JANICE LANDELL DRUG POSSESSION

Who is Janice? She is my husband girlfriend:


http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99/n1413/a04.html

Race Crimes in Suffolk County

Cross Burning in Suffolk County

http://cbsnewyork.com/topstories/topstoriesny_story_327173214.html


Racial Profiling in Suffolk County

http://christinaandnicolas.blogspot.com/

http://forums.yellowworld.org/archive/index.php/t-8529.html

Kids Who Hate: Long Island's Bigoted Youth
http://www.longislandpress.com/v01/i38031002/coverstory_01.asp

Sent January 06 2005 Court Administration

January 6, 2005

I am an African and Naturalized American woman from Nigeria living in the predominantly white suburb of East Islip, New York and my divorce from a Caucasian man (a French foreign national) who physically and emotionally abused me for years and then abandoned me 2 years ago has become a nightmare that makes so little sense from an objective point of view that I am finally convinced that bias against me due to the color my skin is a factor. I have spent over $100,000 on attorney's fees over the past two years in what has been a completely losing battle so far to get a Court in Suffolk County to hear and understand my side of the story in a divorce case and to reach just and fair decisions that protect the best interests and welfare of my two young children, particularly the youngest who is three years old and whose custody is in dispute.

As an African, I was not raised in an environment where I was familiar with or affected by racial bias and here in America, I have been very successful up until now in a very white dominated culture and society. So it has never been in my mind-set to see, recognize and acknowledge that such irrational bias and hatred could be behind things that happen to me or affect me. Even when some of my neighbors wrote “WHITE POWER” across the front of my house last year and even when, time after time, the same white policeman showed up at my house and refused to effectively deal with, document or even acknowledge the incidents of abuse against me by my husband, I naively failed to recognize the hand of bias in what was taking place. I recognize it now though and am horrified by it. I have never really appreciated the awful feeling of powerlessness, fear and disbelief that American blacks must have felt at the hands of lynch mobs in decades past, but I now know a little of what they felt and have a clearer of view of what it is to be black in this country.

My husband has used his personal connections within the community and the bias that seems to exist within some circles in court system and police department here in Suffolk County to successfully put himself in a position to gain sole custody of our 3 year old son in spite of the fact that he has a history of abusive, neglectful behavior as a parent and in spite of the fact that all reason and common sense seems to argue against this. The Law Guardian in this case, whose statements and actions have been unfairly biased against me and in favor of my husband since this process started, recently stated in conference that my husband will gain custody. She has functioned as an advocate for my husband from the very start and ignored all of my concerns and warnings concerning the poor treatment that my son receives when he is in my husband’s custody. Largely due to this Law Guardian’s bias and unprofessional behavior, fighting for a fair settlement and a custody arrangement that will protect the health and well-being of my son has been an exercise in futility these past 2 years and it has practically destroyed me. It has cost me my entire life savings, it has cost me my good health and the good health of my children, it has cost me my job and my good credit rating (I have lost my car, I am in the process of losing my house and am nearly bankrupt).

I am an educated woman and an utterly doting and loving mother to my two young children. I have no history of parental neglect, behavior problems or unfavorable activity of any kind in my life. And yet…. my husband, a man who I have repeatedly obtained orders of protection against because of his abuse and threats against me over the years, a man who was arrested just a few months ago for criminally assaulting me, a man who in spite of a court order against it continues to chain-smoke around our 3 year old son during his visitation and aggravate the boy’s asthma, and a man who in spite of a court order against it continues to allow his paramour, a woman with a criminal record involving violence and drug possession, to interact with and even discipline our 3 year old son…. this man has successfully used the court system in Suffolk county and put himself in a position to win custody of our son. He has convinced a Forensic expert and Law Guardian, both Caucasian and both completely unfamiliar with and seemingly biased against African and African-American culture and people, to advocate for him gaining sole custody of our mixed-race son. Because of the unchecked and near-absolute power and deference given to these so-called Forensic experts and Law Guardians in the family court system … it seems that I might lose my son to a man who will not care for and love him and raise him in a healthy way. I have lost practically everything and turned to everyone I can think of within the legal system for help to no avail. I am in such pain and my children are suffering.

