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How Family Court Corruption Kills

Having a Case in Family Court Should Not be a Life Sentence for the Innocent Child and a Death Penalty for the Loving Parent — but Too Often It is

Here is one example of how it happens. The “guardian ad litem” (GAL) co-conspired with the violently abusive father to abduct two children from their loving home and nurturing mother, to transfer them to the violent father’s full custody. Being callous and uncaring of the children’s needs, the violent father has refused even one minute of visitation or phone call with the mother who singlehandedly raised them from birth, for a full three years — even though, or precisely because, there has been no finding of fault in her whatsoever (whereas he was on a restraining order for almost killing each of his children by head injury). The GAL is the court actor who facilitates this wrongful transfer of custody: she orchestrates the forced abduction, through violent police raid in this case; she uses her court authority to ensure that the pediatrician, school officials, and the police do not report evidence of violent abuse; she buries evidence and intimidates witnesses, through false arrests in this case; “exonerates” the violent parent by closing down investigations; and she “incriminates” the innocent parent through abuses of authority in a secretive court without oversight. Why? It is a multi-billion-dollar business, which yields lucrative returns for stealing children and trafficking them to the “wrong” parent. Since the “wrong” parent likely engages in violence, abuse, and all too often trafficking to pedophilic sex rings and the child pornography industry, this means that children are being auctioned off to their life sentence at best and torture, battery, rape, suicide, and murder at worst. Since the loving parent is a witness, she is intimidated, harassed, and sometimes killed. All this is happening to tens, if not hundreds, of children per year, simply for entering Family Court, perhaps thinking of getting a divorce…. Below is my supplemental reply/affidavit to the GAL who filed for a protective order against my sister (when the GAL is the one who literally came close to killing her three times — and a fourth time two days after this affidavit!) and a protective order against me for speaking about what she has done:

I, BANDY LEE, of full age, do hereby Certify/Swear as follows:

1. This is not a response to the contents of [GAL’s] Supplemental Certification but to the fact that she submitted one — against the Rules of the Court and in ways that threw both myself and [Patricia Lee’s] lawyer into confusion and chaos — to demonstrate why her application for a protective order should be reframed as an act of aggression, not a desire for protection, and why she must be referred to criminal court.

2. [GAL’s] style is very consistent. At the very last minute, she creates an ambush, so that her victim has no recourse for action. Literally, figuratively, and metaphorically, her actions are those of a predatory thug. She lies in ambush to outmaneuver her victims, not legally but through assaults so massive and unexpected that, by the time her victims recognize what is happening, it is often too late. She seizes children by police raid without warning, tortures the children and parent until they psychologically “break”, and then claim that the children had to be taken because the mother was “mentally ill.” This is what she attempted in Patricia Lee’s case, also: she assigned for her to have her children the weekend of November 12, 2021, and then manipulated the police to raid and seize her children, under the false accusation that she was “absconding” with them! Of course, she omitted the fact that November 12, 2021, was the very weekend she herself assigned for Patricia Lee to have the children (see Exhibit A). It is rather the massiveness and egregiousness of her lies that help her get away with them, since it would be unbelievable to most that an officer of the court could lie so blatantly and so viciously.

3. [GAL] is not afraid for her life; she is only afraid of accountability for her actual crimes and “damage” to her false reputation. The First Amendment exists to protect a citizen’s ability to criticize government abuses, including court appointees. [GAL] has filed for a protective order solely for the purpose of circumventing the First Amendment. If [GAL] believed my public writings were unfair or untrue, she had a recourse: a defamation lawsuit. She has not gone this route for one and only one reason: she does not have a case. Every word I have stated is true. Only in Family Court can she be totally untethered from the Law, which is why she is trying to force a square peg into the round hole of a protective order.

4. Your Honor is being used as a patsy. [GAL’s] certifications are replete with features of criminal psychology that would be immediately evident to a seasoned forensic psychiatrist or psychologist. You Honor knows there is no case, and it would be embarrassing for you to continue.

5. Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca, who enabled and supported [GAL’s] false witness, through her documented 600 lies and acts of perjury — is now being referred to the New Jersey Senate for impeachment with 1600 signatures and a half-dozen video-recorded testimonies.

6. By placing Your Honor in charge of something Judge Gallina-Mecca herself was rebuked for trying to do, you are being used to try to justify the unjustifiable. Whether you obsequiously go along with this pathetic attempt to violate the U.S. Constitution by silencing me will be a litmus test on your integrity as a judge — and could well define your reputation, also.

7. You have already stated that you will not subpoena a transcript that Judge Gallina-Mecca has sealed. At the same time, you allowed [GAL] to go as far back as November 2021 to support her argument — when the Victim’s Assistance and Survivor Protection Act (VASPA) permits complaints only from January 2024 onward.

8. You cannot hide behind your black robe. You unequivocally accepted [GAL’s] feeble rationalization and her feeble case without any credible evidence, and then issued possibly the most frivolous protective order in the history of jurisprudence.

9. That [GAL] is in no sense fearing for her life was evident when she made an offer to Defendant Patricia Lee — an offer to drop her case in exchange for no more articles. When Patricia Lee consented, under the condition that she access the transcript of November 12, 2021, [GAL] retracted her offer. If [GAL] were truly fearful for her life, why would she exchange it for a transcript? And what could be in that transcript that [GAL] is so terrified of revealing, that she cannot even allow Defendant’s lawyer to see it?

10. What is in that transcript is the fact that [GAL] has taken sadistic, perverted delight in kidnapping children from a devoted, loving parent, sent them to their torture, and then unconscionably and sadistically tormented these traumatized children by taunting them that their loving mother “abandoned” them. This is her consistent pattern, as several witnesses have attested to, and this is what she did on November 12, 2021, in collusion with Patricia Lee’s abusive spouse, Alan T. Chan, when she orchestrated her children’s abduction and refused to allow them to see or speak to their mother for even one minute in three years, much to the “alarm” and “shock” of several child psychiatrists who have consulted on the case.

11. What is the difference between what she did — police raiding Defendant Patricia Lee based on lies, violently seizing Defendant’s children, closing down Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCPP) investigations of the children’s violent abuser, transferring the children’s custody to their violent abuser, getting doctors arrested, getting Patricia Lee arrested, pressuring pediatricians to alter their medical records, pressuring the principal to change school attendance records, and keeping all court records sealed against Patricia Lee herself so that she cannot fight back — and kidnapping two children? There is no difference, once the smoke-and-mirrors “legality” she abuses is taken away.

12. The bitter irony is that a protective order needs to be issued against [GAL], for almost causing Patricia Lee’s death at least three times; causing four arrests of innocent people based on malicious prosecution; causing irreparable, irreversible psychological trauma and physical failure to thrive in two innocent, vulnerable children; and protecting their duly-diagnosed, psychopath father from criminal accountability, based on her 600 documented lies and acts of perjury!

13. [GAL] is hiding under the sanctuary of the court, and you are being used to cover for criminal acts for which she should be disbarred and incarcerated. [GAL] has made a mafia organization out of her court connections. Indeed, her guise of being an “officer of the court” has shielded her from prosecution for the most heinous, violent, and predatory crimes against innocent children and their loving parents. I am a mandated reporter of these crimes. This, and only this, is the reason [GAL] is petrified of my exercising my First Amendment rights, as well as my legally-mandated duty as a professional expert witness for the courts.

14. Not only did [GAL] file for a frivolous protective order, she intended to weaponize it for harm. [GAL] intimidated Defendant Patricia Lee as a witness of her crimes from the start. Hence, despite knowing of Patricia Lee’s life-threatening, stress-induced high blood pressure condition (see Exhibit B) — or precisely because of her knowledge of it — she is now using her phony “protective order” as an excuse to send the police to her home for her, for me, for an amended complaint, and for an amended complaint for me. Unsurprisingly, because of her life-threatening condition, Defendant Patricia Lee landed in the emergency room with life-threatening high blood pressures following this “protective order” (see Exhibit C), which the emergency physician stated could have killed her — and has now been bed-ridden for three months and ongoing. She already has Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accommodations for the court, solely as a result of [GAL’s] assaults, as you know (she had no need before). Yet, despite these irrefutable, documented facts, Your Honor refused to issue a protective order for Defendant Patricia Lee. What does this say about your biased view of this case?

15. Your Honor should unequivocally dismiss this case, sanction [GAL] for filing for a frivolous protective order — in the same manner that [GAL] fined Patricia Lee 27,000 dollars for suing her, when [GAL] had caused Patricia Lee to lose her children without due process or cause — and refer [GAL] to criminal court. As her last-minute submission of a Certification showed, every action by [GAL] is consistent with the criminal pattern to “DARVO” (“Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender”) when one’s victim is most vulnerable — a well-known tactic of violent offenders. [GAL] was depending on her ability to “break” her victim psychologically through gaslighting, torture, intimidation, misinformation, disinformation, floods of useless information, lies, propaganda, and abuse of “judicial immunity” to get away with her crimes. But despite these insults, Patricia Lee is psychologically intact, as ten highly-qualified psychiatrists and psychologists attest to. Only her physical symptoms, in the form of stress-induced, lethal-level high blood pressure crises serve as a measure for [GAL’s] violent assaults, even when she disguises them in her highly psychopathic manner. Hence, Patricia Lee has accumulated abundant medical evidence and remains fully capable of testifying against [GAL] in a criminal court that actually looks at evidence and follows the Law — which has so far not happened in family court.

