Illinois Children Killed By Father is Not Unique Case

The Daily Vidette of Illinois State University attempted to claim that Jack, 9, and Duncan, 7, who were killed by their father, Michael Connolly was a “Unique Case” with “Tragic Results”. They have an article posted claiming that Judge James Souk should not be responsible for his actions. Maybe he is not to blame ALONE, the evaluator, and any other persons who advocated for this father to have more rights should also be held accountable. The case is NOT unique. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are numerous examples of children being killed by their abusive fathers, despite warnings by the mother of death threats and a history of domestic violence. There are also many, many cases of children being ordered into unsupervised visitation with their abusers, as well as abusers getting custody in “parental alienation” custody change scams.

In these worst case scenarios, these children were all killed by their fathers. Darcey Freeman was thrown off a bridge by her father in Australia. Her father was reportedly on suicide watch after the recent incident. Anthony, 6, Austin, 4, and Athena, 2 Castillo were drowned by their father, Mark Castillo in Maryland. Mark Hirschfeld and C. David Missar both evaluated Mark Castillo and claimed he wasn’t dangerous. Judge Joseph A. Dugan Jr. claimed there was a lack of evidence and failed to grant a protective order in the Castillo case.  Turner Jordan Nelson was thrown off a bridge (another bridge death) by his father, Stephen Nelson in Maryland (another Maryland death). Stephen Nelson then tried to commit suicide unsuccessfully. Crystal, 8, and Nelson, 10 Camacho were killed by their father, Tony Camacho in Florida. Crystal was stabbed in the back by her father who then set fire to the house. It is believed that Nathan died from smoke inhalation. Phil Heller was the evaluator who failed to see danger despite a history domestic abuse and threats. This doctor has been known to use ”parental alienation” theories in custody cases. In a chilling similarity between the Camacho case and the Connolly case, Jack Connolly reportedly was also stabbed in the back by his father, but his brother was not. And these are but just a few examples.

In a case that was brought by Jessica Gonzales against the USA for human rights violations, Jessica Gonzales v. U.S.A., Simon Gonzales abducted his three young daughters and killed them. The mother’s complaints to the police to enforce her custody and restraining order were not listened to. The three girls were found dead in the cab of the father’s truck after the father appeared at the police station and was killed in a gunfight in Colorado. Jessica Gonzales has been championing battered mothers and abused children with her tragic case. She testified in October of 2008 in a case filed with the IACHR. In March of 2009, a post hearing brief  regarding protections needed for women and children was filed. http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/womensrights/posthearingbriefingonzalesv.usa.pdf

Jack and Duncan were buried Friday, April 3, 2009. Illinois Representative Bob Biggins (R) called for an investigation into the judge who granted the order that allowed this terrible tragedy to occur. Other lawmakers attempted to put down Representative Biggins as “reckless”. Rep. John Fritchey (D) said “I think it is very dangerous and unwarranted to try and lay that tragedy at the feet of a judge who was simply following the law.” Any lawmaker who doesn’t stick up for these children should be voted out of office, along with any others of the same kind who favor criminal’s rights over victim’s rights.

Biggins response to the criticism was, “It’s an unpleasant topic. I’m not going to shut up about it.” “People are dead. Maybe needlessly. Maybe the judge made a wrong decision,” he added.

Anyone wishing to thank Representative Biggins for his support can contact Rep. Robert Biggins at bobbiggins@comcast.net

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And anyone wanting to tell the other lawmaker who does not favor accountability that this position is not acceptable can contact Rep. John Fritchey at john@fritchey.com

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Maternal Deprivation Research

There have been numerous studies regarding Maternal Deprivation, with a large source of information coming from Bowlby, based on Spitz and Goldfarb, and also from unethical animal experimentation. Overwhelmingly, research shows that severing this natural bond between a mother and child causes severe emotional and behavioral problems, such as depression and psychosis. The phrase maternal deprivation is the terminology used in the early work of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, John Bowlby on the effects of separating infants and young children from their mother. Some of the research was previously used to discourage mothers from working or using childcare, but it seems important to revive these studies as children are being deprived of their mothers intentionally by abusive men who claim to be “parentally alienated” in an ongoing scandal that rivals that of the Catholic Priest sexual abuse cover up.  

