Posted on 03/06/2014 11:25:24 PM PST by Eleutheria5
My nine month sojourn in Georgia is coming to an end next week. I came here in July in order to endeavor, with the help of the Aleph Institute, to rescue my two granddaughters from the foster care system of a rural Georgia county. They were placed in foster care after my daughter's worthless boyfriend assaulted one of them and broke her leg. She was four at the time. He got 30 years. My daughter got ten for not calling 911 immediately, but instead escaping with the hurt child and hiding out in a fleabag hotel. As may be inferred, she was badly abused herself, and suffering from battered woman syndrome, which completely warped her judgement. My hopes of saving any of them were forlorn, until Aleph Institute stepped into the picture. They sponsored my stay here, hired a top law firm to represent me, and as the case required it, also hired two law firms to defend my daughter. I spent months going back and forth from Atlanta to visit my grandchildren in the rural county, and reestablish a relationship with them. When at last the case came to trial, WE WON! My wife came over from Israel to help me care for the two little ones in Savannah as I arranged for passports and other important papers, and next week we are heading back to Israel with them.
I loved Atlanta and Savannah, and their warm, welcoming Jewish communities, and cannot thank the Aleph Institute and the three law firms enough (Kessler & Solomiany of Atlanta and the Clarence Taylor Law Firm of Savannah). One of them (Keith Barber, Esq., of Statesboro) continues to diligently work to get my daughter out of jail.
But despite it all, I yearn for my home in Israel. I must also thank my family, especially my son for managing the care of my wife's aged mother in our absence and other important concerns, my niece and her family for looking after our 11-year-old boy, who will now have two new playmates (now ages 3 and 6), and of course my wife for keeping everything and everyone going both here and there during this whole ordeal. Victory has never been this sweet before.
I understand Dr. Pritcitt’s fury at this idiot mother who let her precious little angels be around a vicious “boy” friend. It’s always the new “boy” friend. Where is the dad who the daughter should be married to, or is there more than one. The legal structures are there for a reason.
These little angels are fortunate to have a grandfather who can afford to do what he did to save them and it sounds as though the state perfectly performed its in parens patriae function.
That being said, no one better ever lay a hand on those little ones ever again.
the government performed its function beautifully for a change
Sounds like Dr. Pritchett is right on, we get to support the abuser and the mother who didn’t protect her babies while they suck up our resources in prisons
Georgia will be a little more dim without you. Godspeed.
Where is the real father?
I’m no DEFAX fan but are you sure we are getting the whole story? I have not ever heard of anyone getting 10 years or even 1 year in prison for this kind of thing.
The boy friend, and I do mean boy, or maybe male would be a better term, sired the second child. The sages say that nobody sins unless a spirit of folly enters them. A spirit of folly ruled my daughter since her adolescence, when she completely rebelled against me. Faced with the consequences, she has left her folly and returned to G-d. I hope that it takes, and she sticks with her good resolutions, and never again returns to her previous habits of folly, or better yet, that I dance at her wedding soon. If she does go back to her old ways, however, the girls will be safe with my wife and me.
She also had a juvy record, which might partially explain the harsh sentence. Also, her assigned counsel did absolutely nothing for her at the final disposition hearing, didn’t even get the contemplated sentence spelled out to her before she took the plea. The only other factor I can think of is that in the countryside, judges do not take kindly to this sort of thing.
I don’t know. Half the time you don’t get 10 years for aggravated manslaughter. Juvey record is not supposed to be held agains’t you. Was there a drug charge?
I hope your daughter gets herself straightened out.
Godspeed.
I wish you could come down to St. Marys in the Southeast corner. I would enjoy meeting you.
Take care of your grandchildren. I know they are in good hands.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Evidence of weed in urine, but that doesn’t count for much. It was indeed an unusually harsh sentence. Most bizarre thing is that the male thing got 10 years inside and 20 years probation, and he’s the one who assaulted a four-year-old! What would he do with his probation, other than sooner or later hurt somebody else and then go back inside.
Daughter is very much on the mend, thanks. This time I think it will take, and she’ll be away from living the life styles of the poor and stupid for good and forever. She saw her girls last week, and it was a big love fest. Even the guards were bending the rules so they could enjoy their mommy fully.
It’s very hard to understand why a rational woman would plead guilty to a felony before she knew exactly what her prison term would be.
What was the exact charge she pleaded guilty to?
I hope G-d does a good work on her.
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