Child Abuse Case & The Dixie Mafia
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Rico Civil Rights suit, Wrightson v. Shingler, et al just as I predicted after
the elections. A small 8-year-old girl is being held hostage against her will,
poltical hostage of a child Internet pornographer. I have proven beyond a
shadow of a doubt that he has thousands of advertisements in Usenet promoting
his child pornography sites. Judge Carnes, FBI Special Agent Oliver Halley and
U.S. Prosecutor Sally Yates are all close friends with Judge Flake's and her
new husband Pat Jarvis' attorney, Craig Gillen, who was also a former U.S.
prosecutor.
How long is this farce to be allowed to continue? This will be appealed, but
in the meantime a little girl who told me she is worried about getting
pregnant, is enduring a living hell 2,000 miles away from the only person who
loves her or ever took adequate care of her. How these people live with
themselves, I'll never know.
DUI Guy Wins Again!
Last December a North Carolina judge ruled that an alleged serial child
molester, child pornographer and habitual DUI offender be allowed to move from
Asheville, North Carolina, a secluded town on the foothills of the Appalachain
mountains, primarily known as the home the Vanderbilt Biltmore Estates, to
Chico, California, the hometown of the man's new wife, to ostensibly escape
scrutiny and the stigma surrounding his past. Michael Wrightson was returning
to his old stomping ground, where he had previously attended Stanford
University, graduating with an Earth Sciences degree in 1977. He had worked as
an environmental engineer in Northern California and Alaska in the late '70s
until sometime in the early '80s when he left the states and relocated to
Germany as a Securities Dealer.
When a California police officer told me that Wrightson had a new alias,
Michael Wright, I found through Internet searches that he had covertly
purchased a new home in Chico, CA, had a telephone, and an e-mail address of
Ohno...@aol.com. Jeannie, his ex-wife who found out when her daughter told
her that she was moving to Chico, hired an attorney and asked the courts to let
her daughter stay with her in Asheville. After a closed arbitration, Judge Gary
Cash of Buncombe County, NC, responded in his order signed months after the
November hearings, wrote "the continuing investigations of the Defendant by the
Department of Social Services, law enforcement, as well as the number of people
in the Asheville community who view the Defendant as a child molester, or were
aware that he had been accused of molesting his child, have created emotional
pressure both on the Defendant and his family, which will, in part, be
alleviated by the move to Chico."
After moving to Chico, Michael and I exchanged e-mails over his move. Said
Michael upon replying to my message maligning his cruelty he "How come every
time I beat my ex's ass in court, you send me an insultagram! Are you the one
she's do'in now? She'll never get her daughter back!" He was referring to his
ex-wife's alleged lesbian liaisons, which he instigated, throwing suspicion of
immorality on her during their divorce after he left her and her daughter for
Asheville in May of '93 when the composite sketches of a serial child molester
began to hit the streets and air waves. It is a common tactic of Fathers
Rights, such as Ken Pangborn's A-Team, and Internet Trial Consultant who
advises fathers to claim that wives are suffering from Munchauzen's By Proxy
Syndrome or that they are involved in a lesbian relationship. When Michael
left Jeannie, he left her with no money, and conveniently, one of his friends
from Atlanta's lesbian and gay community offered her home to Jeannie and her
then 3-year old daughter when she was being evicted from her apartment. When
the divorce went to trial Michael's lesbian friend, testified against Jeannie,
alluding that they were lesbian lovers.
During the trial, Michael was the subject of on-going criminal and civil
actions in Asheville, North Carolina for child abuse, molestation and neglect.
In March of 1997, Federal lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Georgia and has moved into mediation through the
11th District Court of Appeals, charging that the judge, Gail Flake, together
with Michael Wrightson, his new wife, his prior attorneys, Janis Dickman and
George Stern, the guardian ad litem for the child, Lois Shingler, and a local
area child psychiatrist, Jonathan Lauter, for among other things, the
deprivation of Ms. Wrightson's and her daughter's constitutional rights under
color of state law. Michael never responded to the suit and is currently in
default, which could be part of the reason he wanted to leave the east coast.
The complaint and mandatory interrogatories allege that the defendants, jointly
and individually, manufactured evidence, suppressed evidence, obstructed
legitimate criminal investigations, misrepresented evidence, and committed
various illegal acts.
