Arthur Herring Gets Year Probation For Defending Mother In Her Loneliness — Arthur Herring was sentenced to 12 months probation by Bucks County President Judge Raymond F. McHugh, this morning, July 16, for picketing the New Britain home of David Jaskowiak.
The charge was harassment. Jaskowiak was the court-appointed lawyer for Arthur’s mother, Jane.
Jaskowiak was appointed by Montgomery County where Jane had lived.
Jane died the morning of July 2. That afternoon, McHugh revoked Arthur’s bail returning him to Bucks County Prison.
McHugh had forbidden Arthur to contact Jaskowiak.
Arthur cc’d him, however, in in an email to the court-appointed guardian of the estate.
It was the only contact Arthur, age 70, had with the attorney in a month of freedom since his bail was lowered to what he could afford.
He was arrested for the picketing, April 27. He had spent five weeks in jail on $100,000 bail.
McHugh, today, allowed Arthur a chance to make a statement before sentencing.
Arthur, probably against the advice of his lawyer, did.
Jaskowiak was appointed with the expectation his mother could replace him, Arthur said.
One might expect that to be the case. It’s what we’re taught in civics class, after all.
Not so in guardianship matters, though.
Arthur, tearfully, said that Jaskowiak wouldn’t let his mother to call witnesses such as her doctor and financial advisors in her competency hearing.
And the county found her incompetent, sentencing her to spend two years of wretched misery in poorly managed nursing homes and away form her beloved son.
He also accused Jaskowiak and the appointed guardians of siphoning money from the estate by giving no-work jobs to friends, and billing for unnecessary work.
Arthur slowly lost access to his mom. The last time they saw each other was in December. The courts prohibited him from taking photos and video of her.
Really, what’s up with that?
Arthur also took issue with a claim by the prosecution regarding the sign he held during the picketing. The prosecution said Arthur accused Jaskowiak of being a sex trafficker.
Arthur said he did not accuse Jaskowiak of being a sex trafficker.
He said he accused him of being a human trafficker and a sex pervert.
The human trafficking concerned what he considered to be the kidnapping of his mother, Arthur said. The sex pervert claim stems from video Jaskowiak made for a legal seminar. Jaskowiak explained how opponents can be goaded into getting jailed for contempt of court and this would lead them to a “date with Bubba.”
Arthur reasoned that Jaskowiak was promoting male rape.
McHugh lectured Arthur that disputes must be settled in court and that he most certainly broke the law, which Arthur objectively did.
Calling someone a sex pervert is illegal on a public street.
Judge McHugh made a legitimate point, but one wonders what is the recourse when courts go bad.
There most certainly is something bad in Pennsylvania’s guardianship system.
One story can be read here.
And another here.
Let’s not forget this one.
Or just do a search for Elaine Mickman.
Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Gail A. Weilheimer, who was one of the judges who tormented Arthur, has been nominated by Joe Biden to serve as a United States District Court judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Sentence should have been time served. Period. If this isn’t Cruel and Unusual then what is.
This is so sickening. Why is it a crime to call some one a sex pervert or whatever on a public street? What happened to Free Speech, and especially against a public figure?
Apparently “sex perverts” are a “protected class.”
Thanks for another well-written peephole into the travesty known as “guardianship”. While some may disapprove of his methods in this latest set of events, Arthur resorted to them only after a multitude of clearly faulty actions and decisions on the part of the system that is alleged to protect seniors. A system for which ALL taxpayers are robbed of their hard-earned income to fund outrageous incomes for judges immune from any repercussions of their harmful actions. A system which bankrolls court personnel, sheriffs, and court-appointed attorneys (yes, not only is someone under “guardianship” forbidden from switching their legal “representative”, but once they run out of money the public pays via county tax dollars to forcibly retain the uninvolved, harmful lawyers who make more than you and I will ever see).
The lawyers and “guardians” are subject to no oversight, are not required to provide any documentation for their enormous bills that are rubberstamped by the judges, and never have to actually act on behalf of the person to whom they have been assigned. I know this firsthand from having my own mother ripped from her life and forced into a facility which Medicare rates 1 out of 5 (it should be negative 10, but there is nothing under 1).
I CRINGED when Judge McHugh admonished Arthur for not using the court system to rectify the problem THAT THE COURT SYSTEM CREATED, even after Arthur explained he had attempted to do so to the tune of about $100,000 before running out of money.
This is a system clearly put in place to keep funneling money into the pockets of bar association members and their preferred “professional” (who are nothing of the sort) “guardians”, so they can all protect each other rather than the elderly it purports to serve.