Woman Avoids Charges And Keeps Daughter After Montco Custodial Hearing — Alexandria, who is facing charges for taking her daughter to California to keep her from the clutches of an abusive ex escaped punishment, yesterday, Aug. 30, after a hearing before Montgomery County (Pa.) Common Pleas Court Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy.
Further, she retained full custody.
Among those attending the hearing in support, were Montco good-government activist Sean Connolly; the mother of Kayden Mancuso, whose death at the hands of a violent and unstable ex led to Kayden’s Law; a Delco woman seeking to keep her grandkids from unsupervised visits with a violent and unstable ex; Jody McMahon; and representatives from media outlets including a documentarian.
We understand that Montco President Judge Carolyn T. Carluccio is beginning to take an interest in these cases.
Something is seriously wrong with Pennsylvania’s system of (alleged) child protection. The women above described objective instances — like hospital reports — of physical or sexual abuse of children with the abusing spouse not only escaping charges but continuing to have visitation rights.
Meanwhile, not so long ago, we attended a hearing in which a rather bratty kid described how his mother left a bruise on him when she smacked him after he kicked her leading to the Delaware County District Attorney to bring charges against her.
No hospitalization or stitches or anything of import.
The DA, however, chose to pursue this rather than protect children who hid in a Springfield sewer to escaped being in the custody of a violent father.
Sick people are in charge and the good judges and police and prosecuters have to speak up.
Connolly, by the way, noted he enjoyed the company of the seven or so sheriff deputies present at the hearing. He also said he had enjoyed a short conversation with the former driver for Mike Vereb, the one-time Montco GOP chairman who became secretary for legislative affairs for Gov. Josh Shapiro until unfortunate matters of legislative affairs compelled him to leave.
Activist Sean Connolly and Alexandria at the Montgomery County, Pa. courthouse.
Justice Coming To Montco Courts? — We hear the looming scandals we’ve been covering concerning Montgomery County (Pa) courts are about to break wide upon.
We’ve been disappointed before but may the truth be revealed and justice prevail.
Meanwhile, some questions:
Why did Dr. Scott Rifkin make numerous visits to Josh Shapiro’s Philadelphia office when Josh was Pennsylvania Attorney General?
Why are right-to-know requests concerning what they discussed being denied?
How did Shapiro go from a net worth of $100,000 in 2000 to $4 million in 2010 to $35 million today?
Why are Amish farmers being coerced into conservatorships resulting in the state takeover of their lands?
Complaint File Against Montco Judge Regarding Ducote Matter — The Montgomery County, Pa. judge who threw a hissy fit and ordered an attorney arrested and handcuffed is in a bit of trouble herself.
Common Please Court Judge Kelly Wall gave the bizarre order, May 8, because she didn’t like how attorney Richard Ducote was a questioning a witness.
Or maybe it’s because Ducote said that Judge Wall should recuse herself because she had engaged in ex parte communications, which is a violation of judicial ethics.
Ducote is representing noted ophthalmologist Dr. Nicole Gross in a horror-story divorce case.
Anyway Ducote filed a complaint against Judge Wall with the Judicial Conduct Board, regarding those ex parte communications.
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.
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.
Arthur Herring giving it to the Montgomery County establishment
Problematic Montco Judge Tapped For Fed Court — Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Gail A. Weilheimer has been nominated by Joe Biden to serve as United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The nomination was recommended by Pennsylvania’s Democrat senators Bob Casey and John Fetterman.
Judge Weilheimer is involved with the troubling stories regarding family court matter in Montco, including the torture inflicted on Arthur Herring.
She is the wife of Philadelphia Inquirer Vice President and Chief General Counsel Larry Wellheimer, and closely connected to Gov. Josh Shapiro.
With Democrat control of the US Senate her confirmation is basically assured.
Lower Prov Sued For Stopping Shelter — Lower Providence Township in Montco is getting sued for stopping a “short-term housing project” on the Eagleville Hospital property.
The facility, known as Genny’s Place,would house 60 single adults from Montgomery County for 60-to-90 days.
Does this include new residents of Montco from points south who maybe aren’t there legally?
Behind this is the Philadelphia-based Resources for Human Development, a non-governmental organization.
