Author: John Shipman

Due to the current child protection case my son is involved in regarding his son I have had to change the names of our family and the child’s mother’s name and the child’s name as well. The names of any police officers or Children’s Aid workers, managers, or supervisors are the real names.
My 16 year old son James, and his 16 year old girl friend Kathy had a son June 2^nd 2008. His name is Junior. Before Junior was even born our family had made the decision that we would not smoke in our home when he was there. When Junior was born our decision to not smoke in our home was proven a wise one for more than the obvious reasons. Junior was born with an excess amount of mucous in his lungs. The doctor told James and Kathy, and both of our families, that because of this Junior’s lungs would take a little longer to develop. He told us all, not just advised but sternly TOLD, that we should not smoke any where around Junior as it could cause major problems for him. For the first five months of Junior’s life he lived in our family’s home along with Me (Paul), my wife Sue, our two sons Billy (13), and Jake (12) and James and Kathy. Kathy decided she wanted to live with us because of the environment at her family's home. Constant parties, smoking pot, criminal elements hanging around constantly, including a gentleman named Mark (who is 28) who her older sister Tasha (19) was dating and was practically living there. This Mark is a definite and proven bad person. He already has papers against him to stay away from his own nieces and also his own daughter. Mark also has a penchant for physically beating young kids aged from 15 to 17. 
On one occasion when James went up to Kathy’s parents house to visit Kathy Mark and two of his 28 year old friends surrounded him for no reason and began screaming at him and verbally taunting him, and one even stole his MP3 player right off his person. Then this person laughs and says “Nahh I wouldn’t steal your stuff” and goes to hand James the MP3 player back. When James reached for the MP3 played the gentleman punched him hard in the face and blood flew every where and James hit the ground. James jumped up and ran home and ended up having to go to the hospital and received five stitches in his lip to close the wound. Police were called but nothing was actually done about this. Kathy and her family actually witnessed this and did absolutely nothing to assist James. At any given time there are upwards of 10 to 15 or more people (friends and extended family) in Kathy’s family’s home at all hours of the day and night . 
From approximately June 5^th 2007 until October 29th or 30^th of 2007 Kathy and Junior lived in our home and were very happy here. Kathy was treated like a daughter by my wife and I and was treated very well by our sons as well. Junior is very much loved by all of our family and he also loves us back, and it is very evident when one sees him with us. James thinks the world of Junior and, contrary to my wife and I being worried about it in the beginning, has turned out to be a very good father. Some time in July of 2007 Our family was sitting on a picnic table in our front yard with neighbor friends. A former friend of James’s named Joe spent the day walking past us taunting James and insulting him and threatening him. Joe was upset with James because Joe was banned from our home after he stole a bunch of CD’s and a number of other items from our home. At one point Joe stopped across the road, about a hundred feet from us, and called James over and asked if James wanted the money for his CDs. James looked at me and asked if I thought it would be okay to go talk to him. I said “yes, but keep it civil and be careful”. I and a neighbor friend Steve stood up at the edge of the picnic table just to be ready in case we had to break anything up. James and Joe began talking and James asked Joe if he had the money and Joe laughed at him and called him names. At this time several of Joe’s friends came over and began to circle James and yell “fight, fight, fight”. At this time Kathy came over and began shouting in Joe’s face. Kathy had left Junior in a car seat beside the picnic table about a hundred feet away totally unattended. James, myself, Steve, and Steve’s wife Tammy told Kathy several times to get back and watch Junior. Kathy ignored us and Tammy finally grabbed her by the shoulders and turned her away and walked her back to the picnic table. As these kids were shouting Steve and I saw Joe take something from his back pocket. It turned out to be a rusty rail road spike. James did not see this and was telling Joe that he was going to be calling the police about the stolen items. Joe then reared back and began to swing the rail road spike to hit or stab James with it. James still did not see the weapon so I stepped forward and pushed Joe backwards and yelled at him to drop the weapon. At this point Joe’s friends surrounded myself, James and Steve and began shouting obscenities and threats at us. While this was going on Kathy showed up again, this time with Junior in her arms, and stepped into Joe’s face again and began screaming at him. Again, James, Steve, Tammy, and I told her several times to get out of there and go back to the house. Steve and I stepped onto each side of Kathy so she or Junior would not get hurt and I placed my hand on James’s shoulder and he turned around and said “Screw this it’s not worth it, I got my son to think about” and started walking back to the picnic table. Kathy again started screaming at Joe and Tammy and myself grabbed her and escorted her back to the house.
After this incident a bunch of neighbors from down the block began shouting insults and threats at us. This was a family who was upset with my family because I had done some work for Jason, the husband of a former friend of my wife’s named Sherry. Jason owed me quite a bit of money for the work I did and had lied to me about why he didn’t pay me. Because of this I banned Sherry and her husband from our home and our family refused to associate with them from that day forward. This caused them to become enemies of our family. If they were outside any time we would venture out side they would shout insults and taunts at us. While Sherry and her mother and a few of their friends shouted at us Jason began to walk toward me threatening to slice my throat. As he did this he began to run at me and reached into his waistband and began to pull something out. Before he could reach me Sherry and her mother intercepted him and pulled him back to their house where they all continued to shout at us.
The police were called and they spoke to us and also to Joe and his friends and many other witnesses in the neighborhood. They were told that it was Joe and his friends who started the incident and also of Joe attempting to assault James with the rail road spike but never charged him. As they were speaking to us I attempted to tell the officer about the incident with the other neighbors, Sherry and her family. The officer told me he didn’t want to hear it and I tried to tell him it was important, because of the throat slitting threat and possibility of a weapon in Jason’s pants, but he still refused to listen. I then shouted at him that he was useless and he threatened to arrest me. I said I hadn’t done anything to be arrested for and he told me one more word and I was arrested. I then, stupidly, said screw you. The officer then hand cuffed me and placed me in the back of his car. After he shut the door to the car Sherry and her mother, and their friends, began screaming at him to come over and talk to them. He did so and was accosted by their family and friends screaming and yelling at him and making threats. Sherry’s mother screamed at the officer that she was head of the neighborhood community watch program (our community did not have at that time, never had, and still does not have a community watch program) and she demanded that my son James and I be arrested. The officer asked what he should arrest us for and she said “I don’t know. Think of something.” The officer continued to try and calm them down but it was no use until another officer came to his side and they both threatened to take them all to jail. Sherry and her family then stomped off into their house and slammed their door. The two officers then came over to the car I was in and opened the door and told me I could get out. As the officer was removing the handcuffs from me he said “Okay, now I know what you were talking about. I’m sorry I didn’t listen.” So, the police spoke to us a bit more and then left with no charges being laid on anyone.
Now, Sherry and her family (in the community where we live Sherry is known as C.A.S. Sherry because she has a penchant for calling C.A.S. and making false and/or frivolous reports against people she is upset with) called C.A.S. We know it was Sherry who called because one of her traits is to brag to the people she has reported that she reported them. So some time later C.A.S. worker Mark Zwart does indeed show up at our home. He asked us about the incident with Joe and we told him what happened and also gave him the addresses of the witnesses so he could speak to them about it. Mark stated the report they got said I jumped on a kids back in a violent manner and that James and I were out side getting drunk all day. We told him, truthfully, that this was a lie and that the only drinking that happened was when Steve brought me out a beer after I got out of the police car because he said I looked like I needed it. Steve and I had one beer each and that was the total extent of any drinking that went on with us that day (partly because they were the only two beers Steve had an we had none ourselves). Mark then mentioned they were told Junior was left unattended during the incident. We did in fact admit this and told Mark about what happened. Mark then said he needed to inspect the home and we complied and allowed him to do so. He finished the inspection and was satisfied that the house was clean and safe and we had food for the kids and such. He then told us he would probably have to open a case and would give us a call and then he left.
Some time later another C.A.S. worker showed up at our door named Robin (last name forgotten). Robin came into our home and informed us that Mark was the case worker for myself, my wife, and our three sons and that she was the case worker for James, Kathy, and Junior. Robin then asked us the same questions Mark did and we told her the story. She asked if there were any witnesses available she could talk to at that time. I said yes and sent Billy next door to get Steve and Tammy, Steve was at work but Tammy came over. Robin asked Tammy what had happened during the incident with Joe and Tammy told her the story, and it corroborated what we told C.A.S. Robin then said she needed to inspect the home and again we complied and she inspected the home and was satisfied. She then told us she would be calling to make another appointment in the future. Some time later another new C.A.S. worker named Lisa Mascherin showed up at our door with another worker (Can’t recall the name). She told us she was replacing Robin as James, Kathy and Junior’s worker. Again, Lisa asked us what happened during the incident with Joe. Again we told the story. Lisa then told us she needed to inspect the home. Again we complied. At this time we had a little crib downstairs in the living room for Junior because we had air conditioning downstairs and it was too hot for Junior upstairs. Inside Junior’s crib was a small blue baby blanket. Lisa and the other worker looked into the crib and both of their eyes widened in horror. The other worker grabbed the little blue baby blanket (the only ting that was in the crib besides the sheet on the mattress) and picked it up between her thumb and index finger like it was some kind of dangerous poisonous snake or something and Lisa said “Oh my god! That could kill the baby!” Myself, James, and Kathy all involuntarily snickered out loud at this rather ridiculous reaction to a little blue baby blanket. I said What are you talking about? The other worker said “You NEVER put a blanket on a baby!!” I said “Pardon me. All three of my sons had blankets on them in their cribs. My wife and I had blankets on us in our cribs. Our parents and siblings all had blankets on them, and pretty well everyone I know and probably including you two (indicating the C.A.S. workers) had blankets on them in their cribs and no one’s been harmed at all. In fact I have never heard of a baby being harmed by a blanket in their crib.” Lisa then began to lecture us all on the myriad of books and studies she had read about the dangers of blankets in a baby’s crib. She finished, however, by stating “it’s only a suggestion though. I can’t stop you from putting a blanket on him.” She then went on to lecture us about how Junior should sleep in his crib, face up on his back. I again listed all the people I know who slept on their stomachs when they were babies. I also told her that I heard a lot more stories about babies dying by choking on vomit from sleeping on their backs than I ever did about babies dying from sleeping on their stomachs. Again Lisa stated it was just a suggestion. 
