Judge orders adopted child back to biological parents
Yesterday, the day after
Christmas, three and a half year-old Evan Parker Scott was to be taken
from his adoptive parents and given to his biological mother Amanda
Hopkins. His biological father, Stephen A. White Jr., is to have liberal
visitation rights.
The adoption was voided “because Hopkins didn’t get consent from Evans’ biological father, who wasn’t told of his fatherhood until Evan was about to be given to the Scotts.” Five-months after Evan was born his biological father filed for punitive consent, giving him the right to fight for custody. Hopkins has supported the Scott’s because she didn’t feel White would be a good father but four months ago, when it looked like White would win his custody petition, she turned against the Scott’s and sought custody for herself.
”Hopkins and White are to seek professional counseling for Evan to see if any continued relationship with the Scotts would be in his best interest,” but there is no guarantee the Scott’s will see Evan again.
What a sad situation for the Scott’s, but especially for Evan. The Scott’s are the only parents he has ever known.
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If this is not justice gone blind then I don’t know what is. The court
is taking a young child form the only parents he knows and plopping him
down with strangers, this is in the child’s best interest? I don’t think
so. Maybe we should not be so concerned about the rights of the biological
parents and more with the rights of the family that has opened their home
and their love to this child after all they are the ones that took Scott
into their home and have cared for him. The Mother and father were not
concerned before and right after the birth to stand up and take
reasonability for this new life but now they are so interested in the
child.
Just when is common since going to return to the courts. I
feel that these judges should be held accountable for all their bad
rulings and be allowed to be suited by the effected parties; this would
end all the court backups and just maybe free of judges to apply the law
as they should. I mean, before we rip the child out of the only home he
knows lets subject these biological parents if we can call them parents at
all to some kind of tests? Let’s be asking all the right questions before
placing the child in their custody. This makes good common since to me.
But their I go again injecting common since into the court system, what am
I thinking?
The Scotts are not victims in this case, they are the victimizers. The
Biological father filed for immediate custody in this case. We would not
even be hearing of this case if they had done what was right in the first
place. They should have turned the child over to the father immediately.
Everyone seems to forget Evan had two parents, not just one. In this case
the mother didn’t want to be a parent, but the father did.
You have
one thing current and that is the Judge did make a bad decision. Custody
should have gone to the father. Not a mother who originally gave up her
child. Then four months before the Judge is about to rule in favor of the
Father she decides to throw her hat back into the ring.
I hope the
father appeals this decision because a major precedent already exist for
this case….. BABY RICHARD
The father physically assaulted the mother during her pregnancy. He
also has a history of domestic violence, drug abuse and numerous other
criminal convictions. She chose to put the baby up for adoption for her
own reasons, but also to protect Evan from the birth father and his
outrageous outbursts.
Ultimately the birth mother was given
temporary custody over the birth father due to his outbursts in court
which left the judge who was quoted as saying that "Mr. White obviously
still has issues with anger control". The birth father has still not to
this day been awarded anything other than supervised visitation.
So, Mr. Warren, know all the facts before you pass judgement.
Given the chance I'm sure Mr. White would eventually put his hands on this
small child, then what?????
I saw this case on CNN tonight and I cannot believe that a judge would award custody back to the biological parents after 3 1/2 years with his adoptive parents. Why not give the biological parents visitation rights?? Did the judge ever consider what was in the best interest for the child?? I can't even imagine what that poor child is going through right now. He will NEVER be the same. I can't believe this. We need to start a petition to get this child turned back over to his adoptive parents.
this is another outrageous case of not putting
the childs best
interest first. regardless
of what happened 3 years ago these are
the
only parents this little boy knows and loves
and he belongs with
them. I feel sick inside
just knowing he may never be with them
again
and how this will affect him forever.
I used to think like these people I have read on this siuation. But my
whole outlook changed when I opened a letter from an adoption agency in
April, 2004 addressed to my husband informing him a woman had named him
possible father of her child which was born in Feb.2004.This was before we
married and she never told him she was pregant actually she named another
married man the father.My husband upon learning there was even a chance he
was the father called the agency and told them he wanted his child and
also that he wanted a DNA test that if it wasnt his son then he would not
stop the adoption. The couple had signed a legal risk waiver knowing this
child was not eligible for adoption but would take the risk anyways.Now it
is January 9 months later and we are still fighting.Niether parent has
been teminated ,all rights still intact.My husband has visitation with the
baby 3 times a week until a hearing and we know the adoptive couple has
hired an attorney fo the natural mother so the father cant have him and in
hopes she will get him back.So I can understand the anger of the fathers
out there when they are asked to pay child support but yet they are told
they are nothing and their children can just be taken and sold like the
slaves were.My husband has no criminal record, has been on his job for
over 20 yrs and is a fit parent.It is a child best interest to be with his
biological family if they are fit to raise him.But when a woman gets
pissed off at a man because they broke up and he married someone else and
she doesnt tell him she is pregant and gives his child away and only wants
him back because she is still pissed at the father and doesnt want him to
have this baby.Then that mother should not have any rights to the child.
Esp. when in her own counseling notes she states" she has no patience and
is afraid she will take her anger out on the baby". The attorney fees are
very high but to have our son home with his father here he belongs we will
loose everything material we have for our child.We have recieved threats
and could even lose our lives fighting for him but at least he will know
he wasnt just given away he was infact wanted by his father and was held
from us because of the quote "we have bonded" just imagine if someone took
your child and kept them from you then came back and said we have bonded
and you cant have him.
