Child Protective Services Prosecutes Mother For Defying Doctor
She is fighting mad. Her son had malignant melanoma, but a mysterious black salve got rid of it. CPS could not let that stand, got her thrown in jail, then put on trial for her affront. The outcome is unknown to me at this time. Ms. Laurie Jessop and her son were put under gag order, but what happened before trial is documented here.
Mother Jailed, Put On Trial for Curing Her Son of Melanoma
An unholy alliance of California Child Protective Services (CPS) with a hostile doctor and judge is attempting to railroad Laurie Jessop, framed as a threat to her son and the establishment for finding a way to cure him of malignant melanoma. She is now on trial, under a gag order, since she had gone to the press. When she was arrested, she was put in maximum security, solitary confinement, in the Orange County, CA jail. They claim that everything about. her says anti-Establishment, so she was told, as she was considered a threat in starting a riot.
The following Monday, June 18th, Laurie and Chad turned themselves in to the San Diego Social Services office, with all of their documentation. They were detained for 4 hours, then told that arrest warrants for Laurie and Chad were issued from Orange County. Chad was locked up at the Palenskie Center in San Diego for one night. He had 2 guards watching him around the clock, since he was considered a flight risk. When Laurie went to visit Chad they could not have any privacy, as both guards listened to every word that was said. Laurie spent over nine thousand bucks in San Diego for the treatments done over the five week period of time, and has all the receipts as proof. A new social worker, David Harper, was put on the case. He picked Chad up in San Diego transporting him to Orangewood Children’s Home in Orange County for the next two weeks, where he got fed spaghetti and meat balls, food not fitting one healing from cancer. One aspect of Chad’s treatment was a healthy diet of living foods, but Ms. Jessop’s requests of this social worker that Chad get proper food fell on deaf ears. He did tell her she was allowed to see her daughter graduate from Junior High School. She told him nobody could keep her away without a court order, and that she would be there! The social worker informed Laurie that he completed the paper work to lift the warrant order on her.
After her daughter’s graduation, on June 21st Laurie went to make academic arrangements for her son, having missed five weeks of school. Laurie showed the documentation to the principal and vice principal. The Vice Principal knew Chad well, as Chad did his Eagle Scout project for him at the high school. Chad is now an advanced Eagle Scout. No matter, the VP called police to arrest Laurie at the school and haul her off to the county jail. The arresting deputy harassed her. When Laurie protested, the officer told her she didn’t have to like her or be nice to her. After arriving at the county jail, her first telephone call had been to the social worker, David Harper, although he did nothing to get her out of jail, nor was he willing to help correct the record. Laurie was physically abused, they spread her legs twisting her knee, when she complained they called out “Resisting…Resisting” then they pushed her violently to a cell wall (behind the cameras) causing her to twist her neck, shoulder and arm. After being worked over, they took away her jacket, shoes, socks, and toilet paper, and locked her up. Her holding cell was extremely cold and she was deliberately denied toilet paper. She asked for toilet paper, only to be answered it must have been taken for good reason and she was not getting any. She was denied toilet paper from approximately 3:30pm until 11:00pm. One has to wonder, what was she going to do with the toilet paper, hang herself? By 11:00 pm Laurie got taken to be assessed. She asked “is this a madhouse run by animals, who is running this place?” Laurie told this officer her story for half an hour. He let her talk, then said he sees all kinds of characters, his job is to ascertain threats. He told her she has the fire, the spirit and the power to overturn the system and create a riot. He informed her she’d be put in solitary confinement, but she might get a roommate, probably a drug offender. She was forced to take a chest X-ray against her will, without any explanation and ridicule from the officers. Laurie and her two children have never been in any type of trouble with the law, but were treated like hardened criminals. She was shocked to learn women taking showers have no privacy, that male guards are watching. The next night she got a 58-year old roommate charged with kidnapping her children from her husband 20 years ago, after being extradited from Tennessee on outdated bogus charges tagged with 200 thousand bail.