At this time Junior was sleeping in a bouncing baby seat, strapped in. The closest piece of furniture was about four to five feet away from him. He was about a month old at this time. Lisa then turned her attention to a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figure that was on the floor. Again, she had this outrageous, over exaggerated reaction to the toy on the floor. She picked it up and said “Don’t you know Junior could pick this up and put it in his mouth and he could choke on it?” Once again the rest of us involuntarily snickered at this totally comical statement. As I stated, Junior was about a month old at the time. He couldn’t even grasp anything. Not to mention the fact that, as I said, he was strapped into a seat and the toy referred to was about five or six feet away from this seat. Also, the toy in question was much too large to even fit into Junior’s mouth even if the impossible occurred and he somehow performed a miracle and unstrapped himself from the seat, crawled out of it, then crawled five feet to grasp the toy all at the tender age of one month old. I stated these facts to Lisa and she rolled her eyes at me and said “Look, I’m here to teach you how to raise children. You should be listening to me and taking my advice.” Pardon me??? Here to teach me how to raise children??? I am forty two years old, my wife is, thirty seven. We have three children ages sixteen, thirteen, and twelve who have all grown up safe, happy, and healthy. Lisa Mascherin is probably in her early to mid twenties. Fresh out of college. I asked her straight out. “How many kids do you have?” She stated that this didn’t matter. I said “Yes it does indeed matter. How many kids do you have?” Lisa replied “None.” I shook my head and explained the facts to her regarding my age, my wife’s age, and the ages of our three children and how they have grown up. I then stated “I believe that proves that my wife and I have sixteen years more experience raising kids than you do.” Lisa then went on to list her vast credentials in education. I then informed her, “I’m sorry, but the fact is, there isn’t a book or a school in the world that can teach you how to raise kids. All kids are different and all families are different and it is impossible to teach someone how to raise kids as you put it. A person has to actually raise a child in order to learn how to raise a child.” I then told Lisa “Our family will comply and co operate with C.A.S. 100% but please do not come in here with absolutely no experience in raising kids and tell me you are going to teach me how to raise kids.” Lisa rolled her eyes at me and stated she needed to inspect the house. Again we complied and again she was satisfied and left, but before she left she gave James and Kathy a bunch of pamphlets on new parents, new babies, safety in homes for babies, etc... 
Some time later Lisa returned to our home. During the week previous to this visit I had been ill, and was still ill at the time of the visit. Because my wife works I do the majority of cleaning in the house. Due to my being ill the house wasn’t 100% spotless, but it wasn’t that messy or dirty either. Lisa did an inspection of the house and after completing it was standing in our living room speaking to us. She mentioned the house was a little unkempt and needed to be cleaned up. I agreed with her and informed her of why the house wasn’t as clean as it usually is. However, I told her that the house would be clean before my wife got home at four o’ clock. Lisa stated this was satisfactory and then left. About a half an hour later Mark Zwart and another C.A.S. worker named Jeff (last name unknown) knocked on our door. Mark stated he need to inspect the home. I stated that Lisa was already here and did an inspection. Mark said he knew this and that Lisa had called him and that’s why he was here. This puzzled me as Lisa had already agreed upon my promise to have the house clean by four o’ clock. However, I let Mark and Jeff in to do the inspection. After inspecting the home Mark raised his voice to me and said “This place is a pig sty. I’m having Billy and Jake picked up at their schools and placed into C.A.S. custody and we are taking Junior into custody with us now.” Mark then took a step toward the living room where Junior was with Kathy but I stepped in front of him and said “What is your problem? Lisa was already here and I told her the house was going to be clean by four o’ clock and she agreed to it.” Mark then told me to step aside. I told him there was no way he was taking Junior and if he even tried to take Billy and Jake I would have his job because I knew the law and unless the kids were in immediate danger they had no right taking them. Jeff then stepped forward and said to me “It’s two against one Paul.” At which point James stepped up beside me and said “No it isn’t.” Mark then told me he would bring the police in if he had to. I turned around and grabbed the phone off the charger and held it out to Mark and said “Go ahead, you want me to dial it for you? I guarantee if the cops inspect the house and check out Junior and see he isn’t in any danger and that there’s no danger to my kids they’ll laugh at you.” Mark and Jeff stood silent for a few seconds and finally Mark said “Well how much can you clean the place up if we leave and come back at four?” I told him the entire place would be clean because it wasn’t even that dirty. He agreed to this and started to leave but then turned and said “But I want Junior out of here while you’re cleaning.” I asked why and he said “Because.” I asked why again and he repeated “because”. I said fine and told Kathy to take Junior up to her parent’s place and we would call her when we were done cleaning. Mark said “No, we will call her when she can bring him back.” I told Mark “Over my dead body. Junior will be coming back here as soon as the place is clean. Now get off of my property.” Kathy then went up to her parent’s house and Mark and Jeff left and James and I began cleaning.
In less than two hours James and I had the entire house spic and span. All four bedrooms upstairs, the upstairs bathroom, the upstairs hall way all cleaned and swept and mopped. The entire downstairs, living room, dining room, kitchen, front hall way and bathroom, all cleaned and swept and mopped. The reason it only took less than two hours is because, as I mentioned, it wasn’t even that dirty. We called Kathy and she came back with Junior and Billy and Jake were home from school around the same time. They wanted to go play with some friends but I told them they needed to stay in the house for a bit because C.A.S. wanted to take them away and I wanted to make sure I knew where they were so that wouldn’t happen. Of course Billy and Jake became scared but I assured them they were not going any where. Mark and Jeff returned just before four o’ clock with Lisa. I asked Lisa why she sicked her dog Mark on us after agreeing with me about us cleaning the house before four but she refused to answer me. The three inspected the house and were satisfied. I then again asked Lisa why she sent Mark over and said “If you wanted the house clean earlier why didn’t you just say so instead of lying to me and sending Mark and Jeff here to play tough guys?” Mark got a smirk on his face at this point and I asked “Do you think this is a joke tough guy?” He just stood there smirking at me. I then told all three of them, truthfully, that in all the years our family has dealt with C.A.S. we always complied 100%, and never once had any worker ever threatened to take our kids away, because there was never any reason to. I also stated that there never would be a reason to take any of our kids away and warned them all to never threaten to do it again without a good legal reason or I would come after their jobs. Over the next few months Mark Zwart and Lisa Mascherin paid a few visits to our home and did their routine inspections and were always satisfied. The only time there was a problem began in September when school started. James was going to be doing home schooling so he could stay home and take care of Junior. Kathy was attending high school. Every morning my wife would wake Kathy at six thirty and get her off to school, or so we thought. A few weeks into the school year we found out that Kathy had not in fact been attending school. My wife and I sat down with her and had a long discussion about how important school is. Kathy agreed and would apologize and promise to go to school. Weeks later we found out that Kathy still had not been attending school but in fact she had been leaving our home in the morning and going up to her parents house and sleeping all day, with her parents permission. No matter how much my wife and I and James spoke to Kathy about school she just refused to go. It wasn’t just that she was not attending school though. She would leave our home about six thirty in the morning and would not come back until eight, ten, eleven, and even some times later at night. Some time in late September Lisa Mascherin informed Kathy that she found out she wasn’t going to school and that she was very concerned about it. She told Kathy how important an education is especially now that she is a mother. Kathy promised Lisa she would go back to school, however, once again Kathy reneged on her promise and refused to go to school. About mid October Lisa once again had a talk with Kathy about school but this time she brought a contract agreement with her. She had Kathy sign the agreement to stay in school but even that did not help. Kathy continued to refuse to go to school right up until the end of October. 
Now, at that time, I had absolutely nothing against C.A.S. and our family always complied with them and had no problems with them because we knew we never had anything to hide. In all the times we dealt with C.A.S. (Lisa Mascherin claims we have been involved with C.A.S. eleven times) about 99% of the times they got involved with us it was due to false reports made by the previously mentioned C.A.S. Sherry and her family and friends. This is proven by the fact of our living locations during C.A.S. involvements. When James was first born and also when Billy was born we lived in a geared to income community called Russell Place. Sherry and her family also lived there at this time and they and their friends were constantly calling C.A.S. on us for frivolous and false reasons. The investigations of the C.A.S. workers during these reports proved that the reports were frivolous and false and therefore the cases were closed in a short time. We had moved out of Russell Place when Jake was born and the entire time we lived outside of Russell Place C.A.S. was involved with us on a total of three occasions. On one occasion it was due to an incident between my wife and I. The incident occurred one about eight to ten years ago. I am an alcoholic and I use to drink and get drunk every day. I also have mental health issues that were not being addressed at the time because I was self medicating with alcohol. Sue and I had gotten into a pretty bad argument one night and I had struck her. This was the first time in my life I had ever struck a woman (I have never struck a child). The moment I did this I was over whelmed with grief and remorse and wanted to leave the home. Sue and the boys would not let me because they knew that I was not that person who struck her. I agreed to stay but I quit drinking right then and the next day made an emergency appointment with my doctor. I had already attempted suicide twice in my early twenties and had a history of mental health issues related to depression. My doctor knew this but I wouldn’t listen because the alcohol masked it from me. But I made the decision to change and listened to my doctor. I was placed on medications for chronic depression, agoraphobia, and social anxiety disorder. To this day I barely drink alcohol. I drink maybe four times out of an entire year and even when I do I do not drink to get drunk. Our family life has been a lot better since this change about eight to ten years ago. This incident was the only violent activity in my life and it has never repeated since I made the life style change. 
The second time C.A.S. was involved with us was a rather frivolous report made by a neighbor. They called C.A.S. and told them that Billy and Jake were on the roof of our house throwing rocks at cars. What actually occurred was Billy and Jake were leaning out of their second floor bed room window throwing toys out into the front yard with make shift parachutes on them. The police were called an in turn the officer called C.A.S. A worker attended our home and interviewed us and did indeed open a case. However, the case was close in a short period of time. 
The third time C.A.S. was involved with us had absolutely nothing to do with our parenting or any problems with the kids. A five year old friend of our three sons drowned in the river near our house and C.A.S. came to us to ensure the family was doing okay, in particular the boys since they were friends of the boy who drowned.
Those were the only three times we were involved with C.A.S. since leaving Russell Place. Years later though we ended up having to move back to Russell Place because I ended up disabled. This is when all of our C.A.S. troubles started again. Sherry and her family were still living at Russell Place and were still up to their old stunts. In fact, when Sherry heard we were moving back to Russell Place she went around to the neighbors telling lies about us trying to poison the neighbors against us before we even moved in. Her trick backfire though because the neighbors did not listen to her and gave us the benefit of the doubt and found out that Sherry was indeed lying about us and that we were actually decent, friendly people.
 My wife and I raised our kids to trust C.A.S. and the police because they were there to help. And in fact C.A.S. had indeed helped us a few times when we needed it. However, we were about to come face to face with the much darker side of C.A.S.
Around October 27^th 2007 my wife and I's niece, also a friend of Kathy’s, was in a talent show. Our niece could only get 5 tickets to this show and they had already been accounted for by family members. Kathy wanted to go but everyone thought tickets had to be bought in advance and sales were finished. So James, my wife, and others left for the talent show. Kathy got all freaked out and threw a hissy fit and walked out of our house without saying a word to anyone... Junior playing in the front room with me. Now, I love this little guy like he's my own son so I have absolutely no problem spending time with him if his parents are away. So, 15 to 20 minutes after walking out the door Kathy comes back and says she found out she could get a ticket at the door for this talent show and that her mother's friend was driving her to it. She then grabs up her purse and again walks out of the house without saying anything to anyone...  About ten minutes later she comes back into the house and says "By the way, do you mind watching the baby while I go?" Oh NOW she decides to have the courtesy, and maternal instinct, to ask!!!??? Again, like I said I have no problem spending time with the little guy.. but Kathy had just walked out of the house TWICE without so much as checking where the baby was or anything and without saying a word to anyone. Now she asks me if I will watch him??? Of course I said yes. 
