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Child Custody Case, Need Advice ?
I attended court today and the judge ordered both parties to have investigations involved, being we both have made claims about each other. All I was requesting was joint physical and legal custody, but, the Respondent is seeking full physical and legal custody. However, after further reviewing my case and all pertinent information in regards to this matter, I feel that it would be in the best interest of my son to be with me, his father. For many reasons that I would like to further discuss, that even the investigator him self was shell shocked to hear.
The Respondent is completely violent and an angry person.
A.She has a past history of using marijuana, speed, and other control substances
B.Has Been Domestically Violent towards me (I have police reports and pics of me scratched up)
C.Respondent is incapable of working and has not worked for 4 years
D.Respondent is unfit to take care herself, that is why she works as a prostitute And I have several emails of her soliciting for money. Saying she charges traveling and overnight charge
E.On several occasions Respondent would take her daughter on these trips, to go play hooker and be with guys, Such as Walt Disney World in Florida, and Sea World in San Diego, Ca, (I have emails to support this)
F.One incident she left her daughter home alone to go be with another guy, her daughter then left the house looking for her mother, to only be found several blocks away by a couple, cops were called (Police Report)
G.Respondent has a past history of violence with her daughters Father. (Police Reports)
H.Works as a stripper out of her surrounding cities, in Ca. Nickname Lily but does more "Prostitution" I know where this location is. .
I.Respondents daughter does not live with her mother because she is very much traumatized and afraid her mom will dump her off, to go be prostitute for the night, according to her own daughter.
J.I have witnessed Respondents interaction with her own daughter, and she yells and can be violent to her own daughter, threatening to spank her if she (daughter) does not listen to mother.
K.Respondent has already committed PERJURY by lying on County DCSS Income and Expense Declaration and being currently investigated by Attorney for my local city
L.Respondent has lied to receive Medi Cal Services in the county she resides and when in fact she did not need it. She lied about not owning a home, jaguar, property taxes, assets and income, All while knowing this is FRAUD in the State of California. (I have Property Tax info, Loan Docs and House Deed to support this) That she is does own a house. Docs she signed and is obligated for.
M. She has admitted to me that she smoked weed in her apartment while our son was in the other room, this occurred beginning of August.
N. She has not reported her income to the IRS for past three to four years, which says alot. She already has possibly FRAUD and PERJURY, But possibly Now TAX EVASION, .
O. She pays an estimated 45k in mortgage and property taxes and has a paid off Jag, but she does not work according to her Docs, Huge RED FLAG.
P. Her neighbors apartment has been raided twice for drugs, and yet they still sell drugs.
Being I know all of this she feels that she must bash me by making up false accusations about me, However, I am very well prepared and can support every single claim that I noted above. She on the other hand cannot, but merely do her best to make me look bad.
I feel it would just be in the best interest of my son to reside and live with me, I would strongly recommend anger management classes, domestic violent classes, and have her come to my city for supervised visits.
Should I go for Full Custody, while this is being investigated? I have two weeks before my next court date, I asked for joint, but maybe I should go full. What do you guys think, any advice would be great.
Answer: Go for full. And give the reasons you stated above. Also, require that the respondent, mom, only have visitation until she is out of these situations and that she take anger management courses, too. Make her do the gamut... she will back off.
I got full custody of my children and my ex was actually a good dad at the time. But I proved to the courts that the man would leave in a heartbeat and really didn't want his children he only wanted to fight me on custody for leverage.
It is a common tactic but you need to play it, too.
Category: Marriage & Divorce
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web detectives...i found out what town my father is living in and i need to locate him...please help me!?
k...heres the deal...my father took off when i was a baby..we always knew he was in florida, and now that my mom is all over the news "magically" he comes out of the woodwork to talk to the papers(article below)... then he cant even admit that hes my father...i have struggled with abandanment and everything else due to him, and thought that i had done well in therapy, but now i am completely unraveling...due to the fact that my mom is all over the news, i absolutly cannot contact the newspaper, not that i even think those vultures would help me...i know that theres public records and all that, that i can look into, but i dont even know where to begin...please help me, i feel like im crumbling to pieces with whats going on with my mom, and now that my dad is back on my mind, i need to find him. thanks in advance.
