Courts are being paid by Father's rights groups, by minors counsels and others favorite appointees' to give custody to the abuser.

Glenn Sacks Gets Served by Domestic Violence Survivor

UPDATED!! 2/15

Jennifer Collins has done a great write-up on the "father's right's" coward, Glenn Sacks, that has continuously vilified her mother, Holly Collins. Holly Collins fled to the Netherlands with her children after the Hennepin County Minnesota family court system awarded child custody to a man who abused them all. Glenn Sacks accuses the mom of fabricating the abuse and continues his vengeful attack on Holly's grown daughter, Jennifer. He insists that Jennifer is suffering from parental alienation syndrome (although "psych" "diagnoses" cannot be made without a "professional" interviewing and evaluating all parties) and lying about the past abuse.

Read Jennifer's two-part piece:

The Real Glenn Sacks

and

College Student Jennifer Collins Exposes the Real Glen Sacks

If you are unfamiliar the the entire ordeal, it would help if you read some of the other posts she has done in which she describes how Glenn Sacks has assaulted her family.

I can only admire the courage Jennifer has continue to exhibit in battling this coward and his minions. Many have told her to stop, because he will cause her more harm, but I can understand that when someone just lies so damn much, you can't help but to defend yourself. Glenn Sacks is a bully and most people don't stand up to bullies. But this isn't grade school.

After reading both of Jennifer's pieces, the conclusion I have come to is that Glenn Sacks has very poor self-esteem and resulting extreme projection issues. I mean, it's really, really bad. So bad that I wonder if secretly he believes all these bad things about men...you know, deep, deep, down inside. He must know, deep, deep down inside, that all of the men that flock to him can't possibly all be falsely accused, or "robbed" of their parental relationships.

For now, I'm going to jump on the train of pscyhoanalyzation...shit, everyone else does it!

Glenn Sacks is indeed a bully. From WebMD:

(emphasis mine)

Children who bully:

* May witness physical and verbal violence or aggression at home. They have a positive view of this behavior, and they act aggressively toward other people, including adults.

* May hit or push other children.

* Are often physically strong.

* May or may not be popular with other children around their same age.

* Have trouble following rules.

* Show little concern for the feelings of others.

Many bullies think highly of themselves. They like being looked up to. And they often expect everyone to behave according to their wishes. Children who bully are often not taught to think about how their actions make other people feel.

I utilize the child bully article because Glenn Sacks' behavior is really childlike. I can imagine him sitting at home searching for misandry with a magnifying glass, with his arms crossed in front of his chest and his bottom lip poked out. My thought is that his bullying behavior prevents him from other destructive behaviors like drug abuse or alcoholism.

But here's a piece on adult bullying. Wait, there are waaaay too many characteristics! Let's just pick out the best:

(emphasis mine)

• is a convincing, practised liar and when called to account, will make up anything spontaneously to fit their needs at that moment

• has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one can (or wants to) believe this individual has a vindictive nature - only the current target of the serial bully's aggression sees both sides; whilst the Jekyll side is described as "charming" and convincing enough to deceive personnel, management and a tribunal, the Hyde side is frequently described as "evil";Hyde is the real person, Jekyll is an act

• excels at deception and should never be underestimated in their capacity to deceive

• uses excessive charm and is always plausible and convincing when peers, superiors or others are present (charm can be used to deceive as well as to cover for lack of empathy)

• is glib, shallow and superficial with plenty of fine words and lots of form - but there's no substance

• is possessed of an exceptional verbal facility and will outmanoeuvre most people in verbal interaction, especially at times of conflict

• relies on mimicry, repetition and regurgitation to convince others that he or she is both a "normal" human being and a tough dynamic manager, as in extolling the virtues of the latest management fads and pouring forth the accompanying jargon

• is unusually skilled in being able to anticipate what people want to hear and then saying it plausibly

• is emotionally retarded with an arrested level of emotional development; whilst language and intellect may appear to be that of an adult, the bully displays the emotional age of a five-year-old

• is emotionally immature and emotionally untrustworthy

• exhibits unusual and inappropriate attitudes to sexual matters, sexual behaviour and bodily functions; underneath the charming exterior there are often suspicions or hints of sex discrimination and sexual harassment, perhaps also sexual dysfunction, sexual inadequacy, sexual perversion, sexual violence or sexual abuse

• is self-opinionated and displays arrogance, audacity, a superior sense of entitlement and sense of invulnerability and untouchability

• is a control freak and has a compulsive need to control everyone and everything you say, do, think and believe; for example, will launch an immediate personal attack attempting to restrict what you are permitted to say if you start talking knowledgeably about psychopathic personality or antisocial personality disorder in their presence - but aggressively maintains the right to talk (usually unknowledgeably) about anything they choose; serial bullies despise anyone who enables others to see through their deception and their mask of sanity

• undermines and destroys anyone who the bully perceives to be an adversary, a potential threat, or who can see through the bully's mask

• may pursue a vindictive vendetta against anyone who dares to held them accountable, perhaps using others' resources and contemptuous of the damage caused to other people and organisations in pursuance of the vendetta

• is also quick to belittle, undermine, denigrate and discredit anyone who calls, attempts to call, or might call the bully to account

Was that enough?

