Nationally syndicated radio talk show, The Roth Show, is planning a hard hitting, 2 hour special broadcast featuring Susan Murphy Milano discussing her work with four families in Oklahoma who have not received justice for the murders of their loved ones.
Laurie Roth is the “Annie Oakley of the Airwaves” and dives in to controversial issues with her no holds barred attitude. Her show presents topics ranging from the political and the presidency to social issues and celebrities. She is on the air every day bringing her listeners the latest in a style that can’t be matched.
Susan Murphy Milano is Violent Relationship Strategist, Author and Consultant who has reviewed many cases of intimate partner homicide.
Susan Murphy-Milano is the author of “Defending Our Live,s” “Moving Out Moving On.” Her newest book, “Time’s Up” A Guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships, is available on-line and in bookstores. Susan hosts Intimate Partner Homicide Investigations (with Holly Hughes and Sheryl McCollum),The Susan Murphy Milano Show and Crime Wire.
She has recently combined forces with Sandra L. Brown,M.A. and the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction as a High Risk Case Review Specialist. Her Website is www.susanmurphymilano.com
Dr. Laurie Roth
Dr. Roth has recognized the importance of the work done by Susan and her upcoming trip to Oklahoma to meet with the families, press, legislators and members of the grass roots organizations, The Eleventh Commandment and Justice for the Dead who extended the invitation to bring Susan directly to Oklahoma.
Sheila Deviney, Chanda Turner, Tom Horton and Landon “Hopper” Edwards, among several others, have all died under suspicious circumstances, their deaths wrongly ruled according to evidence, and their investigations totally mishandled by the authorities in charge. The families have been given the run around by those in charge, and worse. There is no justice for any of them.
Susan Murphy Milano
Susan Murphy Milano will be travelling for 10 days in Oklahoma with representatives and family members. The Roth Show will be taking daily reports from Susan as she makes her appearances in and around Oklahoma. There is concern for Susan’s safety while in Oklahoma and Dr. Laurie Roth and her associates have committed themselves to helping keep her safe while there.
Join Dr. Laurie Roth, Susan Murphy Milano and the Director of Northeast Intelligence Network, Doug Hagmann on Wednesday, October 13 at 3pm-5pm Pacific time, 6pm-8pm Eastern time. To listen live or to the archives of the show, tune in at www.therothshow.com
This is the story of Christian Coffey and all the abuse he has gone through in his 15 short years of his life. Taylor his beautiful girlfriend wrote a blog to bring awareness to the plight for Christian's safety. You can find a link to that in many places on the page.Christian is back in the hands of the abuser where he was taken out of! Why? Who is going to be his voice?
This blog has been created in order to help my boyfriend, Christian Coffey, who is mentally and physically abused by his father, Steven H. Coffey. He has cried out to people in the government and multiple people in Bowling Green, KY and it seems they have turned a deaf ear. We have no other choice b...
COMES NOW the Petitioner, Kimberly Harris, through counsel, and after being duly sworn, states that the following information is true and accurate to the best of her knowledge and belief:
__MCE_ITEM__(1) My name is Kimberly Harris and I am the mother of Christian Coffey. I share joint custody of Christian with his father, Steven Coffey.
__MCE_ITEM__(2) On April 23, 2004, I agreed to modify custody to permit Steven Coffey to serve as the primary residential custodian of Christian. Since that Order was entered, a change has occurred in the circumstances of Steven Coffey and our son, Christian Coffey, such that a modification of custody is necessary to serve the best interests of our child.
__MCE_ITEM__(3) Specifically the changes include but are not limited to the following:
__MCE_ITEM__a) A finding by this Court that domestic violence occurred between Steven and Christian and the entry of a Domestic Violence Order that against Steven Coffey for the protection of Christian.
__MCE_ITEM__b) The Warren County Attorney's Office has filed charges against Steven Coffey based upon the abuse perpetrated upon Christian. Specifically, the charge is Criminal Assault 4th Degree – Child Abuse and can be found in Warren District Court Case No. 10-M-02048.
__MCE_ITEM__c) In order to deal with the abuse and the after-effects, Christian has being seeing a therapist at Centerstone in Nashville, Tennessee. Christian has been diagnosed with Adjustment Disorder with Mixed Anxiety and Depressed Mood and possible Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms. The psychosocial/environmental problem cited as the root of this diagnosis is the physical abuse from the Christian's father.