Oh how interesting and predictable that the birthmother who everyone praises as long as she is willing to have her child taken from her for the benefit of an infertile couple is then blamed for that very decision...adoption is barbaric, brutal and inhumane...does anyone think this child won't suffer to learn he is adopted later in life? You are obviously blissfully uninformed and wish to stay that way...ignorant and hateful, full of contempt for the very people who gave this child life? What's next, stealing the children of the poor in broad daylight and calling that a happy ending too? Sickening...incredibly sickening...
To Thomas Sullivan-
I can't believe your words...you are an
incredible brute and selfish animal...have you never been in a crisis in
your life? You sound like you are more than willing to exploit people in
the middle of a crisis by taking their children away from them in the name
of the best interest of the child...you are obviously completely ignorant
about the realities of adoption...the trauma and pain to the child as well
the family who has to live without them...I guess it would be poetic
justice to see YOUR CHILD taken away from you and see you sit there while
society judges you unworthy of the very child to whom you gave
life...people have NO RIGHT to take babies who have not been relinquished
by BOTH PARENTS...you sound like a brute, and I pity any child that lands
in your home...
In our endeavor to make sure that our childen are looked after
properly, we have
created something that may only have happened 2
other times in civilized
history. A system that takes Children away
from their families to get Federal
money. It appears to be a rare
thing to those of us that never had to suffer at
the hands of the
system. I know that years ago I could not have believed it
Like in
Argentina and switzerland, only more sophisticated,Our Juvenile system
is built upon the idea that if children are taken money is paid to
children
services, judges, court officers and various support
professionals. Everyone
feeding from the same trough. Lets hope thatit
doesn't last nearly a hundred
years here.
Even though there are
bench guides recommending and telling judges what
decisions they must
make at various stages of dependency hearings to get Title
IV money,
We thought it would be ok. It's not, by a long shot.
We have
created a system where a child is 13 times more liey to be abused in a
foster home than in there own homes. II times more likely to be
sexually abused.
and 6 times more likely to die than in their own
homes.
A sytem where all of the children living in colonel times or
the old west could
be decared to be abused because they had no
electricity. Lamps for a day or so
is not good enough. A system that
would rather take the children and reap
thousands instead of givng the
family $200.00 to pay that electric bill. A
system that is simply too
formidable for a poor person, so 90 percent of the
kids are from poor
families. A system that can even lie and get away with it
because they
have been put in authority to make determinations.
The number of
children taken each year by the State can be calculated, not by
some
empirical information showing the number of abused children in that State,
but the number needed to balance DCFS budgets.
DCFS with an
acquiecent judge can thwart all justice.
I believe some changes in
law will make little or no difference if the process
stays the same.
As it is now, a bad Judge and CFS could evade all justice.
As long
as CFS, Judges, ad litems and other professionals used in evaluating
and providing services to family and children feed from the same
trough, there
can be little chance of justice.
As long as the
richness of the State is pitted against the poor with possibly
only a
court appointed attorney that doesn't have equal monies to spend on
defense as the State has to prosecute, there will not be
justice.
As long as CFS is considered an arm of the State with
authoritative veracity
and not just another adversary against the
accused, no justice will be done.
Why? Because whatever they say is
considered authoratative and serious.
As long as there is no real
way to get an outside accounting of CFS actions, how
can their
truthfulness and integrity be questioned?
As long as they are
allowed exclusive control of the child, the process and the
information to be released. there can be little or no justice. How
would you
make a measure of it?
As long as the States allows an
Agency to take a poor person's children because
he or she had their
electricity temporarily shut off for lack of $200.00, yet
the Agency
will acquire 1000s of dollars for taking those children instead of
paying that 200 dollars, the situation is darn near
hopeless
And as long as there is no regress for victums in those
cases that has been
litigated under these conditions inproperly,
justice will not have full
sway.Justice delayed is not justice at
all.
Wither or not one believes in the Devil, it would be hard to
think up a more
thorough way for something to appear benevolent while
being utterly evil.
Yet there are a couple of things that would
benefically make the system more
likely to protect rights and produce
just results.
1. CAUSE CFS, to have to pay (by law) equally for the
defense of the accused.
Then the court determine how much the person
can reimburse the agancy.
2. A jury of 12. Should I not have a jury
of my peers to decide if my Children
should be imprisioned or just if
I may go to jail?
3. Allow the light to shine in. appointed ,non
paid , Media observers
Any 2 of these things alone would prevent
said system from abusing the innocent.
Those that are innocent
are reduced to what I am reduced to doing, crying out to
the public.
No one wants to hear it. No one believes it The process makes it
all
look good and constitutional. Anyone looking over the data cannot easily
see
wrong doing, unless there was an attorney that got all the accused
objective
iformation in the record. Few do. You need to have lots of
money for discovery
and experts gong against DHS.
Here are a
series of letters that I sent to the media. that were written at the
time of the evenits. They have not been edited.
I hope somone
finds time to read them. Then read what I say DCFS will do
next.
Mr. Orielly. This will not be your typical email, I am
sure. I think I will need
your help.
My Name is Bill Sullivan.
I am a single parent of 3 children that live with me.
One 10 year old
girl and 2 boys, ages 15 and 13. I lIve in North Little Rock
Arkansas.
Monday the second of May 2005. I took my little girl to the
hospital, thinking
that she had a urinary tract
infection.
Arkansas Children's Hospital finally saw
her.
There came a point in the examination, when a number of
doctors got involved. I
knew something was not right. They told me it
was normal in cases like this.
