How crazy is this?
Dallas Morning News | Pot smoker gets pardon
Gov. Rick Perry granted a conditional pardon Friday to Tyrone Brown, a prisoner from Dallas whose extreme punishment has become symbolic of the ills of the Texas criminal justice system.
Mr. Brown – sentenced to life as a teenager 17 years ago after smoking marijuana while on probation – isn’t getting the simple commutation recommended by Dallas County officials and the Texas parole board. Instead, he must report indefinitely to a parole officer and meet other conditions or risk going back to prison.
Harry Whittington, a confidant of two prior Republican governors, praised Mr. Perry for freeing the prisoner. He linked the situation to recent DNA exonerations in Dallas County and the state’s burgeoning youth-prison abuse scandal.
“As Texans learn about these sickening cases,” he said, “they will be demanding an overhaul of the system that allows such flagrant miscarriages of justice to occur.”
But Mr. Whittington, an Austin lawyer who previously served on the board overseeing the state’s adult prisons, also sounded a somber note.
I am really speechless. Good for Rick Perry for commuting the sentence, but man I think we all just need to take a moment and wonder how to fix this system we seem to have created.
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In the great USA, Dallas Texas, you can go to jail for protecting your child from sex abuse.
On Feb. 7th, Judge Marilea Lewis, 330th District Court, Dallas, found a physician, a cardiologist, guilty of Contempt of Court for failing to hand over her son to his abuser, his father. CPS determined and testified in this court that the child had been sexually abused by his Chiropractor father. On Feb 26th, Judge Marilea Lewis sentenced this protective mother to 60 days in jail. Judge Lewis had the doctor arrested in court and the respected doctor and mother of five was handcuffed and hauled off to jail like a common criminal. Shame on you, Judge Lewis.
What was the “crime” that got this mother jailed? She refused to surrender her son to his father on two weekends following the then 10-year-old boy’s disclosure that the father was touching him in the shower every time he went to visit dad in Dallas. What normal mother would have turned over a child after hearing this shockingly repulsive news? This mother would have been negligent to send the boy back to this man. It is incomprehensible that a judge could not understand this mother’s natural concern for her child, and making this protective act a crime and sending her to jail is outrageous! Judge Marilea Lewis has distinguished herself as a cruel, biased and unjust judge.
Judge, aren’t you confused as to who the criminal is here? In the world of normal people, fathers do not shower with and/or touch the privates of their ten-year-old children, yet in your court, this deplorable and abusive act is acceptable while a mother’s protective act is a crime punishable by incarceration in jail. Judge Marilea Lewis, your disdain and punishment for this protective mom is reprehensible and you ought to be taken off the bench for your nasty vengefulness and your adherance to PAS tenets.
I was in this court as this mom was sentenced to jail. In spite of the palpable horror of all of the reasonable people who sat in the room (on the “respondent” side that is) this judge spoke the words of her orders as if she was actually making sense. Frightening.
No laws or accepted judicial practices support what this woman has done. She has officially (with court order) hidden the findings of Child Protective Services who believes the father abused his own child. No reasonable line of logic can possibly explain that. She has ignored in court testimony by CPS, AND the Dallas Police, AND even her own court appointed experts who indicate that nothing is wrong with this boy’s life except for the time he spends with his touchy feely dad.
There is more and more and more to the story but just this is enough to make a basic, moral person vomit. Yet here they all are (the judge and her court appointed players) — forging forward with the attempt to get the kid to dad so he can play with him some more.
For her to risk doing this suggests (to me) one of three very bad things:
1. The judge is completely insane.
2. The judge is a pedophile, or chooses to facilitate pedophiles.
3. There is some financial gain.
None of those are attributes you would want even in a traffic court judge, let alone Family Court.
Offer another option if you’d like Judge Lewis. I’ll bet you (hmmmm, how about 50% of the court appointed attorney’s bill) that you can’t make sense of what you’ve done.
You might as well give it a try - for practice. One day soon, you’ll have to do it for real — before people who can reach out and snatch you right off your comfy new bench.
Bad judge. Really bad. Hey, that reminds me. How’s ol’ Rankin doing?