Montco Adds 94 New County Jobs — Montgomery County, yesterday, June 27, approved 94 new positions with the highest salary at $151,148.80 for an interim director of Health and Human Services.
Republican Thomas DiBello,, who is Montgomery County’s mandated minority commissioner, said it was the last time he will vote for expanding the payroll until the county starts finding ways to save money.
David Morgan of Ambler noted in public comments that taxes in the county have risen 34 percent in the last few years.
Vice Chairman Neil Makhija said the county is still understaffed.
Morgan would later describe abortion as not a “reproductive right” but a failure of reproduction, which inspired a snippy bit of anger from Chairwoman Jamila H. Winder who basically said a woman can do what she wants with her body.
She said that Elsie lives in isolation and is a broken woman.
The judge and attorney who put her there are still getting paid, she said.
Day Care Grant
Day care providers Zakiyyah Boone, Christina Lynch and Kim Follette (phonetic) thanked the county for a $500,000 to hire substitutes. They said, however, the money would have been better used for raises for hard-to-keep staff.
If taxes were lower, they’d have more money for raises and the staff wouldn’t need as much. Just sayin’
Foy Park
A slab of asphalt in Foy Park in Lower Frederick Township caused much discussion. The 7-acre tract had been deeded as open space but the township put in a playground and basketball court in 2005 along with an asphalt pad for a skate park. The county found out and stopped the skate park but let them keep the basketball court and playground.
The township then recently thought it would be good to put a “traffic garden” on the pad. This would be just adding paint. A traffic garden is an image of streets and buildings. It supposedly helps children learn traffic laws and safety.
The county was fine with it until it realized that the asphalt was in a floodway. They decided that Lower Frederick can paint the traffic garden on the basketball court but it has to remove the other asphalt.
Somewhere King Solomon is laughing his butt off.
Bump Stocks
Makhija praised “Pride Month” at the meeting’s start. He also condemned the Supreme Court ruling that said that bump stocks could not be banned by presidential decree but required a law.
Bump stocks are devices that let semi-automatic firearms fire rapidly.
The Trump Administration banned them after Stephen Paddock allegedly used them, Oct. 1, 2017, to kill 58 people and injure 500 at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas. He caused this carnage firing about a thousand 5.56 caliber rounds from 500 yards away.
Bump stocks are considered to be wasters of ammunition.
But we don’t want to put conspiracy theories in anyone’s head.
And when are we going to get a “Gluttony Month?”
It seems that would be more fun.
Follow it with “Sloth Month.”
Every month is Avarice Month, of course, in places where taxes are rising 34 percent.
Finally, it was announced that Please, Please, Please by Quakertown native Sabrina Carpenter has hit number 1.
The Board says it will play it at future meeting. One even suggested having her come in and sing it.
DiBello Pushes Poll Watcher Freedom At Montco Counting Center; Dems Seem OK With It — Republican Thomas DiBello,, who is Montgomery County’s mandated minority commissioner, suggested at today’s, June 27, meeting of the county Election Board that poll watchers get free access to the entire central ballot processing center.
He noted that the reasons for the existing limitations were a legacy of Covid and no longer necessary.
County Election Director Frank Dean agreed as did Commissioner Vice Chairman Neil Makhija.
Mush suspicion would disappear if Montgomery County went through with this. Delaware County should take note.
DiBello also asked if it were possible for cellular signal jammers to be placed in the building. He said the signals are rampant. Dean said he would look into the feasibility and would also investigate DiBello’s concern regarding the possibility of the scanners being hackable with cellular devices along with his suggestion to livestream the ballot drop box cameras.
Dean also addressed questions posed by Jim Mollick of Worcester regarding the process of purging voter roles. He said a person can only be purged when a death is reported or by a state approved methods concerning the voter moving.
Mollick, during public comments, addressed a challenge by Chairwoman Jamila H. Winder to find vote fraud. Mollick noted that the state prohibits voters to use a Post Office box to register.
“Here is 50,” Mollick said. “Actually it is the same PO box.”
Mollick also said that he found five persons who moved from the county and are still on voting rolls. This includes one who moved to New York yet still votes in Montco.
Barbara Furman, a judge of elections in New Hanover, said it is impossible to determine chain of custody in the existing system and suggested that having the mail-in ballots be counted at the precinct would increase security.