This incident started a big argument between Kathy and James. The argument was totally ridiculous and James tried to tell her that but she kept flying off the handle at him. James had absolutely no control over the tickets to this event and in fact wanted Kathy and myself to go as well but based on what we knew it just was not possible. But Kathy continued to blame James for her almost missing the show. About two days later Kathy said she was taking Junior to a doctor's appointment and left with him. That was the last we heard or saw of her or Junior in about four days. My son had tried to contact her but at that time we could not make out going calls on our phone. We could receive incoming calls though. When James could use a neighbor’s phone and call Kathy he always got no answer on her phone and when he did get an answer it would be Kathy’s sister Tasha who would tell James that Kathy was not there. James would leave messages asking for her to call and telling her he wanted to see his son and know what was going on. 
So... a month goes by after Kathy left our place and James has still not seen his son. Finally he decides to try and see if Children's Aid will help. He makes several calls and only gets Lisa’s voice mail and leaves several messages about what is going on and stating that he wants to see Junior. Now, in case you are wondering why James did not go to Kathy's family's home to see her or Junior this is because of the incident mentioned earlier when he was physically attacked by Mark and his three friends right in Kathy's front yard with her and her family watching and doing nothing. James, to this day, is terrified to go any where near that neighborhood. Finally Lisa Mascherin calls James back and helps him get Junior for the week end coming up around November 16^th 2007. But before he got the week end visit Kathy called and chewed him out for calling Lisa Mascherin on her. He explained that he had to because she wouldn't return his calls and he hadn't seen his son in close to over a month. Kathy told James that the reason she didn’t come back to our house was because she found out Junior was allergic to animals, and we have two cats and a dog. James asked her how she found that out. She told him that Junior was having a hard time breathing and his eyes were all puffed up and he had a rash all over his body. This was news to James and our family as Junior had absolutely none of these symptoms when he was at our home. James asked Kathy who told her Junior had these allergies and Kathy said her doctor did. Now, a little background on Kathy’s doctor. Kathy went to this doctor with symptoms of nausea, sore breasts, vomiting in the mornings, and a missed period. When Kathy told my wife and I these symptoms we both said “Oh no, it sounds like you’re pregnant.” Kathy laughed at this but was told by one of our neighbors the same thing. Her doctor, however, heard these symptoms and diagnosed her with a bowel problem and put her on medication for this diagnosis. The medication did not help, and Kathy continued to go to her doctor with these same symptoms, even after everyone else kept telling her she was pregnant, and for six months her doctor continued to tell her she had bowel problems. On her visit to him after the six months Kathy finally asked him why she was gaining weight and if it had anything to do with her bowel problems. Finally, the doctor gave her a pregnancy test and it was positive. On another occasion Kathy had a sore throat. My wife and I and even her own mother looked at it said it looked like strep throat. But her doctor told her it was mononucleosis. When the medication for mono didn’t work he then diagnosed it as thrush. When that medication didn’t work he finally diagnosed it as strep throat. The medication worked. Needless to say, this doctor does not seem to be qualified. Our family was very skeptical of this allergy diagnosis of Junior’s. However, James told Kathy we would put the animals outside for the week end and get rid of them after that. He then asked her why she kept Junior away from him. Her reply was "You don't deserve to see him, you're just the father and fathers don't have any rights." Well, during the week end my wife and I and James are discussing the situation. Now, I know quite a bit about law in Canada and Ontario having taken law courses at Queen's University. So I knew for a fact that without a court order any parent could keep custody of a child and there is nothing the other parent could do about it. In fact, when my son was speaking to Lisa Mascherin about Kathy not letting him see Junior Lisa told him this herself. She also told James, in front of my wife and I during a visit to our home, that he should apply for custody as soon as possible. James agreed to do this and Lisa told him “Okay, good. I’ll also set up a meeting for mediation until you go to court. But I won’t tell Kathy about it until you let me know you have already filed for custody.” So I told my son right there that we were taking him to the court house that Monday to file for custody of Junior and in the mean time we were going to keep Junior with us. Kathy and her family can come down and visit him any time they want to but they will not be taking him back to their home until there is a court order in place. We were going to do this in order to protect James's rights as a father. So when Kathy called that Sunday to tell us she was on her way to pick Junior up I informed her of our decision. Her reply was a very non chalant "Oh, ok." and then she hung up. Well... from there on all hell broke loose. Kathy called Lisa Mascherin who then called us. We informed Lisa of why we made the decision to keep Junior with us and how we were giving Kathy and her family plenty of opportunity to come and visit Junior but we did not feel safe letting them take Junior back to their home for fear that Kathy would continually abuse James’s rights as a father. We also informed Lisa of the environment in Kathy’s home, a situation to which Kathy had already admitted to Lisa. I also reminded the worker that we knew the law and she had in fact declared the law regarding custody to James.
Over the course of the next week Lisa Mascherin came to our home on several occasions trying to get us to give up Junior and allow him to go back to Kathy’s home. Lisa gave several invalid and rather outrageous excuses for why she wanted the baby to live with Kathy. The first excuse she gave us what that she had just gotten Kathy into a program called Abigail’s because of Kathy’s refusal to go to school. Abigail’s is a center where mothers take their babies and they have discussions about parenting and such. We had already tried to get James and Junior into Abigail’s but they would not allow him to join because men are not allowed to join. I told Lisa that this was not a valid reason and there was no way a court would even listen to that reason as it was an unfair advantage for the mother. We politely refused to allow Lisa to take Junior each time and continued to remind Lisa of the law, and each time Lisa left our home empty handed because she had absolutely no legal or logical valid reason for taking Junior.
All of a sudden, on November 21^st 2007 during the night the police stormed our home. YES STORMED!!! There were about 8 to 10 regular officers PLUS they even had the Tactical Response Unit (SWAT Team for those in the states). I was personally brutally attacked by one of the officers for simply asking if they had a warrant. Because of my asking for this warrant I was charged with obstructing a peace officer and hauled off to spend a few hours in jail. This was all done right in front of our three sons, thank goodness Junior was upstairs asleep in his crib at the time. Our entire family was completely traumatized by this.
After I was placed in a police car Lisa Mascherin finally gave my wife this warrant that said they were there to retrieve a child that was in need of protection. There was absolutely no child's name on the warrant, no residential address that the warrant was to be served at, NOTHING!!! I have since learned that there does not need to be child's name or address on these warrants... So basically, any one who could come into possession of one of these warrants can go into any home in Ontario Canada and abduct any child they want.
My wife and James asked Lisa what the warrant meant. They reminded Lisa that she herself had been in the home many times and knew for a fact Junior was not in any danger in the home at all. They also reminded Lisa of the law and of the fact that James had already filed for custody and that the first court date was in about a week. Lisa would not say a word. A couple of days later we were served with papers stating that Children's Aid were now applying for a child protection hearing and the first court date was in four days. So in effect, what happened was the Children's Aid Society had just stuck their noses into the middle of a legitimate custody case with absolutely no legal or logical reason whatsoever. So, we read Lisa's affidavit that was attached to the application we received and we see about 8 to 10 pages full of out right lies. Lisa Mascherin claims in her affidavit that I am very violent and a danger to my grand son and this is the information she gave to the judge in order to get the warrant to apprehend Junior. In a form attached to Lisa’s affidavit Lisa and the C.A.S. claim that Junior was in danger of physical and emotional and metal harm in our home. The form stated that Junior exhibited signs of depression, aggression, self destruction, and a potential for attempted suicide. This information comes after Lisa, Mark Zwart, Robin (the other C.A.S. worker before Lisa), and Ms. Lynch, a Healthy Babies Healthy Children nurse, all told us, and Kathy and her family, that Junior was a very happy and content little boy who obviously loves the family he lives with (our family). When Lisa and Ms. Lynch made these comments I had told them that Junior wasn’t then only happy one. I told them of how, at the end of a day when Junior goes to sleep my cheeks are so sore from laughing and smiling with Junior all day. The rest of our family had similar comments about Junior and how happy he made our family.
Now, Lisa got this apprehension warrant based solely on her own words and absolutely no evidence, and quite contrary to her own past statements regarding the environment Junior was in at our home and how happy and content he was. The reason I know there was no evidence is because there is none to be had. I am not a violent person at all. Lisa claims that two of the officers that were there at the apprehension (including the officer, Officer Madden, who brutally assaulted me) told her that they knew me well and I had a very extensive violent background with the police. This was a lie as the one officer I had never even met in my entire life and the other, officer Madden, I had only one interaction with previous to the night of the apprehension. 
Quite some time ago, I can't recall exactly when, Madden attended our home regarding James being accused of assault on another teen ager named Ryan. Madden began the conversation by saying "You're Randy's brother aren't you?" I asked Madden what that had to do with the incident he was investigating and he replied "Well Randy's a killer and a convict isn't he?" I stated that had nothing to do with the matter at hand and told Madden to never mention my brother to me again. My brother, some years prior to this had been involved in an incident where a homosexual man had lured him and a friend back to his house with the promise of free booze and a great party. When my brother and his friend arrived no one else was there and this man dropped his pants and attempted to force himself on my brother sexually. The man would not stop and my brother and his friend ended up beating him up. Then my brother’s friend made a big mistake. He took the man’s wallet and bank card and car and left to steal money from his bank account through a bank machine, leaving my brother alone with the man. At some point, while my brother was waiting for his friend to return the man pulled a knife from under his bed and attacked my brother while his back was turned looking out a window. My brother was stabbed nine times in the back and suffered a punctured lung. He had to smash through a second storey window and fall to the ground to escape the man. My brother and his friend were charged with attempted murder because the man made up a lie about them breaking into his home and attacking him without provocation. My brother and his friend had attempted to tell police and the court of how this man had lured them into his house and attempted to rape my brother but the police and court would not listen to it. My brother went to prison for two years and his friend for three. A year to the exact day that this happened, police were called to a home where a group of teen age boys said they had been attacked by a man with a knife. When the police arrived they found the exact same man that stabbed my brother, naked, standing on the front porch of a house with a knife in his hand. They had to wrestle the man to get the knife from him and subdue him. The teenagers told the police how this man had lured them to the hose with the promise of free booze and a great party. Once inside the house the man then took his clothes off and attempted to rape one of the teenagers. When word got out that my brother and his friend told the truth and that the police and courts did nothing to stop this predator the police and courts were thoroughly embarrassed. However, the police and courts place the blame on my brother and his friend for this embarrassment. 
Officer Madden and I discussed the matter involving James and my wife, Sue, and I were doing everything we could to co-operate and try to assist Madden in his investigation. Madden told us that he had spoken to James's girlfriend Kathy and her friends and they had told him they saw the whole incident between James and Ryan and that James did indeed assault Ryan. James was not at home at this time but we assured Madden we would speak to him about the incident and he would definitely be disciplined and we would contact Madden when James returned home. Madden then left.

