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Evelyn Nissirios — Her Criminal Charges will Soon be Heard!

Evelyn Nissirios — Her Criminal Charges will Soon be Heard!

On June 17, 2024, She and the Violently Abusive Father She Co-Conspired with will Appear for Their Criminal Charges

Time: 9:30 a.m. on Monday, June 17, 2024

Place: Franklin Lakes Municipal Court

Address: 480 De Korte Drive, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417

This is monumental, since in Family Court, criminals are typically exonerated and innocent people are incriminated as a rule. It is because Family Court personnel themselves are criminals, covering up a racketeering industry of child kidnapping, sex trafficking, and pornography production; those who do not go along with this criminal enterprise (those with a conscience) are ousted. Family Court is the one court that is unhinged from the law; abusing this “discretion”, it has turned itself into an Anti-Court — and into one of the worst Crime Cartels on U.S. soil. This is the setting that has propped up Evelyn Nissirios, a serial child predator who has ripped dozens of children from their loving parent to send them to their battery, rape, and torture — in well-oiled, assembly-line style. So many dozens of mothers (and one father) have now shared their stories with me, I could probably predict her next move in almost every, near-identical case! Below is what a mother told me upon seeing pictures of her children she has not seen or heard from in three years:

Below are the most recent photographs of my children, sent to me by other parents. My daughter is now six to eight inches shorter than her peers who used to be her size. At the same time, her body shape is like a 16-year-old instead of a 12-year-old, because of high stress hormone release. She has been wearing the same clothes and same shoes for the last three years. Both my children were also wearing the same jackets in which they were taken in 2021, through all the winters, springs, and falls since (I was never allowed to bring them the new winter coats I bought for them in 2021, nor their birthday gifts and Christmas gifts — since this is how Evelyn tortures them). Their father is someone who used to order food for himself but not for the children, and when they returned to me they would eat three adult portions! I wonder how they are eating now….

Nissirios kidnapped these children without cause or due process to wholesale hand them over to the father who was on a restraining order for almost killing each of them by head injury and attempted murder against the mother six times. In this manner, the most miscreant and depraved “court” actors, who would have been given the death penalty in some states, are instead collectively reaping 50 to 175 billion dollars a year for their abuses of “absolute judicial immunity”! Indeed, when the scandal of Family Courts erupts, it will be bigger than the scandal of the Catholic Church. Just as the Catholic Church abused its religious authority to hide the most hideous crimes against innocent children, so are Family Courts abusing their judicial authority to hide their heinous atrocities against innocent children.

*This is the sixteenth of articles informing of criminal acts of violence against children by Evelyn Nissirios. As long as the child abuse, torture, battery, and rape continue under her criminal co-conspiracy with other violent offenders, and her flaunting of “absolute judicial immunity” continue, these articles will not end. She not only needs to be criminally prosecuted, but her license needs to be stripped for committing serial felonies and destruction of children. The Saddle River Board of Education, which has been protecting Nissirios, has been placed on notice, or they will be implicated in her crimes. They are mandated reporters who criminally neglected their responsibility to protect children. All these events and more will be uncovered in the near future in a dramatic exposé of three separate books, a documentary, and a television series.

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Evelyn Nissirios Faces Criminal Charges!

Please Come if You are Near Franklin Lakes, NJ, on June 17, 2024!

Dear All:

At long last, it is happening! The court hearing will involve two criminal charges against Evelyn Nissirios, which may become felonies (in addition to felony charges pending against her in Superior Court), and four criminal charges against the abusive father she co-conspired with to kidnap and injure two children. We seem to have managed to have rare criminal charges stick against a court actor (guardian ad litem), especially! Let us see if justice will be delivered outside Family Court.

The cases will be heard at Franklin Lakes Municipal Court on Monday, June 17, 2024, at 9:30 a.m., and here is the address:

480 De Korte Drive
Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417

After the hearing, we will gather outside the court to discuss plans for one judge’s impeachment, legislative changes, and holding Family Court actors accountable to save our children from harm. We will also discuss the egregious fact that Nissirios remains on the Saddle River Board of Education, despite being voted out and despite having an extremely disturbing track record of sending scores of children to their abuse. A documentarian will be filming interviews of personal experiences before and after the hearing.

We hope to see you there!

Warmly,

Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.

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My Affidavit against Jane Gallina-Mecca

A Judge the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct will Not Investigate, despite Numerous Violations, Multiple Murders, and Evidence of Incompetence, Outlined under Oath below

1. My name is Bandy Lee, M.D., M.Div. I am a forensic psychiatrist who has performed for criminal and civil courts at least 200 mental competence evaluations over twenty-two years. I taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for seventeen years and am now at Harvard Medical School. I am cofounder of the Violence Prevention Institute and president of the World Mental Health Coalition. In 2007, I coauthored the United Nations Secretary-General’s chapter on “Violence against Children,” and since 2011, led a project group for the World Health Organization Violence Prevention Alliance. I served as an expert consultant for the U.S. Senate as well as multiple state and foreign governments on prison reform. I am a recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health’s National Research Service Award. I authored an internationally-acclaimed textbook, Violence; more than 100 scientific articles; and over 300 opinion editorials in major newspapers such as the Guardian and the New York Times.

2. This affidavit concerns Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca, presiding over the divorce case, Alan T. Chan v. Patricia J. Lee, FM — , in which Patricia Lee is my sister. It has repeatedly come to my attention that the Judge may be exhibiting signs of mental incompetence.

3. The extensive body of evidence I have accumulated on her ethics violations, criminal code violations, Constitutional law violations, and human rights violations, confirmed by the top legal experts of the country, suggest that her highly irregular conduct may also be consistent with mental incapacity.

4. Some of it seems to be plain abuse of power and apparent criminality: she proceeded with a predetermined verdict in the case, with an outcome of forcibly transferring two children from their healthy and happy household under their mother’s lifetime care to the “care” of their previously absent, abusive, duly-diagnosed psychopathic father with no experience in parenting but problems with substance abuse, pornography addiction, multiple extramarital affairs, and a family history of psychopathic abuse and abandonment. As a result, the father with no skills or interest in parenting recruited his feeble, 87-year-old father with chronic hepatitis B to relocate from Michigan to act as their surrogate mother and father.

5. Alan T. Chan makes a million dollars a year but lied about his income to his family and took almost 900,000 dollars from his in-laws. He is an unindicted co-conspirator in a financial fraud scheme that resulted in a 38 million-dollar fine for his former employer, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigated his current employer multiple times under his management. He attempted several times to cause the “medical” death of his wife, apparently to collect life insurance and to avoid his financial obligations. He almost caused the death of both his children by head injury and was on a temporary restraining order (TRO). When he filed for divorce — while deceiving his family he would not — he outlined a plan to seize the children, the house, child support, his legal fees, and to pay no alimony. He is now demanding 100,000 dollars per year in child support from his wife who has been a full-time mother for twelve years, and Judge Gallina-Mecca is in lock-step, planning to demand all this of the mother.

6. Judge Gallina-Mecca, in order to help her favored litigant achieve his goals, participated in the orchestration of false arrests as a form of witness intimidation; meddled in criminal cases in order to obstruct justice; tampered with or fabricated physical evidence with the goal of “fixing” her predetermined verdict; and tampered with witnesses to create false evidence to stigmatize my sister as “psychiatrically unstable.”

7. Judge Gallina-Mecca also deprived the mother of a legal defense by violating due process, holding ex-parte meetings without even notifying the mother or her lawyer, and without cause or evidentiary hearing, raiding the mother with five police officers and seizing her children, based solely on Alan T. Chan’s lies, to deliver them to him (the father, who actually tried to abscond with the children the week prior, had the delusional belief that the mother might be “absconding” with them, without basis). The mother has not seen or heard from these children for almost three years, but the Judge’s orders do not state a reason why.

8. My opinion that Judge Gallina-Mecca does not possess the capacity to perform her function is corroborated by three dozen other litigants under her who have reached out to me following my expert testimonies to state legislatures and my public interviews, and their experiences of her usurpation of their parental rights without due process, despite no prior problems parenting, in order to favor violent abusers, are almost identical to this case.

9. At least three other forensic mental health experts who examined the evidence and performed multiple collateral interviews expressed similar concerns regarding the Judge’s unfitness, in ways they never witnessed before in their decades-long careers.

10. At least one judge who has personally interacted with Judge Gallina-Mecca has expressed concerns regarding her mental fitness.

11. Here, however, are the reasons why I believe Judge Gallina-Mecca is deficient in mental capacity to perform her role: her alignment with Alan T. Chan, in giving full custody to a man diagnosed with psychopathy, which is a contraindication to parenting; her compulsive “fulfillment” of his delusional desire for total domination and control over his family; her taking his every word for incontrovertible truth for the past four years; and her seeming projection of her own mental compromise when trying to “frame” the mother as being mentally incompetent. Indeed, when the guardian ad litem she herself appointed — Linda Schofel — declared the mother “fit”, the Judge immediately fired her and refused to issue an order documenting the result.

