson added.
Tate did wait a bit. The couple’s marriage license is dated January 10, 2008, just two and a half weeks after the domestic violence report from Baker police. They married on February 8, their marriage license shows.
Only the couple’s immediate family members and two friends attended the ceremony at Green Chapel in Baton Rouge, said Tate’s friend Shawn Collins, who was one of those on hand for the wedding.
Neighbors in suburban Baker said the couple seemed to settle into a good life in their home on Charry Drive.
Baker, population 13,000, was one of the cities that absorbed hundreds of families from the FEMA trailer homes after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The last families housed in Baker moved out last spring.
Neighbors recalled seeing Tate frequently driving down the street in her late-model Hummer and Harris steering a Mercedes.
Ethan Koobs, who lives across the street from the couple, said Tate was a “really nice lady, very upper-class, presented herself very well.”
Koobs said he didn’t see any discontent in the couple’s lives.
“They seemed like a pleasant couple, just real nice,” said neighbor Don Patton, who lives two houses down. “They kept their house and their lawn very nice.”
He recalled the couple’s concern for their neighbors after Hurricane Gustav, which raked south Louisiana on September 1, 2008, before petering out in southeast Texas. It knocked out power to 1.5 million homes in southern Louisiana, and thousands of homes were damaged by the wind.
Harris, a carpenter, found his skills useful.
“[Harris] was just generally concerned about everybody’s well-being,” Patton said. “We’d huddle in the street and he’d ask if anybody needed anything.”
The couple helped their neighbors rebuild. But the warrant for Harris’ arrest in the murder case revealed a fracture in the marriage. Tate was “planning on divorcing the defendant due to marital problems” and had leased her own apartment, the warrant stated.
As far as their friends were concerned, there was no trouble in the marriage and Tate appeared to be a doting wife.
She also enjoyed battling it out on behalf of her clients in the courtroom.
Tate, who was raised with six siblings, was tenacious even as a youngster, recalled childhood friend Ursula Bryant-Hill.
“She was always strong-willed and she analyzed everything. Everybody told her ‘You’d be a good lawyer,’” said Bryant-Hill, of Hueytown, Alabama.
“If you knew Chiquita when she was growing up in Baton Rouge, she was always cautious about who she let in her intimate setting. ‘Watch your surroundings,’ that’s how she was,” Bryant-Hill added.
Upon graduation from college, Tate worked briefly as a legislative secretary, recording minutes at Atlanta City Council meetings.
But she longed to return home to Louisiana to attend law school at Southern University.
“When she told me she was in law school, I screamed,” Bryant-Hill said.
Her friend, Juvenile Court Judge Johnson, said Tate lived by one creed: Justice for all, especially for those more vulnerable in society.
“I couldn’t get her to accept the fact that ‘things happen.’ I told her some things you can’t change [about the system], but it is our duty to see if we can equalize things,” Johnson said.
Tate is remembered as someone who fought tirelessly for what she believed in. Now her loved ones hope the legal system will work for her.
The days have been long for Tate’s family. Asked how she has been coping, Denita Tate, the victim’s sister, said, “I’m not. It’s harder every day.”
“We want closure with our family and with our sister, and we want justice,” Denita Tate said.
US man beheads five-year-old sister
March 30, 2009, 6:45 am
A man on a rampage fatally stabbed his 17-year-old sister and decapitated his five-year-old sister during her birthday party and was shot by officers as he headed toward his nine-year-old sister amid what has been called “a killing field”.
There is no clear motive yet for the events that unfolded about 5pm local on Saturday in the tony Boston suburb of Milton that is home to Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick. But there is no doubt at the carnage wrought by 23-year-old Kerby Revelus against his three sisters in the two-family home they shared with their parents and grandmother.
Bianca was killed as a cake for her fifth birthday sat on the kitchen table. Sarafina, nine, dialled the emergency dispatcher and watched police shoot her brother as her elder sister, Samantha, lay dead on the floor.
Sarafina was hospitalised on Sunday at the Boston Medical Centre with defensive wounds to her hands and stab wounds in her abdomen and one of her legs.
“In policing, we see the raw human emotion every day, but to think that a human being could afflict such an atrocious, violent act on his own family is unbelievable,” Milton police chief Richard G Wells Jr told AP.
“When I walked up to the first officer (on the scene), I could see the whole story right in his face. This just told me that this was something very bad,” Wells said.
Revelus had recently served jail time on a gun charge, Wells said, but the details would not be released until courts opened on Monday. Police had been called to the same house in 2004 after a domestic violence report of Revelus allegedly punching one of the women living in the home, Wells said.
Saturday’s attack came about 24 hours after Revelus had gotten into a fist fight with a man living next door, Wells said.
“Blows were exchanged,” he said. “I don’t know the cause of it, but we’re confident that did happen. He had been agitated in the hours that followed that, going into the day and last night.”
Investigators believe Revelus targeted Samantha, a 17-year-old senior at Milton High School, and fatally stabbed her with a household knife while their grandmother was doing laundry in the basement. At the time, the children’s parents were away; their mother is a nurse at a Boston hospital, Wells said.
Her identity, and that of the father, were not immediately available.
Sarafina, a primary school student, called the police emergency dispatcher just before 5pm. An officer on patrol in the neighbourhood arrived within a minute, Wells said, and could hear an altercation inside as he reached the second floor. The emergency operator tried to persuade Sarafina to open the door, but when she did not, the officer broke through.
“As the officer entered the door, (Revelus) decapitated (Bianca) in front of him,” said Wells. “He actually walked into a killing field. He walked into such carnage, as far as the atrocity of it, I’ve never seen it.”
Within moments, four officers were inside and two of them shot Revelus as he tried to get to Sarafina, Wells said. He fell still clutching the knife.
