tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92173538846691678362024-03-13T00:56:04.643-04:00Disgusted with the system(HaveUmistakenMe@aol.com)Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.comBlogger1469125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-64495809042932773832013-04-17T22:00:00.001-04:002013-04-17T22:01:34.496-04:00Stop missing out on great stuff.. Come follow me at my new blog address.. <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
<a href="http://disgustedwiththesystem.blogspot.com/2012/10/stop-missing-out-on-great-stuff.html"><em>Stop
missing out on great stuff.. </em></a></h3>
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<em>Come follow me on my new blog..
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<em>I'm confused, there are now 96 people who I am
very thankfull for, who have followed me for years on this blog and only 4 of
you moved with me to my new site.</em></div>
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<em>What's really more confusing is the last 3 posts have been telling you guys that I moved all the great links and more.. to a new blog address.. and my following (which I will be forever thankful for) went up by 4 on this page.. </em></div>
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<em>This page's links are all but gone.. if you want to keep this page saved for one of the posts, I have here.. save it please! </em></div>
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<em>Yet come follow me on my new page, which is also where I've added a ton of new helpful PAS & adult children of abuse help pages.. and so much more.. </em></div>
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<em>I miss you, and don't want you missing out on the new links I've found to help you..come see
what's new and improved on my new site!</em> <br />
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Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-6452762133184289592012-12-11T18:38:00.002-05:002012-12-11T22:09:05.199-05:00Dismantling This Site.. <em>As I've warned for a few months now.. this site is being dismantling. </em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>I guess I'll have to keep posting really important stuff right here on the blog that got my name out there in cyber-space, until it is fully dismantled.. because only 2 out of 92 followers actually 'followed' me to my new home <a href="http://www.stilldisgustedwiththesystem.blogspot.com/">www.StillDisgustedWithTheSystem.blogspot.com</a>. I know the rest of you will get there sooner than later.. and in the meantime I don't want anyone to miss out on a great opportunity. So with that in mind... keep reading for some awesome news.. </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>For those of you that know me, you already know
that I'm an extremely positive person who truly believes in a Higher Power &
in the Ascending Masters. Often times the Higher Power I speak of, does not have
a name so as to allow the listener or the reader to give that power whatever
name they feel comfortable giving it. When I am giving my daily thanks for the
amazing things that come to me or to those I love, I actually thank every one of
the Higher Powers that I can think of including all of the Ascending Masters as
well as others Spiritual Pet Rocks.<o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>I am forever sharing my belief, in that
everything happens for a reason & that everyone we encounter in our lives
was strategically placed there by our Higher Power for a reason. Whether they
were placed in our life to teach us, to love us, to help us, or to hurt us...
each and every one of them are in our lives to mirror something back to us that
will help us become a better person and live a happier, emotionally healthier
more, insightful, more compassionate life! You can find out more of my thoughts
on this subject on my web-site www.NoItsNotPersonal.com under the page titled:
The World Is Your Mirror. <o:p></o:p></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>With all of this said, the other day I received
an email from a gentleman named Michael Weinberg founder and CEO of a new
service online called Wizpert which is free right now while it is still in beta.
The email went on to explain that he was recruiting experts in many fields and
he asked me if I would become one of the Wizperts (Expert in certain fields), I
was so thankful, yet grounded enough to know that there are many scam artists
out there.. that I immediately went to investigate the service.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Much to my surprise, Wizpert is in fact a real
company offering very valuable services, such as Life, with sub categories like;
Personal Development, Spiritual Development and or Spiritual Growth, Conflict
Counseling, Parenting at each developmental age & stage, Friendships,
Relationships, Dating Advice, Nurturing Love, Grief, Health & Wellness,
Learning, Learning a new Language, I could go on and on.. however, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I'll let you check it out for yourself!
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Wizperts are recruited via popular blogs that
they have out there, where they are already helping those in need. He started
this company for people who needed expert advice NOW.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>The short version of how this amazing new site
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Someone is in need of help, they join the site
@ http://www.wizpert.com, they register and then they can chose from any one of
the various specialty areas they need help in, and voila.. up pops a list of
which Wizpert is available at that time, and the client then can read a
paragraph about what that Wizpert has to offer and if the client so chooses they
can then connect via Skype with whomever they feel can best help them.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>My areas of Wizpertize are Personal Development
& Growth, Spiritual Development & Growth, Conflict Counseling, and
Parenting adolescents. Although, I have five children and could have chosen any
age group, having five children I know that adolescents can be very challenging
and I want to help where I feel help is needed most. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Additionally, I am writing up a proposal for
Michael to add either Estrangement or Alienation to the site, for parents that
have been forced out of their children’s lives by an abusive partner. Hopefully,
I'll be done with that by this evening. <o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>So if you have questions you need answered,
click on the Wizpert Blue Button on this website, and connect with me, and we'll
talk for free; at least for now while the site is in beta!
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Have an amazing day!<o:p></o:p></em></span>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-59537963271109260062012-10-07T15:56:00.002-04:002012-12-11T22:09:28.061-05:00Stop missing out on great stuff.. <em>Come follow me on my new blog.. </em><br />
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<em>I'm confused, there are 92 people who I am very thankfull for, who have followed me for years on this blog and only 2 of you moved with me to my new site. </em><br />
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<em>I miss you, come see what's new and improved on my new site!</em> <br />
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I posted it on my new site... <a href="http://www.stilldisgustedwiththesystem.blogspot.com/">www.StillDisgustedWithTheSystem.blogspot.com</a> <br />
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<br />Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-36576131796383660492012-09-20T01:27:00.002-04:002012-12-11T22:08:53.143-05:00Have you Checked out my new site?<br />
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<em>In case you haven't noticed, I've been deleting more and more links from this page, and replacing them on my new page (see above). So if you happen to need something I had listed here come to my new site StillDisgustedWithTheSystem and find it and me there.. feel free to follow me over there..</em><br />
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<em>I noticed that not one of my 90 followers are following my new blog. I don't want any of you to miss out on my Federal Lawsuit which will be scanned into my computer and displayed on Still Disgusted With The System ASAP! </em><br />
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<em>So please take a min to switch from following me on this blog- to following me on my new blog.. </em><br />
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<em>And more than anything- thank you to every one of my followers- without you, I wouldn't be able to help as many others as do now... ty, ty, ty!</em> <br />
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Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-56582567123479854742012-08-09T00:17:00.000-04:002012-12-11T22:09:46.514-05:00The Last Post on This Blog<em>With deep regret on the one hand, and full contentment on the other hand; this will be the last post on this blog. </em><br />
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<em>I want to thank all of you who have faithfully followed my posts. I also want to thank those of you who have voted this blog in the top 5 and top 10 Family & Civil Rights blogs out there! Additionally, I want to thank all of you who have become friends due to your finding my blog and allowing me to help you either in court or with Child Services! And last but not least, I want to thank those of you who have linked my blog to your web page or to your own blog!</em><br />
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<em>It has been my pleasure helping all the people I've been able to help because of this blog! </em><br />
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<em>It might take a while before this blog is fully gone, because I plan on printing each and every page before I hit the delete button. However, if you would like to use any of the Motions or Petitions I've posted- I suggest you do that as soon as possible! Copy them and use them as templates, substitute my story for your own case that's how I started! I ask one thing from those of you who will be borrowing anything from this blog before it's gone... can you please white out my or my children's names? </em><br />
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<em>In closing, most people that follow this blog already know where they can find me! </em><br />
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<em>I have started switching everything over to my new blog.. (<a href="http://www.stilldisgustedwiththesystem.blogspot.com/">www.StillDisgustedWithTheSystem.blogspot.com</a>) </em><br />
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<em>Hope you chose to continue following me at my new address! See you there!</em>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-67678917120348114842012-08-05T22:51:00.001-04:002012-08-05T22:51:28.078-04:00Mother drowned toddler for revenge..<em>A court has heard a New South Wales woman deliberately drowned her 17-month-old daughter to get revenge on the child's father.</em><br />
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<em>The 27-year-old is accused of drowning the toddler in a Wollongong suburb in July 2009.</em><br />
<em>Her lawyer told a Supreme Court jury in Sydney that the woman had a "depressive illness" at the time.</em><br />
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<em>But she is standing trial for murder after the Crown rejected her guilty plea to the lesser charge of manslaughter.</em><br />
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<em>In his opening address, crown prosecutor Michael Fox said the child drowned after her mother put her face down in the bath and left the water running while she sat in another room.</em><br />
<em>He said the woman then dressed her dead daughter and put her on a bed where she slept beside her.</em><br />
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<em>The jury was told the woman did not call an ambulance or mention the child's death to anyone for two days and in that time tried to commit suicide.</em><br />
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<em>The court heard the woman had a troubled relationship with the child's father and that days before the </em><br />
<em>baby's death she found out that he was taking another woman on a holiday.</em><br />
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<em>Mr Fox said the woman sent her former partner a text that read: "Enjoy your trip to the snow, it's the last weekend you will be happy."</em><br />
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<em>He said she feared losing custody of her daughter.</em><br />
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<em>Defence barrister Dina Yehia SC said her client was a caring and loving mother who became isolated and depressed before the toddler's death.</em><br />
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<em>The barrister said she was suffering from an "abnormality of the mind" that affected her ability to know right from wrong.</em><br />
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<em>The woman sat quietly in the dock avoiding the gaze of the jurors who sat within metres of her.</em><br />
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<a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/article/14382615"><em>http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/article/14382615</em></a>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-82866041185561526932012-07-13T19:32:00.002-04:002013-10-18T13:45:17.385-04:00Lower Milford Mom Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Infant Son<em>Anyone that knows me, knows that I very rarely believe what I read about child abuse, due to the fact that I know (Insert your local child services name here), gets Title IV Federal Funding to protect abused children, which has turned into 'incentives' to produce abused kids for the millions of dollars involved.. so with that said... Do I believe this woman did this? I don't know.. but SOMEONE ABUSED THAT CHILD, and if it is her.. my only wish is that her and I meet in a dark alley one day with no one else around... If it wasn't her.. then whomever it was.. here's your invitation, contact me and I'll come meet you to 'get couch your side choke of the storycouch BS'</em> <em>(smile), ok all joking aside who ever did this to this baby- deserves to live a long life of others doing the same to them! </em><br />
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<em>LEHIGH COUNTY, PA -- Updated 8:30am:</em><br />
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<em>A local woman charged with attempting to kill her 6-month-old son has pleaded guilty to felony aggravated assault. </em><br />
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<em>Chelsie Grant, 19, of Lower Milford, </em><a href="http://uppersaucon.patch.com/articles/mother-charged-with-trying-to-kill-her-6-month-old-son"><em>was arrested in February for systematic abuse of her six-month old son,</em></a><em> including twisting and breaking the baby's arms, choking him and shoving objects into his throat.</em><br />
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<em>Grant, who </em><a href="http://uppersaucon.patch.com/articles/attempted-homicide-charge-may-be-dropped-against-lower-milford-mom"><em>waived her preliminary hearing in late February</em></a><em>, pleaded guilty to the lesser offense of felony aggravated assault that can carry a sentence of a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of 20 years. Grant originally was charged with one count of attempted homicide and two counts of felony aggravated assault. </em><br />
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<em>According to the criminal complaint, Grant brought her son to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest on Jan. 12, claiming his father had abused the boy. Emergency room doctors confirmed the boy had several injuries, including a right elbow dislocation and fractures of both arms and legs.</em><br />