Shortly after my husband and I were married, I became pregnant with Nicholas, our 3 year old son, and that was the beginning of the end of our relationship. Unable and unwilling to accept the prospect of increased expenses and duties and responsibilities that would come with the arrival of his baby son and afraid that he would be unable to complete his studies and attain his own professional goals, he ranted and raved and pleaded with me constantly to have the pregnancy aborted. I cried every day of my pregnancy with Nicolas, nearly died preserving his life and giving birth to him by emergency C-section and have cried almost every day since because of the emotional and physical abuse my husband directed and directs at me and yet this is the man who the Law Guardian in our case is arguing should be granted sole custody of this child. It is ironic and sad and horrible beyond belief that he may gain custody of this beautiful boy that he never wanted in the first place and doesn't really want now save for the emotional damage he knows that it will do to me and the financial gain he sees in it for himself.

I loved my husband very much and tried very hard to please and placate him and soothe his anger. He had a very bad temper and would go into fits of rage over things and break stuff in our house and accuse me of horrible things beyond all reason. Though I tried to get him to go to counseling and had several opportunities to make issue of his temper with the police when they would show at the door after being called by neighbors, I failed to take action because I loved him and wanted to make our marriage work. The most telling example of this is when, during an argument when I was 8 months pregnant, he threw a TV remote control at me that hit my stomach and sent me to the emergency room with premature contractions. The nurse there asked me if I wanted to report the incident to the police and I declined.

After Nicholas was born, I experienced a severe post-partum depression, made worse by my husband's abusive behavior and the tremendous stress of having to go immediately back to work as a senior corporate manager in order to pay the bills. It became worse still when the World Trade Center was attacked and destroyed. My building was right next to the South Tower and I was at work in my office that morning. I managed to get away just before the collapse, but not before closely witnessing several people jump out of windows and land in the street below. The horror of this will stay with me forever. My company relocated to New Jersey and now I was commuting 3 hours each way to work every day and getting no help or support from my husband with the new baby....only angry outburst and abuse. My dear and very close Grandmother died at this time, further burdening me emotionally.
Finally, a policeman who showed up one day to respond to a complaint about my husband's screams and the sounds of things breaking told me that I was in danger of losing my children if I didn't file a complaint and get an order of protection against my husband. I did what he said to do and shortly after, my husband moved out and filed for divorce with lots of fantastic accusations about my being unfaithful to him and having affairs with other men and women. I still loved my husband very much and this was the final devastating blow. My depression became so bad that I had to go on medication for a while. This in combination with the demands of attending court hearings and caring for my children caused me to lose my job.

It was during this time, at the lowest point in my life, abandoned by my husband, in the grip of a post-partum depression, out of a job and completely at a loss about how I was going to get through each day that a Court-ordered forensic analysis was performed to assess my suitability vis a vis my husband to have parental custody of Nicolas. So the fact that the resulting forensic opinion would reflect negatively on me was already pretty much a foregone conclusion in this case at that time. However, this was made even more certain by the fact that the Forensic examiner clearly had no background or understanding or experience dealing with people from foreign cultures....in my case African culture. As an example, he could not have been aware of the fact when he interviewed and evaluated both myself and my mother who was helping me with child care at the time, that Nigerian woman of the Yoruba tribe such as ourselves will sound and appear overly demonstrative and therefore overly emotional to people from other cultures (ie: white Europeans and Americans) because that is a behavioral norm in our culture that they are not accustomed to and are therefore BIASED against. This more demonstrative way of speaking, interacting with others and carrying ourselves is a function of both how we speak our native language properly and of how woman are expected to behave and function in our culture. In my native Yoruba language, my first and primary language, you must actually speak and enunciate many syllables, words and phrases loudly and with great emphasis and this carries over into how I speak English. Also, in Yoruba tribal culture, woman command a great deal of respect and we are raised and expected to behave in a very strong, confident and demonstrative manner. This is can seem and be easily misinterpreted by people who are ignorant of our culture as an arrogant, aggressive and, relatively speaking, overly emotional behavior…when it is actually no such thing.

