* Forwarded from "LEGAL_LAW"
 * Originally by Ralph Brinkley
 * Originally to All
 * Originally dated 12 Jun 1995, 3:09
     The preceeding statement was taken from a news broadcast here in Las
Vegas, the city everyone believes is glitz and glitter; while in reality the
U.S. Constitution must give way to state and judicial laws in violation of 
U.S.
Const. Art. 6, cl. 2 -- "The Superemacy Clause".
     "IS THERE SUCH A THING AS A CHILD PROTECTION RACKET, A CONSORTIUM OF
JUDGES, LAWYERS, AND COURT APPOINTED EXPERTS WHO JUSTIFY THEIR EXISTENCE AND
MAKE TONS OF MONEY BY SETTLING QUESTIONS ONCE LEFT TO FAMILIES THEMSELVES, 
OR
THE SO CALLED GOOD OF THE CHILDREN?"
     "WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO [READ] IS A MODERN HORROR STORY, BUT THE TRUE
HORROR IS, THERE ARE PLENTY MORE WHERE THIS CAME FROM."
     "IT BEGAN IN 1989, LAS VEGAN THOR FECHTER HAD BEEN DIVORCED FOR TWO 
YEARS,
BUT HE AND HIS EX SHARED CUSTODY OF THEIR DAUGHTER, NOT YET THREE.  THE 
ITTLE
GIRL OFTEN STAYED WITH HER FATHER AND GRANDPARENTS, HARRY AND TORDIS 
CHTER."
     "DR. FECHTER IS AN INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN PHYSICIST AND FORMER CHAIRMAN 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA AT LAS VEGAS (UNLV).  HE AND HIS WIFE RAISED FIVE
CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN AND WERE HELPING TO RAISE HEIR GRANDDAUGHTER, THAT IS,
UNTIL THEIR EX DAUGHTER IN LAW DECIDED TO REMARRY.  IT WAS THEN THAT
ALLEGATIONS OF CHILD SEX ABUSE WERE RAISED."
     "THE MOTHER AND HER FAMILY COMPLAINED TO CHILD SERVICES, WHO, WITHOUT 
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INVESTIGATION, TURNED IT OVER TO THE [METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT] 
METRO).
THE FECHTERS SAY, FROM HE BEGINNING, THERE WAS A PRESUMPTION OF GUILT, THEIR
GUILT, ALTHOUGH THERE WAS NEVER ANY EVIDENCE OF A CRIME, THE POLICE FORBADE 
ANY
CONTACT WITH THE CHILD."
     "AFTER SEVERAL WEEKS THE CHILD FINALLY UNDERWENT A MEDICAL EXAM, 
LTHOUGH
NO RECORDS OR PHOTOS OF THE EXAM WERE EVER MADE OR RELEASED.  THE CHILD'S 
HYMEN
HAD BEEN DAMAGED, ALTHOUGH THE CAUSE WAS NEVER DETERMINED.  FOR A TIME,
SUSPICION CENTERED ON THE FATHER, BUT THE CHILD REPEATEDLY TOLD A STRING OF
COURT APPOINTED THERAPISTS THAT DADDY NEVER HURT HER, STATEMENTS WHICH WERE
NEVER ALLOWED INTO THE RECORD.  THE THERAPISTS DID TEACH THE CHILD'S MOTHER 
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LOOK FOR SIGNS OF ABUSE.  LO AND BEHOLD, THOSE SIGNS STARTED APPEARING, 
HINGS
LIKE BEDWETTING.  ANOTHER THERAPIST ALLEGEDLY SAID THE CHILD TOLD HER "GRANMA
DID IT," EVEN THOUGH THE LITTLE CHILD ALWAYS USED THE PET NAME MEEMO, NEVER
GRANMA.  SO NOW THERE WERE TWO SUSPECTS."
     WHEN DR. FECHTER BEGAN CHALLENGING THE COURTS, HE BECAME SUSPECT NUMBER
THREE.  INVESTIGATORS TOLD THE FECHTERS THE FAMILY HAD QUOTE ALL SAT AROUND 
AND
STUCK NEEDLES INTO THE LITTLE GIRLS VAGINA.  THE CHILD BEGAN USING STREET 
TERMS
FOR HER BODY PARTS, WORDS A THREE YEAR OLD WOULD BE UNLIKELY TO KNOW.  MUCH
LATER, ANOTHER THERAPIST WOULD TELL THE COURT HE SUSPECTED THE CHILD HAD BEEN
COACHED TO SAY SUCH THINGS.
     "THE FECHTERS REPEATEDLY ASKED FOR AN INDEPENDENT MEDICAL EXAM.  DENIED.
THEY SOUGHT NOTES FROM THE THERAPY SESSIONS, DENIED.  THEY ASKED TO SEE THE
CHILD, DENIED.  FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS, THEY HAVEN'T SEEN HER AT ALL, NOT
EVEN HER FATHER, BY COURT ORDER.  AS THE CASE BOUNCED FROM COURT TO COURT, 
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FIRM TO LAW FIRM, DR. FECHTER DRAINED OF RESOURCES DECIDED TO FIGHT IT 
HIMSELF.
HE FILED A FLOOD OF MOTIONS, ACCUSING THE COURTS OF BEING A PARTY TO 
INJUSTICE.
THE FAMILY HAD BEEN ACCUSED AND PUNISHED, WITHOUT EVER BEING CHARGED OR
CONVICTED.  JUDGE AFTER JUDGE TOSSED IT ALL OUT, SAYING COURTS CAN'T BE SUED.
FAMILY COURT, DISTRICT COURT, [THE LOWER] FEDERAL COURT ALL SAID THEY WERE
IMMUNE.  BUT SOMETHING UNEXPECTED HAS NOW HAPPENED.  THE NINTH U.S. CIRCUIT
COURT OF APPEALS SAYS IT WILL HEAR THE CASE, INCLUDING ALLEGATIONS THAT THE
[LAS VEGAS JUDICIAL] SYSTEM ITSELF IS AT FAULT.  THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS 
ALSO
INTERESTED, AND THE STATE BAR HAS BEEN ALERTED, AND A SYSTEM WHICH ROUTINELY
TEARS FAMILIES APART MAY SOON TASTE SOME OF ITS OWN MEDICINE."
     The aforementioned is just one of many HORROR stories taking place here 
in
Las Vegas, and who pays the price?  The children of course!  Who gives a 
amn?
No one, except the parent whose child has been stolen by a dishonest, corrupt
judicial system.
     Tomorrow, I will insert another child tragedy where the father of the
child was deprived by a judge simply because the father is African American,
was married to a Caucasion spouse, and is a disabled veteran.
"Keep the Faith" - - - The Late Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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