September 1, 2012

September 1 will mark the sixth year anniversary of an event that exposed with the greatest of clarity just how perversely prejudiced the domestic violence policies of the State of Delaware really are. As in the previous years,  it will not be marked by any fanfare or acknowledgement. You see, the system that had aided and abetted a serial false allegations artist would now be compelled , nay - forced to arrest an individual who had for three years exploited and mocked a system that was to protect women from domestic violence, this (literally) with the full blessing of the State of Delaware. Three years, nine arrests, twenty one criminal charges five protection orders later and an estimated $500,000 of taxpayer money later - all executed upon one innocent man later she would cease to be protected in her crime spree and face "justice".- on September 1, 2012

What was different this time compared to the thirteen previous official  fraudulent allegations?

 1) The extreme and unbelievable nature of her account:

It would be determined, only hours after Judge Lou Ann Vari granted her fifth fraudulent Protection From Abuse order (PFA) , that after stripping down to her underwear, she would cut herself and scribble threats of harm on her body.

2) As a punitive measure, a Judge ordered a GPS Ankle bracelet be strapped to my ankle. This to monitor my every whereabouts as I awaited trial regarding previous false allegations from her. After a violent take down and detainment by Delaware State Police and DOC Probation Division, the GPS coordinates would show her story to be a complete and absolute fraud. 

At that point, the key actors - Deputy Attorney General Patricia Dailey Lewis, Deputy Attorney General Ken Haltom and Delaware State Police Troop 3 in this sick drama could no longer protect their favorite self-defined "victim".

A  certain line of lunacy had been crossed.

Now, you would think as State lawmakers and guardians of good for society there would be inquiry and systemic introspection as to the hows and whys such exploitation of a system occurred, that there would be definitive changes in SOP and business model methodologies.  No, to the contrary, the influential members of the Delaware Domestic Violence Coordinating Council would see to it that no legislation would ever be introduced to even begin to debate the need for reforms.

In a nut shell: 

Money: its directly tied to the DDVCC continuing to receive and funnel federal funding to state agencies. A call for greater scrutiny or reforms would be viewed as an impediment to this cash flow.

Political Power: There is much to gain politically from blindly facilitating federal money to State agencies and ignoring fraudlent exploitation of resources, especially since this was essentially Senator Joseph Biden''s baby from 1994 federal legislation that introduced (VAWA).

It continues unabetted. In the years following that redemptive day of September 1, 2012, I still , to this day receive contact from dozens of men in Delaware who have fallen prey to a system that rewards those who have developed false allegations of domestic violence into an art form. Sadly, their stories are essentially the same as mine. The State of Delaware ignores exculpatory evidence and rubber stamps Protection Orders (PFA's) and also warrants for the arrest of men accused of domestic abuse with the same de facto policy as espoused by Judge Newell himself -"We don't want to prosecute women for false allegations because it might deter others from coming forward" - with the subsequent carte blanche for fraudulent allegations.

Democrat and Republican lawmakers alike, by your silent acquiescence you do great harm to innocent men and their children, great harm to real victims of domestic violence and great harm to tax payers who are left to foot the bill for this calloused system that allows the mockery to continue.

http://www.wboc.com/story/19448944/dover-woman-arrested-for-lying-to-police

Gordon Smith

Port Orange, Fl