Ignorance and bias such as this and a complete failure to account for the clinical, post-partum depression I was in the midst of digging my way out of at the time are what shaped that negative forensic analysis that has, in turn, helped shape the unfair and torturous course of this divorce case for me over the last 2 years. The Law Guardian has refused to listen to me or take me seriously since the case began. When I bring up serious, provable, substantive issues of neglect and endangerment on my husband's part toward our son, I am completely ignored by the Law Guardian. When I am threatened and sworn at and verbally abused by my husband in front of witnesses in a hospital, I am treated like I'm exaggerating things and urged by the Law Guardian to drop my orders of protection against him...as though the whole thing was manufactured by my imagination. When my son keeps crying out some unfamiliar woman's name over the course of several weeks and saying how scared of her he is and how she spanks him and I then, by the coincidence of my husband showing up with this woman in front of my house one day, figure out that this is my husband’s paramour.....I am again told that there is nothing wrong going on and treated like I'm a nut making things up. When my husband continues to violate a court order not to let his paramour have contact with our son, the Law Guardian looks the other way. I have related all of what I have said here to Judge and I have made every effort to work with the Law Guardian in a reasoned and fair manner and I am still treated unfairly or completely ignored.
Over and over and over things happen that are not in the best interests of my son's health and welfare and when I bring them up with the Law Guardian, I am not listened to or taken seriously. It is as though I am living in a world turned upside down. Why can no one see that my entire existence is devoted to the loving care and raising of my young son and his sister and that my husband's motives for tearing apart that brother and sister and gaining custody of our son are completely dishonorable and selfish? Is the weight of a completely flawed and biased 2 year old forensic analysis so heavy that any and all evidence that my husband is the less capable parent over the past 2 years can be ignored? The boy is under medical treatment for asthma and yet my husband continues to smoke around him in violation of a court order and continues to refuse to give him his asthma medication during his weekend custody. When I bring this up to the Law Guardian, I am ignored. For the past two years I have been requesting enforcement of a mandate that my husband give Nicholas his medication and not smoke around him and he continues to violate the smoking order and to refuse to give our son his medication. Nicholas has ended up in the emergency room twice during this time, unable to breath. This occurred most recently just a few weeks ago. My husband refused to give Nicolas his asthma medication for four consecutive days during his visitation from 2 through 5 December, 2004. He was having difficulties breathing when my husband gave him back to me and the situation grew worse the next day. I had to take him to an emergency room, where the doctor placed him on steroids. We were at the hospital till early next morning and then I had to go to work tired and exhausted. Attached is the Emergency Room Medical Report still stating that Nicolas needs to be on his asthma medications, Albuterol (3x daily) and Promicot (2x daily). True to form, the Law Guardian never responded to my call or letter regarding this incident or took any action that would protect Nicholas’ welfare. She has taken it upon herself to protect my husband’s welfare in this case rather than that of a young and completely vulnerable child. Is that what a Law Guardian is supposed to do?

The situation with his asthma has been an ongoing problem since he was diagnosed last year. My husband refuses to “accept” the diagnosis and give him his medication and refuses to stop smoking around Nicholas. As a result, Nicholas is almost always sick when his father returns him to me at the end of his weekend visitations. It is very unfair and frustrating that Nicolas has to suffer like this due to his father’s negligence and failure to follow medical doctor’s orders. The Law Guardian should be well aware that young children can actually die from a bad asthma attack….and yet she ignores these incidents and ignores my warnings and the warnings of Nicholas’ doctors. In low income areas of this country, asthma is a notable cause of death for children. Young children can’t communicate effectively the extent to which they are suddenly having difficulty breathing and they can become congested to an unrecoverable point very quickly, especially with an inattentive caregiver such as my husband. I am very worried about Nicholas’ safety when he is in my husband’s care. It has been well documented for the past 2 years that Nicholas has asthma by several different doctors, including specialists, and that he needs to be treated to keep it under control. The fact that my husband continues to put Nicholas’ life at risk this way seems outrageous and unacceptable and yet nothing is done about it by the Law Guardian. I continue to document incidents like this, bring them to her attention and pray that the next incident such as this is not life threatening for my son.