Maternal Deprivation Abuse (MDA), has been identified as occurring with great frequency in legal proceedings, with specific unethical lawyers, psychologists, and judges perpetrating the the same scam on mother after mother with similar horrific results for the children. There has been death by suicide, suicide attempts, depression, academic distress, retaliation by a child against a PAS claiming father, and untold misery for the victimized children and mothers.

Based on Bolwby’s theories, Maternally Deprivation affects children as follows:

• Complete or almost complete deprivation could “entirely cripple the capacity to make relationships.”
• Partial deprivation could result in acute anxiety, depression, neediness and powerful emotions which the child could not regulate.
• The end product of such psychic disturbance could be neurosis and instability of character.(Bowlby J. (1951) pps. 11–12)

 

“Mother love in infancy and childhood is as important for mental health as are vitamins and proteins for physical health.” (Bowlby, 1953.)  Child psychoanalyst John Bowlby (1907–1990). 

 

Maternal Deprivation Abuse

Maternal Deprivation, or Motherlessness, is occurring with alarming frequency due to the unethical treatment of women and children in family court. Maternal Deprivation is inflicting abuse by severing the mother-child bond. It is a form of abuse that men inflict on both the mother and children, especially men who claim they are “parentally alienated” from their children when there are complaints of abusive treatment by the father.

Maternal Deprivation occurs when men seek to keep their children from being raised by their mothers who are the children’s natural caretakers. Some men murder the mothers of their own children. Others seek to sever the maternal bonds by making false allegations of fictitious psychological syndromes in a deliberate effort to change custody and/or keep the child from having contact with their mother when there are legal proceedings. A twisted form of Maternal Deprivation is to kill the children, so that the mother will be left to suffer. Sometimes there are family annihilation murders where the father kills the children and himself (or dies by cop), but the mother is not killed because she has received protective orders and her children have not as in the case of Jessica Gonzales.  

In seeking to define this form of abuse certain common elements are found in the Maternal Deprivation scenario as follows:

• History of domestic abuse that could be physical, psychological, sexual, and/or social abuse occurring on or off again, occasionally, or chronically which could be mild, moderate, or severe, including homicidal and/or suicidal threats. 
• Legal proceedings relating to abuse
• Hiring of “Fathers Rights” attorney
• Use of “Hired Gun” mental health professionals to make accusations of psychological disorder against the mother and children in deliberate effort to excuse abuse and change custody or grant visitation that is contrary to safety concerns. Another name for these unethical professionals are “Whores of the Courts“
• Raising claims of “psychological disorders” against the mother such as “Parental Alienation Syndrome” (PAS), Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome, Malicious Mother Syndrome, Lying Litigant Syndrome, Hostile Aggressive Parenting or any other mother-blaming psychological disorder that can be used by the unethical professional to re-victimize the victims.
• Infliction of “Legal Abuse” by continually and excessively filing motions so that the mother continually has to defend herself and her child(ren) causing financial and emotional devastation.
• Can occur in response to child support legal proceedings as retaliation.

The intent of “Maternal Deprivation” is to punish the mother and the child for revealing the abuse and to falsely claim that they are not abusive. This very commonly occurs as there are more and more “abuse-excuse” parental alienation accusing professionals who use this scientifically invalid theory over and over to achieve specific goals of the person paying them. Maternal Deprivation can also occur in response to child support legal proceedings. When occurring in this manner, Maternal Deprivation is a response to the financial demands as retaliation. Suddenly the father who had little prior involvement wants to take the kids half the time to avoid child support obligations, etc. When the men are really abusive, they ask for sole custody and demand the mother of the child pay them.

Although some people call this “Maternal Alienation”, a distinction needs to be made as the pro-pedophilia “Parental Alienation Syndrome” and the use of the word “Alienation” are most often used AGAINST battered women and abused children. There needs to be a distinction between the phony psychological syndrome and the intentional infliction of abuse on a mother and child by intentionally severing their natural bond. This distinction can best be made by NOT using the label of “Alienation” which will always be associated with the pro-pedophilia monster Doctor Richard Gardner.