This kind of meddling is nothing new for CPS. One might wonder if they exist to make the lives of single mothers hell. Rose Cherrix and her son, having gone through similar trouble, commented on that entry. They are developing a site to tell their story. They got a law passed in Virginia to give some rights to choose alternative treatments if the parent and child wish to make that informed choice. Ms. Jessop is trying to spearhead a similar law in California. None of this would be necessary if people in positions of authority did not feel entitled to force official standards of cancer treatment down our throats. The rights of fully informed choice and noninterference defined in the Free Soil Bill of Missing Rights would have prevented CPS from putting Ms. Jessop and her son Chad through this utterly pointless nightmare. It was bad enough they had to go into hiding on the run. Chad received many treatments in a few weeks, and is now cancer free, a healthy young man of 17.
There was no reason to hound them, confine them, abuse Ms. Jessop in jail and feed Chad junk food, all the while insisting he must undergo standard treatment or face impending death. At their hands, perhaps he would have died. They are sure the cancer has spread, so Ms. Jessop may be found guilty of whatever bogus charge they can find that fools the jury, or she may have aces up her sleeve. She is supposed to appear later today at a meeting in Los Angeles so I expect an update will appear soon.
Regardless of the outcome, the point is, the ordeal authorities abusing their position put this mother and son through never had to happen, except under this peculiar democracy that mandates a doctor to give orders impacting life and death to override the wishes of both mother and child, enforced by hostile bureaucrats, law enforcement, and judge. A case like this should fall apart and backfire on the abusers of authority, but the legal system is such that single mothers can be put through hell with impunity. Ms. Jessop is not giving in. She is determined to change all that. I wish her the best with this effort. I urge all women, and thoughtful rebel men, to question what conventional authorities tell us about everything, every last sacred cow we are expected to take on faith. These are all under challenge here at the Free Soil Party.
I will have more to say later. I have been awaiting an update about Ms. Jessop for weeks.
(edited to make corrections)
The update has been delayed, but I expect it soon.
January 1st, 2008 at 11:45 am
This kind of meddling is nothing new for CPS. One might wonder if they exist to make the lives of single mothers hell.
Well, of course, that’s what the purpose of CPS is for. Since when have the patriarchs ever given a hoot about the well-being of children? The purpose of the CPS is to police and control women for the pappas, using their children as weapons. But they don’t just target single mothers. It’s mothers in general they target. More specifically, undesirable mothers. You know, like mothers who are single or poor or who don’t tow the party line? What better way to keep women in line than to terrorize and threaten them with their own children?
Daddies of course, get a free pass. They can brutally abuse and rape children to their heart’s content. CPS will turn a blind eye to it and even accuse you of trying to cause trouble for daddy and unjustifiably estrange poor innocent daddy from his children and will even out and out call you a liar. Even if you’re the brutally abused and raped child lodging the complaint and bring along half a dozen neighbors that can testify to it, CPS will play down and minimize daddy’s abuse and find a reason to excuse him. “There’s nothing we can do it about it because ,” they will tell you.
But if the child winds up hospitalized or in a coma or dead at the hands of daddy, then that is mommy’s fault too. It is her job to watch daddy too. After all, daddy isn’t considered to be much more than a child himself and isn’t responsible for his behavior. He’s just a runaway freight train without any brakes. And tho it takes 6 armed, burly cops to wrestle daddy under control, mommy is expected to single handedly keep him under control. Even tho if she attempts to, she will be labeled an evil and domineering and controlling woman, which we all know, is the reason why boys grow up to be serial killers, according to the so-called experts, well-versed in Freud, a misogynist, delusional,cocaine addicted crackhead, who doctored and lied about and even reversed his “objective” observations and studies.
Of course, the reverse is rarely speculated on. Few see anything wrong with daddy being domineering, controlling, abusive or controlling. He’s just being a man. It’s stamped on his Y chromosomes to be that way. While it’s “unnatural” for women to be that way, it’s quite “natural” for men.