Because of issues like this I have been extremely reluctant to agree to a shared custody arrangement. I feel that my husband will continue to neglect our son and put him in danger and I don’t want to be party to that or share responsibility for allowing an arrangement to be put in place which gives my husband the freedom to do these things without consequences to both himself and to the Court officials that allow it to happen. I don’t know what to do about the fact that the Law Guardian will not take issues like this seriously. I have stated in court appearances and in letters to the Law Guardian that I will hold the New York Judicial System and those involved in this case legally responsible in the event that all my warnings continue to be ignored and Nicholas comes to harm while in my husband’s custody.
There are some very, very serious issues in this case upon which the future well-being of my children rests. I believe, based on my experience, that my husband is not emotionally mature enough to have sole custody of our son. His quick temper, his carelessness and neglect with simple issues such as not smoking around him, feeding and clothing and washing him properly, administering his medications and responding to his illnesses properly.....these are all clear and concrete indicators of my argument but my arguments are not being looked at seriously and fairly by the Law Guardian and I do not feel at all confident that I am being listened to and given equal and fair treatment all parties. The Law Guardian recently went out of her way to tell a friend and advisor of mine that I am unbalanced, I make too much money and am not to be taken seriously. She will not even speak or respond in any way to me. How can she do her job in this way? A pre-set bias against me and every valid point and piece of evidence that I bring up in and out of the court room seems to be in place and I am powerless to overcome it

The trial is set for March, but based upon decisions made up until this point and based upon the already entrenched opinions and actions against me by the Law Guardian, the outcome seems set to go against me….though I can’t imagine what rational argument will be used to support such an outcome.




Sincerely,


Christina Allain

Lynching Part 2

November 4th is coming! My next Court date... another nightmare, another horror I am so very scared. I have no Money, NO Lawyer (he remove himself from my case because I ran out of money) and I have NO Justice. I am so scared for my children. In two weeks, I have another date in a court where I can get no justice because I am a black woman. I have a hearing with a judge who is prepared to accept the racially-biased opinion of an unqualified white law guardian and forensic and take my racially mixed three year old son away from me and give custody of him to my husband….a man with a documented history of abusive and neglectful behavior…just because he is white. I have a date in a court where I have spent every bit of money that I have (over $75,000) in the past two years and gone deep into debt trying to defend myself and gain justice to no avail…..where I am now going to be told that I have to defend myself by proxy because I can no longer afford to pay my attorney another $10,000 and I can longer pay thousands of dollars in additional fees for court ordered Forensic evaluations and the services of a Law Guardian who won’t even speak to me or do her job of looking after my son’s welfare. I am scared, bankrupt and nearly out of hope and no one will help me.

I spend every day with my son now like it is our last together. My 9 year old daughter, who refuses to deal with my husband because of his abusive behavior when he lived with us, is depressed and upset at the prospect of losing her brother. I have to look into their eyes every day and tell them that everything will be OK, knowing that it may very well not be….not seeing any way that it will be.

I am an optimistic woman with a strong Faith in God and have never lost my Faith throughout this ordeal that God would find a way to allow justice to prevail….but my Faith is fading. I am fighting an institutionalized racism and bias against black people in a dysfunctional and broken system of justice that I cannot overcome. I need legal representation that I can no longer afford and no one will help me. I am a black woman being virtually lynched by a white judge and his white court appointees against all reason and NOONE will help me. I don’t know where to turn for justice anymore. I am told that I earn too much money to be helped and yet I am nearly bankrupt, I have had my car repossessed, I am on the verge of losing my house and I am being sued by multiple credit card companies because I have had to pay divorce attorney and court fees instead of the money that owe them.

As a naturalized American who came here from Nigeria years ago, I have always had hope and faith in the American system of justice and fairness and opportunity for all and I have had good reason for that faith up until two years ago when my abusive husband, a white man, abandoned me and my daughter and filed for divorce and custody of our young baby son. In spite of all my legal efforts and against all reason and sense of fairness, he has been able to easily manipulate the legal process in Suffolk supreme court and use the strong bias against black people there to all but gain custody of a young child he has no real desire or genuine capability to love and care for as devoted parent. The man can’t even manage giving the child a bath or administering medications properly on the weekends that he now spends with the boy. I am an utterly devoted and doting mother to my son, a child I nearly died giving birth to, and a racially biased judge, law guardian and forensic are about to award custody of him to a man with no qualification or history of success as a parent….solely because he is white and I am black. I am being virtually lynched in this case. I need help.