12. Judge Gallina-Mecca has also ignored ten other reports in favor of the mother by renowned psychiatrists and doctorate psychologists, one of which is ninety-six pages long.

13. Among these reports by renowned psychiatrists and doctorate psychologists were six that declared or confirmed the father to be unfit and a danger to his children, but she suppressed them, including by ordering one of them to be destroyed.

14. Instead, she relied on the sole report that contradicted the above consensus, by an unqualified, unlicensed “associate counselor” — Tara Devine — who believed that the mother’s “tangential speech” disqualified her from being a mother.

15. When the mother’s lawyer had to recuse himself from the case for personal reasons relating to another client, just days before the trial by no fault of the mother, Judge Gallina-Mecca proceeded with the trial, without allowing the mother time to look for another lawyer.

16. In fact, Judge Gallina-Mecca altogether excluded the mother from her own trial, by revoking the Americans with Disabilities Act office’s grant of her remote access from home, as she had done for the past three years, due to a life-threatening medical condition.

17. Even more alarmingly, Judge Gallina-Mecca placed the mother under “default”, when she had been actively participating all along. She claimed that the mother “refused” a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation, but in truth, the children’s guardian ad litem, Evelyn Nissirios, who was charged with finding a psychiatrist, failed to find a single psychiatrist to the very end — while during the same period the mother was able to find and undergo ten evaluations by top professionals from around the country (all of which the Judge negated).

18. Finally, Judge Gallina-Mecca “sealed” all courtroom records, even from the mother who is a litigant (she cannot access transcripts or see motions and orders against her), for no apparent reason other than to escape accountability for her abuses of authority. She prohibited the mother from speaking to me about her case, even though I am her closest support and only financial resource, and ordered that fact-checked articles containing interviews about my personal knowledge of my sister’s case be “unpublished” (the news outlets refused — and the Washington Post cited her First Amendment violations dating back to 2015). When the Judge’s egregious deeds were separately exposed under an independent investigation for which the father’s attorney was an informant, giving out copious “sealed” court information, the Judge obsessively persecuted only the mother, despite her innocence.

19. Indeed, the mother, who had no psychiatric problems even after thirteen years of emotional, psychological, sexual, physical, and financial abuse and coercive control under her husband, was newly diagnosed of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), only after Judge Gallina-Mecca engaged in courtroom bullying, psychological abuse, false accusations, and threats against her, while supporting her husband’s violence against his family by denying its very existence — while she blocked my and others’ testimonies from her courtroom, the Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCPP), and the Child Abuse Hotline.

20. From the very beginning, Judge Gallina-Mecca displayed temper outbursts against Patricia Lee, and if her lawyers mounted an effective defense, she cowered them into compliance (one of them stated he “almost had a heart attack”). The Judge made every excuse to exclude me as a fact witness, even though I was a primary, firsthand witness of the father’s daily violence against his wife and children for fifteen months. She also once accused me of standing in as an “imposter” in court for my sister, revealing her prejudice that “All Asians look alike,” and would not accept proof that I was at work that day. Additionally, she was caught on camera, exclaiming, “What do I do now?!” in relation to me. She unwaveringly favored Alan T. Chan in all her decisions, even after he tried to abscond with the children following a TRO for causing his son a head injury; indeed, she helped him kidnap them the very next week.

21. Judge Gallina-Mecca showed an inability to take in facts or information that she did not like or that contradicted her preconceived notions favoring the father. For example, when evidence of his violent assaults and financial fraud schemes surfaced, she obstructed all investigations, including by DCPP, to protect him. She overruled his TRO by mandating the children to visit him, even as they attempted suicide and were police-escorted. Instead, she barred the mother’s access without explanation, when she has no history of abuse. She even disbelieved medical records when she did not wish to admit that the mother was in the emergency room with a life-threatening condition, which she herself helped cause.

22. Judge Gallina-Mecca showed a rigid inability to correct course, but expended inordinate energy negating positive reports on the mother, no matter their caliber, while doing everything she could to help the father create false “evidence” to incriminate her. For example, she excused him and the children’s guardian ad litem from a mandatory court conference — which the mother had to attend — so that they could orchestrate the arrest of two world-renowned physicians on their way to report his abuse. Not even the prosecutor could see the secret orders for their arrests, and the charges were instantly dropped.

23. Judge Gallina-Mecca also facilitated the mother’s arrest through secret orders that not even the arresting police officer could see — which remain “hidden” for two years, to this date. The Judge has a history of concocting backdated “court orders,” one of which the clerk of court confirmed was “manually entered” months after the date.

24. Judge Gallina-Mecca showed an inability to consider consequences of her decisions, as she could not cease abusing her authority to arrest, harass, and punish the mother and members of her well-reputed, law-abiding family of doctors and professors (the mother herself was a trusted executive in the New York State governor’s office, in charge of coordinating federal and state law enforcement and all First Responders on Ground Zero after the 9/11 terrorist attacks). The ignominy of suffering arrest under Judge Gallina-Mecca almost caused her death while under custody. The Judge also caused me to be incarcerated for the first time, after a twenty-two-year career as an expert advising governments and international organizations on prison reform, including of Rikers Island.

25. Finally, Judge Gallina-Mecca aggressively hid information on the acute decline of the children she claims to be protecting. Whenever evidence of their injury and trauma surfaced, she further restricted information access against anyone outside the father and his enablers. In response to reports of absences from almost one-half of school and drops in grade, she stopped the mother’s access to all school records for the mother; to their arrestation of growth, going from average height and weight to becoming the smallest in their classes, she blocked pediatric records for the mother; and to repeated emergency room visits, orthopedic injuries, and the need for oral surgery from dental neglect, she overhauled all providers, so that the mother cannot even know whom the children are seeing.

26. The end result is that two children have been maximally harmed — now showing severe, medically-identifiable physical deformities from stress — without access to their loving mother since the court-conducted forced custody switch three years ago to their violently abusive father, who almost killed each of them on different occasions. The mother, on the other hand, has an impeccable track record of parents and teachers praising her parenting skills and seeking her counsel as “the best mom” — abruptly disrupted only by Judge Gallina-Mecca’s systematic slander of her with a fictitious “mental illness.” Separation from their primary caregiver since birth is one of the greatest traumas growing small children can face; isolation with their abuser causes “soul death,” or irreparable damage to personality development, and lifelong psychological and physical problems that shorten life by decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

27. For reasons of her apparent belief in her impunity, and her inability to adhere to laws or rules of procedure under the seeming assumption that she is exempt, I believe that Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca lacks the mental competence to perform her duties as judge. I attach my curriculum vitae for my qualifications to make this statement and recommend an urgent, formal evaluation to prevent further harm to countless children and loving parents.

Signed, Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., and Notarized on the 3rd day of June, 2024.

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What if Your Judge is a Murderer?

Three Confirmed Murders. Three Suspected Murders. Dozens of Children per Year Sent to Their Torture, Battery, and Rape. Violations of Every Law and Rule in the Book. This is Just One Judge, and Still There is No Accountability.

On Memorial Day and on the one-year anniversary of Catherine Kassenoff’s death, WeSpoke is commemorating the mothers who have been killed in Family Court. While millions of brave men and women have given their lives to protect their families and this nation, Family Courts, ironically instead of protecting lives, sacrifice these very families and the future of our nation. While troops battle in war zones, women’s battlefield is often the home; even the casualties and death rates are comparable. Yet, Family Courts do little to reduce this carnage but exacerbate it, often setting up the conditions for murder. As unbelievable as this sounds, Family Court judges evade accountability through their own violation of the bedrock democratic principle that courts should be open. Judges are given the authority sometimes to “seal” court records for extenuating circumstances, such as disturbing details of child sexual abuse that could affect a minor’s future. However, Family Court judges almost universally blanket seal their records. Judges are supposed to state the reason for the “seal”, so that litigants could contest it if called for, but they almost never do. The reason is simple: there is usually no reason for these Family Courts to “seal” records other than to cover up their organized criminal activity of child kidnapping, child sex trafficking, and child pornography production, in addition to serial murders, which often accompany such crimes. There may be a reason why the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct will not even open a case on this particular judge, despite countless complaints, but Robing Room offers a rare opportunity to criticize. This is critical, as law enforcement will not touch her, and they fold investigations on her victims, so that brutal murders do not even have suspects (so that no one learns how she literally caused the murders). Instead, she is promoted to being chief judge of the corrupt and deadly Family Court, where women and children too often go to die.

The reviews here record her pattern:

The majority of these reviews are pin point accurate. She has allowed in front of my very own eyes and in open court: conflict of interest, perjury by her forensic witness, complete collusion, ordered the vaccine to a minor infant, and abuses her power ridiculously. An absolute tyrannical criminal who is protected by a ridiculous immunity, and out of control going 1 million mph and no one can stop her. Her legacy will be one of abuse, complete negligence of her duties as a judge while destroying families and abusing her power to no end, with a healthy dose of collusion and disregard for the entire judicial system on the side! God, please help all those who go in front on this dishonorable tyrant judge!