Signed, Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., and Notarized on the 17th day of October, 2024.

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Probable Cause Found!

Against One of the Accomplices of a Corrupt Family Court Guardian ad Litem

Family Courts could not carry out their organized crime of trafficking children to their abusers, fixing “evidence”, silencing witnesses, and destroying victims’ ability to fight back or to speak up, if not for accomplices. These may include police officers, school officials, or health professionals. After a series of setbacks, including established criminal charges against a guardian ad litem mysteriously being reversed, probable cause was finally found against a pediatrician she caused to alter her records. Below is my affidavit:

I, Bandy Lee, duly sworn upon oath, declare the following statement is true to the best of my knowledge:

I am a forensic psychiatrist, former fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and consultant of the World Health Organization (WHO), who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for seventeen years before joining the Harvard Program in Psychiatry and the Law. In 2002, I assisted in the WHO’s launch of its World Report on Violence and Health. In 2007, I coauthored the United Nations Secretary-General’s chapter on “Violence against Children.” In 2013, I submitted a report on Rikers Island Correctional Facility that brought in federal investigators and initiated reforms. I helped the French Ministry of Justice reform its criminal justice system in ways that are now emulated around the globe. I have now been asked to help reform New York State’s entire system of 44 prisons, simultaneously to reduce violence and solitary confinement, which I have already demonstrated with the San Francisco County Jails. I have been an expert witness in over 200 criminal and civil court cases, of which approximately 40 were family court cases. I have authored over 100 scientific articles, over 300 opinion editorials, and an authoritative textbook, Violence. I have witnessed and documented the actions of Dr. K.W., as the pediatrician of my niece and nephew, X and Y.Dr. W. was the first physician (among approximately a dozen health professionals) to acknowledge to the mother, Patricia Lee, that their father, Alan T. Chan, was physically and psychologically abusive and neglectful to them, which led to their acts of self-harm, suicide notes, and one witnessed suicide attempt. I witnessed all of this in real time, as well as am the firsthand witness of Mr. Chan’s daily violent abuse of his children and spouse.On September 29, 2021, as part of my legally-mandated reporting of child abuse and endangerment, I sent Dr. W. a copy of Mr. Chan’s alarming psychiatric diagnosis — psychopathy, as simultaneously but independently diagnosed by myself and Dr. Michael Stone, one of the nation’s top experts on psychopathic disorders.Instead of heeding our warnings, Dr. W. violated HIPAA (medical confidentiality) laws to give the report to Mr. Chan, which endangered his victims, who gave their reports under promise of anonymity (the diagnosis of psychopathy relies on the multiple interviews with victims as collateral sources).Dr. W.’s failure to make a mandated report, but rather pretending that the children were “fine” led to Mr. Chan’s ability to kidnap and conceal the children, since November 12, 2021. For example, she omitted the children’s missing half of school, suffering injuries that an orthopedist said were “neglected for months,” making multiple emergency room visits, undergoing surgery from dental neglect, being recklessly exposed to Covid-19 and Hepatitis B, etc., since their violent transfer to the father’s “care” three years ago. Mr. Chan, meanwhile, prevented anyone other than Dr. W. from examining them. At the same time, Dr. W. removed documentary evidence she previously included on the children’s abuse from the medical records.Yet, Dr. W.’s records themselves showed that they went from average height and weight to the bottom of their age groups, but she did not find this alarming at all. Instead, she falsified her records to leave out orthopedic injuries, emergency room visits, and their missing almost half of school since the forced abduction.On August 3, 2023, Patricia Lee called to request her children’s annual checkup records and was told that she could pick them up on the next day, August 4, 2023. When she did, the most critical notes were missing from the records. Failing to resolve the issue by phone, Patricia Lee presented to Dr. W.’s office, and after great effort received the records but found out that the content was tampered with, and the growth charts — which showed extreme failure to thrive in the past — were missing. Rather, Dr. W.’s notes contained critical falsehoods, fabrications, and serious omissions, in order to paint a fraudulent, “rosy” picture. Patricia Lee asked to meet with Dr. W. but was told that there was a new “rule”: the pediatrician could not see a parent without her children! Upon hearing this, I decided to try to speak to her as physician to physician and went to Dr. W.’s office directly from work. Instead of meeting with a colleague as a normal professional would, Dr. W. refused to appear. When I showed my physician badge and stated that this regarded a medical emergency and child endangerment, the office staff astonishingly began to call the police!

2C:28–5 Tampering with witnesses and informants; retaliation against them.

Dr. W., believing that an official proceeding or investigation is pending or about to be instituted or has been instituted, knowingly engaged in conduct that a reasonable person would believe would cause a witness or informant to:

(2) Withhold documents;

(3) Elude legal process summoning them to testify or supply evidence;

(5) Otherwise obstruct, prevent, and impede an official proceeding or investigation into Alan T. Chan’s child abuse.

b. Retaliation against witness or informant. Dr. W. attempted to harm both Patricia Lee and myself, both reporters of Alan T. Chan’s child abuse and one a fellow physician, with purpose to retaliate for or on account of the service of Alan T. Chan, through threat of arrest.

N.J.S.A. 2C:33–2, Disorderly Conduct, by failure to report child abuse

According to Title 9:6–8.10, any person having reasonable cause to believe that a child has been subjected to child abuse, including sexual abuse, or acts of child abuse shall report the same immediately to the Division of Child Protection and Permanency by telephone or otherwise. Dr. W. failed to do so when she herself agreed that these children were being abused and related this to the mother, Patricia Lee, recommended a child psychiatrist for this reason, and accepted and inserted documentary evidence into the medical record. She not only failed to report the abuse as a mandated reporter but later colluded with the abuser, Alan T. Chan, to cover up his abuse and support his kidnapping and concealing them for three years. Because of her actions, a substance-abusing, pornography-addicted, and violent, previously absentee father, who was previously on a restraining order for almost killing each of his children by head injury, was allowed to kidnap and conceal his children in order to gain financial advantage in his divorce (based on his “warehousing” the children, he is demanding six-figure “child support,” the house, all his legal fees, and refusing to pay any alimony, despite making a million dollars a year). Without Dr. W.’s support and medical “rubber stamping” of his violence, he would not have been able to achieve this.

Signature________________________________

Bandy Lee

Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary public, on this ___ day of July,

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Predatory Family Court Guardian ad Litem Plays DARVO — or First Amendment Violation Disguised as a…

Predatory Family Court Guardian ad Litem Plays DARVO — or, First Amendment Violation Disguised as a Protective Order

My Reply to a Perpetrator Guardian ad Litem’s ‘Denial, Attack, and Reversal of Victim and Offender’

People sometimes ask me: if such horrific violence is happening in the Family Courts against children and the adults trying to protect them, wouldn’t the world know about it by now? Actually, no. When it comes to atrocities, the more they exceed the imagination, the less they come into consciousness. And the more violent the perpetrators, the more aggressively they will crush dissidents, silence whistleblowers, and persecute truthtellers behind the scenes. Consider how far the Nazi Holocaust advanced before the German population knew about it; even after their cities were bombed into ashes, they refused to believe, until the Allied Forces physically took them to the death camps to see. When mass oppression is happening, stifling reporting and shaping the narrative is all it is about: child abuse is good parenting, protecting children is a criminal offense, etc. This is why a certain “guardian ad litem” (“GAL”), after failing to impede my First Amendment rights by every other method, had a crony Family Court judge issue a “protective order” against me, even though truthful public reporting is not “harassment”, and appearing at a public meeting by invitation is not “stalking”. Below is my response:

I, BANDY LEE, of full age, do hereby Certify/Swear as follows:

1. As usual, [GAL] is looking only for legal loopholes in order to obfuscate and to try to circumvent the most critical, fundamental fact: that she committed fraud to deprive a rightful parent of her children and to damage and destroy them for life. In the process of her doing so, she needed to silence witnesses such as myself, and therefore assailed, entrapped, and falsely arrested me and other innocent persons, such as a renowned expert on child abuse and torture, by intimidating us and tampering with the evidence we brought. Her 350 lies in official proceedings, while pretending that she was telling the truth, and her 250 acts of perjury under oath, should serve as proof of her mendacity, criminality, and fraud.

2. [GAL] cannot respond to even a single one of my accusations, because she has nothing to say. All my statements are truthful.