The Georgia Supreme Court's Opinion only partially affirms Flake's rulings in
the divorce action. The court transcripts provide highly conflicting evidence:
Michael Fredrick Wrightson is said to have six aliases, two social security
numbers, various marriages and live-in relationships that closely parallel his
marriage to Jeannie, as well as his subsequent relationship with Elena Scott as
a live-in lover. Michael Wrightson whose real name is Michael Fredrick
Surbaugh is alleged to have used other aliases including Erickson, Wright,
Egan, Rich Newtging, James Wilson and Michael F. Browne.
During the divorce there were a series child molestations at Marriott and
Hilton Hotels. A Virginia teenager, visiting relatives in Atlanta at the time
of her attack at the Perimeter Marriott, identified Michael Wrightson as her
molester. A child in Barstow who was at the Gwinnett Hilton, who after three
years couldn't pick anyone out of a photo ID line-up, saw a composite sketch of
a molester in California and said that it looked like her molester. The
sketches of a molester in Riverside, CA and the ones drawn here in Atanta and
Virginia all bear a striking resemblance to each other and to Michael
Wrightson. The weekend that Wrightson drove to a Natural Products East Expo in
the D.C. area, a child was molested and murdered in Spotslyvania, Virginia.
Her body was dumped near the Fredricksburg National Forest in a river rock bed
in the South Anna River. Wrightson was also in the Riverside, CA area the same
weekend, at the Natural Products West Expo in the Los Angeles area, that
another child was molested and murdered.
The last attack in the Atlanta area was on Wrightson's birthday November 9,
1994, when coincidentally, he was in Atlanta, visiting his attorney's office.
A couple of months later, when Asheville police and the North Carolina SBI came
to question him about molesting his daughter, Amelia and his step-daughter,
Anna, he fled police in a 5-squad car chase, with dogs, kidnapping Amelia to
his mother's home in Missouri. The dogs were there because he had threatened
to shoot a social service worker. There have been no subsequent attacks in the
Atlanta area since that time. The composite sketches, which were issued prior
to Michael's abrupt move to Asheville, show an erie, dead ringer likeness, so
close that police officers and others have commented that it looks like he
posed for them.
At the time of the 5-squad car chase, Michael was a habitual DUI offender with
over 40 points of DUI's. He had been arrested in Atlanta for driving with a
suspended/revoked license on January 24, 1992. Judge Gail Flake of Atlanta, a
DeKalb County Superior Court judge, had ordered a complete criminal history and
had this information from a NCIC report when she ordered North Carolina and
Missouri police to stop their pursuit citing that Wrightson and his 4-year-old
daughter were under the jurisdiction of her court. In so doing she stepped out
of the jurisdiction of her authority, in the first of many moves she made to
protect a man accused by many of molestation and child pornography. Why would
a judge, her boyfriend and her divorce attorney protect someone accused of one
of society's most despicable crimes from a criminal investigation, and why did
she cite that the reason she gave him custody was because the mother allowed
her daughter to be interviewed by the police? These questions have continued to
haunt me since the time, two years ago, I first read about the case in the
Atlanta Constitution.
Laura Williamson wrote a short article briefly outlining the story in
conjunction with a State Senator's introduction of Bill to prevent cases like
this from occurring in the future. The newspaper never clarified the story,
giving the usual follow-ups, leaving an air of mystery surrounding the case.
The reasons an alleged serial child molester, child pornographer and habitual
DUI offender won custody of a small child he had initially abandoned were
infinitely more complicated, weaving an intricate web of wealth and far flung
political connections stretching beyond Atlanta and Asheville and continuing to
this day to Northern California, nation's capital and Philadelphia, where a
Federal Grand Jury Investigation is being conducted on Faye Yager and her
Children of the Underground.