The arrogance and disdain toward litigants often give away a dehumanizing attitude that makes possible her deadly rulings — often deliberately and sadistically applied for the torture of those under her subjugation:

This is the most obnoxious, arrogant judge I have ever seen. She doesn’t listen, laughed at me, called me mentally ill, has pre-written judgments, disregards evidence, and is vehemently anti-mother. She allows cases to drag on and on, causing parents to lose time with their children and breaking parent-children bonds. I want to wipe that smirk off her miserable face.

The review below reveals the degree to which she controls law enforcement and Child Protective Services (CPS). They operate at her beck and call, as she wields her authority as judge to manipulate outcomes. Her habitual intimidation of everyone into submission caused her to believe she could do the same with the press (even a Washington Post article shaming her in 2015 did not deter her from trying again in 2023 — how many “successes” has she had to make her so brazen?):

When alienation has been alleged with police reports and CPS reports, they will go unheard as many times as I say it on as many dates as you want. I want to give a negative rating but 1 is the least. Judges should have no favoritism or personal thoughts about any case before them. All should be left to facts. And to add, she also has ZERO compassion for anything you are going through if she already makes up her mind about you, especially if you have no lawyer. I’ve been before her 3 times as a PLAINTIFF and was treated like a lying criminal.

Favoritism is all this judge goes by, with her fact-free, predetermined verdicts favoring the abuser in cases of domestic violence and child abuse — essentially, the vast majority of child custody disputes. Tragically but predictably, her power-intoxicated, sadistic practices have deadly consequences:

Unfortunately, I am not able to provide a zero rating. I am the parent of a murdered adult female, whose DV case was in front of Judge Gallina-Mecca for 4 ½ years. My daughter and my minor granddaughter were repeatedly assaulted, terrorized by this man, and every time they went before her, which I believe was every 3 months, she wanted to give the low life an opportunity, she felt he was trying. My granddaughter testified, and her remarks about an 11-year-old child testimony were, I am not going to terminate a father’s rights over hurt feelings. He abused his daughter, and he put her into dangerous situations, and she did not want to hurt a grown man’s feelings. My hope is someday her child or grandchild will be so lucky to meet a man just like him. She finally provided my daughter with an Order of Protection in January 2022 after 3 separate incidents in December, where she was severely beaten, then her ex attempted to break into her home and was terrorizing both her and my granddaughter in the middle of the night. Guess what, the Leonia Police did not even enforce the TOP, and on March 26, 2022, my child was murdered. She should not only be recalled, but she should also be tried as an accessory to murder.

I was already aware of one murder, but the above mention of another murder led me to uncovering at least three murders under this judge, with “many others!” cited to me by an investigative agency. This is consistent with a previous study that linked post-separation murders with Family Court judges’ decisions and new additional studies of how Family Courts cause deaths. The question now is, is there an authority interested enough to protect innocent children and loving mothers against a tyrannical judge? So far, only victims have done the heavy lifting, but this does not address the fact that judges have the power to rig a system that has so far only protected its own:

I could not agree with Comment #: NJ4590 more! It seems our experiences are identical. Reading through other comments, it appears she has a formula: she is not just mean, rude, disparaging, and dismissive but sadistic and evil. She appears to enjoy sending children to their sadistic abusers. In my case, she did not just align with the DCPP but controlled it! So it may be that she is working hand-in-hand with them to rubber stamp whatever she wishes to do, which is always to side with the abusers. It is simply unbelievable that she would take such dangerous and terrible actions with impunity. I agree that there needs to be a class action suit against her to prevent more destruction of children’s lives and would be eager to join in any.

Here is another call for action:

I would give her a zero if that were an option. She is mean, rude, disparaging and dismissive. She shows up with her freshly blown out hair and a chip on her shoulder. She has her mind made up before she enters the court, so pleading your case is a waste of time. If you present your case, and it’s not aligned with the accusations made by the DCPP and their narrative, then you are berated by her and called names like mentally ill. She yelled at my attorney like she was a piece of garbage. She ignores evidence presented before her and imposes very harsh orders against good parents, while the abusive, dysfunctional parent has no restrictions or supervision whatsoever. She is angry, hostile, cold, and lacks compassion…. She makes you feel worthless and helpless while your whole life is in her hands. I hope she is removed asap before she destroys more lives and families…. There needs to be a class action suit against her for all of the damage she has done.

However, judges flaunt their “absolute judicial immunity,” and law enforcement considers itself beneath judges, not above them, in my experience. Who would, therefore, have the courage actually to charge judges with their actual murderous and felonious crimes? There are few ways but public exposure, and it must happen to save 60,000 to 100,000 children a year from the Family Courts:

She was not fair at all, first she said the case was filed by my ex, then as usual ex was lying, and then I had to correct the her by saying I filed the case and I am the plaintiff. After that, she ended up giving more time to my ex, even though he doesn’t take care of my child properly and sending home sick all the time.

For the child kidnapping, child sex trafficking, and child pornography production regularly that happen through the Family Courts — child pornography occurs in about 75 percent, and child sex trafficking in about half, of the Family Court cases I serve in as an expert witness, with child kidnapping being the near-universal end goal — just the known profits are 50 to 175 billion dollars a year. Family Courts are the modern-day trade of child sex slaves:

My children were sexually abused by her father, trafficked to be gang raped, and came back one day with mutilations. This judge can’t possibly think this is normal, but she just keeps giving him more and more time. I tried the Child Abuse Hotline, the County Prosecutor, and the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct numerous times, but I hear from others they won’t do anything because they are all cronies together. It is now obvious to me they are. What does a mother worried sick for her kids do, when the whole system is corrupt? Yet, I am the only one under observation and threatened with jail at the slightest misstep, and the father can do no wrong.

Someone commented:

Please report all of these Horror stories to the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct.

Many refer to the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct, which is said to be the only mechanism for holding judges accountable, but the majority on the Committee are judges, retired judges, or other Bar Association members. Hence, unsurprisingly, only a tiny fraction of complaints are investigated, and out of those only a fraction are given at best a slap on the wrist — nothing remotely commensurate with their murders and destruction of lives:

Honorable? Certainly not! As per all of Judge Mecca’s horrible reviews here, she is clearly an issue that needs to be suspended from practicing law of any type, let alone be permitted to be a judge anywhere. Please note that complaints can be filed against her fraudulent and crooked conduct that we have all encountered with the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct in Trenton, NJ, and should be done by each one of us to make a difference. Judge Mecca, her “attorney friends” in her court room, and DCPP are all fraudulent and fixed. She dismantled my family, turning my daughter against me, allowing her to live with her alcoholic father when I had full custody for good reason of both of my children. My daughter has now dropped out of high school and isn’t thriving or functioning well. The judge ordered certain services under direction of DCPP for mental health for said child and Dr. appts, etc., but didn’t enforce her orders on her father who she went to live with full-time, who has no structure or rules for the well-being of my daughter. Nor did she follow up on my ex-husband’s sobriety or mental health issues. This judge is NOT for the well being of the children. As stated by other mothers here — she’s delusional, for the fathers/abusers, and clearly has issues with mothers which are unfounded. This is no joke and needS to be taken seriously, as she’s dismantling the family unit. Not only that, my reputation as a good mother was ruined as well without reason, which I was dedicated to as an at-home mother 24/7. Entertaining a rebellious teenager and her alcoholic father is disgusting and to the child’s detriment.

Is there no hope for the system?

The facts could not have been clearer, and she ignored every one of them. Completely one-sided decisions. Had her mind made up from day one and delivered absolutely no consequences to violating court orders and even rewarded actions done in bad faith and blatant lies. I have no faith left in the System.

I believe there is none from within, which is why I call for a moratorium on the Family Courts. The unnecessary crises they create, and the havoc they wreak — enough to cripple generations — should be bringing in the National Guard! Rounding up Family Court judges alone would likely yield a vast majority of crooks, from what I have seen in just the last couple years as a fact finder for these Courts — for this is what organized crime looks like.

Nasty, ignorant, and unfair in almost all dealings. Rewards bad persons and punishes honest ones. Has bad chip on her shoulder.

And the profiles would be consistent. This is by an attorney:

Can be nasty. Rude. Sarcastic. Pushy. Insulting. Not very nice to lawyers or clients. Hopefully she will not become a more important judge.

She has become the leader of the pack. Even other (non-Family Court) judges have called her “crazy”):

Awful order after ignoring all the medical evidence I presented and giggling that I should go into debt and get a lawyer. This judge is a bizzaro world waste of flesh. Do anything to switch to a different judge. She knows nothing about family dynamics and disorders such a ADD, autism, etc. Favors weeping dad with a lying lawyer. Such a scam.

And:

Incompetent, lazy, shows blatant favoritism to “her” attorneys, ignores facts and a complete embarrassment to the general public who appear before her. Be prepared for the worst, as that is what you will get.