Details about the number of shots and who killed Revelus were pending the outcome of an autopsy.
Jocelyn Ashley, 18, who attended Milton High with Samantha, told The Boston Globe Revelus was “a loner.”
Principal John Drottar said Samantha was a member of the poetry club and planned to attend college in autumn.
“She was a wonderful young lady, a great student, and just a sweetheart of a kid,” Drottar said.
A two-hour grief counselling session was held at the school on Sunday afternoon and will be offered on Monday to students and employees, he said.
The officers involved in the case were placed on administrative leave and were receiving counselling from the Boston Police Department stress unit, Wells said.
courtesy Randi James
In Texas and Florida–Court Ordered Exortion: Because “Families are Worth Saving”
Exortion=
the crime of obtaining money or some other thing of value by the abuse of one’s office or authority.
oppressive or illegal exaction, as of excessive price or interest
In Texas, there is a bill on the floor that would require no-fault divorcing couples with children to take a 10-hour class…a class that could cost $200/hr.
You can thank Representative Warren Chisum for this brilliance.
Make no mistake that this isn’t just lucrative for the government, Chisum stated his agenda:
“If we can save a few marriages, and I think we can save more than a few, but if we can save a few, it’s worth our effort.”
Bill proposes ‘divorce classes’
By BRAD WATSON / WFAA-TV
It all starts out great, with the wedding and the parties.
But 45 percent of American marriages end in divorce.
In the last three months, more than 600 couples have filed for divorce in Dallas County alone.
There is one idea that might make it harder to make the split.
When Candace Aylor wanted a divorce, she would not have desired to take a marriage crisis counseling class and certainly would not want to pay for it…
In Florida, the divorce class is already a requirement. However, as an added bonus, last year’s law added new fees to the court system–fees for filing counterclaims at the rate of $295.
Apparently, this fee was not supposed to apply to family court cases; but instead, county courthouses saw it as a investment they were unwilling to back down on.
Court Clerks Sued for Collecting Illegal Fees in Divorce Cases
TAMPA, Fla., March 25 /PRNewswire/ — The Clerks of the Circuit Court have been charging and collecting illegal filing fees in divorce cases throughout the state, according to a class action lawsuit filed today in Hillsborough County. Thousands of cases have been affected and over one million dollars of illegal fees collected by the court clerks since last July, the lawsuit alleges. The suit was filed by several people who paid such fees in their own cases, on behalf of themselves and other people who have been subjected to the same illegal filing fees. It names the clerks of Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties as defendants and as representatives of all 67 clerks in the state.
When the legislature changed the law last year to authorize a filing fee of $295 on any counterclaim filed in circuit court, it did not specify that the fee could be charged on counterpetitions filed in family law cases. Although many of the clerks recognized that the new law might not apply to family law cases, virtually all of them began imposing the fees in those cases anyway. Last November, the Attorney General issued a formal opinion concluding that the filing fee was not authorized in family law cases. Some of the clerks stopped charging the filing fees after the Attorney General’s opinion came out.
A large group of clerks, however, made an “immediate, conscious and deliberate” decision to disregard the Attorney General’s opinion and to continue imposing the fees, according to the complaint. The day after the Attorney General’s opinion was released and distributed to the clerks, the lawyer for Pat Frank, the clerk for Hillsborough County, wrote in an email that there was “consensus” among the clerks’ lawyers to continue to charge the filing fee in divorce cases…
THIS IS NOT ONLY TRANSPIRING IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY!!!! I REPEAT, NOT ONLY HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY!!!!
We keep trying to tell everyone that these legal professionals are rewriting the laws (and ignoring laws) in order to profit from them. When is everybody going to listen?
How do you find a crooked Judge in Canada or the US?
You just call the courthouse
The stupidity that runs amok within the circles of FR groups never cease to amaze me (or my blog stats!)
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An upcoming symposium is planned in March of 2009 to train 2000 more psychologists and lawyers to commit this fraud in court. To check out the website google Canadian Symposium on Parental Alienation – don’t want to give free publicity by linking. You can check out the video below to see how seriously this fraudulent theory is being propagandized. It has been appalling how the “Cottage Industry” of family law has culminated in this horrible scam which is really a profiteering fraud that is being pushed as some legitimate legal tactic. Sorry, but Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is not a valid, medically accepted disease. It is the sick philosophy of one man, the Pro-Pedophilia Dr. Richard Gardner. Every person using this hypothetical theory is supporting the fraudulent perverse theories of a pedophile supporter. Everyone who has morals and actually cares about the well-being of children needs to be aware that PAS is a shield for child abusers.
It is very lucrative for lawyers and therapists because the money to be made is in defense of criminals. Victims only cost the state money trying to defend them and protect the public, but defending child abusers – hey – there is real money to be made in that. What is totally disregarded in these cases is that there is a spouse and child/ren who apparently don’t like the way they were treated by the person they don’t want to associate with. Since batterers who abuse their spouse are more than twice as likely to abuse their children, when these so-called professionals claim the child has not been abused, they have NO RIGHT to discount what the child is saying whatsoever. So the whole theory of PAS is based on the person named as the abuser by a child and/or by a protective parent claiming that the people who say they are victims are lying. This is total crap. Why? Because if they weren’t abusive it would just be easier to stay together? This is just one of many reasons this theory is faulty. The reactions of an abused child are claimed to be the result of the protective parent’s actions rather than a reaction to the person they name as the abuser. It is Orwell’s 1984 coming true.