How does Faye figure into this drama? She uses the law firm of Stern & Edlin,
Michael Wrightson's attorneys to "do the paperwork" for her women fleeing with
their children. When I called her two years ago telling her that Sheil Edlin
has told me that he worked for her, and that Michael's attorney and the
guardian had used this information against Jeannie to stop her visitations with
her daughter, Faye told me to mind my own business. I later learned that
Jeannie had talked to Faye, and that immediately after meeting with her to
discuss fleeing to the South of France, her visitation was ended. She was
eventually allowed supervised visitations, because she was considered a "flight
risk" for kidnapping the child. This was after Michael's infamous kidnapping
escapade! Yager said that "Sheil Edlin was the best at what he does, but that
he doesn't do it for free, honey!" Recently, while working on a similar case,
a mother asked me to work with Faye, that we together we could stop child
molesters from winning custody of their children. After spending over six
months, with this young mother and Faye, I've learned Faye apparently doesn't
want these women to win their cases. She wants them to run.
When a Dateline NBC producer was here in Atlanta to tape Fayes' reaction to an
unusual win, Faye was furious and could not be found for the interview. She
then had the mother fire the attorney who won the custody portion of the case,
and hire her personal attorney Hirsch Friedman to legally take over the women's
joint ownership of her husband's company. Friedman was the business partner of
Faye's husband Howard. The two of them defrauded policyholders of millions of
dollars ten years ago. The Georgia Bar Association has just suspended
Friedman's license to practice law, leaving the mother and Faye without legal
representation. Faye, a convicted drug felon, is currently being sued for 100
million dollars, by the inventor an Instant Teller machine, Bipin Shah.
Bipin's never been accused of child molestation, but Faye hid his kids from him
anyway. I have recently testified under oath and have been told I will be
flown to Philadelphia for a Federal Grand Jury Investigation, surrounding
Faye's involvement in these cases. Faye has been formally fingerprinted and
served with a subpoena.
In the Wrightson case, allegations of child abuse first began when Michael
Wrightson took his child on a visitation to North Carolina while the child was
ill. The child called crying and told her mother that she was throwing up and
her father would not clean her and that he had screamed at her threatening to
throw her security blanket away. After trying to coax Michael to seek medical
treatment for the child, Michael allegedly cursed at Jeannie, disconnected the
call, and refused to answer the telephone. Jeannie Wrightson testified that
the first and only time she called Asheville Police was on this night. She
asked that they check on her daughter, to make certain that the child was all
right. When the Asheville Police arrived at Mr. Wrightson's home to check on
the child, he refused to allow them to enter or to see the child. At that
point, Asheville began keeping an eye on Michael Wrightson, his live-in
girlfriend, Elena Scott and the children in the home. From this point on,
Jeannie was blamed by the court and the child's guardian ad litem for having
instigated Asheville's investigations of child abuse.
Shortly after these events, Michael Wrightson hired Janis Dickman and George
Stern of the firm Stern & Edlin, a pricey divorce group noted for hard ball
tactics and high legal fees. Immediately upon entering the case, papers were
filed on Mr. Wrightson's behalf seeking an emergency change of custody. Gail
Flake, the DeKalb Superior Court judge assigned to the divorce action, then
appointed Lois Shingler as the guardian ad litem (attorney for the child).
Ironically, the order appointing Shingler as guardian was signed in another
court by Judge Hilton Fuller a year before the divorce was ever filed. Lois
Shingler is rumored to be close friends with Janis Dickman. It is a matter of
public record that Ms. Shingler represented Gail Flake in her own divorce
action. Michael Wrightson stated in a telephone interview that Dickman and
Shingler worked well together, that they did a good job for him. A child's
guardian is supposed to be impartial, looking out only for the best interests
of the child.
At the same time, Jeannie's daughter's behavior had begun to regress, as she
began masturbating, having nightmares, and wetting herself. Eventually,
Jeannie sought professional help for her child's new disturbing behaviors. The
child disclosed to her counselor that her father bathed her with his bare
hands, washed inside her vagina with is bare hands, gave her hot oil massages,
and put his finger "in my butt". The counselor reported these statements in a
Mandatory Report to Gwinnett County Department of Family and Children Services,
as required by law. At approximately the same time, Elena Scott's child became
the subject of an investigation in Asheville due to a report by one of her
teachers of inappropriate sexual play. In a report filed by DSS, Cindy Graene,
Anna's teacher at the Jewish Community Center, stated that Anna had recurring,
unusual and inappropriate behaviors such as "sucking on a stick that another
child was holding right below his waist and that Anna looked to see if anybody
was watching her, and during body tracing she colored hers and drew a long
pointed mark between her legs."