Also, it’s almost unheard of for daddy to be held responsible for what mommy does. Even if he’s well aware that mommy is mentally ill and becoming more and more psychotic and even dangerous from the side effects of the drugs prescribed to her. He’s a man, dammit. It’s not his job to do human maintenance. He has more important things to do.
Oh, don’t even get me started on this subject. I’ve witnessed enough insanity to last me a lifetime. I still haven’t figured out who’s more insane tho. Men? Or the system? It’s a coin toss.
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:46 am
Are men not creatures of the systems they created? I should not get you started, huh. Why not? It was getting interesting.
CPS is a reflection of male values, so it protects male interests. Systems Operations 101 there. Unfortunately most of the comments on the original thread were posturing from people with their own agendas, as though this were just a health freedom issue Ron Paul would fix. This mother and her children were terrorized by Big Brother, while the abusive father eggs it on! CPS is out of control, out to get mothers not meeting their standards of normalcy. I wish there were more I could say about this case, but it has been all hush hush for a long time. Heart also told me there are so many cases of mothers tormented for whatever caprice by CPS.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Ms. Jessop is in the final stages of setting up a nonprofit organization called CHAD FOUNDATION (Choosing Health Alternatives Deliberately). She requests that if anyone has any ideas or suggestions, send an e-mail to chadfoundation@gmail.com. To make a tax deductible donation to assist in reform and help with legal expenses for the cause, the mailing address is:
Laurie Jessop
C/O Chad Foundation
P.O. Box 808
Lake Forest, CA 92609
June 19th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
I hope this young man has survived to turn 18 like Abraham Cherrix. I also hope that if Chad is given that priviledge, he and his mother sue every one involved in CaliforniaS.S.R.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
The law in California,SSR that only allows 48 hrs between diagnosis and medical treatment is unconstitutional. This does not give parents time to get second or third tests or diagnoses. With the overworked and sloppiness of labs and quacks time to get other medical input is needed more than ever. The current law just gives quacks like masciana power to kill. This is a personality conflict that should have been dismissed as such.Parents, if you do not like a dr. dont switch drs at the same clinic. Go to a different clinic with different doctors and take power away from the mascianas.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Finally an update! The case against Ms. Jessop was dismissed without prejudice last October 4, possibly because she and her children are longstanding members and ministers of the Oklevueha Native American Church of Sanpete. Chief Cloudpiler had made a comment last October that was held in moderation until now, presumably for legal reasons, observing that the Native American Free Exercise of Religion Act “would have forced this case before a Federal Grand Jury.”
The update also says an analysis of the original tissue specimens taken from Chad Jessop showed no evidence of melanoma. Angry Scientist cites a Los Angeles Times article about another case of the same department of Social Services taking children away from a mother, Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick, who sued and won almost five million dollars in March last year. Ms. Jessop wrote a comment of her own. It appears her muzzle has finally come off, so she will be working actively for a minors bill of rights.
September 29th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Has this mother sought retribution in the court system and sued the people responsible for her and her son’s abuses?
Mary
September 29th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
As far as I know, she is pursuing justice in the court system. The lawyer who represented Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick is also representing her.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:57 am
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Dear Kathy Jackson.
My name is Lawrie Mantwell & I would like to file a formal complaint against San Diego County CPS & some of their employees.
On March 29, 2009 my son in law was beating up my daughter so she called 911. When the police responded & he had left but the police apprehended him in the church parking lot. My son in law was arrested for domestic violence, DUI & child endangerment.
The Fallbrook police then went to my daughters appt broke the door down because she did not answer, she thought it was her husband coming back to beat on her again so the police broke the door down. My daughter was arrested for child endangerment & my Grandson was taken into custody by San Diego County CPS. My husband (a police officer) arrived on scene almost immediately after the police did. When he was told that she was being arrested my husband asked if we could take the child which was 3months old we were emphatically told “no” that CPS was enroute.
