Update

The child custody hearing discussed in my December posts (see end of this post) started on Monday in Florida. Yesterday, the family court judge rendered his decision before the mother was able to put her witnesses/case on the stand. He said this was the worst parental alienation case he’s seen in his career and that the blame lies solely with the mother.

He said he had to follow the “best interest of the child factor”  so would not grant full custody to the father; however, effective immediately the custody would revert back to a 50-50 custody arrangement.

The Florida family court never believed there was any sexual abuse by the father or his step-father. The judge, like retired Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe, was much more comfortable with the immediate idea that the mother was just an angry divorced woman, out to get her ex-husband by any means necessary. We don’t need, nor will we consider, any further information. I’m right, you’re wrong, and there’s quite literally nothing you can do about it.

Much information was just off the table in Florida–just some nonsense that took place in Michigan.

I did not prepare the following documents. I have read the supporting documents (the exhibits are not attached to the first document) and believe that they more than adequately support the facts and conclusions therein.

As soon as I hit “publish” on this post, I am sending a link to the American Bar Association Family Law Quarterly. This whole saga is one that should be written about and discussed in the family law community. Maybe they can make some sense of it. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/family_law/resources/family-law-quarterly/

If you know someone looking for a law review article, this case would make for a good one. It, like many cases that originate in Oakland County, Michigan, is hard to believe and quite twisted.

Mike McCabe is a bullying asshole, and probably worse. He might think he, too, “won” here, but I wouldn’t be so sure. I bet even in retirement he doesn’t stay in his lane. As I posted earlier, if I find out he is working on my brother’s homicide case and not coordinating with, or holding back information from the state police or the state lab, I won’t rest until it becomes national news. Unsolved serial murder cold case (of kids between ages 10 and 12), hampered initially by pathetic jurisdictional pissing matches (and a giant helping of public corruption), still follows the same path some 50 years later in Oakland County, Michigan. Some things never change.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel caved to a bullying asshole. From Oakland County, no less. You had the charges dropped without prejudice and then just walked away. Take on the difficult cases once in a while and quit caving to low-level county officials who abuse their power.

I agree with a Michigander who told me yesterday that Oakland County is essentially unsalvageable. Too many decades of men like L. Brooks Patterson, Richard Thompson, Mike Bouchard and Mike McCabe. They are embedded in the county’s DNA. That is not a good thing.

But imagine if any of Karen McDonald’s predecessors had been prosecuting attorney when student Ethan Crumbley murdered four students at Oxford High School and injured others in the building. Not one of McDonald’s predecessors would have had the horsepower or the guts to handle the cases against Crumbley and his parents the way she did. The surviving family members would have been kept in the dark and treated like shit, of that I have no doubt. It would have been “too bad, so sad,” put the killer away, plenty ‘o press conferences, but the hell with any transparency with the community. Forget about going after the shooter’s parents–too hard, and we kind of like our guns here in northern Oakland County anyway.

I bet the community is looking forward to that independent report on the OHS massacre, including comparing response times with the sheriff’s timeline and explanation. Were there any prior calls to police about what was happening at OHS in the Fall of 2021? Any indications that kids didn’t feel safe there that semester `before the shooting? Or was it more important to focus on ex-cop Sean MacMaster’s situation?

***January 9, 2025–I see that this case was reported in The Detroit News this morning. I cannot bring myself to resubscribe to any Michigan news outlet. Can someone send me a PDF or screenshot?

Ex-Detroit officer gets joint custody of daughter as sex assault claim roils familyThe daughter’s claim of sexual assault was deemed credible by Attorney General Nessel’s office, but had no merit to county deputies and prosecutors.

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Previous relevant posts:

“A child who is sexually abused by a parent may be the most vulnerable of all victims, and the legal system’s mechanisms for protecting children from intrafamily sexual abuse are inadequate.”

“It was obvious to us that the wife was out to get the husband by any means necessary.”

I knew this shit smelled bad.

Deposition of Michael McCabe, January 28, 2022

Daddy’s pet snake.

Unbelievable. But also systemic.

At the end of the day