After Madden left my wife and I called Kathy to speak to her about the incident and asked her and her friends what they had told Madden. They all told us they had not even seen nor spoken to Madden at all and that yes they did see what happened between James and Ryan but James did NOT assault Ryan at all, but all he did was told Ryan to stay away from his little brothers, Billy and Jake. James did this because Ryan had assaulted our son Billy earlier that day. Sue then spoke with Ryan's mother who told her that she had spoken to Ryan about the incident and Ryan told her that James did not assault him at all but only spoke to him about Billy and Jake.

Later that night Madden returned to our home and upon entering our home said to me "hello again Randy... Oh sorry I mean Paul." And he had a stupid grin on his face when he said it. I confronted Madden about his lying to us and told him that we knew the truth about what had happened. Madden replied that he was allowed to lie to us because he is a cop. I stated that if he wanted parents to co-operate with the police regarding matters concerning their children then lying about the situation was the wrong way to go about it because it destroyed the trust between the parents and police. Madden laughed at me and said he "didn't give a shit what I thought". I then kicked Madden out of our home, and while leaving Madden said to me "OK, see you later Randy." This was the only time I have ever had any contact with officer Madden.

During the course of my “obstructing a peace officer” trial (which is still currently on going) my lawyer obtained a copy of my police background and there are exactly four items in my police history. 1)A disturbing the peace charge from a loud party I threw for my birthday party in 1986. 2) Attempted theft from 1986. 3) An impaired driving charge from 1996. 4) A second impaired driving charge from 1996. My nose has been clean for 12 years now of any and all dealings with the police. Not a single piece of evidence that I am violent at all. In our family’s C.A.S. case files there is also absolutely no instances of violence except for the one incident stated earlier between my wife and I. However, as mentioned, I have stopped drinking and am under my doctor’s care and on medication that has made my life 100% better for the past eight to ten years. In Lisa Mascherin’s affidavit she continually refers to me as a violent danger to Junior. In Lisa Mascherin’s plan of care she stipulates that James is to ensure that he keeps Junior away from any violent people. In effect then, what Lisa Mascherin is saying is that James is to keep Junior away from me. Even though there is absolutely no evidence of me being violent and in fact I have never even spanked my children or any other child. I prefer to use non physical discipline such as groundings and with holding privileges.
Since the first day of court there have been affidavits back and forth between James and Lisa. In James's answer to Lisa’s first affidavit he states the information regarding the environment at Kathy’s home which was admitted to the worker by Kathy. He specifically mentions the smoking of pot, not only in the house but in close proximity of Junior. James also mentions Kathy and her family smoking in the home close to Junior and also states the information given to our families by the doctor the day Junior was born about not smoking around him. In her affidavit replying to this Lisa denies all knowledge of any pot smoking in Kathy’s home, but she does admit that she saw a hash pipe on a shelf in their home but that it didn't concern her. Lisa also states that Kathy and her family are not smoking in their house. Over the course of four affidavits Lisa Mascherin continues to make up excuses for Kathy’s short comings and supporting her fully as if she is some kind of super mom. It is 100% obvious that Lisa Mascherin favors Kathy and is working for her completely. Over the course of these affidavits she also degrades James and continues to use me as a scapegoat to keep Junior away from James. During one visit to our home Lisa took James outside of the house to speak with him. During this conversation Lisa used threats and intimidation in an effort to convince James to move out of our family home. Several times she told James that she could prevent him from seeing Junior unless he did what she asked. James was emphatic with Lisa that at the age of sixteen, and having an infant son it would be very unwise, irresponsible, and very dangerous for him to move out on his own. Lisa then told him she could pull some strings and get him placed into Youth Hab. Youth Hab is a home for troubled teens, teens with no place else to go, and teens in crisis. It is a place filled with troubled teens with criminal back grounds (some with violent criminal backgrounds), teens with bad mental health issues, and teens with various other social problems. Lisa Mascherin is somehow under the impression that this would be an ideal place for James to live and have his infant son Junior come and visit him. When James stated this information in an affidavit, he stated that Lisa had gone behind his parent’s backs and tried to force him to move out of his family home. He rightfully stated that what Lisa had done was 100% wrong and that his parents had every right to be in on the conversation. In her reply to this, Lisa stated that she did not go behind our backs, but then in the exact same sentence admits it was a private conversation she had with James that she did not inform my wife and I about. 
The affidavits of Lisa Mascherin are filled with 90% lies and twisting of the truth. She claims our home is unfit and not safe for Junior, yet in those same affidavits and others she admits our home is clean and safe. She continues to lie and claim I am violent with absolutely no evidence to back this up, and she also contradicts herself throughout her affidavits by stating how loving I am with Junior. She does, however, attempt to back it up by saying that I was violent with the police the night they apprehended Junior. However, over her six affidavits she tells six completely different stories about what happened that night. In her first affidavit she claims she saw and heard everything and that I was violent and needed to be restrained by the police. This is refuted in James’s answer and James states the facts that Lisa was in fact outside the house, with another worker, about six to eight feet back from our front door, with about four to six large police officers in the doorway and hallway blocking her view, when I was attacked by Madden and arrested. After this is submitted and Lisa reads it she then submits another affidavit admitting that she didn’t see or hear anything because she was in her car when the police entered our home. In her next affidavit Lisa claims that she was now inside the front door and saw me tear down our patio door blinds with my hand. Two things wrong with this. First, the patio door blinds were tore down when officer Madden brutally attacked me and tackled me into them and almost sent us both crashing through the glass doors. Second, it is impossible to see our patio doors from the front door because there is a wall between the area blocking the view. Unless Lisa Mascherin has X-Ray vision there is no way possible she saw what she said she saw. In yet another affidavit Lisa attempts to back up her claims that I am a danger to Junior because I was violent with the police to the point they had to restrain me and that I did this in front of Junior with disregard for his safety. Junior was upstairs in his crib sleeping soundly when this entire fiasco occurred and did not wake up until James and Sue went up to get him and hand him over to Lisa. 
My lawyer, in my “obstruction” case obtained a copy of the two police reports that were filed on this incident by officers Abrams and Madden. In Madden’s report he claims that when he “calmly” walked through our door I aggressively jumped up from the couch and ran down the hall at him screaming and got into his face yelling obscenities and telling him to get out of the house and I didn’t give a shit about his warrant. He claims that I then shoved him into the front door. Madden is a huge man, about three times larger than myself. There were about eight to ten other regular officers plus the tactical team there. I am not a stupid person, and would never attack an officer or anyone in this type of situation. However, even if I was that stupid there are several things wrong with madden’s story. I have degenerative disk disease in my back and also have five herniated disks. I also have no ACL in my left knee because of an injury and surgery years ago. I am in chronic pain because of these ailments and it is physically impossible for me to jump up from anywhere or to run anywhere. Now on to officer Abram’s report. In officer Abram’s report he states that I was not aggressive or violent in any way shape or form.
Here is the truth of what happened the night Lisa Mascherin kidnapped Junior. Some time between the hours of 6 PM and 7:30 PM on the evening of November 21, 2007 my son James was going out side to have a cigarette. As James opened the door he saw several police officers standing in the door way and asked them what they wanted. Madden said "It's none of your business" and shoved James back into the house into the hallway. Madden then stepped into the house and shoved James into the kitchen. I got up off the couch and walked down the hallway between our living room and front door to the bathroom door, which is about halfway down the hall (the hallway is approximately 10 to 12 feet long). 
Madden looked straight at me with a menacing look on his face and said "Hello Randy... I mean Paul. We have a warrant to remove a child from the premises." As Madden said this he began to walk toward me in a menacing manner with his fists clenched and his teeth clenched. I began to walk backwards away from Madden in fear that he was going to attack me. I stated " I want to see the warrant and we want to know what the legal reasons for removing Junior are." Madden said "That's none of your business." While still backing away from Madden I stated "We have a right to see the warrant and know the reasons you're taking Junior."
Madden then took a large step toward me and purposely stepped on my left foot and leaned forward and pressed his chest against me and brought his face within an inch to two inches away from mine and said "If you even try to stop us I'll charge you with obstruction." I leaned back and said "Get out of my face." The second I got out my last word Madden drew back and shoved me as hard as he could. I was thrown approximately six to eight feet backwards into our living room and was losing my balancing when Madden then shoved my son James and then bent forward and jumped at me with great force in a football tackle and hit me in my left side ribs with his shoulder.
We flew approximately four to five feet and slammed into our glass patio doors and I thought the glass was going to break and we were going to go right through. Madden told me to put my hands behind my back and I complied. He cuffed me and told me he was charging me with obstruction. I said "obstruction of what I didn't do anything". Madden then grabbed the hair at the back of my head and slammed my face into the arm of our couch and told me to shut up. My wife and kids began screaming and asking what was going on and stating I didn't do anything.
At this point Lisa the CAS worker walked into the house, she had been standing outside the house about six to eight feet away from the front door behind several police officers, and Sue told her what Madden had just done to me and Lisa replied "I can't do anything about it I didn't hear or see any of it." Then another officer came over to me and Madden told me to stand up and I complied. I then tried to turn around to walk out of the house to the police car but before I could Madden and the other officer grabbed my arms and pulled them as high as they could behind me and lifted me off the ground and began to carry me backwards out of the house. I began screaming out in pain and was trying to tell them that I had a bad back and arthritis in my shoulders but they would not listen. My wife, Sue, also told them about my back but again they refused to listen and continued to carry me, off my feet, backwards down the hallway and outside into the cop car. The entire time Madden and the other officer were taking me from the living room, down the hallway, through our yard and to the cop car my feet could not touch the ground because of how they were forcing my arms upward and lifting me off the ground. They also pulled my hands and arms so far apart that the cuffs were gouging into my wrists. 
After being placed into the cop car I told the officer driving the car that I needed my medication. He asked me what meds I needed and I told him my wife knew, that it was my anxiety and depression meds and my asthma puffers and my oxycodone. The officer told Madden about this and Madden went in and got my meds but took them with him in his car and didn't give them to me.
When I arrived at the station and they took the cuffs off me and I had my hands against the wall to be searched I looked at my hands and they had turned blue from the way Madden and the other officer was handling me in the cuffs and there were deep gouges in my wrists and they were both swollen badly. I also noticed a large bruise on my right shoulder and bruises on my knees. I was then placed into a cell and still not given my meds. I was left in the cell for several hours before an officer came back and asked if I wanted to wait for duty counsel or go home. I replied I wanted to go home.
For several days after this incident my entire body was sore and it was very difficult for me to move and I had suffered from a very bad head ache that even my oxycodone (prescribed to me for my back and knee), nor Tylenol 3s, would not take away.  