Yet the detention report clearly states “The child has been left without any provision for support; or the child’s parent has been incarcerated or institutionalized and cannot arrange for the care of the child; or a relative or other adult custodian with whome the child resides or has been left is unwilling or unable to provide care or support for the child. We were there, we wanted to take the child that statement is untrue!!!
So my husband asked if they would call us as soon as they found out where the baby had been taken. We never received that phone call, it took us almost 12 hours to find out where he was & several phone calls. When we finally got in touch with the social worker she said “I am glad you called because we had no contact information for family, later on she would tell us when we complained about the officer not relaying the information she replied “oh well it was in the report I just didn’t have time to call you”
So we told her that we would like our eldest daughter Kimberly to take to get emergency custody of the baby because my husband & I planned on bringing our daughter home from jail to stay with us.
No one told us there would be a detention hearing until we kept asking many different questions over & over & pushing for answers, finally were informed of the hearing!
My eldest daughter & I showed up for the detention hearing, we were told to be there at 8:00 am so we did. The case was not heard until after the lunch break at 1:30. Before the lunch break the social worker Shari Medeiros told us they were breaking for lunch but we would be first on the calendar when they come back. I then asked her if she would be back. She said “no” I questioned her as to why not? Her response was “well I need to get back to the office” & I was a bit disturbed by this & I told her “but you’re the social worker”!
Shari Medeiros then told me she would in fact come back to represent the child. Well she never did & when we called her & asked her why? She said she had to go back to her office & prepare the placement paperwork which was subsequently not submitted for another week! Shari Medeiros was untruthful about that. CPS placement office told us when it had in fact been turned in.
Shari also told us that the child could NOT be placed with her for emergency placement because she had a Riverside County CPS complaint against her. We both emphatically impressed upon her that the case was “unfounded” we waited & waited & when I asked her if she had even called Riverside County CPS she said “I would have to say no” she made no attempt but it’s also my understanding is “unfounded means just that, unfounded, they cannot use it against her! So then when we kept asking her why they were trying to use that to avoid placement then she came up with the excuse, that Kimberly my oldest daughter had a traffic citation 5 years ago, seriously, I thought that CPS would rather place the baby with a relative??? Or is this about $$ Then there have been other issues such as; San Diego County CPS has a terrible record of returning phone calls to our family, my daughter tried to contact Sharon Grove for well over a week calling every day to book an appointment for fingerprints she NEVER called back.
They pulled both her & her husband out of the TDM meeting to do their finger prints well over a week later! Then proceeded to tell us it would take about 10 days to get them back. She should have called back a week prior!
Shari Medeiros is having my eldest daughter & her husband go all the way to Escondido to pick up the baby from foster care, they live in Wildomar, 45 min away to give the parents supervised visits, isn’t that the job of the social workers job? & Nick her husband does the supervised visits with the father because he is not comfortable with his wife going alone because of the fathers violent past.
The social worker Shari Medeiros told them they need to be impartial.
Shari Medeiros has clearly demonstrated the she is partial to the father of my Grandchild & gets personally involved! During one phone call she told my daughter Heather (the baby’s Mother that when she moved out she took Chris’s (the baby’s father) toothbrush & he would like it back!
Shari Medeiros has told the father she has the case plan done & has made an appt to go over it with him, she has not done that with our daughter. My daughter asked for a copy of the case plan in writing and she refused, said “You will get it the day of court”
The San Diego County CPS worker that did the home inspection has not returned my eldest daughters phone calls & she has left several voice mail messages.
NO paperwork or check list was given to my eldest daughter prior to the home inspection at all, she went into it blind!
Now that we are nearing a month that CPS has had custody of my Grandson, all they can tell us is that they are still waiting for paperwork and have no idea, it could be days or weeks. Today she spoke to them and they said they are waiting for the C.L.E.T.S report that could take weeks!!!!
Shari Medeiros at first the day of the detention hearing told us that my daughter needs to get away from this guy for both her & her baby’s safety, now she is constantly encouraging her to “re unify” with her aggressor!