As well as:

Does not even know the laws she is responsible for deciding over. Completely disregards all case information presented in documentation, seemingly never even bothering to read it, thus completely overlooks all conflicting claims and lack of evidence with regards to allegations, just mindlessly agrees with whatever DCPP merely verbalizes sans any form of proof or evidence to suggest a hint of truth! Irresponsible, incompetent, and should not only be stripped of any judicial power but legally held responsible for damage caused due to her complete ignorance and lazy bias!!

This is good advice:

Lies and deceit are commonplace in this courtroom. The only people served are the blood-thirsty attorneys who care little for the welfare of the family but lining their own greedy pockets. Hackensack Family Court is quite possibly the worst example of a system so broken, there is no hope. Stay away.

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Evelyn Nissirios — Soon, Her Crime Spree will be Over

Evelyn Nissirios — Soon, Her Crime Spree will be Over

The State has Accepted Criminal Charges against Her, and There will be Many More to Come

The Saddle River Board of Education has repeatedly ignored, dismissed, and dodged evidence of the involvement of one of its members — Evelyn Nissirios — in horrific violence against children, including criminal co-conspiracy in dozens of cases of child abuse, kidnapping, battery, rape, and most recently implication in child sex trafficking that may involve Satanic cults. Whereas the latest accounts have yet to be proven, a significant portion has been, and the trends and patterns are clear — and the Saddle River Board is in possession of some of the medical evidence. Yet, despite being mandated reporters and, more concerningly, an institution whose primary duty is to protect children, its president, Emily Kaufman, wrote the following brief message almost two months ago:

Dear Dr. Lee,

All Board of Education members must be fingerprinted and undergo a New Jersey State criminal background check before they can serve as board of education members. All of the Saddle River Board of Education Members have satisfied this legal requirement to serve on a board of education and none of the board members have been charged with nor convicted of any disqualifying crime.

Sincerely,

Emily Kaufman

This response is problematic at many levels. First, it comes after fifteen months and a half-dozen lengthy communications with exhibits. Second, it is an odd response on the part of a Board of Education president, which is essentially stating: “I will not budge until I am forced to.” Third, even the little she states is no longer true: the State has indeed charged Nissirios with criminal, life-threatening harassment and potential felonies — and still, Nissirios remains on the Board.

Kaufman’s response reflects the problem of institutions that seem more preoccupied with self-interest and self-preservation than service to the public, or their very raison d’être. A normal response would have been alarm and concern for the children, not self-defense and excuses not to act in the face of immediate danger to children! Criminal prosecutions take a long time, and they depend on mandated reporters and frontline workers, such as school officials and medical professionals, to act independently on evidence and be a primary source of data. The minimal requirement in such a case would be to open an investigation — at the very least to remove imminent dangers under one’s charge, if present.

Furthermore, Nissirios is no ordinary member but one whom the community expressly rejected, having recently held an election with the explicit purpose of removing her and indeed voted her out. Yet, she remains through sheer, bald audacity and abuse of power, and the Board is keeping her, seemingly at all cost. In my twenty-five years of investigating criminal psychology for the courts, I find that this kind of “odd” behavior is usually not incidental. The Board may well know of Nissirios’ criminal activity but find her to be an “asset” to help them cover up their own corrupt actions, as well. This arrangement, however, will not last.

Below are the charges being brought against Nissirios, and they are only the beginning:

N.J.S.A. 2C:28–1, Perjury

A person is guilty of perjury, a crime of the third degree, if in any official proceeding she makes a false statement under oath or equivalent affirmation.

N.J.S.A. 2C:28–4, False Reports to Law Enforcement Authorities

Falsely incriminating another. A person who knowingly gives or causes to be given false information to any law enforcement officer with purpose to implicate another commits a crime of the third degree.

N.J.S.A. 2C:28–5, Tampering with Witnesses and Informants; Retaliation against Them

Tampering. A person commits an offense if, believing that an official proceeding or investigation is pending or about to be instituted or has been instituted, she knowingly engages in conduct which a reasonable person would believe would cause a witness or informant to: (1) testify or inform falsely; (2) withhold any testimony, information, document or thing; (3) elude legal process summoning him to testify or supply evidence; (4) absent himself from any proceeding or investigation to which he has been legally summoned; or (5) otherwise obstruct, delay, prevent or impede an official proceeding or investigation.

Retaliation against witness or informant. A person commits an offense if she harms another by an unlawful act with purpose to retaliate for or on account of the service of another as a witness or informant. The offense is a crime of the second degree if the actor employs force or threat of force.

N.J.S.A. 2C:28–6, Tampering with or Fabricating Physical Evidence

A person commits a crime of the fourth degree if, believing that an official proceeding or investigation is pending or about to be instituted, she: (1) alters, destroys, conceals or removes any article, object, record, document or other thing of physical substance with purpose to impair its verity or availability in such proceeding or investigation; or (2) makes, devises, prepares, presents, offers or uses any article, object, record, document or other thing of physical substance knowing it to be false and with purpose to mislead a public servant who is engaged in such proceeding or investigation.

N.J.S.A. 2C:33–4 Harassment

A person commits a petty disorderly persons offense if, with purpose to harass another, she [engages in a] course of alarming conduct or of repeatedly committed acts with purpose to alarm or seriously annoy such other person.

Multiple other, felony charges are still to come.

*This is the fifteenth of articles informing of criminal acts of violence against children by Evelyn Nissirios. As long as the child abuse, torture, battery, and rape continue under her criminal co-conspiracy with violent offenders, there is a duty for onlookers not to be complicit, no matter her flaunting of “absolute judicial immunity.” “Judicial immunity” was never intended to cover serial felonies and destruction of children — “absolute” or not — and without which she may be eligible for the death penalty in some states. Reducing child victims is an immediate obligation on the part of educational and legal institutions, regardless of competing interests. Emily Kaufman and others of the Saddle River Board of Education who have been protecting Nissirios are placed on notice, or they will be implicated in her crimes. All these events and more will be uncovered in the near future in a dramatic exposé of three separate books, a documentary, and a television series.

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This is What Genocide Looks Like

The Way the Greatest Violence Occurs Not in Wars and Mass Shootings but Hidden in Families, the Largest Genocide is Occurring beneath Our Awareness, through Family Courts

How did Family Courts become the global epicenter of human rights abuses, torture, mayhem, and murder? The formula is simple: too much power in the hands of personalities who cannot handle it. We see the abuses occurring in the U.S. Supreme Court, but Family Courts are worse. Family Courts in the U.S., unlike any other court, are given absolute authority over families, unbound by oversight or law. They can incarcerate without due process, bail, or even statement of reason. They operate with total impunity, in the absence of scrutiny or checks and balances. At the same time, they are “the bottom of the totem pole,” “the sewer of the judicial system,” and a “cesspool”, in the words of lawyers and judges themselves. No one wishes to be in the Family Courts or to find out what goes on in them: “Family judges are a tight-knit group [that will not let us in], but we are only happy that somebody is doing the dirty work,” one judge told me. Indeed, for those who do their job correctly, it is a lot of complicated work without gratitude (much like housework) or recognition of how dangerous it can be (much like domestic violence). One in three women will experience rape, battery, and/or stalking by their partner, and one in four children experience child abuse or neglect by at least one parent. Forty to 50 percent of first marriages will end in divorce, and roughly one in two children experience the divorce of their parents. The cases that come before Family Courts are still more complicated, and child custody disputes overwhelmingly involve domestic violence and child abuse. A judge can either choose to do the work correctly at great risk, hardship, and isolation, or join the organized crime cartel that “Family Courts” have become, targeting the “easy victims” of domestic abuse for their lucrative trade of child theft, child sex trafficking, and child pornography production. Given the poor quality of Family Court judges — often more ignorant than the families they preside over and all too contemptuous of human life — the choices they are making are obvious. They are reflected in the sheer body count, not to mention the usurpation of life even in those who survive. As a result, millions of children and loving mothers (and some loving fathers) in the U.S. alone are undergoing their hidden, personal Holocaust. Here is just one firsthand account:

Dear Dr. Bandy Lee,

I write to you with sincere gratitude, tears rolling down my face. Only other Protective Mothers have believed my story. You state the reality that has destroyed my life and that of my daughter. And then there are even those Protective Mothers who fight me. Crab in a bucket. It can not be, you see, that some of us fight back not just for our kids and ourselves — but for others….

[M]y life ended when my daughter was taken from me by a SWAT team and deported to the man who molested her in exchange for food. She testified about this over and over again. She was betrayed over and over again and subsequently so was I, by the very legal institutions who pledged to protect us.

Once she was taken from me (2014), I never saw her again. Her father, his attorney, her “therapist”, his family and friends turned her inside out. She was the sweetest strongest girl. She became as mean as they come. And has learned to blame me for it all. They have turned my daughter in to a weapon. Kamikaze; self-destructing now. And she broadcasts it all every day on her social media. Even paints her face like Clockwork Orange. It is her life’s mission to assist her late father in destroying me. He died, you see. Seven years ago. And this is how she now expresses her loyalty to him in the afterlife.