I appreciate it is a horrible situation but I think you are missing something in your list of motivations. The number one problems the family courts are dealing with right now is false claims of sexual abuse in custody cases. Judges need to make the call whether the accusations are true or being made up by a woman wanting to get a leg up in the court proceedings. Judges of course are human and make mistakes but the fact that women are using these horrific accusations to get a leg up really throws our entire family court system into a mess.
Thank you for your response “Dig Ad” and the point you have made. If such cases have become a problem, I can see where that would cause some complications, but not in this case. Your offering tells me that you haven’t really seen any data on this. That’s okay. I can help with that.
If there is a problem with moms making dubious claims against their exes, fine…. LOOK MORE CLOSELY. Make sure you’re not being fooled, right? Locking up anything that clearly makes dad look like a slimeball is not what I’d call looking closely. That’s called looking the other way. Serious problem in the judicial discretion area by Judge Lewis. Maybe look up from the computer screen when the witnesses are talking. To even entertain dad’s move for custody is ludicrous. That’s right. It’s dad’s motion to move the boy away from his home and siblings. Mom only dared to ask the court to protect her son from molestation (or, merely for the sake of discussion, the possibility thereof). Dad countered with a request for change in custody.
But, perhaps you missed the central part of my message —– There is nothing unfounded about what this mom has said. CPS (in California and Dallas) and Dallas Police all concur that bad things happen to this little boy when he is with his FATHER. Even the judge’s own “experts” let their agreement with that fact slip — both in deposition and in court testimony. Their only complaint about mom is that she seems worried about her son. Hmmmm. I’m sorry, WHAT?!
The idea of your kid being touched inappropriately (only in private of course) by his dad — Is that not something a mother should worry about? Getting the picture, “Dig Ad” ?
And it’s not that this data is being merely downplayed or overlooked by Lewis, she actually sealed (with court order) the CPS report AND the reports submitted by the two experts hired to slam mom. They both recommend dad’s house or maybe boarding school. And no, I am not exaggerating when I say they were hired to slam mom. They were both recommended by the father’s attorney and then quickly appointed by the 330th Court. Biased doesn’t even begin to describe how lame this is. One day of law school, or even common sense will tell you that.
If this judge was stuck in a hard position, trying to get to the bottom of it all, that would be fabulous quite frankly. You see, mom has nothing to hide. Maybe the judge thought mom would have just gone away by now. I suppose most moms don’t last as long, either emotionally or financially. I suppose the really nasty fact is that this judge has operated unchecked for so long, that she has become comfortable making unfounded, illegal moves with no fear of reprisal. That world has ended, though, and I can assure you that the watching will never stop. Ever.
This little boy deserved to be protected. He was not. He deserves to be left in the safety and comfort of his home — with his mom, grandmother, two sisters and two brothers. This judge is making move after unfounded move to hand him over to dad.
Bad judge. Really really bad.
p.s. I believe that “Dig Ad Veritas” is just someone partially in the know — but who doesn’t really understand how foul these people can be.
But just in case “D.A.V.” is Judge Lewis herself —- Thank you for accepting my invitation to respond. You should try a few more times, though. This one was quite lame.
Hello,
Not sure who you think I am or where you think you are. This is a political blog and the post you responded to has nothing to do with Judge Lewis, nor does it have anything to do with custody cases or a woman being jailed for not turning over her son to his father. I never proclaimed to be “in the know” about this case. I was commenting on how crazy a life sentence for pot smoking was. I am not entirely sure how it turned into this nor am I sure how you could think I am Judge Lewis, I am not. When the first comment about this woman being jailed was made on the 11th I just figured where is justice was someone who needed to vent. When your post popped up just being more of the same I actually figured you were the same person and still didn’t understand why you were commenting on a life sentence for smoking pot. I am really not sure why you seem to take such offense to my perfectly reasonable comment on another reason why a judge (notice no where did I say this particular judge nor this particular case) might not believe a parent but no skin off my nose. I am sure there are many blogs that are covering this very case, you might find your comments more appropriate on those. They might be more “in the know” for you.
Nothing personal meant toward you, D.A.G., as I have now learned for sure that you are (from my reading of your last post) a reasonable person doing reasonable things. As for who I think I am, I am just a good person, with good morals, wondering what the hell is going on in the Dallas Courts.