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<em>Despite claiming at first that the boy's father caused the injuries, she later confessed to abusing her son. When confessing, Grant reenacted the abuse with a doll. The complaint says Grant "placed one hand on the child's chest and used the other hand to pull the arms of the child as far as she could several times in each direction. She then grabbed the ankles of the victim and twisted them in both directions and pushed both legs up toward the chest of the child and pulled them down forcefully several times."</em><br />
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<em>She also admitted to shoving spoons and paper down the baby's throat. </em><br />
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<em>According to assistant district attorney Anna-Kristie Morffi, Grant’s son is living with his paternal grandparents. Those close to the case say that it is too soon to tell if the boy will have any permanent effects from the abuse. </em><br />
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<em>Grant remains in custody at Lehigh County Prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for Sept. 11.</em><br />
<strong><em>Related Topics:</em></strong><a class="tag" href="http://uppersaucon.patch.com/topics/Chelsie+Grant"><em>Chelsie Grant</em></a><em> and </em><a class="tag" href="http://uppersaucon.patch.com/topics/Lower+Milford+Child+Abuse"><em>Lower Milford Child Abuse</em></a><br />
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<em>Wait a second, wait a second... WTF? </em><br />
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<em>"Wendy's Drive-Thru Worker, Juan Antonio Rosa, Gets Nearly 22 Years For Selling Child Porn"</em><br />
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<em>After I posted the blog above I continued to read the 'AOL News' and I find out this dick-shit-lower than low life scum of the earth is selling kid porn out of a Wendy's drive through? And he has 2 kids? (shaking my head) these stupid fucks are really putting all of the spiritual work I've done on myslef to the test... FUCK THAT- I'd glady bash this mother fuckers head in too with a brick (along with the above abuser), and then ask the universe for forgivness! </em><br />
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<br />Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-51324390270509740212012-07-08T14:37:00.004-04:002012-07-08T14:37:49.308-04:00Believe None of What You Hear and Half of What You See<em>In my 50 some-odd years on this planet, I still catch myself ALMOST getting caught up in the moment- half cocked about to go off on some alleged pedophile, or some poor soul with an amazing story of being victimized! </em><br />
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<em>Then I catch myself just in time and I have a reality check- everyone here on this planet is living in their own PERCEPTION OF REALITY! </em><br />
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<em>It matters not how much someone's perception of reality can be justified... what matters most is FACTUAL REALITY as this post will prove... not all of what you hear is in fact REALITY AS IT IS OR WAS! </em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So, the message here is- don't go off halfcocked and write someone off as a (insert whatever label you want here), until you have un-arguable, un-taintable, un-fabricatable, factual details to come to your own intellectual opinion with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</em><br /><em>CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A Chicago man who spent more than 30 years behind bars before DNA evidence helped overturn his conviction in the rape and killing of a 3-year-old girl was released from prison late Friday, just hours after prosecutors dropped the case against him.</em><br />
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<em>An Illinois appeals court in March had ordered a new trial for 50-year-old Andre Davis after tests found that DNA taken from the scene of the 1980 killing of Brianna Stickle wasn't his. The girl was attacked in Rantoul, about 20 miles north of Champaign.</em><br />
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<em>Davis was released from the super-maximum security prison in Tamms in far southern Illinois around 7:30 p.m., said Illinois Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kayce Ataiyero. Champaign County State's Attorney Julia Rietz had decided earlier in the day not to pursue charges against him.</em><br />
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<em>Judy Royal of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University, which represented Davis, said he was the longest-serving of the 42 people exonerated by DNA evidence in Illinois.</em><br />
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<em>"Mr. Davis served 32 years in prison for a rape and murder he didn't commit," Royal said. "Tamms is a difficult place to do time. He's hoping to rebuild his life, with the support of his family."</em><br />
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<em>It wasn't immediately known if Davis' family was at the prison when he walked out. Davis' father was traveling to Tamms on Friday afternoon and couldn't be reached for comment.</em><br />
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<em>Reitz said that while she didn't doubt the results of the DNA tests, she decided not to retry Davis because of the difficulty in taking a 32-year-old case to trial – not because of those tests.</em><br />
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<em>"After 30 years, witnesses are either deceased, missing or no longer credible to testify," said Rietz, who has been state's attorney in Champaign County since 2004. "Based on the age of the case and the current state of the evidence, we elected to dismiss."</em><br />
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<em>She noted that Davis was twice convicted by juries. His first conviction was overturned because of a mistake made by a bailiff during jury deliberations</em><br />
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<em>Rietz said any further steps in the investigation of Briana's death will be up to police. Rantoul Police Chief Paul Farber did not return a call regarding the status of the investigation.</em><br />
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<em>Davis was arrested shortly after Briana was found on Aug. 8, 1980, in a house on the street where she lived with her mother and stepfather in Rantoul.</em><br />
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<em>According to trial testimony, Davis – who was 19 at the time – was visiting his father in Rantoul. He spent the day the girl died drinking at the home where she was eventually found with the two brothers who lived there. At some point the brothers left, leaving Davis there alone.</em><br />
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<em>Briana's stepfather, Rand Spragg, said he left the girl playing in the family's front yard and last saw her sitting under a tree.</em><br />
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<em>The family later searched for her. She was found in the brothers' home, naked and under bed clothes in a utility room. She died that night at a local hospital.</em><br />
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<em>DNA testing wasn't available in 1980. But in 2004, Davis requested that evidence gathered at the scene of Briana's death be DNA tested.</em><br />
<br />
<em>According to the tests, blood and semen found at the scene weren't from Davis. That led to the March appellate court decision.</em><br />
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<em>Friday's planned release caught Davis' attorneys off guard. Most were on vacation, expecting that he might be released next week.</em><br />
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<em>Royal, who works closely with Davis' lead attorney, Jane Raley, didn't represent him. She wasn't sure what plans Davis had, but she said that after so many years he was fortunate that family members were still alive to greet him and help him acclimate to life outside prison.</em><br />
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<em>"A lot of times when people are incarcerated for lengthy periods of time, family members die," Royal said. "That is one good thing, that he will have their support."</em><br />
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<em> "I think it's difficult for him to know exactly what to do," she added, noting that the Center on Wrongful Convictions works with the people it helps free to aid in their adjustment. "I know that he's very intelligent and he has been assisting in the preparation of his appeal for years and giving some good suggestions in that regard."</em><br />
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<em>Attempts to reach members of Briana's family were not successful.</em><br />
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<em>Original Article..</em><br />
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<em>In closing, this poor man's life was ruined- God only knows how many relationships that were.. are no longer able to be in his life... </em><br />
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<em>I wish him the best and will be sending him healing vibes to move on from this kind of insanity!</em>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-3387438358426302302012-07-03T23:07:00.001-04:002012-07-03T23:07:04.876-04:00Parent Alienation Coaching and Beyond, Now Available<em>I've spent the last twelve (12) years desperately researching and learning everything there is available to learn about Parent Alienation, and Parent Alienation Syndrome. </em><br />
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<em>First and foremost, I know without any doubt in my mind that "Parent Alienation" and the resulting "Parent Alienation Syndrome" are the work of abusers! </em><br />
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<em>Prior to the term[s] "Parent Alienation", or "Parent Alienation Syndrome" the dynamics of dysfunction and devastation that takes place between two people who have a history of a loving relationship, has been labeled many, many, times before Richard Gardner labeled it "Parent Alienation Syndrome."</em><br />
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<em>Some of the "other labels" that helped me understand the dysfunctional dynamics associated with "Parent Alienation", and or "Parent Alienation Syndrome", when it's being used in reference to the symptoms a child displays are: </em><br />
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<em>(1) Trauma Bonds</em><br />
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<em>(2) Stockholm Syndrome</em><br />
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<em>(3) Cognitive Dissonance</em><br />
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<em>(4) Attachment Disorder</em><br />
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<em>(5) Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) </em><br />
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<em>(6) Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) </em><br />
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<em>(7) I Feel Like a Child Syndrome</em><br />
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<em>(8) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder</em><br />
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<em>(9) Delayed Stress Syndrome</em><br />
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<em>(10) Adult Child Syndrome</em><br />
<em> </em><br />
<em>(11) Adult children of alcoholics </em><br />
<em> </em><br />
<em>(12) Domestic Violence by Proxy</em><br />
<em> </em><br />
<em>(13) Learned Helplessness</em><br />
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<em>(14) Emotionally Unavailable</em><br />
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<em>(15) The Ego </em><br />
<em> </em><br />
<em>(16) Personality Disorders: Psychopath, Narcissist, Co Dependent </em><br />
<em> </em><br />
<em>(18) Defence Mechanisms: Rationalization, Identification, Displacement, Projection, Regression, Reaction Formation, Repression, Denial....</em><br />
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<em>(19) Parts Integration </em><br />
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<em>(20) Enmeshment </em><br />
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<em>(21) Inner Selves </em><br />
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<em>The list goes on and on... </em><br />
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<em>The depths of understanding such abuse was noting short of exhausting! </em><br />
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<em>I was very lucky in that I had someone by my side to support me emotionally and physically so that I could totally focus on understanding how my babies were turned against me.. </em><br />
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<em>And now, a dozen years later, after studying under Tony Robbins, Cloe Madanes in their team effort coaching program Robbins - Madanes Coach Training, as well as studying under Hu Dalconzo in his Holistic Life Coaching program, "Holistic Learning Centers", I've combining everything I've learned through training, research, and life experiences and put it all together to help others crawl out from under the devastation and pain that abusers (both emotional & physical) leave their victims in! </em><br />
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<br />Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-91893275879200208652012-05-15T23:54:00.000-04:002012-05-15T23:59:25.705-04:00Tonya Thomas Killed Four Kids, Then Herself In Port St. John Shooting, Florida Authorities Say<em>PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. — A Florida mother who fatally shot her four children
before killing herself Tuesday called three of the kids who had sought help from
a neighbor back to the house before firing the fatal shots, authorities
said.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>Thirty-three-year-old Tonya Thomas fatally shot her four children, who ranged
in age from 12 to 17, said Lt. Tod Goodyear, a spokesman for the Brevard County
Sheriff's Office.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>Three of the children had gone to a neighbor's front door before dawn to say
their mother had shot them. The mother then called the children back to the
house and killed them, Goodyear said.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>"From what the neighbors said, she was very calm. She walked out and called
them back. They turned around and walked back to the house," Goodyear said.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>The neighbor then heard gunshots and called 911.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>Another neighbor told deputies that Thomas sent a text message in the middle
of the night saying she wanted to be cremated with her children.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>"He didn't see the text until he woke up this morning," Goodyear said.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>Deputies identified the children as Pebbles Johnson, 17; Jaxs Johnson, 15;
Jazlin Johnson, 13; and Joel Johnson, 12.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>The shooting happened in Port St. John, about 15 miles west of Cape Canaveral
in an area known as the "Space Coast" because it is the home of NASA's Kennedy
Space Center, the location of numerous famed shuttle launches.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>A spokesman for the Department of Children and Families wouldn't immediately
comment on whether the family had a history with the agency.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>Dispatch records released Tuesday show that authorities responded to Thomas'
house on three successive days in April.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>In the first visit, on Easter Sunday, Thomas reported that her son had thrown
a bicycle through a window at the house. The next day, Thomas called to report
that her son had kicked and punched her when she tried to wake him up for
school. The following day, child welfare investigators visited the house to look
into allegations of inadequate supervision of the children.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>Records also showed that Thomas was arrested in 2002 on a misdemeanor battery
charge for striking the father of her children. The charge was later dropped.