I filed in court to have Madden charged with assault but the Crown Attorney intervened and squashed it. In the face of Lisa Mascherin’s umpteen different stories, Madden’s lies, and the totally conflicting report from officer Abrams the Crown Attorney protected this brutal bully with a badge.

Now, Lisa Mascherin is not the only culprit here. Kathy has stabbed our family in the back after taking her in and treating her like a part of our family. She has submitted two affidavits to the court and both of these affidavits are carbon copies of Lisa Mascherin’s affidavits. Kathy’s lawyer is obviously copying Lisa’s work in an effort to ride the coat tails of the C.A.S. all the way to winning custody and unfairly, and illegally screwing James over for his fatherly rights. Kathy’s affidavits state that she and her family are worried about me and my violence and that I may harm Junior. She claims our home is unfit and a danger to Junior. She claims she quit school in order to take care of Junior. How could she take care of Junior when she was sleeping at her parent’s place while Junior was at our home? If I was so violent, and our home was so unfit then why did Kathy live there for five months? Well, Kathy claims she never lived at our house. However, Kathy was caught in her lies, many times. One way was the fact that Kathy had mail being delivered to our home, which we gladly supplied to the court to prove she was living there. Also, Lisa Mascherin admitted in her affidavits that she knew for a fact that Kathy was living in our home. We later found out why Kathy is most likely lying about living at our home, two reasons really. Reason one is information we received from one of Kathy’s cousins. Kathy told her cousin that she had to win custody of Junior or welfare was going to cut her off. The other reason, also told to us by the same cousin of Kathy’s, is that Kathy’s lawyer told her if the court knew Junior lived with us for five months and with Kathy for only one month then James would probably regain custody of him because he had lived with James the longest.  

Before Junior was apprehended there was an incident with Mark Zwart. This incident happened on the Friday that we were supposed to have Junior for the week end after not seeing him for close to a month. Mark Zwart had made a visit to our home with his supervisor Karen MacCoy one day. On this day we had been doing a massive cleaning on the home and were scrubbing down our walls, and scrubbing the floors on our hands and knees, etc… Mark wanted to discuss Billy and Jake and their schooling. We had a rather nice chat and everything went well. We were to have Junior at our home for the week end and I mentioned this to Mark and mentioned how happy we all were to finally see Junior after close to a month of absence. We were shocked when we later received a call from Lisa Mascherin telling us that Junior would not be coming to our home because Mark had just called her and told her our house was a pig sty and there were animals running around all over our house and we were smoking in the house (Junior was not in the home so it was perfectly fine for us to be smoking, and Mark knew we did not smoke in the home when Junior was there). Naturally we were all furious over this lie because for the second time Junior was ripped away from us. Not only was the house almost spotless but Mark had no idea how clean it was because he didn’t even inspect it. He stood at the front door the entire time we spoke. On the Monday after this Mark and Lisa showed up at our door and instead of letting them in I stepped out side the door and let Mark know how I felt about his actions and tearing Junior away from our family. I do admit that I yelled at Mark, however, I believe I had a very legitimate reason for being so upset and yelling. Sue and I then called Mark’s supervisor and asked to have a meeting with her. She came to our house and we told her what had happened and she agreed with us that there was no way Mark should have done what he did. She actually admitted that from what she saw the house was very clean and that there were no animals in the house. She immediately got us a new worker… But as the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for. 

Lisa Mascherin later used my yelling at Mark on this occasion as proof that I am violent in an affidavit. During a later visit Lisa paid to our home I confronted her about this and asked her why she didn’t come and inspect the house for herself before making judgment and refusing to allow Junior to come to our home. She stated that Mark’s word was good enough for her. Well, the facts, and Karen McCoy’s own statements proved Mark’s word meant nothing but lies. At this time I reminded Lisa that in all the times our family has dealt with C.A.S. no a single worker ever even threatened to take a child away from us. Lisa then said “That’s a lie Paul.” I asked her what she was talking about and she said “Billy and Jake were taken into C.A.S. custody for two or three days a few years ago.” This was a blatant lie and I told Lisa so. She said “No, you’re the one lying Paul. I read it in your file.” I then told Lisa again that this was a lie and if it was in our file then our file is wrong. Later, James put this information in an affidavit and Lisa supplied an answer to this in her reply affidavit. Lisa stated in her reply affidavit that it was a misunderstanding. She said that she though Mark Zwart had told her that Billy and Jake were taken into C.A.S. custody but she misheard him. She stated she tried to explain this to me but I screamed at her and she became fearful for her safety and left. This is a lie as I have never screamed at Lisa Mascherin even once and Lisa never did try to explain anything to me. The cold hard fact is she straight out told me that she read in our file that Billy and Jake were taken into C.A.S. custody. After this experience, and due to the lies in Lisa Mascherin’s affidavits I became desperate for help. I decided to begin research on the internet looking for help with our problem. At this time, I thought our problem with C.A.S. was isolated and that this type of thing couldn’t happen all the time. Was I ever proven wrong. During my research I have found thousands and thousands of documented stories of people who have gone through the same type of nightmares our family is going through. It was through this research that I discovered it is legal for a person to record phone conversations that they are involved in and that it is legal to videotape other people within your own home. I then made the decision to begin protecting my family from C.A.S. and we have begun recording all phone calls with C.A.S. and video taping all their visits to our home.

Before I found the information about recording and video taping Karen McCoy came to our home with our new worker Rob Burriss. When they arrived they entered our living room and James was sitting on a chair. Rob looked over at James and said “You must be James.” James replied “Yeah I am.” And then got up and went upstairs to his bedroom. Due to the actions of Mark Zwart and Lisa Mascherin James (as well as our two other boys) is now very fearful of and does not trust C.A.S. Rob and Karen sat at our dining room table discussing our case and James’s case. The discussion was very cordial and didn’t last very long. Rob seemed like a decent person and we wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. Our neighbors Steve and Tammy had moved to Alberta in August but had moved back to Ontario in December. When they returned they came to our place for a visit. Steve asked if he could use my computer to look for work and a home during the visit and I allowed him to. During this visit Rob Burriss showed up. He stated that Lisa wanted him to come over and inspect the home for Junior’s upcoming visit. This was rather strange since not a single C.A.S. worker had been to our home to inspect it regarding Junior since the night they abducted him in November. I let Rob in and followed him on his tour. When we got upstairs Rob looked into the computer room and saw Steve at the computer. Rob began interrogating Steve asking him what his name was, what his last name was, where he lived, when he got to our house, how long he planned on staying at our house, where he worked, etc…… I was completely stunned!!! Had I not been so stunned I would have told Rob to cease the interrogation of our guest. Rob then moved on to Billy and Jake’s bedroom where he saw Ryan, Steve and Tammy’s son. He then commenced interrogating Ryan, a ten year old little boy. Then it was on to the downstairs where Tammy was watching television. Again Rob began an interrogation of Tammy. I felt like I was living in a scene from the TV show Law and Order where the police are interrogating a known criminal. Rob then stated everything was fine and left. A short time later Steve and Tammy and Ryan left. I thought they had planned on staying for supper but apparently they changed their plans. A few hours later Sue returned home from work. I told her about Rob’s visit and what he had done. Sue was livid. She called C.A.S. and voiced her extreme displeasure about what happened. Rob told her he had to do that because he has to know who is in our home and who our friends are. Sue asked Rob if Lisa was interrogating guests at Kathy’s home and he wouldn’t answer her. He kept telling her the two cases were separate. This is a favorite ploy of these people. If it suits their purpose to screw our family over they enjoin the two cases, however if we attempt to enjoin the cases to make a valid point they refuse to allow it. Rob then informed Sue that he was ordering a dumpster to be placed in front of our home and he was going to find some people to clean out our house. This was not only a huge insult but it was ludicrous. Our house was perfectly clean when he inspected it and he even said so. We were now finding out that Rob was not as decent as we first thought. Later that night Sue called Tammy and spoke to her. Tammy apologized for leaving and told Sue the only reason they left was because Rob made them feel extremely uncomfortable and made them feel like they were going to get us in some kind of trouble and they didn’t want to get us into trouble. This is when I made the decision to start recording all C.A.S. phone calls and video taping all C.A.S. visits to our home.   

Some time later we received an affidavit from Lisa. In this affidavit she states that Rob Burriss told her that James told him he wanted to move out of our home because he was in fear of me. I didn’t even have to ask James if he said this to Rob because I know for a fact he didn’t. As mentioned, on Rob’s first visit to our home James went upstairs to his room and stayed there until Rob and Karen left. On the second visit to our home James wasn’t even home. These were the only two times Rob was at our home and the first visit was the only time Rob had any contact at all with James and James said only three words to him. Therefore it was impossible for James to have told Rob this. As mentioned, Lisa Mascherin had not been to our home since the night she ripped Junior away from the only home he knew for the first five months of his life. All of a sudden in April of 2008 she decides she wants to inspect our house. She showed up with Rob Burriss, The second they walked in the door I had the video camera running. Lisa immediately stated she didn’t want the camera on and Rob demanded I turn it off. I informed them of the law and told them the camera was staying on as long as they were in our home. In Lisa current affidavit at that time she stated she saw me rip down our patio door blinds with my hands. As mentioned earlier this was impossible. So, while she stood at the front door I asked Lisa to describe the new blinds we had on our patio doors. She gave me a puzzled look and asked why. I said “Please, just tell me what color the new blinds on the patio door are.” Lisa then leaned far over to her right and said “There’s nothing on the patio doors.” Wrong, on one of the doors was one of the blinds out of the pair that were there the night the one got torn down by Madden throwing me into them. On the other door was a blue curtain. This proved Lisa lied about what she saw the night of the apprehension. Sue then went with Lisa upstairs to inspect the house. I then asked Rob if he told Lisa what Lisa mentioned in her affidavit about James wanting to move out. He refused to answer. I asked him again and he said he wasn’t there to answer questions. I told him if he didn’t answer my question then he could leave my house. He told me he didn’t have to leave and I informed him that it is my home and if I don’t want him there he has to leave. He asked me if I was going to make him leave. I said if he didn’t answer my questions then yes I wanted him gone and if I had to I would call the cops and have him removed. He replied to go ahead and call the cops because they were on his side anyway. This angered me as he was now rubbing something in my face that I was already pretty well aware of. I then reached for the door knob and screamed at Rob to get out of the house. Sue and Lisa had returned just in time to hear Rob’s comment about the police and when I screamed at Rob Sue stepped between him and I and opened the door and told Rob “Just get out of here and stop provoking him.” Rob stepped outside the door with a stupid smirk on his face, and Lisa told Sue the house was fine but to make sure we keep things off the floor because Junior is learning to crawl. Later that night Lisa returned to our house. She called James outside and told him that Junior was not coming down that night because I yelled at Rob. Then, to rub salt into the wound, right after telling James she was forbidding him from seeing his son she said to him “James, you need to step up and be a father to Junior.” Needless to say, James and our entire family were furious at this. Over this period of time, since Kathy left our home, C.A.S. had been causing huge amounts of stress on our family due to their actions. 