S&M MARRIAGE FROM HELL
DOMINATRIXS EX ADMITS HE WAS ABUSIVE DRUNK
By JENNIFER FERMINO and LORENA MONGELLI
BUSINESS IN A BIND: Sandra Chemero (above) ran an S&M brothel in this Bedford mansion, cops say. Her ex says she wasnt into kinky stuff during their marriage.
March 5, 2007 -- Years before she allegedly began using whips and chains on eager clients of her S&M business, kinky Westchester mansion mistress Sandra Chemero endured the real thing in five stormy years of wedlock, her ex-husband admitted yesterday.
Christopher Chemero, 52, owned up to being "somewhat abusive" during their marriage, which lasted from 1979 to 1984.
He was nonetheless shocked to learn of his exs arrest on a prostitution charge and her efforts to earn a living off S&M sex games, which, he insisted, played no role in their marriage.
"I wasnt into that . . Im really surprised to hear that about Sandy," Christopher Chemero told The Post at his home in Daytona Beach, Fla.
The marriage was the first for both. Sandra was 18 and Christopher was 24.
Christopher, who is now single, said he was an alcohol abuser when he wed, although she "wasnt much of a drinker."
He said he gave up drinking long ago.
He said he hasnt heard from his ex in more than 20 years and, "I really dont know whats going on in her life."
"It was a vicious breakup," Christopher said.
Although divorce records say the couple had two children, "Im not sure one of them is mine," he said.
"I could never say for sure if she cheated on me."
Christopher Chemero said he lives off disability payments, and is waiting for heart bypass surgery.
"The men in my family dont live very long," he said.
Meanwhile, Bedford cops pressed ahead with their investigation yesterday as a woman who used Sandra Chemeros rented house as a place to sell makeup and clothing to cross-dressing men said the accused madam had a female partner in the S&M business several months ago.
After an argument with Sandra, the other woman moved out of the house in September, the makeup artist said.
Asked if a second woman was involved, Bedford Police Lt. Robert Mazurak replied: "Im not going to say no, but I dont want to mislead you . . . Its under investigation."
Sandra Chemero, 46, is the only person charged thus far, and police have said that they believed she was working alone.
The makeup artist also said she believed Sandra had a boyfriend from Manhattan who worked on Wall Street. But that could not be immediately confirmed.
A number of Westchester County men are named in Sandra Chemeros records, Mazurak said.
"We are continuing to investigate. Where its going to end, I dont know," he said.
Sandra Chemero, who is free on bail, was nowhere to be found yesterday.
Shes due in Bedford town court next week to answer misdemeanor charges of prostitution and possession of a stun gun.
The rabbinical school that owns the $3 million home has evicted Sandra under a clause in her lease barring illegal activity.
Her Web site advertised the "century-old stately manner" as "The Sovereign Estate," describing it as a "female-led household, headed by an elegant, attractive dominant woman."
Additional reporting by Patrick White and Bill Sanderson
jennifer.fermino@nypost.com
Answer: Hi, I'm sorry for what you're going through. If you need any info please feel free to contact me. We're not all vultures or leeches, as everyone assumes. We're people too.
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The sex industry: crackdown or meltdown?
By "these things" Im not referring to voluntary prostitution, about which quite frankly I couldnt care less as long as there are no minors involved. What Im referring ... if a mess-up of this calibre occurred, a couple of heads should roll?
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make this simpler... please...?
Im not the exact brilliant with english and cops language... so... could you guys please help me?
what Im looking for is ....
if a couple is 2.5 years apart... is it ok for them to be dating... as long as they are not sexually active? like for example 17 and 20 (but is 2.5 yyears apart)
[edit] Washington
18 - Applies under three different sets of circumstances, enumerated in RCW 9A.44.096. Foster parents with their foster children; school teachers and school administration employees over their students; The third set of circumstances require all of the following situations occur in tandem: The older person is 60 months or more older than the 16 or 17 year old, the person is in a significant relationship as defined, and such older person abuses the relationship to have sexual contact.
16 - Under all other circumstances.