I have separated the last few because I think they so perfectly fit in with Glenn Sacks and his role in the fathers' and men's right movement and the movement at large.

poisons peoples' minds by manipulating their perceptions

is arrogant, haughty, high-handed, and a know-all

often has an overwhelming, unhealthy and narcissistic attention-seeking need to portray themselves as a wonderful, kind, caring and compassionate person, in contrast to their behaviour and treatment of others; the bully sees nothing wrong with their behavior and chooses to remain oblivious to the discrepancy between how they like to be seen and how they are seen by others

is constantly imposing on others a false reality made up of distortion and fabrication

Now I'm going to borrow some of the Glenn Sacks quotes that Jennifer displayed:

“I told my dad that I thought he lived a pathetic existence and I did not understand why he had much will to live at all.”

Isn't it true that some people just love to work and in fact, are workaholics? Or maybe they just love money? Or maybe they love being providers? And if given the choice between working outside the home and perhaps being a homemaker, they would still choose the former? Why not respect that instead of the suicidal implications? People do not have the same desires or values.

“The only credit left for men is the military, and even this has been partially hijacked. We now speak of ‘the men and women who fought and died in our wars’ as if even one percent of our military casualties were ever suffered by women, or as if women were ever conscripted the way men were.”

Hijacked? Rather dramatic. No one said the deaths were equal but it would be correct to acknowledge that men and women die in the military...and they don't always have to be in combat. Is that so painful to admit?

“While it's easy and popular to blame men, many of the wounds women bear from failed relationships and loneliness are self-inflicted.”

There is enough blame to share. But a harsh reality that Sacks, and others like him, don't acknowledge (on purpose) is that a lot of this can be attributed not to fatherlessness, but to childhood sexual abuse or family violence in general (ask some real psychologists/psychiatrists who are fortunate to know their patients' entire histories). If abuse is a child's first intimate experience, it would stand to reason that there may be complications with adult intimate relationships.

"Fathers need to start parenting the way they want to parent. When they do there's no guarantee that the mother will go along with it, and that can cause problems, but men need to stop waiting for their wives' approval."

Hold up. This is a major red flag. I thought parenting in a relationship was a joint venture? If you want to have it your way, you should remain single and try adoption.

“Most marital problems and marriage counseling sessions revolve around why the wife is unhappy with her husband,”

There is a good damn reason for this: It is typically the women who profess to be unhappy, and the men who still don't have a clue for some reason. Also, women are the ones who initiatecounseling with the desire to improve the marital relationship. It is a good sign because she cares enough (or maybe bad sign because she still wants to hold on).

“People in general seem convinced that stay-at-home moms get a raw deal and work much harder than breadwinner dads… Having been a stay-at-home dad with two kids during the years when they need the most intensive care, I can tell you that this is nonsense.”

This one was hilarious. First, no two stay at home parents do the exact same thing in a day, parent the same, have the same responsibilities, etc...so it is completely unfair to make this generalization. There are some stay at homes whose kids are gone for the school day, and then have extra-curricular activities...perhaps the kids are independent and there is no need for parental help with school work. Too many variations. And sometimes it really isn't about the kids, wholly, but the totality of what is to be accomplished, or expected to accomplished, for the entire family.

"I can't eliminate ... rap music that trashes women. So I choose the battles I can win, and go from there."

The old misogynistic rap music argument used by White men...except they somehow fail to realize how it is evidence of misogyny, in general, that is endemic in our society. Black men don't trash Black women in a vacuum. Read some bell hooks. But the father's rights movement makes sure to target Black men into their hate camp without addressing Black issues at large. Works out quite nicely, doesn't it? (see Father's Rights Co-opting of Issues that Affect Families of Color)

“Success in school is tightly correlated with the ability to sit still, be quiet, and complete work which is presented in a dull, assembly-line fashion… the methods and structure they employ are not suited to our sons' needs.”

It doesn't fit many children's needs...boys and girls. However, seems that with all the complaining Sacks does, he'd just homeschool his son, especially since being a stay at home is so simple.

“Many of our boys will have spent much of the day being scolded and punished, often for doing nothing more than being boys… each of these mistreated little boys…Everyone always says girls in school suffer; they have low self-esteem; teachers make them feel second best, blah blah blah… But it's obvious that, in general, girls are doing better in school, and boys are falling behind."

Consider for a moment that boys may be suffering in our public school system because of the rigid gender roles that society, and their fathers parents, confine them to. Boys may want to be teachers, daycare providers, seamstresses, etc, but maybe they are limited by what peoplethink they should be. Feminism has opened up the realm for women to not only dream of being, but to be. Maybe that's why girls are excelling. But the folks in the fatherhood camps are always try to throw men back with the reclaiming of masculinity and other bullshit (note the number of times they talk about "emasculation"). The next part is a nice display:

"we've made a lot of fathers into wimps--not only have many fathers been driven out of their kids lives by the family courts, not only do we have many women deciding to have kids on their own, but the fathers who are in the home have become a lot weaker because we've made the idea of a strong father into a bad thing."

