Judge Should Order Immediate Joint Custody for Tonya Craft

We've been following the reunification of underground children for nearly two decades and what we know is that children are resilient. Even after all the allegations and the media circus, not too different than the OJ Simpson trial, OJ received eventual legal custody if his childre. We believe so should Tonya Craft and any delay by the legal process or her former spouse Joel Heinke is very, very wrong. The Family Court Judge should order immediate joint custody for Tonya Craft. He should order a 50/50 residential custody agreement if that's possible.

In addition, both parties especially Joel Heinke and his new wife must agree to engage in co-parenting and not disparge the other parents without predjudice to any upcoming civil litigation. All Family Court files should be sealed. The court should appoint a guardian ad litem attorney for the child and should work with the child's therapist to reunify the child in less than two weeks. The funds for this reunification should be paid by the District Attorneys office or some victim fund if Joel Heinke will not bear this cost in the best interests of his children.

However, if Joel Heinke does not agree, then the court will need to fast track an evaluation and consider full joint and residential custody to Tonya Craft.

Tonya Craft is Our Hero - Her Civil Case Against Accusers Could Change History!

In 1992, Faye Yager was acquitted by a Georgia Cobb County jury of kidnapping and other child abuse charges. Eighteen years later, Tonya Craft, after her acquittal has filed a $25 million dollar lawsuit against accusers in a Rome, Georgia Federal Court. Those named in the lawsuit include: Sandra Lamb, Sherri and Dewayne Wilson, her former husband Joal Henke, his current wife Sarah, Kelli McDonald, Sgt. Tim Deal, Catoosa County, Catoosa County Sheriff Phil Summers, Suzi Thorne, Stacy Long, Laurie Evans, the Childrens Advocacy Center of the Lookout Mountain Judicial District and the Greenhouse Childrens Advocacy Center.

Finally, the Georgia legal system which has previously had a reputation of rarely getting it right as in the Faye Yager case has a chance to play a major role in reforming the child abuse legal system. This lawsuit is unprecedented and if successful will play a major role to ensure child abuse professional without proper training are never allowed to interview young children. It will also put radical or extremists child abuse professionals on notice that they must proceed with caution in these cases and gather unquestionable evidence in these cases rather than rely on testimony of young children. It should also put parents on notice that they should not interview their own children in these cases. In addition, it should remind everyone including the media to use the word "alleged" when talking about a defendant on trial.

Tonya Craft and your legal team, you're our heroes!

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Breaking News - Tonya Craft Found Not Gulity

There is breaking news that Tonya Craft was found Not Gulity, acquitted of 22 counts of child molestation.

Wow, so the jurors actually saw through the prosecutors case based on the testimony of 5 year old child. This is great news for not only the members of the this community but the entire child abuse and divorce cases. It's verdicts like these that will force law enforcement and prosecutors to obtain direct evidence in these cases before filing charges against innocent individuals.

I think the true character of young prosecutors Chris Ardt and Len Gregor and Judge Brian House's are revealed with this verdict. Congrats to this jury!

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/may/11/craft-found-not-guilty/

Tonya Craft Trial Verdict?

Will Tonya Craft be Innocent or Guilty? Or will the jury be hung -- a McMartin Preschool Trial 2.0?

After the horrobile and heinous false allegations and prejudices against the Buckley family in the McMartin Preschool Trial, one would never think that it would ever occur in American again -- especially nearly a decade later. But that's what is happening in Ringgold, Georgia, a small town with a population of 2,422 in Catoosa County, a poplution of 62,825. The jury consisting of 7 men and five women will decide the fate of Tonya Craft who is being accused of twenty two counts of child abuse of three girls, including her own daughter.

I am not certain of the difference in demographics between one of the McMartin case and the Tonya Craft juries but even if some of these jurors only watched a few episodes of Law and Order, it would be difficult to understand how they could not come up with Not Gulity verdict or at the very least a hung jury. The defense attorneys which included lead attorney Desmosthenese Lorandos, PhD, JD. who also has a degree in psychology and experience in false allegation cases. The Defense attorneys put on a excellent case and hopefully their defense was not too complex for this jury to understand. These types of trials are very complicated and even well educated juries may have difficulty unraveling the key factors in the case.