Two years earlier, she filed a domestic violence complaint against Joe Johnson,
but that was dismissed after a hearing.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>Jamie Hudson, whose mother lives two doors down from the family, said the
boys in the family were known to shoot BBs at a home across the street and had
threatened to set it on fire.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>"It has been an ongoing problem on our street with them," Hudson said.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>Goodyear said Jaxs Johnson had recently been arrested on a domestic violence
charge. He said he didn't know if the boy had been accused of hitting his mother
or causing damage at the house.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>A pastor at the church the family attended described it as "normal
stuff."</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>"I think he was punching some walls or something," said Jarvis Wash, pastor
of the Real Church in Rockledge, Fla.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>Wash said the family attended services last Sunday but had been absent for a
few weeks before that.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>"I don't know what could have happened in the past couple of days," Wash
said. "It's a tragedy to the church and the community."</em><br />
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<em>Original article</em><br />
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<em>My Two Cents:</em><br />
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<em>I need to know more about this case!</em>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-77770428803575893662012-04-29T12:54:00.001-04:002012-05-01T18:09:50.234-04:00Breaking News: Federal Appeals Court to Decide Case in New York City<h2 class="post-title" style="color: #555555; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px;">
<span style="color: #888888;"><em>by <strong>Leon Koziol.Com</strong> </em></span></h2>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Second_Circuit" style="color: #2585b2; text-decoration: underline;" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Second_Circuit"><em>The
United States Court of Appeals</em></a><em> in New York City released its </em><a href="http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/Docs/Calendar/jun/jun11.pdf" style="color: #2585b2; text-decoration: underline;" title="http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/Docs/Calendar/jun/jun11.pdf"><em>weekly
calendar</em></a><em> today which includes the case of </em><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/65941522/Federal-Appeals-Court-Brief" style="color: #2585b2; text-decoration: underline;" title="http://www.scribd.com/doc/65941522/Federal-Appeals-Court-Brief"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">John Parent v State of New York</span>.</em></a><em>
This is a consolidated test case seeking to establish a privacy limit for
parents and families subjected to abusive divorce, custody and support practices
in state domestic relations courts. It is being argued by Dr. Leon R. Koziol, a
parental advocate who spent more than 23 years in federal and state courts
litigating civil rights cases on behalf of minorities, women and victims of
government abuse.</em></div>
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<em>It
comes in the wake of the </em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlUBvqKGby4" style="color: #2585b2; text-decoration: underline;" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlUBvqKGby4"><em>Founding Fathers March</em></a><em> on
Capitol Hill this past week and is set for Friday of Father’s Day weekend.
Whether the June 15<sup>th</sup> date means anything for long discriminated
fathers is already the subject of widespread speculation. Regardless, civil
rights activists across New York’s metropolitan area are already organizing a
rally at the Foley Square court in lower Manhattan. Although oral arguments are
not scheduled, this is the date set to begin deliberations, and it affords
Family Court victims an opportunity to express their support.</em></div>
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<em>The
plaintiff, John Parent, is not a real person. Like the case of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Roe v Wade</span>, it is a fictitious name
allowed by a lower federal court on a sealed record to protect privacy
interests. The name is also employed to represent the concerns of “parents
similarly situated”. In this manner, the high cost and complexities of a class
action lawsuit were avoided. In short, you may be an interested party to this
action, and your personal and financial support is crucial to its success. The
lawsuit and appeals brief can be found on line at </em><a href="http://www.leonkoziol.com/" style="color: #2585b2; text-decoration: underline;" title="http://www.leonkoziol.com/"><em>www.leonkoziol.com</em></a><em>. Today’s news was
received with guarded optimism given the uphill battle. However, Dr. Koziol had
this to say:</em></div>
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<strong><em>“Shared
parenting and family retention are the final frontier of civil rights to be
defended under the American Constitution. When parents raise their children,
they exercise virtually every human right contemplated by that venerable
document. And so, this is where I draw my line against further invasions of
family privacy. I will not back down.”</em></strong></div>
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<em>The
case deals with a full range of parenting interests, including child alienation,
attorney misconduct, oppressive collection practices and equal protection
violations. A “separate but unequal” doctrine of custody laws is being
challenged because it mandates superior and inferior classifications among
separated paternal and maternal family units even when it harms parent-child
relationships. Litigants are needlessly forced to fight over power and money
awards which produce lucrative controversy for lawyers. Debtor prisons and other
barbaric practices inflict greatest injury to minority fathers. The case is
being defended by the U.S. Justice Department, New York Attorney General and law
firms on behalf of named lawyers and municipalities.</em></div>
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<em>See
Complaint and Appeals Brief </em><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/65941522/Federal-Appeals-Court-Brief" style="color: #2585b2; text-decoration: underline;" title="http://www.scribd.com/doc/65941522/Federal-Appeals-Court-Brief"><em>(Click
Here)</em></a></div>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-3038367959604595152012-04-26T15:03:00.003-04:002012-04-26T15:03:55.712-04:00Confessions Of A Divorce Kid: The Awkward Baseball Game<em>Andy Cambell writes:</em><br />
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<em>When the game ends, win or lose, which parent will I go to first?</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>It might seem like a small-potatoes dilemma for a white suburban child of divorce. But awkward baseball games -- and all the divorce politics that come with them -- are some of my most vivid memories, mostly because they were the most stressful events of my young life. I mean, I could win a baseball game any time, but I had the emotional scarring and heart-breaking of two sets of parents to worry about.</em><br />
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<em>Indeed, baseball games had so little to do with baseball, and so much to do with the divorce. It was as if two warring factions were meeting on the battlefield, and their tactics involved one-upping each other with better juice boxes at post-game snack time. My affection was the spoil of war.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>They had their tactics, and I had mine. I took mental note of how many breaks I took with each parent, how many high fives I doled out and at what volume I called step-mom, "Mom." If I was on the mound, I made grinning glances at each of up to four parents between pitches. Seventh-inning stretch involved sitting and talking with each group for such precisely equal amounts of time, it made our supposedly "equal" visitation schedule look like it was organized by, well, children.</em><br />
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<em>I'm not saying I had horrible parents. On the contrary -- both sets molded me into the all-around bad ass I am today. Sure, there were times when one parent would put me in the middle of an argument that wasn't mine to have. But overall my folks had no idea what stress-induced havoc they were wreaking on my young brain. </em><br />
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<em>The awkward baseball game is a prime example of where divorced parents can go very right or horribly wrong with their children. I know that most divorce kids, like me, think about their parents' feelings way more than is readily apparent. I would try not to offend anyone, which weighed on me so heavily it would often bring me to tears.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>And that's why the best divorced parent is the one who can see how hard it is for their kids to worry about such frivolous things. The best parent is the one who cares so much about their child that they don't care where the kid sits; one that will love their kid just the same even if he sits with the "other" parent at a thousand seventh-inning stretches.</em><br />
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<em>The best parent is the one who can see that I'm not super excited about my game-winning shot to left-center. My dad approaches the field -- the first parent to see me after my big game -- and pulls a move that should be in every divorced parent's handbook.</em><br />
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<em>"Awesome game, Andy, you kicked butt out there," he says with a smile. "Go say hi to your mother -- I'll be around if you wanna play catch before you go. If not, no problem, we'll play catch on Thursday."</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>Thanks, pops. Weight lifted.</em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>My two cents... </em><br />
<em><br /></em><br />
<em>Kudos dad!! This dad did what most 'good' parents (male or female) would do... however, if there was parent alienation going on... this dad would have risked being shut out of his son's life.. and the kid would have thought that dad didn't want to go to his games, or be a part of the child's life- because that would have been what the child would have been brainwashed into believing! </em><br />
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<em>Sad huh? </em><br />
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<em>Dominating, controlling, covert or overt abusive parents- open your eyes! Do you see what you're doing to your children? </em><br />
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<em>Oh yeah, for a moment I had a brain fart... alienators don't give a rats ass about the kid[s] or anyone else it's all about them!</em><br />
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<em>Young adult children, or adult children of abuse... maybe your absent parent was forced out of your life - by the dominating, controlling, selfish abusive parent and the equally abusive corrupt courts! </em><br />
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<em>If you think you may have lost out on an absent parent's love because of the 'other' dominating, controlling, self centered, 'only worried about them self parent'... take a look at this web site and ask for a free session... </em><br />
<br /><a href="http://www.noitsnotpersonal.com/"><em>www.NoItsNotPersonal.com</em></a><em> </em><br />
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<em>Kudos to all the great parents out there... you know who you are!</em><br />
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<em>Original article below</em><br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-campbell/confessions-of-a-divorce-_3_b_1446808.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl29%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D154986"><em>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-campbell/confessions-of-a-divorce-_3_b_1446808.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl29%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D154986</em></a>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-56387395598389059322012-04-11T18:04:00.002-04:002012-04-11T18:41:04.255-04:00George Zimmerman in Custody, Faces Charges<span style="font-family: Courier New;"><em>NBC News: George Zimmerman in Custody, Faces Charges<br />
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NBC News reports George Zimmerman is now in custody. Florida State Attorney Angela Corey is expected to announce criminal charges against him for his role in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. WATCH the press conference live here, scheduled for 6 p.m.<br />
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Complete details from NBC New York: </em></span><a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/us-world/" title="http://click.nbcnewyork.com/r/A5H9BW8/WGAXS/42BGO/26KN0/TAG56/N9/h?a=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/us-world/"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><em>http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/us-world/</em></span></a><br />
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<em>Thank you Dear God! </em><br />
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<em>More: </em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New;"><em>George Zimmerman to Be Charged With Second-Degree Murder<br />
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George Zimmerman is being charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, Florida State Attorney Angela Corey has announced. </em></span><br />
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<br />
Complete details from NBC New York: </em></span><a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/us-world/" title="http://click.nbcnewyork.com/r/K9ALZJM/O3GE3/MRDYQ/YH59V/6Q4FA/ID/h?a=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/us-world/"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><em>http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/us-world/</em></span></a><br />