Wimps? And is this true, or have we made putting up with an abusive, drunk, cheating, assholish father a bad thing?

Thank you Jennifer for doing the research and continuing to be strong. You are a survivor.

I'd like to end with a clip to lighten things up a bit:

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Thought I was done. I want to include some lucid thoughts from an online divorce forum:

(emphasis mine)

That statement is the only REAL thing that exhists in Family Law Court. Don't contact Glenn S.u.c.k.s., excuse me, Sacks, for he and his group Fathers and Families are the REAL reason the Family Law Courts are out of control.

This child was hurt because the system failed, not because the "mother" was diabolical. Glenn and his rabbid pack of dogs have been funding court corruption and there is plenty of proof. While they think they are getting the upper hand in Courtrooms all over the country, the only thing that is progressing is the just how much money the Judges, and all the corrupt players they appoint are now getting.

You are supporting the corruption. Shame on you. This isn't happening because of women's groups. This is happening because of greed. Glenn S u c k s is not an expert, although, he is making money hand over fist, leading disturbed men astray, speaking and changing laws that were designed to protect children from abuse. He himself decided that NO child needs to be protected from abuse, be it abuse of a mother, or a father. He supports "alienation" theorys, which means that no child will be protected. Open the door and they all come flooding in, with excuse after excuse to drag court cases out for years, while the children are emotionally raped, and the parents are financially raped. Today the hot button is alienation, and tomorrow it will be something else. Stop supporting people that make excuses, solely for profit, which Glenn and all the other's have done.

And another thing for Glenn to realize, by the age of three or four, children have either bonded or not to the parent. A court order isnt going to make them love you, respect you, or even want to be around you. It's the ego's of these parents that get in the way, of what the child needs.

I was a long time supporter of Glenn, but once I found out about the funding, the corruption, and his own selfish goals, it became clear to me, he is just one more person, looking to profit.

Research Justice4Fathers, the leader of that group (the origional group) abandon ship, once he saw just how far some men will go to "Win". This isn't a game. Children's lives are at stake. You have no idea what is really going on behind the scene, and to blame women for this, you are dead wrong.

There are far more "groups" of men, who program them into thinking that if they use the system, they will get custody. They have stopped thinking about the children and their best interests. You want to read an article...

http://www.everyman.org/articles/Ten_Reasons_Not_to_Fight_Custody_Battles.pdf

Father's rights, Mother's rights...Enough is enough. You all are forgetting that children have rights. If you don't treat your children right, they will hate you. If you force them to be with you for the small amount of time until they become adults, and they just don't want to be with you, they will hate you for the rest of their lives. This is not a game. The mother for this child, may have played the game, but she lost now didn't she? Father's will loose too, because they have made and funded a new war.

STOP THE FUNDING, AND JUST START BEING A GOOD PARENT.

and:

I agree. There is no protection for abused children in Family Law Courts. The origional post from the child unfortunately happened many years ago. Now things are different, and if you are a protective parent, like the poster #2, you will never be able to protect a child from abuse. Father or Mother, the courts will give custody to the parent who is abusing the child, only to profit. If the courts would listen to the children, the cases would move quickly, and the children's lives wouldn't be destroyed. BUT, to ignore child safety, the courts know that the protective parent, Father or Mother, will keep expecting truth and justice to prevai, guaranteeing many years of money rolling into the courts. I also agree about Glenn's group. He has lost sight of the real issues. He is jaded by financial gain, much as anyone who pits profit over protection. Why some parents feel that they have the "right" to abuse their children, is beyond me. Just look at the numerous different posts for Judges in Family Law, and they are all the same. People complaining that the Judges are corrupt, that the child is in danger and no one is presenting the evidence that one of the parents is abusive, or the courts will just ignore it. We need a reality check here in America. People are out of control, and there are parents abusing their children everywhere. Mr. Sacks seems to think that this is a falsehood, and only used by mother's. Then I have to ask, why are children dying at the hands of the parent? Why is there such a rise in Familicides? We see only a mere fraction of murders on t.v. because the reality is too harsh. People would rather ban together and save the polar bears.

and finally:

Wake up Grandma, that is the biggest load of c r a p. That is exactally what Glenn Sacks and Fathers rights groups want the world to think, ONLY for the purpose of making money. Glenn is not doing this for any other reason than to profit, and all those parents that support him or groups like his, are being manipulated.

Good father's, concerned father's, protective father's like post 2, don't have custody, BECAUSE they are trying to PROTECT A CHILD FROM ABUSE.

BUT that is no different from the thousands of protective mothers that are losing custody daily. You need to research, before you jump on the band waggon. Glenn's group has made ANY parent looking to say "MY CHILD IS BEING ABUSED" a liar.FATHER OR MOTHER. Therefore, the child will be placed with the abuser, so the court and their cohorts can profit. So can Glenn. Any parent can say, "alienation" to get away with abuse, and the courts say, "cool, we can run this case into the ground now".

You said it before, your ex daughter in law is abusive, and sounds like your son doesn't have custody. The reality for any protective parent, is that there is NO protection any more. The lies are a profit center.