Several have reported that the immoral communication with a minor statute exists and places the age of consent at 18 due to the inability to "communicate" to 16- and 17-year-olds about sexual activity. These reports have been alarming in nature, however they are completely anecdotal, and perhaps even urban legend. The Washington Court of Appeals, Division 1 decided in the case of State v. Danforth, 56 Wn. App. 133, 782 P.2d 1091 (1989) that such communication has to be for the purposes of committing an illegal act under RCW Chapter 9.68A. Danforths conviction was overturned by that ruling. However, the Washington Supreme Court in the case of State v. McNallie, 120 Wn.2d 925, 846 P.2d 1358 (1993) overturned the scope of the Danforth ruling (though not the result; Danforth would have still had his conviction overturned under the McNallie standard), applying the communication statute to encompass all sexual misconduct with a minor, not just those under RCW Chapter 9.68A, which deal mostly with illegal child pornography and prostitution. Due to these cases, it is clear that communications with 16- and 17-year-olds just for general sexual activity is legal, as long as such conduct discussed is not about illegal conduct or would be illegal in real life (such as the teacher/student circumstance, the foster parent/foster child circumstance, the significant relationship abuse circumstance, or asking for illegal pictures or attempting to bring such younger persons into prostitution).
[edit] Federal Laws
{Chapter 117, 18 U.S.C. 2422(b)} forbids the use of the United States Postal Service or other interstate or foreign means of communication, such as telephone calls or use of the internet, to persuade or entice a minor (defined as under 18 throughout chapter) to be involved in a criminal sexual act. The act has to be illegal under state or federal law to be charged with a crime under 2422(b), and can even be applied to situations where both parties reside within the same state but use an instant messenger program whose servers are located in another state.[4]
{Chapter 117, 18 U.S.C. 2423(a)} forbids transporting a minor (defined as under 18) in interstate or foreign commerce with the intent of engaging in criminal sexual acts in which a person can be charged. This subsection is ambiguous on its face, and only seems to apply when the minor is transported across state or international lines to a place where the conduct is already illegal to begin with. The United States Department of Justice seems to agree with this interpretation.
{Chapter 117, 18 U.S.C. 2423(b)} forbids travelling in interstate or foreign commerce to engage in "illicit sexual conduct" with a minor. 2423(f) refers to Chapter 109A as its bright line for defining "illicit sexual conduct", as far as non-commercial sexual activity is concerned. For the purposes of age of consent, the only provision applicable is {Chapter 109A, 18 U.S.C. 2243(a)}. 2243(a) refers to situations where such younger person is under the age of 16 years, has attained 12 years of age, and the older person is more than 4 years older than the 12-15 year old (persons under 12 are handled under 18 U.S.C. 2241(c) under aggravated sexual abuse). So, the age is 12 years if one is within 4 years of the 12-15 year olds age, 16 under all other circumstances. This most likely reflects Congressional intent to not unduly interfere with a states age of consent law, which would have been the case if the age was set to 18 under all circumstances. This law is also extraterritorial in nature to U.S. Citizens and Residents who travel outside of the United States.
Although legislation tends to reflect general societal attitudes regarding male versus female ages of consent, Richard Posner notes in his Guide to Americas Sex Laws;
"The U.S. Supreme Court has held that stricter rules for males do not violate the equal protection clause of the Constitution, on the theory that men lack the disincentives associated with pregnancy that women have to engage in sexual activity, and the law may thus provide men with those disincentives in the form of criminal sanc
Answer: In Washington state the age of consent is 16.
RCW 9A.44.079:
"Rape of a child in the third degree.
A person is guilty of rape of a child in the third degree when the person has sexual intercourse with another who is at least fourteen years old but less than sixteen years old and not married to the perpetrator and the perpetrator is at least forty-eight months older than the victim."
Rape of a child in the 2nd or 1st degree are similar, except that the age of the victim is progressively younger and the required age difference is more narrow.
Generally, there is no law that prohibits anyone of age 16 and older having intercourse with any older person. An example: A 16 year old can (in the general case) have sex with, say, a 45 year old.
Generally, there is no law against dating anyone if there is no sex.
But there are special rules that apply to teachers and foster parents.
In your example, a 17 year old and a 20 year old can date and can legally have sex, unless the 20 year old is a teacher or other special person under the law.
Category: Law & Ethics
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Raid here ends girls captivity as a sex slave Feds say couple lured her from Mexico at age 13
Metro police took part in a raid this week at this apartment in the Dominion House apartment complex. Federal authorities say a teenage girl from Mexico was held there as a sex slave. SHAUNA BITTLE / THE TENNESSEAN By SHEILA BURKE Staff Writer
Published: Saturday, 11/11/06 She is known in federal court documents only as "S.M.C."