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<em>More: </em><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><strong><em>Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government</em></strong></span></div><em> </em><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><em>11 Apr 2012</em></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><em> </em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.legitgov.org/" title="http://www.legitgov.org/"><strong><em>http://www.legitgov.org</em></strong></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><em> </em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><em>All links are here:</em></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><em> </em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news" title="http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news</em></span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em> </em></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><em> </em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em><span style="color: red;">Breaking:</span> </em></span></span><a href="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/11/prosecutor-to-announce-decision-on-zimmerman/" target="_blank" title="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/11/prosecutor-to-announce-decision-on-zimmerman/"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em>Zimmerman charged with second-degree murder</em></span></a></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em> 11 Apr 2012 George Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the </em></span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/11/justice/florida-teen-shooting/index.html" target="_blank" title="http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/11/justice/florida-teen-shooting/index.html"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em>February 26 shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em>, a Florida state attorney announced Wednesday. </em></span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/10/justice/florida-teen-shooting-prosecutor/" target="_blank" title="http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/10/justice/florida-teen-shooting-prosecutor/"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em>State attorney Angela Corey</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em> said that Zimmerman has surrendered to authorities and has been arrested. Police say Zimmerman fatally shot Martin, a 17-year-old African-American, on February 26 in Sanford, Florida, after Martin began walking home from a convenience store.</em></span></div><em> </em><br />
<div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em><span style="color: red;">Breaking:</span> </em></span></span><a href="http://www.legitgov.org/Zimmerman-charged-2nd-degree-murder-and-custody" target="_blank" title="http://www.legitgov.org/Zimmerman-charged-2nd-degree-murder-and-custody"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em>George Zimmerman charged with 2nd degree murder and is in custody</em></span></a></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em> 11 Apr 2012 (Jacksonville, FL) Angela Corey, Special Prosecutor in Trayvon Martin murder case: George Zimmerman has been charged with 2nd degree murder. Zimmerman is in custody, in a secret location. [This story will be updated.]</em></span></div></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em> </em></span><br />
<div align="left"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><span style="color: red;">Breaking:</span> </em></span></span></strong><a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/state&id=8617128" target="_blank" title="http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/state&id=8617128"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><strong><em>UC Davis pepper spray report critical of police action</em></strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em> 11 Apr 2012 A newly released </em></span><a href="http://reynosoreport.ucdavis.edu/reynoso-report.pdf" target="_blank" title="http://reynosoreport.ucdavis.edu/reynoso-report.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em>report</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em> on the November 18, 2011 pepper spray incident at UC Davis says the incident "should and could have been prevented." UC Davis police pepper sprayed a line of students sitting on the ground during an Occupy protest on the campus. Video of the incident went viral and both the police and the administration were heavily criticized in the days that followed.</em></span></div><em> </em><br />
<div align="left"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57412535/zimmerman-to-be-charged-in-trayvon-martin-case/" target="_blank" title="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57412535/zimmerman-to-be-charged-in-trayvon-martin-case/"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><strong><em>Zimmerman to be charged in Trayvon Martin case</em></strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em> 11 Apr 2012 CBS News has confirmed that neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman will be charged in the February shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. State Attorney Angela Corey is scheduled to hold a news conference at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the state attorney's office in Jacksonville, Florida related to the Martin investigation. According to a senior law enforcement official, Corey is expected to announce that Zimmerman will face state charges.</em></span></div><em> </em><br />
<div align="left"><strong><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/os-trayvon-martin-zimmerman-press-conference-20120410,0,4146078.story" target="_blank" title="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/os-trayvon-martin-zimmerman-press-conference-20120410,0,4146078.story"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em>Trayvon Martin: Attorneys say Zimmerman contacted prosecutor, Sean Hannity</em></span></a></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em> 10 Apr 2012 Like two worried parents with a wayward child, George Zimmerman's lawyers stood puzzled in front of the Seminole County Courthouse on Tuesday and admitted they'd lost control. Zimmerman has not talked to or communicated with them since Sunday, said Craig Sonner, one of his lawyers. Worse, Zimmerman has done two dangerous things, his lawyers said: He telephoned a special prosecutor who's trying to put together a criminal case against him, and he called Sean Hannity of Fox News. Both were bad ideas, said Sonner and co-counsel Hal Uhrig.</em></span></div><em> </em><br />
<div align="left"><strong><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hH_2HDvczBTGnotvyMcXKGURfq9w" target="_blank" title="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hH_2HDvczBTGnotvyMcXKGURfq9w"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em>Mich. teacher: I was fired over Trayvon fundraiser</em></span></a></strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em> 10 Apr 2012 A teacher fired from a Michigan middle school after encouraging students to raise money for the family of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin said Tuesday she is confused by the dismissal and wants the school's administration to explain. Brooke Harris was dismissed in March from Pontiac Academy for Excellence after she supported students' efforts to plan a wear-a-hoodie-to-school day. Martin was wearing a hoodie on Feb. 26 when he was shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer.</em></span></div>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-42821602139146358042012-04-05T10:57:00.001-04:002012-04-05T10:58:33.806-04:00RIP Jayne Major PH.D<span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><strong><em>Jayne A. Major, Ph.D. 1938-2012</em></strong></span><em> </em><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><em> <span style="color: #994ebe; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">'Breakthrough Parenting' Author and Pioneer in Parental Alienation Education Transformed the Lives of Countless Parents and Children Over the Course of Her 50-year Career</span></em></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><em> <span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">It is with heavy hearts that we announce that Jayne Major passed away on March 14<sup>th</sup> in Los Angeles at the age of 74 after a valiant struggle with cancer. She is best known as the author of the acclaimed book Breakthrough Parenting: Moving Your Family from Struggle to Cooperation. Dr. Major was an active speaker and educator and personally taught parenting classes based on her Breakthrough Parenting methods continuously for 50 weeks a year over the last 30 years. Through her books and teaching, Dr. Major created famous phrases that are now in our everyday language, such as "catch them being good," "teachable moment" or "give them a gift in the way they can receive it." </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Her Breakthrough Parenting methods revolutionized parenting education around the world by creating the "manual" for raising children. She taught over 20,000 families on how to successfully raise their children. Her methods have been used around the world. </span></em><br />
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<em> <span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Major was the owner of the non-profit, Breakthrough Parenting Services, Inc. In 2011, She founded a new company with other professionals, Major Family Services, Inc., for the purpose of continuing her legacy through the teaching of her new curriculum and publishing of her new and revised writings. </span></em><br />
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<span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"><em> <span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">"Dr. Major positively affected the lives of over 20,000 families and reunited parents with their children under very difficult circumstances. She was admired by many. Through Major Family Services we will continue her legacy to educate everyone in what Dr. Major called the most important job on the planet: parenthood," said Plinio J. Garcia of Major Family Services. </span></em></span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Major also remained an active writer and just recently completed the editing of a new book entitled Parenting with Discipline and Love: Major Breakthroughs for Raising Successful Children. The new book will be published soon through Major Family Services, Inc. Parenting with Discipline and Love includes an extensive collection of practical parenting situations based on Dr. Major's over thirty years of teaching and consulting with parents on techniques for raising children who are disciplined, but confident, compassionate, and, ultimately successful in all aspects of their lives.</span></em><br />
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<div align="justify" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><em>In November of last year, Dr. Major conducted her last speakership session at the 2<sup>nd</sup> Annual Conference of Parental Alienation - A Community Responds, in Santa Monica, California, where she led her own workshop entitled Parents Who Have Successfully Fought Parental Alienation Syndrome. Dr. Major was a pioneer in identifying and educating parents to the devastating effects of Parental Alienation; a behavior most often found in high conflict divorces when a disturbed parent turns a child against the other parent and family members to gain psychological control and the advantage in custody battles, often with the encouragement of their legal counsel. </em></span><span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: "Helvetica", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>"Parental Alienation is one of the worst kinds of child abuse," claimed Dr. Major based on her many years of observation. "These children often grow up to be socially maladaptive and with serious psychiatric issues. If the child is left to be raised by the disturbed parent and has no contact with the healthy parent there is no one to offset the damage that is being done to them."</em></span></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><em><span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">Over the course of her career, Dr. Major authored several articles on the subject of Parental Alienation and presented at numerous conferences, including the Children's Rights Council in Washington D.C. She promoted widespread education and awareness of the phenomenon of Parental Alienation in her attempts to end the active and passive legal sanctioning of these behaviors so detrimental to the well being of children. <br />
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Dr. Major advocated, "We all need to educate ourselves about this serious problem and do all that we can to stop Parental Alienation from happening." She believed that the best way to prepare for and combat Parental Alienation was through parenting classes and parenting education. She explained that victims of Parental Alienation need to be educated before they can undergo traditional psychotherapy. </span><span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">She had recently re-edited her collection of articles on Parental Alienation and these will also soon be published and made available as a booklet through Major Family Services, Inc. </span></em></div><em> </em><span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><em>Dr. Major's passion for teaching spanned over fifty years, beginning in the 1960's as an Instructor with the United States Army, Department of Defense Schools in Germany and then as a Teacher with the Los Angeles Elementary Schools from 1966 to 1982. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Arizona State University in 1959, a Masters of Arts in Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education from California State University in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1982. </em></span><br />
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<div align="justify" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><em>Her legacy shall continue through Major Family Services, Inc. and the Major Foundation for Breakthrough Parenting and Parental Alienation. Memorial contributions may be made to Major Family Services in the name of the Major Foundation for Breakthrough Parenting and mailed to 12405 Venice Blvd. #172, Los Angeles, CA 90066. Contributions may also be made online by visiting www.MajorFamilyServices.com.</em></span></div><em> </em><span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><em>A Memorial gathering for Jayne Major is being planned for Saturday, April 21, 2012. For more information, please email </em><a href="mailto:info@majorfamilyservices.com" linktype="2" shape="rect" style="color: #7f34a4; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="mailto:info@majorfamilyservices.com"><em>info@majorfamilyservices.com</em></a></span><span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><em>.</em></span><br />
