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Men
The hidden half of domestic violence
Indiana
Since I am from Indiana, I have a lot of information on this state. There
are many ways men are unfairly treated in our courts. These are just a few
of them.
We have had a man who was driving a car when he had to stop suddenly. He reached over to stop a teenaged girl and his hand touched her breast. Mind you...this is "touch" not fondled. This man nervously asked her what would happen if he stopped suddenly again. I am sure it was nervous kidding. This man was in his 40's or 50's and had never been in any legal trouble before. This man was sentenced to ONE YEAR in PRISON for this action...YET women in this state have had sexual intercourse with minor boys and have not spent one day in jail.
We had a teacher in my home town that was accused of molesting one of his student years after the fact. The student, now an adult changed her story several times. She did get a couple of other girls to agree with her but neither of them could ever look this man in the face as they told their stories. This man never had any problems in all his former career. I say former as regardless of the outcome of his trial, his career would have been over. He was given SEVEN YEARS in prison...and mind you, he was not accused of anything more then touching to begin with. Once again I remind you that many women in this state have been known to have intercourse with minor boys and often they are not even charge.
I attempted to gain custody of my son
who was 7 years of age! I
proved in a 7 1/2 hour court hearing, that he had been beaten with a
2-foot board and refused food till hospitalized! I lost! The judge
said in his summation that some kids deserve severe discipline, and
all families go through tough times during divorce (about his
hospitalization)!
He spent the next 6 months, changing schools repeatedly! 8 schools
in this 6-month period!
My son, Mike told me his Mother and Boyfriend were fighting all the
time! I said FIGHTING (holding up my fists)! He said NO arguing REAL
loud! I told him when they were arguing to go to his room and be
quiet! He said OK! We had made a sign for him to give me through a
window! IF he went home and everything was OK he would wave to me
(from a second story window) with one hand! IF he wanted me to come
up, because he thought things weren't OK wave with BOTH hands! He
never ever waved with both hands!
BUT, one night, when I had returned him from a visit at 9PM I
received a call from the Marion Police Department at 11 PM! They
requested me presence at HER apartment! After arriving I was
informed my son's mother had been severely beaten! My son had been
found on the steps to the apartment house, with his mother about 75
feet away! He had heard the argument torn into a fight! The argument
started in the apartment, went into the hall, down the stairs and
out into the yard! Mike then looked out the bedroom window to see
his mother beaten! After he knocked her out, she fell, banging her
head on the sidewalk! Her b/friend then kicked her in the head 3
times! The neighbors called the police! When the arrived, Mike was
sitting on the steps, with his hands in a praying position! A
policeman approached him and asked him what he was doing! Mike
said, "I'm praying, Dear God don't let my Mom be dead!"
After about 45 minutes of questioning ME, I was told to keep Mike
until further notice! It was summer, and school was out for summer
break! 3 months later, as school was about to begin, I attempted to enroll
Mike in school! When it was my turn in line, I was immediately asked
for papers! Papers I said? What kind of papers? I was told Custody
Papers! I said the woman in front of me didn't have any papers! And
I was told about the schools policy! I left, and returned the next
day! Same thing happened! I told them I needed to enroll my son in
school as he was living with me! Again, I was told about the schools
policy! SO on the 3rd day, I took my mother with me to enroll Mike
in school! When they saw I was going to have my mother enroll him in
school, they told me if I signed a form stating I was going to get
custody they would allow me to enroll Mike in school! I told them I
couldn't do THAT! Because I couldn't say I was going to get custody,
I could only say I was going to attempt to get custody!
I was sent to the schools main office and there I told several
school officials about my plight! In Indiana once you file for
custody and lose you cannot file for custody for a year! I was in
that year timeframe! They finally decided to allow me to enroll Mike
in school, with a warning if he was an absence problem ......... I
had to sign a paper stating I was going to attempt to get custody!
As far as I know this school policy has never been put to a
courtroom setting!
I finally attained custody 1-½ years later! During that time I had
to pay HER support! 1 year after attaining custody I sued for child
support! 5 years has passed, and I have received 5 support checks!
