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JUDICIAL MIUSCONDUCT CAUSES POLICE RIOT OF ABUSE OF POWER
Nov 1, 1999: To whom it may concern,
Please allow me through this letter to introduce myself to you. I am a Harvard-educated composer, author, and multimedia developer. My works have received national and international awards and honors in all three fields. My family and I lived in Holland from October 1993 through August 1999.
My story involves gross judicial misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, violation of due process, violation of Hague Convention procedures, and pandering to a foreign government with no respect for the laws of the United States. It involves judges, federal and state prosecutors and attorneys, the FBI, and the Department of State, all of whom acted in concert to cause a police riot of abuse of power that resulted in the kidnapping of my children, both native-born American citizens, by a foreign government. At no time, were any of us afforded due process or even notified that we were wanted.
I have two biological children, Celina (14) and Stephanie (11). Both were born in the United States. Both are American citizens who have spent more than half their lives in the United States. The three of us are devote Christians and desperately desire to return to the United States.
My new-age Swiss wife wants to prevent this move. She is being aided by the corrupt Dutch legal system and, more remarkably, the United States government including law enforcement agencies such as the FBI, as well as the Department of State and the State of Maryland.
Our rights have been seriously violated by the United States government, Department of Justice, Department of State, the FBI, and the State of Maryland.
I have posted news about the case on my website detailing the progression of events so far. I will try to summarize the situation below. You may want to peruse the full text later.
On the first Saturday in January of 1999, after I caught my wife Monique Fasel molesting my older daughter I informed her that I was taking the children to the authorities the following Monday. Before I could do so she abducted my children against their will from the family home into the house of Monique's so-called Wicca high-priestess, Liduina Deering, in Haarlem (Wicca was founded by Gerald Gardner to justify his own sexual abuse of children and is based upon the work of notorious Satanist, Aleister Crowley).
I spent the months of January through July battling with the corrupt Dutch legal system in an effort to rescue my children who have unceasingly asserted their wish to come home to me. There were four hearings and early on, my youngest daughter was able to escape from the cult house for a period of ten days. My children both wrote many heart-wrenching letters to the judges informing them of their desire to come home to me. All their letters were ignored.
Throughout this period and to this day my wife and I had joint legal custody of our children. Due to a country-wide policy of absolute tolerance of the weird and non-conventional, in all decisions the Dutch legal system favored the bizarre cults of my wife, by then a confirmed pedophile, over the stable Christian family values I offered in their place. This notwithstanding, by March, 1999, I had persuaded the Dutch courts to honor their own laws of 50-50 access for both parents.
When I discovered that the Raad voor de Kinderbescherming (Child Protection Agency) had ignored my request for an investigation of my daughter's sexual molestation by my wife, I had Celina examined by registered psychotherapist Claire Boers-Stoll in Amsterdam and this examination, along with subsequent discussions with my daughter confirmed that she had been molested by my wife, Monique Fasel.
When I brought this information to the attention of the Haarlem court on July 22, 1999, Judge A.J. Milius refused to consider it, refused to contact the psychotherapist, and refused to discuss the matter with my daughter who had written him a letter begging to discuss the molestation with him. He even refused to read the letter. Instead, he cut my children's access to me down from 50% of each month to every other Saturday. He did this, he said, because I had tried to deliver a letter from my daughters to him. Perhaps one shouldn't be surprized of this in a country like the Netherlands where it wasn't until 1990 that fathers were even granted any parental visitation rights at all, and shockingly, is was not until 1998 that the joint custody policy was incoporated into the laws!
By August we had had neither a custody hearing nor a divorce hearing and none were scheduled. We had had a number of "Temporary Arrangements" hearings whose sole purpose was to determine temporary access of both parents to the children. According to Dutch law both parents have joint custody until a custody hearing might determine otherwise. My wife was given something called "entrustment" for the minor daily decisions of the children's lives. Dutch law clearly specifies that "entrustment" has no legal force and is not to be equated with custody in any sense of the word. Further, none of this applied to my older daughter -- in Holland, the law specifies that children 12 years old or older are free to make their own custody decisions. The Hague Convention extends this age to much younger children.