The symposium claims to have the leading authorities on PAS. One of these so-called leading authorities is J. Michael Bone – the UNLICENSED mental health professional from Florida. What happened to his license? He had multiple ethics complaints against him for using this fraudulent and biased theory to perpetrate custody change fraud. These horrible evaluations that children are subjected to are with the sole intent of discrediting whatever the child and custodial parent say. It is similar to what a rape victim has to go through when testifying against there abuser, only these poor children cannot get away from these unethical people. They have infiltrated the courts and have cross referral relationships all over calling it collaborative law. It really should be called corruption, collusion, and cronyism.
Another couple of speakers at the symposium are Pamela Stuart-Mills Hoch, and M.A., Bob Hoch, M.A. of the Rachel Foundation, which is currently the subject of a lawsuit for the following:
The Children were mentally and emotionally abused by Pamela Stuart-Mills Hoch, Robert Hoch and Dr. Jack Ferrell.
The Children were also threatened on more than one occasion. Specifically, the Children were told that they would not be able to leave Texas nor would they be able to see their mother unless they cooperated with the Rachel Foundation’s “reunification” program.The Rachel Foundation, Pamela Stuart-Mills Hoch, Robert Hoch and Dr. Jack Ferrell applied numerous circumspect methodologies in their evaluation and “treatment” of the Children and have used their influence to purposefully harm Plaintiff, acting outside the scope of any implicit or explicit permission granted Defendants by Plaintiff or any court or other agency.
As a result of Defendants’ misconduct, Plaintiff has suffered considerable emotional distress.
Additionally, The Rachel Foundation employed people of dubious character, with Jack Ferrell who has two arrests, and Dr. Barry Bricklin who was charged by the FTC for fraudulent claims. There are also Ethics complaints against therapists at the Rachel Foundation with the psychology board.
Anyone having information on any of the other speakers, please post a comment…
CUSTODY EVALUATORS: IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Liz’s article, “Why ‘Therapeutic Jurisprudence’ Must Be — and Will Be — Eliminated From Our Family Courts”, published in 13 Domestic Violence Report 65 (2008) is available at http://www.florida-attorneys-at-law.com/lawyer/articles.htm
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The Cross-Referral PAS Relationships;
featuring Joe Goldberg aka Bernard Joseph Goldberg
Below my comments is an example of a solicitation/marketing letter by a PAS purveyor (the links and bold emphasis have been added, and the lawyer’s name deleted, but the text otherwise is intact.) This is one way garbage put out by the MHP crowd in furtherance of unscientific therapeutic jurisprudence has permeated the family courts and made its way into the public discourse.
While Joseph Goldberg, the letter’s author (below), does not appear to be a licensed psychologist or expert of any legitimate kind, he is far from the only one doing this. A number of father’s rights types, such as Dean Tong and Ken Pangborn have managed to convince lawyers as well as litigants to work with them as “medical legal consultants” or “forensic experts” (whatever that means — some kind of glorified paralegal.) In addition, licensed psychs and other MHPs also do this same thing, soliciting business as “coaches” and “consultants” as well as appointments as experts for the court.
The problem permeates the entire industry of therapeutic jurisprudence. It’s particularly egregious in the area of the false-acc/abusers’ defense lobbies, many of whom have an odd and interesting overlap with the “parental alienation syndrome” crowd, which seems to involve substantially the same motley activist network of PAS ringleaders, functional disciples of Richard A. Gardner. The PAS group includes psychs, lawyers, and the father’s rights forensic paralegal types.
PAS debunked in Australia; psych Wrigley disciplined for incompetent behaviorOne of the psychologists listed below, Barry Brody of Miami (“Forensic Family Services” www.drbarrybrody.com/forensicfamilyservices.html), regularly has sent out a “parental alienation” newsletter to members of the Florida Bar family law section (I haven’t received one in a while; perhaps he’s finally removed me from his mailing list, but if I get another one, I will scan it and upload it here). Brody as well as a number of more familiar names have chimed in to bless the nonsense of “hostile-aggressive parenting” which burst on the scene a couple of years ago to rehabilitate this discredited drivel. See the sister websites (same ownership) www.parental-alienation-awareness.com/ and www.hostile-aggressive-parenting.com/. These include an unhealthy mix of professionals, who, based on their permitting their names to be used this way, apparently support the promulgation of the unscientific crap. Although by no means exhaustive, it’s a convenient list of who to stay away from in child custody cases:
Richard Austin, R. Christopher Barden, Stephen Ceci, Douglas Darnall, Stephen Herman, Jayne Major, Daniel Rybicki, S. Richard Sauber (listed twice) , W. vonBoch-Galhau, Richard A Warshak, Michael Bone, L.F. Lowenstein, Reena Sommer, Jerry Brinegar, Katherine Andre, Ken Lewis, Catherine Swanson Cain, Monty Weinstein, Amy J. L. Baker, David Britton, Robert Evans, Debra Gordy, Christina McGhee, Harvey Shapiro (Elizabeth Loftus’s “investigator”), Jose Manuel Aguilar Cuenca, Theresa K. Cooke, Jeff Opperman, Remi Thivierge, Joe Goldberg, James J. Gross, Randy Kolin, Randy Rand, David Carico, Lawrence W. Daly, Charles D. Jamieson. [from www.parental-alienation-awareness.com/experts.asp accessed 01/01/08]
Notice in Goldberg’s letter, below, the trade-promotion claim that these cases are “difficult to resolve”. This is typical parenting evaluator propaganda — it increases the appearance of some kind of need for their “expertise”. Also note that not only does he make the ubiquitous misrepresentation that there is a disorder known as “parental alienation syndrome” but — and this is fraudulent — adds the embellishment that it is a medical disorder! (Who is infected? At its least implausible, PAS was a description of a relationship dynamic.)