She is currently over $20,000.00 in arrears! I take her to court 3-4
times a year! Every time the court puts a wage assignment on her and
every time she quits her job the day of court! To avoid the wage
assignment!
Does anyone reading this doubt what would happen to a father if he were $20,000 in arrears of child support?
Folks it costs a father
about $4500 to seek custody of his children in the great
state of Indiana. Most often women do not have to pay a dime to seek
custody. This given the fact that it is rare for a father to get custody.
Is there any wonder fathers do not seek custody of their children more often?
MOST dads can not afford fees such as this especially since most often they have
already been taken to the cleaners.
Domestic Violence
The bias in domestic violence is evident here as well. One of our members that lives in Indiana witnessed his neighbors in a fit of rage. Except it was the wife that was enraged This member and his wife SAW her hitting him and kicking him many times. He ran out of his home and she followed him and got him and slammed his head through a wall. Her arm went through the wall with his head. Police were called and arrested the man. When this member and his wife told police that this woman was the abuser, they told them that they believed them BUT Indiana state law said that if a woman called and said she was hit..if she had even one mark...one scratch or bruise the man HAD to be arrested. Never mind the marks on HIS body...the bruise or even broken bones he may have. Never mind of the wounds on the woman were DEFENSIVE would that is they were placed there when the man tried to defend himself.
This was born out when a police officers son was involved in a domestic dispute. He was fortunate to turn around as his girlfriend was about to ram a knife in his back. He gapped her arm to prevent this. Police were called and she was arrested. When they got to the jail, she was UN Arrested and he was then placed under arrest as she had a bruise on her arm where he grabbed her to keep the knife out of his body.
What was he to have done? Allowed that knife to be rammed into him to prove she was the aggressor?
FOLKS...THINK ABOUT THIS... You many feel
it does not matter as it will never happen to you. BUT what
about your SON....your BROTHER? If we do not change this injustice IT WILL
HAPPEN SOMETIME TO A MALE LOVED ONE OF YOURS!!!!
$100 Million Federal Lawsuit Filed
Our mission from God includes exposing the bias, fraud, and depravity that exists in most court proceedings that, in any way, involve a mother against a father - regardless if the situation is about child custody disputes through divorce or paternity, actions regarding child support, or allegations of any sort of abuse or neglect. Whether civil or criminal, the odds are usually fixed against the father from the beginning - illegally, of course.
And even if the mother is already known as the actual perpetrator of wrongdoing (i.e., abusing the children...)... why, that doesn't matter, either... because, in Indiana, the "right" court will even conspire with her attorney to protect her, and also help bash the father with as much rape, brutality, and terrorism as it takes to intimidate the hell out of him. If he still doesn't give up, and tries to save his children from further abuse - not a problem... Just start helping the mother victimize the children even more! That'll show him who's boss... And, if that doesn't work, either - well, no matter. There's always false imprisonment...
What about "Constitutional Rights", you say? Forget about it - because, this is Indiana, where God-given and federally-guaranteed constitutional rights often don't mean a thing - ever - at least for the father...
Case in point:
Even certain members of the Indiana Attorney General's Office and our Indiana Court of Appeals didn't mind "looking the other way" when it came to county judges well-documented in tyranny to assist a mother and her attorney in committing, and getting away with, various felony crimes against a father, including attempted manslaughter. In fact, certain members of the Indiana Attorney General's Office and the Indiana Court of Appeals did not even hesitate to commit brazen fraud within official proceedings - even in the face of conclusive documentation - to shelter and conceal the criminal actions of not only the lower judges themselves, but also of the rampant acts of documented felony child abuse committed by children's mothers, and of how the lower court broke practically every rule in the book, in order to falsely imprison the father they knew was innocent!
And, if this truth isn't already more shocking than fiction enough, how about adding that the very same Court of Appeals' ruling that fraudulently "affirms" this already-proven, criminally-sexist sham was authored by none other than Justice Patricia A. Riley - a woman who has been in charge of promoting "gender issues" for Indiana's entire legal "profession"...