My children and I decided to come home to the United States. Celina and Stephanie had dreams of attending American schools (my wife had placed them in an Anthroposophic cult school), attending American churches (my wife refuses to allow them to attend the American church in Holland, instead forcing them into an endless progression of new-age cult rituals), having American friends (my wife forbids this and, in fact, has altered official Dutch records to state that the children are not American and did not come from the United States), and speaking their native language which is English (something strictly forbidden by my wife).
We arrived in the United States on September 1, 1999 and slowly made our way to Idaho where I had made pre-arrangements for our housing and the children's schooling as well as their normal after-school activities lessons: music, drama, horse-riding, etc. Our belongings had been shipped there ahead of us. My children were ecstatic and repeatedly stated that it was "a dream come true!"
On September 9, 1999, before we could get to Idaho, my wife arrived in Maryland with a Hague Convention Treaty request demanding the return of the children unless "one of the few exceptions is to be applied." The exceptions are articles 13b and 20 and I was prepared to exercise my children's rights to those exceptions, however, we were never allowed to do so.ÊIn fact, we didn't discover that the Hague Convention Treaty was involved until October 30 after I had been jailed and my children kidnapped back into my wife's cult (she escaped with them to the Netherlands) and I had been freed on bail.
In support of the Hague request, an English translation of the Dutch temporary access arrangements order was submitted. Neither that document, nor the Hague Convention request stated that either of us had custody because both my wife and I had joint legal custody. The next to the last paragraph of the Hague Convention request made it clear that custody had not been determined yet. Nonetheless, Maryland's Baltimore County Circuit Judge John O. Hennegan converted the temporary access arrangement, which has no legal force even in the Netherlands, into a Maryland Custody Order giving custody to my wife.
Maryland had and has no jurisdiction over the case: None of us are residents of Maryland. My wife and children have never been a resident of Maryland although I was once a resident 32 years ago as a child. Note that there was no attempt on behalf of the courts to authenticate any of the documents that my wife submitted. Nor has any subsequent attempt been made.
As if that weren't enough, all this took place without informing me or the children of the hearing. This, in spite of the fact that my wife and her lawyers had us under photographic surveillance by private detectives and knew where we were at all times from the moment she arrived in the United States. Had we been informed of the hearing, I would have submitted copies of the Dutch law as well a clear article 13b and article 20 defense to their charges. I was carrying those items with me at all times.
The bogus custody order allowed my wife to obtain parental child abduction warrants for my arrest and the return of the children.
Using the warrants to bolster her credibility, she listed me with Interpol, the NCIC, and the Center for Missing Children, and she convinced major newspapers such as the Baltimore Sun to devote front-page coverage to her fabrication. She appeared on the three major television networks. Continuing her path of deception she persuaded Maryland Deputy State's Attorney Howard Merker to agree to "pay to extradite Yavelow to Maryland if he is found out of state." Next she talked the FBI into issuing a federal warrant and placing me on their "Most Wanted" list, erroneously stating that the children were "victims" when in fact they were traveling with me voluntarily, happier than they had ever been in their lives.
By then my children and I were driving across the United States and we had no idea that any of this had taken place. When we reached Minnesota, a chance call to my mother made us aware that something was up and we decided to go to Alabama because that state does not recognize foreign custody orders.
We settled in Fairhope, Alabama, and met with realtors to find a house. We joined a church. Celina squealed with delight, "We finally have a zipcode!" I took the children to register for school. After the school tour Celina said "this is what I've always dreamed of, to go to an American high school... with lockers and everything. It's like a dream come true." However, the dream was short-lived. The next morning we noticed an article placed in the Mobile Register by my wife. We decided to go to a friends house in Houston, Texas, and try to find a lawyer.
Staying at a friend's house in Houston, I spent the first three weeks of October frantically searching for a lawyer in Maryland. My efforts met with little success. Eventually, I was able to keep Maryland authorities apprised of my efforts via regular email communication with Maryland State Prosecutor Andrew White, Deputy States Attorney Howard Merken, and Maryland FBI Agent Michael Charikofsky. Without citing the actual article numbers, I informed them of my Hague Convention exceptions. None of them ever informed me of the basis for the charges against me.
