After over 16 years caring for a wife who had been in and out of mental hospitals and treatment, I was forced to choose between her and our children to protect them from her abuse. Unfortunately, I had not known about the abuse even though some of the counselors and psychologists/psychiatrists had known but not reported. Then I found the very courts that I went to to protect my children were all to eager to help abuse them. . . .
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First, the children's psychologist recommended that I receive custody for the best interests of the children. (My then wife, who was the only child of a very wealthy widow had access to virtually limitless financial resources.) My wife's attorney, Paul B Roderer, objected to this report, so the court sent the us to its own psychological counselor. This person recommended to the court that the children needed to be separated from their mother quickly and that the children should only visit with their mother in the controlled and supervised environment of the Greene County, Ohio, Children's Services Agency. However, my wife's attorney found a psychologist, Dr. Cherry, in Kettering, Ohio, who sold not just his services, but also his opinion, and would willing sacrifice two minor children for the almighty dollar. (When this was reported to the area American Psychologists Association, they whitewashed it.) Judge Shattuck, in spite of two reports - one by his own preferred professional, continued to drag the case out to the emotional torment of these children.
Attorney Paul B Roderer then instructed my wife in the wiretapping of our household telephone. This was not known until, after finally moving out in late 1981, my estranged wife, during forced visitation against the children's own wishes and the psychologists' recommendations, told her own children that unless they chose to live with her, she would play in court tape recordings of their telephone conversations with their friends. Considering the stress these children had been under from a mother who abused them physically, sexually, and emotionally, their calls were not always the calmest and most reasonable in nature. The children returned home incensed over the tape recording of their telephone calls.
My attorney immediately subpoenaed the tapes and 12 were delivered. However, attorney Paul B Roderer first directed the removal from these tapes all conversations between my attorney and myself.
The telephone company records proved that my conversations with my attorney had been intercepted. As my attorney lived a long distance call away, the phone records would show the time ad duration of a long-distance call to a friend. and immediate time and duration to my attorney, and an immediate time and duration to family members. The tape had been erased to hide from the court and us that our attorney-client privilege had been violated. In fact, Attorney Paul Roderer asked questions in the courtroom that were based on knowledge that could only have come from those tapes.
During the time our phone was wire-tapped, I had been home with a respiratory infection, yet still working on some very sensitive negotiations for the Air Force worth literally over a BILLION dollars. When I heard this critical information, I immediately turned a copy of the tapes over to the Air Force OSI (Office of Special Investigations) for their investigation. Since contractor operations were involved, they brought in the FBI. One day in 1982, two FBI agents came onto Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where I worked and invited me out to their car to discuss the situation. In the car they told me hat they had conducted and investigation that went to Washington, DC, and The Los Angeles, CA, area as well as in Dayton, OH. (Wonder how many thousands of dollars that cost?)
In the meanwhile, my estranged wife had been having frequent shortages in her cash drawer at the bank where she was a teller. Ultimately, as I understand, she had one of over $900.00 and, even though her rich mother reimbursed the bank, she was asked to resign. Then Judge Shattuck, her attorney Paul B Roderer, and my attorney met in the Judge's Chambers for a very long and heated exchange, after which my attorney told me that Judge Judson Shattuck was "absolutely convinced" that my estranged wife had stolen (embezzled) the money from the bank. However, since she was now unemployed, I was ordered to pay $75.00 per week in temporary support. NOTE: her mother had moved to Beavercreek, Ohio, an paid over $100,000.00 for her to have a house to live free in and also underwrote her full tuition to go to Wright State University.
A momentary digression: This woman, with a life long history of treatment for sociopathic behavior, then went on to become licensed by Ohio as a Family Counselor. This in spite of the expenditure of state funds for her unsuccessful treatments including at least one stay in the Rollman (spelling?) State Psychiatric Hospital in Cincinnati, OH!
This woman advised the children and me that they would have to live with her because when she was done with me, I would not have enough money to even buy them food!
Finally, though it drove me into bankruptcy, I ended up with custody of the children. The court awarded me 5.00 dollars per week per child, less poundage. She was unemployed, but living in a house worth over 100,000 dollars, with her own late model car, and going to college full-time! Even then, she ended up a year in arrears with absolutely no action by the child support payment agency.
Contrast this with the later choice by one child to live with her. (No rules, drugs, car, not study, and failed to graduate) The court awarded her fifty dollars a week support plus poundage! Eventually, the child support agency was sending me checks back because I was paid too far ahead while at the same time telling the Ohio I was a deadbeat dad and confiscating my state tax return.
. . . and this is only the beginning . . .