Attorneys: George Childs, James Knight, Marietta; Michael Broadbear, Kenneth Schatten, Atlanta. Broadbear was opposing attorney throughout the entire divorce/alleged death and burial of my son. George Childs and James Knight dropped my case as soon as the boy was allegedly buried.
Over a course of 6 weeks while funeral/burial arrangements were occurring for my child, I was being arrested and harassed (charges disappeared, dismissed and/or thrown out of court) while my attorney, George Childs was conveniently on vacation. There was nobody to phone for help. But George Childs told Coweta police I said my son was suicidal when I didn't. I hadn't seen my son for weeks with no way of knowing his state of mind, compliments of Cobb County courts, and, apparently–– attorneys and others involved. 
In speaking with George Childs a few years later, I requested all of my files. He complained his hard drive had failed, but was able to provide some of the copies.
My response:
"I hope you have a good memory, Mr. Childs."
In Cobb County, Georgia an affluent or executive divorce can mean horror for the spouse as it did in my case. Dead or threatened children, ridiculing attorneys and judges laughing at cocktail parties about the case, jails, false arrests, police harassment following the targeted individual are some of the things I endured. One of the local connected lawyers relatives (Beard) might even wind up owning your business.
Expect a days notice at the most on important court trials as was the case with my divorce.
The harassing phone call charges were later dismissed from court altogether. I was told I would have an hour's notice to be in court the day of that trial, which I noted to the solicitor would be impossible for my out-of-state witnesses. I was given the choice of pleading guilty and paying the fine, going before a judge to hear the case, or requesting a jury trial. Even though the jury trial would not allow witnesses (or myself) ample time to be in court with their notification process as it was explained, I felt it would be my best bet for a fair shake in a corrupt county, after all I'd been through. I requested the jury trial, and those charges later after plenty of worry and travel expenses, were dismissed.
For my divorce trial proceeding I was given less than 24 hours prior notice, and less than 8 hours to be in my attorney's office the evening before the trial. The problem was, I was living temporarily in another state nearly 350 miles away yet miraculously I was able to drop everything, jump in the car and be in Atlanta at 5:00 p.m. in rush-hour traffic, much to my lawyer's absolute surprise. It was dangerous driving over the speed limit near 100 m.p.h. at times, yet they gave me little choice with so little notice for court date and time. It's apparently the way the system - or the legal system - works in Georgia.
With the false arrests, in my case I was told Georgia "state court" gives an an hour's notice of the jury trial, which leads to yet another warrant if missed. In fact, I was told the trial would fall on a day within an announced two week period. I wouldn't know on which day the trial would occur, but the day of the trial I would get a call an hour before court time telling me to be in court.
I wondered how they could do this and get away with it. It was against the Fair Trial clauses in the U.S. Constitution as best I could recall.
Within just a few weeks in Georgia, I suffered so many arrests, plus a ticket for no seat belt, the police were crawling all over me. If paranoia in this situation could be considered mental illness, then it's something that the police can create in individuals. Fleeing the state to avoid further persecution and stalking may be the only way to escape it in Georgia.
Word travels among the mighty. I was stalked by both, police and criminals. I experienced harassing police, even in other states, and police, thieves and organized criminals, to me, clearly were sent to finish what was started in Cobb County, Georgia. It had to be organized crime coupled with some heavy back room deals.
Contact the police, they'll laugh and look the other way and then you're on the target list if you weren't before! That's how it worked. It's what happened in Georgia and elsewhere. Some didn't laugh and some did. If you get out alive, and your children are alive, consider yourself lucky, but still you'll be scared to death for the children who remain.
I had asked Judge Laurens Lee of Peach County, as I was being handcuffed, finger-printed and receiving mug shots, if he thought they'd kill my other children. He had explained that if I would just sign my divorce papers, all of my problems would disappear. If I refused, would they kill my other children? I'd asked Judge Lee in response.
Cobb County, Georgia is no place for an abused mother who's former spouse has an affluent business partner/mistress. In Georgia court, if they're affluent, in business, and connected, like his mistress, Dale Tilinski and business partner, her ad agency sister, Dorothy Hughes-Shields, they'll win. They had set up a business and he'd moved into his mistress's house before our divorce was ever final.
The worst thing he did was leave our beautiful daughter in the house alone to finish high school. I never knew it because the way they set it up, I couldn't talk to her lest I'd be put back in jail. She was afraid in the house alone. She survived Cobb County divorce court and justice system, and she survived the criminals and I'm very proud of her courage and stamina!
With Georgia's "family" court system, the fact that you're even still alive and sane after all the horrors should warrant an investigation. I never thought to expect months or years of waiting and continuing horrors, knowing I could be stalked and targeted maybe for the rest of my life. It's the "Georgia divorce game," I thought to myself. The lawyers were having a poker match with our lives and assets.
Expect any children's inheritance to go to the attorneys, or courts, or for survival in the streets for the divorce duration, or for costs with the false arrests and attorney horror stories.
Georgia is one place the courts and lawyers can work to destroy parties involved, and make plenty of money for the state and themselves doing it in drumming up all the false charges and arrests. Plenty of paper work and fines!!