Here are the key reasons this jury should arrive at a NOT GUILTY verdict.

• Testimony of the Children -- Just like in the McMartin Preschool case, these children should never have interviewed by the marginally qualified detective or therapists in this case. The parents should have also been warned not to interview the children and let the professionals do it. If a professional was not available in this small town or county, then one should have been brought in from another city in Georgia. These are complex cases and these professionals should at the very least used some of the resources available to them before trying to do it themselves. A woman molesting young girls is very uncommon and the these professionals should have know that and acted accordingly. The parents and professionals more than likely implanted false memories in these children and even the most unsophisticated juror should be able to arrive at this conclusion.
  
• Testimony of the Therapists -- In these trials, there are professionals that actually have direct knowledge of the case and those overzealous expert witnesses like Wendy Murphy that are willing to say anything for their cause or current or future professional reputation. Hopefully, the jurors are able to distinguish the difference between the two even if they are not regular viewers of Law and Order or did not follow the OJ Simpson trial.
  
• Beyond a Reasonable Doubt -- The verdict in a trial like this should never be about "Better Safe than Sorry" with a testimony of young 5 year old children and no direct medical evidence supporting the charge against Tonya Craft. This is about sending a mother and former school teacher to jail for rest of her life.
  
• Child Actor -- The mother and father of the child actor who apparently is one of the accusers is critical factor in the case. The trial has brought National attention to this child in this very small town and despite being a child victim, this child's profile still appears on IMDB.com. The fact that despite the child being a victim in the national media, her parents did not remove her profile from IMDB.com. This should have at least had it removed until the trial was over, especially since there were a number of blogs that liked to her picture. If that's what these parents are all about, it sounds like at least some of the jurors might know that which makes the testimony of the child actress questionable.
  
• Judge Brian House -- In a small community, it sounds like it's nearly impossible for a judge not to have potential conflicts but it's hard to believe that some juror doesn't know that Judge House at one time represented one of Tonya Craft's former spouses. That fact alone is a reason Judge House should have recused himself. One juror Paul Knight was dismissed, he allegedly told his wife, “He (Paul Knight) had said that they were a bunch of hicks down there and that the prosecutor, Chris Arnt, was a jerk, as was the judge, Brian House.”" If Knight thought that, it's really hard to believe other jurors don't.
  
• Child Abuse Trials -- The defense attorneys call it a conspiracy, but with these child abuse trials like the McMartin, Wenache and the Faye Yager Trials is all the professionals and expert witnesses that are part of the divorce industry.
  
  

So how did all this happen? All it really takes is one overzelous prosecutor and after that the divorce industry and media did the rest. In this case it sounds like Chris Ardt is that prosecutor. He charged a Kindergarten School teacher with child molestation of three very young girls and acted almost solely on their testimony rather than getting other evidence. It's really too bad he didn't do his homework before charging Tonya Craft and it's even worse that he didn't force Detective Tim Deal to get a video tape or more credible evidence in this case -- if he would have, it would have saved the taxpayers thousands of dollars and more importantly for Tonya Craft, her reputation and having to undergo this horrible and heinous trial.

With a Not Guilty verdict, Tonya Craft will seek joint custody of her children. With a Guilty verdict, she will appeal the verdict and be sentenced by Judge Brian House.

The Tonya Craft Trial Judge and Lawyers

Judge Brian House (Admitted to Bar 1990), once the divorce attorney for one of Tonya Craft's former spouses refused to recuse himself from the case. Regardless of an innocent, gulity, or no verdict, he will eventually face re-election. He may also face eventual investigation investigation for judicial misconduct.

Assistant District Attorney Chris Arnt (Admitted to Bar in 1992)












Assistant District Attorney Len Gregor, 45.

Demosthenes Lorandos, PhD, JD - Lead defense attorney.