At the age of 13, they say, she was smuggled into the U.S. from Oaxaca, Mexico, the first leg of a horrific journey that led her to a Harding Place area apartment. There she was beaten, raped and forced into a life of prostitution — an ordeal requiring her to have sex with as many as 40 men a day.
This week federal authorities said they arrested two people and charged them with the sex trafficking of children. Juan Mendez and Cristina Andres Perfecto, both of Nashville, were named Thursday in a complaint filed in federal court in Memphis.
Federal officials in Memphis, who began the investigation, and Metro police, who assisted in a raid at the Harding Place area apartment last week, said it is the first case to their knowledge involving children smuggled into the country to be forced into the sex trade.
"Obviously, were concerned about it, and its certainly our intention to keep this investigation going," said Lee Anne Jordon, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorneys office in Memphis.
Investigators will be as aggressive as possible to stop the trafficking, Jordon said.
Federal authorities said its too early to tell how large the ring was or whether all perpetrators have been found.
The girl, now 15, is the only juvenile victim identified, Jordon said.
However, court documents say the victims cousin and other women also have been forced to sell their bodies. Like the teen, officials said, they were lured to this country by a promise of honest jobs in the U.S. so they could send money back to their families.
In an interview Friday, Mendezs wife said she didnt know anything about the charges and that she had not seen her husband in more than a week.
"Im not sure whats going on, but Im not going to let him run around with other women," Maria Rita Hernandez said through an interpreter outside her apartment on Hickory Trace Drive in south Nashville.
She said she has lived in Nashville for the past five years and that she and Mendez have two children, ages 5 and 1.
It was a series of raids at Memphis brothels that led federal authorities to Mendez and Perfecto, FBI agent Randy Thysse said.
After the raids, a man the girl had befriended who ran a brothel in Memphis tipped off federal authorities about the trafficking ring and about the girl.
They found her after Smyrna police received a tip. Afterward, she was taken into the custody of the state Department of Childrens Services.
She is now in a foster home of Spanish-speaking people and will get counseling and any other treatment she needs, DCS spokesman Rob Johnson said.
"Under the circumstances, given all thats happened, this girls doing well — all things considered," he said.
Eventually the goal will be to reunite her with her family, but DCS investigators will be looking closely at the circumstances that led her to this country, he said.
Court documents say that in August 2005 Perfecto went to the girls family of farm laborers in a rural area of Mexico. She told them that Mendez, her boyfriend, could help the girl get a job as a waitress in a Nashville restaurant.
She assured the girls family that she would make enough money to send some back home.
Perfecto, authorities said, told the girl that she and Mendez would have to pay smugglers $3,000 to get her into the United States and that she would have to repay that once she started working.
Perfecto and the teenager were captured twice by the U.S. Border Patrol but eventually were able to make it to the United States. Once in Nashville, she met Mendez and was taken to an apartment at 5099 Linbar Drive.
There, court documents allege, Mendez raped her and threatened to kill her family if she did not work as a prostitute. She was 14 at the time.
The girl told investigators that she was a virgin when she arrived in Nashville and described the rape as very painful.
Two weeks later, court documents say, Mendez took her to a Kentucky brothel and forced her to have sex with 14 people on the first day. Afterward she was sick with a headache and severe pelvic inflammation and had to be hospitalized for several days.
Mendez let her rest for two weeks after her release from the hospital but then forced her to work as a prostitute in Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis, Birmingham, Ala., and other cities, the federal documents say.
She was never allowed to leave unescorted and never ran away because she was afraid for her family, the account says. Authorities arrested 29 people, 10 of whom have been indicted, federal officials said.
Last Saturday agents with the bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement took Mendez and Perfecto into custody.
A 2004 federal Department of Justice report estimates that between 14,500 and 17,500 people annually in the U.S. are victims of human trafficking, either forced to work as prostitutes or laborers.
An international relief organization with a hub in Nashville will begin training Metro police next year to investigate sex trafficking.
"Its very new for us to have on our radar in Tennessee, but" sex trafficking is "not a new thing," said Amber Beckham, coordinator for World Reliefs Network of Emergency Trafficking Services. •
Miss Interpret, speak English, por favor. You dont like CREDIBLE NEWS SOURCES? TOO BAD.