NO CHILDREN ARE BEING PROTECTED FROM ABUSE. THIS IS MERELY A PROFIT CENTER FOR ANYONE WHO IS INVOLVED.

Courts are being paid by Father's rights groups, by minors counsels and others favorite appointees' to give custody to the abuser. THAT'S IT. Period.

This has nothing to do with reuniting children with their fathers. It has nothing to do with getting to the bottom of an abuse allegation. This has nothing to do with truth and justice.

TRUTH WOULD BE LESS LUCRATIVE

Fathers have Rights, Children’s Rights, Fathers kill custody battle fathers abuse and kill families, Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) Stuart Showalter Neo Nazi-Fathers Rights Advocate-Abusers Rights Advocate Glenn Sacks-Abusers Advocate,Right Wing Terrorist- Fathers Rights. Warren Farrell, Mike J Murphy, Jeremy Swanson, Mark K Godbey, Donald Tenn, Stan Rains, Richard A. Gardner coined the term, Parental Alienation Syndrome

We'd Like To Give Fathers Their Rights Back, But First We Need to Figure Out Who Took Them Away

We'd Like To Give Fathers Their Rights Back, But First We Need to Figure Out Who Took Them Away

I am always so excited when Barbara Kay has an article published. She is so truthful and factual in her support of father's rights. Let's take a look:

We have British Columbia's first review of family law in B.C. since the Family Relations Act came into force more than thirty years ago. Their July "White Paper on Family Relations Act Reform" (accepting submissions until Oct. 8) contains progressive draft legislation and policy proposals: It recommends stepping away from courts and the adversarial model in order to "adopt a conflict prevention approach to family law disputes" and urges making "children's best interests the only consideration in parenting disputes."

Damn this is really groundbreaking. I am totally impressed that it took 30 years to come forward with this information. I mean, who knew that children's best interests should be so exclusively focused on?

Next up is the Green Party's unequivocal adoption of a policy of equal parenting at their August convention. By my reckoning that means every single federal party is on board with the idea that both parents have the right to maintain a strong, loving bond with their children, established through credible sociological research as necessitating 40% of the time with children beyond infancy.

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Fathers Aren't Necessary: Finally Getting Off the Patriarchal Bullshit Bandwagon

Fathers Aren't Necessary: Finally Getting Off the Patriarchal Bullshit Bandwagon

Not many people will argue against the necessity of having a father in one's life. We have been so ingrained to accept this as a fact that to challenge this assertion would seem absurd. Everyone from from religious persons to psychologists will tell you how important a father is in a child's development. But they have been lying. It has been a social control mechanism. Ohh, but get ready for the backlash...men don't like being told that they aren't important, and the women who support these notions, love to support these men (meaning, they, the women, will be angry, too)!

Yesterday's article on CNN entitled, Kids of lesbians have fewer behavioral problems, study suggests, is sure to have "them" screaming mad:

A nearly 25-year study concluded that children raised in lesbian households were psychologically well-adjusted and had fewer behavioral problems than their peers.

The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, followed 78 lesbian couples who conceived through sperm donations and assessed their children's well-being through a series of questionnaires and interviews...

Children from lesbian families rated higher in social, academic and total competence. They also showed lower rates in social, rule-breaking, aggressive problem behavior.

Ouch! Kinda tramples on the male ego...at least those in the fathers' rights camps...the ones that think single mother households are such a nasty infection, feminism is evil, and welfare lets women birth unlimited babies while replacing/eliminating the man. *eye roll*

But as I said, there are women who will be upset as well:

Wendy Wright, president of the Concerned Women for America, a group that supports biblical values, questioned the legitimacy of the findings from a study funded by gay advocacy groups.

"That proves the prejudice and bias of the study," she said. "This study was clearly designed to come out with one outcome -- to attempt to sway people that children are not detrimentally affected in a homosexual household."

Wright questioned the objectivity of Gartrell's research, saying the author can "cherry pick people who are involved and the info they release."

"In essence, this study claims to purport that children do better when raised by lesbians," she said...

Studies have shown that children thrive having both a mother and a father, Wright said.

"You have to be a little suspicious of any study that says children being raised by same-sex couples do better or have superior outcomes to children raised with a mother and father," she said. "It just defies common sense and reality."

Well, Wendy, unfortunately, we'd have to pull a hell of a lot of studies off the market for bias related to funding. In fact, we should probably stop letting the government give out grant monies for all these "fatherhood demonstration" projects...and while we are at it, pull money from religious groups as well. To which studies are you referring, Wendy? What were theirfunding sources? And why shouldn't we be suspicious of studies regarding heterosexual, married persons? Not applying equal skepticism just defies commons sense and reality. If you really want to know about funding and bias, see the Let's Get Honest blog.

And we also have a recent article entitled, Are Fathers Necessary?, which begins by talking about Barack Obama, who we already know to have some serious psychological issues regarding fatherhood (see Obama and His Fathercentricism):

There’s only one problem: none of this is proven. In the February issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family, Judith Stacey, a professor of sociology at New York University, and Timothy Biblarz, a demographer from the University of Southern California, consolidated the available data on the role of gender in child rearing. As Stacey and Biblarz point out, our ideas of what dads do and provide are based primarily on contrasts between married-couple parents and single-female parents: an apples-to-oranges exercise that conflates gender, sexual orientation, marital status, and biogenetic relationships in ways that a true comparison of parent gender—one that compared married gay-male couples or married lesbian couples to married heterosexuals, or single fathers to single mothers—would not. Most of the data fail to distinguish between a father and the income a father provides, or between the presence of a father and the presence of a second parent, regardless of gender.

