Subject: Does Bethany Christian Service Influence Court Bonds
Does Bethany Christian Service Influence Court Bonds
- September 12th, 2010 2:48 pm ET
Who decides how much a bond will be? It would make the average person wonder who is controlling the courts.
When a homicide case receives a bond of $10,000 and a messy house receives a bond of $50,000, something just is not right.
Joy Heaven is accused of the homicide death of a precious child, Emily Meno. Emily was placed in Heaven’s foster care and died because she wet her clothing and was a bother at the moment to Heaven. While anyone can become frustrated in the heat of the moment, to cause a death in that moment is more than frustration. Heaven received a $10,000 bond and was let out of jail.
Marina Ivanova, an immigrant wife and mother, divorced by an abusive American father and left penniless to provide for two pre-school children was accused of having a filthy, feces laden home. Ivanova was also accused of having malnourished children. Ivanova’s home was invaded without a warrant and her Miranda rights were not read to her upon arrest. Being an immigrant and not understanding English well, without an interpreter Ivanova was told to admit to the false allegations she was being accused of and her children would be returned to her. She did so. She received a bond of $50,000 and spent the next 11 months in jail waiting to see her children.
Pictures taken by police on the day the children were removed, showed two happy and definitely not malnourished children. The feces turned out to be a small amount of peanut butter smeared on a window. The mess in the apartment was the sorting of household items and boxes being filled to move to another home. Yet, the media had a field day with the story and convinced the public of an abusive, neglectful mother and the courts then criminally convicted her.
After the months in jail, Ivanova was told she had abandoned her children and they were being placed for adoption. Ivanova remains in this country and constantly fights the system to regain her children. Ivanova has no money for legal representation and strives to learn legal procedure for self-representation.
How do you take a life and easily get out of jail while being accused of a dirty home keeps you in jail? Bethany Christian Service controlled both cases. Prosecutors protecting the public image of a contracted agency for Child Protective Service (CPS) should be brought into question here.
These cases are not games with which to protect an agency’s reputation, they are children’s lives! CPS and it’s contracted agencies are not to be protected, children’s lives are.
Protection of reputations is not the role of a public servant, such as an prosecutor, attorney, or judge.
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Dennis Lawrence
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