About a week after this incident Rob called our house. I recorded the phone call and in the call I asked Rob several times if he told Lisa that James told him he wanted to move out of our home. Rob kept trying to change the subject and refused to answer the question, but I persisted. Rob kept trying to put everything back on me and then said he needed to find an alternate site for James to have access to Junior. I asked him why he was doing this when it was not his case but in fact it was Lisa’s. He told me it didn’t matter who did it. This goes exactly to my earlier statements about how whenever it is beneficial for C.A.S. to enjoin our family case with James, Kathy, and Junior’s case they do indeed enjoin them, but if we try to do it the shut us down and tell us we can’t do it because they are different cases. Rob asked me if I could tell him of a decent alternate location for access and I told him the best place for access was right here in James’s and Junior’s home where Junior lived the first five months of his life. Rob continued to ask me about alternate locations and I asked him why there had to be an alternate location. He then turned it all back on me and actually, those were his exact words “Let’s put that back on you Paul. Why do you think we need an alternate location?” Finally I stated, I know why they wanted an alternate location, because they were lying to the court and saying I was violent and a danger to Junior. Rob then attempted to assume the role of my psychiatrist and asked me how that made me feel. I told Rob to quit trying to analyze me, that I already had a therapist and didn’t need him pretending to be one. I then told Rob I did as he asked and told him what I thought and said it was his turn, quid pro quo. He again attempted to skirt the issue but I persisted. He finally admitted that yes, they wanted an alternate location because they think I am violent and a threat to Junior. I asked him what evidence they had that I was violent and a threat to Junior and he tried to skirt the question. I asked several times what evidence they had and Rob refused to answer. Rob then stated that I was pretty violent when he was last at our home with Lisa. I told Rob this was a lie and reminded him I had the entire event on video tape. Rob then said I needed to show him a copy of the video. I told him he would see it when it was submitted to the court. Rob stated I could not submit it to the court because it was illegal to video tape someone without their consent and that he and Lisa had clearly stated when they saw me video taping that they didn’t want me taping. I quoted Rob the law regarding this issue and he became very quiet for a few seconds. I then quoted Rob the law regarding recording of phone conversations. He asked me why I said that and I told him because I was recording the call and that I had just gotten hard evidence of him lying about me being violent with him and Lisa and I now had audio and video recordings to prove it. Again Rob got very quiet. So again I asked Rob if he told Lisa that James told him he wanted to move out of our home and again he tried to change the subject but I persisted. Rob finally answered and said that yes he told her this. I then asked Rob when James said this to him. He said he couldn’t remember. I told him would help him out and then reminded him that he had only been to our home twice and asked if it was on the first or second visit that James was supposed to have said this. Rob said he couldn’t recall as it was in his file. I told him to look in the file and he said he couldn’t. I asked why and he said because he was not in the office. Now, we have caller ID, and it clearly showed that his call to us was coming from the C.A.S. office. I informed Rob of this and he said he couldn’t find the file at that time. I asked what he meant by he couldn’t find the file and he stated he just couldn’t find it. I then said “okay, let me refresh your memory” and reminded him of the events on the only two occasions he was at our home. Rob then stated that I was incorrect that it was the first time he was at our home. He stated that he and Karen McCoy had done an inspection of the home and when they were upstairs they had an extensive conversation with James. I reminded Rob that this was not true. He and Karen had never left our dining room the entire time they were here. He then stated that it must have been on the second visit, and I reminded him that James wasn’t even home during the second visit. He then said it must have been on another visit but he couldn’t remember which one. I then reminded him he was only here twice. He stammered and stuttered and then changed the subject again. During this conversation Rob stated that we needed to have a meeting with him and his supervisor Sonia (also Lisa Mascherin’s supervisor). I said fine, we could have a meeting in our home but only on the condition that our lawyer be present and I informed him we would be video taping the meeting. Rob completely balked at this. He said the meeting had to take place at the C.A.S. office. I told him we refused to go to the C.A.S. offices and that if they want a meeting it would only take place in our home with the video camera running. Rob continued to try and convince me to agree to a meeting in the C.A.S. offices without any type of recording equipment but I refused and stood my ground. The meeting never happened and was never mentioned again. In fact, a few weeks later we received a letter from Rob stating that our case was being closed. However, James, Kathy, and Junior’s case with Lisa Mascherin is still open. Our family is totally perplexed about this. Rob Burriss has closed our case because our children are not in any danger and are safe, healthy, and happy. In our point of view this proves they now are admitting I am not violent or a danger, because if I was then would they not keep the case open? For that matter, if I am so violent and a danger to children that C.A.S. had to rip Junior out of his home then why did they not take our children as well? So if Rob closing our case proves I am not violent or a danger then why is Lisa Mascherin still pursuing her case against us?    

During this period James had called Lisa’s supervisor, Sonia, several times and asked to have a new worker due to the stress Lisa was causing our family. Sonia refused to replace Lisa and kept telling James he should come to the C.A.S. offices and have a meeting with her and Lisa and work things out. James informed Sonia each time that he and our family had tried many times to work things out. He told her of how our family bent over backwards to comply with C.A.S. yet the workers continued to play games with us and Lisa continued to lie in her affidavits. The stress had gotten so bad that at one point I felt like I was losing control and wanted to admit myself to the hospital. I was becoming severely distraught over being used by the C.A.S. as a weapon against my son in order to prevent him from seeing his son. The family did everything they could to make me feel at ease and I did not admit myself at that time. However, a week later I began to get a severe headache after reading Lisa Mascherin’s most current affidavit filled with lies about me being violent and a danger to my grandson. I took several pain relievers but nothing worked. I spent an entire night tossing and turning in pain. In the morning the pain was so intense I could not stand it. As the day wore on the pain got worse and worse, to the point that even the slightest noise or the slightest bit of light made my head feel like it was being squeezed in a vice. I literally wanted to die just to end the pain. In the afternoon I was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with a severe stress induced migraine. The doctor had to use three different types of IV medication before the migraine finally subsided.    

What was really baffling our family was the fact that Lisa and the C.A.S. had absolutely no evidence of any wrong doing against our family and no proof that our home was not safe for Junior. Yet there was plenty of evidence that there was danger in all kinds of forms at Kathy’s home. Mark, the gentleman who had physically attacked James in Kathy’s front yard and who had a penchant for beating up young teenagers had now moved into Kathy’s home and was dating her sister Tasha. This man, who had a clear history of violence against young people, and who was already forbidden to see his own daughter and nieces, posed absolutely no concern to Lisa Mascherin. James stated this fact in an affidavit and Lisa’s reply was that she had never seen Mark. Yet in a later affidavit Lisa admits she spoke with Mark, in Kathy’s home no less, and that she told him he was not to be in care of Junior. Lisa claims that this is good enough for her and the C.A.S. yet they continue to use me against my son with absolutely no evidence of me being violent or a danger to Junior. 
Sue’s sister Valerie lives with her boy friend Bob (a friend of mine that I grew up with). Valerie has two daughters from a previous marriage, Kim (16 years) and Britney (14 years). Valerie and Bob also have two children together, Sean (10 years) and Debbie (8 years). Ever since Bob moved in with Valerie Kim and Britney have been subjected to emotional and physical abuse basically on a daily basis. Valerie allows this to happen and blames it all on the girls and she also often joins in with Bob abusing the girls. Bob often brags about this special training he took in British Columbia for some law enforcement training and how they taught him all these special pressure points on the body that can inflict excruciating pain and damage upon a person and is constantly threatening the girls with this and has several times used these methods against the girls. Many, many times Kim and Britney have left their home and come to our home for protection from this abuse. These girls look to both my wife and I for protection and comfort. During the summer of 2007 Britney was going roller blading with some friends. She had forgotten something in the kitchen and went in there, with her roller blades on, to get what she forgot. Bob saw her do this and grabbed her by the throat and threw her against a wall and choked her and screamed in her face that she was not supposed to be roller blading in the house.
Britney wrestled herself away from Bob and came to our house as fast as she could crying uncontrollably. I was outside with James and Steve and Tammy when she got there. We immediately saw dark red marks on Britney’s neck and she was complaining of how sore it was. Britney told us what had happened and I became very upset. I called Sue at work to tell her what happened and told her I wanted to go up and confront Bob about what he did. What made me so upset was because things like this happened far too often with these girls and all I could really do is offer protection at our home and comfort to them. I never really did anything about what Bob was doing and this time it was much worse and I thought I should do something. I decided that it was best not to go see Bob because something bad might happen so I instead decided to let the police and C.A.S. deal with it. The police did indeed visit and so did C.A.S. however, basically nothing was done, Bob is still there. They had the evidence of the marks on Britney’s neck and also had Bob and Valerie’s admissions of what had happened, and also Kim and Britney’s accounts of all the abuse in the past, yet they did basically nothing. Because of this Kim and Britney have moved out of Valerie and Bob’s and moved in with their father. 
It greatly disturbs me that the police and C.A.S. have all this evidence of Bob being violent and actually assaulting Kim and Britney yet they do basically nothing about it even though there is still a ten year old and an eight year old in the home. Yet C.A.S. has absolutely no evidence of me being violent or abusing my kids and in fact they have been told straight out by my sons that I am not violent and have never abused them yet they continue their lies and harassment of me. 