3. Plaintiff also cannot cite a single act of harassment, as defined by N.J. Rev. Stat. § 2C:33–4 (2023):

[making, or causing] to be made, one or more communications anonymously or at extremely inconvenient hours, or in offensively coarse language, or any other manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm; [subjecting her] to striking, kicking, shoving, or other offensive touching, or threatens to do so; or [engaging] in any other course of alarming conduct or of repeatedly committed acts with purpose to alarm or seriously annoy such other person.

4. Similarly, Plaintiff cannot cite a single act of stalking, as defined by N.J. Rev. Stat. § 2C:12–10 (2023):

directly, indirectly, or through third parties, by any action, method, device, or means, following, monitoring, observing, surveilling, threatening, or communicating to or about, a person…; repeatedly committing harassment against a person; or repeatedly conveying, or causing to be conveyed, verbal or written threats or threats conveyed by any other means of communication or threats implied by conduct or a combination thereof.

5. Instead, “harassment” and “stalking” describe accurately Plaintiff’s own actions against myself and Patricia Lee, in co-conspiracy with Patricia Lee’s violently abusive husband, with whom Plaintiff coordinated in almost every way from the start, even though she was supposed to be the children’s guardian ad litem. Her violent police raids, false arrests, and weaponization of the police have all occurred in co-conspiracy with this violently abusive father and husband, as discovery and phone records have revealed. At times, they made daily phone calls to each other, and they coordinated with the school principal, for example, to call him for one hour each the day before and for a half-hour each the day of our arrests, in order to disrupt, sabotage, and prevent our scheduled meeting with the principal. At the time of our arrest, Plaintiff and Alan T. Chan were both at the school — in only one incident of co-conspiracy among countless many.

6. When Plaintiff added her harassment to Patricia Lee’s husband’s, it did not just cause alarm but caused trauma and a new diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), after almost causing her demise. Plaintiff may experience as “harassment” any objection to her near-deadly assaults, her abduction of children, and her extreme deprivation of these children by not allowing a single phone call or even one minute of visitation with the mother who raised them, for three years without due process or cause — and her calling this a “temporary transfer of custody” would be laughable is not so permanently destructive! And truthful reports of her heinous, outrageous, and disgraceful actions may feel like harassment to her, but this is not the definition of harassment. Additionally, appearing at a public Board meeting once, on invitation of members and officials of her community, can under no stretch of the imagination count as “stalking” — especially for Patricia Lee whom I, coming in from New York City, had to solicit for a ride (not to mention that Patricia Lee was invited, too). Plaintiff is accustomed to using gangster-like methods of assault against innocent people with such overwhelming force, that they are rendered incapable of fighting back. Unfortunately for her, I have twenty-five years of experience evaluating and recommending sentences for violent offenders in maximum-security prisons, and I immediately recognized Plaintiff as one of the most extreme and most predatory aggressors I have encountered. Her very insinuation and the “framing” of her victims with her own guilt are the very criminal manipulations I witness every day, and so doing through abuse of authority under color of law is the reason for which she is being federally sued.

7. Similarly, Plaintiff’s and Patricia Lee’s husband’s, Alan T. Chan’s, stalking of me is a well-documented fact, on multiple court records spanning over years. In order to prevent the entry of my testimony onto the divorce court record, as the primary witness against the abusive father’s daily violence against his spouse and children for fifteen months, these two have surveilled, stalked, monitored, character-assassinated, threatened, arrested, and intimidated me as a witness for the last three-and-a-half years. Indeed, their obsession over me predates by at least a year any article I have written, although since I started writing true accounts of their actions, they have become almost hysterical: plastering their motions with my name in every unrelated context (the response to Patricia Lee’s appeal against [GAL], for example, had very little on the actual appellant), bringing me into the divorce case as if I were a litigant myself (even as they denied me my testimony), attempting to pressure and control me through weaponization of the state and local police, and even contacting the journals and magazines that published my interviews — only to be rebuked by their legal departments for violating the U.S. Constitution. This context must be considered if one is to understand her true motives behind this false guise of a “protective order”: to intimidate, stalk, harass, and control me further as a witness, in order to cover up their true, violent crimes. The very fact that she sent Patricia Lee to the emergency room, where the emergency physician ruled her out for a heart attack and a stroke and told her that she almost died (see Exhibit A) — which would not be the first time (see Exhibit B) — should be an objective measure of how violent and dangerous Plaintiff is.

8. That Plaintiff is not the audience of my articles should be obvious from the public’s response to them: several of my articles have had thousands of readers and top many articles I have written on other subjects, showing the resonance I am having with my readers. Also, I had a twenty-two-year career in violence prevention before I ever met Plaintiff and started writing about her shocking, ruthless, unchecked violence. In fact, more than two dozen former and current litigants whose lives Plaintiff has similarly destroyed, by violently abducting their children and transferring them to their rapists, batterers, and attempted murderers, have reached out to me, and this was the impetus of my writing as a form of mandated reporting, since all other avenues of reporting failed (the Office of Attorney Ethics, for example, refused to investigate her). Even those who did not have Plaintiff as guardian ad litem or as children’s lawyer reached out to inform me of other ways she defrauded them: she stole, for example, the equities of at least two entire homes, after having done almost no work. One of them has asked me to perform a psychopathy checklist on her, which is an extensively researched and extremely reliable diagnostic assessment tool (developed in the 1990’s by Dr. Robert Hare) that is based primarily on objective documents and victim interviews. The preliminary results, based on objective documents, are utterly disturbing.

9. If this case is not dismissed, I would like to ask for an evidentiary hearing where I could marshal witnesses. The problem so far has been the absence of any evidentiary hearing or any resemblance of due process. A smoke-and-mirrors guise of “legality” is insufficient, and in this case has been used to cover up the most egregious violations of local, state, federal, and international law. The matrimonial court’s primary weapon has been a Star Chamber-like secrecy — used not to protect children but to commit atrocities against them with impunity — except when [GAL] wishes to file a frivolous protective order, at which time she is allowed to divulge anything from the “sealed” records at will. The same information for which the innocent mother was threatened with incarceration, without any proof that she divulged, is free-for-all for Plaintiff to disclose, when it comes to aiding her criminal ends. [GAL] and Alan T. Chan can even skip mandated court meetings to coordinate their false arrests of medical experts simply trying to fulfill their legally-mandated duty to report child abuse, as they were permitted to do on June 22, 2022, while Patricia Lee was required to attend court.

10. Plaintiff’s continuous, serial lying is especially of grave concern. The 600 documented lies and acts of perjury are not just a number but an indication of pathological lying, a deeper character pathology, and potential dangerousness. Dangerousness makes a person unfit for duty, and scoring disturbingly high on a psychopathy checklist raises alarms that this person is anywhere near children. Predators of children often take on functions in schools, churches, and Family Courts as “guardians ad litem,” in order to gain access to their victims. [GAL] has not only lied but has had to maintain her lies endlessly, since one always needs a new lie to cover over the first lie. This is why plenary hearings with factual evidence are critically important, and it should be noted that not a single hearing has occurred with relevant facts and witnesses, so that her “smoke and mirrors” pretenses would not be debunked with factual evidence.

11. Plaintiff shows more than several disturbing signs of unfitness — not only because of what she has done to Patricia Lee’s children, against the advice of a dozen medical professionals, but what other parents have reported to me. Her pattern is consistent: abducting children from fit, nurturing primary caregivers; imprisoning children with their abusers; and telling the children that their loving parent “abandoned” them and “no longer loves” them. These actions have been committed ruthlessly, repeatedly, and systematically in too many cases to assert that all these cases are so exceptional as to require such extraordinary interventions. The more likely explanation is that Plaintiff is mentally unfit and dangerous to continue to serve in her role.

12. Fitness is presumed until there are signs of unfitness, at which time a petition can be made to the Court for an evaluation. As a seasoned forensic psychiatrist and expert witness for the courts, who has performed more than 200 mental competency evaluations, I request that [GAL] be required to undergo an evaluation of mental competence as well as a dangerousness risk assessment. I also ask that this Court refer her to Criminal Court; Family Courts are ill-equipped to deal with the most dangerous individuals, who are detectable not by the stereotypes common in popular fantasy, but by appearing exceptionally innocent and sympathetic. It was impressive to me just how spectacularly innocent-appearing [GAL’s] public images are,[1] so much so that I created an impression I believed to be more fitting of her true, Machiavellian nature.[2]

13. Like the most violent offenders whom the Law has failed to contain, Plaintiff has tried to cover up her violence with more violence. When her false police raids and false arrests did not work, she assaulted Patricia Lee in ways that almost caused her death, as medically proven multiple times by physicians in multiple documents. When harassing Patricia Lee to deadly levels, beginning in November 2021 and continuing to this day, did not make her “comply” — which for Plaintiff essentially means that a loving mother must obediently watch the medically-proven destruction of her children without legal or constitutional recourse — Plaintiff rained down the most sadistic, heartless, and diabolical acts against these children, such as keeping them totally separated and isolated from the mother who raised them (after which they stopped growing).