They finally told me that my little
girl had herpes. I was stunned and told the
doctor that there was only
one way that I knew that she could get this. He
nodded in
agreement.
Next thing I knew, social services shows up. and do a
recording while I am
still shocked and not thinking critically. I
asked them wasn't there different
"brands " (types) of herpes? The
social worker didn't seem too sure.
I told them about everyone that
I knew that could have had an opportunity to
do something to my child,
although I found it hard to believe any of those
people would do
anything. I told them everything that I knew. They said that
there was
other signs of trauma.
Next , I went to my child and told her what
the doctor said. I said that he
indicated that someone had to have
done it.She said nothing like that ever
happened. She said that she
wouldn't lie to me. She also began to cry, saying
that she didn't want
anyone to have been fooling with her. She assured me that
she would
tell me if she knew.
I knew she was telling the truth. She would
not be afraid to tell on anyone,
because she is still at the age where
she believes Daddy would break anyone's
neck. She would not have to be
afraid. Therefore I suggested, maybe it happened
while she was asleep.
She sleeps deep. She said that she knew nothing of it
happening, but I
could tell she believed me that it could be possible. I never
thought
that I could be making suggestions that may stick in her
mind.
Later as I came to myself. I began to ask good questions to
the doctor.
What type of tests were made? could medications, foods
and a mixed sample cause
false positives? One doctor called another.
They didn't know the answers.
Information was taken from me. I was
told a pathologist would call me the next
day to answer those
questions. I was also told that the tests may not hold up in
court.
The social worker told me that it would hold up and that she had seen
them hold up only on suspicion. No pathologist called. I called to
speak to a
pathologist. No one would speak to me.
Children and
Family Services, took posession of my child that night. I helped
them
by telling her to treat it as a vacation till we found out everything. I
had to do it with a smile. She was looking into my eyes. I knew if I
wavered,
she would start bawling. She was told that she (SHELBY )
would be allowed to
call me every day. She was only allowed to call me
a couple days.
I called the hospital, to obtain the test records.
They would not give them to
me. I was told that I have to go through
Social services. I had social services
to call them. Ms. Williams, of
social services,said that they was told that the
tests were
positive.
The doctor had told me that one of the tests was a
culture test. Later I also
found out that those tests takes 2 to seven
days to get results. I began to
wonder how I could be told exactly
what or possibly what kind of herpes it was
that same night.
I
learned that of the 2 types of herpes, type 1 and type 2, type 2 is the
usual
genital kind.
I also learned that sometimes type one can
be transferred to the genital region.
All it takes is a momentary
weaken immune system and transference of the virus
from one area to
the other. That could happen by kissing the genitalia or just
simply
kissing the infected person on the lips and that person touching her or
himself. Even using the same towels, spoons etc.
I was finally
able to get the tests results, by signing documents after the
social
worker called.
The test showed these three things.
1. No
type 2 herpes antigens (negative)
2. type 1 herpes antigens was
(positive)
3. Her Hymen was intact.
After doing due diligence, I
found that Children and Family Services can
interpret almost any
disturbance as trauma. Examples; scratching or rubbing the
area.
After reading horrendous cases of false allegations
today, that was later
reversed , sometime years later, I am very
concerned.
The social workers treated me with kid's gloves, saying
at times , everything
will be ok.
Today, I received a summons
for court tomorrow evening 4pm.
I thought that after seeing it was
type 1 and the fact that about 100 percent
of people get it at some
point in their lives, as (Fever blisters) on their
lips, They would be
ready to give her back.
Here in Arkansas, DHS and family services
get paid thousands of dollars for
placing a child.
I found out
today that they are suing me for permanent custody.
What's even
scarier is I wasn't thinking that I needed an attorney. I talked to
one, but it seemed unnecessary. The attorney had told me not to trust
them. Now
I have to appear and my attorney will not be back in town
till a day after
court. She and I did not know of a court date when
she left town.
Now here's the scariest thought of all. It is in the
same court where a few
years ago, the State tried to sue me for Child
support, even though they had
documented evidence that the children
has always lived with me. I take care of
them without child support or
any aid from the State. The documented evidence
was (get this) from
Child support's own chief investigator and from DHS. The
Process was
not going to allow me to say those FACTS. I spoke up anyway so it
would be part of the record because I was told that I cound not make
speeches,
just answer questions.
I was threatened with contempt
of court, when I asked, " Why are we wasting the
taxpayers money, and
just who will I pay child support to, myself?"
Mr. Orielly, this
will be the 3rd time that I have taken on the State. I won the
others.
This time I am doing it unemployed or rather doing everything I can to
stay above board, without an employer.
All the pertinent
things that I have told you are a matter of record.
I am going in
without an attorney. If I have it put off till my attorney gets
back.
They could have Shelby for months till a new hearing. It could happen
anyway.
Bill
Sullivan
501-612-5890
SECOND LETTER: the day
after court. (May 13th 2005)
Mr. Oreilly.
We went to court
yesterday. I was right it was the same court, same Judge that I
sat
under 4 years ago, in a child support hearing. She brought up the fact
that
she did remember me in a disparaging fashion. She made it plain
that I would not
be allow to say anything but what a court appointed
attorney would ask. I
didn't ask for one. He was appointed at the
hearing. It worked against me.
He approached me saying that the
court had appointed him. I accepted it after he
said that I would be
allowed to tell the Judge how it came about that deceptions
was used
to get my child into DHS custody. I told the Judge. She would not allow
me to speak, except for about a minute and a half and that at the
questions of
an attorney that didn't know what to ask of
me.