Marleen Laska said it’s illegal for non-citizens to vote but many don’t realize it as they are told otherwise. She said the county should put signs declaring only US citizens may vote. This is not an unreasonable suggestion.
Sandra Levine said that Montgomery Township did not have the proper ballots for the machines at an election and that many voters could not wait and were in effect disenfranchised.
Adrian Seltzer, a judge of elections, said that Montgomery Township could have offered provisional ballots or allowed the ballots be placed manually in the dropbox to be counted later. She defended Montco’s system of elections.
Scott Emmet advocated handcounting the ballots.
Issues with right-to-know requests were also a subject as they had been at the preceding commissioners meeting.
Jean White said she has submitted 14 right-to-knows with the county new open records officer Joshua Wertheimer with little effect. Many involved seeking information about the voting process and she was told to subject them voter services, which she did, again without much luck.
Free clue: Fighting right-to-know request does not — repeat does not — ease suspicions.
70-Year-Old Man Risks Prison To See 99-Year-Old Mom — The nightmare for Arthur started in May 2021 when his older sister filed a petition seeking guardianship of his mom, Jane.
It was two days after Jane’s 96th birthday.
Arthur, now 70, had moved into mom’s sprawling home in Franconia, Montgomery County, Pa., two years earlier, mostly to keep her company.
Jane, a window of 12 years, was independent, active and even still driving.
Arthur was doing the shopping, though. It was the height of Covid and he was hoping to keep her isolated.
Arthur represented himself at a hearing in July. Sis had her own lawyer and the courts assigned attorney David Jaskowiak to represent Jane.
Jane accepted Jaskowiak because she was told he came free, Arthur said.
Spoiler: He didn’t.
Arthur said he suggested that Jaskowiak have Jane’s doctor of 21 years as a witness to her competency, as well as her CPA, investment advisors and hairdresser.
For some reason, Jaskowiak called no witnesses, Arthur said.
His sister dropped out as discovery started and that should have meant Arthur got the job, one would think.
But no.
Jaskowiak said that because Arthur and Sis didn’t get along, the court would have to appoint a guardian. Judge Gail Weilheimer tapped Duane Logie for the job.
Logie turned out to be a friend of Jaskowiak, says Arthur. He would be both guardian of estate, which is responsible for financial matters, and guardian of person who is task for caring for the living conditions and medical things.
When the same person is both there is no check and balance, says Arthur.
Jane stayed in her familiar home for a week after the court declared her incapacitated. Logie said the health care manager wanted to meet Jane at her house. A date was arranged but rather than a health care manager it was local police who showed along with Logie and Arthur’s sister.
Police physically restrained Arthur on the front porch. He said he heard his mother screaming inside. The cops held him as his sister and Logie took the 96-year-old woman in tears to his sister’s car.
Sis sent an email to Arthur warning him not to come to her house else he’d be arrested, he said. She wouldn’t let Jane call him.
Sister kept Jane at her house for 10 days before she fell unconscious and an ambulance had to be called. She spent six weeks in the hospital being treated for starvation, Arthur said.
Arthur said the treatment included sticking a needle 42 times in the stomach to prevent blood clots.
Oh, and while there she finally did catch Covid.
When that ordeal ended Jane was dumped at Manatawny Manor in Pottstown. Arthur describes it as a low-rated nursing home in Pottstown.
Manatawny Manor had just reopened after a Covid shut down.
Arthur says Judge Weilheimer initially allowed him one hour visitation three times a week but soon reduced it to one-hour per month in retaliation for the questions he was asking.
He said his visits started becoming supervised. He was forbidden to take cell phone video of his mom.
What honest reason could there be for that restriction?
Arthur says he now finds it lucky to be able to see his mother. The last time was in December.
He says Jane, who is now 99, was able to recognize him and could still dress herself.
He said he could have spent 16,300 waking hours with his mother between August 2021 and June 2024. As it was, he got but 224 hours.
Arthur says the powers-that-be have a financial incentive for keeping his mom. He says Jaskowiak charges $300 per hour. He said the guardian who replaced Logie — and who he says is also friends of Jaskowiak — got $125 per hour. Further, Arthur says she hired her husband to do legal work on Jane’s behalf for which he got $400 per hour. Further, Arthur says, the hubby hired four other lawyers who also charge $400 per hour.