Some of the characteristics of the especially heinous abusers who inflict Maternal Deprivation include but are not limited to the following:

• Angry
• Abusive
• Violent
• Coercive
• Controlling
• Threatening
• Intimidating
• Demanding
• Domineering
• Harassing
• Stalking
• Tyrannical
• Oppressive
• Forceful
• Manipulative
• Deceptive
• Unethical
• Un-empathetic (Lacks Empathy)
• Entitled
• Immature
• Self-centered
• Neglectful
• Guilt inducing
• Pushy
• Intentionally tries to humiliate mother and/or child
• Harsh, rigid and punitive parenting style
• Outrage at child’s challenge of authority
• May use force to reassert parental position
• Dismissive of child’s feelings and negative attitudes
• Vents rage, blames mother for “brainwashing” child and takes no responsibility
• Challenges child’s beliefs and/or attitudes and tries to convince them otherwise
• Inept and unempathic pursuit of child, pushes calls and letters, unannounced or embarrassing visits 

There is a distinct overlap of the intimate terrorist type domestic violence abuser with the Maternal Deprivation abusers as follows:

 

• Coercion and threats
• Intimidation
• Emotional abuse
• Isolation
• Minimizing, denying and blaming (Hallmarks of PAS)
• Using children
• Economic abuse
• Male privilege

The people who most often engage in Maternal Deprivation Abuse are most often: 

• Abusive men
• Vindictive second wives who don’t want to deal with the real mother of the children
• Paternal grandparents who raised dysfunctional children (abusers)

The effects of Maternal Deprivation often cause the children to become psychotic, depressed, and sometimes suicidal or to have suicidal ideations. Another terrible reaction is when the child retaliates against the parent who accuses Parental Alienation Syndrome as in a Texas case where the child killed his father. Other times when the Maternal Deprivation abuser completely takes over the will of the child by using brainwashing techniques similar to those used in prison camps where deprivation and isolation are used to force ideological changes in captives, these children often have a sort of trauma-bonding with the abuser and model their behavior. Sometimes these children will also abuse the mother in the same manner as the father. Another generation is created to carry on the abuse, and will likely do the same to their own spouse and children.

 

 

 

For more articles involving Maternal Deprivation:

Failure of Family Court System Leads To Death and Devastation

Doctor Who Intentionally Severs Bonds With Mothers Is a Monster

Child in imminent fear shoots father – vindicated in appeal – PAS fraud nightmare

Cincinatti PAS

VAWnet Joan Meier on PAS-Parental Alienation Syndrome & Parental Alienation: Research Reviews

And many more articles throughout Battered Mothers Lose Children to Abusers and all the links on the sidebar.

Maternal Deprivation Abuse will be featured on BMLCTA Blog in an effort to wipe out this heinous crime against mothers and children.

 

Doctor Who Intentionally Severs Bonds With Mothers Is a Monster

This Dr. Harry Harlow was not just unsympathetic, but a monster just like the unethical doctors who forcefully remove children from loving mothers by claiming parental alienation to give them to their abusers. Why do they do this? Because they get paid by the abuser to do this! It’s a fraud on the courts that needs to end!

From the Top Ten Unethical Psychological Experiments
The Well of Despair 1960

     Dr. Harry Harlow was an unsympathetic person, using terms like the rape rack and iron maiden in his experiments. He is most well-known for the experiments he conducted on rhesus monkeys concerning social isolation. Dr. Harlow took infant rhesus monkeys who had already bonded with their mothers and placed them in a stainless steel vertical chamber device alone with no contact in order to sever those bonds. They were kept in the chambers for up to one year. Many of these monkeys came out of the chamber psychotic, and many did not recover. Dr. Harlow concluded that even a happy, normal childhood was no defense against depression, while science writer Deborah Blum called these, common sense results.
     Gene Sackett of the University of Washington in Seattle, one of Harlows doctoral students, stated he believes the animal liberation movement in the U.S. was born as a result of Harlows experiments. William Mason, one of Harlows students, said that Harlow kept this going to the point where it was clear to many people that the work was really violating ordinary sensibilities, that anybody with respect for life or people would find this offensive. Its as if he sat down and said, Im only going to be around another ten years. What Id like to do, then, is leave a great big mess behind. If that was his aim, he did a perfect job.