If my tone struck you as otherwise, please let me assure you that ANYone reasonable is someone I consider a friend, and I express my regret for potentially making you feel otherwise. I did not mean to do so, and thought I included enough “if’s” to make that clear. Any judgement I have (yes, I have many) on this topic is meant for the judge I talked about, and for her court appointed disciples — not for you.
Please be fair, though. You addressed me very directly and suggested I was missing something in my list of possibilities. I doubt that I am, but if there is a missing piece, I am quite sure it is not the one you offered. At least not in this case.
You are correct about my assumption about your post. It certainly didn’t seem like an attack on me, but it did strike me as uniformed — not about life in general (and not about you as a person), but specifically about the case mentioned right before (above) it on the site. Again, nothing personal, but your offering of things being said in Dallas Courts by unscrupulous mothers being an explanation for what is happening in THIS particular case just sent me into war mode. My “in the know” description was not meant to describe your awareness of anything but the case I was talking about, and the case you have therefore responded about. How am I to know how much you know - other than by what you say or write?
Perhaps I am too quick to attack. From my perspective, though, it is about being quick to defend. Perhaps that is a result of how unbelievably foul the occurences in this case are, or perhaps I just have too much time on my hands. In any case, I would ask you two things:
1. Forgive me. I have seen many very bad things all across Texas and other parts of the south, and I have devoted myself (and my life really) to fighting against them. I always try to be clear about the people I am attacking, and you, D.A.G., are clearly not part of that group. Judge Marilea Lewis of the 330th District Court In Dallas is currently my top focus — and she is so amazingly bad that she will likely remain as my main, personal focus until she either resigns or is removed.
2. Please re-read my first 2 posts (with this one on mind). It may not seem so antagonistic toward you when you realize the level of injustice that has taken place in this case. I am talking about a real 12 year old kid who has been dealing with these “special” visits with dad for “as long as he can remember”. It’s foul. There’s no other word for it, and the facts I have outlined thus far, as shocking as they sound, are true.
If this is your blog — I will certainly be respectful of that, but I have no information about that. On the list of things connected to this judge on “Google,” “Yahoo,” and other searches, “Dig Deeper Texas” was prominent, and here I am as a result of that. I am a reasonable person, if nothing else. So much so, that I will leave this site if the proprietors desire. But please at least inquire a bit first. I have dependable people working inside the Dallas court system and I can provide documentation of ANYTHING you want to know.
Also, perhaps I misread who posted what — but that rarely happens. I have the great privilege of not having to work for a living, and yet the great responsibility of actually caring about what’s going on in the world immediately around me.
This site (Dig Deeper Texas) is a great thing, whether I end up being welcomed on it or not. America is still the “Land of the Free” no matter how hard it becomes to maintain that.
Of course, you are welcome. I had a bad day yesterday and probably reacted stronger to your comment than was necessary. I am completely surprised we are prominently featured in those searches because none of the dig deeper writers has actually written about the case but if we are then we should probably look further into it. We usually notice which searches we pop on and try to be as informational about those things as possible. I personally find that one of our greatest responsibilities as blog writers and I don’t take it lightly. We have been the top search result on several different “close to home” issues and we try our best to give fair and accurate coverage of whatever it might be. I am not sure I am your writer for this particular case but one of our ladies will pick it up and put it on the front page if it compells her or who knows maybe I will find myself compelled.
I don’t work outside the home either and it is very early for me so I will reply more fully later.
Even those with a strikingly strong sense of moral rightness when faced with the insane unfairness of, for example, life sentences for pot smoking, are still victim to the meme that “most” sexual abuse allegations in family court are false.
Or, ridiculously, that there is some sort of “advantage” in bringing abuse to light in a family court case. There is no advantage. Those who ask for their children to be protected from abuse are slammed with huge financial costs from attorneys, ad litems, therapists, psychologists and so on. The risk of losing custody of your child is huge. And any attorney will tell you that before you even file your case.
There is no “advantage” to being put into a system that categorically believes such statements are “False” from the start due to some imagined “advantage” and it is an uphill battle to even try to get such circumstances substantiated.
There is no advantage in having to cast your child’s fate to the whim of a judge whose temperament, biases, and political and financial affiliations are at best unknown, and at worst, working against you from the outset. Let’s not be naive here. All positions are about relationships. The relationships in a court house validate the power and authority of a judge far more than her ability to render a sentence, finding, or decree. And she knows that.