14. There are other signs of Plaintiff’s mental unfitness. She negated Alan T. Chan’s diagnosis of psychopathy — confirmed by four forensic medical experts of national and international stature — despite not having any mental health background of her own. She suppressed reports warning of Alan T. Chan’s danger to his children, despite six highly-qualified mental health experts forming a medical consensus — including an expert who is among the most highly-respected in New Jersey Family and Criminal Courts. Plaintiff continued to claim that Patricia Lee was “mentally unfit,” even though ten psychiatric experts disagreed — all of whose reports Plaintiff suppressed. Insistence on reversing sickness and health, in order to deny one’s own sickness, is a common symptom of those who are suffering from mental debility. The inability to accept factual evidence, the need to distort reality to one’s wishful view of the world, and the attacks against anyone who would contradict her beliefs are all signs of mental incompetence.

15. Incapacity to do a job is not incompatible with criminal responsibility. Plaintiff’s frivolous abuses of protective orders, as well as of her legal connections, her authority, and her quasi-judicial immunity as “absolute immunity,” all indicate a criminal mindset. Additionally, Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca’s endorsement means very little, especially when she herself is being referred to the New Jersey Senate for impeachment, after more than 1500 citizen signatories agree that she has committed egregious constitutional violations and human rights abuses (see Exhibits C & D). Plaintiff’s actions consist of some of the worst possible human rights abuses against children, as established by a United Nations Human Rights Council report[3] and a South Texas Family Residential Center study,[4] which no court should condone, no matter the temptation to protect one’s own, after having extensively worked with her in the past.

Subscribed and sworn before a notary public, on October 1, 2024,

Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.

[1] See, for example, her public profile: [Internet link]. For the trained eye, this level of “total innocence” exuding from a photo is unusual and raises the possibility of predatory manipulation intended to conceal the opposite. At the June 16, 2024, virtual hearing, Plaintiff sat timidly, far in the back, while her attorney defended her from up front. Again, for the trained eye, these are sophisticated theatrics consistent with a highly-skilled predator who uses deception and manipulation to make herself appear “the victim.” Because of these “skills”, the most dangerously-disordered personalities are multifold less likely to be prosecuted and multifold more likely to get out of prison early, despite being more dangerous and more likely to recidivate than those without a dangerous personality disorder.

[2] See my diagram of her “true” personality, in an article that has also garnered considerable public attention (her extraordinary manipulative skills can also be seen in the fact that she managed to remain on a Board despite being voted out — while succeeding in driving out the duly-elected member of the Board!): [My article].

[3] See: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/ahrc5336-custody-violence-against-women-and-violence-against-children

[4] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0259576

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Now, Even the Guardian has Covered the Horrid Murders and Mayhem in the Family Courts!

Finally, Objective Reporting and Research are Happening in the U.K., unlike the U.S., but Obstacles Continue

When approaching Family Court, one is not dealing with a normal judiciary. It is no accident that women and children wither and die, if not are gruesomely murdered, once they enter these “Courts”. Decades of lack of transparency and accountability have created not only an industry that profits from further victimizing victims, but a culture of psychopathic jurists assisting psychopathic killers. Using the “Court” to cover up one’s crimes through abuse of judicial process is the same as a “doctor” setting up a hospital to lure in unsuspecting victims for one’s lust for cruelty. Only these “doctors” are rare, since the judicial system keeps them in check; there is no such outside system to keep the judicial system in check. As a result, courtroom abuse, torture, psychological murder, and physical murder have become commonplace in the secret Family Courts. They escalate and multiply harm in the following manner: if a child needs to stay with a nurturing parent, they take the child away; if a child needs to be kept from a dangerous parent, they imprison the child with that parent; only the good parent is supervised, in order to prevent reports of child abuse; only the innocent parent in incarcerated, in order to prevent reports of judicial abuse. They wield their authority over police and child protection like no other court, so that no one dares defy. Meanwhile, the good parent’s and other witnesses’ wealth, possessions, profession, reputation, and social supports are drained and destroyed, so that no one can fight back and no credible witnesses remain against these predatory “Courts”. This happens to tens of thousands of children per year in the U.S. alone — and the adults who love them — and a thousand children are documented to have been murdered between 2008 and 2024 (without counting the perhaps even greater number of suicides). There should not be an expectation of internal reform; only the Court of Public Opinion can save these innocent lives. Since the U.K. government has forced its Family Courts to open to researchers and reporters, some objective analyses are getting out, and now even the Guardian Editorial Board has picked up on the matter, but challenges remain:

The Guardian View on the Family Courts: The First Principle Must be Safety

The system is entrusted with difficult and sensitive decisions, but more must be done to prevent violent fathers from harming children

3 Oct 2024

The 10th anniversary of the murder of Claire Throssell’s two young sons, Jack and Paul, is a horrifying reminder of the catastrophic consequences that can follow when the family justice system makes mistakes. The serious case review that followed their deaths, in a house fire deliberately started by their father, concluded that the court should have considered suspending the boys’ contact with him. Ms Throssell had left the family home due to domestic violence and had warned that he had told her he could understand why men killed their children.

Case reviews are supposed to be learned from. But a decade later, there is plenty of evidence that poor decisions are still being made when domestic violence victims come before family judges. Last month a convicted rapist, Kristoffer White, was stripped of parental responsibility for his daughter — but only after the child’s mother appealed an earlier ruling that permitted unsupervised contact.

Nineteen children were killed by fathers who were allowed contact with them between 2005 and 2015, in England and Wales. Others have been harmed. A report from the Ministry of Justice in 2020 contained 72 recommendations aimed at tilting the culture of the family court away from a presumption of contact with both parents, towards a greater emphasis on safety. But these have not all been implemented, while legal aid cuts continue to have adverse effects. A domestic abuse perpetrators’ programme abolished in 2022 has yet to be replaced.

More positive recent changes include the inclusion of coercive control in 2021’s domestic abuse act. This was part of a broader shift towards a more holistic understanding of the dynamics of abusive relationships. But it is hard to tell to what extent this is reflected in the courts or the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service — which represents children’s interests in family law cases, and has also faced criticism for past failings.

Nicole Jacobs, the domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales, is due to lead a study on the way abuse allegations are handled. In July, Sir Andrew McFarlane, the family court’s president, reported that trials in two areas of a new, child centred and less adversarial approach to private law disputes had been “far more successful than even its most ardent supporters would have anticipated”. Another pilot, of family court reporting by the press and legal bloggers, has been extended beyond its initial three locations.

Huge gaps in the published data remain a sticking-point. Case numbers are in the public domain. In 2022 there were 52,204 new private law cases involving children, and 16,384 public law cases where children’s services were involved. But statistics on children’s involvement in proceedings and on the orders made by judges — and how these vary over time and between regions — are lacking. So are many other details that could help inform, and improve, policy and practice in a system entrusted with difficult and highly sensitive decisions. The risks to families in which fathers are domestic abusers, or sex offenders, remain the most serious concerns.

Senior judges have indicated their support for a more open system. But a lack of resources hinders progress. The anonymisation unit that was supposed to enable more judgments to be published does not exist, due to a lack of funding. And this means that no one — not journalists, lawyers, campaigners or the public — can learn from them.

(The original article is published here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/03/the-guardian-view-on-the-family-courts-the-first-principle-must-be-safety.)

Here is another article in the Guardian:

Research by herEthical AI Reveals Attitude of Disbelief and ‘Stereotypical Assumptions’ about Survivors in England and Wales

Family Court Judges Use Victim-Blaming Language in Domestic Abuse Cases, Finds AI Project

Rachel Hall8 Oct 2024

Judges in the family courts are using victim-blaming and gender-biased language towards domestic abuse survivors, AI analysis of judgments and appeals in England and Wales reveals.

The findings are the result of a project called herEthical AI, which trains computers to identify attitudes among judges that it warns is resulting in the retraumatisation of domestic abuse survivors in the family courts.

Examples found through the research include characterising a woman as a “deeply troubled mother with mental health difficulties unrelated to the father’s behaviour”; referring to an attempted strangling as a possible “prank”; or concluding that it was improbable that an “educated professional” would not speak to anyone else while “inappropriate and wrong” sexual relations were happening.

The idea for the project originated with a campaign called Breaking Bias run by Right to Equality. Charlotte Proudman, its founder and a barrister, said the AI model could “look through the nitty gritty to find patterns of behaviour in the language used” and reveal “stereotypical assumptions” about victims of domestic abuse, as well as a lack of understanding around coercive and controlling behaviour and how trauma impacts memory.

She said the findings underscored the need for greater training on domestic abuse in family court proceedings to help rebuild low levels of public trust in the fairness of the judicial process.

“There’s an attitude of disbelief — victims have reported feeling gaslit, victim-blamed, dismissed in the courtroom setting, some have described being cross examined as equivalent to being raped all over again — which is one of the most harrowing things I have heard. That’s horrendous. The courts are there to protect victims not to make it worse,” she said.

One problem she identified was the “adversarial” system, which can retraumatise survivors of domestic abuse and has a “deterrent effect” on others thinking of coming forward.

