True American Injustice - San Diego County Agency Guilty of Fraud

Yesterday in a San Diego, California, a court battle was won...and lost at the same time.

A woman who left California for Tennessee in the summer of 1995 won a dismissal for a Child Support Judgment that was tagged onto her in February of 1998...the problem with the judgment was that it was filed in the Superior Court of CA., San Diego County in Dec. 1997 using a false address in Santee, CA., a fabricated roommate that she had never heard of and an altered CA. DMV report that failed to show that her CA. Driver's License had been returned to California in 1995 by the State of Tennessee.

Sounds a bit fishy, doesn't it?

Someone within the Department of Child Support Services for San Diego County had deemed it acceptable to submit paperwork to the courts for a judgment of almost $30,000 against someone they knew was not living in California, but to make it look authentic they invented a "female co-tenant" to accept the official paperwork and the makings of a default judgment were in the works. This was great! They could present false evidence, get the judge to order a default, she couldn't argue or defend herself because she had no idea it was happening...and who cares if her Constitutional right of DUE PROCESS was steamrolled. Nobody seemed to have any compunctions about this kind of illegal activity, in fact, they seemed to almost enjoy it.

Most Americans who have ever had a blemish on their credit report knows that it can ruin your credit and even cause barriers for employment opportunities...can you imagine what a false claim of $30,000 would do to your credit report and subsequent job prospects? If you can not find work in a bad economy, that is bad enough, but imagine having your reputation trampled as a "dead beat" parent who does not care about being responsible for your children or your obligations.

Imagine how difficult it would be to have your income tax returns seized and your wages garnished when your part time wages have you living under the poverty level already. How difficult would it be if you could find ONLY PART TIME EMPLOYMENT, if you were lucky, but had to give up almost 1/4 of your pay, making it difficult to pay utilities AND buy groceries, leaving you no choice but to apply for food stamps just so you don't starve to death. If you try to talk to the ones taking your pay to plead for a lower payment, you are met with attitude shoved down your throat while they tell you to be thankful...they can take half of your pay if they want to.

Now your credit is trashed and your reputation is toast...what can you do? You write to agencies up and down California, Senators, Congressional Representatives, Child Support officials in two states...and nobody will tell you why you are being targeted or why you are being persecuted. If you had a child who had been sexually abused within the custody of San Diego County, like this woman did, you might even drive yourself crazy by thinking you were having to pay for the privilege of having your child abused from those who were supposed to protect her. Something like that could cause unfathomable despair...and it did.

In June 2010, this woman finally found someone who would tell her about the default judgment levied against her. Within 90 days of finding out, she filed her own documentation to the Superior Court of CA., San Diego. She had to take a chance on getting it right on her own because no California attorney would touch the case without several thousand dollars in advance and that she could not manage because the actions of San Diego County had thrown her into extreme poverty. In September 2010 she filed her paperwork and only then did she learn the scope of San Diego's fraud.

A Collectibility Study that was done for the California Department of Child Support Services around 2001 was published in 2003. This report contained staggering facts that ranged from the amount that CA. DCSS would charge poor people who could not pay compared to those who could (poverty stricken people averaged much larger judgments and much higher payments than those who could pay) to the fact that 71% of all child support judgments were by default. Page 16 of the report also brought into question whether or not there was sufficient notification to the non custodial parent that action was being taken against them. Considering that red flags were brought to the attention of those that created the report, you would think that government offices would, at least review all default judgments to make sure that all was in order. Not one person working for the County of San Diego DCSS took the report seriously by the looks of it.

What does it say for our country and our laws when those in authority use such authority to railroad innocent citizens? The woman won the dismissal she sought but the judicial officer in the case flat out refused to grant her a refund of the monies that were forcibly taken from her over the last decade. The original case was set aside and dismissed, considered null and void, yet the money taken from her concerning a "voided" court action will not be returned. If the original case is voided but her money is kept from her, does that make her finances a "gift" to San Diego? If the woman does not wish to give her money as a "gift, does that not mean that San Diego is being allowed by the court to commit theft? Does that make the judicial officer, J. Werther, complicit in that theft?

I have been told that she is actively trying to find legal assistance to combat San Diego County and seek damages for over a decade of persecution based on a fraudulent court action. I am obliged not to print her name because she is concerned about retaliation. I have seen her documentation and know it is real. If anyone in the legal profession would like to help, please send a message and I will make sure she gets your information.

America losses it's greatness if our laws do not apply to all citizens. Fraud is fraud and there is nothing about this woman that justifies what government employees have done to her. How many other citizens of California have had similar fraud perpetrated on them? What are we to do if those who are supposed to defend the law are the ones aiding and abetting those who commit the crimes? Lastly...we have all heard about the huge budget crisis in California...how much of that budget crisis is only imagined because of fraudulent actions of government employees?

Perhaps the Attorney General of California would do well to pay a bit more attention and clean house.

Collectibility Study (pub. 2003) - http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411838_california_child_support.pdf