A physical examination of the Scott child revealed evidence of anal and vaginal
penetration. The Scott child then disclosed that Michael Wrightson would put
her on his lap, that his "bone would get hard" and that he would put his bone
in her vagina.
Even though Jeannie Wrightson had never met the Scott child, she was accused of
influencing her to make false allegations of sexual abuse.
Upon motion of Michael Wrightson's attorneys and Lois Shingler, Gail Flake
issued an order preventing Jeannie Wrightson from cooperating in any form or
manner with any police or social services investigations without prior
permission of the guardian or the court. Lois Shingler stated that the reason
she required such an injunction was so that she would be able to stop any
interview or examination from happening.
When North Carolina authorities removed the Scott child from Michael
Wrightson's home, he threatened to shoot any social services representative who
came to his home again. After a consent agreement was reached, whereby Michael
Wrightson agreed not be alone with the Scott child, she was returned to the
home. After learning that Mr. Wrightson violated that provision, the child was
again removed. When social services attempted to take Mr. Wrightson's child
into custody, they brought several police officers to assist, based on those
prior threats of violence. Mr. Wrightson saw the police coming, and "fearing
they were going to indict" and arrest him for child sexual abuse, he hid out
from the police in a park, then went through tree cover to a neighbor's home
where he stayed until he could reach his lawyers and find out what to do.
Prior to his fleeing with his daughter, his attorneys, the guardian and the
judge tried to stop the visitation of his daughter from taking place.
According to sources his girlfriend's attorney, Robert Deutsch, had learned
that if an unsupervised visitation of the Wrightson child were to occur, that
Asheville police would remove the child from his home for questioning. Judge
Flake then issued an order rescinding the unsupervised visitation and had it
expressed mailed to Jeannie Wrightson, last minute, to prevent her from
delivering the child to Asheville. The order was delivered after Jeannie left
Atlanta. Michael knowing that the visitation had been cancelled accepted his
daughter for the visitation anyway. After he had a neighbor, Dr. Marty Lee,
deliver Amelia to another location, he claims to have driven her to Atlanta to
the court-appointed psychiatrist's office to wait for instructions. Judge
Flake then issued an order enjoining police in North Carolina and Missouri from
arresting him and taking his daughter into protective custody. Claiming that
the child was under the jurisdiction of her court, she then gave Michael
temporary custody, cut off all visitation to the mother ordering her to jail
and counseling for contempt of court. Michael then drove the child to Missouri
to stay with his mother and sisters .
Many observers of the trial, believe that he had sexually abused his
sisters(who are 13-15 years younger than he) as a teenager. Indicators, which
would seem to confirm this, are that one sister is extremely obese and the
other had a baby at the age of 15. The obese sister, who testified at the
trial, cried hysterically when she was asked if Michael had sexually abused her
citing that Michael took her hiking in the woods and only yelled at her because
he loved her. The other sister did not testify.
It is well-known among child abuse experts that if the alleged sexually abused
child is allowed continued contact with the alleged perpetrator that he or she
will coerce the child into recanting utilizing various means from threats,
intimidation, bribery and mind control. There are many Internet web sites,
which offer information on how to "reprogram" a child into recanting. Michael
mentioned several times during the trial that he wanted his child away from
Jeannie so he could reprogram her. In unrefuted courtroom testimony it was
confirmed that Mr. Wrightson beat and choked Jeannie while pregnant with
Amelia, and continued the physical abuse of his wife, child and dog until he
left.
The Georgia Supreme Court's Opinion that affirms Flake's ruling to award
custody to the father is a document of contradictions. The Supreme Court
Opinion on the Appeal, composed by, Chief Justice Benham, is seemingly an
admission of guilt and a testament of compliance by the Supreme Court of
Georgia. Justice Leah Sears who voted for Michael, was best friends with local
murderer and racketeer, Fred Tokars. The day after a paid assassin, murdered
his wife, in front of their two children, Sears was the first one on the scene
consoling and hugging Fred. Tokars was later found guilty of paying for his
wife's murder and of Federal racketeering and organized crime. Only Justices
Fletcher and Hunstein dissented by refuting Benham's ironic citing that "the
trial court has a very broad discretion, looking always to the best interest of
the child":
"While the court (Judge Flake) shut its (her) eyes to an ongoing, active
investigation in another state, approved the father's intentional avoidance of
that investigation, it relied on a court-appointed psychiatrist who testified
that he spent no more than one hour alone with the child and who was 'convinced
right off the bat' that there was no abuse when he observed the child and
father together in his office."
