My wife and I are abductees. Although we never really knew it
until 1992. I suffered severe panic attacks over a period of
several months. I found the courage to finally seek out help from
a local abduction researcher and found that I had repressed
memories of an abduction that transpired in the fall of 1976
which was also shared with my wife. Through many hypnosis
sessions and an emergence of conscious memories we found that our
children were also taken on multiple occasions over the years.
The children are grown now and have families of their own, but
the shadow of abductions still haunt each and every one of us
every day of our lives. We now live in a small town in southern
Missouri smack dab in the middle of the Bible belt of the Ozarks.
That is where our story begins.
In February of 1998, within days of our daughter being released
from the hospital after having given birth to twins she was
arrested for not paying her child support. She was released on
her own recognizance, and obtained an attorney for these charges.
Her attorney advised her to file for a motion in court to modify
her previous Divorce Decree over custody of her other two
children.
From this point on the events that took place started
snowballing. In April the State Prosecutor heard her case and she
agreed to pay her back child support owed. She had ongoing
medical problems over the years that prevented her from holding
steady employment. The state was inclined to help and credit her
for some of the back support money due to her medical conditions
over the years. In May her ex -husband was served the papers for
the motion to modify. In June she finally after many years
started to receive visitation. This was the first in four years
since the divorce. In July a guardian-ad-litem was appointed for
the children by the state. Also within these months my son was
appointed a public defender from his arrest on the same charges,
felony non-support from his previous marriage. Upon his court
date the public defender told the judge that he suffered from
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The court ordered him to
receive counseling, since his disorder was related to alien
abductions. He also was ordered to turn over video tapes of
A&E and Sightings on which our family appeared relating to
our abduction experiences. The tapes as you can imagine quickly
spread through the court house. At his trial he was deemed
mentally unstable and case was dismissed. The prosecuting
attorney then approached my daughters attorney and asked if she
would also like to plead out on the Alien Defense. It was
referred to as the big joke of the court house.
In a meeting with her attorney, she explained her situation and
would not plead out on any Alien defense due to the fact that it
could have a bad impact on her custody case. Her attorney ask for
anything that she had regarding aliens since her attorney was not
familiar with alien abductions. She gave her tapes, books and
gave her a list of people that she could contact in case she
wanted to increase her knowledge on the subject.
The state prosecutors insisted on obtaining her hypnosis
transcripts, letters and analysis from her abduction researcher.
In October a letter from the state prosecutors went out and
everyone at the court house saw it, even before her own attorney
had a chance to read it. The state prosecutors politely deemed
her as crazy and delusional, since she would not plead out on the
alien issue. From August to the end of November with two visits
per month of her children, her ex-husband never complied with the
court order involving visitation and mediation. At this time the
children had been assigned their own attorney or
Guardian-ad-litem, but had never visited with him. The judge was
never notified of any of this and was kept in the dark on many
issues. It's as if her own attorney was in on a big conspiracy to
keep her in check. Everyone seemed to be against her. After
repeated attempts to get her attorney to take action on her
ex-husbands failure to let her see her children, her attorney
stated that if she went to the judge on contempt charges, he
would have to hear the case twice and stated that the judge did
not like that sort of thing. So her attorney once again refused
her request. In December she was charged with felony non-support
with full extent of money owed, probation of 5 years, and would
have to pay $100 per month. In January 1999 she went to court for
custody, or so she thought. All the attorneys were called into
the judges chambers pending new evidence from her ex-husbands
attorney, and the children's Guardian-ad-litem. From outside
chambers she could hear her attorney loudly stating that
"This was not an issue to be brought up in a court of law
and that my client's personal beliefs did not have a bearing on
this case". After this she was pulled aside by her attorney
and ask about the people in the UFO community that would be
willing to testify on her behalf. They presented it into new
evidence that it would be detrimental to the children if they
knew of my daughters alien related experiences. The judge then
agreed that the children and my daughter should go through
physiological evaluations. The children's attorney stated in the
court room that he had still not spoken to the children or met
with them but agreed to the evaluations anyway. The judge ordered
8 hours visitation of her children for my daughter.
