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The Detroit Mother Who Refused to Defer to Authority & Drug Her Child—Maryanne Godboldo

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Freedom Watch with Charles Payne
Fox Business Channel
August 30, 2011



Transcript:

Charles Payne:  Charges for allegedly shooting at policemen when they came to take way her daughter. The department of human services issued an order because she took her daughter off an antipsychotic medication. Godbolbo denied ever firing a weapon.  A judge dismissed the criminal charge yesterday saying there was no evidence to support them and agreeing with Godboldo’s lawyers that child services order was invalid.

Here to discuss this case from is the President of the Future of Freedom Foundation, Jacob Hornberger.

Jacob, I almost don’t know where to begin on this. You know first and foremost this kid is on an antipsychotic medication the mother obviously doesn’t want that to happen. Secondly the police come and try to forcibly take away the child. Help us understand this case.

Jacob Hornberger: Yeah, it’s an act… it’s a remarkable model of of how a parent will react when the state is trying to do something that the parent thinks is harmful to the children. This woman refused to defer to authority.  It’s something that a lot of parents would never think about doing. The cops show up, they’ve got a court order commanding the woman to relinquish her 13-year-old little girl for the purpose of injecting mind-altering drugs into this child. The mother says “no I’m taking her of this junk, she’s not going to go on it and you’re not going to take her away,” and she barricades herself in her house and she says the cops aren’t going to do this. Well the cops ultimately charge this woman with resisting arrest, firing a weapon at them, barricading in her house, and refusing to obey this court order.  The thing goes to court and it turns out the cops where there with an invalid court order, they didn’t even have the Judges signature on the court order. They’d gotten the clerk to just stamp the Judge’s signature on it. The Judge throws the charges out, he dismisses the gun charges, says she never fired a weapon at the police. But really it’s a model of how parents should not defer to authority under any circumstance. But especially when your child’s welfare is at stake.

Charles: Jacob it could also be a model of just how arrogant government at all levels has become and many case the police are just following a lock step with this, just thinking, “hey, I can get someone to just stamp this, this women probably doesn’t know her rights, she’ll probably hand over the kid and we’ll have, you know, all in a days work.”

Jacob: Absolutely. This is what goes on in totalitarian countries, this is what went on in the form soviet union, this is what went on in fascist Italy, this is what goes on in Burma. The police operate effectively as thugs and they are in there saying, “we don’t need to follow the law, we don’t need to follow the procedures that are established by the law, we’re gonna just come over here and seize this child because we’ve got the guns,” and this mother said “oh no you’re not gonna do that.” And the other thing, you notice Charles you know, that the Government has been waging this 30-year-old fail war on drugs and they won’t let it go, yet here they are the purveyors of drugs. They’re trying to inject these mind-altering substances in this little girl just like they do in many of the public schools, where they, where they, a kid resists authority [Charles: right] he’s bored with schools they put him on Adderall, Ritalin, they screw up his life for the rest of his life, because he did not defer to their authority in these government schools.

Charles: Jacob I say amen to that. We have over-medicated our kids and taken away all kinds of parental responsibilities. We’ve got a couple of seconds left. The ultimate message here for parents watching this show, is stand your ground, defend yourself, even when its against a big, big government that looks like you can’t beat, you know the old saying, you can’t beat city hall.

Jacob: Absolutely, and especially when they welfare of your children are concerned, that’s the for most importance not deferring to what you think the state knows about what’s best for your child or your family.

Charles: Jacob thanks very much, we appreciate it. That’s a message we needed to hear tonight. Appreciate it.

Jacob: Thank you.

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Judge dismisses charges against Detroit mom accused of firing at officers coming to take her daughter

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Godboldo was accused of firing a gun at police who had accompanied Child Protective Services who had a Court order to take Godboldo's 13-year-old daughter after Godboldo had been accused of discontinuing a psychotropic drug. Godboldo maintained she had the right to decide her daughter's medical treatment.

