Posted on 06/10/2011 8:46:34 PM PDT by tang-soo
The following was provided by Chuck Douglas - Talk Show Host for WTVN 610 AM Radio in Columbus, Ohio.
JULIE SMITH CASE IS FINALLY MOVING FORWARD
I have had Julie on the show a couple of times. I got this press release today. Pay particular attention to the next to last paragraph.
For Immediate Release
June 10, 2011
Mother Sentenced to Jail Vindicated by Appeals Court
On June 9, 2011, the Tenth District Court of Appeals for Franklin County vindicated the Mother of a seven-year old child who was sentenced to jail twice for refusing to comply with multiple invalid “temporary visitation orders” issued by the Franklin County juvenile court. In spite of being dubbed “temporary visitation orders” these invalid orders have been in effect for 975 days.
“While we are ecstatic with the ruling, justice has still not been served. It is indeed a sign of a broken system when a parent, a good parent, has to fight for 975 days and risk everything to get their child back” says biological mother, Julie Smith. “Precious time and memories with my child have been forever lost at the hands of a system that is supposed to protect my daughter and me” says Smith.
For more than two and a half years, Julie Smith has been fighting against a shared custody arrangement forced on her by former Franklin County Juvenile Magistrate Judge Rexanne Hosafras and Juvenile Judge Elizabeth Gill. In October 2008, Ms. Smith was sued by her former live- in girlfriend seeking shared custody of her then-5 year old daughter. Ms. Smith, an undisputed “great mom,” deliberately never agreed to share custody of her only child with the woman. However, in less than 30 days and without a hearing, former Magistrate Judge Hosafras “temporarily” awarded the ex girlfriend shared custody of the child while the petition for permanent shared custody was pending. Since then, former Magistrate Judge Hosafras and the Honorable Elizabeth Gill issued a series of extraordinary and expansive orders forcing Ms. Smith to share her daughter and ordering jail time if she didn’t. The Smith Family has incurred over $125,000 in legal fees appealing those orders over a course of nearly three years and yesterday, the Appeals Court agreed with Ms. Smith when it found that the juvenile court exceeded its authority by granting the ex girlfriend visitation.
Ms. Smith takes little solace in this decision, though, because the petition is still pending and scheduled for a long trial over the course of the summer. However, Smith’s case was recently reassigned to a new Magistrate Judge after former Magistrate Judge Hosafras left the bench to join the firm of Massucci and Cline which represents her former girlfriend. “If that doesn’t speak volumes, I don’t know what will” says Smith.
“I hope and pray for a fair hearing, but it has been a long 975 days and it is hard to believe in justice and fairness at this point, especially since Judge Hosafras has joined my former girlfriend’s legal team. You cannot imagine how painful it is when the court charged with protecting your child, without reason in law and fact, decides to insert itself into your life, into your family and take away your child. It’s utterly devastating,” says Smith.
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The mother deserves this endless fight. There’s a price to pay for being stupid.
The child, not so much.
Termination of parental rights would seem to be in order for subjecting her child to perverse influences.
This is from the article, why do you believe the mother deserves this... she never agreed to shared custody of her daughter????:
“For more than two and a half years, Julie Smith has been fighting against a shared custody arrangement forced on her by former Franklin County Juvenile Magistrate Judge Rexanne Hosafras and Juvenile Judge Elizabeth Gill. In October 2008, Ms. Smith was sued by her former live- in girlfriend seeking shared custody of her then-5 year old daughter. Ms. Smith, an undisputed “great mom,” deliberately never agreed to share custody of her only child with the woman. However, in less than 30 days and without a hearing, former Magistrate Judge Hosafras “temporarily” awarded the ex girlfriend shared custody of the child while the petition for permanent shared custody was pending.”
Is the judge gay?
I cam see a lesbian using this situation to use the law to validate a lesbian relationship and try to make it seem like a marriage where the man fathered a child and is therefore entitled to custody/visitation.
Not saying that is what happened, but gay marriage was legalized by a gay judge who refused to recuse himself. Total conflict of interest.
She should never have decided to have a lesbian lover.
That would be my bet.The judges have been put in place for some time.You cant trust people in positions of power.
I’ve spent half a lifetime at the so-called “Hall Of Justice” on the sixth floor on S. High. It’s a miracle more people don’t go postal.
I think you may have hit on something in the judge being gay or at least sympathetic to same.
The law should never recognize someone who is not legally a spouse or blood family member as having rights to your child... I don’t care if you are a lesbian, a homosexual or a frog.
Exactly!!!! The ‘roommate’ has no rights to the child even if the mother gave the ‘roommate’ rights to her own self.
So the child suffers the sins of the mother? Are you hoping for the mother to lose her rights to parent her child? Scary you are.
Seems like she brought this on herself by her choice of lifestyles.
Too bad the kid is in the middle.
Some people just shouldn’t be parents since they are too selfish and can only think of themselves.
I think someone should check into the relationship between the ex-girlfriend and the judge. In the modern world you can never tell who is banging whom to get what they want. One has to watch over both shoulders.
Their relationship was unnatural and under the Constitution cannot be equivalent to marriage. The child can not have two mothers unless the mother relinquishes her rights....which she didn’t. It is not biologically possible for the child to have two mothers and it is illegal for the courts to give “mother” rights to non biological people when their is a living mother. We are talking about inalienable rights...and the court can NEVER deny that right unless gross neglect.
The biological father also has inalienable rights to the child. The court is making up rights out of thin air and this can not stand.
It is denial of the fundamental inalienable right of that child to have a biological mother and biological father. Court does not have the power to deny nature and God’s Laws when it is the foundation of our legal system.
The judge needs to be fired. The courts that recognize “gay” marriage has to get back to the meaning and intent of our Constitution and Natural Law Theory and get rid of this irrational and unconstitutional coupling. It is shameful what the courts are doing to the child whom has inalienable rights that CANNOT be denied EVEN by a court.
Our courts have twisted the Constitution to some bizarre document which sounds like it is for a communist country built on whims of moral relativism.
Our laws are built on moral absolutes which cannot legally be ignored since our rights come from God. Their denial is a denial of our God-given rights.
vaudine
IIRC the Mom is now married or at least engaged to the biological father of her child.I believe the ex girlfriend did this out of spite to interfere with the real family.
You most likely have hit it straight on the head.
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