So, the conclusion, once again, is that gender is irrelevant. Children do well when they have the emotional and financial support of whomever raises them (which still happens to be mothers, you know. I mean, this could change if men continued to increase their roles, beginning in infancy, but with women still being the ones bearing the pregnancy, and having the lactating breasts, it can be so damn hard to break this!) Damn, is this so hard to understand? How much more money must be spent covering this same shit?

Marketing to Survivors of Domestic Violence

It appears there is an entire industry that profits from the misery of women who have been in abusive relationships and are desperately seeking justice in the court system that is supposed to protect them and their children. For many of them, that justice will never come because they are unaware that with all the knowledge and understanding they are seeking for themselves, the system which holds the power and makes the decisions could give a flying fuck about them and the books they are reading.

What purpose does a book on domestic violence and the law serve if it is not a required reading for every family law judge?

What purpose does this book serve if the judges are not required to follow the laws that are referenced? If the judges are not held accountable for their actions?

What purpose does this book serve if a book with opposing ideas (ie parity in domestic violence) is being promoted and distributed to judges simulataneously? A book which confirms beliefs that they already have and thus subjects them to confirmation bias?

How many books must we come up with before mothers get their children back? Will we need a second edition?

Are these books any different from the ones that came out decades ago, when this same fight was still going on?

Who is advertising this book? And to whom? It seems that the mothers are the ones doing all the marketing for these books, in hopes that some attorney, or some social worker will take heed. Mothers are doing the work of promoting the books without getting a percentage of the sales. This scenario isn't even as good as Amway/Quixtar; there is no small kickback because the only reward that is worthy, is the return of her children.

I respect those who take the time--which may be years--of compiling, processing, and sorting information so that it is together and accessible. Your efforts ARE worthy and you do deserve to be monetarily rewarded--especially if you are a survivor yourself. We all need income to survive. However, this is not the end all be all and is not and will not garner the results that mothers need. Unfortunately, I think you already know this. You need to acknowledge that the problem is much greater than judges, attorneys, social workers, GALs, and CPS not knowing the law, or its applications, because as they say,

Ignorantia juris non excusat

And if we hold this to be true, then what we are dealing with is system that knows exactly what it is doing. A system which is profit motivated and supported by our tax dollars. A system which is inherently biased against women because those who run it do not have our best interest in mind.

Let us, advocates and those who the system has failed to protect and has destroyed our lives, remove the funding and boycott this system until it restores human rights to women and their children.