The betrayal of my own child who begged me to protect her; I cannot explain to you how this is gutting me. More so than the betrayal of her “father” and the “courts”. So many people ask me how she is doing. How do I even begin to explain these dynamics: this ultimate betrayal, this Dr. Mengele style MK ultra trauma-bond mind-controlled soul harvesting?

So I find myself in an upside down reality. It’s like an endless loop-dee-loop train ride in an evil clown world. As I look at my watch, hoping I’m nearing the end of this horrendous journey, trying to rescue as many children and protective mothers as I can with my team along the way, I cannot help but wonder why. Maybe some entities in some other dimension are wringing their hands with glee over the success of their cruel fishbowl experiment. History is paved on such torture after all. Humanity has learned nothing whatsoever.

To be honest I have lost all my faith. No one and nothing intervenes. I am only still here because I know there are others like you, like me, who dare to see it and who get it and who fight back.

You might as well swim upstream in this avalanche of razorbladed sewage to at least try and close the spigot. After all, what is there to lose when you have already been robbed of it all. Every breath is my resistance.

You are appreciated. Thank you for being you.

[Name Redacted]

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How Many Children will Jane Gallina-Mecca Sacrifice before She is Held Accountable?

The Trail of Dead Bodies Family Courts Leave behind Call for Limits on ‘Judicial Immunity’

Perhaps the most shocking experience of my twenty-five-year career as a psychiatrist and an expert on violence is the discovery that more than 58,000 children per year are knowingly being sent to their torture and death by the Family Courts. If I and other health professionals spend our lifetimes trying to protect human life, to safeguard each child and to heal adults from childhood trauma, while trying to prevent intergenerational transmissions of trauma, what is all our work for, if just the known Court-facilitated murders are reaching one thousand children? This is without counting suicides, which are just as many, or “soul murders,” which may reach a million in the same period. The anguish does not stop with the children, since they are usually forcibly extracted from their loving parent and stable home, to be given to their abuser. Extended family and other adults who love the children may also be affected by their gruesome sacrifice. Those who have been through Family Court learn that no amount of objections by loving adults matter. No amount of evidence matters. Efforts to stop the violence only backfires, since judges like Jane Gallina-Mecca know exactly what they are doing and what they can get away with.

Since domestic violence means that children and women are at the frontlines against the most violent perpetrators society produces, serving as its conduit means facilitating the most horrific human atrocities conceivable, but also the most lucrative returns. As much as Family Courts try to hide their criminal acts through “court seals,” “gag orders,” and attacks on the press, studies are now showing that the loving parent, usually the mother, all too often commits suicide, dies instantly from “broken heart syndrome,” or more slowly from other stress-related diseases, such as cancer. This is unsurprising, for what is more unbearable than for a loving parent to lose one’s child to an abuser? It is a fate worse than death, of which physical demise is only a natural consequence. Even if they do not die, they are usually rendered destitute, homeless, and incarcerated, for the goal of Family Court is to decimate the credibility, and even the capacity, of victims to become witnesses of their judicial violence.

While criminal courts must abide by the law and strict rules of procedure, Family Courts are not only a secret but a lawless land, where the judge can put anyone in jail without due process, bail, or even cause. Therefore, many have acquired the habit of incarcerating innocent persons, destroying their businesses, and ruining their professional careers, rather than let them be witnesses against the judges’ profit-driven, predetermined verdicts (which, in my experience, is 100 percent to reward the children to the abusive parent, regardless of proof or even criminal conviction of that parent).

Gallina-Mecca arrested me and a world-renowned, elderly physician for trying to report child abuse, based on secret “court orders” that no one has seen — not even the prosecutor — and when the world-renowned physician and I submitted multiple requests to see the orders, she became apoplectic, calling our request “bald” and “insupportable”. She cited “the safety and protection of the minor children” as her reason for refusing to allow us even to see the orders that caused our arrests, but the children’s “safety and protection” does not explain her prohibiting the children from seeing a psychiatrist, as their pediatrician recommended upon confirming abuse; does not explain her closing down three Child Protective Services cases against the abusive father, by allowing him to have full access to their records during their active investigations against him; and does not explain her blocking the mother from having any access to school or medical records, once she learned that her children missed one-half of school and ceased growing since the custody transfer. Her abuses of judicial authority were so apparent to the prosecutor, my charges were promptly thrown out, and the hearing lasted less than ten minutes.

Family Courts are the equivalent of an institution mounting a sign saying it is a hospital, but upon entering one recognizes that it is actually a slaughterhouse. If one discovered a hospital doing this, one could leave, report the horrors, hold the “caregivers” accountable, and — most importantly — survive. Family “Courts” do not allow this; once a litigant enters, one is trapped, cannot report, will be retaliated against if one actually sought justice, and — most tragically — too many die. All this is made possible because the structure of Family Courts is like a dictatorship and proceedings are kept secret, while the judge controls the “evidence”, has no jury, has the power to disbar lawyers who do not please her, oust players who do not go along, and have no accountability whatsoever (the only oversight is other judges, who have been found to protect one another instead).

Thus, Family Courts go far beyond imprisoning “kids for cash” to running a child slave trade that brings in 50 to 175 billion dollars a year for the Courts alone (what abusers make and “pay back” for their custody reward — through child sex trafficking and child pornography production — is harder to quantify, but these activities are rampant enough for me to see them in roughly half the Family Court cases I come to examine in detail as an expert witness). Insiders know how bad it is, and I know of judges who were removed for not going along and family lawyers who quit law altogether, finding the practice too revolting. I recently heard from a therapist who stated of Family Courts: “I can honestly say these were the worst cases I experienced in my therapeutic role, leaving me feeling completely disempowered and helpless.”

The level of depravity and disdain for human life, indeed, is unimaginable. I became acquainted with Family Courts not through my career as a forensic psychiatrist — Family Courts regularly shun real experts — but through my sister’s horrific divorce. Yet, countless others reaching out to me since my articles, three dozen of them under Gallina-Mecca, reveal that my sister’s situation is far from the worst. These reports include multiple murders, child rape, battery requiring hospitalization, and other sacrifices of children and mothers by removing permanent protective orders, refusing to give protective orders until mothers are killed, falsely accusing innocent parents without evidence or due process, and falsely “exonerating” violent perpetrators, all so that children could be “sold” to their abusers — and I have never seen such contempt for the Law as in Family Court.

I do not know what has happened to my niece and nephew, since no adult who previously cared for them has been allowed access to them for almost three years. Gallina-Mecca gave their sole custody to the abusive father, who was on a protective order for almost killing each of them by head injury, and who tried to abscond with them after stealing their passports We only learned of their repeated emergency room visits, orthopedic injuries that went neglected for months, and oral surgeries because of dental neglect. Even this information is from a year ago, since there has been a complete overhaul of providers, and the mother cannot even know whom the children are seeing. Most recently, there were records that he was in Mexico, but she cannot even confirm if he took the children. In this manner, loving mothers who raise their children successfully — in my sister’s case for their first ten happy, healthy, and thriving years — are shut out of the children’s lives altogether, so that the abusive parent Family Court favors can charge child support (in my sister’s case, 100,000 dollars per year), demand his legal fees, keep the house, pay no alimony, and incarcerate the mother if she cannot pay. This near-identical “playbook” is applied to tens of thousands of Family Court cases per year, all across America, regardless of specific circumstances.

Here are the generic players in my sister’s case:

‘Child Therapist’ Barbara Maurer

As the Family Court-mandated children’s “therapist”, she charged the highest rates the mother has ever seen, with barely a non-social work master’s degree. Since the mother is well-versed in psychology and the daughter of a child psychology professor, she recognized that Ms. Maurer was not performing anything remotely resembling therapy. Yet, she could not reach her; she would not return calls, whereas any message from the father was answered within minutes. The children, who were suicidal because of the father’s abuse, became acutely more suicidal following each session. Finally, when the children refused her “therapy”, she locked them in her office and traumatized them. I reported her to her licensing board, which adjudged her guilty and removed her — only for the Family Court to mandate the children to another “therapist” — this time, sealing the identity of the new “therapist”.

‘Guardian ad litem’ Evelyn Nissirios

More brutal than a street gangster, that this “children’s” guardian ad litem from the start worked only for “the best interests” of the monied child predator was apparent from the degree to which she had to lie — almost 350 documented times on the record. When the children asked to talk outside the earshot of their father, who threatened them with police and jail if they said the “wrong” thing, she refused. When the children started vomiting and becoming immobile with panic before visiting, in their words, “the scariest person” with a “black heart,” she increased their time with him. When these children started injuring themselves, and tried to set the house on fire because going to their father was “torture” and “worse than death,” she wholesale helped him kidnap them via violent police raid. Now, he has the children full-time, and the mother has not seen or heard from them in almost three years. In order to achieve this illegal “custody switch,” Nissirios buried suicide notes, attempts to set the house on fire in protest, emergency room visits for suicide attempts, emergency follow-up visits after suicide attempts, and letters to the Court asking to fire her, so as to crush their voices and hand them over to a man who nearly killed each of them on different occasions.