Miss INterpret, you are a complete imbecile if you think your immigration problem surpasses ours.
quay_grl, you write a lot like the idiot known as Sqwirlgrl...wonder why that is. You are about as smart as she is also since you dont know the real definition as spam. Where did you see on this question that I was the author? Thats right. I never said that these thoughts were my own. I only agree with them.
Yep, its you. You cant not answer the question but you never really have anything to say. .do me a favor and stop answering my questions.
Answer: I looked at some of the insane answers on my way. I can't believe ANYONE in their right mind would support this kind of criminal act. They seemed more worried about you then what happened to the child. Oh... 1 did mention she was blonde..sorry, and another has a new name but we know who it is.
They should put their asses on a slab at the morgue, that is where they belong!
Category: Immigration
Long Island Couple Are Convicted of Enslaving 2 Domestic Workers
The so-called Muttontown slave trial involved a wild barrage of testimony by two Indonesian domestic workers who were employed -- and, prosecutors say, enslaved and tortured for years -- by a well-to-do couple on Long Island. And the verdict Monday morning made for no less wild a scene. When it was announced that the jury in U.S. District Court - Federal jury convicts Varsha Mahender Sabhnani and Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani on 12 counts that include involuntary servitude, conspiracy, forced labor and harboring of illegal immigrants; Sabhnanis kept two Indonesian servants in forced servitude in their Muttontown, NY, mansion for years; photos (M) - By COREY KILGANNON
CRIME SCENE; Whats a Love-Struck Pimp to Do?
Women -- cant live with em, cant live without em. Cant call them 924 times in one month during a fight. Cant plot to plant drugs and guns on their new boyfriends. Cant look for hit men to assassinate their new boyfriends. These and other life lessons crashed down around Salah Youssef, 38, whose journey from lovesick paramour to defendant in - By MICHAEL WILSON
My Life in Therapy
All those years, all that money, all that unrequited love. It began way back when I was a child, an anxiety-riddled 10-year-old who didnt want to go to school in the morning and had difficulty falling asleep at night. Even in a family like mine, where there were many siblings (six in all) and little attention paid to dispositional differences, I - Daphne Merkin is a contributing writer. She is working on a book based on an article she wrote for the magazine about her struggle with chronic depression. - By DAPHNE MERKIN
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please help me find my father...i know its a lot to read, but im crumbling to pieces?
Web detectives...i found out what town my father is living in and i need to locate him...please help me!?
k...heres the deal...my father took off when i was a baby..we always knew he was in florida, and now that my mom is all over the news "magically" he comes out of the woodwork to talk to the papers(article below)... then he cant even admit that hes my father...i have struggled with abandanment and everything else due to him, and thought that i had done well in therapy, but now i am completely unraveling...due to the fact that my mom is all over the news, i absolutly cannot contact the newspaper, not that i even think those vultures would help me...i know that theres public records and all that, that i can look into, but i dont even know where to begin...please help me, i feel like im crumbling to pieces with whats going on with my mom, and now that my dad is back on my mind, i need to find him. thanks in advance.
S&M MARRIAGE FROM HELL
DOMINATRIXS EX ADMITS HE WAS ABUSIVE DRUNK
By JENNIFER FERMINO and LORENA MONGELLI
BUSINESS IN A BIND: Sandra Chemero (above) ran an S&M brothel in this Bedford mansion, cops say. Her ex says she wasnt into kinky stuff during their marriage.
March 5, 2007 -- Years before she allegedly began using whips and chains on eager clients of her S&M business, kinky Westchester mansion mistress Sandra Chemero endured the real thing in five stormy years of wedlock, her ex-husband admitted yesterday.
Christopher Chemero, 52, owned up to being "somewhat abusive" during their marriage, which lasted from 1979 to 1984.
He was nonetheless shocked to learn of his exs arrest on a prostitution charge and her efforts to earn a living off S&M sex games, which, he insisted, played no role in their marriage.
"I wasnt into that . . Im really surprised to hear that about Sandy," Christopher Chemero told The Post at his home in Daytona Beach, Fla.
The marriage was the first for both. Sandra was 18 and Christopher was 24.
Christopher, who is now single, said he was an alcohol abuser when he wed, although she "wasnt much of a drinker."