Member of the California, Michigan, and New York state bars, as well as a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Dr. Lorandos is also a PhD-level psychologist.

Scott King- Defense Attorney

Lawyer for Slater & De Foor law firm based in Atlanta. Bachelors Degree from the University of Florida and his J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1994. A member of the Georgia state bar since 1995.

Cary S. King- Defense Attorney

Lawyer for Slater & De Foor law firm based in Atlanta. Bachelors Degree from Georgia State University in 1963 and is a 1994 graduate of the John Marshall Law School where he finished Summa Cum Laude. King has admissions in Georgia, U.S. District Court Northern District, U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, U.S. Federal Court, and U.S. District Court Central District of California.

Clancy Covert- Defense Attorney

Lawyer for Luther-Anderson law firm based in Chattanooga. Bachelors Degree in Business Management/Marketing in 1994 from Carson-Newman College. He earned his J.D. from the Nashville School of Law in 1999. Covert was admitted to the Tennessee bar and the U.S. Middle District in 1999.

David Goldman's Dec 29 Interview

David Goldman talks about his son Sean being home in New Jersey

Checkbook Journalism? The SPJ is wrong!

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) have accused NBC News for paying for the plane that took David Goldman and his son from Brazil. To this member if the Family Abduction Community, that allegation is horrendous. First of all, I want to ask where was the Society of Professional Journalists in 1997 when Mackenzie Carpenter and Allen Detrich covered the abduction of several children into Faye Yager's Children of the Underground. In fact Photographer Allen Detrich took pictures as the underground mothers kidnapped their children. Detrich was later resigned from the Toledo Blade for a breach in ethnics after he was caught digitally altering his photos. At the time, we felt that some of the underground moms may not have kidnapped their children if Carpenter and Detrich or the media had not covered the story. The idea of appearing in the news may have actually acted as an added incentive for these moms committing this crime.

But that was back in 1997, and if the Society of Professional Journalism had taken the time to understand this parental kidnapping crime, they might have realized that from the viewpoint of this member of the family abduction community, the chartering of a private plane was more of a humanitarian issue. David Goldman had already flown to Brazil numerous times and paid thousands in legal fees, it is wrong for the SPJ to criticize this issue. Furthermore, if David would have been a passenger on a public airlines, you would have seen cell phone pictures and possibly YouTube videos all over the media. That would have been horrible.

So Dateline is exploiting the David Goldman story by its exclusive coverage. In my opinion, they deserve it since they have been covering this case from the very beginning after Sean's mother passed away. This case dragged on for many months and despite the good or bad news, NBC was there. Again, it is very wrong for the SPJ to take away from this very joyous occasion, the reunification of David and son Sean.

Finally, it's well known in the Family Abduction Community that after a recovery, several Airlines will provide discounted or sometimes complimentary tickets to left-hind parents. The reunification flight back home is by far one of the most cherished and memorable experiences for a left-behind recovering parent. I would hope to expect more from the SPJ!

The Editor

Goldman case: Journalism group rips NBC News

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) blasted NBC News for practicing checkbook journalism to obtain an interview with David Goldman and his son, Sean, in connection with a headline-grabbing international custody case. NBC News paid for the plane that took Goldman and his son from Brazil (where the boy was living) to the United States.

SPJ's Ethics Committee said in a statement released Monday that it is "appalled" that "NBC News breached widely accepted ethical journalism guidelines by providing the plane that carried David Goldman and his son Sean back to the United States from Brazil...."