In a case that sparked debate about parental rights versus state involvement in the medical care of children, a Detroit woman won a major victory Monday when all the charges against her were dropped.

Maryanne Godboldo, 57, was accused of firing a gun at Detroit police officers who were assisting a state Child Protective Services worker when they came to her Blaine Street home on March 24 to get her daughter.

The charges against Godboldo were dismissed at her preliminary examination in 36th District Court in Detroit. Judge Ronald Giles agreed with her lawyers that the court order to remove Godboldo’s 13-year-old daughter was not valid.

“I am very, very happy and blessed that Judge Giles did the right thing,” Godboldo said at a news conference at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit.

Giles also agreed that there was no evidence supporting the charge that Godboldo fired a gun at police during the standoff.

When asked about Giles’ ruling, Detroit Police Sgt. Eren Stephens said: “Ms. Godboldo was afforded her due process under the law. We abide by and respect the decision.”

Maria Miller, spokeswoman for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, said the prosecutor will appeal the dismissal of charges.

Godboldo legal team confident that case will survive an appeal

Maryanne Godboldo’s legal team is confident that a Wayne County District Court judge’s dismissal of all charges against her on Monday will survive an appeal.

“The standard is abuse of discretion,” said Byron Pitts, one of Godboldo’s lawyers. “The court today did not abuse his discretion.”

Godboldo, 57, of Detroit was charged with discharge of a weapon, three counts of felonious assault, resisting and obstructing an officer and felony firearm.

She was accused of firing a gun at police who had accompanied a state Child Protective Services employee to Godboldo’s home on Blaine on March 24.

The employee had a Juvenile Court order to take Godboldo’s 13-year-old daughter after Godboldo had been accused of neglecting her by discontinuing a psychotropic drug. Godboldo has maintained she has the right to decide her daughter’s medical treatment.

Police said Godboldo barricaded herself in her home with her daughter and shot at them.

After hearing testimony at Godboldo’s preliminary examination in 36th District Court on Monday in Detroit, Judge Ronald Giles ruled that the court order was not valid and that there was insufficient evidence that Godboldo fired at police officers.

Maria Miller, spokeswoman for the Prosecutor’s Office, said the dismissed charges will be appealed. Miller said that Wayne County Circuit Judge Lynne Pierce earlier determined at a Juvenile Court hearing that the order to remove the child was valid.

The appeal will be heard in Wayne County Circuit Court.

At a news conference Monday at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, Pitts and Godboldo’s other attorney, Allison Folmar, explained why they prevailed.

Folmar said Godboldo “never shot at an officer — period. It never happened.”

They said the court order was not valid because a court clerk stamped the judge’s name to the order without consulting the judge.

“A judge never looked at this, never saw it,” Pitts said. “It has to be an elected authority. This lady took the judge’s stamp, stamped the judge’s name and off she goes.”

He called it “a huge constitutional error.”

As a result of this case, Pitts said, there has been a policy change. Court employees are no longer allowed to stamp judges’ names on court orders.

Godboldo’s supporters say Giles’ ruling was justice.

Sandra Hines, a member of the Godboldo Action Committee, said: “This case is rooted on the grounds of parental rights. It’s the right of every parent to be the custodial caregiver over their child.”

Ron Scott of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, said, “It’s a victory for parental rights.”

He also said that “Citizens have the right not to adhere to questionable reasons for entering their home. A person does not have to allow an unreasonable search and seizure to their home.”

Neema Yacen of Detroit and a member of the Godboldo Action Committee, said it was a case of state overreach. “This is a mother who said her child had a problem, took her to the people who she thought could help her, and they crucified her.”

Godboldo, whose daughter is now in the custody of her sister Penny Godboldo, is working to get her child back.

