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- From: tas@sei.cmu.edu (Terry Ireland)
- Subject: PA justice
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.161952.16684@sei.cmu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:19:52 EST
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- IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
-
- ORDER OF COURT
-
- AND NOW, to-wit: this 29th day of May, 1991, upon presentation of
- Plaintiff's Petition for Suspension of Partial Custody and due
- consideration thereof, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND
- DECREED that pending the receipt of the findings by Childrens
- and Youth Services on the report of suspected sexual abuse of the
- minor children, Defendant's partial custody/visitation of the
- minor children NAME, NAME, and NAME is hereby suspended.
-
- Plaintiff's attorney to inform court immediately upon receipt of
- CYS findings.
-
- BY THE COURT
-
- CINTHIA BALDWIN JUDGE
-
-
-
- THIS WAS THE ORDER: The Plaintiff's attorney MS.Barbara Shah has as yet
- not informed the court. CYS closed the case 7/28/91. Ms.Shah sat through the
- CYS hearing on expungement. This means the CYS folks did not call for a
- hearing. The alleged perpetrator asked that his name be removed from the CHILD
- ABUSE REGISTER. I was not the alleged perp. I was listed as the alleged
- victim's parent.
-
- Ms.Shah informed the court on 8/16/91 that she was sure the perp
- was FOUNDED by CYS. She said it again to the court 10/4/91. No offer of proof.
- When my attorney asked to have CYS's letter admitted the Judge said, NO, my
- order is for the Plaintiff's attorney to present it.
-
- On 11/13/91 we had a conciliation hearing, the Plaintiff and her
- attorney walked out when the court broke for lunch and did not return.
- The Judge refused to write an order. She said she would not write an order
- because they walked out. She then scheduled a new date to finish the hearing,
- 11/15/91. The Plaintiff and her attorney did not show. The Judge again would
- not issue an order because they did not show.
-
- She then explained her book was so full she could not set a new date
- until next year. In December we were back in to request a date be set.
- The Judge then set a date to hear a motion to set a date to hear a
- conciliation for 1/21/92. At that hearing, the Judge set a date for 3/31/92.
- At that hearing, 3/31/92, Ms. Shah told the Judge she was sure the alleged
- perp and myself were FOUNDED by CPS in another state as well as PA..
-
- Ms.Shah had sat through the CYS hearing and knew better. She was
- there as the mother's attorney. Why the alleged victims mother would need an
- attorney at CYS is beyond me. The county provides the alleged victim with an
- attorney free of charge. The county is not so kind to the alleged perp. His
- parents have to pay for an attorney to defend him since he is a minor also.
-
- Needless to say, the Judge has not been informed yet and we are almost
- into 1993. The Judge still refuses to let me present CYS's papers to the court.
- She still says it is up to the Plaintiff's attorney to do that. The expungement
- hearing was over 7/15/92. The court would not enter the transcript into
- evidence even though I requested it to be entered.
-
- Today I spoke to CYS and asked them, for the umteenth time, to inform
- the court. But they won't. Not in PA.
-
- Surprises never seem to end in this case. 12/24/92, my ex called and
- asked if I wanted to make a deal. If I will stop the home evaluation and the
- psych evaluation, and call off the attorneys and judge and drop the custody
- suit, she is ready to talk deal. She let the children speak to me on the phone
- for ten miniutes as a Christmas present, as a show of good faith. See the
- Grinch is not dead yet, this was the first time she let them call me in two
- years. She told me if I don't make a deal they are going to put my eldest
- daughter back on the Lithium and Prozac so she will be calm when the home
- evaluator comes to visit their house. What an OFFER! I wonder if she will
- change the school records so I won't be listed as dead anymore? At one of the
- schools I am the children's stepfather. Hey, it's better than dead, as in the
- other records.
-
- Kind of makes you wonder why the Judge has not been able to set a
- custody hearing date for two years.
-
- CYS executives told me any Judge that wanted to know would have
- ordered the CYS papers direct. They say it is improper for a Judge to leave it
- to the opposition to inform. That is only used as a stall. Funny it should
- happen in Pittsburgh were Judge Zappella is pres. Judge. With his expertise in
- this area you would think he would tell the others how to do it right. Maybe
- he is too caught up in the Supreme Court mess to have time to talk to the
- Judges in family division.
-
- I read in yesterday's paper, the ABA considers the PA Supreme Court a
- national EYESORE. So much for taking the matter up with the higher court or
- the Judicial Review Board in PA. These guys sit there to.
-
- The system here is a wreck looking for a place to crash. It will make
- for more children waiting for help.
-
- George in Pittsburgh
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