Local Judge Aids In Kidnapping !

by AndJusticeForAll | June 23, 2008 at 06:57 pm
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PLEASE HELP!  

 

My daughter was kidnapped thirteen months ago with the help of a Summit County Ohio judge!  My husband, Donald Martin, is a prominent and wealthy attorney, a real estate tycoon and developer (he recently had his company on the front page of Wall Street Journal) part owner of Whitlatch & Company, Twinsburg, Ohio.  On <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />May 22nd, 2007 he came down to Florida on a pretense of a fatherly visit and kidnapped my biological daughter.  He is NOT her biological father.  She was 5 at the time.

 

 

He then filed for temporary custody and forced me into supervised visits based SOLELY upon a single lie he told Judge Carol Deszo, of Summit County, Ohio (whom he had told me went to the same university as he did and has previously practiced law with him).  He told her that I was going to flee with my daughter.  This was his only allegation and Judge Carol Deszo granted him custody based on this allegation which neither has been to court nor has ever been proven – in any manner.  The proven facts are that I had driven her to Ohio 6 weeks prior and dropped her off so she could visit him and I had flown her 8 weeks before that, to Ohio and back so she could see him then too.  Despite these facts, along with a round trip airline ticket, shown to the judge, the judge granted him temporary custody.  Ohio Law sets precedence for a biological parent over an adoptive parent.

 

There has never been any involvement with Children’s Services or criminal or police charges of any kind involving my daughter or myself.  Conversely, I have had to file 2 restraining orders against my husband in Florida for threatening my life after he kidnapped my daughter.  Unfortunately, the Summit County Sheriff refused to serve him with these restraining orders even though issued by a judge

 

My husband has refused telephone contact, as was ordered weekly by the same judge and continues to refuse weekly visitation as ordered by the same judge since December of 2007. 

 

My husband’s attorney, Robert Brown, of Akron, Ohio, is also prominent and - upon further investigation - is listed as a major contributor to Judge Carol Dezso’s Campaign Fund who is in for re-election in September 2008.  I have letters to prove this and I have a copy of the Campaign Fund for my husband's judge.  She refuses to recuse herself from my case and instead cancels it, postpones it & refuses to hear my case.  I have no where to turn.  I am desperate & desperately need help. 

 

Taking the last of my funds, my attorney, a man who makes a modest living, is extremely intimidated by Robert Brown and Judge Carol Deszo, is reluctant to change the venue to a different county, or to file contempt of court charges for no visitation and no telephone contact, or to file contempt of court charges in that my little girl must attend regular counseling that my husband is not permitting for her emotional well being, or to file for temporary alimony, or to  file alienation of affection of charges against my husband’s fiancée, our former babysitter, Jacque Seely, of Twinsburg, Ohio & refuses to file breach of contract against my husband for everything he stated in writing he would do but has not.

 

My husband moved my daughter and I to Florida in 2005 to a $1.2 million dollar 20 acre ranch, under the pretense that he wanted to retire in Florida and we were supposed to ready a home for him and us.  He never moved to Florida, rather, around Christmas of 2006, informed me that he wanted to stay in Ohio and wanted a divorce.  Later, I found out that he was still seeing my daughter’s babysitter ( this had been a problem before ) & they are now engaged despite we are still married and not legally separated – even though he says the separation is legal – it is not as it has never been to court.    

 

As of today, Judge Carol Deszo has still not heard my case even though she has forced me to come to the past 6 hearings over 2,600 miles each time – and she will not permit me in the courtroom.  I have never met her or seen her or talked to her, even though I have requested to do so.  The excuses she has given to not hear my case has ranged 4 times of being “too lengthy” to the past 2 times of that she had “forgotten” she had a seminar to attend at the exact time of my hearing and the final hearing being she went home “sick” and could not hear my case.  Her temporary Magistrates refuse to rule giving no reasons, therefore leaving me completely at a loss of income and huge trip expenses as well as mounting attorney fees.  None of these times have either I or my attorney, ever been contacted with any kind of notice by the court, so that I could cancel my trips to Ohio from Florida, rather, my attorney and I have been forced to attend, even though she will not permit me in her courtroom or talk with me when she has been there.  Nor will the magistrates.

 

I had requested Legal Aid for that same county, even though I qualify, but was denied based on “too many other cases currently in progress.”  Upon further investigation, I have found that my husbands very prominent attorney, Robert Brown, is a also consultant to Community Legal Aid Services of Summit County, Ohio.