There’s a big problem with this kind of thing that supersedes even the promotion of bogus parental alienation theories. The problem arises because most lawyers represent different clients taking different sides in different cases (sometimes the wife, sometimes the husband, sometimes the “good guy”, sometimes the “bad guy”, etc.). If Solicited Attorney runs up against Expert in another case, after they have established a “cross-referral professional relationship” and formal or informal “working partnership” (the formal kind is of dubious legal ethicity because of the inappropriate feeder of referrals in exchange for indirect compensation), and have “mutual” cases pending, Solicited will have a very difficult time shredding Expert or Expert’s testimony when that is required in another case, or filing a complaint against him, if necessary, because that would place Solicited’s other clients’ pending cases at risk.
In such cases, the lawyer will be tempted to rationalize to himself, as well as maintain the posture in the community at large, that Expert’s horsepuckey is scientifically valid, and pretend that lawyer in any event can safely buy into this because lawyer is not a “scientist”. Expert (who likely knows his spoutings are specious) also will know that Solicited is doing this, and thus has given clients less than competent representation (potentially damaging information to have against a lawyer).
But because it’s all ostensibly collegial, neither of them will admit to the bogus science, or what is going on, even to each other, and as people do, they both will maintain the pretext of belief in such things as the “medical disorder of parental alienation” or “the benefits of joint custody”, as well as the value of their memberships in the organizations that promote these make-work ideas.
It’s almost like unacknowledged blackmail. The lawyer who naively or purposefully steps down this path and goes along with this kind of thing (encouraged by the mixed-discipline organizations, such as the AFCC) in order to obtain referrals has sold his professional soul to the devil, literally. This is true whether the cross-referral relationship is with a licensed psychologist, or, as in this case, with a paralegal-type bird dog.
Deliberate relationships with expert witnesses such as the one sought in the below should be recognized as ethical violations and banned by state bar ethics rules. But the conflict of interest problems are inherent in the nature of the association and exist even when there is no explicit referral relationship — a reason for banning these people from the court system altogether. Ironically, it’s worse for the lawyers who are not ideologues, because they are more likely to advocate for different client perspectives. The repeated association of these “experts” into cases, however, any one of whom at any time and from time to time may show up on the wrong side of a given case, creates many of the same dilemmas that ordinary client conflict-of-interest issues do. This problem also applies to guardians ad litem, frequently a small group of lawyers or MHPs who are appointed by judges and placed over and over again in the same local group of lawyers’ cases, and who similarly opine and write reports that sometimes are on the right side and sometimes on the wrong side.
These people are witnesses in each case (or, in the case of GALs, sometimes even considered to be parties proper). They are not in fact “neutrals” (even if hired as such, once their reports are rendered, they are advocates for one or the other side, and they are never neutral when they are hired as a consultant-turned-testifying expert for one of the lawyers). Thus, at a point, they are, just as a party would be, pointedly in favor of one side and outcome, and overtly adverse to the position of the other party in a case.
They are not objective disinterested witnesses. They are not neutrals. They are not scientists. They are not immune from bias and self-interest (especially where favor is curried with judges and lawyers for future referrals), and especially where their professional trade organizations have lobbied for immunity and effectively protected them from oversight. They are not doing this because they “care about children”. They are not akin to a doctor who drew blood and put it under a microscope and testifies in court that yes, he saw the little amoebae or bacteria or whatever and made a diagnosis. (And the Goldbergs and Tongs are not even licensed, regulated professionals of ANY sort — not that licensed psychologists are much better.) If you don’t understand this, having spent your life immersed in this over-therapized infotainment pop-psychology advice-columnized big-pharma drug-pushing culture we live in: it’s time to get educated.
Not only are they witnesses, just like litigants and other interested, affiliated parties on one side or another of a case, but they are an especially dangerous kind of witness, because they appear in case after case after case. One lawyer may encounter the same expert in different cases in which the same fraudulent snake oil is sometimes favorable and sometimes disfavorable to the lawyer’s client. Expert may be taking a meritless position for the lawyer’s client in one case (which position the lawyer would like to bolster, being an advocate for the client), but show up in another case with the same meritless position that is against the lawyer’s client in that case. Or, Expert might be opining differently because after all, so much psychological opining and “theories” — er ideas — (these are not scientific theories) are unsubstantiable, unfalsifiable, unresearched nonsense. If Expert and a lawyer are in cahoots in various cases, the lawyer is placed into a conflict in the instant case, unable to zealously discredit Expert and do what is appropriate and necessary to protect his potentially harmed client in the instant case — even if the lawyer otherwise would be willing to sacrifice his own referral source or collegial association with Expert. Can’t do it.
Unlike lawyers in many other areas of practice, who may retain their clients for years, family lawyers typically need a steady stream of new one-shot clients. In addition, family lawyers also tend to work in smaller firms. So they value those who send them business. From what I’ve personally seen, I suspect that too many family lawyers, perhaps without recognizing or acknowledging the conflicts of interest that have caused their discomfort and unwillingness adequately to represent some of their clients, in fact have sacrificed these clients on the altar of maintaining their professional relationships, associations, and referral sources.
These people are not colleagues, however. They are case witnesses and participants.
Some lawyers admit to feeling burnout, but they’ve rationalized their unwillingness to zealously advocate for their clients, and their discomfort, as stemming from the “high conflict” created by unreasonable clients, or the high emotional toll the cases are taking on them. Others retain their enthusiasm by becoming ideologues, and taking only cases in which they will not encounter the conflicts (e.g. overwhelmingly their clients raise claims that the other parent is an alienator.) This conveniently furthers the propagation of the bad science.
The rest justify their lack of vigorous representation, and the coerced settlements they’ve foisted on some clients as concern for the best interests of children, or as the only reasonable settlement position, or as their ideological commitment to helping people to just get along (especially when the retainer has run out). They profess to themselves and everyone around a great affinity for mediation and therapy and collaborative resolution, and all manner of therapeutic jurisprudence in the interests of everyone, and similar specious posturing, encouraged in their self-delusion by a steady drip of MHP literature. This kind of thing is just not as pervasive in other areas of the law, no matter how heated the conflicts get, and it’s one substantial reason the public has such a generally dim view of the family courts and family lawyers.