‘Judge’ Jane Gallina-Mecca

That the Family Court “judge” was the orchestrator of these crimes is obvious from her multiple, extrajudicial meddling with providers, Child Protective Services, the school, and even with criminal courts. She also endlessly appointed needless “court actors,” simply to increase the number of people parroting her false narrative. This included a guardian ad litem for the mother, Linda Schofel — despite nine psychiatrists and doctorate psychologists unanimously stating that the mother did not need a guardian ad litem, whereas the father was deemed dangerous and unfit to parent. When two forensic psychiatrists tried to make a legally-mandated report of child abuse, she arrested them, in a form of witness intimidation. She also engaged in attempts to obstruct justice, tampered with physical evidence when she ordered a medical report destroyed, and fabricated false “evidence” when she stonewalled nine psychiatric experts whom she could not strongarm into reporting the way she wanted — instead, she only acknowledged an unqualified, unlicensed “associate counselor,” Tara Devine, who would. Also involved was pediatrician Karen Wu, who retracted her statement that the children are being abused and falsified her medical records to match. When no true psychiatric expert would render an “assessment” to her liking, Gallina-Mecca even suggested that the mother be blindfolded and taken by chaperone to a third, clandestine location to see a no-name “psychiatrist” of Gallina-Mecca’s choice, whose identity and credentials would never be revealed, even to the mother’s lawyer!

The Father

Gallina-Mecca and Nissirios probably recognized immediately that the father of this case has a criminal psychology they could exploit. They enticed him to hire them and to follow their instructions. Thus, he changed from planning to move out of the house immediately to lead a single’s life with his mistress, to kidnapping the children after having been an absentee father all their lives. He was no doubt told that he could have everything, as long as he warehoused the children and concealed the evidence of his abuse, which would allow him to “reverse victim and offender,” making the mother the “abuser” — but this has not worked out entirely well. Their strategy was to break her down, but medical evidence kept piling up of her “excellent mental health” and “exceptional talent” in parenting, while the children were constantly injured under his “care”, and six highly-credentialed psychiatrists and doctorate psychologists declared him a danger to them. What Gallina-Mecca and Nissirios did not tell him was that he would get more and more mired in criminal culpability such that, in order to avoid prosecution, he would have to continue to hemorrhage his funds. Meanwhile, multiple organizations and Constitutional experts are watching this case, simply waiting for a verdict. Gallina-Mecca herself has not been scheduling a trial since July 26, 2023, but unable to move forward to this day. Even this father, a corporate lawyer and student of Alan Dershowitz, who attempted to murder his wife six times, twice with the hired help of the Gallina-Mecca/Nissirios duo, is about to learn that crime does not pay. He may have wiggled himself out of financial fraud schemes (while his former boss was fined 38 million dollars), but this time he will not. Criminal charges are being brought against him, appeals are being prepared, and we will go to the Supreme Court if we must, but most important of all is the court of public opinion. He will soon become the reason there is exposure of the Family Court system as a criminal cartel that disassembles children and women, that not only needs an overhaul but requires an immediate moratorium and the stripping of all illicitly-abused “immunity”.

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In the Words of Family Court Victims

As with All Genocides, Victims are Decimated, Obliterated, and Rendered Unable to Speak; a Few, However, Do

Since my speaking out about the violence of the Family Courts, many have written to me that I have helped change the discourse. They say I have elucidated it as an institutional and cultural problem, where honest people are ousted and the most criminally-minded personalities remain (indeed, if we rounded up all Family Court judges, I would not be surprised if the vast majority turned out to be crooks; it is a decades-long selective process). Family Courts as an industry exist to help the violent crooks, rapists, and murderers of society get their way. Hiding beneath the veneer of a legitimate court, Family Courts render innocent victims infinitely more vulnerable than if Family Courts did not exist, for they give the perpetrators “legal” cover, disabling law enforcement, child protection, and every other measure society has put in place to protect against this very kind of violence. That they would meet the modern definition of genocide was astonishing to me, but they also meet the definition of a modern-day slave trade and child sex trafficking, with extensive links to child pornography production. That just about all child abuse cases that come before Family Courts are at risk of this kind of exploitation, knowing how common child abuse is, is not only heinous but perilous for society. I became known as a truth teller throughout my career, whether it is about the immorality of the Iraq War, the dangerousness of Donald Trump, or the organized criminal activity of the Family Courts. I will not stop speaking, and whereas I cannot take all the cases that come to me as an expert witness (I cannot even keep up with writing about all the cases that come to me in connection to just one guardian ad litem), public exposure can be a powerful force of accountability — and perhaps the only means of reforming a rogue branch of the Courts.

Below are just two letters among dozens of similar ones that have recently arrived to me:

Dearest Bandy,

I would really like to reach out and thank you for your incredible article on [the genocide in family courts]. The first of its kind. It’s enormously validating. You are clearly the perfect combination of knowledge and professional skill.

I’m the victim of a psychopath who acted as a vampire of my own life for 20 years — and then he got hold of family court.

I’m alive but barely surviving with CPTSD (complex posttraumatic stress disorder) diagnosed and a list of horrors behind me. His façade nearly came tumbling down when he used arson, and the media caught wind. A forensic psychiatrist I met has told me I’m lucky to be alive. He is a sadistic psychopath. The covert charming, visibly successful type.

Now, back here in New Zealand, he sits pretty with an income of $850K, has got away with all his (many) crimes against me, and I live on $0.

I moved abroad the day I graduated, lived and worked in America where my career was beginning an exciting trajectory for a decade alone — until he, a fellow NZ’er landed on my doorstep. He had nothing, was nothing. I was trusting and naive.

Now, life has reversed into a downward slide. Somehow though my kids — saw through him and the court, and as rare as it is — are in my full-time care. Now teenagers. The family court has nevertheless ensured I am punished forever. I barely function. I’ve been on highest dose of sertraline meds for 6 years (and reacted with bruising/hemorrhagic). I’m on minuscule dose now by need. I can’t afford to see a psychiatrist anymore. I have EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) trauma clinical psychology treatments weekly, but it’s too painful. There is too much to process. What do I do? Can I work in the field with my lived experience?… I want to help others to help me. I believe victims have a chance to change the world as we know it, given the right foundation and opportunities. I want to use my skills and lived experience too.

The validation I feel from your article is the only thing that makes me feel someone understands. Your words are like my life story. But I’m clinging on.

What do I do now? I’d like to be involved as a research subject, anything. To give me reason and meaning to share my story. To help vindicate myself from what has been living hell. To lift myself out of the silence and burden of not being believed. Of course it’s too hard to believe for most people. I live in Auckland, NZ, and in the same industry as my ex. The world has become tiny….

Have you any ideas?… I’m 49 and not getting any younger. My babies only see the shell of me left. It was no easy feat to get to the position I was in with my career. I worked for internationally reputable companies in the field of innovation and design. I was a lone woman in a male-dominated profession….

Please keep sharing publicly what you know of the court system. I have horrendous evidence of how I was treated. I want to use my experience to help others. To bring down the family court. To find ways out of this dark hole where society shuns us as having done something to deserve this fate. Medically speaking, I’d be okay if I had some power and agency back. If I could use my brain again and reconnect the broken pathways. I want him to know he has not annihilated me. But for now I remain in isolation. Severely wounded and unable to recover myself.

Feel free to share my email and contact details if anyone wants to collaborate or connect for professional or clinical support. How I wish there was a global consortium for victims who have access to your skill set and knowledge base. To not only speak about us, but to help us.

Thank you for listening.

Kindest Regards,
M.C.

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Good day.

I have been searching the internet, local agencies, resources, and anything I can find to help me and my son in what we are going through and came across your articles about family courts. I am so gaslit by this situation and the sea of cognitive dissonance of our society makes people blind to what is taking place in the court system. I am a mental health therapist, I have never been in legal trouble or struggled with substance abuse, etc. But I had my custody taken away and given to my abusive ex-husband who has testified to abusing both his kids.

There is a lot to it, but there has been exactly what you are reporting on, with CPS (Child Protective Services), with local police involvement. I am trying to write it all out, and I stare sometimes and want to vomit. I see a therapist for CPTSD (complex posttraumatic stress disorder), and I have propranalol for chest pain, but everything you’re saying is so real and I’m witnessing it myself, and I don’t know what I can do.

I have [Judge in Michigan], and she just recused herself for impropriety, and now I have [another Judge in Michigan] whom I have not been in front of, but the things that have happened make my skin crawl. It is an abusive and gaslighting system that supports the same, and I am just looking for some kind of credible information/resources/help in this. It is absolutely wild how criminals instantly get an attorney and victims of violence and abuse get nothing.