 

The court appointed Guardian Ad Litem and Family Court Services appointed by Judge Carol Deszo, have fully recommended that I receive full custody and be the full residential parent.  In spite of this, I still do not have my daughter.  My attorney, attempting to get an EMERGENCY Change of Custody hearing, received an “Emergency” date of August 26th – four months later.  Anyone I have ever know to be in need of emergency hearings, have been appointed them within 1 or 2 days in that same county.  I just got a letter in yesterday from the same judge stating she changed my hearing that took me 4 months to get ( 4 months !!! - unheard of .. )    She has now rescheduled my hearing until September this year, 2008. 

 

I need immediate help :  there is a law in Ohio that allows a stepparent to adopt your child if you do not see your child within 1 year.  Time is running out.  It has been 6 months since I have seen my daughter; there is no doubt it is my husbands intention to rip my child completely away from me and allow his new wife (fiancée)  to adopt my daughter.  There is no doubt this will happen with Judge Carol Deszo’s help. 

 

I need help.  I need my kidnapped daughter back.  I am her only living biological relative.  He is not her biological parent.  He is an adoptive father and as in most states, OhioLaw says that a biological parent takes precedence over an adoptive parent.  He is 69 years old,  a kidney transplant patient, diabetic taking insulin shots, consumes alcohol every night since I have known him, and is a quadruple bypass patient as well.  He has called me and threatened to kill me and threatens that I will never see my daughter again – and I haven’t.  He says it would be better than giving my daughter back to me. 

 

What does a 69 year old man want with a 5 year old little girl that is not biologically his ?  Why would a judge even consider giving an adoptive parent this type of custody?

 

Why are the judges and magistrates appointed to this case making it impossible for me and my daughter to be together again by excuses ?

 

Why is this judge in particular, canceling my hearings & aiding my husband to keep my biological daughter from me ? 

 

Should this judge not be recusing herself from the bench and recommending that my case be heard in a different county? 

 

I need help.  I need immediate help.  I have no where to turn.  I work as a CNA – certified nurses assistant on very limited income. 

 

Please, please, please, help me. I need justice.  I am 43 years old and it has now been 13 months since this has happened. 

 

Please, please, help me.

 

My name is Alma Martin.  I can be reached at  561–585–0087 or 

 

Alma.Martin@yahoo.com   Click between x’s below for pictures. 

 

 

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Alma Martin & her daughter, River Martin, now age 6.

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Maireid Sullivan
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at 19:09 on June 23rd, 2008

AndJusticeForAll,

Why is this story listed in "environment"?

Is this a true story? If so, it represents a gross miscarriage of justice.

Someone needs to forward this to Ohio and Florida government representatives.

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John McMichaels

  It's political ties and corruption that help violate a mother's or parent's civil rights.  There are others out there like you.  We need to be heard.  Our constitution was by the people for the people, to serve the people, not for the rich and elite, for laws to be twisted and bent to their needs and desires to infringe on our constitutional rights.  Together we can be heard.

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twonyx

I had a very similar thing happen to me and my two daughters.  My ex (a rich doctor) made up a bunch of lies and even though I never did one thing he accused me of, I lost my girls.  I now only see them 6 hrs a week on Sun. and no over nights.  He now has sole custody.  All I ever did was be a stay home loving mother and he is just doing this to hurt me and he won.

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Yvette123

You first need another attorney (file a complaint against the current one). If not one in that county, one allowed to practice in it.    If time is not being tolled but the lack of ruling, get your appeal paperwork in order because it will be heard (no way the time should toll when the case has not been heard).  Also you rights are not stripped, use the police to go for a visit, any visit, see her at school plays and practices. The point is not to disappear and send letter (certified or with independent postal delivery sighatures from the carrier with return receipt) that you can provide as evidence of contact with your daughter because this counts as contact until you can get a court order>

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Yvette123

Also sounds like your divorce is rolled into this custody case. Separate them because you need faster movement on the custody.  When motions are filed, you also need to set court dates for hearings on the calendar.  Even with an attorney, you can file a simple motion for visitation and get it set for hearing.  Also, look at local rules for removing or requesting a new judge. Often you can change judges at least once without cause provided there has been no major rulings in the case which it sounds like. Start learning the system.

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