By Dr. Leon Koziol

Parenting Rights Institute

If you are a regular follower of this site, Leon Koziol.com, then you know about New York Supreme Court Judge James McClusky who excused a school bus driver from any jail time despite his conviction of raping a 14 year old student earlier this year. It has resulted in a petition for his removal containing over 75,000 signatures.

Meanwhile dads are being routinely jailed for non-violent support violations without notice or concern from anyone. The discrimination is blatant as reflected by another post from our site: A woman judge, Jerri Collins, was reprimanded by Florida’s Supreme Court on August 26, 2016 for belittling a domestic violence victim and sending her to jail.

It occurred after the woman willfully failed to show up for her trial as the complainant and main witness, citing fear and anxiety among the excuses. The judge gave her a mere 3-day punishment, but after feminist protesters took aim at the “injustice” of such a harsh outcome, the woman was released.

The fact that an accused (man) is innocent until proven guilty, and despite his costly retention of counsel, witnesses and evidence in his defense, the complainant’s absence from court was a-okay if you follow Florida’s high court reasoning. They simply sacrificed law and justice for politics and self-aggrandizement.

Judge Collins was not belittling a domestic violence victim, she was upholding a man’s due process rights and preserving the integrity of our judicial system. Even the families of murder victims respect that integrity by showing up as complainants, witnesses and observers at the proceedings designed to determine guilt or innocence.

When a dad willfully, or even accidentally, fails to show up for a support violation proceeding, not just a trial but any scheduled appearance, he is immediately subject to an arrest warrant and incarceration. And the excuses don’t matter, whether it’s the fear of a biased judge, false allegations that are never held accountable or the lust for federal incentive funds.

Jail sentences are doled out at six months in New York State and as much as two years in South Carolina where Walter Scott was shot dead five times in the back unarmed by a traffic cop while fleeing a support warrant. Our government is now killing dads for money while overlooking the violence which all this is causing.

Recurring jail sentences lead to suicides, lost employment and targeting. The court reports are virtually unanimous for jail terms ordered against dads, thereby filling our prisons. This, in turn, creates jobs and construction projects which the “Kids for Cash” scandal exposed in Pennsylvania. There is an unwritten judicial policy which treats dads as preferred jail targets on the sexist presumption that they are tougher and can survive confinement more readily.

Now comes a case in which a Michigan dad lost his two year old son in 2017. A family judge transferred custody to a mother fraught with drug abuse and CPS reports leading to the death of an infant. That custody decision was made by family judge Rachel Rancilio over the objections of his attorney and the dire warnings of imminent harm. The judge merely defended her decision that such issues were in the past.

The father, Jonathan Vanderhagen, then embarked upon a social media campaign to expose this judge for both her fatal decision and callousness. The judge retaliated by claiming to be fearful of Vanderhagen’s criticisms but a sheriff department investigation concluded that no threats were made.

Nevertheless, on July 24, 2019, this dad and protester was taken to jail for alleged bond violations and malicious use of the internet. A half million dollar bond was required for his release and a jury trial is set for September 13, 2019.

In November, 2015, family judge Daniel King of Lowville, New York placed a gag order on this site, Leon Koziol.com under the guise of a protection order related to our exposure of a fraud by child attorney William Koslosky and “custodial parent” Kelly Hawse-Koziol, the mother of my two daughters.

Both the state appointed parent and attorney had submitted a purported Notice of Relocation of my children to the home of a childless millionaire named Joseph Flihan Jr. That notice contained the electronic address gmai.com (without the “l” character) as a purported satisfaction of a custody order requirement.

Daniel King was then exposed for his alcohol use with his children nearby at a bar to show an utter hypocrisy behind his finding of a “prohibited alcohol related gesture” (wedding toast) which he used to suspend my father-daughter contact. It came in a December 2, 2013 decision, three months after my testimony before the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption, and it continues to the present day no matter that it is over five years “in the past.”

King denied my dismissal motions despite the vague and abusive terms of his gag order. It required me to obtain a show cause order against him in New York Supreme Court six months later.

That led King, without explanation, to cancel a trial set on the matter. He followed with a dismissal order on his own motion and removal of the gag order. Weeks later, he stepped down altogether, also without explanation. Because judges enjoy absolute immunity, I could get no liability, accountability or compensation for the loss of contact occurring under his judicial regime (King, replacement Judge James Eby and racist Utica city judge Gerald Popeo).

The criminalization and mass incarcerations of dads in this “dads for cash scandal” (I just made that up now, what do you think?) has reached epic proportions. It is today’s most ominous and suppressed public epidemic. We are now planning a march from the Oneida County Courthouse to Gerald Popeo’s city court in Utica, New York, a distance of only a quarter mile (seven city blocks) on September 26, 2019.

This comes after our successful Parent March on Washington this past May and removal of my state court precedent seeking case to federal court by the New York Attorney General last week. We need to grow the momentum here for the sake of veterans, parent victims and whistle blower protection.

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