She asked me if I had any previous encounters with DHS. I said
not like this
one, and started to tell about the encounters. In the
first sentence, she cut me
off and would not allow me to speak. Later
she tried to accuse me of lying. I
reminded her that she stopped me
from talking.
I have been before Judges before. I even argued my
divorce from my first wife.
No children was involved. I am a pleasant
guy. everyone says I am too nice. For
some reason, this judge cannot
stand to allow me to talk. Somehow this one
person seems to have an
aversion to me.
My court appointed attorney met with me and told me
that DHS would win so we
were going to go along. I told him NOT SO,
that DHS did not have a case. I said
that they may have had a reason
to take the child at first but not after the
test results have come
out positive for hsv-1. Doctors had told me it was hsv-2
and that it
only was caused by sexual contact.
I explained that virtually
everyone gets hsv-1 in their lives and that it can
be transferred by
hand from friends , relatives or ones self to the genitalia.
He
then went and got a fax from the doctor at Arkansas children's hospital
that
let him know that the test used was an antigen test. That it was
not certain
that it was even hsv-1. One thing that is certain is that
it is not hsv-2.
My child's Hymen was still in place, doctors
noted. She is still a virgin. (No
telling what will happen in foster
care)
You may also want to know, that the antigen test cannot tell
when , where or how
she first got hsv-1.
DHS was asking in
court that the whole family be tested. I tried to explain that
since
all of us in the family have had "FEVER BLISTERS" (hsv-1) and everybody
gets it sooner or later, it would prove nothing. It would just be an
extra cost
to the family, with a Dad that is currently self employed
while looking for
permanent work. I was not allowed to speak and the
attorney was still just
getting acquainted with what it was all
about.
My daughter told me that they told her that if she told them
who did it , she
would get home quickly. She finally told them that
her cousin might have done
something in her sleep. She thought she was
coming home. I told her that she
had an attorney. She promptly asked
me. "WHERE IS SHE? Shouldn't she be here?"
I didn't know how to
answer.
When DHS got the new information from Children's hospital,
my sister who was not
allowed in courtroom and was sitting in a
separate room, over heard them
talking. They were wondering if they
still had a case.
They didn't need one.
My Daughter finally
got to tell her Attorney the promises DHS made to her, my
sister said.
My sister even mentioned it to her attorney. When she came into
court,
she never brought it up in court proceedings.
All we asked, was for
my child who said that she had been crying everyday, be
allow to come
home. DHS could keep the case going if they liked. There was
simply no
reason that the State should continue harming my child's mental and
psychological well being.
Mr. Oreilly. I have watched and
listened to you a long time. I know your care
for the children, but I
need this story told. Governors cannot look into the
records of
Children and Family services. They even have the right to burn their
own records, is my understanding.
They have become as grand
inquisitors in my Family's lives and there is no one
to hold them
accountable.
The Judge even brought up my past encounters with DHS
to make a decision about
DHS keeping Shelby. She held it as strikes
against me. Since I won the cases,
shouldn't she have held it as
strikes against DHS?
My Child whom I had given so much hope that
the system would work, dropped to
the floor when she learned what
happened. I had to leave her in tears. I assured
her that I will do
whatever it takes to let the world know what it going on here
, with
her and my family. The Harassment we have received over the years .
without good reasons.
Please, tell the world. Don't stop
telling everyone, till either me or DHS gets
what it deserves. My
child deserves better.
Bill
Sullivan
501-612-5890
INVESTIGATION DROPPED as
unfounded (written May 13th 2005)
Mr. Oreilly,
I just
learned today from Detective Julie Rose and North Little Rock Police
department, that they had dropped the investigation against me. Her
number is
501-771-7154. She said they not only dropped it as
unfounded, but notified the
lead attorney for Children and family
services before court yesterday. His Name
is Mr. Honorable. I believe
she said that she also told someone else in a
supervisory position at
DHS.
Yet in court Children and Family Services argued that one of
the reasons to keep
her was that there is (THEY SAID) an ongoing
investigation by North Little Rock
Police Department.
Please
check these things out. I know they are true. There is an ongoing
injustice here. I need it to be public so no one else will ever have
to go
through this again.
Bill
Sullivan
501-612-5890
North Little Rock, Arkansas
Mr.
Oreilly.
Update on case DHS child protective services VS. Bill
Sullivan.
Wed May 18th 2005.
I filed an exparte motion to the
court to set aside its prior order because
DHS intentially lied to the
court , saying there is an ongoing investigation.
There is
no such
investigation going on. That was Mon. 16th 2005.
I left court the
evening of May 16th 2005. As I was leaving court, I called DHS
to
set
up visitations per the courts order. The person that I talked to
could not
locate the
File. She said that she would find it and
have someone call me.
My fledgling business is
suffering.
Tuesday MAY 17th, 2005
I did research most of the
day. The attorney that I have decided to use finally
call
me back.
She had made it back in town. I told her that if she is going to run
off, now
would be a good time because I was intending to sue DHS. I
said I know of no one
that
has really been successful, but I was
going to do it how ever hard and
regardless of
the time that it
would take. I told her that I could not believe this sort of
thing
could happen in America.
The social worker called me later in the
afternoon. She set up visitations on
recurring Thursdays at 9:30 am.
These will began on May 19 2005. The court said
2 hrs. 2 times a
week.
She also told me that after visitations, I will need to tell
her about
everything that has happened in my life, beginning from
childhood till now. That
she had to set up home visitations. She also
mentioned an invitation that she
will send me, to another
meeting.