Judge Pierce has said she needs to evaluate the girl’s current treatment and is seeking a report from her doctor.

http://www.freep.com/article/20110830/NEWS02/108300383/Detroit-mom-cleared-charges-stemmed-from-standoff-home

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Mom in Detroit standoff incident released—Says she was protecting daughter from unnecessary drugging—

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

* See note at end of this post from CCHR

UPI.com
March. 31, 2011

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DETROIT, March 31 (UPI) — A Detroit woman accused of using a gun in a standoff with police when child welfare workers came to take her 13-year-old daughter was released, officials said.

Maryanne Godboldo, 56, had been in custody since surrendering to police Friday after a 10-hour standoff at her home during which she allegedly fired a shot at officers, The Detroit News reported.   Godboldo, released Wednesday, has said she was protecting the girl from unnecessary medication welfare workers insisted she be given.

Maryann Godboldo

“I feel wonderful and I’m very excited to see my daughter,” Godboldo said after leaving the Wayne County Jail. “The support of the community has been unbelievable.”

Godboldo has said her daughter’s physical and mental problems were caused by a bad reaction to immunizations the formerly home-schooled teen was given so she could be enrolled last year in a regular middle school.

Lawyers and family say Godboldo’s dispute with authorities is over a subsequent treatment plan that called for psychotropic drugs the mother believed were doing more harm than good.

Police said Godboldo locked the doors of her home when child welfare workers showed up with a warrant to take her daughter and allegedly fired on officers when they broke open her door.

She has been charged with assault, resisting and opposing police and using a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Read article here:  http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/03/31/Mom-in-Detroit-standoff-incidnt-released

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*Note from CCHR: In 2004,  following nationwide reports of parents being coerced, pressured and forced to drug their children as a condition of attending school, including Child Protective Services threatening parents to have their children removed from their custody,  CCHR worked for the introduction and passage of the Prohibition on Mandatory Medication Amendment which passed into federal law in 2004 and states

Prohibition on mandatory medication.

“(a) IN GENERAL. – The State educational agency shall prohibit State and local educational personnel from requiring a child to obtain a prescription for substances covered by the Controlled Substances Act as a condition of attending school, receiving an evaluation under section 614 (a) and (c) or receiving services.

There are three things we want to point out related to this incident in Detroit :

1)   Was the mother charged with medical neglect by Child Protective Services and was it under this guise that they attempted to have her child removed from her custody?  (See point 3 regarding ‘medical neglect’ in cases of parents refusing to administer a psychiatric drug to a child)

2)  The law above [unfortunately] only states that it is illegal for schools to require parents to administer any drug covered under “The Controlled Substances Act” which are drugs classifed by the US DEA as Schedule ll drugs (highly addictive – including Ritalin, Concerta,  Cocaine, Morphine, Opium etc).   This needs to be changed to all psychotropic drugs particularly considering antipsychotics and antidepressants are documented by the FDA to cause suicidal ideation as well as death. No parent should ever be required to give their child a potentially lethal drug, or face losing their child to “Child Protective Services”. The language change was something that CCHR opposed as the original language of the bill included prohibiting schools from requiring a parent to give their child ANY psychotropic drug as a condition of attending school.

3) There needs to be a new federal law which prohibits any parent from being pressured, coerced and/or required by government agencies (especially Child Protective Services which has the power to have a child removed from a parent’s custody) to administer any type of psychiatric drug to their child,  considering there is no medical or scientific test to prove any child has a ‘mental illness.’  Therefore the bogus charges being levied at these parents of  “medical neglect” are completely unjustified—in fact, fraudulent.  Without evidence of a “medical condition”  (meaning something that can be medically proven by x-ray, lab test or brain scan) it is impossible to cite  “medical neglect” should a parent refuse to administer a potentially lethal drug to their child.   Psychiatric drugs given to children including stimulants, antidepressants and antipsychotics, are documented by international drug regulatory agencies to cause; heart attack, stroke, mania, psychosis, worsening depression, fatal blood clots, diabetes, death,  violence, suicidal ideation and more.

See CCHR International’s Psychiatric Drug Database for all international studies and warnings on psychiatric drugs: http://www.cchrint.org/psychdrugdangers/



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