Communist Russia might be a safer place to live, if you're on the losing side in a Cobb County, Georgia divorce. Hundreds of times I thought about leaving the country. But for the children left behind, how could I abandon them to a corrupt system?"The devil went down to Georgia...." - CDB
- In memory of Sara Tokars
8 comments:
Medawar wonders if this might be enlightening:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1212256/Divorce-destruction.html
Especially where it says that for many powerful men, it's all about being seen to win, rather than anything else.
If their power depends on the "respect" of cronies, rather than any actual ability or value to society, this may be very true.
Certainly, criminals and psychopaths are more likely to react in this way than (increasingly rare) normal men.
I'm sure in any corporate situation, executives hate to see a "co-exeutive" comrade lose in any divorce or court case. I was one of those corporate wives kept in the house to iron shirts, cook, clean and smile and look pretty at company functions.
He never talked much at all so it's difficult to know all of the connections, through associations or attorneys- while "at work." It's pretty frightening if corporate wives who live in so sheltered environment can actually be up against, being moved around and isolated from family/ friends, for the sake of "his career."
The strange thing in all of this, the rifle used in the alleged suicide, was said by the (now deceased) Alabama coroner to be a Winchester 1100, and in the very early 1980's my husband requested a birthday present. I can't remember now whether it was a Remington 1200 or Winchester 1100 - for hunting. But it do recall it was to be a "semi-automatic."
The really curious part when Cobb County police came to the house asking if I had a gun, (before they ordered me on the streets based on LIES given to them by my husband.)
I said, "Nope. There was an old .22 in the basement and he twisted the barrel into a circle for a railroad party joke." In fact that same week he was at a meeting at the railroad's South Carolina hunting preserve they called "the Forest." He said, "I'll be home Friday and we'll celebrate your birthday." Instead a knock came and cops ushered me out of the house. (Happy Birthday.) Christmas was the dead son. Funeral December 24 - Christmas Eve, 1998.
I had forgotten all about that hunting rifle, altogether until Coroner Huey Mack gave the description.
"Business" schools executives to win win win. In fact, the entire society is always based on winning from kindergarten through life. It's why gambling is so popular, I guess.
We may never know the truth. It's yet to be told. And I do appreciate your writing and hope maybe you can figure it all out!!
The fact I and the remaining children are still alive and surviving warrants an investigation!
The other thing to remember there are THREE generations, Gerard J. Sniffen. Grandfather, Father, Son.
Gerard J. Sniffen, Sr. phoned his son, Gerard J. Sniffen Jr less than a year before his grandson, Gerard J. Sniffen III disappeared and "committed suicide." He said to his son, "Gerry, I don't want to live anymore, I'm in pain. Take care of your mother."
A week later he was dead.
After marrying his mistress, Gerard J. Sniffen, Jr. took his widowed mother, wife and my daughter to Switzerland, Paris and Rome.
I've always wondered if they had a family reunion while there. And found Switzerland a curious destination, as well -particularly since he and his mistress were in business and living together even while we were still married.
The other really interesting part of it, in lookups on the internet, "intelius" makes it appear I am still named "Michelle Sniffen" and living in the home of my mother-in-law. It's very strange, and they had to have some kind of record for that to show up. Can't imagine exactly what they did to create it.
It's as if when I took back my maiden name, they used it to the fullest extent and basically I "disappeared."
I wonder if they've borrowed money against your old identity, or used it in some other way, perhaps to obtain a passport?
Might be worth asking the relevant authority if anybody but you holds a passport in your old name...
1998 my husband stated he "needed to get passports for the kids," before I was ordered on the streets and before my son "committed suicide." I wondered why at that time, because there were no plans for travel. But you see as soon as he married his mistress, 2000, he took our daughter - and his mother to Europe. So the trip had been planned nearly two years in advance.
He had connections through the railroad with powerful people, even in Europe. His father may well have had connections from NY (Long Island) and Massachusetts.
I've wondered how many other women (and men!) have fallen victim to these people. And how many have not lived to write about it.
Professional advised me I was up against the mafia, and maybe I should move and "forget" everything. I explained, with these people you can't because they're connected no matter where you go, they have a gang they can beckon.
Because his boss, Phil Ogden lost a son in a car accident, then Amy Frink so mysteriously died, like my son, I've wondered if there isn't a shadow following certain families around.
The other question is whether there's a secret relocation program similar to "Witness Protection" that affluent folks move trouble children for protection. In this country, money can arrange just about anything.
Dear Michelle.
Making people's children disappear does seem to be a stasi trick of old. See:
http://the-dirk-schiller-case.blog.ca/page/3/
the headline article is the same on every page, there are blog posts below that, some of those are about what Dirk might look like now (he was taken when very young. (I wonder about Madeline, too.)
That is a very interesting case. There is absolutely nothing new under the sun.
Wealthy, affluent people who have a child in trouble and witness-protection-savvy-friends can pull off anything. Because in the USA everything is for sale and has a price. Money is "GOD."
This is a country that excels in coverup, since even before the Kennedy assassination with the CIA's tactics. Sadly, no longer are we the home of the free and brave, but a land of coverup, criminals, mafias, drugs, and lies.
I never thought I'd live to see our country come to this. Thank you for your comments.
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http://www.wevoteformonkeys.org/
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