Given that clients are entitled to their choice of attorneys, and are entitled to independent, unconflicted, attorneys (agents) who are committed to furthering their interests and goals (as the client, not the attorney, has defined them), the only viable solution is a disqualification of any GAL or forensic expert who previously has been associated in any case with either of the lawyers in that case, and the striking and nullification of all testimony and reports of that expert, no matter at what stage of a case the lawyer is hired. It also is time to substantially limit the use of forensic experts and GALs in family court altogether because for the most part, MHPs, including child custody evaluators and their related forensic offshoots, in fact are unneeded, unhelpful, and undesirable in the vast majority of child custody cases.
(And any judge who would let Joe “PAS is a medical disorder” Goldberg** testify as an expert in a case really should be removed from the bench for incompetence. Yes, I said that.)
– liz
**Joe Goldberg formerly was known as Bernard Joseph Goldberg. In his own Florida divorce case, Goldberg claimed that his ex-wife was “alienating” his teenage daughters, and even the psychs didn’t buy it — except, Goldberg urges us to mention, an evaluator in his case, Glenn Caddy, Ph.D. Not surprisingly, Caddy is listed as a speaker in and among some of the usual names in the PAS promotion set at a September 2008 “Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome” organized and promoted by Mr. Goldberg. See http://cspas.ca/speaker_profiles.shtml Dean Tong also is listed as a speaker at the event. That pretty much says it all. (That and that Mrs. Goldberg and her two poised and articulate daughters ultimately and fortuitously prevailed against the frivolous machinations.)
Examples of Goldberg’s approach to lawyers, financial advisors, vocational experts, and even domestic violence groups! More. This is not “medicine”, it’s marketing and money. Very dangerous, given Goldberg’s obvious promotional talents combined with his obsessive motivation stemming from his own failed attempts to control his ex-wife and children in his own divorce case. (Recent misguided Canadian courts apparently are being influenced, too, sending children for deprogramming “treatments” at Warshak “clinics” in the U.S. at unthinkably ridiculous expense. I could not call this merely a financial con because children and family affectional relationships — which should not in the first place be the province of government engineering — literally are being experimented on and at risk of being harmed. Judges, wake up!)
Below, he approaches a lawyer:
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:24:00 EST
Subject: Re: Client Referral from Goldberg & Associates – Joe Goldberg
To: [Solicited Attorney]
Dear [Solicited Attorney]:
My name is Joe Goldberg. I am a Medical Legal Consultant specializing in Family Law cases that involve Parental Alienation and Parental Alienation Syndrome.
I found you listed in ACFLS ( Association of Certified Family Law Specialits ).
There are times I’m sure, when you’ve come across high conflict cases regarding Visitation, Custody and Parental Alienation. These cases are extremely difficult to resolve in the best interest of the child.
You may not know that Parental Alienation and Parental Alienation Syndrome, is both a medical disorder and a form of Child Abuse.
In many of the cases I am involved in, I refer a client to a new attorney.
I like the fact that you have the highest qualifications and I believe that you could assist us with legal representation.
I would like for us to get to know each other, a little better and I would also like to know if you would be interested in developing a cross-referral professional relationship on these type of cases?
Allow me to introduce you to our website, so you can learn more about me and my firm: www.ParentalAlienation.ca Presently we work on cases all over California.
We would also like to link websites with you.
Please let me know, if you’d be interested in a working partnership and if you would like to talk with me after the holidays.
Until then, I want to wish you a Happy and Healthy Holiday Season.
Respectfully Yours,
Joe Goldberg
Goldberg & Associates
Tel 905-481-0367
www.ParentalAlienation.ca
Below: Goldberg targeting — and contaminating — financial forensics with this specious rot by promising them $$$$ referrals…
Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 2:30 AM
Subject: CDFA Assistance Needed – Please Call Joseph Goldberg /905-481-0367
To: [Solicited Financial Advisor]
Hello [Solicited Financial Advisor]:
My name is Joseph Goldberg and the name of my firm is Goldberg & Associates. We work with family law attorneys in divorce litigation and specifically on the topic of Parental Alienation Syndrome.
Please visit our web site at www.ParentalAlienation.Ca
We have many clients that need CDFA Services. The clients we represent and local to you (although we have offices in FL, & ON.).
I would like to discuss an offer to refer my clients and their business to your firm. In fact, I would like to give you an opportunity to be our “Exclusive Affiliate” for all of our clients needing CDFA Services.
Due to the fact that I am the Founder of The Canadian Symposium For Parental Alienation Syndrome, ( CS-PAS ), my firm anticipates a significant increase in the number of clients that come to us for assistance, we want to prepare for that volume of business by having your help lined up in advance.
I assume that you did not know that Parental Alienation Syndrome is both a Medical Disorder and a widely recognized form of Child Abuse.
Please visit the website for CS-PAS so you’ll understand the importance of this event.
www.Cspas.Ca
It would be greatly appreciated if we could get better acquainted on the phone. I would very much like to discuss our interest in the arrangement to work with you and your firm. Please call me at – Tel : 905-481-0367
Once again, I look forward to hearing from you soon !
Respectfully Yours,
Joseph Goldberg
Goldberg & Associates
www.ParentalAlienation.Ca
CS-PAS
www.cspas.ca
Tel: 905-481-0367
And below: yet another marketing ploy, targeting vocational forensics — and with the promise of referrals, soliciting money from them!
