Deceit
Judicial Fraud and Entrenched Discrimination: Labor Govt stays silent on Serious Allegations
Serious Allegations of Judicial Fraud unanswered
It has now been over 5 years since Australia’s High Court delivered a stunning judgment in the Magill v Magill paternity fraud case in Australia, effectively creating two remarkable precedents in terms of the perpetuation of fraud in this country.
According to Anti Paternity Fraud Advocate Cheryl King, “Paternity fraud was effectively endorsed by Australia’s highest court, the High Court, denying the plaintiff Mr Liam Magill any legal recourse against the woman who fraudulently deceived both Mr Magill and two of his three children into believing that he was their father.”
King further stated that “this deception continued even after separation, involving financial fraud which the Court deemed as not required to be re-paid”.
King alleges that in the second, another type of fraud was exercised by one of the presiding judges, Justice Susan Crennan.
Female teacher arrested for having sex with five students
A 27 year old married teacher with three children, Â has been jailed after being accused of having sex with five of her students during an orgy at her home.
Police said Brittni Nicole Colleps also exchanged sexually-explicit text and picture messages with the students prior to her arrest.
Brittni Colleps, invited the boys to her home for the sex romp and the encounter was filmed on their cell phones.
The 27-year-old’s husband was away overseas on duty serving with the US military.
Colleps, an English teacher and girl’s basketball coach, faces up to ten years in jail after being charged with five felony counts of inappropriate relationships between a student and a teacher.
Although all five of the teens involved with Colleps were 18 years of age or older, Texas law prohibits sex between a teacher and a student, regardless of the student’s age.
According to a police arrest warrant affidavit, the investigation into Colleps began after a 19-year-old student told investigators about his sexual relationship with his English teacher.
The student told police the relationship began with sexually explicit text messages and photos that they sent to each other for about a week in late April.
Later that month the student drove to Colleps home in Arlington, Texas where they had sex.
He later received a text message from the teacher saying they ‘had fun’ and an invite back to the house.
When he arrived there were four other students from Kennedale High School present and they told police they all had sex with Colleps.
When police analyzed the teen’s phone they found video footage of him and Colleps having sex. They also found sexually explicit photos and text messages the pair had sent each other.
Police later interviewed a second student who said he was present when the sex romp took place.
School officials learned about the teacher’s alleged relationships and put her on leave with pay.
Schools Superintendent Gary Dugger posted a letter on the school’s website saying that the district was cooperating with investigators.
‘As the alleged acts occurred off campus, once Kennedale ISD personnel were put on notice, immediate action was taken,’ the letters says.
Colleps is being held in the Arlington jail on $125,000 bail after turning herself into police on Monday.
Ms Colleps could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000 if convicted.
American Woman found guilty of HK ‘Milkshake Murder’ of Husband
A Hong Kong jury on Friday unanimously found an American woman guilty of murdering her Merrill Lynch banker husband in 2003, ending the lengthy retrial of a case that riveted the territory with tales of rough sex, marital violence and adultery.
Nancy Kissel, who has appeared in a wheelchair during nearly 10 weeks of proceedings at Hong Kong’s High Court, had already been sentenced to life in prison in 2005 for murdering senior Merrill Lynch investment banker Robert Kissel  by giving him a milkshake spiked with sedatives and then clubbing him to death with a metal statuette.
Kissel, in her mid-40s, had been convicted of murder. But in the retrial, she had pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter, with the defence arguing that she suffers from depression and had been provoked into the crime after years of sexual and physical abuse by her husband.
After the verdict from the jury of seven women and two men was read out, Kissel, looking pale and thin, rocked backwards and forwards slowly as members of her family broke down in tears and held one another.
Justice Andrew Macrae described the retrial as a “difficult and very serious one” while saying that his “hands were tied” in upholding Kissel’s life sentence in accordance with Hong Kong punishment for murder, despite mitigating arguments put forward by Kissel’s lawyers.
“I don’t wish to say anything to add to your anguish,” Macrae said simply to Kissel, who struggled to stay on her feet as prison wardens led her from the courtroom.
Speaking outside the court building to reporters, Kissel’s elderly mother, Jean McGlothlin, said with tears in her eyes that she was “shocked by the outcome,” while expressing concern for the frail physical condition of her daughter.