Thank you for your articles…. I’ve been reading article after article of what you are writing, and it is exactly what I have experienced and am still experiencing. The feeling I have had in all of this is like they are trying to drive me crazy, but I am refusing to go down. I am representing myself in court [before Judge in Michigan], but now that she’s recused herself after I presented her with evidence and asked her to read it,… there was already an appeal won against [her] in this case by the same appellate attorney that won against her in [another] case, but she retaliated and doubled down.

I have been documenting everything, even the police told me to at one point. I have medical records, I have his dad telling him to shoot himself with a gun, as noted by the [University] staff when my son was already in the hospital for suicide. He was released to his dad’s custody after that, regardless, and he took him gun shopping immediatelly after his discharge.

It is not easy to represent myself in this case but on the other hand, I have nothing to lose. Other attorneys might be scared of their reputation but I’m not afraid to expose the court system. This case was featured in continuing education for lawyers in Michigan, and CPS withheld evidence from the court, evidence I still have and have been introducing since. [My psychologist] recommended I read Truth and Repair by Judith Herman.

I really appreciate you speaking out about this, more than I can put into words. It is the first time I have found anything or anyone that understands exactly what is happening, and it really gave me a lot of hope and willpower to keep fighting this, because I can show what happened, with evidence, step by step. I was a preschool teacher over a decade ago, before I became a therapist, and I feel like this could help kids. I worry constantly that he will kill my son before I am able to fight this more, or that fighting this more will make him kill him, but I know sitting in silence is not the answer, and your articles and efforts have really helped instill hope in me.

Thank you again,

M.B.

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Evelyn Nissirios — Child Trafficking, Pedophilic Sex Rings, and Satanic Cults

Evelyn Nissirios — Child Trafficking, Pedophilic Sex Rings, and Satanic Cults

I Had Stopped Writing about Nissirios, Not Because of a Lack of Stories, but Because of Too Many

Here are some other titles I was too overwhelmed to pursue:

Evelyn Nissirios — ‘She and Her Cronies are a Bunch of Thugs’

A Protective Parent Upends Her Life in Order to Save It

A “protective parent” is called such in relation to Family Court because she (and sometimes he) will be the only person trying to protect a child, against a mammoth of a Court system intent on harming and destroying the child — and destroying the protective parent who is in the way. A “resource curse,” we used to call it when I worked in Africa; the “hot commodities” here are the children. “It was like meeting Godfather — with all these backroom deals going on!” said a protective parent who, upon learning what Evelyn Nissirios was about, decided that the only solution for protecting herself was to quit her high-powered profession, leave all family and friends, and move to another, more rural region of the country. One used to hear of families in Mexico doing this after they became targets of drug cartels. Here, the drug cartels are the Family Courts, for which Nissirios is the henchwoman….

Evelyn Nissirios — ‘I Wanted to Ask Her, How do You Live with Yourself?’

I Tried to Explain: ‘She does Not See It that Way — All that Matters is Power and Money’

This mother simply could not understand: “Evelyn Nissirios has a daughter,” she said. “How would she like it if a total stranger came, claimed to know her child better than she [after a fifteen-minute interview], and go all of a sudden from one night a week to 50 percent custody? My daughter was vomiting and considering suicide!” Nissirios knows very well what she is doing — which is why she acts as judge, jury, and executioner, not to mention parenting coordinator, custody evaluator, and surrogate parent — not allowing the real parent a word in edgewise — as she decides the child’s fate as a mere “guardian ad litem.” In one case, she claimed to know better than ten nationally-renowned psychiatrists who reported that the mother was fit and five world-renowned psychiatrists who warned that the father was dangerously unfit and should not parent (she gave the children to the sole custody of the father). In this case, the father had been convicted of sexual assault, and these are the cases, in my experience, that Nissirios must all the more rapidly “reunite”, so that the abuser she is serving does not lose advantage. Inevitably, signs of continued abuse will surface, the child will protest or deteriorate, and the 50–50 custody turns into 100–0 custody for the abuser. Nissirios’ daughter will not go through such a fate — after all, that is the purpose of hoarding power — but her innate emptiness, which leads her to believe that she must harm in order not to be harmed, will of course transmit to her child….

It is therefore not surprising that, one of these days, I would encounter:

Evelyn Nissirios — Child Trafficking, Pedophilic Sex Rings, and Satanic Cults

In the Darkest Recesses of Humanity where Evelyn Nissirios Operates, Anything is Possible

It should not have been so surprising, amid a deluge of reports, that I would eventually learn that Evelyn Nissirios, too, has facilitated or at least overlooked the above.

Highly credible litigants have reported them, and the stories are consistent with other cases I have verified. They are also consistent with the dangerous personality traits I have identified in Nissirios, in that she would be capable of almost any kind of harm and exceptionally derive pleasure from it.

It may be shocking for the reader to learn that I regularly witness child sex trafficking in relation to Family Court: in about half the cases where the Courts have handed children to their abusers, the abusers in turn traffic the children, either to their own circle of pedophilic family and friends, or to pedophilic gangs (these gangs operate along the entire East and West Coasts, I am told, waiting for Family Court-generated “fodder”). It is our modern-day slave trade, and I believe one of the reasons why Family Courts, almost without exception, give custody of children to abusers: it is the difference between loss of profit and making up to 175 billion dollars per year. It makes Family Courts, described by reputable lawyers as “the sewer” of the judicial system, also more lucrative than all the other courts combined.

Whereas the State of New Jersey has accepted criminal charges against her — an amazing feat in itself — I fear that our criminal justice system is yet incapable of dealing with so sprawling and profitable an enterprise of, essentially, organized crime. Nevertheless, it is destroying families and children, responsible for a large portion of the 75 percent of women who are killed by their partners following separation (taking their children is one means by which they maintain access and contact), and helping abusers to murder one child every six days. Public awareness, which Family Courts have aggressively abused their authority to prevent — through “gag orders” and “court seals” — may be the only avenue for reform.

Without witnessing so regularly myself, I would have considered pedophilic sex rings as part of a “conspiracy theory.”

Ever since the term ‘conspiracy theory’ was first popularised by the philosopher Sir Karl Popper in the 1950s, conspiracy theories have had a bad reputation. To call a theory ‘a conspiracy theory’ is to imply that it is false, and that the people who believe it or who would like to investigate it (i.e. ‘conspiracy theorists’) are irrational. Conspiracy theories are widely held to be not only false and the products of irrationality, but also to be particularly harmful; hence they are widely thought of as a problem, which might be solved, or at least mitigated, through the intervention of social scientists, psychologists, and even philosophers. The problem is typically thought of as being of quite recent origin, or at any rate, one which has recently been getting worse, especially in the age of COVID-19 when conspiracy theories are routinely spoken of as a threat to public safety and even to democracy itself.

I think all of this is mistaken. Conspiracy theories are not a new or growing problem. In fact, conspiracy theories, as such, are not a problem at all. Contrary to conventional wisdom we do not have a problem with conspiracy theories; we do, however, have a problem with the term ‘conspiracy theory’, along with related terms, such as ‘conspiracy theorist’, ‘conspiracism’, and ‘conspiracist ideation’, and this problem really is quite new and increasingly widespread. The emergence and spread of a term has been conflated with the emergence and spread of a phenomenon to which that term putatively refers. As a society we have made a use-mention error; the spread of a piece of language has wrongly been taken for the spread of something corresponding to it in the world.

The bad reputation of conspiracy theories is puzzling. After all, people do conspire. That is, they engage in secretive collective behaviour which is illegal or morally questionable. Conspiracies are common in all societies throughout history, and have always been particularly common in politics. Most people conspire some of the time, and some people (e.g. spies) conspire almost all the time. Since people conspire, there can’t be anything wrong with believing they conspire, hence there can’t be anything wrong with believing conspiracy theories. Thinking of conspiracy theories as characteristically false and irrational is like thinking of scientific theories in this way. It is as if we thought of phrenology as a paradigm of a scientific theory. Conspiracy theories, like scientific theories, and virtually any other category of theory, are sometimes true, sometimes false, sometimes believed on rational grounds, sometimes not.

What I had written about before is the harm that comes to society when corrupt, criminal organizations are allowed to continue

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Testimony to the Louisiana Legislature

By Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., in Support of H.C.R. 395

My name is Bandy Lee, and I would like to express my strong support for H.C.R. 39, which provides for the continuation of the Judicial Structure Task Force as established by House Resolution No. 30 of the 2022 Regular Session. This Resolution is important, because any level of oversight will help mitigate the current deadly crisis in the family courts, where resources are being used for violence against women and children.