__MCE_ITEM__d) Christian's therapist has noted some improvement in Christian's levels of fear and anxiety since staying with me and limiting contact with his father. However, Christian is having problems sleeping, eating and dealing with feelings of depression and he is regressing due to the thought of returning home to live with his father.
__MCE_ITEM__e) Christian has told me that he lives in fear of his father because his father hits him and spanks him excessively. Christian has informed me that his father has hit him in the face and left bruises. On October 30, 2009, Christian reported to Tracie Downing at Drakes Middle School, that he had been hit in the face by his father. Tracie noted the swelling and bruising in Christian's face and reported the incident to the Department of Protection and Permanency.
__MCE_ITEM__f) On May 14, 2010, Christian reported to Tracie Downing that he felt hopeless that he would never get out of his situation; that he feared his father; that he was not sleeping or eating because his stomach was upset; that he was having difficulty going to the bathroom; and that he was considering running away because he was living in such fear of his father. Again this incident was reported to the Department of Permanency and Protection.
__MCE_ITEM__g) On May 22, 2010, Christian was beaten with a belt during a time which Christian had urinary tract infection. The belting resulted in extremely firm contact to Christian's lower back, buttocks and back of his legs. Since that time, Christian has reported pain in his lower back and pain during urination. This is complicated by a birth defect in Christian's kidneys that could be impacted by a severe trauma to these areas. Christian is currently receiving medical treatment as a result of this incident.
__MCE_ITEM__h) Christian has informed me and that his father calls him an idiot, tells and tells him that he is worthless and stupid.
__MCE_ITEM__i) Christian's father claims to have a problem with Christian and Christian's girlfriend in that he has unsuccessfully tried to prevent them from seeing each other and talking. The basis for Steven trying to prevent contact between Christian and his girlfriend is that he claims he is trying to prevent them from engaging in sexual activities. Steven's admitted method for dealing with this situation is belting Christian. I can handle Christian and address these issues appropriately.
__MCE_ITEM__j) During the time that Christian has been in my custody, he has consistently had panic attacks after speaking with his father on the phone.
__MCE_ITEM__(4) Christian's response to Steven's methods of discipline is highly unpredictable. Christian could react violently toward Steven, which could result in serious physical injury to Christian and/or Steven. Christian could also be overwhelmed by his feelings of depression and helplessness and he could cause harm to himself.
__MCE_ITEM__(5) The present environment at Steven's home endangers seriously Christian's physical, mental, moral, and emotional health and I firmly believe that if my son is forced to return to or remain at Steven's home, he, Christian, may be severely injured, physically and emotionally.
__MCE_ITEM__(6) I do not believe Steven should be allowed visitation until anger management classes are completed and at that time the visitation should begin with supervised sessions.
I have been promising this article and plan to deliver several installments. I must first thank the woman whose diligence and persistence to help me has definitely paid off. I do not think I would have been able to collect half of what she has given to me any time soon. These big old hooves get in the way of typing really well and I usually use a speech to text program :-). Thank you again R for all of your hard work to researching and exposing this for all of us.
First we must ask who is Teri? Well according to her facebook page this is what she writes:
Queen of (parental) Equality: a children's advocate, day care provider turned journalist. Working for family law reform to bring due process and abolish gender-biased abuse policies. SHARED PARENTING WORKS! Free parenting plans below.
Now that is confusing to me since she has posted these kinds of things on other email groups:
Now I can understand a little bit - possibly Teri WANTS women to be subservient to men? Or does she WANT to be in control of other women?
Well we will continue to explore these as options. However let's see what her parenting experience entails:
If you read this email carefully you will see that she has four children by four different men. Hmmmm Teri think you could have picked any better? Maybe then you could have gone the route of what you preach. Oh yeah I know!!!! It is do as I say, not as I do.
We have another prime example of this below:
And now we have where this anger towards women mothers has come from:
You see how she has to start getting digs on the mother of "her" grandchild? Does it get worse? You bet!
She is on a single mothers group and she whines on and on about how her son is so wonderful and the mother of her grandchild and the "other grandmother" are so awful and terrible. That group did not buy into her BS and Teri eventually left that group.
She has to post about how long she has gone without sex:
Wow oh wow! Six whole years as of 2002? Wonder if any of those lonely father's rights guys has indulged her (see earlier posts on here entitled real play or role play for that answer)?