He said he gave up drinking long ago.
He said he hasnt heard from his ex in more than 20 years and, "I really dont know whats going on in her life."
"It was a vicious breakup," Christopher said.
Although divorce records say the couple had two children, "Im not sure one of them is mine," he said.
"I could never say for sure if she cheated on me."
Christopher Chemero said he lives off disability payments, and is waiting for heart bypass surgery.
"The men in my family dont live very long," he said.
Meanwhile, Bedford cops pressed ahead with their investigation yesterday as a woman who used Sandra Chemeros rented house as a place to sell makeup and clothing to cross-dressing men said the accused madam had a female partner in the S&M business several months ago.
After an argument with Sandra, the other woman moved out of the house in September, the makeup artist said.
Asked if a second woman was involved, Bedford Police Lt. Robert Mazurak replied: "Im not going to say no, but I dont want to mislead you . . . Its under investigation."
Sandra Chemero, 46, is the only person charged thus far, and police have said that they believed she was working alone.
The makeup artist also said she believed Sandra had a boyfriend from Manhattan who worked on Wall Street. But that could not be immediately confirmed.
A number of Westchester County men are named in Sandra Chemeros records, Mazurak said.
"We are continuing to investigate. Where its going to end, I dont know," he said.
Sandra Chemero, who is free on bail, was nowhere to be found yesterday.
Shes due in Bedford town court next week to answer misdemeanor charges of prostitution and possession of a stun gun.
The rabbinical school that owns the $3 million home has evicted Sandra under a clause in her lease barring illegal activity.
Her Web site advertised the "century-old stately manner" as "The Sovereign Estate," describing it as a "female-led household, headed by an elegant, attractive dominant woman."
Additional reporting by Patrick White and Bill Sanderson
jennifer.fermino@nypost.com
Answer: if your dad was born on July 12 1955, i have a couple of old addresses and phone numbers for him.
i couldn't find him in daytona beach and i looked at the county records but didnt see his name listed. i will search some more when i get home and update this message.
"but now i am completely unraveling"
i don't want to sound mean, but why are you unraveling?
yes, i understand that this is all a bit embarassing but you have to really look at the bright side of all this.
the bright side is that your mom was running the place and not one of the clients. believe me when i say that your humiliation pales next to the humiliation the children of the cross-dressing make-up wearing men who were paying top dollar to get their tuchas beat by your mom.
from the looks of it, your mom ran a very profitable business. ok, so it was an illegal business but it's only a couple of misdemeanor charges. shes not going to be put on a chain gang or anything.
i'll do what i can to help you find your dad, but are you really sure you want to talk with him? he sounds like a jerk and it will probably do you more harm than good.
Category: Family
Great Falls couple charged with running prostitution ring
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In Queens Trial, Detectives Fear And 31 Bullets
The detective pointed his gun at a passenger in the car in front of him and pulled the trigger again and again and again, and in what seemed like only a second or two there were no more bullets, he told the grand jurors. I looked at my gun, said the detective, Michael Oliver. I didnt know if it had any bullets or something was wrong. I was - Detective Michael Olivers grand jury testimony is read aloud in Queens courtroom where he and Detective Gescard F Isnora are on trial for manslaughter in 2006 killing of Sean Bell; Olivers testimony is closest to first-hand account of his actions to date; in contrast to Isnora, who testified earlier and sounded sorrowful and apologetic, Olivers words seem defensive, even defiant; he says he never aimed directly at Bell but rather at center mass of passengers Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, in effect stating that hitting Bell was mistake; testimony was recorded in March 2007; nonjury trial is being heard by Justice Arthur J Cooperman; photo (M) - By MICHAEL WILSON
Couple Arrested On Prostitution Charges in Nevada « CBS Las Vegas
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Investment Banker Posts $1.2MM House As Bail For "Millionaire Madams" No. 2
Missing for weeks, 30-year-old Jaynie Mae Baker turned herself in to authorities yesterday and was arraigned yesterday on charges of promoting prostitution ... that they appeared to be a normal couple. "They seemed real happy together.
Attending Court for child custody ?
attended court today and the judge ordered both parties to have investigations involved, being we both have made claims about each other. All I was requesting was joint physical and legal custody, but, the Respondent is seeking full physical and legal custody. However, after further reviewing my case and all pertinent information in regards to this matter, I feel that it would be in the best interest of my son to be with me, his father. For many reasons that I would like to further discuss, that even the investigator him self was shell shocked to hear.