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<div align="justify" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f34a4; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><em>My two cents: Dr Jayne Major was an amazing woman, she will be missed dearly, not only by her friends, family & colleagues but by people she didn't even know! She had a major impact on so many people, her legacy will continue for years to come... RIP!</em></span></div>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-53426495700852735342012-04-05T09:48:00.001-04:002012-04-05T09:51:16.567-04:00Cassandra Kennedy Admits Lying About Father Raping Her, Man Released From Prison After Nine Years<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pCWsxqNicC8/T32hdxjnUDI/AAAAAAAAEQA/cuSFPwQld3Q/s320/a-CASSANDRA-KENNEDY-386x217.jpg" width="320" /></div><br />
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</div><div class="lede-link"><em>In 2001, an 11-year-old Washington girl told a judge that her dad raped her, sending the man to prison for nearly a decade.</em></div><div class="lede-link"><br />
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</div><div class="lede-link"><em>My two cents, this is Parent Alienation Syndrome in full force! </em></div><div class="lede-link"><br />
</div><div class="lede-link"><em>(If you found this article and do not know what Parent Alienation is or how to work through it take a look on the right side of this post to learn more about Parent Alienation)</em></div><div class="lede-link"><br />
</div><div class="lede-link"><em>I will pray for both dad & daughter to heal from this!</em></div><div class="lede-link"><br />
<a href="http://disgustedwiththesystem.blogspot.com/"><em>Take a look at what other stories I'm posting about: Disgusted with the system</em></a></div><div class="lede-link"><br />
</div>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-30845542557276343102012-03-31T09:29:00.001-04:002012-03-31T09:30:16.455-04:00Repulsive, Reprehensible, Vulgar, Nauseating? No! There has to be stronger words for these stories!<em>I woke up early this morning and began reading the AOL news...</em><br />
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<em>These two stories just about ruined my day, I need to read about both of these men being beat in prision for what they each individually did to these kids! (If any of my readers happen to find a follow-up to either of these articles at a later date (today is March 31, 2012), please send me an email @ </em><a href="mailto:HaveUmistakenMe@aol.com"><em>HaveUmistakenMe@aol.com</em></a><em>! </em><br />
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<em>(1) Sergio Velderrain, Father Arrested For Peeing On Baby, Said He Was Drunk On Four Loko </em><br />
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<em>An excerpt: "To be peeing on him and to see him choking and still peeing and then laughing hysterically about it, I mean that's gotta be the lowest. That's worse than spitting on somebody,” </em><br />
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<em>(2) Sok Thoeun Chained Son's Neck To A Pole For Skipping School, Police Say</em><br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/sok-thoeun-father-chained-son-pole-skipping-school_n_1391752.html?ref=crime&icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk3%26pLid%3D148144"><em>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/sok-thoeun-father-chained-son-pole-skipping-school_n_1391752.html?ref=crime&icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk3%26pLid%3D148144</em></a><br />
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<em>Excerpt: "When the father found his son, the Post reports he began beating his son "brutally," and then shackled him."</em><br />
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<em>"As well as beating his son, he put chains around the boy's neck and legs and locked him to a power pole on a nearby street in the village, in order to show [his son] to the public," deputy provincial police chief Colonel Cheth Vanny told the paper.</em><br />
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<em>My two cents.. As most of my readers know, I would give a kidney to have raised my kidnapped babies.. these two animals should be shackled in public and urinated on by passers by... but since I have no say in what happens to either of these psychopaths - all I can do is know that Karma misses no one, good bad or indifferent!</em><br />
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<a href="http://disgustedwiththesystem.blogspot.com/"><em>Take a look at what other stories I'm posting about: Disgusted with the system</em></a>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-31546084363482781472012-03-30T12:59:00.000-04:002012-03-30T12:59:05.946-04:00Complaint alleges Houston-based doctor improperly gave drugs to child<em><strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Houston Chronicle<br />
Complaint alleges Houston-based doctor improperly gave drugs to child</span></strong></em><br />
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March 28, 2012 </em><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Rockwell","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"><em>A Houston-based psychiatrist and the state’s leading prescriber of the anti-anxiety drug Xanax is the subject of a complaint to the Texas Medical Board alleging he improperly and simultaneously prescribed four drugs to an 8-year-old, placing the child “at undue risk.”<o:p></o:p></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Rockwell","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"><em>The complaint against Dr. G.K. Ravichandran comes as the Texas Health and Human Services Commission has begun releasing to U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley results of its investigations into doctors who prescribe large quantities of pain and psychiatric medications, including to children. Ravichandran has not been specifically named in the disclosures.<o:p></o:p></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Rockwell","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"><a href="http://www.psychsearch.net/psych_news/2012/03/29/top-prescriber-in-hot-water-texas/" title="http://www.psychsearch.net/psych_news/2012/03/29/top-prescriber-in-hot-water-texas/"><em>the rest of the story…</em></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Rockwell","serif"; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p><em>Take a look at what other stories.. I'm posting about: </em><a href="http://disgustedwiththesystem.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><em>Disgusted with the system</em></span></a></o:p></span>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-31697554729087272912012-02-07T20:53:00.012-05:002013-10-18T13:37:19.285-04:00Fausat Ogunbayo Suing City For $900 Trillion For Placing Children In Foster Home<em>The Huff Post reported that.. </em><br />
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</em><em>A Staten Island mother is suing the city for a staggering </em><a href="http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02/staten_island_mom_hits_city_wi.html" target="_hplink"><em>$900 trillion</em></a><em> for allegedly wrongfully placing her two sons in foster care and claiming she was mentally unstable. </em><br />
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</em><em>46-year old Fausat Ogunbayo, who is representing herself, says the Administration for Children's Services's decision to </em><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2012/02/07/mother-files-900-trillion-lawsuit-against-nyc-for-taking-her-kids-away/" target="_hplink"><em>place her children in foster care</em></a><em> infringed upon her civil rights and ultimately inflicted "over three years of terror, horror, grievous harm, time lost, substantial economic hardship and injuries."</em><br />
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</em><em>The children, then 12 and 10-years old, have been out of their mother's custody since </em><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mom_sues_for_trillion_over_kids_m55VOwf7KyPTPFbbDeuT0N" target="_hplink"><em>June 2008.</em></a><br />
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<em>In court papers, the ACS references several peculiar incidents where Ogunbayo sought out medical treatment because she believed her </em><a href="http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02/staten_island_mom_hits_city_wi.html" target="_hplink"><em>children's skin color was becoming darker </em></a><em>due to radiation. In a separate episode, the mother allegedly told school officials the FBI was after the boys.</em><br />
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</em><em>While the city is contending Ogunbayo suffered from such hallucinations and in addition </em><a href="http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02/staten_island_mom_hits_city_wi.html" target="_hplink"><em>was an absent mother </em></a><em>, a separate legal case last month ruled in favor of Ogunbayo with the court stating no substantial evidence indicating the children were ever in "imminent danger" while in their mother's care.</em><br />
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</em><em>The Staten Island Advance reports that in fact, the two children had near-perfect school attendance and were "even thriving academically." </em><br />
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</em><em>However, the mother claims that the ACS has yet to return her children to her care. </em><em>As for Ogunbayo's </em><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2012/02/07/mother-files-900-trillion-lawsuit-against-nyc-for-taking-her-kids-away/" target="_hplink"><em>$900 trillion demand</em></a><em>, Forbes provides some perspective:</em><br />
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<em>The largest City settlement to an individual is $18,278,000 to James McMillan who suffered paralyzing injuries in the 2003 Staten Island Ferry dock crash that killed 11 passengers...And the national debt is $15 trillion.</em><br />
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<em>I LEFT A COMMENT, but I highly doubt that it'll make it past the guard dogs making sure any story about the 'family court' corruption gets BLACKED OUT! Fuck em!! Here's my comment right here...</em><br />
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</em><em>This kind of HORROR STORY is happening all over the U.S. </em><br />
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</em><em>I too have been wrongfully and corruptly, kept from my children's lives by their POLITICALLY CONNECTED STATEN ISLAND FATHER!</em><br />
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<em>Who happens to have worked for JOSEPH PANEPINTO, Director of Catholic Charities CYO program for 20 years! </em><br />
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</em><em>Who happens to be married to Acting S.I. SUPREME COURT JUDGE BARBARA PANEPINTO!</em><br />
<em>AND if that isn't enuff for A CORRUPT COCKTAIL..</em><br />
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</em><em>My KIDNAPPING MISERABLE EX HUSBAND LOUIS M. ARGENZIANO is living with AGGIE PANEPINTO! </em><br />
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</em><em>They got ACS in on the corruption to DO THE ILLEGAL KIDNAPPING, and so, I was FALSELY LABELED A dangerous drug addict, who should NEVER SEE MY CHILDREN AGAIN!!!</em><br />
<em>THAT INSANITY WAS IN 2001 - I HAD THE BOGAS CASE OVERTURNED SIX YEARS LATER when I found out about it!</em><br />
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</em><em>I TOO AM SUING THE CITY, AND THOSE PUNKASS CORRUPT BASTARDS REFUSE TO DEPOSE ME!</em><br />
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</em><em>During the 50H hearing they KNEW THEY HAD NO LEG TO STAND ON- SO THEY PUT IN ON ETERNAL HOLD! </em><br />
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</em><em>PEOPLE, GO TO THE INTRA-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND FILE CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES! </em><em>((Here- </em><a href="http://www.cidh.org/what.htm"><em>http://www.cidh.org/what.htm</em></a><em> ))</em><br />
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</em><em>People who are thinking this woman is crazy - hold your own kids tight tonight- you never know when they're coming after you!! She's sainer than you could ever hope to be! (is that a word? lol it is now) </em><em>NO JOKE!!! </em><br />
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</em><em>Take a look into the Title IV Federal Funding D & E, our government is giving the states money to "protect" our women and children - so basically the city's have turned this into a HUNT FOR OUR CHILDREN- because after all if I give you an incentive to find me rotten apples- tell me how many apples are you gonna LET ROT? Well that's Title IV (E)!</em><br />
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<em>IV-E foster care program for <b>children</b> in Castille contracted <b>detention facilities</b>. <b>....</b><b>Title IV</b>-E of the Social Security Act, as amended, authorizes <b>Federal funds</b> for <b>...</b></em><br />
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<em>Title IV federal funding (D), covers the 'abused woman' and when a woman is ALLEGEDLY ABUSED she becomes a fucking pay check too! Oh and lets not forget CHILD SUPPORT OH NO... they then charge parents who's children have been kidnapped CHILD SUPPORT!! </em><br />
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<em>Why? pftttttttt because our amazing protective government wants to make sure all the 'dead-beats' pay so they've created Title IV Federal funding for that too- what everyone is ignoring is the fact that since it's an INCENTIVE to produce $$$$$$$ so that the city will be paid dollar for dollar- guess how many 'child support' cases have been alleged to be THOUSANDS more than it would be if the incentive wasn't to fuck us parents into compliance so the states and cities can have play money to go out and enjoy life on the publics dollar! </em><br />
