Press Release (from stateofthenation):
Hearing last week to get rid of Minor’s Counsel John Cate Lamareaux Center 8:30 AM Judge Salter..
Ruby Dillon is a mother living in New Port, California. She has a 9-year-old daughter named Lexi. She separated from Lexi’s father when Lexi was a baby and raised her on her own without child or spousal support from the father. He showed very little interest in his daughter until Lexi was 4 or 5. At age 5 he filed for custody of Lexi and the mother willingly entered into shared custody of their daughter.
Two years ago Lexi was dropped off to her mother from visitation with her father. They were out to dinner and Lexi was crying holding her private parts and Ruby took her to the bathroom. Lexi was bleeding. Ruby took her to the ER and had her daughter checked. The doctor examined Lexi and informed Ruby that her daughter had been sexually abused. Ruby was shocked and could not believe it. The doctor assured her that the injury to her daughter was consistent with child sexual abuse and that Lexi disclosed the abuse to him. Ruby took her daughter to Tustin Police and Lexi was forensically interviewed and they found Lexi credible. I have read the police CAST interviews containing Lexi’s graphic details of the abuse by her father, including photographing his naked child.
When Ruby reported the abuse to the Family Law Court she was looked at with immediate suspicion of ulterior motive. She was stripped of her parental rights and placed on monitored visitation and a Superior Court Judge turned Lexi over to her named, identified abuser.
Ruby has been fighting tirelessly to protect her daughter. There are mountains of evidence in this case that point toward sexual abuse by the father. There must be a 100 years of accumulated expertise in child sexual abuse detection by her therapist, forensic police detectives, medical doctors, a forensic 730 child custody evaluator and a number of other Court Appointees all of whom believe and find this child’s disclosures of sexual abuse, credible. There is also physical evidence by medical doctors as well. The heinous thing is that in this case and others we have observed over the years as Court watchers… too often Judges ignore the exculpatory evidence of their own court appointees.
In Lexi’s case, Officer Tarpley from Tustin PD, Dr. Leah Reinhart, and her 730 Evaluator Dr. Sheffner, are left in the hallway of the Courthouse and not allowed to testify on behalf of the child. The Judge refuses their entry into the Courtroom and calls the mother a liar. He says that the mother coached the child to make her disclosures… there is absolutely no evidence to support these statements or findings by the Judge (Salter). The evidence is the opposite. None of the experts have… or would say that Ruby coached her daughter to make these terrible claims.
Ruby has been treated as if she were living in a third world totalitarian country. She was a dentist with a thriving practice and a happy loving relationship with her daughter. She and her daughter have been stripped of a relationship with each other by the Court, Ruby is not allowed to even see her daughter.
The father has sole custody of the daughter. He has abandoned Lexi for a year and is living in Canada. Ruby is prevented by the court from seeing her daughter and Lexi is held prisoner by nannies and house keepers in her father’s condo in Tustin. The only place the father has legal status is Thailand… and he wants to take Lexi there. Lexi is terrified he will transport her there and she will never see her mother again. Thailand is not a signatory to the Haig Convention.
Last week's hearing was to discharge the Minor’s Counsel who refuses to represent his client in this case. The Minor’s Counsel John Cate acts as a representative of the father and with knowledge of Lexi’s disclosures suppresses evidence given him by her therapist and Lexi…who is the main, consistent, unwavering, whistle blower in this case.
Below is an article that started in the OC Voice and then made it to the OC Register’s front page.
Problems in OC Child Welfare System Get Statewide Scrutiny
The hearing on Friday was a disaster for Lexi. The Judge did not remove the Minor's counsel but instead lifted the travel restrictions on Lexi. There is a real possibility the father will take her to Thailand and she will become a child sex slave. Only Governor Jerry Brown (916) 445-2841 and Attorney General Kamala Harris (916) 322-3360 can save this little girl.
Contact the Governor and the AG and demand they take the case from the Orange Country District Attorney and give it to Attorney General Kamala Harris.
Sign the petition DA Office & Dept of Children and Families/C.P.S. in Orange County, CA: Remove Lexi Dillon from Abusive Home CPS Placed Her In