On October 21, 1999, at least a half dozen FBI agents surrounded the house where we were staying and brutally arrested me in front of my children who were attempting to shield me pleading, " Please don't take our father away. He has not kidnapped us. We are here of our own free will! We want to be in America. We are Americans!" According to the Hague Convention, children of their age must be listened to and their wishes honored. This did not take place. Again, at that time no one informed me that the charges stemmed from the Hague Convention Treaty or I would have submitted my defense on the spot.
I was jailed in Harris County Jail and the children were given over to my wife who promptly returned to the Netherlands with them, herself violating the same sentence in Judge Hennegan's court order that had led to the warrants being issued for me in the first place (she had been ordered to turn over all passports and appear for a hearing). This, in spite of the fact that I had expressed concerns to the arresting officers and also to Deputy States Attorney Howard Merken, and Maryland FBI Agent Michael Charikofsky that she would flee with the children. And FBI Agent Michael Charikofsky had stated in writing that the children would NOT be returned to my wife until there had been a hearing.
Now, my wife is free to continue her sexual "experiements" with my daughters. Now, my daughters are being "de-programmed" by an anti-Christian organization, having their Dutch paperwork altered to indicate that they are not American citizens, have never been to America, and did not come from America (my wife did this once before), and being further indoctrinated into the new-age cult rituals of Anthroposophy, Luong Minh Dang, and Wicca, while I will probably spend the next year or so in court or in prison. My crime: trying to fulfill my daughters dreams of returning to their home country, the United States, so that they could attend normal American schools and churches, have American friends and speak English.
I have read in the newspapers that my wife received custody after her return. She is forbidding any communication between my children and me. My wife is, in fact, carrying out all her threats. She is a mentally ill woman, suffering from Divorce-Related Malicious Mother Syndrome and guilty of Parental-Alienation Syndrome. I have received reports from the parents of my children's friends that my daughters are miserable and want desperately to return to America, the country of their citizenship and birth.
My wife is also a member of the dangerous Luong Minh Dang cult (outlawed in most European countries) amd she forces my daughters, who are Christian, to attend an Anthroposophic school (also know as a Rudolf Steiner School, Waldorf School, or Vrije Schol). Every theological reference on cults lists Anthroposophy as a cult. There are many lawsuits pending against the Anthroposophic schools in practically every country in the world, including Holland.
I heard from the parent of one of my daughter's friends that the school held a meeting for the parents on November 8 at which my wife and a teacher (Marie Roos Kopel, who I had charged with racism in February and assault in March) told horrendous and malicious lies about me in order to place people in a position where it would seem to be a moral imperative to prevent any communication between me and my children. It seems that parents were instructed by the school faculty not to give any information or messages about my children to me or from me and above all just to hang up on me if I telephoned (which the person to whom I was speaking promptly did).
On the same day, the Dutch police telephoned friends of mine and informed them that the Dutch government had confiscated my house in Zandvoort and all of my personal property including my office and equipment. The Dutch police have threatened to arrest my friends to whom I gave power of attorney to water my plants and the Dutch police have sent hate-mail to me via the Internet.
In summary, I had committed no crime in the Netherlands and I was completely within my rights to move myself and my American children back to the country of our citizenship. My wife obtained a U.S. custody order by deceiving the U.S. legal system with bogus documents and used that U.S. custody order to unleash the entire law enforcement community of the United States upon me and my children. Now, thanks to the FBI, she has been able to kidnap my children back to the Netherlands and I sit here, after six grueling days in jail, on bail with the state of Maryland vowing to put me in prison for a year.
At no time was I ever notified of the charges against me. Only at the very end of this ordeal was I even aware that law enforcement agents were chasing me. At no time was I ever provided the opportunity to defend myself, speak to a judge, or even examine the charges against me. Further, I was never notified of the basis for any charges, orders, or warrants against me. At no time was I afforded any right to file an exception to the Hague Convention documents. At all junctures my children and myself were denied our rights of due process.
Again, I remind you that my children, Celina and Stephanie Yavelow are native-born American citizens who have spent more than half their lives in America. They desperately want to return to their own country. They are being held incommunicado in the Netherlands against their will for further abuse by Monique Fasel and her cults.
Please help my children return to their home country, the United States of America.
Sincerely,
Christopher Yavelow