As far as child sex abuse cases go: all because of a couple of exceedingly poor forensic evidence-gathering fiascos in police forces in the 1980’s in cases having to do with DAY CARES, — not family court cases — any and all cases concerning sexual abuse allegations have been painted with the same brush for ever afterwards. Yet the fact patterns of those cases and the typical family court case involving sexual abuse are completely different.
What it boils down to is this: You and I are both deeply concerned about judicial decisions and how those decisions affect the lives of the individuals before them. Judges have a lot — A LOT — of power. They are essentially playing God up there on the bench even in the tiny arena of family court, and well, you know what they say about a little power, a petty tyrant,and so on.
We are all concerned about how bad judges can affect the lives of various individuals, 12 year olds and the harmless pot smoker alike.
But let’s not dismiss the gravity of sexual abuse of a child by instantly assuming that mom has something to gain for it. Gain what, pray tell? The right to continue to raise her child safely in the home he’s always lived in? She should be looked down on for that (constitutional, by the way) right? Financial gain? We’ve already hashed that one out above. Revenge on her ex? Please. A rather elaborate, self-defeating ruse, wouldn’t you say?
To assume that protective Mothers are so hare brained stupid as to go to this length in order to “get” their ex is a misogynist insult at its very root, and demonstrates that is clearly the root of such thinking.
And that’s a bias that has GOT to be uprooted from the court’s way of doing business. Misogyny has as much place in the court room as racism does. There’s no room for either.
Hello again Courtwatcher,
Several questions keep popping into my mind while I am reading what you are writing about this case. Please understand, my only knowledge of this case come from the several comments you can see right here on this page so bear with me.
You say the Dallas Police and CPS have both found that the father molested his child. Why is he not in jail? Has he been charged? It would seem to me that would make Judge Lewis’s opinions totally moot. Texas has very strong laws and sentences for pedophiles and the father being in jail would certainly make turning the child over for visitation a non-issue.
As for this particular Judge, she was re-elected in 2006 and will have to be re-elected in 2010. Find a person to oppose her and work with the campaign. I can imagine 3 years is too long so contact the media, I am not in Dallas County but I can’t imagine it would be too hard to get a watchdog journalist to start following this story closely. I can’t quickly find the information but I know there is a way to recall any elected official. Your local government will be able to tell you how, it starts with a petition, that much I know. More later…
This is a terrible story. The question is how does a person get out of this? Where does one flee to when it should be the courts that take care of situations like this not make them worse. Without truth and justice, what good is a court system, one might see a vigilate or “Soprano” machinery as being more honest and compassionate.
The good news is that there is a final court system in eternity, and God will judge bad judges. To whome much is given, much is expected. Roast well, Your Honor.
UnbelievableTruth
Thank you for your welcome. I am delighted and relieved to be on your approved list. I meant what I said about how valuable a blog site like yours can be, and I am very pleased that you will allow me to be here.
Excellent question about dad not being in jail. CPS did determine that abusive contact had occurred, but they did not feel it rose to the level of bringing charges. With the immense workload they carry, they often choose to make their assessments and recommendations (with the report and with testimony) and then leave it in the hands of the Family Courts to protect the child. That is what they did in this case and, given that this is a hideously malfunctioning court, this nightmare is the result. There is no evidence of a violent molestation or rape, which obviously is a good thing for this young boy. It has, however, put him in a situation of continuing risk, as the court not only doesn’t listen to what the real experts have said, but has repeatedly gone far far far in the opposite direction.
Basically the dad insists that the boy shower with him, and then there is inappropriate contact during those showers. The boy says it has been happening “for as long I remember” and I suppose that only recently has the child grown old enough to say something. Dad’s behavior is slimy for sure, but it’s just shy of the line for the cops to put him in cuffs. Of course, it’s no problem for this judge to throw mom in jail for having the nerve to protect the boy. Dad also literally threatens the boy if he should dare tell therapists or lawyers anything further that is bad about dad. Even the court appointed therapist (the one who’s helping with this “move to dad’s” campaign) quoted the boy IN COURT as having heard from dad “I will hurt you more than you can ever imagine.” This is said out loud, into a microphone, on the record, and not even 5 feet from the judge. She acts as if it never happened. Bad judge.