So really what is it that has got her so upset that she flips from being a normal woman who was spurned and whose kids are not cared for by dad (read earlier picture about child support/welfare) to this crazed fanatic for men's/father's rights?
Now she is writing articles for the Examiner (claims she is a reporter now because she does this - hey I am a reporter too) :-). She also works for a nanny service (maybe this service should be warned?) and newly added to her resume is S.A.V.E. Services for Falsely Accused. R researched this issue for me (thank you again R) and with that we move to our second post.
Here is a sneak peek at what provoked R to forward all of her information to me before she was completely done with her research.
Notice the male bashing subject line (as if having a speech or protest against abuse could be considered male bashing?):
Claudine, you have broken the Yahoo group rules by posting messages outside the group. Shame on you.
And how stupid can you be? You think I had to leave the group? I own it! hahahaha
I feel sorry for you. You must be a miserable person to lie about others in this way. You're sick.
I have never favored one gender over the other. Do you not understand the term "equal"? Guess not.
S.A.V.E. helps victims (of both genders) as well as those who are falsely accused (again, both genders). Sorry to disappoint you; but I'm not the monster you seem to think I am.
I have allowed this one comment even though you did not follow my rules. You have your space with your group, I have mine here. Oh and for the record, I am not Claudine. Sorry to burst your little bubble.
I simply posted the information about who owns that website and the irony in the fact that a woman who was found guilty in a civil trial and was forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars because she refused to be honest with a dv victim is now running a website geared towards weakening the assistance available to women?
Not going anywhere. I am not that is.
Oh and by the way how is Ray L? :-) You two still good friends?
Oh and having read the entire appeals opinion in the Spivack case, I find that Spivack (or her lawyers or all of them) attempted to do several things.
First they attempted to paint Nataliya Fox as a criminal by showing documents from the Ukraine and Turkey.
Second they attempted to say she tried to defraud the INS with the change in her application (from marrying one man to marrying Fox).
They then tried to get credit for the settlement offered by Fox in the judgment against them.
You should really read the entire appeal. It is somewhat long but even with skimming it you get a real good picture of the character of the individuals involved.
Natasha's female client committed fraud. Their side only won because they had more money. Of course you would never believe that, because in your reality only men are bad, right?
You have so much energy to put towards this...why not use it for good? Stop the gender bashing and treat everyone equally. It's really not that difficult.
Now stop stealing content from my group and stop lying about me. I've written about my past, yet you never seem to get it right.
That is the answer for everything now isn't? They won because they had more money. I guess the pictures shown (there must have been pictures right, otherwise how could the doctor testimony been accepted?) and that silly doctor - Nataliya must have put all those hand marks and bruises on her body? And I am sure all those jurors are just so misguided also? All TWELVE of them voted that Natasha was wrong. And the trial court judge - he was blinded too. And let's not forget the appeals court judges. No dissenting judges in that bunch. If Natasha is doing such a great job with her clients you would think she would want a better quality person than Nataliya for these men, if what YOU say is true about her. After all you are always right aren't you Teri?
Joseph Goldberg, alleged to have left the country for owing $86,000 in back child support, has operated his snake oil kingdom from Toronto for some time now, cold-calling psychologists to get them to sign up with him to provide “services” for so-called “parental alienation syndrome,” the legal tool of abuse most popular with abusers to get custody of children away from their victims.
Many of the so-called “experts” at this snake oil conference have issues, and it could be downright dangerous to deal with them. Their main concern is to make money from their testifying services and book sales.
Tops on the list is Dr. William Bernet, the inventor of the new and improved “parental alienation disorder” that is up for consideration “from outside sources” for inclusion into the DSM-V, the diagnostic and insurance code bible used by psychiatrists and psychologists.
Dr. Bernet sells his “testimony” to those who need it, such as violent murderers, postulating his theories on why they should be excused for murdering.
While I was down in the hospital after my accident, I had a comment come in from the ex-wife of the murderer Dr. Bernet was making excuses for, and I wasn’t surprised.