"...the trial court (Flake) actually approved the father's flight from North
Carolina with the child to avoid the police."
"Evidence of the father's "wholesome family life" cannot overshadow the reality
of an ongoing, active criminal investigation......Under these extreme and
unusual circumstances, I would find that the trial court abused its discretion
and would remand for additional evidence and a new determination of custody."
When Michael fled North Carolina, he claimed to briefly stop at psychiatrist,
Dr. Jonathan Lauter's office in Atlanta, but according to testimony and a dated
photo of Amelia taken by Michael's mom after their arrival in Missouri, this
was proven to be logistically impossible. Dr. Lauter the independent,
court-appointed psychiatrist, who is, according to my sources, a personal
friend of George Stern, Michael's attorney, stated "I don't know why or from
whom Michael was fleeing." When I interviewed Dr. Lauter, he denied even
knowing who George Stern was. He did, however, say he knew Sheil Edlin,
Stern's law partner, and Janice Dickman, Stern's associate.
The most damaging aspects of Stern's and Dickman's case center around Lauter's
testimony. Dr. Lauter said "Amelia is not at risk with her father,
particularly with Elena (Scott) present, meanwhile, Michael should undergo
individual therapy for stress/anger management." This same man, an alleged
expert on child abuse, spent 15 minutes yelling at me over the phone, because
he said my questions were biased. I had asked why he could, in good conscience
say that Michael Wrightson's environment "suggests healthy, non-intrusive
nurturance" while admitting that Michael had an abuse problem. I also mentioned
that most experts would agree that Michael Wrightson had clearly abandoned his
family by leaving his wife and child, and establishing residency with another
family, which is a misdemeanor violation in Georgia. Judge Flake legally
delegated her responsibility of deciding visitation to Dr. Lauter, but the
Supreme Court ruled that this decision must be made by the trial court, not
Lauter.
Anger and verbal rantings are apparently the cohesive force unifying and
driving the issues central to this cast of characters. Judge Flake's temper
is evident in her Order, in response Jeannie's Motion to Disqualify Lois
Shingler as guardian. Judge Flake wrote, "Whatever adverse situation Plaintiff
finds herself in with regard to her relationship with the guardian in this case
may be laid solely at her door. As the adage goes, she has made her bed and
now must lie in it."
Serendipitously, the same afternoon upon returning from Jeannie's attorney's
law office with the Wrightson files in tow, a breaking story on the 6:00
o'clock news showed none other than Judge Gail Flake and her boyfriend, Pat
Jarvis, former DeKalb County Sheriff, concerning a Federal Grand Jury
Investigation of kickback allegations involving his ownership of a prison food
service, bail bonding and towing company for the DeKalb County Jail. Shelbourne
& Associates, incorporated by Judge Gail Flake was under a full-blown Federal
Investigation. Prior to her appointment as CEO of Shelbourne, Gail Flake had
been appointed as a State Court Judge by Governor Zell Miller. A few months
after Governor Zell Miller appointed her as Superior Court Judge, Flake
resigned as CEO of Shelburne.
After retiring from the Braves, former pitcher, Pat Jarvis, became Georgia
Governor Zell Miller's chauffeur and bodyguard and the Sheriff of DeKalb County
until Governor Miller appointed him as the POST chief (Peace Officers Standards
and Training of the State of Georgia) in November, 1995. Jarvis took a leave
of absence when the Federal Grand Jury investigations began in January, 1996,
but continued to draw $85,000.000 a year in salary and benefits. Jarvis
eventually resigned in June, 1997, after media criticism regarding the lengthy
Federal Investigation. Recently, after opening Pat's Pizza in Social Circle,
Pat threw his hat in the ring for the vacant Sheriff's job in Auburn, Georgia.