My daughters husband told her “if you ever try and divorce me I will kill you!” and we informed Shari Medeiros of that! What did Shari Medeiros do, she told my son-in-law that my daughter is filing for a divorce, is that her place??? Does she care to see my daughter injured again? He has a violent past and she had to know this would be dangerous, we did not want him to know until the TRO was in place and she was made aware of that!
After telling Shari Medeiros at the TDM. That we planned on putting a restraining order on him she told Heather (the baby’s Mom) that she would like her to go into a 6 month in patient drug rehab to get away from “the influence” of her family, she is not on drugs & I feel that is what family is for to support each other?
The day of the detention hearing the judge told both parents that they had 6 months to get it together & if they did not the baby could be adopted out, so in our minds time is of the essence BUT Shari Medeiros told Heather she could wait till May to start her classes we were amazed & very scared for her to wait. Does this social worker want the baby adopted out?
She continually puts road blocks & discourages Heather from seeking services in the county in which she reside in Riverside County. Heather has no drivers license so one of us has to drive her all the way to San Diego county every time! When there are services Shari Medeiros has required minutes away from us! shari Medeiros has required Heather start new substance abuse classes when she is already enrolled in one. San Diego County CPS has refused to cover the cost of the parenting classes in which they are requiring her to attend, yet my daughter has NO source of income at present!
Shari Medeiros has told my daughter Heather that your Mom making threats is just going to slow the process”
This department has made it clear that they have the power & if we question things it will be our loss.
There is family that wants sincerely wants this baby, charges were dropped against my daughter & her abusive husband again! unfortunately. We would like to do whatever we can to get our Grandson out of foster care and placed with family as soon as possible!
& not like to fear reprisal from CPS.
Keep us well informed, be honest & truthful, return phone calls, obey the law, & stop taking sides.
We would like for the case to be transferred to Riverside County where the Mother currently resides.
Do what is best for the child, the bonding process for this child is vital to his viability!
Please hear our pleas & make this department be held accountable,
Sincerely,
Lawrie M
Hotcoppa@aol.com
Cc; ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
Governor of California
Congressman Darrell Issa
Greg Cox San Diego County Board of Supervisor
Dianne Jacob San Diego County board of Supervisor
Pam Slater San Diego County Board of Supervisor
Ron Roberts San Diego County Board of Supervisor
Bill Horn San Diego County Board of Supervisor
October 9th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
this is really disturbing. lawrie, how has your case progressed? cps is scary!
November 12th, 2009 at 1:23 am
Great post and interesting one too!!!
December 16th, 2009 at 9:14 am
I have to say cps are the crookest people i have ever met ,they will stand in front of your face and lie,my sister left her boyfriend in march and he went down to get emergency custody of their daughter claiming that my sister was a crackhead or coke addict.When they came to my house to talk to her larry the cps worker told her that he can call in as many times as he wants and theirs nothing you can do about it,so when my sister questioned him that if she such a bad mother why did he wait until she left him to say this.Well i see that cps does like to be put in a position that you aske your own questions to them.they want to do all the talking and you submit to hearing them speak.I actually think that these people get off on listening to themselves speak and push you around.Ok now he wated her to sign something that she would submit a urine test ,i told her know that you sign nothing without a lawyer that is your right,unfortunitly she signed saying that she didn’t that they could take the kids as she thought come to find out she didn’t have to sign it because he had to have a court order to make her sign it.He called a couple times just to annoy her she refused the test telling to get a court order ,well them he left her alone .
OK now she was ordered in family court to let him see their daughter ,so she brings their daughter over for a visit but that she doesn’t like to leave him alone with him because he has bipolar and he’s extremly violent,this man i found out has been arrested 32 times for domestic violence in the past.well he goes beserk attacks my sister and their daughter scratches their daughters face ,stomach,legs,beats my sister ,he goes to jail.Now cps goes to see him in jail ,never once goes and talks to my sister or check the child welfare,and then in late sept. larry serves my sister with child neglect and also the father,which we were astounded because we didn’t even know their was an investigation on her and that he had been talking to the father the whole summer not once contacting my sister.