Fiscal Year	OPDIV	Grantee Name	Award Title	Sum of Actions
2010	ACF	Archuleta County Department of Human Services	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 200,000
2010	ACF	BARAGA-HOUGHTON-KEWEENAW CHILD DEVELOPMENT BOARD, INC	FATHERS TO DADS: A PROJECT TO TRANSITION COPPER COUNTRY FATHERS INTO RESPONSIBLE PARENTS PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 250,000
2010	ACF	BOAT PEOPLE S.O.S. INC.	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOODROAD TO INDEPENDENCE THROUGH SAVINGS AND EDUCATION IN VA(RISE-VA)	$ 250,000
2010	ACF	CENTERFORCE	HEALTHY MARRIAGE AND RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD PROJECT	$ 481,555
2010	ACF	CHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC	ARIZONA CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 500,000
2010	ACF	CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 315,830
2010	ACF	CHILD ABUSE COUNCIL, INC.	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 250,000
2010	ACF	CHILD DEVLOPMENT RESOURCES, INC.	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 250,000
2010	ACF	CHILDREN'S FRIEND AND SERVICE	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD-DADS MAKING A DIFFERENCEPRIORITY AREA 3, LEVEL 1	$ 250,000
2010	ACF	CHILDREN`S INSTITUTE , INC	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 500,000
2010	ACF	CHILDREN`S INSTITUTE , INC	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD, COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	$ 1,000,000
2010	ACF	CHW DBA CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER	PROMOTING REOPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 250,000
2010	ACF	CIRCLE OF PARENTS	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	$ 1,000,000
2010	ACF	CO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	$ 2,000,000
2010	ACF	COOK INLET TRIBAL COUNCIL, INC	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 418,832
2010	ACF	COUNCIL ON PREVENTION & EDUCATION SUBSTANCES, INC	JEFFERSON COUNTY FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE PRIORITY 4	$ 499,968
2010	ACF	CT ST DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 1,000,000
2010	ACF	Comprehensive Youth Services of Fresno, Inc.	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD - DADS PROGRAM	$ 250,000
2010	ACF	DC DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES	DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE	$ 300,000
2010	ACF	Denver Indian Family Resource Center	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 203,603
2010	ACF	Detroit Workforce Development Department	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 500,000
2010	ACF	Employment Opportunity & Training Center of Northeaster	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 223,808
2010	ACF	Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse	RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD CLASSES WITH INCARCERATED FATHERS. CONCURRENT WORK WITH MOTHER/CARETAKER OF CHILD, TO LEARN RESP	$ 242,822
2010	ACF	FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE, INC.	F&CS PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD PROJECT	$ 250,000
2010	ACF	FIRST A M E CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 250,000
2010	ACF	Family Services of Westchester, Inc.	FATHERS COUNT PRIORITY AREA 2:RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD MULTIPLY ACTIVITY GRANTS LEVEL 2	$ 497,812
2010	ACF	GA ST DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 225,000
2010	ACF	GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 500,000
2010	ACF	GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS, INC	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 250,000
2010	ACF	GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF PITTSBURGH	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 225,000
2010	ACF	GWINNETT CHILDRENS SHELTER	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 250,000
2010	ACF	HEALTHY START, INC.	HSI RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD LEVEL 1 - A COORDINATED EFFORT TO RECRUIT AND ENROLL FATHERS AND EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY.	$ 900,000
2010	ACF	Healthy Families/Thriving Communities Collaborative Cou	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 500,000
2010	ACF	Indiana Department of Correction	IDOC APPLICATION FOR THE PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD GRANT FOR THE PREP PROGRAM	$ 399,897
2010	ACF	Indiana Department of Correction	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 249,715
2010	ACF	Indiana Youth Institute	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD COMMUNITY ACCESS PROGRAM	$ 998,999
2010	ACF	Kanawha Institute for Social Research & Action, Inc.	KISRA FATHERHOOD PROGRAM	$ 499,054
2010	ACF	LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 250,000
2010	ACF	LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTH DAKOTA	FATHERHOOD AND FAMILIES	$ 500,000
2010	ACF	Metro United Methodist Urban Ministry	SAN DIEGO'S RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE	$ 268,349
2010	ACF	NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF CONCERNED BLACK MEN, INC	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD, PRIORITY AREA 3	$ 250,000
2010	ACF	NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY REGENTS	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 218,335
2010	ACF	NOOKSACK INDIAN TRIBE	REVITALIZING FATHERHOOD PROGRAM	$ 172,640
2010	ACF	Native Pride	THE GOOD ROAD OF LIFE: RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 297,964
2010	ACF	New York Youth At Risk, Inc.	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 225,000
2010	ACF	OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 200,181
2010	ACF	OAKLAND/LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY	PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD	$ 368,555

Fathers have Rights, Children’s Rights, Fathers kill custody battle fathers abuse and kill families, Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) Stuart Showalter Neo Nazi-Fathers Rights Advocate-Abusers Rights Advocate Glenn Sacks-Abusers Advocate,Right Wing Terrorist- Fathers Rights. Warren Farrell, Mike J Murphy, Jeremy Swanson, Mark K Godbey, Donald Tenn, Stan Rains, Richard A. Gardner coined the term, Parental Alienation Syndrome

Redding man accused of beating son with bat had history of complaints

Proceedings against Kelly are suspended while he is evaluated.

When Redding police entered Geoffrey Kelly’s California Street apartment this month after he’d allegedly beaten his 8-year-old son nearly to death with an aluminum baseball bat, they were stunned at the filth they found.

Officers described encountering a rancid stench, moldy walls, piles of cigarette butts, rotting food and heaps of trash as they tracked the blood trail back to the bedroom where Kelly allegedly attacked the boy.

But it wasn’t the first time police had been alerted to deplorable living conditions at homes in which Kelly may have been living.

In fact, at least twice in recent years, police had been called to investigate filthy dwellings associated with the man.

Police reports and court records show that officers’ encounters with the 53-year-old Redding man also had taken an increasingly violent turn by the time Kelly allegedly attacked his son.

Yet it’s unclear whether agents with the local Child Protective Services office were ever called to investigate.

Officials at the Shasta County Children and Family Services office refuse to discuss their cases, saying they want to protect the privacy of the children. Citing similar reasons, officials at Redding School District, where the boy would have gone to class, also declined to say whether they ever suspected abuse.

But one of Kelly’s former neighbors says she urged officers to do something to help the boy, but they refused.

Barbara Mann, 78, said she used to live next door to Kelly at an apartment complex on Continental Street.

She said she called the police to report deplorable conditions at the home as well as the boy screaming inside.

“And I mean screaming at the top of his voice,” Mann said. “He’d just cry and cry and cry. And the apartment was so filthy. I’m telling you, you couldn’t stand it.”

Filthy conditions described

Officer Steve Morehouse described similar conditions in his report following the Jan. 5 beating inside the 2151 ½ California St. apartment Kelly shared with the boy and the boy’s mother, Heather Sieglock.

The boy’s condition improved to serious, a nursing supervisor at U.C. Davis Medical Center in Sacramento said Saturday. He had previously been in critical condition.

Kelly is being held at the Shasta County jail in lieu of $1 million bail on charges of attempted murder and child abuse.

After the alleged beating, Morehouse wrote that he followed a trail of the boy’s blood from the front door through a path of garbage, dirty clothes and food-crusted dishes to the bedroom where Kelly had first beaten the boy.