[Saturday, June 28, 2008]
Hi [Solicited Vocational Forensic]
Please do me a favor and try and mail out a few packets of information about you and your firm so I can pass it along to our interested clients. If you can send it by Express Mail that would be appreciated. (Include your CV, Photos, Logos, etc.)
You can mail it to me at:
Goldberg & Associates
A7-1390 Major Mackenzie Drive East
Suite 127
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada L4S 0A1
Also… I forgot to mention this but in reference to the one time Sponsorship Fee, if you want to make the payment with a credit card directly to CSPAS, they ;made it very simple and easy to do.
All you have to do is click on the hyperlink below: Click here: Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome
Then scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click on the button that says:
VENDOR AFFILIATION
Once again, I look forward to doing business with you soon.
Respectfully Yours,
Joe Goldberg
Goldberg & Associates
www.ParentalAlienation.ca
Tel: 905-481-0367
CS-PAS
[Sunday, June 29, 2008]
Hi [Solicited Vocational Forensic]
It was a pleasure getting to know you and I am very excited about this opportunity to work with you and your firm.
I’d like to itemize the details regarding your Exclusive Vendor Affiliation with G&A. We truly want to make this a successful and profitable arrangement for your company because we need your assistance for Vocational Evaluations
We are prepared to offer your firm all of the following benefits – all we seek in return is your support of the CS-PAS, (symposium) and a one time Sponsorship Fee in the amount of $750.00 ;
EXCLUSIVE VENDOR AFFILIATION BENEFITS
1. Your company will be our Exclusive Vendor for Vocational Evaluations in Texas
2. The Registration Fee for you to attend the symposium will be waived ($395.00)
3. The Fee to attend the Gala Banquet Dinner will be waived ($250.00)
4. Significant advertisements promoting your company will be posted on the CS-PAS website. The cost to design the ad will be paid for by the CS-PAS, it will be designed by an advertising agency. The value of the ad would normally cost $400.00, and the ad will be seen on ;www.cspas.ca
5. Significant advertisements promoting your company will also be posted on our website. The cost of the ad will be paid for by the CS-PAS, it will be designed by an advertising agency. The value of the ad would normally cost $400.00, and it will be seen online at www.parentalalienation.ca
We want to build a business relationship that will last for many years to come. It would be a great pleasure to work with you on these services.
Please Make Your Check Payable To:
CSPAS / Canadian Symposium
Please Mail It To:
CSPAS / Canadian Symposium
A7-1390 Major Mackenzie Drive East, Suite 127
Richmond Hill, Ontario L4S 0A1
Attn: Corporate Sponsors Dept.
Once again, I look forward to meeting you and doing business with your firm!
Respectfully Yours,
Joseph Goldberg
CS-PAS
www.cspas.ca
Goldberg & Associates
www.parentalalienation.ca
Tel: 905-481-0367
Below: Goldberg attempting to schnor the email subscriber list from a domestic violence group:
From: TheCSPAS@aol.com
Subject: Announcement To Members from The CSPAS – Founder Joseph Goldberg
Date: Thursday, December 25, 2008, 1:44 AM
I am with The Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome, and my name is Joseph Goldberg. We would like to know if it is possible to obtain an opt-in email list of your members so we can send them a video clip of our upcoming conference at The Metro Toronto Convention Center March 27th through March 29th.
Please visit our website for the details www.CSPAS.ca http://www.cspas.ca/
Since this is our First Annual Conference we hope you will allow us to use your email list solely for this purpose and at no time would your list be given out to any third parties. I am the Founder of the Conference, and I will take every measure to safeguard the usage of your email information.
We would also like to ask if your email name and address information is available in a CSV data format ? ( This way we can do a simple blast of the emails all at one time, or perhaps we could send you the video clip and you could send it out to all of your members for us ? ) Either way, The Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome would be forever grateful for your assistance.
Did you know that Parental Alienation Syndrome ( P.A.S. ), is a recognized form of child abuse ?
Once again, thank you for giving us this opportunity to inform your members with our promotional video clip of the conference.
Respectfully Yours,
Joseph Goldberg
Founder of The Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome
Below: Goldberg flattering psychologists and promising referrals:
From: jgoldberg@cspas.org
To: maj2650@aol.com
Sent: 1/29/2009 6:07:32 P.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Client Referral To Your Office – From G&A / JG
My name is Joseph Goldberg, and I’m with the C.S.P.A.S.
http://www.cspas.org I was looking online at a few different websites when I came across your information.
I’m trying to help some clients that live in close proximity to your office. My clients recently expressed a need for professional services that you can provide.
Are you presently meeting with and taking on new clients and if we wanted to refer these clients to you is that something that would be of interest?
All of the clients that I would refer, are local to your office and the main reason that I’m able to refer a potentially large number of new clients to you, is because we have public access to a database of experienced professionals who are affiliated with the CSPAS – Referral Service Center.
FYI, there are no charges of any kind in connection with the CSPAS – RSC.
The CSPAS provides assistance to adults and children who are dealing with problems that relate to “Parental Alienation.” We also try to encourage professional’s to enroll in at least a few lectures that offer CEU’s to assist them in working with the clients that we refer.
FYI …We have an upcoming conference on Parental Alienation this coming – March 27 – March 29th at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC). As Founder of the CSPAS – I’m very interested in supporting the work you do, and I believe we can, and should help each other on an on going basis. I assume that you are acquainted with the fact that Parental Alienation and Parental Alienation Syndrome ( P.A.S. ), is a widely recognized form of child abuse.
Please let me know if you’re interested in taking on some new clients and our client referral services which can help you to expand the growth of your practice.
My Kindest Regards,
Joseph Goldberg Founder of CSPAS
For more information about the conference, please visit our website at http://www.cspas.org
To stop receiving these emails please unsubscribe.