Everyone knows that court hearings have very little to do with the truth, especially where violence against women is concerned. It centers on experts who sell their testimony, often on highly subjective topics such as psychology, where truth has nothing to do with anything they say. Here is her comment (unedited):
william bernet did you do the study on brad waldroup that how well he lies and how he was never able to except fault for his actions he wasnt abused as a child he was a spoiled bratt i know because im his ex wife and has known him since the age of thirteen i have four children with this man and if it was genetic then your saying my children could be passed this gene whatever how much money was you paid to take that stand by the way you sound like mr dry eyes commercial talkin on the stand you bored the whole courtroom with your bullcrap you tell me how do you sleep at night knowing that you help a cold blooded murder i just want you to know maybe your back pocket is full from doing your job but there was nine children that was terrible affected by this
A criminal defense attorney has many arrows in his/her quiver. The latest is the “warrior gene.” Having this gene saved Bradley Waldroup from a first degree murder conviction.
The charges stemmed from a bloody rampage in which Waldroup shot his wife’s friend Leslie Bradshaw, eight times, killing her before attempting to kill his wife by chopping her up with a machete.
Waldroup had been drinking as he waited for his estranged wife and their four children who were to spend the weekend at his trailer home in the mountains of Tennessee. When his wife said that she was leaving with her friend, he removed the key from Penny Waldroup’s van to ensure that they could not leave, thereby establising criminal intent. Waldroup then launched his deadly attack on the pair.
The “warrior gene”
Waldroup’s defense attorneys ordered a test and established that he had the warrior gene. Like most such biological defenses, there is a germ of scientific truth combined with a hefty dose of junk science, including clever labeling. The warrior gene might be called other things, such as the gambling gene, the depression gene, the irritability gene, or, even the live-in-a-trailer gene because its effects are contingent on an abusive childhood.
The scientific rationale for diminished responsibility is that a variant of the relevant gene, known as MAO-A is linked to an under active prefrontal cortex, this being a key area of the brain that inhibits antisocial impulses. The gene is also associated with antisocial behavior in European Americans (but not others) but only if they were abused as children (1).
The gene has recently acquired some evidence linking it to impulsive aggression. In an experiment where subjects were provoked by having money winnings taken from them, people with the MAO-A variant proved slightly more vengeful but only if they lost the higher of two amounts of money(2). They asked for the provoker to drink a larger amount of hot sauce as punishment. Whether this experiment is more relevant to homicidal aggression, or sensitivity to the taste of hot sauce is anybody’s guess.
So far, a skilled defense lawyer might weave a tale that the bad gene had gotten the better of the European American defendant. The key scientific problem is that about 34 percent of Europeans have the warrior gene. Yet, homicide is extremely rare at a population level with only about one person in 100 committing a homicide during their lives. If the gene were used to predict homicide, it would be wrong more than 33 times for every one occasion that it was right (3).
Just the facts
This brings us back to the Waldroup case tried in March, 2009, where the warrior gene formed the kernel of a diminished responsibility defense. This defense received enthusiastic endorsement in a recent NPR report by Barbara Bradley Haggerty (“Can Your Genes Make You Murder?”)
Waldroup’s defense was not a simple genetic defense because it was combined with the normally ineffective abuse excuse. Defense expert William Bernet of Vanderbilt University argued that the combination of the warrior gene and being abused as a child was a dangerous cocktail that increased the likelihood of committing a violent offense.
Some of the jurors were persuaded by this defense. According to one, Debbie Beatty: “A diagnosis is a diagnosis, it’s there. A bad gene is a bad gene.”
Junk science is also junk science. There is no getting away from that either, especially if it helps the defense to save a defendant’s life.
1. Crampton, P., & Parkin, C. (2007, March 2). Warrior genes and risk-taking science. Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association, 120 (1250).
2. McDermot, R., et al. (2009). Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106, 2118-2123.
3. Caspi, A. et al. (2002). Role of genotype in the cycle of violence in maltreated children. Science, 297, 851-854.
What really brought it all home was, whether it involves so-called “parental alienation disorder” or murder, removing responsibility for what an abusive parent or murderer may have done is what these people specialize in. There’s always an excuse when you use JUNK SCIENCE. Thanks Penny for your thoughts. I am so sorry for all your family has gone through dear.
Just a quick photo that was passed along by a participant…thank you! More to follow soon hopefully of the Mothers of Lost Children press conference and march in Washington, D.C. held today.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA) — They call themselves “Mothers of Lost Children.” They say family courts awarded custody of their children to the very people the children said hurt them. But the courts didn’t believe them.
“Children very rarely lie about these things. And the reports are coming from the children. Even when they’re switched over to the custody of the batterers and the molesters, continue to report abuse. And they’re ignored,” said Connie Valentine with the Protective Parents Coalition.