HerEthical AI, a startup that brings together academic experts in psychology and machine learning, along with a retired police inspector, plans to publish a journal article with its findings, as well as helping survivors make the case to be tried by a different judge or file complaints against them.

So far, it has used freely available judgments and appeals, but the project is crowdfunding to buy transcripts to better understand what is going on in courts. The cost of a court transcript comes per folio, which consists of 72 words — the cheapest being 80p a folio and going up to £1.91 a folio. This is often out of reach for domestic abuse survivors, who may have taken a financial hit to leave their abuser.

Hazel Sayer, a member of HerEthical AI and a research fellow specialising in gender-based violence at Bournemouth University, said this meant that family courts could be a “secretive environment, lacking accountability and transparency”.

The result, according to Roda Hassan, founder of Riverlight, a nonprofit that provides advocacy services for domestic abuse survivors and is collaborating on the project, was that “at the moment there’s no real way to hold judges and magistrates accountable” for what goes on inside courtrooms, other than through “very expensive and difficult” appeals processes, requiring specialist legal knowledge which many survivors cannot afford.

Riverlight has worked with survivors whose transcripts have included phrases such as “you’re a silly girl” and “you could not have been raped because you were married to him”.

One woman Riverlight is working with is Sarah (not her real name), who was shocked by the attitude of her judge when she tried to claim full custody of her children after leaving an abusive relationship. She had been pushed while pregnant, and had testimony from a GP who saw the bruises as well as recordings of her partner being verbally abusive.

She felt that the judge’s priority was ensuring the children would still have access to their father, even though she was frightened to leave them alone with him. “I was accused of not being child-focused by bringing up the abuse that me and the children suffered,” she recalled, adding that the judge’s attitude was “you need to put it in the past and move on”.

As a result, she said, “my mental health was horrendous, I was having nightmares, I started CBT through the NHS to help me cope”. She added: “I actually doubted myself about whether I should have left because now I have to hand over my children and not be there.”

(The original article is published here: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/oct/08/family-court-judges-victim-blaming-language-domestic-abuse-cases-ai-project.)

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I Brought Up Family Court Atrocities on a Network of 3 Million

… And Again, Responses are Flooding in Like No Other Time

The Weekend Show interviewed me on anti-abortion laws, misogyny, sexual abuse, and child abuse in the context of Donald Trump, which led to my broaching the subject of Family Courts in an uncommon venue (Family Courts begin at around 52:00 and end at 60:00):

LIVE: Top Psych DIAGNOSES Trump’s Latest Public COLLAPSE

Never do I receive a flood of messages as when I mention Family Courts; not even my speaking up against Donald Trump, since the start of his presidency, has ever produced such a response, including an inundation of emails. More immediately, a startled audience commented with the following:

Incredible discussion Anthony and Dr. Lee, if only those who need to hear this information could listen.

​​OMG!!

Wow.

Thank you Dr Lee for giving a voice to those who don’t have one.

Incredible discussion Anthony and Dr. Lee, if only those who need to hear this information could listen.

​​Finally! I love Dr. Lee!

​​WOW Dr. Lee

​​MONEY TALKS EVERYWHERE!

Follow the money….

They’re HIDING pedophiles because that’s the perfect place to hide.

​​Startling statistic.

Amen. if moms say the children are being abused by the father, the courts say the mother has brainwashed the kids and the kids need to be taken from her and put with the abusive father.

Yes, women and children are dying from this Abuse.

​​WTF! THIS HAS TO STOP!

So sad.

​​Family courts pay pedophiles to abuse children.

​​Children have no rights in family court. That is an understatement.

Exactly right about family courts.

​​10k watching! Get educated!

​​Most judges are men (fact), but women also can be inclined towards allowing pedophilia if they too were groomed into it.

​​Who REALLY is safe?…

Oklahoma has women in prison for their children being abused by other adults.

Yes, they get more time than the abusers sometimes serving life.

That is like the 4th horrible thing about Oklahoma I’ve heard about their laws and courts. Disgusting.

It starts from the top.

QAnon was projecting what they themselves do. Our judiciary system is based on white supremacy, so of course it’s a hidden secret about the court system and children.

​This is chilling. I had a terrible experience in family court while trying to leave my abusive ex.

Those are the real child traffickers, if you ask me.

10k watching and over 9k likes. Excellent!

That’s disturbing AF!

Family Courts aren’t on the side of the kids, they are all about profit, nothing more. If they can keep the high conflict going it equates to money, money, money.

All I can say is WOW!!

​​Hope she presents her evidence for those statistics.

Creepy American Culture.

Have heard of this forced reunion.

​​THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING UP FOR US!!!!!

​​You are absolutely right about Family Courts.

​​Family courts are absolutely the worst with human rights.

Yea, it’s insidious.

Thank you, Dr Lee!!!! My experience of family court is exactly this. The people who are a part of it have twisted so much. Children know that even if they get their own lawyer, they will not be heard.

​​Please Continue to Educate us, Dr. Lee!!!!

Social Workers burn out SO fast! They can’t win no matter what, they battle public perception & assumptions, the courts themselves, and their own nightmares because of the shit they see.

Family courts are killing women and children in unprecedented numbers! End this atrocity!

Where can I learn about this family court problem?

Family courts exploit women and children.

​​Thank you, Dr. Lee, for bringing light to this subject.

Yes, women in OK sometimes get life but way more time than the abuser

WOW. I did not know this about Family Courts.

It Just Happens​​crazy from the top down.

The treadmill boy.

My GOD, unreal your information about family services, making me go out of my mind, MY LORD.

It could have been me…. I was lucky.

​​The judge is an abuser also … allowing it.

This is how you “word weave.” Thank you, Dr. Bandy Lee.

Why? How? How do they get away with it? Project 2025 would make it worse. Old guys would claim a 12 year old by violating and knocking her up, then she would be given as his wife for a life of hell.

What is up with family courts??!! They need to be outlawed!!!

Most family court is custody.

Foster care system is broken.

​​Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere

OMG. I have no words. Horrific.

This is sickening. I worked in Family Court a couple of times and requested not to go there again.

This has happened to me. Family court took my 13 year old daughter away from me. She didn’t want to live with her mother. The court didn’t allow her to choose.

Family court summarized- Judge- he abused you, not the kids. He will have visits/shared custody…. Days, months, years later most of those children are murdered. It’s ridiculous.

It’s all about access to sick f*ks.

Why would they remove a child from a safe situation to a dangerous situation?

For profit Family Courts are like for profit Prisons.

How to heal such a broken heart….

​This is what happened to me when trying to protect my three daughters from their father, a sexual predator. It took 6 yrs to stop him, and it wasn’t the courts. It was intervention from a Senator.

My heart is now broken.

​​So evil.

In the absence of a jury and a licensed mental health practitioner these children are at an increased and significant exposure to adverse childhood events.

It’s a turnover. Victims become predators.

Thank you for speaking out, Dr Lee.

Dr. Lee is right about family court. Look at the drugs and alcohol involved with indigenous people, and look at how many of the women are missing.

​​That’s right, Dr Lee. Childhood trauma takes a lifetime to heal.

Broken, unspoken.

Such a fantastic episode tonight.

It’s not right. I’m glad to hear someone speaking on your platform about this.

Parents have more rights than do the children in family court.

​So tragic to hear about how children are treated by family courts. How can citizens help to change that?

A similar thing is happening, children being seized from a good parent or parents, with seniors, or the disabled, that have assets being seized into the court appointed guardianship racket.

Has happened tooo much!!

And this does not happen in poor families only.

Shady wants mothers to stay with their abusers. Trust me, divorce is never easy especially when you have kids. It’s not like he says. He has no concept of reality, just like Trump does not know.

Grow up to end up with men just like their parents and repeat the cycle…. We sooo need more public education on the matter.

​Totally agree, untrained FC judges couldn’t care less about domestic violence. Corrupt and unethical. Many fraud psychologists or “custody evaluators” in FC who LIE and ignore facts. Impacted my children.

Thank You for being a voice, Dr. Bandy Lee. Keep it going…. Those children and families need a voice.

Dr. Lee you are a courageous person. I appreciate you speaking up about Family Courts tonight. And for continuing to educate the public on DJT.

This Weekend Show is a Beautiful Educational Program. I love it, and I enjoy listening and Learning from Dr. Lee. And Anthony asks some Serious and Critical Questions too. Thank you both!

Evangelicals to catholic abuse of children to family court abuse.

Dr. Lee is spot on. As a mental health nurse in child adolescence for the last 43 years, the insufficient systems in place need be overhauled.

Thank you, Anthony and Dr Bandy Lee!

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Cease-and-Desist Letter

To Mr. Christopher Ambrose

*An earlier version of this article, without a preamble, was sent out by error. Here is the correct version:

https://bandyxlee.medium.com/cease-and-desist-letter-fc7a475ebd81

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Cease-and-Desist Letter

To Mr. Christopher Ambrose

September 29, 2024

Mr. Ambrose:

I demand that you cease and desist contacting, stalking, and/or harassing me or any of my past or present affiliates, be they colleagues, associates, or institutions.

