Governor Christie, We NJ women and mothers currently
suffering through a corrupt family court system implore you to ask the USDOJ to
investigate the family court. I thought
that I had seen it all. I thought that I
had endured it all. My divorce was final in the mid 1990’s. Over the course of the next 15 years, I was criminally
stalked and stalked through the family court. The FBI got involved in my case in
1999 after I was stalked to Disneyworld and
received calls to my hotel room on my birthday from an individual using the voice
changer from the movie Scream to sing Happy Birthday to me.
Beginning in 2000, I was dragged to the family court by an attorney
in violation of a judgment of divorce that required mediation before going to
court on a child related issue. In court
in 2001, the criminal stalking was used against me to paint me as unstable in
an attempt to take my child away from me.
In 2007, another motion seeking custody of my child was filed. Judge Guadagno resolved the matter entirely
in my favor and his decision on the illegal subpoena of police reports I filed
to document my stalking became a published opinion. In 2008, Judge Guadagno was
transferred to another county and the motions began again under a new
judge. My decade long criminal stalking
case was the impetus to update the NJ criminal stalking statute to incorporate
third party stalking and elevate the level of the crime. In 2009, Governor Corzine signed my legislation
(A1563) into law. Around an August 2009 family
court hearing meant to resolve all issues I began to receive recorded threats
deemed credible by the FBI. Joe Pate,
the suspect in my federal stalking case admitted to the FBI and police he was stalking
and threatening to kill me and then Pate committed suicide to avoid federal
prosecution.
Investigation Discovery Channel filmed a documentary on my
10+ year criminal stalking case entitled Stalked: Someone’s Watching “Dangerous
Games”. After the documentary aired NJ women
with similar cases of criminal stalking and stalking through the family court
reached out to me. Through them I
learned the family attorney dragging me to court for a decade had a baby
fathered by a family court judge. I realized
the judge who presided over my case in 2001 was none other than the baby daddy
of the attorney who dragged me to court. The ethics case against this
attorney has been pending four years after being remanded twice by the NJ State Disciplinary
Review Board. The Advisory Council on Judicial Conduct
declined to investigate the judge because he is retired. This Judge and this attorney had an open
relationship in the court house. In
violation of court rules, the court order for the hearing where the Judge’s
baby mama attorney appeared before him neglected to include the attorney’s name. On August 21, 2013, I began asking to inspect
my file and get a copy of an order from the first hearing where the judge’s baby mama
appeared before him in my case and according to Elisabeth Strom the acting clerk for the
Superior Court, my file has gone missing.
NJ is run amuck with corruption in the family court. Good mothers are losing custody of their
children and filing for bankruptcy because of unethical attorneys and corrupt
judges.
Please Governor Christie – we implore you to call for a Federal
investigation into the family court corruption.