International Parental Kidnappers

On the day that Sean Goldman's mother tragically died and his closest living biological parent became David Goldman, the right thing for step father Joao Paulo Lins e Silva maternal grandmother Silvana Bianchi to do would have been to call David Goldman up and arrange for the transfer of custody to the United States. During that time, they would have been in the best position to negotiate a shared custody arrangement between the United States and Brazil. As their Brazilian Attorney Sergio Tostes, that would have been great advice to provide his clients at that time. But that was 16 months for them to now invite David Goldman to spend Christmas with them or want to sit down like "adults" and negotiate custody which rightfully has been David Goldman's for almost 6 years is not only insulting to to David Goldman but to all victim parents of parental kidnapping. Shame on the, Shame on their attorney Sergio Tostes for raising this issue now. Now is the time for Brazil to consider prosecuting Joao Paulo Lins e Silva and Silvana Bianchi for parental kidnapping. For nearly 6 years, they were co-conspirators and kidnappers of this child and they should be held accountable for their actions. There is no excuse for parental kidnapping and it is really sad to think Joao Paulo or Silvana Bianchi are anything different.

International Parental Kidnapper - Joao Paulo Lins e Silva

International Parental Kidnapper Silvana Bianchi

Brazilian Attorney Sergio Tostes - Why didn't his clients give David Goldman Custody 16 months ago?

Comparison of Sean Goldman and Elian Gonzalez Cases - 16 months vs 7 months

U.S. Justice System vs Brazilian Justice System

If Brazilian Supreme Court Chief Justice Gilmar Mendes rightfully rules today today to lift a stay which would pave the way for custodial and biological parent David Goldman to bring his son back to the United States, it should end a long International Parental Kidnapping case. It would also place the total time of resolving this Brazil/United States case from the time of the biological mother's death to 16 months, over 9 months longer than the Elian Gonzalez United States/Cuba case. Additionally, in the Goldman parental kidnapping case, it has been almost 6 years since the child was kidnapped.

Bruna Ribeiro, Sean Goldman's mother passed away on August 22, 2008, on that date after she had Internationally kidnapped David Goldman's son from the United States in June 2004. Even after his former spouse's death in which he is the sole surviving biological parent, victim parent David Goldman's has had no success in resolving this issue swiftly through the Brazilian legal system even with help of high ranking U.S. Government officials and U.S. media. For David Goldman and many other left-behind parents in International custody cases, the only success is when they board the plane with their child back to their child's home residential country.

In the Elian Gonzalez case, his mother died at sea in November 21, 1999. Despite the political issues injected by the Cuban community in Miami and efforts by Elian's relatives in the United States, even with the significant media coverage in the case, Elian was sent back on a plane to Cuba by the United States legal system in 7 months.

In the Goldman case there are allegations that Sean Goldman's step father Joao Paula Lin e Silva, a family law attorney and his family have injected their own political agenda and influence in prolonging the eventual and rightful return of the child to his biological and custodial parent, David Goldman.

I am further reading from several media sources that there are reports that the Brazilian family is open to negotiation. In my opinion, in the Sean Goldman case, those negotiations should have begun 16 months ago, the day Sean's mother passed away. After that day, this Brazilian family is committing one of the most heinous crimes against young children and most severe acts of family violence --"parental kidnapping". It's really sad in the spirit of the holidays, that Brazilian Family Law Attorney and proclaimed loving step father Joao Paula Lin e Silva, doesn't father-up and in the spirit of co-parenting surrender Sean to his father. This would really pave the way for possible summer visits from the United States back to Brazil so that Sean can see his biological grandparents, step parent and his family. Unfortunately, through Joao Paula Lin e Silva's sole decision, all trust is lost between not only these parents but the International legal system including the Hague Convention signed by both the United States and Brazil.

I sincerely doubt that Joao Paula Lin e Silva represents the views of all Brazilian fathers and Brazilian family law attorneys. I really hope that this Supreme Court Justice as well as other officials in the Brazilian government take immediate action to resolve this case now!

Interview with Cheyvonne Molino - Thinks Nancy Garrido Could Be the Mastermind

There is very little information about Nancy Garrido, but a neighbor of the Garrido speaks out. She says that the Nancy Garrido has the opportunity to turn in Jaycee Dugard when her husband was in prison. She did not and Molino thinks Nancy Garrido could be the mastermind.



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Jaycee Dugard - Children's Pictures

Here are some pictures of Jaycee Dugard's children that are appearing on the Inside Edition website.