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<em>MEANWHILE... women like me with a five inch scar across my back from my wonderful(yes that's sarcastic) ex, putting me through a dinning room table - A mother fucking LIFE TIME order of protection from another state which the police and the courts in any other state are MANDATED TO COMPLY WITH.. isn't worth the paper it's written on because mr. wonderful is fucking the right PANEPINTO! </em><br />
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<em>Intra-American Commission is still pending... soon come! </em><br />
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<em>Uccio, S. Uccio, Dawn Uccio, Louie Uccio, and my baby Nick Uccio! It's also written for Nyasha and Mark Gorden! </em><br />
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<em>((The letter instead of a name is to respect that child, who asked me not to use their full name- can't blame the kid- I wouldn't want my friends to know this is who my father really is either))</em><br />
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<em>AND all the other children that have been illegally kidnapped..</em><br />
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<em>We NEED to start suing the Judges in the Intra-american Commission for CONFLICT OF INTEREST CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS! What are YOU waiting for? WAKE UP- WAKE UP- WAKE UP AMERICA- BEFORE IT'S YOU AND YOURS! </em><br />
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<em>What do you think happened in PA when those judges got caught BUYING INTO THE DETENTION CENTERS???</em><br />
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<em>Nov 5, 2011 <b>...</b> SCRANTON, <b>Pa</b> (Reuters) - A <b>Pennsylvania</b> man who owned <b>...</b> in <b>prison</b> on Friday for paying <b>judges</b> to send youths to his <b>facilities</b> in a so-called.</em><br />
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<em>KNOW YOUR PARENT DID NOT LEAVE YOU- YOU WERE KIDNAPPED BY THE STATE!!!!!</em></div>
Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-84387350255647545772012-01-21T12:37:00.000-05:002012-01-21T12:37:16.378-05:00Psych Drug Maker Nailed by Whistleblower – $158 Million<em>New York Times</em><br />
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<a href="http://www.psychsearch.net/psych_news/?p=2291"><em>http://www.psychsearch.net/psych_news/?p=2291</em></a>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-14183496323133806912012-01-18T17:41:00.000-05:002012-01-18T17:41:40.645-05:00Court of Appeal Affirms Orange County Jury Finding Cps Liable to Mother for $ 4.9 Million in Damages.The California Court of Appeals has affirmed the damage award against Orange County and two of its social workers in what has been described as the largest civil rights verdict in the State of California, and possibly the nation. <br />
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On March 23, 2007, the Orange County Social Services Agency and two of its Social Workers, Marcie Vreeken and Helen Dwojak were found liable for violating the parental rights of Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick, as guaranteed under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The jury found in favor of Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick and awarded $4.9 million in economic and non-economic damages, and approximately $6,000 in punitive damages against the individual social workers.<br />
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At trial, Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick demonstrated that social workers Marcie Vreeken and Helen Dwojak caused Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick's children to be removed from her custody without cause, and continued to detain them without cause, violating Ms. Fogarty-Harwick's Constitutional right to familial association. Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick demonstrated that these defendants, while working as social workers for Orange County Social Services, intentionally fabricated evidence to obtain a court order to detain Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick's two young daughters on February 17, 2000. Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick also demonstrated that Orange County Social Services, Marcie Vreeken and Helen Dwojak maliciously failed to provide the court with exculpatory information, and filed false reports in furtherance of the effort to keep Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick separated from her children.<br />
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The lawsuit also alleged that the policies, practices, or procedures employed by Orange County Social Services and the County of Orange in the removal of Plaintiff's children from her care also violated Ms. Fogarty-Harwick's constitutional rights, under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The unlawful policies, practices or procedures pertained to the detention of children without a finding of imminent danger or serious physical injury; interviewing children without a parent present; continuing detention after learning there was no basis to do so; using trickery and fabricated evidence; and failing to adequately train employees regarding the Constitutional rights of parents.<br />
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The defendants Orange County, Marcie Vreeken and Helen Dwojak, all appealed the jury verdict, the court’s decision, and the attorney fee award. On June 14, 2010, after in depth review of extensive briefs and a complex record, Division Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal for the State of California issued its opinion affirming the Orange County jury’s verdict awarding Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick approximately $4.9 million against the County of Orange, and two of its social workers, and affirming the trial court decision awarding attorney’s fees.<br />
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In its opinion, the Court of Appeal voiced its concerns over what happened to Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick: “Stated plainly, the outcome of this case cannot be dismissed as merely the unfortunate product of a runaway jury. The evidence adduced at trial obviously caused both the jury and the judge to conclude not only that something seriously wrong was done to Fogarty-Hardwick in this case, but also that the wrongful conduct was not an isolated incident. That conclusion is something the County should be taking very seriously.” <br />
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San Diego Lawyer Shawn A. McMillan, of the Law Offices of Shawn A. McMillan, was lead counsel in the case, both at trial and on appeal. Attorney Sondra S. Sutherland was co-counsel. The Law Offices of Donnie R. Cox (Dennis Atchley an Donnie R. Cox) assisted with the appeal.<br />
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Facsimile: (206) 600-4582Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-23996930278261481222011-12-06T02:10:00.002-05:002011-12-07T19:32:01.924-05:00In family law, a parent who has been denied custody of his child by a trial court may file a habeas corpus petition in Federal Court<em>It's been a while my dear friends, new friends, fellow advocates and people I don't know- yet! </em><br />
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<em>I know I've been slacking, however there is a fantastic reason for my absence! I decided that I had seen an undeniable pattern that needed to be investigated thoroughly.. and so off I went to investigate... What I found will surely cause chaos among those that are closed minded, in denial & are still living drama filled lives... for the rest of us... what I've found is old news with much more psychology behind it. But..... in addition to that, my dear friend Karlene, has a dear friend Donna... who found something I've been searching for since 2005!</em><br />
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<em>WOW, both of the things I've come Back with are BRILLIANT Early Merry Christmas to ALL! </em><br />
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<em>While I sat here Day after Day, Month after Month, Year after Year...reading what these Attorneys, Judges, Child (anything but) Protective Services Workers and the Domestic Violence Groups gave us to work with, I became more and more appalled!</em><br />
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<em>The Corruption & the gang mentality is so blatant, the ignoring of the law is beyond pathetic, the way the system further abuses those of us who need their help obtaining access to our children. Instead of help... we get shit on... we get walked all over...we get lied to... we get sent on a wild goose chases, we get pit against one another... and git this- that's what we get from our own attorneys! </em><br />
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<em>The Judges, just rubber stamp, some bogus, unfair bull-shit non law, or whatever they feel like stamping that day.. and off you go... never to see your kid again unless you're one of the dedicated, one of the relentless, one of the parents that will take the law into their own hands, learn it just as good as the 'dirty players' have figured it out... and if your not confident enough you'll spend thousands of dollars for what some think is a mouth piece (an attorney- who is usually working against his or her client-not for them)</em><br />
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<em>Well, anyway, what I've come up with can be found on the right in the links titled: "Do you need a Strategic Intervention Holistic Life Coach helping you fight this fight?" Take a look at the web page... I'm sure after you've investigated what a Strategic Intervention, Holistic Life Coach is, you will see that each of us in this fight NEEDS ONE! So, I've partnered with a brilliant woman her name is Zoie (which means Life), who understands the dynamics behind all of the systematic abuse, including keeping our children away from us... whether or not you want to call it Parent Alienation, Parent Alienation Syndrome, Adult Child Syndrome, Child Hood </em><em>Abandonment Issues, Attachment Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder... or whatever other name you'd like to 'label' what the courts are doing to our children and our lives.. besides straight up torture... go ahead call it what you will. But know that we now, and our children as soon as possible will need to either work with therapists or Life Coaches. (It's my opinion that working with a Life Coach is much more empowering.. they start at the here and now... and work with you to get you to the then and there (where you need to be) whereas therapy works on 'way back then'... then via all of your own work, gradually helps you connect the dots to how you ended up here.</em><br />
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<em>So, as soon as you're done reading this I suggest... (1) look into the Strategic Intervention Life Coaching..in the links on the right of this page and (2) Start writing your own Writ of Habeas Corpus for Federal Court... (see below)</em><br />
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<em>What Karlene's friend Donna found that I was unable to find back in 2005 & 2006 was the wording in Lect- Law (</em><a href="http://www.lectlaw.com/def/h001.htm"><em>http://www.lectlaw.com/def/h001.htm</em></a><em>) stating ... </em><br />
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<em>Lat. "you have the body" Prisoners often seek release by filing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. A writ of habeas corpus is a judicial mandate to a prison official ordering that an inmate be brought to the court so it can be determined whether or not that person is imprisoned lawfully and whether or not he should be released from custody. A habeas corpus petition is a petition filed with a court by a person who objects to his own or another's detention or imprisonment. The petition must show that the court ordering the detention or imprisonment made a legal or factual error. Habeas corpus petitions are usually filed by persons serving prison sentences.<span style="background-color: white; color: black;"> </span></em><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><strong><u><em>In family law, a parent who has been denied custody of his child by a trial court may file a habeas corpus petition. Also, a party may file a habeas corpus petition if a judge declares her in contempt of court and jails or threatens to jail her. </em></u></strong></span><br />
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<em>In Brown v. Vasquez, 952 F.2d 1164, 1166 (9th Cir. 1991), cert. denied, 112 S.Ct. 1778 (1992), the court observed that the Supreme Court has "recognized the fact that`[t]he writ of habeas corpus is the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action.' Harris v. Nelson, 394 U.S. 286, 290-91 (1969). " Therefore, the writ must be "administered with the initiative and flexibility essential to insure that miscarriages of justice within its reach are surfaced and corrected." Harris, 394 U.S. at 291. </em><br />
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<em>The writ of habeas corpus serves as an important check on the manner in which state courts pay respect to federal constitutional rights. The writ is "the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action." Harris v. Nelson, 394 U.S. 286, 290-91 (1969). Because the habeas process delays the finality of a criminal case, however, the Supreme Court in recent years has attempted to police the writ to ensure that the costs of the process do not exceed its manifest benefits. In McCleskey the Court raised barriers against successive and abusive petitions. The Court raised these barriers based on significant concerns about delay, cost, prejudice to the prosecution, frustration of the sovereign power of the States, and the "heavy burden" federal collateral litigation places on "scarce federal judicial resources," a burden that "threatens the capacity of the system to resolve primary disputes." McCleskey, 499 U.S. at 467. </em><br />
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<em>The Court observed that"[t]he writ of habeas corpus is one of the centerpieces of our liberties. `But the writ has potentialities for evil as well as for good. Abuse of the writ may undermine the orderly administration of justice and therefore weaken the forces of authority that are essential for civilization.' " McCleskey, 499 U.S. at 496 (quoting Brown v. Allen, 344 U.S. 443, 512 (1952) (opinion of Frankfurter, J.)) </em><br />