A brief background overview:
A Hendricks County father was also a dedicated and mentoring community volunteer - for several years, a Boy Scouts leader and co-leader, soccer coach and assistant coach, chess club assistant coach, avid girls' softball booster, and etc. - well-known by many local schoolchildren and parents, and often hauling carloads of kids to out-of-town tournaments, campings, and field trips.
Since 1998, he had been simultaneously struggling against corruption and prejudice in the local county court system, trying to protect his own children from ongoing abuse and neglect by their mother - some incidents so severe that hospitalizations were required... The local courts didn't appreciate him representing himself, trying to gain rightful custody of his children, and standing up to their criminal arrogance. But then, since they had illegally raped him of most of his money - time and again - he really didn't have much of a choice, and he was not going to sit idly by, and just let them succeed in various conspiracies with the mother to commit real estate fraud, and help her illegally evict her own children onto the streets, with nowhere to go - more than once - just so she could try to get away with stealing a house.
The repeated infliction of trauma upon his children was so great, that he raised outcries of corruption again, and implored the mother's attorney to withdraw - her duty under law, after documented commissions of various crimes and general misconduct... However, the local powers were not going to allow any upstart "do-gooder" to rain on their parade. This was their county - not a democracy...
Falsifying charges to have him arrested - again - they also revoked his bond (illegally, of course...) immediately after he had filed proof of their crimes, in their own court, and had promised to soon file even more... Because he would represent himself, and not allow a locally-biased public defender sell him out, they also had to cut off his jail access to paper, pens, stamps and envelopes, to inhibit his ability to file pleadings in his defense. Eventually, using a combination of coercion tactics, including multiple postponings of his trial, they forced him into pleading guilty to a non-existent crime, thereby also avoiding the immediate possibility that he could prove his allegations of their corruption in front of a jury...
A little over a year later, he filed for custody of his children, documenting the mother's never-ending abuse and neglect with over 250 attached photos, and again confronting the court with the fact that it must be willfully sheltering her child abuse - since, by its own reporting, it had known she was abusive - physically, verbally, and emotionally - from "day one"... clear back in 1998.
Not too long after that, his girlfriend gave birth to his new son, and she and her two daughters moved in with him also. A very difficult birth, she abused the narcotic painkillers prescribed for her, swinging back and forth between psychosis and unconciousness, day after day, while he and his mother alternated tending to all six kids and the household chores, to allow plenty of time for her to recuperate from the hospital delivery complications.
Eleven nights after the birth, still self-overdosing her narcotics, the girlfriend became violently angry with her 5-year-old daughter (remember the TV footage of the mother caught beating her little girl in the backseat of the white SUV parked at the mall???), and spanked the crap out of her, leaving serious bruises and contusions. His mother had also experienced the girlfriend beating the little girl seven days earlier, as well.
Familiar with his ongoing, uphill battle against local corruption, for custody of his three older children, already delusional with fears that he and his mother were going to "take the baby away" from her, and knowing she had committed two serious acts of child abuse in front of them within the span of just one week's time, the girlfriend took pictures of her daughter's bruises the next morning, to "prove" that he had done it instead, caused a minor disturbance the following evening to trick the local police into helping her flee the scene of the crime, whereupon she immediately accused him of abusing her daughter, produced the photographic "proof", and - viola - he was falsely convicted, by the same court that already "had it out for him", and had just recently been confronted by him again...by breaking practically every rule and civil right in the book.
The same court that had been knowingly sheltering crimes of child abuse by the mother of his three older kids, among other evil acts, had then also helped this psychotic girlfriend get away with her acts of child abuse, and to literally kidnap his infant son under false pretenses, and flee to another county, where she continues to defraud welfare to this very day...
It turns out that the judge of this same county court was very nearly (and should have been) disbarred, back in 1990, for his continual retaliatory actions and abuse of power. When a jury is told that defendants "have the right to come [to court] and try to prove they are innocent", you have to ask yourself one question: When did we adopt opposite rules of court that are used in the People's Republic of China?
Conclusive Evidence of High Court Fraud
Many specific issues of various illegalities, numerous violations of due process and other constitutional rights, as well as the blatantly biased and pre-existing corruption itself, were all raised on combined direct appeal of both false convictions. The errors were many, clearly documented, and proven in fact against the record. Rightfully, both convictions should have been immediately vacated. Of course, to do so would necessarily also be confirming that the lower county court was totally out of control. See the "Brief of Appellant" below, created and filed by the innocent defendant, Torm L. Howse.
