Crooks and Whores: The Joint ABA-APA Conference

In April, the American Bar Association and the American Psychological Association are holding a joint conference in Chicago, featuring some of the worst PAS promoting lawyers and "psychos" from across the country. Following is a letter I sent to ask that this meeting not be permitted to go forward. I also notified Senator Obama's office and the Chicago Tribune.

We need to stop these "crooks and whores" from carrying out their dirty work and trying to systematize the abuse of women and children by entrenching PAS type misogyny and perversion into our legal system.

You can send messages to bruggera@staff.abanet.org and public.affairs@apa.org. Please contact me via email at nafcjcal@aol.com if you have any questions.

Cindy



It has come to our attention that the American Bar Association and the American Psychological Association are holding a joint conference in Chicago:
http://www.abanet.org/family/events/spring08sponsors.shtml

Perhaps lawyers and psychologists "working together" to systematize the abuse of women and children in the guise of resolving custody disputes are better described as crooks and whores. The "alienation" theories they are advancing -- parental alienation syndrome (PAS), PA, etc. -- were not only fabricated as legal defense of child molesters, but are the basis of rampant family court system failure and corruption.

Please refer to the article I wrote in 2003 that sums up how and why PAS underlies what can only be described as federally funded misogyny and pedophile protection, when judges, lawyers, therapists, mediators and custody evaluators affiliated with the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, work in conjunction with so-called "fathers' rights" and "shared parenting" groups:
http://www.newsmakingnews.com/ross,familycourtcorrupt2nd2,19,03.htm

ABA/APA presenters David Levy (Children's Rights Council), and Joan Kelly (Northern California Mediation Center and Northern California Task Force on the Alienated Child) are among the main individuals who helped craft PAS abuse cover up and blame shifting methodology into model custody switching and "threat therapy" programs, so as to justify capturing federal Access to Visitation Enforcement and similar government grant program funding through the mishandling of abuse cases in family court.

Other conference presenters have been personally involved in crooked cases, or promoting the disgusting PAS agenda. These include Dianna Gould-Saltman -- who was involved in the Clarke-Cowles case in Pasadena CA (a detailed account, A Little Girl's Hell, was originally published in the now-defunct Los Angeles New Times) -- and Nancy Olesen, who was involved in diverting child support payments in a case documented in the Karen Winner report Findings on Judge Michael Dufficy, Commissioner Sylvia Shapiro and Court Appointees in Marin County Superior Court in California (2000).

Please note that since my article was published, Dr. Richard Gardner (who coined the term PAS, and who was a frequent presenter at CRC and other conferences with David Levy) committed suicide, and the American Prosecutors Research Institute issued a report calling PAS the means to obstruct prosecution of abusers, while threatening the integrity of the criminal justice system and the safety of abused children:
http://cincinnatipas.com/dr-richardgardnerautopsy.html
http://www.ndaa.org/publications/newsletters/update_volume_16_number_6_2003.html
http://www.ndaa-apri.org/publications/newsletters/update_volume_16_number_7_2003.html

Thanks to the efforts of lawyers and psychologists like those participating in the Chicago conference, unethical and illegal PAS cases have been documented in reports from across the country (and around the world):
http://www.post-gazette.com/custody/partone.asp
http://www.canow.org/fam_report.pdf
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/101505FamilyCourt.html
http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/ocean/host.php?folder=62&page=246

Some work to undermine legislation like CA AB 612 (being reintroduced as AB 2587), which would ban the use of bogus diagnoses like PAS in custody evaluations:
http://www.sbsun.com/sanbernardino/ci_8507683

The situation is especially bad in Marin County, California, home to Dr. Kelly and Dr. Olesen. In 2006, the Town Council of the Town of Fairfax, unanimously passed and adopted Resolution 2466, joining the National Organization for Women in denouncing PAS and calling upon legislators at all levels of government to work toward revising Conciliation Court Law and the Federal Violence Against Women Act, to ensure proper adjudication of abuse cases. Just a few months ago, the Center for Judicial Excellence released Family Court Crisis, Our Children at Risk, to document a few especially egregious Marin County cases:

http://nafcj.net/fairfax.htm
http://www.centerforjudicialexcellence.org/cjefldocumentaryvnr.htm

We strongly object and demand that this conference not be permitted to go forward. Not only should many of the participating ABA and APA members be reprimanded and have their professional licenses revoked, some should also be criminally investigated and indicted.

For further information, please see the NAFCJ website at nafcj.net, and our blog at nafcj.blogspot.com

Cindy Ross
California Director
National Alliance for Family Court Justice
Fairfax, California