During Pat's tenure as DeKalb Sheriff, relatives of one of the children
attacked at the Perimeter Marriott contacted DeKalb Police about a suspect that
had been reported on the news and was told that there was no suspect. After
the niece of an Atlanta resident identified Michael Wrightson as her attacker,
the DeKalb Police and the FBI in Atlanta were contacted. The victim's aunt
claimed that she was verbally remanded by two DeKalb Police Officers who yelled
at her for interfering. Later, they called and told both of us that they had
taken a photo ID line-up to two other children who were unable to identify
Wrightson. The parents of the only other victim at the Perimeter Marriott
location said that no one from the DeKalb Police had contacted them in a couple
of years. Sources say that the DeKalb Police remain loyal to Jarvis and others
in DeKalb County government. Other law enforcement agencies, both in Atlanta
and across the country, were cooperative and willing to pass on information,
which is how the DUI suspended/revoked license information became available.
Only DeKalb officials were unwilling to discuss this case. An investigator for
Children's Rights of America also contacted the DeKalb police, but was given
the same information as the victim's aunt. The DeKalb police claim that since
no more molestations have taken place in Atlanta since 11/9/94, Wrightson's
birthday, that a man jailed Myrtle Beach must have been the perpetrator.
Wrightson's flight from police and the end of litigation in Atlanta, might also
suggest the reason that no further molestations have occurred here.
Circumstantially, through credit card statements, which were only partially
produced through Discovery, it can be substantiated that Wrightson was in
Atlanta at the time of the molestations. Yet DeKalb police refused to consider
him as a suspect.
The District Attorney, J. Tom Morgan, a nationally know expert on child sexual
abuse would not discuss this case either. Recently, he said on a television
interview about Faye Yager, that women should run to protect their children,
that's it's a question of morality versus legality, that it was the only option
for women in these cases. When Jeannie Wrightson was introduced to J. Tom at a
Georgia Council on Child Abuse Gala, Tom, panic stricken, fled the party.
Jeannie said "he couldn't find the door fast enough!" And obvious question
here, is why would an expert on child sexual abuse not want to discuss a child
sexual abuse case, in his own county?
Governor Miller also appointed all but two of the seven Georgia Supreme Court
Judges who ruled on the Wrightson Case. Chief Justice Benham raised an
incredible six-figure campaign fund in an uncontested re-election campaign.
According to sources, former Attorney General Mike Bowers vowed to have one of
his supporters run against Benham, who, obviously taking the threat to heart,
brought in over $100,000.00 in contributions. After the Wrightson Appeal,
Benham's stopped campaigning, running unapposed. Justice Leah Sears, who also
voted to give custody to Michael Wrightson, recently announced her re-election
bid with King & Spalding's Larry Thompson as her campaign coordinator. King &
Spalding attorneys get an overwhelming amount of legal business from the State
Attorney's General Office and contributed heavily to Bowers' campaign. They
also gave a scholarship to Bowers' son Bruce to attend Emory Law School. Larry
Thompson, a former U.S. attorney, was implicated with Mike Bowers last summer
concerning campaign irregularities and Rome's Columbia HCA controversy. Mike
Bowers' personal assistant is George Shingler, the guardian ad litem, Lois
Shingler's husband.
Bowers and George Shingler both resigned from their jobs at the Attorney
Generals office, when Bowers decided to become a gubernatorial candidate.
Bowers recently made national headlines, over a 15-year affair with a former
Playboy Bunny. Bowers made notoriety as a national hypocrite, because he had
prosecuted citizens for sodomy, a felony in Georgia, and for firing a lesbian
from her job as an Assistant State Attorney General. Bowers had employed his
girl friend, Ann Davis as his secretary, but when people started noticing the
affair, his good friend Bob Steed of King and Spalding, who also does all of
the states bond business, got Davis a job as former U.S. Attorney General,
Griffen Bell's secretary. Before resigning, Bowers signed off to have Judge
Flake represented by the AG's legal staff in the Wrightson Federal action.
Last summer, Flake's residency in DeKalb was legally challenged in a suit filed
by Carla Anderson, a DeKalb citizen and supporter of Flake's opponent, Michael
Raffauf, who ran against her in the 1996 elections for her DeKalb Superior
Court Seat. Senior Court Judge Wheeler, another Governor Miller appointee,
presided over the hearing. During arguments, Anderson's attorney, was
repeatedly over-ruled by Wheeler for insinuating that Flake and Jarvis