James also mentions Kathy and her family’s extensive drug use in the home in an affidavit. Lisa claims she has seen no proof of drug use in Kathy’s home yet she admits she observed a hash pipe on a shelf in Kathy’s home. However, Lisa says the hash pipe did not appear to be used so everything is okay. James has asked for hair follicle drug screening to be done on both of our families. Lisa and the C.A.S. refuse to do this because they state that they are not concerned with Kathy or her family’s drug use. However, during one court appearance James’s lawyer asked for drug screening to be done. When they heard this Kathy, her lawyer, and Lisa Mascherin dropped their jaws in shock. Lisa and Kathy’s lawyer both leaned in to Lisa and said, loud enough for everyone to hear, “don’t worry Kathy, it’ll never happen.” The judge stated she agreed with the terms but would leave it to the decision of the parties involved. Our family immediately agreed but Kathy and her mother just shook their heads. Later, in the court waiting area James’s lawyer spoke to Kathy, her mother, her lawyer and Lisa about the drug testing. Kathy and her mother were very reluctant and continued to refuse it. James’s lawyer asked them what they had to hide and they said nothing. He then said “Then why not just do the tests?” Kathy and her mother said they wanted to speak to Kathy’s lawyer in private and they, along with Lisa Mascherin went into a room and closed the door. When they came out Kathy’s lawyer stated Kathy and her mother would do the tests but they could not speak for Kathy’s father. James’s lawyer then asked Lisa if C.A.S. would have the tests done and Lisa said yes. Later, as we were waiting for the elevators to leave the court Lisa said to us, in front of James’s lawyer, that she would be coming over to our house the next day so we could sign the agreements to do the drug tests. We then felt at ease because now the truth would be out and Lisa would not be able to lie her way out of Kathy and her family doing drugs when tests would prove it. The next day Lisa did indeed show up at our home. James informed her that his lawyer also wanted the drug tests done on Junior because Kathy had admitted to doing drugs while she was pregnant. Lisa replied that there would be no drug tests. James and I stood there shocked. We had no idea what Lisa was talking about, she had agreed right in front of the lawyers to do the drug tests. Lisa told us that the tests would not be done because C.A.S. was not concerned with Kathy or her family’s drug use. 
This lack of concern for drug use seems to be par for the course with C.A.S. We have an eighteen year old neighbor Lucy. Lucy has a 2 year old son and she also has a room mate named Kim. Around mid February Lucy had her son’s two year birthday party at our house. When the party was finished later that night James helped Lucy carry her son over home so she could take his presents and things. When they arrived Lucy called out for Kim to give her some birthday cake. Kim did not answer so Lucy went to the basement where Kim’s bedroom is to see if she was awake. Lucy started screaming in terror and called James and he ran to her and saw Kim seated on a couch in the basement with her head back, mouth open grotesquely and her eyes rolled back in her head. There were needles strewn all over the place and on the tables and floor and there was a plate of a brown crystal substance and a snorting straw in Kim’s lap. When James and Lucy approached Kim it appeared she was not breathing and there were needle track marks all over her arms which showed she had been doing intravenous drugs for quite some time. James immediately ran home to Sue and I for help and we called 911. 
The paramedics arrived along with the police and Kim was diagnosed as having over dosed on heroine both from snorting it and taking it through a needle. The brown substance on the plate was identified as crystal heroine. Kim was sent to the hospital but the next day when she was being taken for some tests she escaped and came back home and broke back into Lucy’s through a basement window. Lucy told Kim she wanted her to move out because she had a young son and didn’t want that kind of stuff going on. 
Lucy is also involved with C.A.S. and later that day her worker showed up because she was notified by police. Lucy told her worker that she was getting Kim to move out but the worker told Lucy “No, that’s ok she doesn’t have to move out”. James was at Lucy’s seconds before the C.A.S. worker arrived and he still saw drug needles all over the floor in the house, on tables, various drug paraphernalia and also the plate with the heroine on it from the night before sitting on the dining room table. 
We were very disturbed that a C.A.S. worker would come into a home where a two year old boy lives and where a person over dosed, and where there was all this drug stuff laying around all over and say that it was “O.K.” and that the person responsible for this could continue to live there. All of this evidence that a child is in danger due to a specific person’s behavior yet C.A.S. is not concerned with it. Yet there is absolutely no evidence that I am violent except for the lies of Lisa Mascherin and her coworkers and C.A.S. is trying to prevent James from having his son come to our home and is basically trying to get our family to choose between keeping their father and husband in the home or be able to have Junior in the home. Perhaps the fact that Lucy’s father is a C.A.S. supervisor has something to do with the differences in these two cases.