I told her to talk to my attorney.
The
investigation has been dropped by The police as UNFOUNDED, yet they keep
going and going Like the energizer Bunny. In their minds, I am guilty
till
proven innocent.
Now AM I CRAZY? Since in Arkansas, they
cannot investigate in a case when the
child is 10 years old or more
and since the legal investigator (North Little
Rock police Dept)
has
dropped the allegations as unfounded, These people are violating my
rights. Can
they now declare it to be so, even though the
investigation says it's not?
The Media and everyone not a
principal, are excluded from hearings. They have a
process
that
does not allow plain logical exposition in court, or many cases would end
right then
and there. All the participants except the defendants
get monies from Child
protection services. This includes, Judges, ad
litems, appointed attorneys,
social workers, psychologists and other
so-called experts. All these people
huddle together and go
along
with the plan. Whatever DHS says is excepted, even when the facts
differ as far
as day is from night. They are immune from prosecution
and do what ever they
want to do.
I believe , that only intense
public attention and examination can have a hope
of breaking up this
corruption.
If these people can do this with an allegation dropped
as unfounded. What can
they not do?
I am contacting everyone I
can think of. Governors, Senators, Congressmen,
advocates, media. No
one has given me a clue of how to defeat this, so I endure
and press
on.
Just an update. Makes me feel like I am fighting back, even
though nothing is
happening.
I wonder how my child is
doing!
Bill Sullivan
501-612-5890
EX-PARTE
MOTION
THE CIRCUIT COURT OF PULASKI COUNTY ARKANSAS
JUVENILE
DIVISION
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES PLANTIFF
VS
NO.
JENNIFER LYNETTE HILL (DOB 7-22-71, SSN 432-49-9203)
MOTHER
WILLIAM SULLIVAN SR. (DOB 10-23-53) LEGAL/PUTATIVE FATHER
OF
SHELBY LYNETTE SULLIVAN (DOB 2-28-95, SSN
432-87-8359)
EX-PARTE MOTION TO SET ASIDE
Comes the
Defendant William Sullivan Sr. and for his answer to the
complaint
filed herein against him in all documents and orders issued
from this court
and extensions thereof in the matter of which plantiff
brought before this
court;
Be it known to this court that
plantiff secured an order obtaining probable
cause on false and
misleading contentions. Neither did this court hear
information from
ad litum that is required by law. Witness the facts below:
A.
Plantiff argued before this court that Defendant's child should be held in
Child protective services,in part, because there is an ongoing
investigation.
1. Detective Julie Rose of North Little Rock Police
Department (her number
(501)771-7154)
had closed the case as
unfounded. Furthermore she had notified DHS's Lee
Honorable Office of
Chief Counsel (His Number (501-682-8934) She also left
notifacation
for The social worker in this case Ms. Williams. Both things were
done
before this court heard this case.
B. Below are the Arkansas
Supreme Court rules for the attorney ad litum. Here
after referred to
as AAL.
AAL Standards of Practice
AALs shall conduct an
independent investigation of the case, either personally
or in
conjunction with a CASA. The investigation must consist of a review of
all relevant documents and records, interviews with the child, and in
conjunction with a trained CASA volunteer, when one has been
appointed,
interviews with parents, foster parents, caseworkers, and
service providers,
school personnel, and others having relevant
knowledge to assist in
representation;
AALs must continue to
investigate and maintain regular contact with the child;
AALs shall
determine the best interest of the child and shall present all
relevant facts to the court including the child?s wishes when they
differ from
the AALs? determination of the child?s best
interest;
AALs shall meet with his or her client prior to every
hearing and shall make
earnest efforts to attend all case staffings,
hearings, and court-ordered
mediation conferences;8
AAL shall
advocate for specific and appropriate services for the child and
family, request orders that are clear and specific, monitor
implementation of
case plans and court orders, file appropriate
pleadings, review the progress of
the child?s case and advocate for
timely hearings; and
A full-time AAL shall not have more than 75
dependency cases and a part-time AAL
shall not have more than 25
dependency cases, unless approved by the AOC.
2. Not only did NOT
AAL interview defendant, but AAL did NOT notify the court
per the
standards. because shelby requested her to tell the court DHS made
promises to her to allow her to go home, if she just told them who did
it.
Neither did AAL notify the court that Detective Rose of North
Little Rock Police
department, noted in Shelby's deposition that
Shelby HAD TESTIFIED the same to
detective Rose.
Defense prays
on either of these facts alone or together the order issued from
this
court may 13th granting continuing probable cause for DHS to hold Shelby
in
protective services AND in foster care, should be set
aside.
IN ADDITION, because the court sited previous encounters of
defendant William
Sullivan with DHS, the defence cites these facts
that are available to the
court.
1. Defendant Won those cases.
If they are to count as a strike against any of
the two parties,
plantiff or William Sullivan, it should be held against the
looser of
those cases, DHS. Otherwise, even winning a case will work against a
defendant.
Even though these Lies and errors have now been
shown, the court may still for
reasons we cannot understand, be
careful because of information in plantiff's
ex-parte custody petition
affidavit, We also present before the cout the
following information
and facts.
IN THE EX-PARTE CUSTODY PETITION: (AFFIDAVIT) of
plantiff:
2. The statements in number two in the affidavit are
false and misleading.