My daughter through this point in time never received papers
stating any of what was said in the court room, and it seemed
that the paper work was disappearing from the court house on a
regular basis pertaining to this case. After repeatedly trying to
get answers from her attorney, her attorney informed her that no
one would talk to her regarding the case. The letters that her
attorney wrote others involved with the case, would not comment,
and never returned an answer. In March the Guardian-ad-litem met
with the children and spoke with them about aliens and ask if
they were afraid. They stated that they were not, and they wanted
to spend more time with their mother. He failed to speak to the
children on the initial charges pertaining to their father, on
the motion to modify the custody. The children's attorney then
went before the judge and requested that the children, he felt,
did not need psychological evaluations. He also ask if he could
be dismissed as their attorney at that time. The judge denied his
request to be dismissed, but did agree that the children did not
need to undergo psychological evaluations. For two months my
daughter's attorney said that she had sent letters stating that
this case was in violation of her constitutional rights. Four
more letters were sent out on contempt charges and judge was
never notified of anything, or so they say. Still papers were
disappearing and no one had any answers. On several meetings with
her attorney she informed my daughter of all the illegal activity
regarding this court case. My daughter's attorney felt that the
judge would order the physiological evaluation for her, at which
time, she wanted to pursue a case involving her violation of
civil rights, and appeal the judges order for the evaluation. Her
attorney felt that by going to the UFO community she could retain
the funds to go ahead with that type of case. She stated that
this is the first case of this kind and her attorney demanded
that it would cost $20,000.00 to retain her in that case, since
it would be a civil rights issue. My daughter refused that
request because she felt it was extortion. In April my daughter
received the court order to take a psychological evaluation. The
psychological evaluation was conducted in August and it was
determined that my daughter presented no real harm to her
children and that her belief in alien abductions would not have a
detrimental effect on her children in their formative years.
Since there is no precedent which addresses beliefs in alien
abductions there is no other court cases to reference in this
matter. Although beliefs in alien abductions is wide spread
throughout the world. It has never come to light in a court of
law.
After deliberation the judge finally agreed that she was allowed
to spend every other weekend from Friday night to Sunday night
with her children unsupervised. The court had set a final date
for a decision to be made on custody for February 2000. In
February she once again went to court and as always it was held
in the judges chambers. The judges decision was to give her
partial custody wich resulted in her having her children every
other weekend and holidays plus six weeks during the summer
months. The judge was very quiet about bringing up any reference
to alien abductions. As was the other attorneys present. Her
ex-husband was now on his third attorney after firing his first
attorney. His second attorney was commissioned for only one day
to appear on his behalf just to set a court date for the February
appearance, and his third attorney was acquired just one day
before the February court date.
What seems quite unusual in this whole case over the months was
that my daughter's attorney in our opinion was not working for
her best interest. Her attorney always knew exactly what the
judge was going to say and knew the way he was to rule on
everything in this case. Of course being in a small town we
suspected that the attorneys and judges were all at the country
club in the evenings talking about what to do next. They seemed
to be just one big happy family playing with children's lives.
The fact that documents and rulings that the judge made over the
months seemed to disappear from the court house was very
suspicious also. What was the big tip off was the fact that my
daughter's attorney, a woman in her late 20's, did not have even
a slight interest in researching any UFO or alien related
material. In the onslaught of the case we loaned her attorney
books, video tapes and other materials on the subject. Over the
months when my daughter had meetings with her attorney she
noticed that all the research material was still stuck back on a
shelf in the unopened envelopes behind her desk. The fear from
the attorneys and judge was starting to show through. What seems
apparent is that their own reputations were in jeopardy if the
truth came out and the press was to get involved. They would have
to answer a lot of questions as to why they all allowed my
daughters beliefs to come between her and her children. Just the
association of aliens with this court case would be enough to
drive their careers downhill fast. Even the judge's beliefs were
threatened by the fact that my daughter was abducted by aliens.
To keep everyone quiet about this whole matter, on the last court
date innuendoes were brought up to prevent my daughter from
trying to pursue a civil rights suite. This was a result of a
state prosecutor writing a letter stating that our daughter was
delusional as a result of her therapist, and brainwashing from my
wife and I. This was a blackmail attempt to keep my daughter in
check so that the alien issue could be quietly swept under the
rug forever. Someday hopefully a civil rights attorney will come
forward that has the fortitude to take on an alien issue and my
daughter may get back her dignity she lost in this case.
So that is where it stands, quietly, behind closed doors, they
appeased my daughter for the time being in hopes that aliens
would not intervene in their lives and careers. Maybe in the near
future the real truth will come out and we will live in a society
that looks at alien intervention as a blessing rather than
something we hide in our mental closets.
