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Carrie
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Date Posted: 08/ 7/06 3:27pm
In reply to:
Josh
's message, "Ask the DA" on 08/ 7/06 11:00am
Gossip and rumor pass for gospel in all arenas of life, I have not seen the law enforcement offices being immune to its ill effects.
I commend you for staying here and for continuing to work in our legal system. It is my opinion that you serve us, that the legal system must serve us or its existence is a moot point (haha). My opinion of you, specifically, has changed, dramatically, since reading your wife's blog. Was it full of rumor and gossip? I took it for truth, as she saw it and for that I respected it.
Please, remember, for the most part, we are intelligent and balanced readers. Most of us are what, I would guess, are termed "lurkers". We read what many people are saying and follow the links. Maybe not posting often because: a)there are so many strident voices b) if you can't see eyes or hear a voice it is easy to misunderstand c) it is so much easier to lash out at a screen at the end of a rather crappy day than at a real person and one tends to forget that it is a person reading these words d) most of us were raised with mothers who told us "Don't wrote anything with your name signed to it that you wouldn't want your mother to read".
I, personally, have had one encounter with you in the court room. I won, I would guess because you did not do your homework or you would never have taken on the case. My sister went on to rape a four year old child in Portland, became a prostitute in Salem, we heard she dealt meth in Kalamath Falls, and then we lost track of her about five years ago with only her accounts of what she is up to from half crazed letters she writes to assorted family members on backs of envelopes and napkins. The children you asked Judge Nelson to return to her we raised. Both had their bachelor degrees from the University of Oregon just before their 21st birthday and one had their Masters in Education shortly after their 22nd birthday, after being homeschooled because 1) we don't like the public school system and 2) they were terrified their mother would find them and kidnap them or you would force them to return to her. They are now 24 years old. One lives out of the country and the other is thinking of leaving to raise children away from anywhere that there mother could find them. That is how horrible this woman was to her children and how much they are still sure she will hurt them. She told them, "You belong to me, if I can't have you, no one can." Her favorite book was the biography of Diane Downs. The abuse they told of in the judge's chambers and -you said was made up but the judge believed- not only wasn't made up it was even worse. What that woman made her son do to prep the daughters so she could sell them on the streets for her fix, and they were only eleven at the time? I hope to hell you have learned since then what truly can happen when substance abuse is involved, Mr. Marquis.
So, my question to you would be, why did you take on that child custody case? Why would the District Attorney take on a simple case between whether or not the mother was capable of caring for her children (she hadn't completed a sobriety program after being in 4 facilities for substance abuse in a four year period, leaving each one AMA, plus being under state supervision for the six months previous to the hearing and still hadn't been sober for even three months) or whether the state should continue to monitor the situation and the children remain in the care of the state? It had only been six months. The parent's rights weren't being terminated. Why were you involving yourself in this case? My sister's attorney was former DA Steven Gertulla, the state of Oregon case worker was recommending that the children be returned to her.
All we had was the Truth, our testimony and half of the county testifying that my sister was a sick, depraved person that couldn't possibly raise her children, had seen her prostituting herself with her children in tow, had been to parties with at her home that turned into orgies w/her kids in their bedroom hiding under a mound of clothes in their closet hoping no one would find them. These kids have blacked out parts of their childhood because it is too horrible to remember it.
So, why did you feel the need to be the one representing the case worker (i.e. The State of Oregon) in the action?
In Clatsop County we have a very high incidence of child abuse directly correlating to our high amount of substance abuse. Since my sister's case, which happened over 10 years ago, how has your perception of child abuse in Clatsop County changed? Have you taken any training in recognizing the signs of an abused child?
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