First paragraph. Doctors indicated to me and
therefore family services, that
they believed it was type2 genital
herpes and only could be caused by sexual
contact. Culture tests can
take 2 to 7 days to get a result. Genital herpes
type2 is almost
always caused by sexual contact. (almost) It turned out that the
tests
,once the cultures were grown, showed only positive for type 1 antigens.
Type 1 herpes is eventually gotten by about 100 percent of us
citizens. It can
be auto-transferred to other parts of the body.
Neither can an antigen test tell
when , where or how a person got
fever blisters. One of the doctors told me,
that they could not say,
it would hold up in court.
I told a social worker. She said that it
would hold up, because she has seen it
hold up on suspecion alone.
Suspicion alone is not a reason for holding and
placing a child in
fostercare. violating both the child's and the parents
constitutional
rights.
Defense contends, that this Whole matter really began with
this
mis-understanding and grew.
For example: Paragraph
2:
I, William Sullivan, was made to think by Doctors and Social
workers that it had
to be sexual, so I talked to my little girl. She
said it didn't happen. I told
her it had to be true because the Doctor
said so. I tried to think and get her
to think of a way it could have
happened. We thought about sleep. I suggested
that maybe it happened
while she was asleep. She said that she knew nothing of
it. I could
tell that she was telling me the truth, that she knew nothing of
it.
So we decided it had to be when she was sleeping, maybe. Never entered my
mind, that DHS would use it. I was trying to be helpful. She later
suggested it
as possible that her cousin did it while she was
sleeping
So when we both mention Sleeping as a possibility, it
was my idea planted in
Shelby. She trusts me. Also I never said it
happened. I said if it happened , it
had to be that way. I still
thought it was type 2.
Paragraph 3.
Armed with this
information, Shelby under well orchestrated pressure by social
services, even at school, answered like I did as a possibility. After
all if
Daddy and all the nice people, including Doctors say it
happened, it must have.
Having to choose between her brothers and her
cousin, whom she loves also, she
said maybe. Even DHS documents show
this. Shelby is more direct about what she
said and why she said
it.
In addition to this, during the firsT days of her captivity,
she was allowed to
talk to me. Shelby told me that it looked like they
were trying to get her to
say something that it may help her come
home. Detective Julie Rose, of Noth
Little Rock Police department Says
Shelby told her the same. She has
discontinued the case as
unfounded.
Paragraph 4
I have had Shelby all her life. I
have protected her. She is my little girl and
she has a special
relationship with her Dad. What Family services has done will
harm her
mentally and psychologically. They never had a right to violate my 4th
and 14th amendment fundamental right to privacy. They also violated
Mine and
Shelby's Rights against search and seisure.
They had
taken away all contact rights promised by them , to allow her to
contact me at least once a day until they obtained the extended order
on the
13th. She is sequestered. cannot see her family. Foster homes
have been under
fire for being more dangerous that being with the
people that children know and
love. The deaths an abuse many foster
children suffer are horrendous as has been
reported.
publicly.
In addition, Robert Chandler, My Nephew, is no longer in
my home. He is
Married. He and his wife has gotten back
together.
In addition to these points I deny any other statements
expressed from plaintiff
that abridges my role as a sovern parent,
with all of the rights a parent has
under the US
Constitution.
Because of these false allegations and
mis-representations,
Whereas; there never was any imminent danger
for Shelby and that the sole reason
for the beginning of this process
was misrepresentation (HERPES SIMPLEX 1)
everyone gets sooner or later
and one can AUTOINNOCULATE onesself to other
regions of the body. (See
documents submitted) The continuation of this process
has been based
upon lies fostered upon this court by DHS.
Whereas; depraving
shelby is causing her distress and much crying and
psychological
effects that will surely be remembered all her life.
Whereas; plain
verified and verifyable facts herein show that plaintiff obtained
Court order for probable cause with knowingly false information.
WHEREFORE, Defendant prays that the Complaint filed herein and all
court orders
against him that came forth thereof be set aside; for his
costs herein
expended; That the court will correct the injustice by
ordering DHS to return my
daughter Shelby, not accepting further
submissionsthought up by them to keep my
child and for any and all
other just and proper relief.
____________________________, Pro
Se
William T Sullivan
17 NEAL PLACE
North Little Rock,
Arkansas,72217
Phone number:
501-612-5890
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify
that I have this ____ day of _______________, 200___, served
[Lee
Honorable, Office of Chief Counsel , P.O. BOX 1437 slot S280 Little Rock,
AR 72203-1437 (501)682-8934 with the foregoing Answer by placing same
in the U.
S. Mail with sufficient postage
attached.
_____________________________
[Signed]
By
Bill Sullivan
Update: June 3rd 2005: Trial date extended....
We went to court yesterday only to find out that DHS asked for
an extension
and received it. Now My Child has to wait till the
23rd to learn her fate.
A week and a day ago, Thursday the 26th
of May, I met Shelby for a visitation.
I noticed
that it
looked like she had not brushed her teeth. I mentioned it and the case
worker was watching.
The case worker noticed the way my
whole household interacted with Shelby.
Shelby mentioned that I
should bring her more clothes. The social worker said
that it
would not be necessary because they have vouchers for that.
We
had a great time. All of the family.
The social worker, Miss
Carter, told Shelby that this would probably be the
last time for
visitations. She said the final decision would be up to the Judge, but
that
she and her co
-workers had been talking and could,for the
life of her,see no reason why she
should not be returned to
me.
My Attorney was out of town. Miss Carter told me that she
had to write a
social history of
my life and do a home visit.