The Canadian Symposium For Parental Alienation Syndrome
647-476-3170
A7 – 1390 Major Mackenzie Drive East, Suite 127
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada L4S 0A1
Respectfully Yours,
Joseph Goldberg
Founder of The Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome
Dean Tong (another non-psychologist “forensic consultant”) was arrested 01/28/08 in Florida for domestic violence and witness tampering. Tong was accused in a prior marriage of child sexual abuse, which lead the former paramedic to create a business of, inter alia, helping guys accused of abuse beat the rap (although in recent years he apparently sought to gain legitimacy occasionally working for the “other side” too). His primary affiliations, however, appeared to be with the PAS purveyor crowd, a number of the individuals listed above, and other “it’s a false accusation and mom brainwashed the kid to make this up” defense lawyers and forensics such as Ralph Underwager. Lightning striking twice? More of these types: Steven Carlson, “the custody coach”, Ken Pangborn, and Allen Cowling. And of course the agenda’s Ph.D.s…
More on Dean Tong, can be found here: http://www.thelizlibrary.org/fathers/fathers.htm#tong
A side note on one reason parental alienation theory is so appealing to the family law therapeutic jurisprudence types, including not only the forensics but also the therapists, guardians ad litem, parenting coordinators, and supervised visitation and therapeutic visitation opportunists: when their ineffective make-believe, “reunification therapies” and similar ideas don’t work (probably because not a one is backed by any credible research or even anecdotally effective methodology), even if parental alienation wasn’t earlier raised in the case and abuse was founded, it provides the perfect alibi to give some schnookered judge who wants to know what happened. And so they just point the finger for all of the wasted time, money, and miserable mess they’ve made of the case at… the mother (usually), claiming “unconscious alienation” or “covert alienation”.
(courtesy of Liz Library and Randi James)
IF YOU SEE THE MAN ON THE RIGHT…DO NOT APPROACH HIM…HE IS EXTREMELY STUPID AND HAS DELUSIONAL THOUGHTS ABOUT MOTHERS AND WOMEN IN GENERAL. HE HAS BEEN KNOWN TO FREQUENT THE COMPANY OF PRO-PEDOPHILES. HE HAS CAUSED GREAT PAIN TO THE ADULT CHILDREN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED THE CORRUPTION, COLLUSION AND CRONYISM OF FAMILY COURT.
THE PRODUCT ON THE LEFT REALLY DOES EXIST AND IS MORE USEFUL THAN THE USELESS PRICK ON THE RIGHT.
Despcicable heavy duty misogynist with messed up ideas on mothers and needs to be bitch slapped
Curry gets custody of son Grandma relents, won’t defy order
By Deanese Williams-Harris and Robert Mitchum
(Tribune photo by Charles Cherney / March 19, 2009)
Tribune reporters March 20, 2009 Noah Curry case resolved Yolan Henry leaves the Daley Center with a friend after turning over her grandson Noah Curry late Thursday. The grandmother of Eddy Curry’s son handed him over to the former Chicago Bulls player’s family late Thursday, hours after she disappeared with the child while vowing to defy a court order granting custody to Curry. Steve Patterson, a spokesman for the Cook County sheriff’s office, confirmed that 3-year-old Noah Henry had been transferred to the Curry family at the Daley Center at about 11:30 p.m. During the transfer, which took place in private, the boy embraced Curry’s mother, Gale, said Lisa Newman, a spokeswoman for Yolan Henry, the maternal grandmother who gave up custody. Moments later, Henry left the Daley Center, her head downcast and eyes hidden behind sunglasses. She declined comment. Video Related links * Eddy Curry’s career Photos * Curry custody hearing Video * Henry family statement in Curry custody case * NBA’s Eddy Curry is asked to attend hearing in custody dispute * Slayings of Eddy Curry’s ex, infant spur custody hearings * Ex-boyfriend arrested in slayings of Eddy Curry’s daughter and her mother “Losing my grandson is the latest tragedy for our family,” Henry said in a statement issued shortly before the transfer.
In January Noah was found bloodied but unharmed in the South Loop home where his mother and infant sister were murdered. Frederick Goings, a Chicago lawyer who is alleged to have terrorized Nova Henry, his on-and-off-again girlfriend, was charged last month in the double murder. Since the killings, the families of Curry and the slain mother have battled in court over who would care for Noah. With the NBA player in attendance Thursday afternoon, a Cook County Circuit judge ordered that Noah be immediately placed in his father’s custody. But Yolan Henry didn’t bring the child to court and vowed that she would not turn him over to Curry or authorities. “I’m not trying to kidnap him,” Henry told the Tribune earlier Thursday in an exclusive telephone interview. “I’m trying to protect him.” “I feel that it’s unfair to subject this child to a turnover when he doesn’t know the parties he is being turned over to,” she said. “We are forced to be fugitives.” But by late Thursday, Henry issued the emotional statement, saying she had only the best interest of Noah at heart. “I have spent the last few months trying to help my grandson adjust to life without his mother, Nova Henry, and baby sister, Ava,” the statement said. “Noah clings to me every moment of the day and cries when I am not in his sight,” Henry continued. “I pray that God gives him the strength to cope with this separation from his family … Ultimately, we would like to jointly raise Noah with the Curry family.” After Henry failed to bring Noah to court, Judge Fe Fernandez had authorized the boy’s lawyers to seek the assistance of law enforcement officials if necessary to ensure Curry obtained custody. Henry could have faced arrest for contempt of court if she hadn’t turned over the boy, said Lester Barclay, one of the boy’s court-appointed attorneys. Attorneys from all sides of the dispute had met with sheriff’s officials after the hearing to try to negotiate a peaceful turnover. Yolan Henry contacted the Tribune by phone shortly after the order was signed to release the child to Curry. She said then that she intended to defy the court order and considered herself to be “on the run.” She didn’t disclose her location to a reporter. The Tribune reported on the call on chicagotribune. com. Henry said that on Friday her lawyer would appeal the order to hand over her grandson. “He has seen his father twice his entire life …” Henry said of Noah. “They never knew my granddaughter and since she’s been dead, they haven’t seemed to care.” Attorneys for Curry disputed that he had seen his son so seldom. Henry said Curry’s child support payments were cut off the day after the double murder. Public records confirm that the payments stopped that day. “I’ve been doing everything on my own. I’ve adjusted my life to take care of [Noah],” Henry said. “I have not asked Curry for a dime.” Henry said that she spoke with Curry on the phone earlier Thursday and contended that he assured her that he wasn’t trying to take Noah from her. But the judge and lawyers for Noah said two separate custody agreements signed by Nova Henry in 2008 specified that Curry should obtain custody of their children in the event of her death. Curry missed practice with the New York Knicks to attend Thursday’s hearing after a judge had ordered him to appear. Curry declined to comment outside of the Domestic Relations Division courtroom, but his attorney, Kelly Saindon, said that he was devastated over Henry’s initial refusal to turn over the boy. “It’s a very emotional case. You know the tragedy behind this story, so its an unfortunate turn of events,” Saindon said.