Kissel’s step-father, Michael McGlothlin, said he thought the unanimity of the decision by the jurors was bewildering. “Certainly there are grounds for appeal,” he said.
The so-called “milkshake murder” case engrossed Hong Kong with its tales of domestic violence, rough sex and adultery that fractured the high-flying expatriate lifestyle that many financial professionals in the former British colony enjoy.
Prosecutors said Kissel gave Robert a milkshake laced with a “cocktail of drugs” before cracking his skull several times with a statuette. They said Robert had planned to divorce Nancy and wanted custody of their children after discovering she had an affair with a TV repairman in the United States.
After the killing, she left the corpse in the master bedroom for several days before rolling it up in the living room carpet and having it carried into a storeroom at the couple’s luxury apartment complex perched in the lush hills of Hong Kong island.
The defence had sought to argue that Kissel was suffering significant emotional problems and psychological distress from years of bullying by her husband that led to the killing in an “abnormality of violence.”
Last February, following an appeal to Hong Kong’s highest court, Kissel won a stunning reprieve when the panel of judges quashed Kissel’s conviction and ordered a retrial, saying the case had been flawed and riven with conflicting evidence.
The retrial which began in January and lasted 10 weeks clearly took an emotional toll on Kissel, who often appeared listless and pale in court, at times breaking down and even once screaming that she could see her dead husband in the courtroom.
Many Kissel supporters were bitterly disappointed, including her father Ira Keeshin who hobbled away with a walking stick and refused comment. But many echoed the view of her lawyer Colin Cohen who said: “We regret the verdict … but in my view, we have had a very fair trial.”
(Reporting by James Pomfret, editing by Miral Fahmy and Sugita Katyal)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/9078019/american-woman-found-guilty-in-hk-milkshake-murder/
Court refuses to keep mum’s baby a secret
A mother who kept her baby a secret from her husband has been told she can not have the boy adopted after judges refused to back “a great lieâ€Â.
The woman did not realise she was expecting a child until she was six months pregnant and, even though she lives with her husband, managed to give birth to the boy last year without his father knowing.
She wanted to hide the birth from her husband because he was traumatised by his experiences in the refugee family’s native Afghanistan, and she believes that knowledge of his fatherhood could further damage his mental health.
The family are refugees from Afghanistan and the father is deeply traumatised by his experiences in the war-torn country.
The Taliban murdered his sister, who died in his arms and the mother fears that knowledge of his fatherhood may further inflict damage on his mental health.
The “unpredictable and volatile†father suffers severe depression and “psychotic symptomsâ€Â, endures flashbacks to violence in his homeland and “hears the voices of dead family members asking for helpâ€Â, the Appeal Court in London was told.
The little boy was taken into care immediately after his birth and the mother has told social workers she wants him adopted and has demanded that the father not be told of the baby’s existence or be allowed to play any part in the adoption process.
The birth has not been registered but, last September, Mr Justice Mostyn ruled that the father must be told of his son.
Observing that the parents “are married and living together†and “a full family life existsâ€Â, the judge said it would be wrong for the court to “endorse and formalise a great lieâ€Â.
The court heard that the women in the family know about the birth, but the men have no idea.
Mr Justice Mostyn said that, if the mother was granted secrecy, “the family would live in a tangled web of deceit with the female members knowing all about this episode and pretending it never happened, while the male members were oblivious to it.†If the father ever found out about the baby, family chaos could result and he would be legitimately “upset to find out that his mother and sisters, supported by me, had in a calculated way withheld knowledge of his existenceâ€Â, the judge added.
Rejecting the mother’s appeal against the judge’s decision yesterday, Lord Justice Thorpe said it would require “a very high degree of exceptionality†for the court to co-operate in the father being deliberately kept in the dark about the birth of his legitimate son.
The judge, sitting with Lord Justice Longmore and Lady Justice Black, said there was “no medical or other expert evidence that supports the mother’s case†and her attempt to keep her baby behind a veil of secrecy was “hopelessâ€Â.
Lady Justice Black said the mother’s concerns that the knowledge of fatherhood might badly affect her traumatised husband were based on “pure suppositionâ€Â.
Although “a degree of upset and confusion†was inevitable when the father was told the truth, the judge said: “This was not the sort of harm that would justify keeping the father ignorant of his son’s existenceâ€Â.
By Murray Wardrop