I am crying out in desperation for help. Everything that is happening to me and my children right now is WRONG and yet it goes on uninterrupted. No one seems to care about any other issue other than whether or not they are getting paid money. It is so hard to believe that what is happening to me right now is actually happening that I feel sometimes like I am living in a nightmare….that I am watching a really bad movie of my life that cannot possibly be real.

I need help. I don’t know who else to ask or where else to turn. I need help from someone who can recognize the injustice of what is happening to me and my children and help me fight for justice. I am almost out of hope. I attended the conference that was held last week concerning the conduct of Matrimonial cases in New York State and was interviewed on camera by some reporters. People in Suffolk County saw me on TV and I am now afraid for my safety. My husband has a history of physical abuse and his live-in girlfriend is a convicted drug felon. I have orders of protection against them both but I am still afraid and so I have moved in with my mother in a neighboring county.

Someone please help me. I am so scared. I am so afraid for my young son’s future and welfare.

Lynching Part 1

Lynching Part 1

I am an African and naturalized American woman living in the predominantly white suburb of East Islip, New York and my divorce from a Caucasian man who physically and emotionally abused me for years and then abandoned me 2 years ago has become a virtual lynching of myself and my two small children.

My husband has used his personal connections within the community and the overwhelming racial bias that exists within the court system and police department here in Suffolk County against black people to successfully put himself in position to gain sole custody of our 3 year old son in spite of the fact that he has a history of abusive, neglectful behavior as a parent and in spite of the fact that all reason and common sense argues against this. Fighting for a fair settlement and a custody arrangement that will protect the health and well-being of my son has been an exercise in futility these past 2 years and it has practically destroyed me. It has cost me my entire life savings, it has cost me my good health and the good health of my children, it has cost me my position as a Senior Systems Analyst for a large Wall Street firm and it has cost me my good credit rating and financial reputation, I am in the process of losing my house and am nearly bankrupt.

I am a college-educated and highly accomplished professional black woman and an utterly doting and loving mother to my two young children. I have no history of parental neglect, behavior problems or unfavorable activity of any kind in my life. And yet…. my husband, an uneducated man , a man who I have repeatedly obtained orders of protection against because of his abuse and threats against me over the years, a man who was arrested just a few months ago for criminally assaulting me, a man who in spite of a court order against it continues to chain-smoke around our 3 year old son during his visitation and aggravate the boy’s asthma, and a man who in spite of a court order against it continues to allow his paramour, a woman with a criminal record involving violence and drug possession, to interact with and even discipline our 3 year old son…. this man has successfully used the racially biased system in Suffolk county to all but win custody of our son. He has convinced a Forensic and Legal Guardian, both Caucasian and both completely unfamiliar with and heavily biased against African and African-American culture and people, to advocate for him gaining sole custody of our mixed-race son. Because of the unchecked and near-absolute power and deference given to these so-called Forensic experts and Legal Guardians in the family court system by Judges and because of a bias that perhaps exists with my the Judge in my case…I am about to lose my son to a man who will not care for and love him and raise him in a healthy way. I have lost practically everything and turned to everyone I can think of within the legal system for help to no avail. I am in such pain and my children are suffering.

As an African I did not grow up familiar with and affected by the evil reality of racial bias and hatred and here in America, I had been very successful professionally and personally up until now in a very white dominated culture and society. So it has never been in my mind-set to see and recognize and acknowledge that such irrational bias and hatred could be behind things that happen to me or effect me. Even when some of my neighbors wrote “WHITE POWER” across the front of my house after my husband left and even when, time after time, a white policeman would show up at my house and refuse to effectively deal with, document or even acknowledge the incidents of abuse against me by my husband, I naively failed to recognize the gradual but inexorable lynching that was taking place against me and my children. I recognize it now, though I don’t understand it and am horrified by it, and I NEED HELP!!