dawilliams@tribune.com
rmitchum@tribune. com
OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF THE RETALIATED PROTECTIVE MOTHER PROBLEM AND THE ROLE “PAS” PLAYS IN THESE PROBLEMS.
Many articles have been published in major media, on-line news and commentary sites such as WorldNetDaily, WomensENews and professional an advocacy sites including National Organization for Women.
Victims should know that fathers rights’ movement and Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) were created by a ring of judges to stir-up domestic litigation and use that litigation as a extortion/protection scheme against vulnerable women who are worried about the safety of their children. Abusive men are given “protection” in exchange for their cooperation in non-stop profitable litigation activity.
While the articles below are good reviews of what is wrong with “PAS” none of them touch on the most compelling error in the PAS methodology model, which is – it purports to be a method for identifying instances of one parent alienating a child from the other parent. However, the PAS authors do not describe any child (or mother) behavior which could be labeled an alienated conduct. Instead, their entire focus is on something else – sex acts with children. A mother’s complaints against the father for sexual activity with the child, is the sole criteria for the author’s strong condemnations against the mother for causing the child to be alienated from the father. The PAS authors believe a child is made to fear the fathers’ sexual activities, when absent the complaint everything would be fine. Nothing is said about what factors would constituent a valid sex abuse complaint. All the reactions by the mother which they label as “alienating” are normal reactions to discovering her child was being abused.
Additional discrediting factors are: Gardner/Underwager analysis model has no identifying factors for a truly “false” allegation. The sum of their writings really say, is that the mother should keep her mouth shut and not interfere because there is really nothing wrong with sex between fathers and children. The only real harm occurs when the mother makes the child think there is something wrong with the sex activity. The fact that hundreds of people have read, absorbed and endorsed the Gardner / Underwager sex theories gives evidence to how many sex perverts (both male and female) there are in our society. Furthermore, the fact that hundreds more have read and critically reacted to their pro-incest writings but haven’t labeled them for what they really are – is an indication of how fearful the rest of society is about violating taboos against acknowledging grown men actually do have sex with their own children and are proud of it. Even the most outspoken critics of PAS can not bring themselves to say publicly what they all should know is obvious – that Gardner, Underwager, Farrell and their fathers rights followers are a bunch of sex perverts. The bottom line is that subject of incest is still very much a social taboo and the incest crowd knows this and plays on this social taboo to its own advantage hiding behind “parental alienation” and other cover theories to keep their critics distracted. Even worse this crowd has taken matters one step further and made incest (under the cover of alienation and visitation interference) an official government social program, under the guise of helping fathers see and have good relations with their children.
Never underestimate the ability of a government bureaucrats to play dumb about other peoples’ problems and exploit it to the hilt in the name of helping those people.
Articles published in Washington Times by NAFCJ leader Liz Richards describe these factor in more detail:
Washington Times | April 2006 |”The other side of fathers’ rights controversy”
Washington Times | April 2008 | “Parental rights and wrongs”
Article published in Northern Virginia community newspaper in 2003, and posted on French Canadian site.
“Program produces mother less kids” by Liz Richards
Kinsey-Sexual deviancy expert, Judith Reisman has written frequently on this topic for WorldNewsDaily, going back to a 1999 article in which she mentions Liz Richards and NAFCJ – Texas activist, Jan Barstow.
Reisman was the source of the PAIDIKA article which exposed Ralph Underwager pro-pedophilia opinions.
Dr. Judith Reisman
WorldNetDaily: Child custody for sex offenders / April 1999
WorldNetDaily: Child abuse and child custody- March 1999
WorldNetDaily News Archives: Judith Reisman
Leadership Council, founded by psychological professionals, has done extensive work researching PAS.
The Leadership Council: What is Parental Alienation Syndrome
The Leadership Council – Homepage
Leadership Council / Dr. Joy Silberg
The Leadership Council – Articles on Abuse and Custody
Leadership Council member, Stephanie Dallam, has written some of the best articles exposing Gardner & PAS as pro-incest. Look for the section titled “Therapy for the Mother”, in which Gardner offers the disgusting advice to therapists treating an “incest” family. Gardner says the mother should be encouraged to use a vibrator so the father won’t have to seek sex from his daughter. Most of what Gardner writes actually justifies incest and blames the problem on the mother or the victimized child. This is the basis of “PAS” and the strongest reason why PAS is not valid.
Stephanie Dallam: “Parents losing custody to abusers”
(courtesy of Liz Library)
