Kay Henson (spanking mom) back in WI jail. Freep the heck out of Wisconsin!

CP Prosecutions ^ | July 17-18, 2002 | Various

[cherrycapital]

I know these people and this is the worst sort of small-town vendetta against an innocent family that you can imagine. Please call the Governor, (608) 266-1212 and ask him to pardon Kay Henson immediately.

[hsmomx3]

Terrible. I guess the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child has already been implemented. What a time in which to raise children. Pretty frightening.

[Free the USA]

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[Catspaw]

One thing Mrs. Henson is going to learn and learn swiftly that 1) she's now under the supervision of the Department of Probation and Parole (or whatever they're calling themselves these days) and they can, indeed, tell her what she can and cannot do and 2) that probation agents, as well as CPS workers have immunity from suit and 3) she's not going to get that restraining order. Oh, and 4) the Governor is not going to grant her a pardon.

If she keeps acting this way, she's going to find herself revoked in a very short period of time. If the judge imposed and stayed a sentence, she'll end up serving it all. If the judge withheld sentence, she'll go before the judge and he or she will impose a jail sentence. It could be the maximum sentence under law, or it could be a shorter period of time. She will get credit for time served.

If she's lucky, the children may not be taken away and put in foster care, but the possibility that she will not have any contact with the children besides supervised visitation is a distinct possibility.

[Redbob]

Warner Bros. probably want to have Dina Meyer play Kay.

[SpinyNorman]

Kay is a Messianic Jew and they do not cut their or their children's hair for religious reasons. She is now in solitary and on a hunger strike for their refusal to allow her access to needed medical treatment, for their blatant disregrad of her devoutly held religious beliefs and for her illegal incarceration.

Anti-semitism? Racism? Cruel and unusual punishment? Guilty until proven innocent (as in all cases with family "services")?

Where is the freakin' ACLU?

Upon the advice of counsel, she pled guilty to simple battery and was placed on probation (yes, she regrets it).

In this situation, given the abuses of power, admission of guilt is a big no-no.

So where is the talk show? Anyone contacted 60 Minutes? You have to publicly demonstrate the egregious idiocy of these beaurocrats before corrective action will occur.

[E Rocc]

Walworth County Probation Officer Eilene Haffey phone number 262-741-6370

Needs a spanking herself.

-Eric

[Illbay]

Not knowing the details of this case, I would hesitate to jerk the knee and "support" this woman. The whiney "fundamentalists" too often cover up their egregious behavior by making such claims as this. So maybe it's true, maybe not.

Kinda hard to tell from an advocacy group's press release. (Not that they're BIASED or anything...)

[Poohbah]

I have an extremely hard time believing the claims made about the probation officer's behavior. And leaving a 2-1/2-year-old roaming the sidewalk is rather stupid, IMNHO.

[SandfleaCSC]

Well if spanking your children by hand is a felony and in direct violation of a UN edict, that must make my folks WAR CRIMINALS for all the lumps I took getting discipline through my thick skull.

[Diamond]

If she keeps acting this way, she's going to find herself revoked in a very short period of time. If the judge imposed and stayed a sentence, she'll end up serving it all. If the judge withheld sentence, she'll go before the judge and he or she will impose a jail sentence. It could be the maximum sentence under law, or it could be a shorter period of time. She will get credit for time served.

If she's lucky, the children may not be taken away and put in foster care, but the possibility that she will not have any contact with the children besides supervised visitation is a distinct possibility.

"Hi. We're from the government. We're here to help you."

Cordially,

[Illbay]

Please note that this is what this PRESS RELEASE says is the charge.

One problem that CPS orgs have is that they are forbidden by law from releasing details of these kinds of cases unless the parent is facing a felony arrest.

That leaves the whiney types and the silly agendized groups that support them to make all kinds of wild claims.

Again, don't know what the truth is here, but you can bet you're not going to find it in a press release of this type.

[Catspaw]

That's pretty much it. Once she plea bargained and accepted a sentence of probation, she also agreed to submit to their rules. In fact, everytime she goes to see her PO, she has to sign a list of rules, which includes language that says, more or less, the PO can tell you what to do & when to do it. If she doesn't like probation, she can simply request that she be revoked & a jail sentence is imposed. I've seen some of the more experienced jailbirds request the jail time and refuse probation because they hate being on paper.

Oh, and her hunger strike? Well, if she hasn't told jail personnel that she's on a hunger strike, they can read it here. And what do they do to prisoners on hunger strikes? Well, what they do is to commit the person to the nearest public mental health facility, stick an NG tube down her nose and force feed that person. If the person fights, they put the person in four-point restraints.

Concealing the children is another not-so-bright idea. That gives CPS an opening to petition the court for an emergency order for custody of the children, and once the children are located, one or both parents are going to be charged criminally with interference with custody (because CPS now has custody)--a class C felony under Wisconsin law (maximum sentence: 15 years in prison, $10,000 fine or both).

She's digging a deeper hole for herself.

[Catspaw]

Guilty until proven innocent

Read the story again. She's already plead guilty to "simple battery" (which is probably battery under 940.19(1), a class A misdemeanor) and was sentenced to probation. The maximum jail time is nine months.

[Catspaw]

I wouldn't touch this case unless I could read the case file. I'd like to know what the original charge was, because it may have been reduced in the plea bargain.

However, this case has a familiar ring to it, doesn't it?

[dighton]

Tough to judge without additional data.

A google search for Kay Henson yields lots of stuff, mostly noise. Kay Henson + Wisconsin turns up very little; likewise ~ + spanking and ~ + abuse.

Anyone?

[Catspaw]

Walworth county is one of the few counties in Wisconsin that doesn't submit their data to CCAP, but even with CCAP, it'd still take someone to go to the Walworth county clerk of courts to pull the file.

It does sound like she's being revoked. And the administrative judge that does the revocations does not have to find that she's violated the rules of probation "beyond a reasonable doubt." That's for the jury. It's a lower standard (I'd have to look it up). The decisions by the adminstrative judge are almost always appealled and almost never reversed.

Oh, and if she's truly desparate about pumping her breasts, she doesn't need a breast pump. It can be done manually, just like handstripping a cow.

[Diamond]

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman

Cordially,

[Pushi]

Yeah, while raising my kids, I committed a few crimes against humanity. My kids all turned out good. It's tough raising one's offspring these days.

[Catspaw]

In order to get out from under their thumb, she could ask that her probation be revoked and just do her jail time. Then she won't have to continue to fight them.

But as far as the kids go, she and her husband have dug a Brian and Ruth Christine-sized hole. They will be facing a CHIPs petition, if they haven't already, and loss of custody of the children, if the state doesn't have legal custody of the children already.

I have a very strong feeling that these people are getting very bad advice from this advocacy group, and both she and her husband are going to end up in prison if they keep going this way. That is their choice, but I can't say as I didn't warn them.