Now when my sister went to court the judged jumped on her and sent her immidiatly for a drug test,ok the drug test came back tampered with they said they found alot of water and that she must of drank tons of glasses of water before the test,my sister replied to the judge i didn’t even know i was being tested for drugs and she hates water not only that her lawyer brought her there and they have someone watch you urinate anyways they still accused her of it and they automatically said that’s makes it positive and high amount.Which i thought if eveidence was considered tampered with that it can’t be allowed in court but this judge thinks she’s god in her court room and alot of people do not like her ,she is extremly unfair and barely lets my sister lawyer ever speak.And seems to be on the father side .But since she has admitted to smoking pot too help her deal with all the threats from her ex this summer that she hadn’t done anything in months.She has no criminal recored at all he has been in and out of jail since he was 17 the guy is 50 now.ALL they seem concerned about is the pot not him harming his own child.My sister loves her kids and always takes care of them first before herself,and that cps themselves said that the kids were great.But we found out that this larry guy has in for her that her ex and larry have teamed up against my sister and are deseperatly trying to custody of her daughter.
Ok now i have larry on dvd acting in a very bad way in front of my house and he’s being investigated for it.I would think he was not happy when he was called in to this investigators office.But now we have another person who’s coming to our house who claimed at first she didn’t work for cps but now says she does and claims she some sort of mediator ,i think it’s another round of harrasment from cps ,oh and larry was totally kicked off the case.
December 17th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Update ,this woman came to our house and says she’s from the neighborhood center ,which i don’t understand what it has to do with anything and that she is the one that is making arraingements for them to set up a times and days he can see her,but my sister has many concerns about this that he is unable to read and write,he has paid no child support,is still drinking but never gets caught and selling drugs,we know this for fact since he had a guy living with him and he called my sister to warn her what was going on and being that he is bipolar and refuses to take medication ,without that medication makes this man very dangerous i eman last year at his daughter birthday party this man flipped out over a watermelon falling on the floor so you can imagine how concerned my sister is.Now he gets supervision at his house but it’s done by his sister which i think is unfair because she could always cover up for him.How is she going to stop him when he flips out.I’ve learn to video tape anybody that works for the city and the state when i told her that we would be taping this ,she wasn’t happy and refused to let us do it and left.Which i found very odd since it would make sure that no one would be lieing and etc.She told me that we have nothing to worry about saying she was straight forward and honest person ,my response is that i’ve heard that before from cps and well if i didn’t have that tape of cps … By the way cps went in front of the commissioner anfd she was not happy with this man lol!So just when they come to your tape them they refuse you can ask them to leave as almost had too do with one cps worker.It;s important that you always have some sort of video to back you up without that your doomed by cps because what they say is believed no matter what so have video it’s your friend and enemy to cps!
January 29th, 2010 at 7:12 am
these stories sound like our problem with these people. they kidnapped my grandsons from childrens hospital the nite of jan. 19th. the babies are now with a family friend. the reason for the kidnapping!! some very minor scratches and red marks that my son and daughter in law could not explain. therefore these people conspired to take the kids on some kind of emergency order to prevent further harm to the babies. when they were released to the friend, the 2yo. had a flaming red diaper rass and the baby was constipated because these stupid people changed his formula without asking anyone. the publicdefender lawyer assigned to my daughter in law has already tried to get her to flip on my son and get him to plead guilty to child abuse, if he does this they were told they could get the kids back. I read all of these bloggs and everyone agreases the system is broken beyond belief, but nobody seems to be able to get to the people that can make changes. county stupidvisor Dianne jacob is a disgrace to the office and needs to be retired. We all need to ban together and file a class action law suit against CPS, the county and the stupidvisors individually. but I bet we won’t find any attorneys willing to take that task on.