Any doctor removing a child from their mother using the fraudulent theory of parental alienation or other phony psychobabble BS needs to be exposed for the monsters they are. They come up with phony rhetoric and say it in a convincing manner, much like they did back in Salem when they accused women of witchcraft.  

This Parental Alienation Custody Change Fraud is going to go down in history as one of the most unethical psychological social engineering experiments of all time. The scandal is on the same level as the cover up of sexual abuse by the Catholic Church. It’s time people start to wake up and recognize that these doctors are covering up for all types of domestic abuse against women and children for PROFIT.

If you click on the links regarding Dr. Harry Harlow, you will find out that he received awards from psychological associations. Maybe this will start to get people thinking that there are groups of people doing unethical experiments and they do support each other on their theories and cover up for each other. The APA also published the Rind Study which tried to justify child sexual abuse as being acceptable and not that harmful to children. There is a common thread between all of these sick studies that push quack theories to justify unacceptable behavior. Only with Parental Alienation Theory, the whole idea is to call the victims liars which re-victimizes them. All that is needed to do this is to pay an unethical doctor to testify who will ignore real evidence and substitute in their fraudulent rhetoric.

When people realized the horrible treatment of animals that Harlow inflicted, the result was an animal liberation movement. What needs to happen as a result of these unethical parental alienation scams is for children to have a liberation movement and demand to have rights to be heard and to make their own decisions.

And Intentionally Scaring Monkeys

Failure of Family Court System Leads To Death and Devastation

In the worst case scenario coming true, 4 year old Darcey Freeman was thrown to her death by her father. Despite desperate attempts to obtain safety by the mother for herself and her children, this tragedy was the result of family court decisions. The child was being driven to school along with her two brothers by the father, when the dad stopped on a bridge and threw the little girl off. The child survived the fall, but died later from her injuries.

Here are some quotes from news articles regarding the failures of Family Court:

“For the past 2 years, the various authorities have been made aware of our fear for the safety of the children and unfortunately no one would listen,” it said.

“We feel the judicial system has failed our family and will continue to fail other families until someone in authority starts to take action.”

To read more on Darcey Freeman check out these links:

Darcey’s dad silent as family pays tribute

Family’s tears for a smiling girl lost

Australia: Dad Throws Daughter, Darcey Freeman, Off Bridge

To read similar stories of family court failures to protect children check out these links:

In battles for custody, children often pawns

Doctor Saw Paranoia Before Fire

People need to start understanding the connection that threats and abusive behavior can and does lead to deaths.

In battles for custody, children often pawns

Two psychologists claimed that this man was not a danger to his children. The mother’s credibility was questioned and she was not listened to.

This blogger does NOT agree with David L. Levy, more professionals and more facilities are not needed as they cannot judge things accurately anyway. Mothers need to be listened to in court. No one likes to be in court and the myths of false allegations is a load of crap. These fatalities are an epidemic because mothers and children are not being protected. In these situations, sole custody and protection are the answer, not years of re-victimization in court.

Experts say case of death of three youths exhibits familiar patterns
by Agnes Jasinski Staff Writer

As police and the courts attempt to determine whether anything could have been done to prevent Mark Castillo from allegedly drowning his three young children in a Baltimore hotel bathtub a little more than a week ago, child and domestic violence experts disagree on where blame, if any, falls in the tragedy.

‘‘We know many victims are frustrated, and feel they’re not being heard. … People didn’t listen to this woman,” said Michaele Cohen, the executive director of the Maryland Network Against Domestic Abuse.

Castillo, 41, of Rockville was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and a series of first-degree child abuse and assault charges in the March 29 deaths of his children Anthony, 6, Austin, 4, and Athena, 2. His preliminary hearing in Baltimore is set for April 29.

The children, who lived with their mother, Amy Castillo, in Silver Spring, were victims of a lengthy custody battle that some say showed patterns of behavior found in domestic violence cases.

‘‘Power and control are the issues in domestic violence. … In this case, [Mark Castillo] did say … that if he just kills the children and not her, it would be harder on her,” said Hannah Sassoon, the county’s domestic violence coordinator with the sheriff’s office, referring to a protective order petition filed in court by Amy Castillo. The sheriff’s office serves protective orders.

‘‘When people leave a relationship, the children become another way to control the partner,” Sassoon said.