She did not say it was court ordered at that
time. I mentioned
that I had talked to my attorney and had no intention of
giving up
my privacy rights.Everything that I have heard says that these
people, when they have nothing, will seek something in your house
of past life
to boaster their claims. So I was not about to do
anything without my
attorney.
The day before,
Wednesday, A Ms. Debora Hudspeth, called me. One of the State
Representatives that I had contacted had requested an explaination
from DHS of
why they continued to hold my Child. She wanted to
know the child that was
involved full name. She also said that
they had to have a response ready for
the representative by
Tuesday the 31st. She said that I would get a copy. It
is the 3rd
of June and I was told today that by Monday I should know
something.
something.
If was after this that I begin
to hear good things about Shelby being released
at the
trial.
Friday, I got a letter from Arkansas State Police's Matt
Caton, Stating that
they also found the allegations as UNFOUNDED.
Now, both North Little Rock
Police department and the Arkansas
State Police agrees with me. The evidence
does not support a claim
of abuse.
THE STAFF MEETING:
May 31st 2005, my
attorney and I met with DHS chief attorney, the foster
parent,
Shelby,case worker ms. Carter and someone else from DHS.
In
these meetings DHS outlines many pages of a plan to supposedly
rehabilitate
a family for reunification. I remember thinking "HOW
ODD". All this for a case
that the social worker can see no reason
to continue.
I give it to Miss Carter, She gave a glowing
report of my family with only
what she observed of
us.
The foster parent did something totally different. She said
that when she saw
Shelby, She was the most unkempt and scraggily
looking child that she had ever
seen, She said that the child
Stank and that it took 2 weeks to remove the
oder. I know this
could not possibly be true, but I will save this for court.I
was
shocked and caught myself shaking my head slightly, but I held my piece.
Now I began to think that I might be seeing the beginnings of a
new strategy
of DHS.
Now the ad litem had her
chance. She asked my attorney if she had advised me
to disobey
court orders? My Attorney assured her that She had only recently
been retained and had not seen the order. She only advised me to
allow her to
see anything before I signed onto
anything.
Next the ad litem asked my attorney if she had
anything to do with the ex-
parte motion to set aside the order
because of falsehood and misrepresentation
on DHS' part. The
motion also outlined by quotes from the Arkansas Supreme
court how
that the ad litem had violated standards of her office. I have
explained this before, but in a nutshell, the court says an ad
litem for a
child should do her own investigation, interviewing
all revelant witnesses.
She is to also, represent what the child
voices to her even if she disagrees,
along with what she thinks
best. She did none of these things.
DAY OF COURT: June 2nd
2005
My Attorney was there before I was. She got a chance to
talk to Shelby. I wish
I had not sat in the parking lot for 5
minutes. I only saw the attorney ad
litem getting in her car.
Shelby was gone and I had expected to be able to
take her home as
the Case worker had thought would likely happen.
I found out
that the Judge, whom I have previously described as seeming to
have an aversion to me, was not there. We would have been under
another Judge
(A blessing).When I think of it though, this is more
insidious that having to
litigate under a new Judge. In fact if
you are allowing the Child to go home,
what does it matter which
Judge presides. No this was intentional with the
express purpose
of saying that Shelby was not coming home. I had dared to
accuse
my opposition (individually by their names) =of specific things that
could have to be accounted for before the supreme court of
Arkansas, before
this is all said and done.
They had
offered my attorney to have me sign a document saying that I had
ALLOWED MY CHILD to catch a Germ.(See letters to Mr. Orielly) My
attorney
thought they were nuts.The bottom line is, my Child is
still in captivity and
all the emotional distress that comes with
being stripped away from your
family without a
reason.
Bill Sullivan
501-612-5890
UPDATE
SULLIVAN VS DHS 06-23-2005
I am sorry to say that I didn't get
Shelby back today in court.
We got to court and my daughter was very
happy to see me. She began
to tell me and my Sister about how the
foster Dad had threatened to
hit her in the head with what she
described as a fishing pole carrier
if she rolled her eyes at him just
one more time. She assured me that she never
rolled her eyes.
I
told her to tell her ad litem, so that I would not be accused of
discussing the case with her. She said that they never listen.
Everything seemed to be going fine at the trial until I got word
that
Shelby was turning State's evidence. She was now saying, I was
told,
that her cousin did it to her. I was shocked! She had always told
me
that they were pressuring her to say he did. Now I thought, maybe,
she had finally broken. I thought, what child traumatized by
familial
separation, could hold up very long. How could she
consistantly resist
with no outside support. The only people that could
talk to her about
the case was DHS. All her cries to her ad litem,had
fallen on deaf ears.
Then another shoe dropped.
The same
Judge that has granted probable cause in her previous order.
The same
Judge that stated on the order that one of the reasons she
decided
probable cause was because of an ongoing North Little Rock
Police
investigation, now was saying that it was not relevant to the
case.
You may remember that I had filed an ex-parte motion to set
aside the
order because DHS has hidden the fact that the investigation
was dropped
as unfounded. Documents submitted proved it.
It is
ironic that the people breaking the law,the very person to whom
North
Little Rock police had spoken to,said that it was not revelant
and the
Judge concurred.
The ad litem got off the hook with breaking
Arkansas law also when the
Judge allowed none of that evidence showing
neither the lying nor her
refusal to follow the rules of an ad litem as
laid down by the Arkansas
Supreme court.
Then an unexpected shoe
dropped.
They called a young doctor to court that had treated
Shelby in Children's
Hospital.
Under questioning by my
attorney,he admitted:
1. The PCR test tested positive for hsv-1 and
negative for hsv-2
2. That if Shelby ever had fever blisters, she would
have tested positive
for the hsv-1 antibody at any point after.