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<em>Dismissal of habeas petition under the "total exhaustion" rule of Rose v. Lundy, 455 U.S. 509, 520 (1982) (each claim raised by petitioner must be exhausted before district court may reach the merits of any claim in habeas petition). Jury exposure to facts not in evidence deprives a defendant of the rights to confrontation, cross-examination and assistance of counsel embodied in the Sixth Amendment. Dickson v. Sullivan, 849 F.2d 403, 406 (9th Cir. 1988); see also Jeffries v. Blodgett, 5 F.3d 1180, 1191 (9th Cir. 1993) (introduction of extraneous prior bad acts evidence during deliberations constitutes error of constitutional proportions), cert. denied, 114 S.Ct. 1294 (1994). However, a petitioner is entitled to habeas relief only if it can be established that the constitutional error had "substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's verdict." Brecht v. Abrahamson, 113 S. Ct. 1710, 1722 & n.9 (1993). Whether the constitutional error was harmless is not a factual determination entitled to the statutory presumption of correctness under 28 U.S.C. S 2254(d). Dickson, 849 F.2d at 405; Marino v. Vasquez, 812 F.2d 499, 504 (9th Cir. 1987). </em><br />
<em>In a habeas corpus proceeding, a federal court generally "will not review a question of federal law decided by a state court if the decision of that court rests on a state law ground that is independent of the federal question and adequate to support the judgment." Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722, 111 S. Ct. 2546, 2553-54 (1991). This doctrine applies to bar federal habeas review when the state court has declined to address the petitioner's federal claims because he failed to meet state procedural requirements. Id. at 2254; see also Sochor v. Florida, 504 U.S. 527, 119 L. Ed. 2d 326, 337 (1992). Thus, the independent state grounds doctrine bars the federal courts from reconsidering the issue in the context of habeas corpus review as long as the state court explicitly invokes a state procedural bar rule as a separate basis for its decision. Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255, 264 n.10 (1988). </em><br />
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<em>Habeas petitioners are not entitled to habeas relief based on trial error unless they can establish that it resulted in actual prejudice. O'Neal v. McAninch, 115 S. Ct. 992, 994-95 (1995). It is the responsibility of the court, once it concludes there was error, to determine whether the error affected the judgment. If the court is left in grave doubt, the conviction cannot stand. Id. On a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the standard of review for a claim of prosecutorial misconduct, like the standard of review for a claim of judicial misconduct, is " 'the narrow one of due process, and not the broad exercise of supervisory power.' " Darden v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 168, 181 (1986) (quoting Donnelly v. DeChristoforo, 416 U.S. 637, 642 (1974)). "The relevant question is whether the prosecutor['s] comments 'so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.' " Id. (quoting Donnelly, 416 U.S. at 643).</em><br />
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<em>A federal court has no supervisory authority over criminal proceedings in state courts. The only standards we can impose on the states are those dictated by the Constitution. Daye, 712 F.2d at 1571. Objectionable as some actions might be, when considered in the context of the trial as a whole they are not "of sufficient gravity to warrant the conclusion that fundamental fairness has been denied." Id. at 1572. See Gayle v. Scully, 779 F.2d at 807 (trial judge's caustic, sarcastic comments and offensive conduct, although perhaps inconsistent with institutional standards of federal courts, did not violate due process); Daye, 712 F.2d at 1572 (trial judge's skeptical attitude toward defendant's testimony, and his reinforcement of identification evidence by government witnesses, "approached but did not cross the line that permits [a ruling] that the Constitution has been violated"). </em><br />
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<em>The fact that a jury instruction is inadequate by Federal Court direct appeal standards does not mean a petitioner who relies on such an inadequacy will be entitled to habeas relief from a state court conviction. Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62, 71-72 (1991). In habeas proceedings challenging state court convictions, relief is available only for constitutional violations. Whether a constitutional violation has occurred will depend upon the evidence in the case and the overall instructions given to the jury. See Cupp v. Naughten, 414 U.S. at 147 (constitutionality determined not by focusing on ailing instruction "in artificial isolation" but by considering effect of instruction "in the context of the overall charge."). See also Henderson v. Kibbe, 431 U.S. 145, 155 (1977) (recognizing that "[a]n omission, or an incomplete instruction, is less likely to be prejudicial than a misstatement of the law" and, therefore, a habeas petitioner whose claim of error involves the failure to give a particular instruction bears an "especially heavy" burden). </em><br />
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<em>Shackling, except in extreme forms, is susceptible to harmless error analysis. Castillo v. Stainer, 997 F.2d at 669. In a habeas case dealing with a state court sentence, the question is whether the shackling "had substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's verdict." Id. (quoting Brecht v. Abrahamson, 113 S. Ct. 1710, 1714 (1993)). If we are in "grave doubt" whether the error affected the verdict, the error is not harmless. O'Neal v. McAninch, 115 S. Ct. 992, 994 (1995). </em><br />
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<em>http://www.lectlaw.com/def/h001.htm</em>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-13408705778209034672011-09-13T08:24:00.002-04:002013-10-18T13:44:57.081-04:00Unable to pay child support poor parents land in jail<em>Judges can jail alleged defaulters — who are not covered by the presumption of innocence — without a trial.</em><br />
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</em><em>It may not be a crime to be poor, but it can land you behind bars if you also are behind on your child-support payments.</em><br />
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</em><em>Thousands of so-called “deadbeat” parents are jailed each year in the U.S. after failing to pay court-ordered child support — the vast majority of them for withholding or hiding money out of spite or a feeling that they’ve been unfairly gouged by the courts. </em><br />
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</em><em>But in what might seem like an un-American plot twist from a Charles Dickens’ novel, advocates for the poor say, some parents are wrongly being locked away without any regard for their ability to pay — sometimes without the benefit of legal representation. </em><br />
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</em><em>Randy Miller, a 39-year-old Iraqi war vet, found himself in that situation in November, when a judge in Floyd County, Ga., sent him to jail for violating a court order to pay child support. </em><br />
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</em><em>He said he was stunned when the judge rebuffed his argument that he had made regular payments for more than a decade before losing his job in July 2009 and had recently resumed working.</em><br />
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</em><em>“I felt that with my payment history and that I had just started working, maybe I would be able to convince the judge to give me another month and a half to start making the payments again,” he told msnbc.com. “… But that didn’t sit too well with him because he went ahead and decided to lock me up.” </em><br />
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</em><em>Miller, who spent three months in jail before being released, is one of six plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit filed in March that seeks to force the state of Georgia to provide lawyers for poor non-custodial parents facing the loss of their freedom for failing to pay child support. </em><br />
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</em><em>“Languishing in jail for weeks, months, and sometimes over a year, these parents share one trait … besides their poverty: They went to jail without ever talking to an attorney,” according to the lawsuit filed by the nonprofit Southern Center of Human Rights in Atlanta.</em><br />
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</em><em>While jailing non-paying parents — the vast majority of them men — does lead to payment in many cases, critics say that it unfairly penalizes poor and unemployed parents who have no ability to pay, even though federal law stipulates that they must have “willfully” violated a court order before being incarcerated. </em><br />
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</em><em>They compare the plight of such parents to the poor people consigned to infamous “debtors’ prisons” before such institutions were outlawed in the early 1800s.</em><br />
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</em><em>“I try very carefully not to exaggerate, but I do think that’s an apt comparison,” said Sarah Geraghty, the attorney handling the Georgia case for the Southern Center for Human Rights. </em><br />
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</em><em>“And I think anyone who went down and watched one of these proceedings would agree with me. … You see a room full of indigent parents — most of them African-American — and you have a judge and attorney general, both of whom are white. The hearings often take only 15 seconds. The judge asks, ‘Do you have any money to pay?’ the person pleads and the judge says, ‘OK you’re going to jail,’” she added.</em><br />
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</em><em>The threat of jailing delinquent parents is intended to coerce them to pay, but in rare cases it can have tragic results.</em><br />
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</em><em>In June, a New Hampshire father and military veteran, Thomas Ball, died after dousing himself with gasoline and setting himself ablaze in front of the Cheshire County Court House. </em><br />
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</em><em>In a long, rambling letter to the local Sentinel newspaper, the 58-year-old Ball stated that he did so to focus attention on what he considered unfair domestic violence laws and because he expected to be jailed at an upcoming hearing on his failure to pay up to $3,000 in delinquent child support, even though he had been out of work for two years.</em><br />
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</em><em>The ability of judges to jail parents without a trial is possible because failure to pay child support is usually handled as a civil matter, meaning that the non-custodial parent — or the “contemnor” in legal terms — is found guilty of contempt of court and ordered to appear at a hearing. </em><br />
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</em><em>He or she is not entitled to some constitutional protections that criminal defendants receive, including the presumption of innocence. And in five states — Florida, Georgia, Maine, South Carolina and Ohio — one of the omitted protections is the right to an attorney.</em><br />
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</em><em>Randall Kessler, a family law attorney in Atlanta and chairman of the American Bar Association’s family law division, said states have a great deal of leeway in family law, which includes child support cases.</em><br />
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<em>“The main reason states are patchwork is because family law is a local idea,” he said. “It’s very infrequent that the federal government gets into family law, except for international custody every now and then and violence against women. ... Each community’s laws are different in the way they treat child support collection, and the right to a lawyer and the right to a jury trial varies.”</em><br />
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</em><em>He noted, however, that the ABA last year approved a resolution urging "federal, state, and territorial governments to provide legal counsel as a matter of right at public expense to low-income persons in ... adversarial proceedings where basic human needs are at stake, such as those involving shelter, sustenance, safety, health or child custody." </em><br />
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<em>Supreme Court: No right to a lawyer </em><br />
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<em>The child support program currently serves approximately 17 million U.S. children, or nearly a quarter of the nation’s minors, according to a recent study by Elaine Sorensen, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute. </em><br />
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<em>Critics of incarceration without representation had hoped that the U.S. Supreme Court would end the practice in its ruling in Turner v. Rogers, a case involving a South Carolina man who was repeatedly jailed for up to a year after failing to pay child support. </em><br />
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</em><em>But the court ruled 5-4 in June that poor parents are not entitled to a court-appointed lawyer when facing jail for non-payment of child support. Instead, the justices said, states should use “substantial procedural safeguards” to ensure that those who have no means to pay are not locked up. </em><br />
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</em><em>That is likely to force the states that don’t guarantee the right to an attorney to tighten their policies, said Colleen Eubanks, executive director of the National Child Support Enforcement Association, which represents state agencies. “Obviously they’re going to have to look at changing the rules,” she said. </em><br />
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</em><em>Ken Wolfe, a spokesman for the federal Administration for Children and Families, which imposes some rules on state child support enforcement agencies in exchange for funding, said the agency expects to issue guidance to the states next month regarding the Turner case. He declined to provide any details.</em><br />
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</em><em>But Libba Patterson, a law professor at the University of South Carolina and a former director of the state Department of Social Services, said the Supreme Court ruling provides “very weak protections” for poor parents and is unlikely on its own to solve the problem of wrongful incarceration of poor parents. </em><br />
