Posted on 08/26/2013 10:55:11 AM PDT by wardaddy
A CBS affiliate in Clark County, Nevada, has uncovered video of a disturbing incident in family court, in which a mother present for a routine proceeding is sexually assaulted and then arrested in full view of the court. An internal investigation has since revealed that both the harassment and its alleged cover-up may be part of a wider problem of abuse within the family court system.
The initial events took place in 2011, when Monica Contreras was led from the court into a waiting room for a supposed, though unexplained, drug search. She then says a court marshal named Ron Fox touched her and ordered her to lift up her shirt. When she fled back into the courtroom and complained to the hearing master, asking at least for a female marshal, Fox had her arrested for “making false accusations against a police officer.”
Contreras’ two year old daughter was present the entire time. The hearing master, Patricia Doninger, never responded as Contreras pleaded with her and the marshall to know why she was being arrested, instead turning her chair from the incident to play with Conteras’ duaghter. At one point in the video, Contreras is heard begging Doninger to turn around and watch what was happening to her.
Contreras filed a complaint with internal affairs, and Fox has since been fired—though Contreras only found that out when the news station told her. The hearing master is also “no longer employed” by the court, the station learned.
The internal investigation has reportedly uncovered numerous additional incidents of abuse in the family court, and now is investigating why none have been reported.
Watch the full segment here, via 8 News Now:
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sadly his facial features are not visible in the screenshot from the video!
it appeared on close inspection that his face had in fact been redacted
WTF.
That is truly unbelievable. The judge also needs some attitude adjustments as she turned her back on all of it instead of stopping it.
All three of the court officers in that room deserve to be shot. Bullying a mother like that is just absolutely unAmerican and those b@stards all need to pay for their offenses not just against this poor mother but against our country and our liberties!!!
Perfect candidates to be hired by the TSA . . . if they have the right religion and/or ethnicity.
Are you providing any updates to this month-old story?
Bastard belongs in Jail.
More of the “them” versus “us” mentality with Court complicity.
Family court is similar to a court in the USSR or Cuba.
Lol
Don’t pick on me Chuck
For a CT Yankee I think very highly of you
Attorneys are sacred to death to say anything either. The lawyers all bow to the judge and do nothing for fear of being barred.
2011 story.
It would be interesting to know the current status of the officers and judge in this story.
The deputy is bad but the “judge” is worse. She needs to be disbarred.
Agreed
Et tu AA?
I had not seen it before and it moved me
But not reported by media till two months ago
And investigations ongoing
I was interested in this story last month, and with a month gone by, it would be nice if someone had some updates about what has happened since..
if you knew about it a month ago, why don’t YOU have updates about it?
I don’t. That is why I didn’t post anything about it. I figured someone who was posting about it might have the latest information about it.
We had an entire discussion thread about it a month ago.
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