Morehouse wrote that the kitchen sink was overflowing with rancid water, rotten food and dirty dishes. Mold covered the walls.

The stench was intolerable.

The boy had been spending his nights in a sleeping bag on the floor beside his father and mother’s bed, Morehouse wrote.

The purple sleeping bag, which was covered in spatters of the boy’s blood, was resting on dirt and cigarette butts.

“The apartment, in my opinion, was unfit for anyone to live in,” Morehouse wrote.

But it wasn’t the first time that officers had made similar remarks about a residence with which Kelly was associated.

In February 2006, officers were called to an apartment on Placer Street for a report of a fight.

They found Kelly outside the home in the front yard. He was arrested on suspicion of public intoxication and violating his parole.

Kelly was on parole at the time for drug- and theft-related convictions.

Officer Levi Solada wrote that the conditions inside the home were deplorable. He described dirty dishes, rotting food, piles of trash and discarded cat-food cans. Bongs and pipes adorned the dwelling, Solada wrote.

A 22-month-old boy, who wasn’t related to Kelly, lived at the home with his grandmother. Solada called CPS to take the boy into custody and he arrested the woman for child neglect.

After the incident, Kelly was sentenced to a year on probation. The report makes no mention of whether Kelly’s son lived at the home.

Another case

In September, an anonymous 911 caller urged police to investigate Kelly’s Continental Street home after the caller saw an elderly woman in a wheelchair staying there, according to Redding police dispatch logs.

“Several people stay at the home and do (drugs),” the caller told dispatchers.

“There are insects crawling all over the house.”

The Continental Street home had so many police calls for drugs and disturbances over the years that Kelly stayed there, officers were issued a warning to be extra careful when approaching the place.

But officers never had enough evidence to suggest the boy was in life-threatening danger, said Redding police Capt. Scott Mayberry.

“There had been some cleanliness issues we went to look at,” he said.

“But there wasn’t an overwhelming amount of calls.”

Kelly’s criminal history in Shasta County was relatively minor up until last year, although police say he was charged with willful injury to a child in Santa Clara County in the late 1980s and had several assault charges there.

Efforts to retrieve those court files this week were unsuccessful.

Between 2000 and 2006, in Shasta County he’d been twice charged with grand theft after he was caught stealing a camcorder from a Redding store and a couple cartons of cigarettes from another.

He’d also been charged with failing to register as someone who had been convicted of drug abuse in another county.

At one point, he’d been ordered by a Shasta County judge to attend a drug-treatment program.

His court files make numerous references to Kelly’s troubles with mental illness.

The full story

But, according to court records, after the 2006 drunk in public conviction, Kelly stayed out of trouble.

That changed on an afternoon in February of last year.

Officers say Sieglock called 911 saying he was extremely distraught and was threatening suicide.

Officers say they caught up with Kelly after he had hammered a knife into his chest near the Continental Street apartment.

Though Kelly dropped the knife, he approached officers with the raised hammer, prompting police to use a stun gun, which failed to subdue him.

Police eventually talked Kelly into dropping the hammer. He was detained and taken to a Redding hospital.

The case was still pending in court when Kelly allegedly snapped again and struck his son.

“I just lost it,” he allegedly told police.

John Scholl, a 71-year-old former child abuse investigator who retired to Redding from Santa Clara County in the late ’90s, said he hopes police and Child Protective Services agents review the case.

Scholl said that if they found they could have moved to protect the boy earlier, he hopes they’d change their polices to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

“I would like to know the full story to protect the next child,” he said.

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Haverstraw (Rockland County,NY) father charged in death of 5-month-old daughter

 

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Haverstraw father charged in death of 5-month-old daughter

By Steve Lieberman • slieberm@lohud.com • January 18, 2011

HAVERSTRAW — A 41-year-old father was charged Monday with beating his 5-month-old daughter to death, fracturing the tiny baby's skull and ribs.

Michael A. Aviles stood hunched over, his hands cuffed behind his back, as Haverstraw Town Justice John K. Grant read the felony complaint accusing him of second-degree murder in the killing of Michelle Aviles, born Aug. 3.

"The defendant did with blunt force trauma to the head, body and torso, including but not limited to, cause the following injuries: fracture, bruising, swelling to the brain and skull, bruising and fractures to the rib cage, thereby causing the death of said child," Grant said.

Haverstraw police and Rockland prosecutors declined to comment on the details of the baby's death, such as whether the newborn was beaten by hand or with an object.

Lt. Martin Lund said after court that the investigation into the circumstances of the baby's death was continuing.

Lund gave a short statement describing the cause of the baby's death and how the police got involved. Rockland District Attorney Thomas Zugibe, who attended the arraignment with three of his prosecutors, declined to comment, as did Police Chief Charles Miller.

The heavy-set Haverstraw village resident's only comment in court was a quiet "Yes," when he was asked to confirm his name.

A Haverstraw police detective accused Aviles of beating his daughter to death at the family's apartment on Hudson Avenue between noon Saturday and 4 a.m. Sunday. The lead detective, Terry Collazo, signed the felony complaint.