A Dallas Police Detective interviewed the father and made the same determination. He believed that bad stuff happened to this kid (the dad even admitted it to him), but was still unsure that it rose to a prosecutable level. So (again) no charges filed.
With that limitation, both a CPS Supervisor and the Police Detective took the time to testify in court to make sure the child was looked after. They were both quite adamant that the dad’s behavior was absolutely inappropriate. After leaving court, their words were all but erased by Judge Lewis. I suppose we will never know why, but my list still looks reasonable to me.
Lewis ran unopposed. If there was an election tomorrow, I think that Britney Spears could beat her. Something else has to happen in the meantime, and something most certainly will. I love that you immediately thought about an “watchdog” investigative reporter. And a petition.
You are a good, resourceful, thoughtful person D.A.G. Thank you for existing, and thank you for taking the time and making the effort “dig deeper” and expose things that normal, moral Texans will clearly not accept.
Good gracious. It’s Dig Ad Veritas.
So sorry about the “G”. Won’t happen again.
Like I said in the last post, Texas has incredibly strong child sex crimes laws. You can find them here (If the link didn’t work I have it in text at the bottom of the comment.)
Texas Penal Code Sections 21.11, 22.011 and 22.021 all cover child/adult contact.
Even exposing one’s private areas to a child in Texas is a crime as is touching a childs private areas so the police are sleeping on the job if these things happened. There really is no “not slimy enough” in the codes. ANY contact with a child is a crime and prosecutable. If you are very connected with the case you can possibly get the mother to force the police to do their jobs. The laws are on the books, the police just have to use them.
http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/pe.toc.htm
You are so right, Texas does have incredibly strong child sex crimes laws. Too bad they don’t enforce them. The detective in this case was questioned about this law and testified in court that the actions of the father were inappropriate, that the child found them offensive, but the actions did not reach the level of being criminal because the father did not receive sexual gratification. (Wonder how he knew that.)
CPS later took the case to the District Attorney who appeared to be interested in justice but then later succumbed to the pressure put on her by the court appointed attorney who represents the father and the biased Judge rather than the child. I think they call that “obstruction of justice.”
Apparently it is ok for a man to touch the privates of a ten year old boy as long as the boy is his own son and as long as the Family Court Judge likes the father. Perhaps if the boy had belonged to the next door neighbor, the act might have been considered criminal.
I agree with you, D.A.V. The law is quite clear and it is seems quite tough, even more so than when I originally read it. Thank you for the links — I have seen the codes before, but your reminder has really sparked some ideas in me.
I’ve been to Austin, and my general impression is that judicial missteps of this severity don’t exist there. Not that there aren’t issues, but something seems so comparatively serene about Austin. The list of people sleeping on the job in Dallas County is so long and frightening that Austin should consider severing I-35 after it passes north of Round Rock. There are bad folks up north. Stay in the hill country, friends.
But back to the law. As luck would have it, the Dallas D.A.’s office did get wind of this case and how badly it was being handled in family court (as mentioned by “Whereisjustice”). The father was actually brought before a grand jury, but “something” seemed to calm the flames leading into the proceedings. I have been told that getting indictments is quite simple, but one wasn’t handed down here. This is in spite of dad’s admission of contact. His standing defense is that he only showers with his son because the boy is so so dirty that he is compelled to help him get clean. For years and years this has been the case. Just so dirty. Oh, and the contact with the private areas? Accidental, or just in the course of washing (without a washcloth or soap, mind you).
There is a mountain of clear evidence against this man. The court has no evidence of anything wrong with mom or life at home in California. Quite the contrary actually. Home life is warm and comfortable, according to court appointed therapist after her visit. She even gushed about the exceptional school he goes to. Oh yeah, but mom is guilty of being worried.
And remember, mom is not even daring to sue to remove dad’s visitation — just for the court to pay attention and protect the kid)…………. yet here she is fighting for her son’s right — just to stay in his home where he has said he wants to be — over and over again.
Dad (who used to be a computer salesman until Dr. Theard put him through Chiropractic school) escaped from the Grand Jury and has barely even heard a stern word from this Judge. Dad (who paid nothing toward the exclusive Dallas home they used to live in but claimed to have “built it with his own hands” in court, and has never been asked to pay a single dollar in support of his son since the divorce in 1998) seems to walk praised and unscathed in the court of Judge Marilea Lewis.