As you are aware, I reported you to multiple police precincts because of your unsolicited contact of me ever since you learned that I was retained as an expert witness in your family court case. Even though I have no obligation to you and was fulfilling my duty as a mandated reporter of child abuse, you harassed me with letters consisting of dozens, if not hundreds, of pages of threatening and coercive content, in order to interfere with my fulfilling my professional duties. Now, you have heard me testify in court that I believe you are attempting to tamper with and intimidate me as a witness, since I have affirmed your extreme violence against your children and ex-spouse, as well as your preliminary diagnosis of a dangerous personality disorder.

Yet, in less than a week since, you have contacted three dozen more of my affiliates, especially in relation to a major national conference I was organizing. I kept the identities of the presenters private, precisely so that you would not have an opportunity to harass them, and yet you managed to find them out anyhow. This would not have been possible without the kind of obsessive, pathological, and intense stalking of which I accused you but which you denied just recently in court on September 23, 2024. Now, you have proven that you are engaging in a campaign of stalking, harassment, spreading of fraudulent information, and targeted character assassination, because I am a witness against you.

This would not be the first time. I am well aware of your extensive history of targeting, intimidating, and retaliating against witnesses by incessantly contacting their employers and getting them fired — which has happened to two people so far — so that they would think twice about testifying against you. Your ex-wife has lost many witnesses and social supports as a result, for you did not stop until you exhausted or frightened every one of them. On one occasion, you manipulated the FBI and orchestrated a false SWAT raid, based on pathological lies. This is the very material I examined for your preliminary diagnosis of psychopathy, which does not necessarily require a personal interview of the perpetrator (instead, studies show that interviews of victims are far preferable, which I have performed).

Against your ex-wife, you filed an astounding sixty motions, all in order to “DARVO” (deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender), so that you might deflect from charges against you — and have succeeded. In my case, I have counted up to almost fifty persons or departments you have contacted in order to harass me. Through these extreme actions, you are only confirming that you are dangerously disturbed, and that my diagnosis of your dangerous disorder is probably correct. Should you contact me or anyone connected to me ever again, I will move for your arrest. Please be guided accordingly.

Sincerely,

Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.

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The United States of Abuse

How Long will We Condone Family Court Sacrifice of Our Children?

I was first alarmed when I served as an expert witness for a Family Court case in the Midwest, and a beautiful, sensitive four-year-old girl was allowed to be brutalized by her sexually assaultive father. There were four medical professionals confirming sexual assault and rape, and finally a rape kit returned positive. Yet, Child Protective Services (CPS) called this “insufficient evidence”! Instead, the stronger the evidence, both Family Court and CPS came down harder on the mother, until she lost custody altogether. The child — now permanently “sold” to a depraved and perverted man as his sexual slave — is as good as “soul murdered,” to use Leonard Shengold’s phrase. This would become the first of 39 out of the 40 Family Court cases in which I served as a expert witness, where the results would be almost identical: the violent abuser got sole custody, and the nurturing parent lost all contact by the time Family Court was through with the case. Every one of these cases, if in criminal court and not in the secret, “sealed” Family Court, the child predator would have been convicted “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Soul murder is worse than bodily murder, my patient population — violent offenders in maximum-security prisons — told me. They would mutilate themselves to lessen the pain, as they called themselves, “walking tombs.” Now, having set foot in the Family Courts (not an easy task), I am witnessing this damaged population in formation, a third of whom will become violent themselves to cope with the trauma they endured. In the above case, Family Court had the choice to allow the girl to continue to thrive and blossom under her mother, as she had despite the abuse. Instead, it made the deliberate choice to send a child to unspeakable suffering and a life worse than death — and this is what Family Courts do to 160 children a day in this United States of Abuse. The reason? I am told that this is the biggest revenue source for the 50- to 175-billion-dollar Family Court industry. What I see in the actual courtrooms is a perpetrator class in black robes.

Now there are concrete studies showing Family Court judges intending child destruction. A study from the University of Manchester aptly calls it, “‘Let’s excuse abusive men from abusing and enable sexual abuse’: Child sexual abuse investigations in England’s private family courts” (the U.K. government recently forced Family Courts to open to reporters and researchers, which is why we are hearing more from that side of the Atlantic, even though the U.S. is worse). However, this what I see every day. Below is another, clear-cut case whose evidence I personally examined as an expert witness. In addition to listening to the mother’s very credible interview, I encourage the reader to read more about her here, here, and here. Her reports are very valuable and rare, since Family Courts get away with what they do by destroying witnesses and silencing reporters.

Family Court-persecuted parents are almost always good if not excellent parents, but Ria Aichour is one of the best I have witnessed. Her loving relationship with her daughter is what allowed her daughter to become so precociously discerning, articulate, and outspoken — in other words, highly emotionally-developed — which is precisely what psychopathic perpetrators, be they parents or judges, target for destruction:

NJ Mother Takes DCPP to Court Over Abuse Cover-Up

Sep 18, 2024

SIGN THE JUSTICE FOR M.C. PETITIONBy Richard Luthmann

Ria Aichour, a New Jersey mother, continues her legal battle against the Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCPP), alleging they failed to protect her daughter, M.C., from repeated sexual and physical abuse by M.C.’s biological father, Jimmy Cerveaux.

Ria Aichour

In a recent episode of The Unknown Podcast with journalists Michael Volpe and Richard Luthmann, Aichour detailed her harrowing experience of fighting to save her daughter from what she describes as DCPP’s systemic failures and cover-ups.

Jill Jones Soderman, Founder and Director of the Foundation for the Child Victims of the Family Courts, joined her.

Medical Concerns Lead to First Disclosure

According to Aichour, her daughter first disclosed the abuse in early 2023 during a doctor’s visit.

“We were on our way to the pediatrician when M.C. told me about the abuse,” she explained on the podcast.

The pediatrician made the initial report to DCPP, setting off a chain of events leading to Aichour’s legal nightmare.

DCPP conducted interviews with M.C., but according to their findings, the child didn’t disclose any abuse during those sessions.

However, Aichour, who wasn’t present for the interviews, said she installed cameras in her home after being told she was the only one hearing the disclosures. Despite alarming behavior from M.C., including sexualized play and repeated verbal disclosures, DCPP declined to view the video evidence.

18 Months of Ignored Disclosures

Aichour explained that over the next 18 months, M.C. disclosed the abuse to over 15 different individuals, including teachers, doctors, and other mandated reporters.

“At this point, 12 different people had called DCPP or the police, reporting that M.C. had disclosed abuse to them,” she said.

Despite these reports, DCPP repeatedly deemed the allegations “unfounded.”

Richard Luthmann, a former attorney and co-host of the podcast, pointed out the pattern of denial in cases like Aichour’s.

“Too many coincidences make a fact,” Luthmann said. “When you have 17 reports from multiple teachers and doctors over a year, it’s almost better than direct evidence.”

Doctors Raise the Alarm

Several doctors who examined M.C. became increasingly concerned. Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Bandy Lee was one of the professionals who found the disclosures credible.

“She made very clear, unequivocal disclosures to Dr. Lee and other doctors,” Aichour said.

Michael Volpe emphasized the importance of medical professionals’ reports.

“Doctors are trained to distinguish between coached children and those disclosing actual abuse,” he said. “If multiple doctors are calling it in, they believe the child is being abused.”

Yet despite these mounting concerns, DCPP maintained its stance, refusing to investigate further or view the evidence provided by Aichour.

“They didn’t want to see the videos. They didn’t want to acknowledge what M.C. was saying,” Aichour recalled.

Systemic Failures and Allegations of Cover-Up

The pattern of inaction has led Aichour to file a tort claim against DCPP and Hudson County, accusing them of gross negligence and a deliberate cover-up of her daughter’s abuse.

Luthmann described the situation as beyond negligence, saying, “It’s deliberate indifference, if not intentional.”

Jill Jones Soderman, another podcast guest and founder of the Foundation for Child Victims of the Family Court, elaborated on the systemic issues at play.

“This isn’t an isolated case,” she said. “Millions of children are being tortured and abused, and the systems in place are failing to protect them. The consequences are devastating.”

Jones Soderman went further, stating that reunification therapy, often mandated in cases like Aichour’s, is a form of psychological torture for the child.

“It tells children that what they experienced didn’t happen, gaslighting them into silence,” she said.

Struggling for Custody

While Aichour fights to protect M.C. legally, she also struggles in the family courts. Despite the evidence of abuse, M.C. was removed from Aichour’s custody and placed with her father, Jimmy Cerveaux.

“DCPP took her from me even after M.C. disclosed severe physical abuse, including strangulation,” Aichour said.

She hasn’t seen her daughter in three months and fears that without action, she may never regain custody.

“Every day that passes, I don’t know what’s happening to her,” Aichour tearfully shared on the podcast. “I count every single day — 92 days now.”

