Pick and Choose!

There is no greater demonstration of the selective persecution prosecution that is rampant in the so-called justice system than what occurs in Family Court and its related criminal court actions.

In the summer of 2010 - July to be more specific, my children were at Jon's apartment for the first extended length of time (any prior visits were very short, 15 min or less, and had only occurred twice that I can recall). We were celebrating his birthday with a cookout, and also letting the kids know that we were going to work on reestablishing our relationship.

My middle child took the dog for a walk, and mentioned that the kids in the yard that Jon's balcony overlooked were really splashing in the pool.

About an hour later she took the dog out again, and came inside reporting that there was yellow crime scene tape around the pool and yard.

Apparently a four-year old little girl had drowned in that short period of time.

What is most striking is that the mother claimed to have left an 8-year old child in charge of watching the little girl, who suffered from several disabilities.

The yard was not fenced, so anyone could have wandered in from the street and accessed the pool.

There was no gate to block access to the pool from the deck.

There was a sliding glass door that was left open onto the deck.

Jon had spoken from his balcony to the parents and the grandparents about the need for pool safety on at least two occasions after observing the kids unsupervised in the pool. When nothing changed, he finally called in a report to CPS - two weeks before the drowning.

And the mother was posting status updates and game updates on Facebook during the whole time frame in question, including one about how the 8-year old was downstairs playing a game - while he was supposed to be watching his little sister.

No charges were filed, and the mother never lost custody of any of her children.

Maybe the fact that her family was friends with the investigating detective had something to do with it.

It is amazing how people can pick and choose what they will investigate, and who they will pursue and persecute.

It's amazing how many neglectful and abusive parents are ignored or given a pass - while those known to be innocent are harassed.

It is time to stand up, speak out, and expose CPS!

CPS Kills Kids!

Standing up for the truth is no longer praised and rewarded in society, it is punished - often to an extreme level.

One of the most obvious examples is in the Child Protective/Family Court system.

The minute a parent/family begins to assert their rights and speak up for the truth, tries to expose the lies and fraud being committed, CPS opens the floodgates and musters every resource at their command to attack and vilify them.

And trust me, their resources are far-reaching - they can recruit law enforcement and District Attorneys to add additional pressure, threats, and charges to try to force a family to back down.

One of the biggest pieces of leverage that CPS uses is wrongful seizure of children. Once CPS has gained control over the children, they are able to manipulate the parents using the false promise of returning the children.

And then CPS fails to keep children safe.

Children are killed while in the custody of CPS.

And now a new report: in January a foster father burned an 11-month old to death in a bathtub. A family court judge had removed the baby from his parents shortly after birth due claiming it would be in the child's "best interests". Apparently in the eyes of CPS and Family Court, death is a child's best interest.

This week, a 6-month old died while in CPS custody, in a foster home that CPS claimed would keep her safe.

A year ago a toddler was killed in Las Vegas by her foster father, who then killed himself. No charges were filed against the foster mother.

Two years ago, a toddler was removed from her parents and placed in foster care. They immediately began to notice issues, and then they received a phone call informing them their daughter was in the hospital. She subsequently died from injuries inflicted by her foster mother (who had been the subject of prior complaints).

And children kill themselves while in foster care.

In December, a 6 year old girl in foster care supposedly hung herself. Yet a child of that age killing themself is almost unheard of, especially when she should have been supervised due to her age, and there are still many unanswered questions.

In 2009, a 7 year old boy hung himself - attributed to the psychiatric drugs that CPS had arranged for him to take, without parental consent.

In 2011, a 14 year old committed suicide after being shuffled between 22 foster homes in 13 years.

In September of 2014, Karmah Jayne Hall committed suicide while in foster care, and her biological family was never informed. Instead they learned of the death through a Facebook post.

CPS does NOT care about the safety and well-being of children and families. It is all a numbers game. For each child removed from a parent's custody, they get money from the federal, state, and local government.

This includes wrongfully removing children from loving homes and parents, and placing children with foster parents who may not pass background checks or who may be in it just for the money. When there isn't enough foster care space, children are placed in juvenile detention facilities.

The links above are just a few of many articles - do a Google search yourself using "death while in foster care", "suicide while in foster care", or any other horrendous outcome followed by "while in foster care". Then change to "while in CPS custody" and a whole new batch will appear.

The riots in Ferguson, Baltimore, and NYC centered around the theme of "one death is too many". Why doesn't this apply to our children and help shut down a system that singlehandedly accounts for more deaths, more wrongful "incarcerations", more deprivation of Constitutional rights than any other agency in our society?

ONE DEATH IS TOO MANY! Stand up, speak out, expose CPS!

Stats Too!

We've already looked at the statistics for children being taken from their parents, never to be returned.