Mom, on the other hand, was cuffed and marched off to jail — in the armored police wagon to the famously horrible Dallas County Jail. Got out in no less than 25 hours - dehydrated and severely cold. Dr. Theard has a thin build and suffers from circulatory disease in her hands and feet. More on that later. Mom gets fleeced for money again and again. Did I mention that the judge even ordered her to pay dad’s attorney’s fees in the contempt proceedings against her?
Why? Who knows? But the bias is far too detailed, and far too repetitive to be simple oversight. There is something horribly wrong going on in that court.
Trial is set to start on April 9th. If you’re not booked, I would say it will really be something to ……watch.
I’m new to this blog (and blogging in general) and I can tell you that I am so disappointed with what I’m reading here. My family moved to Texas over 30 years ago. Since then, we have embraced this great state as our home amd we have seen many changes in the backwoods attitudes this place is known for. Texas has always been a special part of “the south” and has progressed in its attitudes about the rights of women, minorities, and us folks who are not from here.
I must say that I could have never imagined that such an extreme story could be true today. I always thought that “protecting the child” was the mantra of the system and that it was conservatively and vigorously followed. How can this be happening in public view? There are so many elements of this story that are SO WRONG!
How does ANY parent get away without paying child support? Having gone through divorce with children and of course seeing others go through it too, I’ve never ever heard of such a thing unless those involved were really in bad shape.
This guy is screwing up his kid and he is a deadbeat? I thought that the purpose of CPS was to do what they are named for. How can a judge disregard their findings?
Regardless of all of the other extreme stuff going on here with this case, to me it seems so unbelievable that Judge Lewis would allow such evil to continue under those basic circumstances. How could this happen? Should the mother have contributed to Judge Lewis’ campaign? Bet her opponents do or maybe they are all buddies outside of the courtroom?
Texas is known for its “good ole boy” network and way of doing business. I’m proud to say that I have seen many changes in this state and the people in it, mostly for the better. When this kind of extreme crap is going on, there are usually personal ties and money involved. I bet the mother pays the bills for everything and everyone on the other side of this case. I would also bet that their inappropriate behavior extends beyond the courtroom.
The good ole boys and gals are still with us. Kudos to you folks that continue to root them out for public display! Hopefully, you will make a difference and that this kind of insanity will stop.
To me its funny that elected Judges do not really have to answer to anyone. So what if they make bad, wrong, or illegal decisions? It gets appealed and overturned and is no skin off their back as long as there is money to get re-elected again. In the real world, Judge Lewis would have to be accountable for her decisions and would be fired and would probably have a hard time finding a job with anyone outside the “networkâ€.
An Embarrassed Texan
Yes, the “good ole boy or gal” network is alive and well in Texas, and it is definitely thriving in the Dallas Judicial System. If you belong to the “in group,” as a judge, you can break as many laws and hand down as many unjust decisions as you please because your friends in the Court of Appeals will back you up. Without any concern for justice, they will look the other way and ignore all evidence no matter how clear or compelling.
Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct is a group that states in their Preamble “Our legal system is based on the principle that an independent, fair and compentent judiciary will interpret and apply the laws that govern us. The role of the judiciary is central to American concepts of justice and the rule of law. Intrinsic to all sections of Judicial Conduct are the precepts that judges, individually and collectively, must respect and honor the judicial office as a public trust and strive to enhance and maintain confidence in our legal system. The judge is an arbiter of facts and law for the resolution of disputes and a highly visible symbol of government under rule of law. ”
This statement is a crock of something that smells. In Dallas, there is no protection from corrupt or unscrupulous judges because this governing body that has the authority to deal with judges who do wrong also choose to look the other way when their cronies come before them. What kind of checks and balances exist when you give a biased law-breaking judge a pat on the back for doing bad things to innocent people? What sad commentary. I wonder how many other innocent people Judge Marilea Lewis has found guilty of “crimes” they did not commit while these two governing groups looked the other way.
The illegal actions of the courts in this state force normal citizens to regard the judicial system with fear, skepticism and distrust, and rightfully so.
There seems to be a huge corrupt moneymaking scheme going on in this family court. Judges and attorneys know that a protective mother will spend every dime she has, go into enormous debt and stop at nothing in her efforts to protect and save her child, especially if this child has been abused. This mother has been forced to litigate continuously for nearly two years as she tried to seek protection for her child. Her pleas for help fell on deft ears in this court.