Mandated Reporter’s Dilemma

Adding to Aichour’s frustrations is her role as a mandated reporter. In New Jersey, individuals who suspect child abuse must report it or face criminal penalties. However, Aichour says she is caught in a bureaucratic nightmare.

“I’ve reported the abuse to the authorities, but they’re the ones allowing it to happen. Who do I report them to?” she asked.

When she went to the police, the response was equally frustrating.

“They told me to report it to DCPP — the very agency I’m accusing of negligence,” she said. “It’s a Kafkaesque situation. I’m damned if I do, and damned if I don’t.”

Legal and Advocacy Fight Continues

Despite the obstacles, Aichour is determined to continue her fight. She has filed a petition to urge the judge in her case to return M.C. to her custody and compel DCPP to act in her daughter’s best interest.

“This isn’t just about me and my daughter,” Aichour said. “It’s about ensuring that no other child goes through what M.C. is enduring.”

Richard Luthmann vowed to keep covering the case.

“This isn’t over,” he said. “We will continue to shine a light on this story until justice is served.”

As Aichour’s legal battles continue, she remains hopeful but realistic.

“The system has failed M.C.,” she said. “But I won’t stop fighting for her.”

SIGN THE JUSTICE FOR M.C. PETITION

(The original article is published here: https://substack.com/@luthmann/p-149037410.)

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Disgraced Principal Michael Piacenza Leaves Ridge Elementary School

A Principal who Aided and Abetted Child Abuse, Now being Federally Sued, Transfers to Another School

Michael Piacenza abused his authority to arrest falsely three innocent people, including a world-renowned physician, in order to intimidate them as witnesses and to tamper with the creation of evidence. The reason? To protect and criminally collude with a duly-diagnosed psychopath and violent abuser and abductor of children. Now, he has been demoted to his previous position, and the atmosphere at Ridge Elementary School is already improved. At the time of Piacenza’s false arrests, the mother wrote a heartfelt letter to him, which others deemed moving enough to publish: “Who will You Be, Mr. Piacenza?” Rather than repent what he had done, Piacenza punished the mother with yet another false arrest, for doing the same volunteer work she had done the previous five years! All charges against these three people were dropped within five minutes of being heard, with the prosecutor calling Piacenza’s charges, “obviously overblown.” Whether the former principal did all this to satisfy his need to be a “pseudo-jock,” or whether there was financial incentive involved, he would not have dared such acts without the involvement of a corrupt Family Court. In June of this year, I added Piacenza to my federal complaint, alongside who seem to believe that piling on co-conspirators will somehow “justify” my niece’s and nephew’s violent abuse and abduction, which continue to this day. Regardless, the Ridgewood School District has failed to investigate these allegations of abuse — despite complicity with child abuse carrying equal legal weight as commission of child abuse — and merely transferred the contemptible man to another school. I cannot help but recall how the Catholic Church handled abuse allegations among its ranks until an outcry and overwhelming pressure came from the public. Far from taking the lead in investigating or mitigating harm against children, it abdicated its role until forced from the outside. If institutions charged with protecting the most vulnerable members of society are busy covering up their exploitations of them instead — and Family Courts veritably creating an industry of doing so — who will safeguard our children? Is it any wonder that child murders by parent in the U.S. are among the highest in the developed world, and Family Courts responsible for up to one-fifth of them? I can now finally publicize the letter I wrote to Piacenza before the false criminal charges he heaped on us were heard:

March 9, 2023

Mr. Piacenza:

I have learned that you lied to the prosecutor on the deceitful machinations of an abusive, pathologically-lying parent who is ironically using the school system to hide his abuse. You personally caused and are solely responsible for the arrests of three innocent people, including a world-renowned doctor and expert on child abuse I was escorting, who had come down from Massachusetts specifically to do his legally-mandated duty to investigate child maltreatment. You embellished and rescripted the facts for your malicious, vindictive, and slanderous ends. Your malfeasance and dereliction of duty not only caused grave injury by arresting these three innocent individuals but caused great disruption to the entire school body, students, teachers, parents, and the Ridgewood Police.

You violated the law by believing one parent without even bothering to consult the other — an egregious breach of the inherent responsibilities of a school principal. As if arresting three innocent people was not enough, you are willing to give false testimony to have us imprisoned to justify your false arrests. I do not believe you realize how much you have incriminated yourself, and you have no idea of the severe legal consequences you are going to face for acting as if you had impunity, which is certainly not the case.

Giving false testimony to the district attorney is a crime, and you are putting yourself in serious legal jeopardy. Therefore, think twice before you continue to tell your contrived, fictitious stories and indict yourself further, because this is all going to be publicly known when I file my suit against you and the school — and specifically against you personally for your unprofessional and disgraceful conduct.

You are not going to ruin the life of an innocent mother, or the careers of two doctors who have dedicated their lives to protecting victims of violence, because you were foolish enough to be bamboozled and manipulated by someone who has been diagnosed by three prominent forensic psychiatrists to be a psychopath. If anything happens to these two children, I am going to hold you personally responsible. You are the sole cause of the arrest of three innocent people, abusing and exceeding your authority as principal. I can only conclude that your actions are motivated by your willingness to serve as a lackey of a pathological liar and a sadistic perpetrator of child abuse without any investigation.

Others are giving you deference right now only because they do not know how you have aided and abetted a sadistic abuser of children, and the harm that you have done in the arrests of three innocent people. When they find out, they will deem you a dishonor to all the principals who preceded you at Ridge Elementary School, as well as all the other principals in the Ridgewood School System.

How dare you pick on an innocent mother. Is this what you do? Is this your idea of intramural sports, to take a petite woman grieving for her children, and to have a whole police department descend on her as your lynch mob? [It came out in the discovery that, after the police chief deliberated for forty-five minutes, mumbling to himself, “I can’t arrest her based on this,” and finally told Piacenza that he could not arrest the innocent mother based on what he gave him, Piacenza told additional lies in order to ensure her arrest.] Why would you do this? Do you have an issue with Asian women or against Korean-Americans?

To say that you are the shame and embarrassment of any educational institution is an understatement. You are out of control. While you have been trained by Alan T. Chan to do his vicious bidding, what you do not know about him is that, when charges are filed against you, he will act like he does not even know you. And as he has done to many others, he is going to throw you under the bus and disappear.

Because of you, the custody of these children has been given to a sadistic, pornography-addicted, substance-abusing, and psychopathic father. He has a history of a temporary restraining order for giving his son a head injury, and since he has taken the children, his daughter has a shoulder injury that was neglected for months.

Not only that, you helped him further hide his abuse by denying Patricia Lee her constitutionally-protected right to access her own children’s school records, when all she wanted to do was to monitor their wellbeing, after one of her children had fifty-six absences in the first seven months after their violent abduction [she was a prodigy student with perfect attendance before; of note, Piacenza further tampered with the electronic attendance record system called Skyward, not only to block the mother from access but to reduce the confirmed absences by half!].

Why would you hide these records if you were innocent? Are you so gullible to be taken by the lies of an abusive father, that you are willing to go to these extremes to jeopardize your own position, not to mention these children?

And most disgracefully, you willfully and maliciously sabotaged the urgent medical mission of two doctors who were investigating the unspeakable abuse these children have suffered. Instead of welcoming and supporting their investigation, as any competent principal concerned about the welfare of children would have done, you vindictively and maliciously orchestrated their false arrests. Why would you commit such heinous acts? You are acting more as the protector of a violent father than a protector of innocent and vulnerable children.

I do not think you can even begin to fathom the enormity of your crimes for actively colluding with a man who is hiding his abuse, and your aggressive enabling of his abuse by going as far as to arrest two internationally-respected physicians to prevent their seeing them — or even discussing this urgent matter with you, which was the purpose of our visit. And if this weren’t unscrupulous by itself — you have now gone out of your way to compound your indefensible, illegal actions with a series of appalling and abhorrent lies to the prosecutor, in which you have perjured yourself with the deplorable intent to justify your false arrests.

You have simply gone too far. Because of your actions, I will have no choice but to hold you personally responsible for your malfeasance and abrogation of your solemn responsibility as a school principal. You do not know that the web that you have woven against myself, my sister, and a renowned forensic professional is for your own legal entrapment.

I therefore suggest that you act as a responsible school principal entrusted with the solemn duty to protect innocent and vulnerable children.

Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.

P.S. Attached are the New Jersey statutes on child abuse. The violations of Alan T. Chan, the parent whom you have chosen to protect, are notated in red. The statutes which you have illegally violated are notated in red and bolded.