It appears that somebody knows somebody, and maybe asked to make sure that the real and many arguments were "overlooked", by blatantly ignoring the vast majority of truthful issues, purposefully misleading with confusion, intentionally defaming character with more false accusations, willfully deceiving a high court with several brazen lies, and stirring the poisonous mix with "arguments" about totally irrelevant matters that had absolutely nothing to do with the case in the first place. And, if it were not already such a serious injustice, the obvious incompetence of the State's "response" would be almost comical. See the "Brief of Appellee" below, filed by the deceptive Deputy Attorney General Monika P. Talbot.
All of the incredible ignoring, misleading, defaming, deceiving, confusing, and serious errors made in Talbot's "response" were nailed "back to the stone age" in defendant Howse's "final word", also conclusively proving that he should be immediately released from unlawful and false imprisonment. See the "Reply Brief of Appellant" below, and you will know - without any doubt.
Instead of obeying written law, basic morals, ethical truths, and the unquestionable victory of Howse's combined arguments and solid proof, the Court of Appeals chose to willfully disregard its primary, constitutionally-mandated duty of even "listening" to both sides before ruling, blatantly copying DAG Talbot's obvious (and already previously proven...) errors, lies, deceit, and confusion - adding even more disgusting defamation statements of things that never happened, never existed, and were not contained in any records... anywhere.
They suspiciously also ignored the exact same majority of issues "neglected" by DAG Talbot. They suspiciously copied Talbot's exact same errors, also copying her arguments that were in direct opposition to their own previous decisions... They committed fraud...
The simple truth is that the three Court of Appeals justices involved did not give a damn about the truth, the law, the facts, the actual record, constitutional rights, due process, false imprisonment, nightmarish crimes committed by other judges, or even their own duties to protect the innocent, and to uphold the law. After reviewing the "Memorandum Opinion" below, see the convicting truth that is plainly detailed in Howse's "Petition to Transfer" (from the Court of Appeals to the Indiana Supreme Court).
It is a common public myth that judges, prosecutors, and other government officials are somehow "above the law", and "immune" from being held accountable for their actions... Nothing could be further from the actual truth. If they act outside the scope of their duties (like, breaking the law, for example...), they lose that qualified immunity, and are just as liable to civil ($$) and criminal prosecution as anyone else... In fact, there are many state and federal laws designed specifically to punish wayward government "servants".
When any of the following documents make references to "(App. page number)", these are simply the particular page, in order, of a bound collection (Appendix) of all motions, petitions, orders, evidence and etc., that were filed in the case. Likewise, "(Tr. page number)" refers to a certain page of the written transcript from a court hearing or trial. They are all made available in Adobe PDF format:
(To download, right-click on a link)
Therefore, they are being sued for the various harm, wrongs, fraud, and crimes they have committed...in just this one case...which raises the obvious question: How pervasive, exactly, is this problem?
(To download, right-click on the link)
Lastly, below are copies of the cover (1st page) from each of the two federal lawsuits in the works, and nearing completion, against the various people and officials from Hendricks County and Madison County that initiated this whole mess:
(To download, right-click on a link)
Overburdened courts, along with the depravity of too many judges willing to break and violate the law, have become such a national, widespread epidemic sickness within legal proceedings everywhere, that the American Bar Association Commission on the 21st Century Judiciary has put together and released, on June 13th, 2003, a landmark 144-page report entitled, "Justice in Jeopardy". The news release/summary can be viewed here, and the full report is available via either the "Information" link at the bottom, or by going to the American Bar Association website at: www.abanet.org/media.
As Mr. E. Spencer Walton, Jr., past (2000-2001) president of the Indiana
State Bar Association, so aptly versed in his "President's Perspective"
(December, 2000, issue of the Indiana's legal profession magazine, Res Gestae:
"At the core of public distrust and criticism of lawyers is that we do not
tell the truth, and everyone but us realizes it!"
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