While supporting the abusive father, the court-appointed “experts”, the high-dollar amicus attorney, the evaluator, the therapist, the parent co-coordinator, and the mediator all seem to be part of this money driven system to take money from the protective mother and pad their own pockets. This nasty little scheme sounds too ugly to be true, but it’s obvious that these people work with the blessings of the court, and together they have conjured an emotional and financial nightmare for this protective mother.
Sadly, in some instances, even the mother’s own attorneys were on the inside working against her. Since these attorneys know that a frightened mother will litigate endlessly to save a child from an abuser, these unscrupulous sharks set their fees sky high for her and then they went along with the court’s program to promote large numbers of hearings, conferences, continuances, etc., as they continued to burn up the mother’s money. These ruthless attorneys and “experts” were provided a huge income as they dragged out proceedings and attached themselves like hungry leeches to this woman’s income and future earnings.
As Mr. Hatton said, there is something “WRONG” with this picture. The court systems thrive while the protective mother goes bankrupt, and while the best interests of the child are ignored, the court appointed experts have been busy serving their own best interest, their bank accounts.
We can thank psyhologist and pedophile lover Richard Gardner for devising this scheme to help child molesters get away with hurting children with his bogus Parental Alienation Syndrome, and in this case, we can also thank his Dallas proponent Dr. John Zervopoulos, but why would any decent person go along with this nasty scheme and allow money to be their driving force at the expense of an innocent child….and at the expense of the mother whose only desire is to save him.
How can I voice a complaint against one doctor John Zervopoulos in Dallas TX who is the biggest father rights, sexual molestor, family violence rights supporter that I have ever encountered in my entire life and unfortunately - this encounter was in my own child custody case where he was allowed to use my children as pawns in the worst sick decision I or others have ever known…. And, the judge, Judge Robert Dry, who liked this doctor supported his decision to split up 4 siblings (girls) and place the two middle girls with their father who molested his own two sisters for multiple years, had sexual encounters with a boy (when he was young himself), the father physically assaulted the mother for 18 yrs, abused the oldest daughter and yet - the judge supported this quake of doctors recommendation to split up the siblings and take two away from the safe, secure, loving environment they have known for 12 and 11 yrs and place them with a Narcassistic/Physically abuse/ verbally abusive/ psychologically abusive/ emotionally abusive man and untreated sexual molester (never charged with molesting his sisters).. The one sister testified against him in the custody issue but the judge just blew it off and ignored this sisters concerns for her neices and pleaded to not put them with this man and take them away from their mother - FOR NO GOOD REASON…… The mother provided a stable home, but was up against a Father Rights doctor, very one sided and was paid by the father to represent him in the custody case…. Something fishy about a doctor who is court appointed being paid additionally by the man pursuing custody….. What is right - this doctor never never being recommended to anybody ever again…….. He supports the abusive father and treats the mother and children who were dealing with the abuse as the criminals…. The doctor should be ashamed of his decisions -
I’m following up with the comments of MEM about her custody case. Dr. John Zervopoulos was empowered beyond the norm in a huge Custody Case - that isn’t finished in the mom’s eyes….. As soon as she can get the monies collected she will appeal to another court and get away from the Judge Dry that continually placed these girls on a yo-yo affect in the court system…. These girls will be forever scared by the poor decision of this judge and I hope when the elections come out - NOBODY VOTE FOR JUDGE DRY IN COLLIN COUNTY…..
Again, I agree with the other comments….. I the mother seeking to protect my girls the abuser, man who is the narcassistic/sociapath in the court custody case,,,, I spent all my families monies, 401k etc… in the pursuit of protecting my girls…. What did it get me - my attorney Randy Warmbrodt is a richer man, I’m behind on bills with no more savings to my name and two of my girls ended up with the abusive father while I have custody of the two children with special needs….. My attorney became richer, the doctors appointed became richer, mediators became richer, etcc…. and I the mother pursuing safety for my family became poorer and broken hearted, angry, untrusting of our Legal system and Law enforcement (who don’t do much to protect the children in now their abusive fathers home) and more passionate to help not allow this to happen to other mothers such as myself.
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Hi. Thanks for the good read….