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Family Court ‘Judge’ and ‘Guardian ad Litem’ Play God with Others’ Lives

Too Much Power in the Hands of Unfit Persons Breeds God Complexes — and Wreaks Havoc on Society

I have treated many patients with god complexes, but the ones who are hospitalized with the belief that they are God, in a desperate attempt to escape the painful reality of their helplessness, are not the ones who are the most dangerous. The most dangerous are those out in society who actually act like they are God, having taken power positions that they neither deserve nor can handle, for being psychologically, morally, and spiritually unfit. They are largely unrecognized in society, despite being more dangerous for their devious and deceptive ways of using power to disguise their incompetence. In Family Courts, the lack of public scrutiny, the cooptation of existing structures through a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) scheme, and “court seals” have covered up child kidnapping, child sex trafficking, child pornography production, and the mayhem and murder of children and loving parents (as well as reporters) to keep the business going.

I came to learn of this secret world of organized crime through my sister’s divorce, in which her peaceful household was torn apart when her children were raided, kidnapped, and “sold” to their formerly absentee father and violent abuser. Never had I seen such violence in my life, despite specializing in treating violent offenders! This is because, when violent offenders can “legalize” their own actions, there is no limit to the harm they can do. Now, my sister is being actively targeted for murder — by an ironically-named, Family “Court”! And the reason? She is an impeccable former government official and model mother they did everything to try to “break” but could not, having underestimated the New York State governor’s former executive assistant who acted as his “right-hand woman” and directed all First Responders on Ground Zero after the greatest enemy attack on U.S. soil, September 11 — all while she was still in her twenties. The usual course is that Family Courts would assault the loving mother so viciously and unexpectedly, that any ordinary person would be broken psychologically — especially as their children are taken from them to be tortured and brutalized. Then, once the mothers are broken, they can be declared “unfit” and be permanently barred from seeing their children, while forced to pay exorbitant “child support,” the abuser’s legal fees, and court appointees’ salaries, until they lose everything, including their homes, possessions, life savings, retirement, and human rights. I have seen this happen over and over, to Ivy League-trained doctors, accomplished lawyers, and even multi-millionaires — who lose everything to Family Court. The Courts have no deference for credentials, reputation, track record, wealth (unless it comes to them), or certainly innocence, only that they have full power over you, no matter who you are.

I, too, have not been reputationally or physically safe, as a witness of their criminal enterprise and a whistleblower of this crime cartel hiding within loopholes of the “Law”. When no legal or criminal justice system would help, I consulted a Harvard Law School professor, who astonishingly advised: “Going public may be the only way.” So, I learned that there are areas of extreme human rights violations, including serial kidnapping, sexual slavery, and serial murder, that our legal system has no remedy for, and the worst street gangs are nothing compared to the destructiveness of these “Courts”, which are committing mass “soul murder,” before actual mass murder, with industrial efficiency. One day, my words will be revealed to be true and not exaggerated: this is the Hidden Holocaust of our time.

The “guardian ad litem” (“GAL”) in my sister’s case came close to killing her at least twice. Since I started writing public articles trying to expose her abuses of authority after the law professor’s advice, the “GAL” abrogated my First Amendment rights through the guise of a protective order against me. She tried to silence me before by sanctioning my sister with 27,000 dollars, for my articles that my sister did not even know about and had no control over. The GAL’s mindset is much like her protective judge, Jane Gallina-Mecca, who was written up in the Washington Post for making up laws to violate the First Amendment. Still, the judge did not learn, and was recently rebuked again by the legal department of a major magazine for trying to “unpublish” an article containing my interview, which violates the U.S. Constitution.

The GAL recruited Judge Michael Antoniewicz, whom she works with extensively and who is a subordinate of Judge Gallina-Mecca. Any reasonable judge would have recused himself, but she would not have recruited him if he were a reasonable judge. Family Courts operate almost exclusively through incestuous conflicts of interest and corrupt abuses of process. Because their activities are basically criminal, they cannot allow in outside experts or independent evaluators — which is why the GAL, too, has been repeatedly appointed by the same judges in the same court, and the most ignorant and incompetent attorney I have met — not to mention immoral — has no trouble finding work. These are the same low-level, poor-quality Family Courts that do everything not to appoint me as an expert witness, when even the highest-level criminal courts have treated me with only deference and gratitude for my work.

Needless to say, there is no “threat” to the GAL’s safety — but so intoxicated with power is she, the slightest nuisance to her feels like a “threat”! The GAL has literally very nearly killed my sister multiple times, irreversibly damaged her children, and injured her in the most extreme ways my sister ever experienced in her life — this is the typical experience of loving mothers, rarely loving fathers, in Family Courts, where they love all their constitutional and human rights. Yet, despite my sister having actual medical evidence of threats to her life, the compromised judge predictably would not issue a protective order for my sister. My engagement in Family Court cases as a forensic psychiatrist has shown me that, whatever Family Courts decide, the opposite extreme is likely the correct decision (in the approximately forty cases in which I served as an expert witness, 98 percent went the wrong way — sending children to their rapists, batterers, and would-be murderers, while the good parent lost custody).

What most people do not recognize is that the greatest human violence happens not in battlefields or war zones but in the home. Thus, when a corrupt “court” system capitalizes on this violence as an opportunity to profit by further victimizing the victims — as well as to satisfy their lust for cruelty — it is providing a haven for the most dangerous individuals our society produces. Not only that, just like Family “Court” actors themselves, undue power in the hands of the incompetent amplifies their dangerousness multifold, borne out of now ballooned expectations morphing into out-of-control megalomania and grotesque delusions of grandeur. This is what turns into god complexes that do not hesitate to “justify” their arbitrary rulings by falsifying “evidence”, decimating good parents to the point where they cannot fight back, and sacrificing children to lifetimes of torture, sexual slavery, and suicide if not murder. Violent perpetrators, who believe they are not only being “gifted” with impunity but financial bonanzas, are further affirmed in their violence — until it intensifies into spousal murder, child murder, and murder-suicide.

It is tragic that I must write a letter as the below to a so-called “judge”, but money is all that speaks to her:

September 4, 2024

Judge Gallina-Mecca:

I am updating my demand that you address the financial responsibilities of a litigant whose crimes you have so far covered for in every possible way — which is the real reason you have shunned me, as the primary and most qualified witness of his violence against his children — even though I do not expect anything. If kidnapping, child rape, battery, and attempted murder are nothing to you, what is a third person’s entire savings? Theft of others’ entire wealth is a given to you — and I am not just speaking of the damage you have caused me but countless others, who are coming out to speak up against you (see the attached petition for your impeachment).

You gave my niece and nephew to a violent psychopath and destroyed the lives of not only these children but all those who love them, because you thought it would be profitable. You employed a psychiatrically sick, sadistic torturer of children to be their “guardian ad litem,” because she is efficient to your goals. You may believe that your black robe allows you to play God, but judicial immunity is not impunity. There is something called truth, and numbers do not lie; facts and evidence do not simply disappear.

As a reminder, here is what your darling litigant, Alan T. Chan, owes me:

$ 883,120.94

(Eight hundred eighty-three thousand one hundred twenty dollars and ninety-four cents)

These are all marital expenses, including house and status quo maintenance ($321,228.03), legal fees ($470,235.56), and medical costs ($91,657.35), up to and including August 31, 2024, only. All receipts and itemizations in an Excel spreadsheet are available if you ever looked for them. Additionally, minimal house maintenance costs we have been urgently waiting for since the beginning of the year are $43,755.00 (forty-three thousand seven hundred fifty-five dollars), and the arrears of the minimum deposits you ordered him to make, on which he is still delinquent, are $19,847.09 (nineteen thousand eight hundred forty-seven dollars and nine cents).

For the final time, do what is right.

Sincerely,

Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.

She gave a repetitive response, and so I wrote her back the next day:

September 5, 2024

Judge Gallina-Mecca:

Your robotic, mindlessly repeated response, that I am “not a party” to this matter, is irresponsible and unacceptable. You are the one who forcibly made me an unwilling participant in your illegal and unconstitutional rulings — causing me to expend almost a million dollars, as I never have before in my entire life — purely to protect your favored litigant’s illicit financial schemes.

Being a judge does not mean you are above the Law.

Your hand was revealed when you refused to do what any normal and responsible judge would do: have me testify as a fact witness against Alan T. Chan’s daily violent abuse of his children and his spouse, which nearly killed each of them on multiple occasions.

Instead, you extended your hand in all manner of places where it does not belong: interfering with Child Protection Services (CPS) investigations by canceling their interview with me; ordering the Child Abuse Hotline not to take reports on this case; falsely attempting to incriminate me with the State Police (which they dropped); falsely arresting me and a renowned, elderly psychiatrist at the children’s school (which the prosecutor called “obviously overblown” and dropped); attempting to “unpublish” national magazine articles containing my interview (for which you were rebuked for violating the U.S. Constitution) — which reminds me of your rebuffing a foremost Constitutional scholar in the nation warning that you were violating the U.S. Constitution in this case — and enabling Alan T. Chan to slander and character-assassinate me in order to discredit me as a witness.

This is why a petition for your impeachment is gaining record momentum (with 1500 signatures, dozens of witnesses against you, and the governor and senators willing to hear them) — please do not forget to read the comments — and why I and my sister have a federal case against you, which will only be the first of many among the numerous loving parents you have victimized.

Regrettably,

Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.

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