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- September 26, 2001. Ruth Christine gave birth to her
fifth child in Missoula, Montana the night before last. Before the
mother's
pain killers had even worn off, little Abbey Rose was seized by Montana
authorities and is now being held at an undisclosed location. Ruth was
shackled and handcuffed to the bed upon which she gave birth. Hospital
attendants who witnessed the birth reportedly wept at the spectacle.
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- The baby girl's condition is unknown, but Ruth is
mightily
worried. "Brian (Ruth's husband) has severe allergies, for which he
requires constant medication and which little Abbey Rose might inherit.
Without the colostrum that my breast milk would have provided, I worry
about my baby's health." Colostrum, the mother's milk that is usually
a baby's first few meals, provides important immune system reinforcement.
No breast feeding. No bonding. No kidding.
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- Ruth was denied the opportunity to call anybody, even
her lawyer, as she was taken in chains to the hospital delivery
room.
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- Welcome to the New World Order, where it "takes
a village to raise a child" and parents are only custodians for their
own children, children "owned" by the State.
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- The morning following birth, after the baby had been
spirited away, Ruth was dragged before a judge, bound and still senseless
from medication, to be served with a warrant for her extradition back to
Oregon on charges that she abused her other daughters and helped her
husband
to "kidnap" them from the Oregon authorities who had pledged
to adopt them out to others. Ruth is expected to be handed over to Oregon
within a few days. The abuse? The kids weren't fat, like normal American
kids today. Oregon state officials claimed the girls were malnourished,
yet just two weeks later pronounced them fit, in good condition and
normal.
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- The state alleges that Brian struck Lydia as a part of
her toilet training and she had fallen down, sustaining a cut on her
forehead
and a skull fracture. The fracture was not disclosed by initial
examinations
or a CT Scan, but a State-retained doctor eventually expressed the opinion
that Lydia had one, nonetheless.
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- Oregon's Services to Children and Families (SCF) has
promised to haul little Abbey Rose back to Oregon, to be put up for
adoption,
too. I and other Christine family lawyers, serving unpaid, are actively
opposing this and rushing to have Brian's mother, Teri Christine, named
guardian, a role she has provided to baby Olivia, Ruth and Brian's fourth
baby girl, since birth. Although the three other girls, aged 3 to 6, had
lived with Teri Christine for a year before Brian and Ruth went on the
extended road trip that ended when Grants Pass, Oregon officials seized
their daughters, state officials refused to allow them to return to her,
instead shuttling them from one Oregon foster family to another over the
past year.
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- Only after months of legal maneuvering has Oregon finally
given up trying to get baby Olivia taken from her grandmother and returned
to be adopted out with her sisters. All members of the family are Indiana
residents.
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- Allan Coon, Josephine County (Oregon) Circuit Court
judge,
just this afternoon issued his order that the three older girls are to
be adopted out, with the formal proceeding to terminate Ruth and Brian's
parental rights allowed to go forward. This order followed on the heels
of a spirited hearing before Judge Coon in Grants Pass less than one week
ago, at which a number of local residents rallied to protest the treatment
accorded the Christine family.
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- Judge Coon stated in his order that the parents forfeited
their right to be reunified with their daughters when they allegedly
"kidnapped"
the girls at gunpoint last month, after being told by SCF that the girls
were to be adopted out regardless of what they did. The judge noted that
the Christine parents both faced "serious Ballot Measure 11 offenses
in the State of Oregon" (including a mandatory minimum sentencing
law that would mete out the same punishment as if they had kidnapped the
children of strangers and fled across state lines). Brian and Ruth
Christine
were apprehended in Montana and have since been held in separate jails
and denied any opportunity to communicate with one another. Brian will
be extradited to Oregon at the same time as Ruth.
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- The judge's order ruled out any possibility of a
guardianship
in lieu of a permanent adoption. Ruth's parents have recently come to
Oregon from their home in England and are attempting to be the adoptive
parents. No reason was given for refusing to consider Brian's mother for
adopting the girls, which would at least unite all four (hopefully five,
now ) sisters.
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- The potential guardianship of baby Abbey Rose by her
grandmother in Indiana took a severe turn for the worse when Milt
Datsopoulos,
the lawyer we retained, even after I promised him the payment he required
for filing guardianship papers, withdrew via facsimile message literally
at the last moment, as last weekend began, thereby all but guaranteeing
that the baby would be born without guardianship papers being timely filed,
thereby opening the door for Oregon to step in and attempt to seize the
baby.
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- Though Mr. Datsopoulos, of Missoula, Montana, had
promised
to help the Christine parents and their unborn baby several weeks ago,
he offered no reason for his withdrawal, other than that the case was too
"complex." Datsopoulos heads what is reputed to be the largest
law firm in Missoula. I am prevented from filing the required paperwork
myself because I am not admitted to practice law in the state of Montana,
as I am in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and California (lawyers must be
separately
admitted to practice in each state in which they practice, by passing that
state's bar exam along with all other lawyers fresh out of law school in
that state).
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- The fund appeal for the Christine defense costs stalled
when the World Trade Center disaster occurred. A little over $2,000 had
been collected at that time, barely enough to pay Datsopoulos the amount
he estimated for filing the guardianship papers.
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- Even if we get the guardianship papers filed and little
Abbey Rose out of harm's way, we still have three major pieces of
litigation
ahead of us: Ruth's criminal trial, Brian's criminal trial and the
proceeding
to terminate their parental rights. Costs are anticipated to be
substantial,
particularly if we have to hire lawyers and/or experts. I, of course,
am admitted in Oregon and am representing the Christines pro bono (for
free), as a public service since their plight is such an important object
lesson in governmental bureaucracy run amuck.
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- Donations may be made to the Christine Defense Fund,
PO Box 1255, Sagle, Idaho 83860. Credit card donations may be made by
logging on to www.PayPal.com (joining is free) and sending funds to
steele@plainlawtalk.com
with "Christine Defense Fund" noted in the distribution
directions.
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- The Christines, both devout Christians, welcome your
prayers for their family, as well.
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