Now let's take a hard look at this last column:  DEATH OF A CHILD

Read the column title again:  DEATH OF A CHILD

Now read the title of the table:  FOSTER CARE EXIT OUTCOMES

Since when is the death of even a single child considered nothing more than an "exit outcome"? Better yet, why are children in foster care dying? They have been placed there to "protect" them by a government agency.

And yet, it isn't just a single child - in the 12 years of this record, it is 6,317 children. Children who have been taken from their parents - the families who try to protect them and keep them safe.

If even a fraction of these had occurred in Ferguson or Baltimore or NYC, the riots would still be going. Yet these children are a blip on the radar, swept under the rug by a corrupt government agency that doesn't want to acknowledge that it is failing families and children.

How many more children have died in the over five years since this data was recorded? How many more children killed in foster care will it take before we acknowledge that the system is broken and corrupt?

Stop the insanity and killing! Stand up, speak out! Expose CPS!

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

A jury is directed to only pronounce a guilty verdict if they are sure "beyond a reasonable doubt".

But what exactly does that mean?

In this day and age of Stepford mentality, we are pressured to conform to current PC beliefs and behaviors, and people are (unfortunately) reluctant to assert themselves.

However the true function of a jury depends not upon going along with the crowd, but with standing your ground and remaining true to your beliefs, regardless of the pressures exerted on you by others.

Beyond a reasonable doubt.

The standard that must be met by the prosecution's evidence in a criminal prosecution: that no other logical  explanation can be derived from the facts except that the defendant committed the crime, thereby overcoming the presumption that a person is innocent until proven guilty. (legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com)

When you vote "guilty", can you truly say that none of the evidence could support another theory?

Can you truly say that you held true to your own doubts and beliefs that another explanation held weight and was reasonable?

Can you truly say that you stood up against pressure to vote with the crowd? Pressure to end the case before the weekend? Pressure from the prosecutor or court to not leave a "hung jury"?

And if you had been a juror in the Jon Massey case, what would it have taken to elevate the level of doubt in your mind?

Would hearing from two of the "adult" men that Ruby had been trying to figure out ways to get out from under supervision for MONTHS prior to allegations have helped?

Would hearing from her mother that what incited Ruby into a violent attack against her mother, sister, and Jon Massey was a threat to arrest her 21 year old boyfriend - less than two weeks before the false allegations? Oh, wait, the judge screamed at the mother in front of you and then ordered you cleared from the room and didn't allow you to hear that piece of evidence.

And the judge and prosecutor prevented you from hearing the same story from Ruby's sister. Would hearing it have given you enough doubt?

What if you had known that Ruby had made allegations against multiple people over the years, including her "best friend", and the sons of some well-known local individuals? Would that have made the difference?

I feel sorry for the jurors in the Jon Massey case. Based on what they DIDN'T know, they found an innocent man guilty.

I truly feel sorry for them. Well, most of them.

There has to be a special place for this juror who made the following post on Facebook the day before being chosen for jury duty - most of the conversation is between the juror and her mother.

Almost sounds like a ringer or a plant.

I would hope that when being called to jury duty, this serves as a cautionary tale - the judge and the DA rely on being elected. To get re-elected they need to present an image of being able to convict "bad guys", whether the charges and allegations are true. The more heinous the offense, the more favorable the election publicity.

Don't be a sheeple - think for yourself, believe for yourself, and remember that guilt must be beyond a reasonable doubt!

Numbers Don't Lie

The second DA on the Jon Massey case sent the letter below four days after a hearing was held on the original indictment.

The ADA informed Jon Massey's attorney in a subsequent phone call that  Ruby had told her "nobody had ever asked" about the dates the alleged abuse occurred and the alleged events that happened.

So, let's look at some numbers documented in the paperwork regarding that interviews that occurred between July and December 2012:

• Initial interview by police officer:                0.5 hr
• Interview by police detective:                    2.0  hrs
• Interview by CPS investigators:                 1.0  hr
• Reinterview by CPS investigator:               1.0  hr
• Meetings with two therapists:                   10.0 hrs (minimum, probably more)
• Meetings with Assistant DA:                      6.0 hrs (two meetings, possibly more)
• Meetings with County Psychologist:           9.0 hrs 
• Extensive testimony at Grand Jury             5.0 hrs (low estimate)

Even under the Common Core Math, this is a total of over 34.5 hours.

The testimony of the county psychologist documents that he was VERY thorough about verifying her time frame and even consulted with the therapists, as well as the school counselor and the foster parents (whose hours talking to Ruby about the case are undocumented), to confirm the time frame that Ruby had given. (See the Doctor, Doctor, Give Me the News blog entry.)

All of the testimony occurred in front of the judge, so it should have been just as obvious to him, as it is to anyone else, that the continued prosecution of Jon Massey was based on false allegations and a flawed case.

Over 34 hours telling the story to multiple people with no "inconsistency" according to the psychologist? And suddenly "nobody asked her"? I smell a huge untruth.