A fatality review team of social workers and representatives from police and the courts is looking at whether the incident was foreseeable, Sassoon said. The process is standard in cases in which children or adults who are the victims of domestic violence are killed.

The Montgomery County team, chaired by Laura Chase, also supervisor of the Family Violence Unit in the county state’s attorney’s office, has reviewed eight cases dating back to 2000 since its inception about a year ago. The group meets monthly to look at whether there were any gaps in response, Chase said, and to work out ways of keeping victims of domestic violence ‘‘from ultimately becoming another statistic.”

Chase said she did not know how long a review of the Castillo case would take.

Lt. Paul Starks, a spokesman for Montgomery County Police, said the department was acting ‘‘beyond our own protocol” when officers visited Mark Castillo’s home after Amy Castillo called police to report her husband was late in returning the children after his scheduled visitation. Starks said the officer who responded was new and also contacted his sergeant. ‘‘He wanted to make sure he was doing everything he should.”

Police are limited to enforcing orders from the court, Starks said, and children may be kept up to 48 hours past visitation times before parents are fined or found to be in contempt of court.

‘‘They were allowed to be with him that day. … Two hours late, it’s hard for us to write a missing person’s report,” Starks said. ‘‘But [Amy Castillo] knew a lot more than the police did. … As it turns out, she was absolutely right in being concerned.”

The value, flaws of protective orders

Amy Castillo was given a temporary protective order against her husband in December 2006. In that petition, she wrote that Mark Castillo had threatened that ‘‘the worst thing he could do to me would be to kill the children and not me, so I could live without them.”

But her request for a permanent order, which would have been valid for up to a year, was rejected Jan. 10, 2007, by Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Joseph A. Dugan Jr., who according to court documents cited a lack of evidence of abuses alleged by Amy Castillo. Such orders, specific to each case, can forbid the person charged with abuse from contacting victims or visiting their home or work.

First-time violators of protective orders are given up to 90 days in jail, fined $1,000, or both, Chase said. The state’s attorney’s office has two legal assistants who work primarily on cases involving protective order violations, she said.

Judges who issue protective orders must be prepared to defend that action with evidence of an imminent fear of abuse, often measured by prior physical abuse, said retired Prince George’s County Circuit Court Judge Vincent Femia, who still serves part-time.

In the Castillo case, Dugan’s decision was weighted heavily on findings by social workers and psychologists that Mark Castillo was not a threat to his children, despite his wife’s claims. Psychotherapist Mark Hirschfeld evaluated Mark Castillo in June 2007, and agreed with a report by psychologist C. David Missar earlier that year that Mark Castillo posed no threat to his children, court papers say. Mark Castillo had received visitation rights following the couple’s divorce in February.

Femia said every judge has been in a situation in which facts presented are insufficient to rule on the side of the petitioner. ‘‘The truth of the matter is, even if we give you a protective order, it’s a piece of paper,” Femia said.

Thomas DeGonia, a former county assistant state’s attorney who now works for Washington, D.C.-based Venable Law Firm, said cases without ‘‘independent evidence to corroborate,” such as witnesses, make judges’ decisions even more difficult.

Cohen of the Maryland Network Against Domestic Abuse said legislation that would lower the standard for proving an ‘‘imminent threat” in the issuance of the orders would make them more effective. But the argument that they did little to dissuade domestic violence is inappropriate, she said.

‘‘Nothing is a guarantee, no matter what you do,” she said.

Steps toward prevention

David L. Levy, the chief executive of the Children’s Rights Council, a Landover-based nonprofit that works to assure continuing contact between children and both parents in divorces, said in cases of alleged abuse, centers providing supervised visitation can ease some of the tension in custody battles.

Such centers currently operate in Clinton and Hyattsville, both run by the Children’s Rights Council, and in Kensington, run by the county’s Family Trauma Services. Judges must order supervised visitation, Levy said.

Cohen said taking all threats more seriously, both through legislation and court action, is important.

‘‘We’d like to see more training of the judges, the core personnel and the evaluators to look for the subtleties, and to recognize power and control, which is what this is all about,” she said. ‘‘Abusers can be very calculating, charming, likeable. … It’s not always recognized as domestic violence by anybody.”

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