I am a forensic psychiatrist and expert on violence who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for seventeen years before transferring to Harvard Medical School, where I am a faculty member of the Harvard Program in Psychiatry and the Law. I am president of the World Mental Health Coalition and cofounder of the Violence Prevention Institute. I served as director of research for Harvard’s Center for the Study of Violence, as well as co-founded Yale’s Violence and Health Working Group at the MacMillan Center for International Studies. I have consulted with governments on prison reform and community violence prevention, such as New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Alabama, California, Ireland, and France, in addition to the U.S. Senate. I helped author the United Nations Secretary-General’s chapter on “Violence against Children” in 2007 and have led a project group for the World Health Organization (WHO) Violence Prevention Alliance since 2011. I am a past fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health and recipient of the National Research Service Award. I also played a key role in bringing in federal investigators and initiating reforms at Rikers Island, a correctional facility in New York City known for extreme levels of violence. I authored a widely-used, authoritative textbook, Violence (Lee, 2019), 17 edited scholarly books and journal special issues, over 100 scientific articles and chapters, and over 300 opinion articles in outlets such as the Guardian, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Independent, and Politico. In addition to the WHO, I have served as an expert consultant for the United Nations, UNESCO, and the World Economic Forum. My clinical practice specializes in treating violent offenders, and I have served as an expert witness for criminal and civil courts in approximately eighty cases and for family court in approximately three dozen cases. I have previously testified on the dangers of family courts for the Colorado, New York, Tennessee, and Washington legislatures.

What is largely unknown, even for those within the judicial system, is that family courts, through excessive discretion and a lack of accountability and transparency, have become the source of a hidden, deadly epidemic. The warning by Yale Law School’s Robert Cover applies here more than anywhere else: “Interpretations in law … constitute justifications for violence” (Cover, 1986).

Family court judges are granted wide “discretion” with the law, initially with good intentions, but the lack of oversight and the power to conduct all proceedings in self-imposed secrecy have — much like the prison system I have studied for decades — led to disastrous results. That a world of brutality and violence flourishes not only in prisons behind concrete walls, but also in courts of law behind sealed records and gag orders, is one of the most disturbing realities I have come to witness in my twenty-five years of forensic practice — especially since innocent children are the primary victims.

We know from scientific research that the trauma and mortality of domestic violence and child abuse are as severe as any war combat. That family courts are failing to recognize domestic abuse, but routinely send children to their abusers and sever contact with their primary caregivers, is currently one of the greatest human rights emergencies on U.S. soil — especially since this has lifelong and intergenerational repercussions. All fifty U.S. states that are affected, and Louisiana is no exception (Associated Press, 2022; Jenkins, 2024; Silva, 2022).

The statistics are stark. Three-quarters of women in the United States who are killed by their abusers are murdered after they leave the abusive relationship. Of the approximately 100,000 contested child custody cases each year in the United States, a vast majority are actually domestic violence cases involving the most dangerous individuals our society produces. Abusive fathers are more than twice as likely to seek sole custody of their children than non-abusive fathers, and family courts award them joint or sole custody almost three-fourths of the time (Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody, 2023). Many fathers who are thus granted custody kill their children, such that up to 25 percent of the nation’s child murders by parent are the result of placement by family courts (Center for Judicial Excellence, 2023).

These are massive numbers, since child abuse is very common. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in five Americans were sexually molested as a child, one in four were beaten by a parent to the point of leaving a mark on the body, and one out of eight witnessed their mother being beaten. Five children die per day from abuse in the United States, and four will have involved a parent. Almost one in three abused and neglected children will later abuse their own children, continuing this horrible cycle of abuse — and family courts may be a contributor to worsening trends (Friedman, 2019).

The Center for Judicial Excellence (2024) has tracked over 980 children murdered by a divorcing or separating parent over a sixteen-year period in the United States. A detailed study of 175 child murders by fathers in relation to contested custody showed that family courts had in many cases given the access they needed to murder their children, over the objections of the mother (Bartlow, 2017). For every murder, there are a greater number of suicides, and for every death, there are hundreds of injuries that require medical attention. Yet, these numbers are an undercount, as near-universal record concealment, sometimes against the litigants themselves, makes it virtually impossible to track the true number of child murders family courts enable.

Deaths are only the extreme end, since the “soul murder” that children endure with the experience of abuse is unseen from the outside. More than 58,000 children a year are ordered into unsupervised custody by their physical or sexual abuser following divorce in the United States (Silberg, 2008). These children are maximally exposed to lifelong psychological and physical illness, substance abuse, relationship problems, vulnerability to future abuse, as well as decades of loss of life, according to the highly-respected, federally-funded nationwide Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study (Felitti et al., 2002).

In a disproportionate number of family court cases, the “protective parent” loses custody for simply bringing up the abuse — or even when the children bring up the abuse. Thus, they strip children not only of their primary attachment figure and primary support, but the number one mitigating factor that could help them heal from the abuse. The result is that there is no greater tragedy for growing children, no greater loss for loving parents, and studies now show that large numbers of protective parents, usually mothers, die (Dalgarno et al., 2024; Thomas, 2023).

Child abuse not only affects the current levels of violence in society but has measurable impacts on the levels of heart disease, cancer, obesity, high blood pressure, mental illness, substance abuse, crimes, suicides, and life expectancy (Petruccelli et al., 2019). The economic cost of child abuse and neglect in the United States was estimated at 592 billion dollars in 2018 (Klika et al., 2020).

In spite of all this, pervasive practices of family courts knowingly granting the abusive parent primary custody or unprotected parenting time has tragically not only gone undetected — but have become increasingly extreme in their unchecked abuses. Many cases are prolonged for years if not decades, mainly for the purpose of obscuring the picture, appointing unnecessary court actors (Saunders et al., 2011), and hiring antiscientific “parental alienation experts” and “reunification therapists” to fix the results, fabricate false “evidence”, and suppress real evidence. The profits of doing so are estimated to be between 50 and 175 billion dollars per year (Berger, 2014) — more than the revenue of all other courts combined.

Furthermore, biases against women, children, and allegations of abuse endemic in family courts help dangerous individuals, especially men, to weaponize the courts as instruments of their abuse. Additionally, with higher courts reluctant to intervene and appeals seldom successful because of near-unlimited “discretion”, family court judges wield almost absolute power. They have essentially crafted a subculture that sharply deviates from mainstream society, quickly turning perpetrators into “victims” and domestic violence victims into “perpetrators”.

Tactical theories designed to produce this result, such as “parental alienation,” are discredited elsewhere but thrive in the context of family courts. This hypothesis, originally based not on research but on the personal biases of Richard Gardner, has been debunked scientifically and denounced by reputable medical, psychiatric, and psychological associations — as well as, most notably, the United Nations (2023). Yet, this “pseudo-concept” continues to dominate as a strategy abusers use to manipulate family courts and is being exported internationally at alarming rates. It enables the abuser to portray reports of child sexual, physical, and psychological abuse as lies and the children rejecting him as having been “coached” by the primary caregiver to “alienate” him — rather than being a genuine survival mechanism against his harmful acts, as all legitimate scientific, medical, and developmental studies support.

A national study of 4,388 custody cases showed that mothers who report abuse — particularly child sexual abuse — were losing child custody to abusers at alarming rates (Meier, 2021). It found that the family courts were excessively resistant to child abuse reports and frequently transferred custody from their primary caregivers to known abusers, including convicted sex offenders. If the father accused of abuse counter-accused with “parental alienation,” his chances of gaining custody doubled. If the mother accused of abuse counter-accused with “parental alienation,” her chances did not improve. Yet, studies have repeatedly established that not only is deliberate false reporting rare — as little as 0.1 percent (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010) — but that child abuse is greatly underreported.

The most dangerous abusers use children as pawns to torment their former partner or to gain child support, to seize marital assets, and even to incarcerate protective parents, with shockingly high rates of success. The greatest casualties are the children, who suffer immeasurably and not only lose the opportunity ever to reach their full potential but in large part become the next generation of angry rapists and murderers, if they survive that long.

As a result, whether through ignorance or willful blindness, bad decisions have become the deadly norm for family courts. A major National Institute of Justice-sponsored family court outcomes study came to the astonishing conclusion that if all family court custody decisions were reversed, they would be more correct (George Washington University, 2018). A cottage industry of lawyers, guardians ad litem, and poorly-qualified “experts”, backed by abuser groups (which call themselves “men’s rights” or “fathers’ rights” groups) has developed because in domestic violence cases, the abusers usually control the money, and it is more lucrative to help the abusers. Therefore, going far beyond the notorious “kids for cash” scandal (Chen, 2009), family courts are taking children from their stable homes and protective, primary caregivers to sell them to the highest bidder, which all too often means to their torture, rape, and murder.

For these reasons, oversight is critical and urgent of the family courts, as well as of all other courts that defer to them. H.C.R. 39, through the Judicial Structure Task Force, has the ability to provide some of that oversight and possibly to save innocent lives.

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Bartlow, R. D. (2017). Judicial response to court-assisted child murders. Family and Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly, 10(1), 7–54.

Berger, P. (2014, August 1). Divorce is big business. Hawaii Business Magazine. https://www.hawaiibusiness.com/divorce-is-big-business/

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