Posted on 06/20/2008 3:36:08 PM PDT by Flo Nightengale
A lawyer for the 16-year-old daughter of polygamist group leader Warren Jeffs is requesting a restraining order to prevent a spokesman for the group from intimidating and harassing the girl.
The request for a restraining order against Willie Jessop was filed in San Angelo today by Natalie Malonis.
The teenager was one of the hundreds of children taken from the Yearning For Zion Ranch by Texas Child Protective Services in April because investigators believed they were exposed to abuse by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Her name is not being disclosed because Malonis has said that she is a victim of sexual abuse.
Malonis, of Dallas, maintains in her request that Jessop has ''engaged in conduct designed to intimidate and harrass'' Malonis and her client.
Several sources close to the case have indicated that the girl is expected to be asked to testify before a Schleicher County grand jury, which next week will begin hearing the state of Texas' criminal case against FLDS members.
Malonis' request comes one day after investigators from the Texas Attorney General's Office attempted to serve the girl with a subpoena, but were unable to locate her.
''I believe that (the girl) was avoiding service because of coercion and improper influence from Willie Jessop,'' the request states.
Jessop called the petition "outrageous."
"She's trying to blame me for her client not liking her," he said today. "It shows her pathetic mindset. The only thing I ever did was try to get them together."
Jessop disputed the notion that he has attempted to intimidate Malonis or her client
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The only confusion seems to be in your head.
Everyone else gets it.
No. Never did. You are making that up, again.
I was asking a question. Did you see the '?' ? That makes it a question not a statement. Do you know the difference between a question and a statement or do I need to explain it to you? That was a question.
Well, apparently you don’t know the law very well, because you insist that the girl’s attorney for the Grand Jury hearings is a defense attorney.
LOL if the Young Lady's Attorney isn't her Defense Attorney then what is she? Anyone that testifies before a Grand Jury had better have a very good Defense Attorney.
Maybe you should take some of your own advice.
I do. I have made it a personal policy never to testify before a Grand Jury, especially with a hostile prosecutor. I don't know why but I have never like a**l exams.
““So you are claiming that the Attorney is the guardian too?””
No. Never did. You keep bringing it up, even after I answered it already. You keep trying to imply I said it, and I didn’t.
Apparently an ‘attorney ad litem’. Which you would know if you read the article and the other posts.
I think Alice in Wonderland explained it all to you.
Did you read her posts to you?
And just who determines those best interests? The Attorney? LOL
Abused children (and adults) will often protect their abusers.
And oddly enough "children (and adults) will often protect their" loved ones. Is that how you establish guilt nowadays?
“I was asking a question. Did you see the ‘?’ ? That makes it a question not a statement. Do you know the difference between a question and a statement or do I need to explain it to you? That was a question.”
Do you know that “NO. NEVER DID.” is an answer?
Do I need to explain it to you?
Do you know what NO means?
Do you know what NEVER DID means?
: )
But children and adults who are not abused do not have to lie to protect their loved ones.
Apparently an ‘attorney ad litem’. Which you would know if you read the article and the other posts.
No, you are referring to the Guardian ad litem. "The child’s attorney is Natalie Malonis, and her guardian ad litem is Connie Gauwain." Those are two very distinct roles.
I think Alice in Wonderland explained it all to you. Did you read her posts to you?
LOL Obviously you didn't. I just quoted her.
You had a choice?
“No, you are referring to the Guardian ad litem.”
No I am not. I am referring to an ‘attorney ad litem’
Would you like to see it in print? From a source?
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2008/05/exclusive-interview-with-natalie.html
You qouted one of her comments in a post. She made more than one post, more than one post to you.
Now that you see it in print, your insistence you are RIGHT, and that everyone else is WRONG, and that you know the answer to questions before you ask them, turns out to be a sham.
Wake up and smell the roses, as they say.
Everyone lies to protect their loved ones. Wives abuse husbands, husbands abuse wives, and cops hate domestic dispute cases. And that's the truth : )
Yes you have a choice.
Ok, so we have a liberal lawyer claiming the child was abused,
Not that she might have some motive, to claim a child of a conservative sect was abused - was the the child homeschooled, hmmm? That is prima facia evidence of abuse, nicht wahr?
The kid says the lawyer is putting words in her mouth.
The Lawyer says the kid is intimidated, by the church elders et al.
I have no idea where the truth lies.
But this one lawyer, strikes me as off...
If anybody hasd better info, please chime in.
“Everyone lies to protect their loved ones. “
I can’t think of a single case where my family had to lie to protect me, or vice versa.
“Wives abuse husbands, husbands abuse wives, and cops hate domestic dispute cases.”
And you think that citing cases of abuse, proves that everyone lies?
How utterly silly.
Huh. I didn’t know that.
You have the right to answer all, some, or none of the questions. Worse thing they can do is send you to jail for contempt of court.
It’s part of that 5th amendment thingy. :)
Well yeah...but I meant...I can refuse WITHOUT GOING TO JAIL?
Ad litem is a term used in law to refer to a party appointed by a court to act in a lawsuit on behalf of another party—for instance, a child or an incapacitated adult—who is deemed incapable of representing him or herself.
Each YFZ child has been appointed:
1. an attorney (attorney ad litem)
2. a court-appointed special advocate (guardian ad litem)
3. a CPS worker
Easiest way is avoid being served and very few actually go to jail for refusing to testify anyway. We don’t have big enough jails.
HUH?
You essentially asked me to quote Alice in Wonderland and I did. "The child’s attorney is Natalie Malonis, and her guardian ad litem is Connie Gauwain." If you don't like it don't ask for it.
Now that you see it in print, your insistence you are RIGHT, and that everyone else is WRONG, and that you know the answer to questions before you ask them, turns out to be a sham.
Actually I just like hoisting bigots by their own petards :)
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