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</em><em>“It depends on the extent to which the court is truly interested in making a full inquiry on the ability-to-pay issue and on the resources the court has and the amount of judicial time,” she said.</em><br />
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</em><em>Even in states where the non-custodial parents do have the right to a lawyer, those without the financial resources to meet their child-support obligations still frequently land in jail. </em><br />
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</em><em>A 2009 study by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan policy think tank in Washington, D.C., found that only half of the child support debtors in California prisons had reported income in the two preceding years. And the median net income of the others was a mere $2,881.</em><br />
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</em><em>65 percent of paycheck taken </em><br />
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</em><em>Geraghty, the Southern Center for Human Rights attorney, said part of the problem is that courts often order poor parents to pay too much for child support in the first place, increasing the likelihood that they will fall behind on payments.</em><br />
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</em><em>“One of my former clients worked at the Piggly Wiggly (supermarket) and they were taking 65 percent of her paycheck,” she said. “It left her in a position where there was simply no way that she could survive on the amount that she had left.”</em><br />
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</em><em>No one can say how many parents are jailed each year for failing to pay child support, because states typically do not track such cases. </em><br />
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</em><em>But an analysis of U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics in 2002 by the Urban Institute’s Sorensen suggested that approximately 10,000 parents were jailed that year for non-payment of child support, representing 1.7 percent of the overall U.S. jail population. </em><br />
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</em><em>Most observers believe that number has risen as a result of the troubled U.S. economy. </em><br />
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</em><em>In fiscal 2009, the most recent year for which statistics are available, the Child Support Enforcement program saw child support collections decline for the first time in the history of the program, dipping 1.8 percent, the GAO reported in January. </em><br />
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</em><em>At the same time, payments collected from unemployment insurance benefits nearly tripled, and the number of cases in which children were receiving public assistance also rose. </em><br />
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</em><em>Military veterans, who often struggle to find work when they leave the service, appear to be particularly at risk.</em><br />
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</em><em>Lance Hendrix of Adel, Ga., an Army veteran, said he fell behind on child support for his 4-year-old daughter after he left the service and couldn’t find work. </em><br />
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</em><em>“I was arrested and I went to jail and they asked me all sorts of questions,” said Hendrix, who also is a plaintiff in the Georgia lawsuit. “I was never told I was under arrest. And I was never read my rights. So I did not know what rights I had. Of course, I’ve seen all these movies, but half that isn’t true.”</em><br />
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</em><em>Not having a lawyer in a civil contempt hearing increases the likelihood that the parent will be jailed, even if he or she is not guilty of “willfully” defying the court’s order, say critics of the policy.</em><br />
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</em><em>‘Wrongfully imprisoned’ </em><br />
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</em><em>“In the absence of counsel … it appears that the opportunity to raise the defense is often missed, and large numbers of indigent parents are wrongfully imprisoned for failure to meet child support obligations every year,” according to a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the Turner case by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups. </em><br />
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</em><em>The deck is further stacked against the delinquent parent because the state often acts as the plaintiff, seeking to recover the cost of providing public assistance to the child, Geraghty said.</em><br />
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</em><em>Officials of Georgia’s Child Support Services agency declined to comment on the state’s child support enforcement policies or the lawsuit.</em><br />
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</em><em>But Seth Harp, a retired Georgia state senator and former member of the state’s Child Support Guidelines Commission, said the state’s judges use incarceration sparingly. </em><br />
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</em><em>“The methodology to put someone in jail requires that the person be taken to court before a judge and there they have to be found in willful contempt — someone who actively refuses to seek work or is hiding assets, something like that,” he said. “Judges don’t want to put people in jail. … The whole purpose is to get these people to support their children.”</em><br />
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</em><em>Harp said he’s seen the tactic work repeatedly in his long career as a family law attorney.</em><br />
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</em><em>“You can’t get blood out of a turnip, but you can put the turnip in the cooler,” he said. “And in 34 years of doing this, it’s amazing, you put someone in the cooler and the money seems to come.”</em><br />
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</em><em>Judge Janice M. Rosa, a supervising court judge in New York’s 8th Judicial District and a board member of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, said the system in her state adequately protects non-custodial parents by guaranteeing them a court-appointed lawyer if they cannot afford one and carefully determining that they have the ability to pay.</em><br />
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</em><em>“No one here is going to jail when a factory closes down and you’re one of hundreds looking for a job,” she said. “… Every state has said that debtors’ prisons are illegal, and you have to give these people a way out. You can only put them in jail if they have money and won’t pay.”</em><br />
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</em><em>Eubanks, the National Child Support Enforcement Association official, said state programs in general are doing a better job in recent years of ensuring that the poor aren’t unfairly locked up by instituting programs to help non-custodial parents improve work, life and parenting skills.</em><br />
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</em><em>“Five to 10 years ago, the program was pretty much about enforcing support. But now it’s moving to the understanding that if parents are going to support their children, they need assistance,” she said. “Our philosophy is to provide whatever tools we can to both parents to support their children.”</em><br />
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</em><em>She also said the recent Supreme Court decision prompted the association to conduct training and outreach to ensure that state agencies are aware of the issue and have adequate safeguards in place to prevent indigent parents from being wrongly jailed.</em><br />
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</em><em>That is no comfort to Miller, the Iraq war veteran who was jailed for three months. He said jailing parents who fall behind on their payments is counterproductive and should be reserved for only the most egregious violators.</em><br />
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</em><em>“I feel like it’s more unfair to the kids, because now not only do the kids not get any money, nor do they even get to spend time with their fathers once they get locked up,” he said. “The closest you can get is visitation, and who wants their kids to see them behind bars or behind glass.”</em><br />
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</em><em>See video link and original story below...</em><br />
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</em><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44376665/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/"><em>Unable to pay child support, poor parents jailed - US news - Crime & courts - msnbc.com</em></a>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9217353884669167836.post-86866475789658548932011-08-20T20:51:00.006-04:002012-04-13T13:53:26.585-04:00Everything Happens For A Reason<em>This evening I finally returned a phone call from a long distance friend who has been kind enough to wait till I worked through my accident & figure out my recovery in my head before receiving a call from me. I truly appreciate her being so kind! </em><br />
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<em>It's been a struggle for the last few months.. I have been on serious medication which has basically kicked my ass.. my head injury has played a major role in my day to day life.. I'm lucky I can remember what I said yesterday most days.</em><br />
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<em>Anywho, thank you Jules! </em><br />
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<em>Now, as for why I am beginning today's blog with a thanks to Jules...</em><br />
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<em>Well, Throughout the years, I've had to accept that everything happens for a reason.</em><br />
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<em>Today, I received a post from Kaleah's Website "the Narcissism Free Website", and it covered exactly what I was telling Jules about an hour earlier...</em><em></em><br />
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<em>I've spent the last 10 years desperately trying to figure out how I managed to be taken out of my children's lives. During my search I've had to learn about Parent alienation, Stockholm Syndrome & most importantly.. </em><br />
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<em>Cognitive Dissonance and Conversatinal Hypnosis. </em><br />
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<em>I had to learn how Cognitive Dissonance occurs & how Conversational Hypnosis worked before I would be able to figure out how my children went from cherishing me and our relationship to tossing it and me in the garbage. I'd have to learn how someone that adores another could suddenly hate that same person.</em><br />
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<em>I also needed to figure out what Neuro Linguistic Programing (NLP) was..</em><br />
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<em>I've had to understand what kind of people would be evil enough to create Cognitive Dissonance in another person, or who would intentionally manipulate anothers mind for their own benefit. </em><br />
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<em>I've had to go to the depths of ugly within myself and revisit my abandoned abused inner child. I've had to learn all about her and how she responds to the world she lives in. </em><br />
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<em>I think it's fair to say.. I've had to go through hell and back before "I'd get it!"</em><br />
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<em>Knowing what "it" is... was the hardest part of all.. </em><br />
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<em>One part of the "it" is being ok enuff with myself and my inner child so that she/I don't respond to every perceived hurt,or to every perceived attack, or perceived abandonment. </em><br />
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<em>The other part of the "it" is knowing my inner child and calming her down enuff to know when there are people around me who are operating off their own perceived hurts, perceived attacks, or perceived abandonment issues. </em><br />
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<em>The latter part is a little harder, because when 'others' are acting off their perceived hurts, perceived attacks, or perceived abandonment issues. They are then operating off their inner child's hurts and their own self preservation. And in doing so, they are "in reality" hurting, attacking and abandoning us. </em><br />
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<em>Whewwwwww say that fast three times! Ok, ok, ok all joking aside... </em><br />
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<em>Those of us who have been alienated from our children can get them back into our lives once we are able to focus on our inner abused/abandoned children. </em><br />
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<em>Once we 'go there' and come out the other side.. we can take whatever their inner scared children give us... </em><br />
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<em>However, before taking on such a huge job, I suggest you learn all you can about Cognitive Dissonance... and take an in-print into your conscious of the blog below... (Her blog helped me enormously to get where I am today)</em><br />
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<a href="http://www.narcissismfree.com/blog/?p=361"><em>http://www.narcissismfree.com/blog/?p=361</em></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.narcissismfree.com/blog/"><em>The Path Back To Self | Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse</em></a><br />
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<em>Here are one of the better definitions of Cognitive Dissonance that I have found, but do your own homework... </em><br />
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<a href="http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/dissonance.htm">Cognitive Dissonance and learning</a><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_hypnosis"><em>Covert hypnosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</em></a>Zoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00137007897874209945noreply@blogger.com0