Donations for Jaycee Dugard can be sent -- checks only -- to Jaycee Dugard Trust Fund, c/o Viewtech Financial Services, P.O. Box 596, Atwood, Calif. 92811.

Garrido's Brother says Phillip was a fruitcake

There is so much news about Phillip Garrido. Here's a quote from Garrido's brother.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/28/MNHQ19EU4O.DTL

He said in an interview with The Chronicle that he was surprised at his only sibling's alleged crimes - but he didn't doubt the story.

"It just seems so bizarre, but I can believe it," said the 65-year-old Brentwood resident. "I know my brother, and I can believe he did that. ... He's a fruitcake.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/28/MNHQ19EU4O.DTL#ixzz0PUcB74Rq

Phillip Garrido and Nancy Garrido House

Here is a picture of Phillip Garrido and Nancy Garrido's house in Antioch, California. These are some very, very disgusting individuals.

Jaycee Dugard Story Gets More and More Horrific

Here's the video from the latest news conference.

Phillip Garrido's Blog

There are reports that Phillip Garrido's blog, the alleged kidnapper of Jaycee Dugard is the link below.

http://voicesrevealed.blogspot.com/

Who si Patrica Garrido?

The Jaycee Dugard stranger abduction story is starting to unravel and it sounds very horrible. There are several news sites reporting that the police are searching the home of Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender and Nancy Garrido. There house is at 1554 Walnut Ave in Antioch, CA. A records search indicates that Patricia Garrido is a relative of Phillip Garrido, possibly his mother.

Breaking News: Jaycee Dugard - Found after 18 years?

This story from California has nothing to do with the Underground but is unbelievable if it is true. In 1991, 11 year old Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in a alleged stranger abduction while walking to school in Meyers, California. The mother Terry Probyn and stepfather Carl Probyn received national publicity and the case was featured on America's Most Wanted. Eighteen years later, a women claiming to be Jaycee Dugard walks into a Concord, California police station claiming to be Jaycee Dugard.

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http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6985210

To the Young Clark Rockefeller Jury

Parental Kidnapping is Parental Kidnapping no matter how you look at it! The Family Abduction Committee doesn't need any Gen Y or Gen Z jurors to make any political statements for the use of the insanity defense in parental kidnapping cases. I'm sure most victim parents of parental kidnappers would insist their former spouse was insane at the time of the kidnapping, but that's really the issue here. Please follow the law and convict Clark Rockfeller and move on with your summer vacation from college!

Most Parental Kidnappers are Narcissistic

In the Clark Rockefeller Trial, there was testimony that he is narcissistic. To those that are familiar with Family Abduction cases, this is nothing new. See the OJJDP study. Is he insane? Is he a sociopath? Let's hope the jury arrives at the right conclusion so that other parental kidnappers don't try and use the temporary insanity or Twinkie like defense.

Early Identification of Risk Factors for Parental Abduction - OJJDP Study
www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/185026.pdf

The Interview Study found that abductors had
high levels of narcissistic and socio-
pathic character disorders. People with
these character disorders often have
contempt for the law and feel that laws
do not apply to them and, therefore,
they can easily run afoul of the criminal
justice system.


From Boston.com
Defense lawyer Jeffrey A. Denner challenged Chu's diagnosis, which largely contradicted those of two forensic mental health specialists who testified for the defense on Wednesday and yesterday. They concluded that the defendant suffers from narcissistic personality disorder and grandiose delusions that made him legally insane at the time of the kidnapping.

Clark Rockefeller Jury - It's the College Kids Again

When Bonnie Rubenstein went on trial in Connecticut, it was the a jury of college students that acquitted her. Now in Massachusetts, another pool of young adults on college summer break will decide the Clark Rockefeller parental kidnapping case. Rockefeller's real name is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter and he is the con man on trial who is also using the insanity defense.

For the crime of parental kidnapping or a family abduction, it is difficult to think of any credible defense including insanity that would exonerate one from this horrible and heinous crime. Let's just hope that this pool of Massachusetts young adults does a better job than that group of Connectiut kids on the Rubenstein jury.