Category: Child Services Family Courts

No Indictment Policy Violates Constitution Commissioners Told — Chester County was put on notice, Aug.13, when Washington D.C.-based civil rights activist Jessica Saxton and civil rights attorney Tanawah Downing.

“I am here to put to Chester County Commissioners,” Ms. Saxton told the board.

She explained that that the Constitution prohibits unless indicted by a grand jury.

She said Chesco, along with the rest of Pennsylvania, allows police officers to charge “by information” and ignore indictment.

This is illegal and unconstitutional.

Downing said that federal law states that any person under the color of a state statue or ordinance who deprives anyone of his constitutional rights, commits a crime, as does anyone who conspires to do so.

The latter would apply to the commissioners.

He said he has already prepared criminal affidavits and will turn them into criminal complaints if Chesco does not fix things.

Among those who have prosecuted in Chesco without a grand jury indictment is Mary Bush, who was convicted in July 2024 of harassing a man over an inheritance dispute.

Mary actually notes State Police says no crime was committed.

The matters that led to the dispute are a tragedy and perfectly illustrate why reforms are needed regarding the state’s guardian laws.

What Ms. Saxton’s and Downing’s statements here.

Baby Carlie is now three years old.

It was 1035 days ago — Oct. 7, 2022 — when she was kidnapped from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s King of Prussia facility, according to her grandmother Tanya Fowler.

The kidnapping was by an agent of Philadelphia’s Department of Health Services (DHS).

Philly got involved because Tanya’s daughter took her from Tanya’s Montgomery County home and she was found catatonic in the city with Carlie next to her.

The daughter had a long history of drug use and violence. She was staying in Montco with her Tanya but Tanya had legal custody of the child.

Carlie was returned to Tanya but her daughter began a fight for custody and brought in the DHS.

A DHS agent crossed the city line and tried to force Carlie’s surrender at Tanya’s home.

Local police, however, chased her away.

When Carlie was taken by Tanya to CHOP King of Prussia, however, DHS was apparently tipped off.

Tanya, who has a Ph.d in medical anthropology and has taught the subject at Temple University, says there is big money in children

She describes it as medical kidnapping.

She says healthy children are tapped — and Carlie was healthy — and disappeared in the system for organ harvesting and sex trafficking.

The motive foe taking Carlie from Tanya is money, Tanya says.

Big money.

She says Carlie has been placed with a white, middle-class foster family in University City.

During the custody battle between Tanya and the family — Tanya’s daughter has dropped out and hasn’t been seen for months — medical records have been found showing that Carlie has suffered burns along with other injuries and has been sexually abused.

You would think that the injuries would automatically result in Tanya being awarded custody.

Why hasn’t she?

Good question.

Tanya hasn’t seen Baby Carlie for 1035 days despite attending numerous hearings in Philadelphia Family Court.

Where is she?

The below documents and information come from witnesses, whistle blowers, and authoritative investigative reports, according to Tanya. 

30 Days Away From Grandmother

60 Days Away From Grandmother

Chesco Elderly Guardians Subject Of Exposé — Broad + Liberty has a tough story regarding Chester County Treasurer Patricia Maisano

The title is Power, profit, and guardianship: The fraught legacy of Chester County Treasurer Patricia Maisano so you can guess where it’s coming from.

The subject isn’t Ms. Maisano’s tenure as treasurer but her work as a guardian ad litem for the elderly.

Pennsylvania law has caused elderly residents to have their estates looted to where they wound up purposely separated from loved ones in “care” facilities that seemed more designed to hasten death.

By the way, Arthur Herring, whose mother, Jane, was one of the victims of the system, is being returned to prison for parole violations. The violation was that he continued to speak up about the injustice despite it being a condition that he may not.

Ms. Maisano was an expert in the case of Genevieve Bush, who we have also written about.

Genevieve’s daughter, Mary, is also facing prison for her refusal to be silent about the tragedy.

The corruption must end.

Chesco Elderly Guardians

GAL Concerns Meeting Topic — Those with concerns about Pennsylvania’s guardian ad litem (GAL) laws are invited to a Zoom meeting, noon, May 15.

Registration information can be found here or here or by scanning the code below.

Guardian Ad Litem Law Needs Reform — This story is from Berks County.

The protagonists are Holly and Erik and their now 17-year-old son.

Well, it’s Erik’s son but Holly considers him her child too and the boy has been the subject of a custody battle with the boy’s biological mother since 2018.

Holly has been an active part of the child’s life for 17 years.

Erik acknowledged paternity soon after birth and allowed the mother primary custody with the understanding that as the boy grew and sought more time with the father his request would be respected.

This was not granted he says. Further the boy developed a medical condition which Erik only learned about after issues developed with the boy’s schooling.

Erik says they attempted to work with the mother regarding increased visitation and medical treatment only to be rebuffed.

They brought the matter to Berks County’s family court system. The mother hired a lawyer who ho convinced the court to appoint a guardian ad litem (GAL) to “represent” the son, then 12

Issues immediately began with the GAL, says Erik. These included a report featuring opinions in specialty areas that she did not possess.

“The GAL is supposed to be neutral,” says Erik. “But her claims and recommendations invariably backed the mother and went against the recommendations of privately obtained medical professionals and the child’s wishes.”

Erik notes that the behavior of GALs have become controversial.

“I’m not the first or only parent complaining publicly,” he said.

He said one of the parents has said that if this GAL is crossed “somehow, someway your case will suddenly involve CYS.”

The issues of children youth services departments has been a pointed subject here.

Further, this GAL is accused of dragging out proceedings to increase here paycheck. This is not an uncommon criticism of the system.

The GAL only spoke with him once in the five years she had been tasked as the son’s guardian and that she billed for meetings and hearings that never happened, says Erik.

Erik noted that they filed the petition in 2019 but it wasn’t until July 2022 that a custody trial happened during which Erik was granted shared custody.

The mother, however, did not quit.

She brought the matter back to the courts in 2023 and this time things went her way and she won primary custody.

Erik says he was willing to give up and limit his time with his son to what the court’s allowed.

The mother, however, filed a contempt petition against him.

This was dropped but the battle had been re-ignited.

This time it did not go well for the mother. Discrepancies were found in the stories by the mother and GAL, Erik says.

Most damning was the claim by the GAL that she had text messages from the son backing up the mom’s version of events, and the Holly and Erik sent her threatening emails.

The GAL was asked to produced the texts and emails in court but consistently refused, says Erik.

A trial was held April 2.

The GAL said the boy wanted to engage in a week on/week off schedule with the father who now lives six hours from the mother.

The boy asked to speak to the judge directly. The GAL objected, the judge overruled her, and the boy rebutted the GAL’s claims.

The judge ruled that the boy can the summer with his dad.

The custody battle will end in September when the boy turns 18.

Pennsylvania’s guardian ad litem system is broken. Major reform is needed if not outright replacement.

Fed Incentives For Kidnapping Kids — We just caught this video on X regarding how the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 incentivized states to take children from families on the flimsiest excuses.

What we’ve seen in Delaware County, Pa. backs it up.