The Respondent is completely violent and an angry person.
A.She has a past history of using marijuana, speed, and other control substances
B.Has Been Domestically Violent towards me (I have police reports and pics of me scratched up)
C.Respondent is incapable of working and has not worked for 4 years
D.Respondent is unfit to take care herself, that is why she works as a prostitute And I have several emails of her soliciting for money. Saying she charges traveling and overnight charge
E.On several occasions Respondent would take her daughter on these trips, to go play hooker and be with guys, Such as Walt Disney World in Florida, and Sea World in San Diego, Ca, (I have emails to support this)
F.One incident she left her daughter home alone to go be with another guy, her daughter then left the house looking for her mother, to only be found several blocks away by a couple, cops were called (Police Report)
G.Respondent has a past history of violence with her daughters Father. (Police Reports)
H.Works as a stripper out of her surrounding cities, in Ca. Nickname Lily but does more "Prostitution" I know where this location is. .
I.Respondents daughter does not live with her mother because she is very much traumatized and afraid her mom will dump her off, to go be prostitute for the night, according to her own daughter.
J.I have witnessed Respondents interaction with her own daughter, and she yells and can be violent to her own daughter, threatening to spank her if she (daughter) does not listen to mother.
K.Respondent has already committed PERJURY by lying on County DCSS Income and Expense Declaration and being currently investigated by Attorney for my local city
L.Respondent has lied to receive Medi Cal Services in the county she resides and when in fact she did not need it. She lied about not owning a home, jaguar, property taxes, assets and income, All while knowing this is FRAUD in the State of California. (I have Property Tax info, Loan Docs and House Deed to support this) That she is does own a house. Docs she signed and is obligated for.
M. She has admitted to me that she smoked weed in her apartment while our son was in the other room, this occurred beginning of August.
N. She has not reported her income to the IRS for past three to four years, which says alot. She already has possibly FRAUD and PERJURY, But possibly Now TAX EVASION, .
O. She pays an estimated 45k in mortgage and property taxes and has a paid off Jag, but she does not work according to her Docs, Huge RED FLAG.
P. Her neighbors apartment has been raided twice for drugs, and yet they still sell drugs.
Being I know all of this she feels that she must bash me by making up false accusations about me, However, I am very well prepared and can support every single claim that I noted above. She on the other hand cannot, but merely do her best to make me look bad.
I feel it would just be in the best interest of my son to reside and live with me, I would strongly recommend anger management classes, domestic violent classes, and have her come to my city for supervised visits.
Should I go for Full Custody, while this is being investigated? I have two weeks before my next court date, I asked for joint, but maybe I should go full. What do you guys think, any advice would be great.
6 minutes ago - 3 days left to answer.
Answer: You seem to have enough documentation to attempt full custody. If you go for it, yet offer her very generous visitation rights, you may look like you only have your childs best interest at heart and not just look like you are trying to piss all over the woman.
Category: Law & Ethics
The Diverse Crew of 4 Who Operated the Escort Service That Undid Spitzer
The escort service accused of enticing Eliot Spitzer and a host of other clients was operated by four improbable masters of temptation: a rejuvenated tax specialist, a boarding school pixie, a literature major from Virginia and a clog-wearing nutritionist. These four people, none of whom had a criminal record, operated the Emperors Club V.I.P., an - Four improbable people are accused of operating Emperors Club VIP escort service that functioned as prostitution ring; customers included former New York State Gov Eliot Spitzer and many other clients who were charged as much as $5,500 an hour; federal authorities allege that neophyte ring took in more than $1 million in three years by dispatching more than 50 prostitutes across nation and world; tax consultant Mark Brener recruited three woman to help him: Cecil Suwal was operations manager; Temeka Rachelle Lewis scheduled meetings between prostitutes and clients; Tanya Hollander assisted Lewis; profiles of four people accused of operating escort sevice; photos (M) - By RUSS BUETTNER and RAY RIVERA; Reporting was contributed by William K. Rashbaum, Nate Schweber, Stacey Stowe and Ian Urbina.
Couple charged with running prostitution out of apartment - Sun ...
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