Additionally, what came out when Jon Massey was finally brought to trial, was that the DA's office spent over 25 hours "coaching" Ruby on her testimony. That is about the length of rehearsal time that is spent in performing a school or community musical (and Ruby had been an A student in a drama and theater class, and had taken a college-level psychology class at this point in time, as well as already testifying at two grand juries). Why would someone "telling the truth" need that much practice time? Something just doesn't add up.

Numbers don't lie. People do.

The Damage Done

What has happened with us has been a horrendous experience for our family. The outcome of Jon Massey's trial and the almost three year long ordeal has caused much grief and destruction to our family. But the damage inflicted as a result of all of this is much further reaching.

There are many unspoken and unrecognized victims when wrongful persecutions and prosecutions take place, as they did in Jon's case and the case against our family.

First are the twelve jurors and two alternates (or whatever the numbers may be in other cases) who became victims of a legal and judicial system that deliberately misled them. In Jon's case, the impact must be horrendous - even at the initial announcement of his death, some of them must have felt pangs of guilt. However when they realized that the DA and the judge deliberately restricted information from them which would have changed their minds and reversed their verdict, they probably felt overwhelmed. Although I feel that they were naive, to a degree, in arriving at their decision based on what the DA reported (being able to describe differences that are taught in local health classes, even though she inaccurately described Jon's physical characteristics), the volume and nature of the information that was withheld from the jury would have been a major deciding factor for them.

By that same standard, the court officer who took Jon into custody was also a victim, as he attempted to do his duty in securing Jon, but was waved off by the judge. He must wonder if he could have prevented Jon's death by insisting on doing his job correctly.

Also impacted were the corrections officers who were involved with Jon at the hospital. Although at least one of them volunteered for the watch duty because he was friends with the family, this was not an easy job for any of them - they had to watch a man slowly die over a period of three days, and it was a slow death with horrendous physical deterioration. Additionally, they had to witness the injustice inflicted on the family members by their "bosses", and were required to enforce standards that were punitive and not practical.

For that matter, the doctor assigned to the case, as well as the nursing staff and hospital personnel, were all victims of the injustice that occurred. They had to care for a man who would ultimately die, knowing that there was nothing that they could do to avoid the outcome, despite the heroic measures that they took.

At this point, before you start to point out that Jon's decision to kill himself caused these people to become victims, you should ask yourself whether you would attempt the same thing should you be wrongfully convicted. Jon already knew that an appeal could take up to two years, and many of us know what happens in prison to someone who is a "chomo" or a "pedo" - it is thrown around in social media as being an appropriate punishment for these individuals. These were all factors that have led to more than one suicide.

Far wider reaching however is the "girl who cried wolf" aspect of this case. False allegations cause long-lasting destruction.

Jon was a well-liked man who would literally give the shirt off his back to people (and had done so for one of his friends during a business meeting). If someone needed something and he could help them out, he did - and this behavior continued even while we were going through this ordeal.

The impact of the wrongful conviction of a man like this destroys the faith of many people in our criminal justice and judicial systems. It is one thing to make snarky comments on social media about people you don't know being arrested and/or convicted, it is completely different when someone who had such a positive impact on so many people becomes a victim of the system. People question the system and become a predisposed jury pool, more likely to find a defendant innocent who may actually be guilty.

True victims of sexual abuse were also irreparably harmed in multiple ways.

The time and resources that were wasted on prosecuting Ruby's case (and continue to be squandered by CPS and the county with our appeal), were things that should have been used to locate and assist true victims. By the statements of the DSS attorney throughout our case, he knew that Jon and I weren't guilty of the charges being brought, but he and the DA were "under orders" to continue to pursue action against us. We have a few other CPS employees who are now openly stating that it was known all along that the charges were false, but that they didn't dare speak out or they would lose their jobs.

Ruby's claims were so obviously false, yet secured a wrongful conviction. In the aftermath of knowing that this happened, many people will be far less likely to convict when the more ambiguous claims of a true victim are brought forward.

The ability of one manipulative teen to "game the system" and achieve her stated goal casts doubt on any and all teens who come forward with claims of abuse - they will be scrutinized more closely than they might otherwise have been by those who should be helping them.

It is unspoken that not only Jon and our family, especially my youngest daughter, were  negatively impacted were but all the extended friends and family that we had together and individually. Jon had a far reaching impact - he was working diligently with several small businesses to bring them into the digital age and implement technology that helped them grow and expand. They lost this valuable resource and his skills aren't easy to replace locally.

We read every day about wrongful convictions being overturned, and there is recognition of the harm caused to those individuals and their families, but what is often not acknowledged or recognized is the irreparable damage caused to those individuals that they impacted and the beliefs of all who were touched by their case.

Can we have a moment of silence and reflection please?