“The courts are sending children to live with abusers at a terrifying rate,” says Barry Goldstein who helped compile research from the scientific non-profit Council for Justice for a book he co-edited.
The Leadership Council found more than 58,000 children every year are ordered into unsupervised contact with physically or sexually abusive parents following a divorce.
“Seventy-five children were murdered by fathers involved in contested custody cases last year by battered in a nine month period that ended in April,” said Goldstein.
Three of those children were siblings killed by their father Mark Castillo who downed them last year in a Baltimore hotel room. Earlier, Amy Castillo had asked a judge to keep her children away from her estranged husband , because he had threatened to kill them. The judge denied her request.
The group started their march at the Department of Justice. They want the DOJ to launch an investigation into when they call family court corruption.
The group alleges custody decisions are made based on which parent has more money instead of safety.
“We want to see the child put first. We want to see the ‘best interest of the child’ mean the safety, protection, love and nurture of the child. That should be the priority in the courts,” said Eileen King with Justice for Children.
Written by Peggy Fox 9NEWS NOW & wusa9.com
More pictures:
US Department of Justice accepts packets from Karen Anderson of the California Protective Parents Association.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA) -- They call themselves "Mothers of Lost Children." They say family courts awarded custody of their children to the very people the children said hurt them. But the courts didn't believe them. "Children very rarely lie about these things. And the reports are coming from the children. Even when they're switched over to the custody of the batterers and the molesters, continue to report abuse. And they're ignored," said Connie Valentine with the Protective Parents Coalition. "The courts are sending children to live with abusers at a terrifying rate," says Barry Goldstein who helped compile research from the scientific non-profit Council for Justice for a book he co-edited. The Leadership Council found more than 58,000 children every year are ordered into unsupervised contact with physically or sexually abusive parents following a divorce. "Seventy-five children were murdered by fathers involved in contested custody cases last year by battered in a nine month period that ended in April," said Goldstein. Three of those children were siblings killed by their father Mark Castillo who downed them last year in a Baltimore hotel room. Earlier, Amy Castillo had asked a judge to keep her children away from her estranged husband , because he had threatened to kill them. The judge denied her request. The group started their march at the Department of Justice. They want the DOJ to launch an investigation into when they call family court corruption. The group alleges custody decisions are made based on which parent has more money instead of safety. "We want to see the child put first. We want to see the 'best interest of the child' mean the safety, protection, love and nurture of the child. That should be the priority in the courts," said Eileen King with Justice for Children. Written by Peggy Fox 9NEWS NOW & wusa9.com
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A federal investigation into the family court crisis is the only way to expose what's truly going on behind closed doors - thank you Mothers of Lost Children for calling attention to the plight of so many and taking the initiative towards achieving this end. As a Domestic Violence Survivor Advocate in Hawaii, I see mothers everyday who have fled violent and abusive relationships and homes, only to lose custody of their children for fleeing their abusers. Where's the sense in that? Isn't that what we instruct victims to do?: "If you're being abused, take your children and leave"?. Judges and court-related officers should not have immunity for the literal life-and-death decisions they make and oversight is a must. "I'm sorry" doesn't cut it when you're looking at a murdered child. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month - let's make this month the beginning of the end to the revictimization of children and domestic violence survivors in the family court system!
This is a national epidemic that is created, in part, as an unintended consequence of federal funding incentives to local courts that must be corrected immediately. In addition, it is time for the US to join the rest of the world and ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child so children cannot be treated as property, and their rights to health, access to their parents, etc, cannot be impinged by any local court. http://www.ariana-leilanichildrensfoundation.org. Finally a criminal investigation should be instituted to uncover the "organized crime" that is taking place in these family court settings, where many lawyers and custody evaluations are colluding to feed off of the parents of children-- placing those lawyer's and custody evaluator's profitering over the protection of the children. Unfortunately, many local courts are co-consprirators in this symbionic exploitation. Shame on them. Children's rights and protections must be codified at the national level so that no state court can ignore them. God bless these parents seek to protect their children from abuse at all costs and give them the strength to succeed.
Only thing I can say about this is the Judge that let that man take his children and kill them, should not be on the bench anymore and maybe they should look into this mans life as well. I agree this has to change, what kind of message are we giving to the children? And you wonder why some grow up to be on the bad side of the law. Its is the laws that are hurting out children
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