HB 141 and the Judicial Objectivity of Madam Judge Vari

HB 141: This Act authorizes the Family Court to interview a child outside the presence of the parties for the purpose of obtaining the child's testimony and ascertaining the truth of a matter asserted by a party to a Protection from Abuse proceeding.
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The above proposed bill sounds harmless enough, a bill that officially gives the a Family Court Judge the authority to speak privately with a child to determine the truthfulness of one parent's claim of domestic violence.

But the problem is not so much a question of the good intentions of the proposed statute, but it is the caliber of a certain Family Court Judge and her ability to execute proper Judgment in the courtroom.

August 28, 2012 - I cite (then) the "Honorable"Commissioner Lou Ann Vari:

I would stand accused of acts of Domestic Violence in the context of a Protection Order Hearing inside the Court room of Lou Ann Vari.

To prove my innocence, I subpoenaed the Dover Police Office who investigated the August 13, 2012 incident where it was reported to police that the subject had found a terroristic note written in a cryptic fashion with my name on the back of it - the note stated I was going to kill her.

The investigating Dover Police Officer concluded in his report that he believed she (the subject) fabricated the incident and he intended on arresting her for falsely reporting an incident to policed.

During the Hearing this Officer gave sworn testimony to this fact.

 Lou Ann Vari did the unthinkable:  she completely disregarded the Dover Police Officer's investigative findings and his sworn testimony, and would rule in favor of the accuser - the individual that the Police Offer had determined through probable cause, to be a fraud.

It gets better.  Three hours later, this accuser would (according to Police records) go home, and write another terroristic note. This time , however, she would use her own body as the stationery.   No, really.  She would take a marker and write--on her own body--life threatening words of terror, my initials and also scratch superficial marks on her body as well. She would then drive out across the road in front of Wild Quail Subdivision, strip down to just her underwear and fake an attack and attempt to implicate me as the attacker.

Now bear in mind this creator of fraudulent terroristic notes is the same person that Lou Ann Vari would define as her victim and would actually take the word of,  over that of a stellar Dover Police Officer who had conducted an actual investigation into the alleged incident.

Long story short - Four days later. Lou Ann Vari's "victim" would be arrested for the filing of false police reports and providing false information to police officers. I would be ultimately vindicated as the victim of the State and their false allegations artist.

But this redemption would not occur before being violently apprehended by a Law Enforcement and detained in a holding cell  for almost two hours, this, without absolutely no clue whatsoever why I was being subjected to this treatment.

From my documented experience, I can say without a doubt Judge Lou Ann Vari's  actions in my case were disgraceful, she is biased and incompetent.

The thought of her interviewing a child in private to "determine the truthfulness of one parents claim of domestic violence" is disturbing.

Gordon Smith

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