From medical personnel at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, Haverstraw police learned the baby had suffered serious injuries.. The baby had first been taken to Nyack Hospital but was later transferred to Westchester.

Lund said after the court arraignment that Haverstraw police were called about the baby's injuries at 10:15 a.m. Sunday.

"They told us Michele Aviles suffered life-threatening injuries," Lund said.

The detective and prosecutors went to the hospital, only to be told the baby died from her injuries at 11:35 a.m.

Lund said the baby's death led detectives and prosecutors to an apartment at 153 Hudson Ave. in Haverstraw village.

The infant's death marked the first homicide in Rockland this year and the town's first since 2007.

Michael Aviles lived in the rear apartment of the red-brick house with the baby and her mother, who was his girlfriend, authorities said.

No one answered the door at the family's home Monday afternoon.

A neighbor said she believed three families lived in the house along the dead-end portion of Hudson Avenue. She said she didn't know Aviles or any of the families living in the house.

The Sheriff's Department Bureau of Criminal Investigation also went to the house and searched for evidence along with the Rockland Computer Crimes Task Force.

The Westchester County Medical Examiner's Office conducted an autopsy on the baby Monday and police arrested Michael Aviles after the office ruled the child's death a homicide, authorities said.

Zugibe said he attended the autopsy in Westchester. Zugibe's father, Dr. Frederick Zugibe, was Rockland's medical examiner for three decades.

"Based on the medical examiner's determination this was a homicide and the death of Michele Aviles came from massive blunt force trauma, we brought a second-degree charge" against Michael Aviles, Lund said.

Aviles didn't enter a plea to the felony charge when arraigned before Grant. Prosecutors Patricia Gunning and Jennifer Parietti, two senior district attorneys with the office's special victims unit, presented the charges.

Grant told Aviles that he would automatically be held without bail since a town and village justice cannot set bail on murder and other top felony counts.

Two Haverstraw officers, Sgt. Ken Beyer and Officer David Kryger, brought Aviles to court and took him back to the town lockup for transfer to the county jail in New City.

Grant told Aviles that the Rockland Public Defender's Office would interview him in jail and represent him if he met financial guidelines and could not afford an attorney.

Aviles faces a preliminary felony hearing Friday afternoon during which the prosecution must present minimal evidence to continue holding him in custody. A grand jury could return an indictment, canceling the Friday hearing and moving the case from the town court's jurisdiction to a higher court, such as Rockland County Court.

The murder charge carries a prison sentence upon conviction of 15 to 25 years to life in prison.

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Under investigation

Children whose recent deaths are being investigated:

Michelle Aviles: 5 months old, Haverstraw. Her father, Michael A. Aviles, is accused in court papers of beating her to death, fracturing her skull and ribs.

Khalil Leak: 2 years old, New Rochelle. The boy stopped breathing and was taken by ambulance to Sound Shore Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Court records of a prior abuse case against the parents show he suffered from a host of pre-existing health conditions.

Unidentified Bronx girl: 11 days old. She stopped breathing at her paternal grandmother's home. No signs of trauma were evident.

Killed by FATHER – MOTHER, Jennifer Woodard Schons, 38, was fatally stabbed with a knife, while 4-year-old Camden and 6-year-old Tynan were suffocated by their FATHER

Funeral set for Thursday in Brighton for victims of Novi murder-suicide

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Visitation for a former Brighton woman and her two sons whom police say were victims in a murder-suicide is set tomorrow at First Presbyterian Church in Brighton.

Jennifer Woodard Schons, 38, was fatally stabbed with a knife, while 4-year-old Camden and 6-year-old Tynan were suffocated, according to autopsy reports. They were found dead Friday in their beds in the family’s home in Novi, about 30 miles west of Detroit.

Authorities believe 39-year-old Mark Schons, who owned a now defunct Howell party supply store, killed his family before inhaling the fumes from a charcoal grill inside his sport utility vehicle. His cause of death was listed as carbon monoxide poisoning. Police say they also found a knife inside the SUV.

Visitation is 5-8 p.m. Tuesday and 1-8 p.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church on Grand River Avenue in Brighton. Funeral services are 11 a.m. Thursday also at the church.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Saint Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Checks may be made payable to SJMHS Ann Arbor, Attn: NICU In Memory of Jennifer, Tynan and Camden Schons, Office of Development, Saint Joseph Mercy Health System, P.O. Box 995, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-9736.

Jennifer Schons, who was a 1990 graduate of Brighton High School, was the daughter of Richard and Beverly Woodard.

A motive is unknown — no suicide note has been found — but Mark and Jennifer Schons were deep in debt, had filed for bankruptcy in December and were considering a divorce, although they continued to live together with their children in their home on Applebrooke Drive in rural southern Novi, police said.

A friend of the family called Novi police and indicated the children did not show for school and that their mother had missed a scheduled appointment with her friends Friday.

Shortly after noon, Novi police officers entered the family’s home near Nine Mile and Napier roads, and discovered the bodies of Jennifer Schons and her sons.

Mark Schons, 39, was discovered at around 2:24 p.m. that day in his leased GMC Acadia in the Walmart parking lot at Interstate 96 and Milford Road in Lyon Township.