3.
That the PCR test could not tell,when, where, nor how Shelby got
hsv-1.
4. That Hsv-1 could be auto-transmitted from one area of the
body to
another. Even if she touched someone else's fever
blisters.
Then everything went crazy. He was asked,that in his
professional opinion
how did shelby get hsv-1. He said by mouth to
genitals or genital to
genital. Thus in one sentence, he contradicted
all that he had just said.
After all,he said,she could not have been
born with it.
This young Doctor, get this, is having his graduation
ceremony this evening
at 6 pm. He has had only one case of genital
hsv-1 in a child. That child
is Shelby.
Another tragedy
happened, all of a sudden a little girl (whom I cannot name,
because of
court order) would finally to be allowed to testify. This she had
wanted to do for quite some time. Her ad litem would not
cooperate.
My attorney, had tried to get her ad litem to allow her
to ask the little
girl a few questions,to no avail. Now She would say
what the State wanted.
I overheard what happened. This in itself
was miraculous. These things are
usually kept very secret. That way no
one will know of any injustice. It was
thought up as a way to protect
children. This secrecy has permitted a
currupt system to operate
without real oversight.
I could possibly go to jail for telling
this.
What I overheard was that this LITTLE GIRL, had pulled one
over DHS' eyes.
While on the stand, she told of how she lied to her ad
litem. She said that
she knew lying was wrong, but that they promised
her to allow her to go
home. Furthermore, it was the only way that she
got to tell what her ad litem
refused to tell in court.
This
little girl also told about how her Foster Father threatened to knock
her
out cold with an instrument. She mentioned other abuses in Foster
care.
This smart little girl had out-foxed all those feeding from
the trough of DHS,
or so it seemed.
When the Judge made her
decision,she ignored all the little girl's testimony.
She only
mentioned the story told the ad litem by the little girl,to get
a
chance to testify. She used it as a reason to keep her in foster
care. Held by
the same people that has brought so much trauma upon
her.
In my testimony under questioning,I pointed out that Shelby's
mother
sometimes had gotten fever blisters before she was born and
that Shelby had them
before this incident. I pointed out that the
young Doctor was wrong because
under those circumstances, many had
gotten Hsv-1 and hsv-2 at birth.
I offered information from the
Center For Disease Control (CDC) and the Journal
Of Clinical
Microbiology. I said the information was open to everyone.
Here is
one quote from the Journal Of Clinical Microbology, A SIX YEAR
STUDY.
http://jcm.asm.org/cgi/content/full/39/9/3321
Nonsexual transmission of HSV-1 also may occur by
autotransmission. This could
include transmission of viral particles
from oral lesions through the gut to the
perineum or by the direct
inoculation of virus to the genitals on fingers or
fomites. The
parasthesias associated with herpes labialis often lead patients to
repeatedly touch the infected lesion. Virus carried on the fingers
could then be
transferred directly to the perineum during the
placement of tampons or
indirectly transferred on toilet paper if
adequate hand washing prior to
toileting is not performed. In vivo
studies of autoinoculation from one site to
another with the patient's
own strain of HSV has been demonstrated to cause new
foci of disease
and reactivation (24). The spread of genital HSV onto the
patient's
fingers or eyes or onto mucocutaneous sites adjacent to primary
genital regions late in the disease course suggests that
autoinoculation is a
common occurrence (7, 14, 33). It is unclear why
this rate of transmission would
be showing such a dramatic increase
with time, unless it was concluded that
personal hygiene and hand
washing practices have changed significantly.
I also had a
report by the CDC,where a near epidemic of hsv-1 of various parts
of
the body broke out in minnesota among high school wrestlers.
No one
cared. You can't cross examine the CDC. I didn't know anyone questioned
the authority of the CDC.
I was asked if I would allow DHS into
my house during questioning. I have to
admit,the social workers that
had gotten to know me and my family, tried
their best. They said great
things about me and my family. They recommended
that Shelby be allowed
back into the home, only that they would monitor to make
sure certain
people would not be allowed in my home.
I intimated that I would
allow the devil in, if my child was allowed to come
home. (Of course I
would need to be ready with an exorcist) I pretty much feel
this way
about this EVIL entity.
To make a longer story shorter. The
Judge gave her decision. She said that since
the doctor said it had to
be transmitted sexually, DHS was to keep
Shelby.
The Judge
looked me in the eyes, and said that it seemed like I needed
some
psychlogical therapy, because I did not believe my child had been
molested.
I am to pay child support,and complete other services. I was
told in no
uncertain terms,that if I did not follow the regimen, my
child will be given
to someone else.
I have allowed Shelby to
believe that we are on track to go to counselling
together and that we
could be together then. I am certain that DHS never intend
to give me
back my child, whatever I do.
I will never allow it to
stand!
Some how, some way, we will be together again.
Bill
Sullivan
bsullivan79@comcast.net
501-612-5890
PREDICTION:
Athough,
I have never been accused of needing a therapist, the therapist for
DCFS will find that I needed help. He Will likely find that I am in
denial and
when I do not write an essay or somthing showing that I
accept DCFS findings.
That by itself will be reason for them to keep
my beautiful dhild. She thinks
she is coming home around August to
October I have to let her think this. It
would be too painful for her
to think otherwise. DCFS gets paid 5 different ways
for kids that they
take all the way to adoption. When they give the Child back
to a
family member the money stops. Do you know what those 5 different ways
are?
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