“When one talks to the other, they charge the estate $800,” said Arthur.
Arthur says the court charges the estate $90,000 per year for the nursing home and accepted the yearly cost — which includes things like insurance and taxes — of Jane living at her home at $16,500.
He says he never see invoices.
Arthur has been in prison three times for defending his mom.
The first one was when he placed a story on his website ProtectMyParents.us that included information Weilheimer wanted hidden. Arthur said Jane was fine with what he wrote, but no matter.
Weilheimer sentenced him to six months in Montgomery County Prison or until he removed the material. He says he thinks she expected him serve the full six months as there were no computers in prison to fix it. A friend, though, came to his rescue and removed the offending information which let him go free after 10 days.
The second incarceration happened after he rewrote and published the story leaving out all names. He did, however, include a link to an archived copy of the original. This prison stint was just a week before his computer friend could fix things.
Both contempt orders were instigated by Jaskowiak.
He said a third contempt attempt in December by Jaskowiak failed. Jaskowiak said one of the those monitoring his visits said he used his cell phone camera to record his mother. A reasonable person would find such a prohibition curious, but nevermind, the judge said it was a no-no.
Arthur, however, did not do this vile transgression and proved it at a March 20 hearing.
Arthur has a new judge, by the way, who is Melissa Sterling.
Now, the most recent battle.
Arthur learned where Jaskowiak lived in New Britain in Bucks County.
He composed a two-page letter concerning his views about guardianship corruption, and put copies under every doormat on Jaskowiak’s street on April 10.
On April 23, he began picketing in front his house. A State Trooper who lived on the street said he was on private property. Arthur said that he was on the sidewalk. The trooper said it was private property and he would arrest him if he stayed.
Arthur was getting tired of jail so he left but went to the township building and confirmed the sidewalk was public.
He returned on April 27. His sign contained Jaskowiak’s name; and the words “human traffic” and “sex pervert”.
The traffic concerned what Arthur considers to be the kidnapping of his mom. He says the “sex pervert” is in reference to a instructional video he found of Jaskowiak reportedly describing strategic use of contempt of court complaints and the threat of being sodomized in prison.
After two hours of picketing, Arthur was arrested and charged with harassment. The judge set his bail at $100,000 of which he needed to raise $10,000 to be free.
Arthur points out that he lives out of his car and receives welfare.
After five weeks in Bucks County Prison, the bail was lowered to 10 percent of $10,000 and friends managed to get him out.
Before he retired, Arthur trained and practiced voice stress analysis, which is a type of lie detection. For 41-years, he tested criminal suspects, potential employees and helped investigate insurance fraud. His clients included the military, police and major corporations. He traveled the nation and the world.
Arthur notes that there are no standards or requirements as to what constitutes an accurate evaluation of a person that will determine incapacitation in Pennsylvania. He also points out that court psychologists don’t record sessions and have no proof as to how a person answered.
Arthur says he hasn’t seen his mom for a half of a year.
“I don’t know what my mother is thinking,” he said. “Does she think I’m dead? Does she think I don’t love her anymore?”
Sick, stupid and cruel people are in charge of America.
Ed. Note: We have left out Arthur’s last name as he fears using it will give the Montco courts an excuse to throw him back in prison.
Arthur at the March Montco Commissioners Meeting
70-Year-Old Man Risks Prison To See 99-Year-Old Mom
Montco Judge Puts Lawyer In Cuffs — We just posted the horror story involving Montgomery County, Pa.’s judicial system and then we learn this was just put on Facebook by National Safe Parents.
It concerns Richard Ducote, a litigator on matters of domestic abuse. Ducote, who is based in Louisiana, got a license to practice in Pennslvania in 2009.
Richard Ducote
He is representing noted ophthalmologist Dr. Nicole Gross in her own horror-story divorce case.
Montco Common Please Court Judge Kelly Wall had Ducote arrested and handcuffed, May 8, while he was questioning a witness, according to Danielle Pollack of National Safe Parents.
Ducote had said that Judge Wall should recuse herself as she had engaged in ex parte communications, which is a violation of judicial ethics.
He says his arrest was retaliation for this.
Ex parte is when one of the parties in a legal dispute is not present when an action occurs. Sometimes it’s allowed but usually not.