During the Christmas holidays of 2007 Kathy and James began to speak to each other more frequently on civil terms. Kathy began coming down to our home to visit him more often and also began allowing us to have Junior at our home more. On December 22 2007 James, Kathy, Sue, and I were outside having a cigarette talking. Kathy stated she was tired of all the bickering and stress and so was her family. We all agreed with her and said we were as well. Kathy stated that the entire mess started when C.A.S. got involved and she was upset with them about it. Kathy stated she wished there was some way the whole custody thing could be settled without all the stress. I told Kathy and James there was indeed a way they could do it and told them they could come to an agreement on custody themselves, outside of court, and then just tell the court what they decided and have it made legal. Kathy said she didn’t know they could do that but I reassured her that I knew the law as I had taken courses at Queen’s University and also Sue and I had gone through a break up when James was a baby and went to court for custody but ended up making an agreement on our own. Kathy asked how they would decide on who gets Junior when, and I told her that they just discuss it and decide on what is fair. Kathy said she didn’t know what was fair so I suggested a 50/50 joint custody agreement where Junior would stay at Kathy’s home from Sunday a six in the evening until the next Sunday at six in the evening and then he would stay with James at our home the next Sunday at six to the next Sunday at six. Kathy said that sounded fair. I told her to talk to her parents about it if she wanted to and let James know before the next court date. Kathy agreed. Kathy was at our home eight times after that discussion including New Years eve. On New Years eve Kathy told us that she spoke with her mother about the custody arrangement and her mother agreed it was a good idea. She said she hadn’t had a chance to talk to her father yet but that Junior is her child so it is her decision and she was deciding to make the agreement with James. Our family felt completely relieved. Things were going to be settled and there would be no more stressful court. We should have gotten this agreement in writing.
The next court date came around and James told his lawyer, Jeff, about the agreement he and Kathy made. Later, Kathy came up and asked James if he wanted to go outside for a cigarette because she wanted to talk to him. Outside Kathy asked James if the two of them could get back together. James told her he didn’t think that was a good idea at the time but that they were becoming good friends again and to see how things went. Kathy said “So you won’t get back together with me?” and James said No, not right now. We enter the court room and are completely shocked when Kathy’s lawyer asks for James’s access to be switched to supervised access once a week for two hours. James stood up and asked to address the court and the judge told him to sit down and be quiet. The judge refused to change the access and set a date for a placement hearing. Jeff never mentioned the deal James told him he and Kathy made at all. We were later told by Kathy’s cousin that Kathy had told her that she backed out of the agreement for two reasons. One reason was because her lawyer told her she would not be able to come after James for support payments if the custody was 50/50. The second reason was because James refused to get back together with her.
The entire five months Junior lived in our home he remained happy, healthy and safe. He never once became ill or had any type of injuries at all. He was 100% healthy, and Lisa Mascherin was a witness to this. After being at Kathy’s home for just two weeks Junior developed a bad cough and a bad runny nose. Over time the cough and runny nose got worse and worse. Kathy’s doctor, the same doctor who diagnosed her pregnancy as a bowel problem, told her Junior just had a little cold. James and I and Sue continued to tell Kathy she should have someone else look at Junior as we did not think it was just a cold. Kathy refused to do so and eventually Junior’s cough got so bad that he was admitted to the hospital. He spent two days in the hospital and the doctor at the hospital diagnosed him with bronchial asthma due to second hand smoke. As already mentioned, our family stopped smoking in the house when Junior was born. However, Kathy had admitted to us on several occasions that she and her family still smoked in their home even when Junior was there. Junior was released from the hospital on Thursday morning. That evening James had his two hour visit with Junior. Junior was still coughing some but seemed better than he was the last time we saw him. James’s weekend visit with Junior was that weekend. Kathy called that Friday morning to tell James he might not be able to have Junior because he was back in the hospital again because his bronchial asthma flared up during the night Thursday. However, Junior was released later Friday and we did in fact have Junior for the weekend. James and I spoke to Lisa Mascherin and voiced our concern about Junior’s hospital stay and the fact that Kathy and her family’s neglect in the form of smoking in the house while Junior was there, even after the doctor told them not to, was putting Junior in danger. Lisa Mascherin was not concerned in the least tiny bit. However, since the very first day she was involved with us, Lisa and Mark Zwart harassed our family on every single visit they made to our home about our smoking in the home when Junior was not there, even though they knew we did not smoke in the home when he was there. I have Lisa Mascherin on video tape where I ask her why she and Mark Zwart harassed our family about smoking in the house when Junior was not there yet they do absolutely nothing about Junior ending up in the hospital twice because of Kathy and her family smoking in their house when Junior is there. Lisa’s answer to me was “If you have concerns Paul then you need to report them.” Uhhh????? What the hell did she think we were doing when we called her and told her about Junior being in the hospital due to Kathy and her family smoking in the house when he was there??? What in the hell did she think I was doing at that very second when I asked her about it???? Did we have to use the specific words “Lisa we would like to report….” Is it not good enough to just state “Lisa, Junior was in the hospital twice because of…..”  
In the short time Junior has stayed at Kathy’s home he has been in the hospital twice, he has shown up at our home with a bad gash on his head, he has had several very bad bruises that were painful for him, and he often shows up filthy dirty. We have several photos to prove this and Lisa Mascherin has been advised of all of this but she is not at all concerned for Junior’s well being. She is more content to continue to tell lies about me and claim that I am violent and a danger to my grandson even though the facts show, and Lisa has been witness to these facts, that Junior was 100% better off in our home with James, his father.
 In Lisa Mascherin’s last affidavit as of March 25 2008 she exposes not only Kathy’s lies but also her own. She explicitly states that she had a conversation with Kathy and asked Kathy what the environment in our home was like when she lived with us. Kathy and her family told Lisa they have absolutely no problem with me at all and that they know I am not violent or a danger to Junior and that our home was clean and safe and posed no risks for Junior. Now, first of all this statement proves that Kathy lied in her affidavit when she claimed she never lived at our house. This statement also proves that Kathy lied when she stated in her affidavit that I was violent and a danger to Junior. Second of all, why did it take Lisa Mascherin five months to ask Kathy about whether I was violent or a danger to Junior and about the environment in our home??? Why did Lisa Mascherin not ask these questions BEFORE she perjured herself when she lied to obtain a warrant to apprehend Junior from our home??? Is it not the law that a C.A.S. worker needs to do a full investigation before kidnapping a child from their home???? This statement also proves that Lisa herself lied about me being violent and a danger to Junior, and that she obtained the apprehension warrant under false pretences. Now, if anyone had any reason to lie about me or our home it would be Kathy and her family so that Kathy could win custody. Yet Kathy and her family tell the truth!!!!
Lisa Mascherin also states in her last affidavit that she knows our home has consistently been a clean and safe environment for Junior. This exposes her earlier lies about our house being dirty and unsafe. It also proves Kathy lied in her affidavits when she stated our house was dirty and unsafe. It also proves a disturbing fact. We have Kathy on video tape admitting she and her family have no problem with me and that they know I love Junior very much and that I am not violent or a danger to Junior. On this video tape I ask Kathy why she said those things in her affidavit. Kathy states that she didn’t say those things, her lawyer did. I asked Kathy, “didn’t you read the affidavits before they were submitted to court?” Kathy states that she did not read them, she just signed them after her lawyer finished them. She does state that her lawyer asked her a few questions but none of the questions had anything to do with me being violent or our house being dirty or anything.
There is a lot more to this horror story but it is already long enough. You may be reading this and wondering, ‘why are you so desperate for help it looks like a clear winning case on our part.’ Yes, it does look like an easily won case and everyone who knows us and knows what is happening to us believes James should win his case easily. However, there are factors that are preventing this from being the clear case it should be. Let’s start with James’s lawyer Jeff. James is pretty shy and nervous with strangers and doesn’t know very much about law let alone family court and custody cases, so I accompany him to his lawyers appointments. When we first met Jeff he seemed like a great lawyer who wanted to really fight for James. He told us he was outraged at the way the C.A.S. apprehended Junior and told us that it was probably an illegal apprehension based on the facts. He said he was going to bring those facts up first thing in court. Well, the first court date arrived and we were confident in Jeff, even though he showed up for court over forty five minutes late. However, when court concluded that day our confidence was a little shaken. James ended up with one supervised visit per week for one hour at the C.A.S. building. During James’s first supervised visit Lisa Mascherin was in the room with he and Junior. During the visit Lisa asked James if he wanted to have more time with Junior, maybe be able to have his visits at home. James, of course, said yes. Lisa then told him “Then tell your father to back off. I don’t give a shit about your parents and they’re going to make things very bad for you.” Sue and I were livid at this and we spoke to Jeff about it. Jeff told us he would be bringing it up at the next court date. I asked him if he was also going to bring up the possibly illegal apprehension like he was going to do in the first court date and he said yes.
A month or so goes by and we are back in court. Once again Jeff is late, this time two hours late. Once again Jeff doesn’t even mention the apprehension, and he also doesn’t mention Lisa Mascherin’s comments to James at the visit. In fact he does basically nothing. We walk out of court that day with James still having only one hour, one day per week supervised visits with Junior. James and I have another meeting with Jeff. At this meeting we let him know we are concerned about what is going on. He assures us everything will be fine. James hands Jeff a new affidavit in answer to Lisa’s affidavit. Jeff reads the affidavit and tells us he has to edit it quite a bit. He tells us which parts he needs to edit and which parts he needs to remove. All of the parts he wants to edit and remove are concerning Lisa Mascherin and C.A.S. and how they have been treating our family. He also wants to remove the facts refuting Lisa’s lies about me being violent and a danger to Junior. We ask him why he wants to remove all that stuff and he says “I don’t want it to look like we’re saying the C.A.S. is on a witch hunt against you.” Huh??? But they ARE!!!!! We are still very concerned but we were told that Jeff is a very good lawyer so we try to calm ourselves and let Jeff do his job. Two more court dates go by and again Jeff is late to both. Two and a half hours late for the first and over three hours late for the second. During the second appearance Kathy’s lawyer, the C.A.S. lawyer and the judge were all set to make a decision and we were stunned. I stood up and asked the judge for permission to speak. She allowed me to do so and I informed her of who I was and that an injustice was being carried out. I told her it was not fair to James to make a decision without his lawyer present and that James was still unjustly restricted to supervised visits one day per week for one hour. The judge asked me if I knew when Jeff would arrive and I state that he told us he should be here by three. The judge then asked Kathy’s lawyer and the C.A.S. lawyer if they knew anything about this and they both, to our shock, admitted they knew the entire time what was going on. The judge then called an adjournment until three and we all breathed a sigh of relief. So Jeff finally arrives at 3:30 but basically does nothing. Over the course of these four court appearances Jeff has done nothing and James is still stuck with one day a week, one hour supervised visits. Four court dates now and never once has Jeff even mentioned the apprehension or Lisa’s actions against us or her comments to James at the visit. During a break at the fourth court date Jeff tells us he is going on holidays so he won’t be able to schedule a placement hearing until the new year, another month away. We are all dejected and let Jeff know this. He then tells us he can get another lawyer to stand in for him. We ask him which lawyer he would get and he tells us it would be a lawyer named Paul. Now, Paul was James’s first choice as a lawyer. James had worked in the provincial court building for Sue’s Aunt for some time and he had met Paul there and had heard great things about him. However, when James called him to see if he could take his case Paul was too busy at the time. So, we were all elated that Paul would now be stepping in and we were very confident that something would now get done. 
The fifth court date arrives and we meet with Paul. Paul recognizes James and we can see right away that he likes James from meeting him at the provincial court. Paul takes us into a room to discuss the case. He tells us he didn’t have time to read the full file but did read some of it and he was not impressed with what was happening to us. He asks us about the apprehension and about how C.A.S. has been treating us through this whole ordeal and we tell him what has been going on. Paul’s can’t believe what he is hearing, but he has indeed heard of this type of thing going on. He asks us why none of this information was in any of the affidavits and we told him it was in them but Jeff took it all out. Paul is dumbfounded at this and says he is going to make notes in James’s folder to let Jeff know this information needs to be put before the courts. Paul then asks us why our C.A.S. file isn’t in James’s folder. We tell him we have no idea. We tell him we have told Jeff several times we want a copy of our C.A.S. files but we have yet to see them. Paul then writes a note in James’s folder for Jeff to obtain a copy of the C.A.S. files. Paul also tells us that the first thing Jeff should have done was get the C.A.S. files and a copy of Lisa’s application of the apprehension warrant so we would know what Lisa told the judge in order to get the warrant. Paul then tells us that there is far too much information that he hasn’t seen for him to speak to a placement hearing and asks if we mind if he sets a new date for it so that Jeff can get all the information Paul said we needed. We agree and then all head in to court. We were all thoroughly impressed. Paul got James’s visits extended to every second weekend in our home, and every Tuesday and Thursday for two hours in our home. He also told the court that hair follicle drug tests should be done on both families. This is the incident mentioned earlier. Paul did an awesome job. In four court appearances Jeff had basically done nothing and got nothing for James, and in barely fifteen minutes Paul got 200% more done. We basically begged Paul to take James’s case but he stated that he was far too busy to take on any new cases. So we had to wait and see if Jeff would take Paul’s information and use it.
The next court date that comes Jeff is back. This is the court date where James and Kathy had made the 50/50 agreement and she backed out of it. During this court date Jeff once again does not mention the apprehension, he again does not mention the treatment we have been getting from C.A.S. and he basically does nothing. The only good that came out of this court date was that Kathy’s lawyer stood up and told the judge that we were video taping her every time she dropped Junior off and every time she picked him up. She demanded that the judge order us to cease and desist this behavior. The judge flatly refused the demand. She told Kathy’s lawyer that we were well within our rights to video tape but that we also needed to understand that we were under the same rules and could be video taped if we went to Kathy’s residence. We were, and are, completely fine with that as we have absolutely nothing to hide. The only reason we began video taping Kathy was because of the lies she was telling in court about Junior coming home filthy from our house and coming home sick. Later, when we walk into the court waiting area during a break I ask Kathy why she backed out of the deal. She says her lawyer advised her not to make the agreement. Her lawyer then begins to speak to me and I tell her to be quiet and that she should have minded her own business and let James and Kathy settle the issue themselves. Kathy’s lawyer tells me Kathy has a right to legal counsel, and I tell her yes I know she has a right to legal counsel but everything was settled and could have been over but she (Kathy’s lawyer) screwed it all up. Later, Sue and I are sitting in the court waiting area during the break, and James is downstairs getting a drink and having a smoke. Jeff and Kathy’s lawyer are standing about ten feet in front of us talking. Kathy’s lawyer is telling Jeff exactly how this is all going to turn out. She tells him what James is going to get for access, she tells him what James is going to pay for support, and she sets specific guidelines for access as well. Jeff stands there nodding the whole time and then when Kathy’s lawyer is finished Jeff says “Okay, that sounds good. James will sign it today.” Sue and I could not believe what we just witnessed. I wanted to jump up and slap Jeff right there. James returns and Sue and I tell him about what we just saw and he is very upset, and rightfully so. Later Jeff comes over and tells James that he has made an agreement with Kathy’s lawyer and James will sign it after court. The agreement was that James would get every second weekend with Junior with the condition that James not allow me to be in the care of Junior, plus outrageous support requests including child support, support for Kathy, paying Kathy’s court costs and lawyer fees, and paying for Kathy’s transportation to her lawyer because her lawyer’s office was in a different city. So Jeff wanted James to agree to losing two days of access, restrictions on the weekend access, and also tom pay out a bunch of money he had no way of affording. James flat out refused the agreement, rightfully so. We went back into court and they court set a date for a case conference in the morning, and should the case conference not resolve the case then a placement hearing in the afternoon. After court James, Sue, Jeff and I are waiting for the elevators. Jeff tells James he is crazy not to accept the deal offered. I turned to Jeff and asked him where he got the nerve to try and make a deal on the relationship of our son and his son without even consulting James. Jeff stated he was doing his job, I told him he was not doing his job he was doing Kathy’s lawyer and C.A.S.s jobs. I then asked Jeff about the apprehension issue and the issue of Lisa’s comments to James. Jeff repeated his rhetoric about not wanting to make it look like a C.A.S. witch hunt against us. I raised my voice and told him it was in fact a witch hunt and all the facts are right in front of him but not in front of the court because he won’t put them there. I then told Jeff if he didn’t shape up and do his job at the next court date he was fired. He told me I couldn’t fire him because James was his client. So James stepped forward and told him if he didn’t do his job at the next court date he was fired. 
About a week later we have a meeting with Jeff. Jeff shows us a letter from Kathy’s lawyer that says that reason the 50/50 agreement James and Kathy made was not brought up in court was because Kathy only made the agreement under duress. A complete lie. Also in this letter, and several letters prior to and after this one, Kathy’s lawyer demands that we cease and desist video taping Kathy. She makes these demands even after the court has already clearly told her the law regarding this issue. James hands Jeff a new affidavit in answer to a new one from Lisa Mascherin. James tells Jeff he wants this affidavit submitted to the court as is with no edits. Jeff says he can’t do that but James remains firm. He tells Jeff of our conversation with Paul and how Paul had told us of all the information that needed to be in front of the court. Jeff says he has no idea what James is talking about. James tells Jeff about the notes that Paul made and placed in James’s folder. Jeff denies receiving the notes or speaking with Paul. Jeff again reiterates his stance on not making this look like a C.A.S. witch hunt. James tells him “Witch hunt or not it’s the truth and it needs to be in front of the court.” Jeff finally agrees and submits the affidavit. The day of the case conference and placement hearing arrives. We are told that I am not allowed in the room because of my comments to Kathy’s lawyer at the last date. Kathy’s parents also agree not to be present. Sue and I sit in the waiting room biting our nails. A while later James emerges from the court looking very disappointed. James tells us that the judge asked how he got the current access he has and Jeff states that it was granted when Paul stood in for him. The judge states that if it were up to her it would be right back to supervised one hour one day a week. We have no idea why the judge would say this as we have done absolutely nothing wrong. The judge then brings up Junior’s hospital stay and blames it on James, even though the facts show that it was due to Kathy and her family’s actions that Junior was in the hospital. The judge then says that she refuses to hear a placement hearing because it is far too early for one. She then tells everyone they will reconvene after a break to set a date for a placement hearing. During the adjournment we have a meeting with Jeff in a small room. Jeff does his best to try and convince us to just accept what C.A.S. will give James and stop fighting them. We refuse and tell Jeff he is not doing his job. Jeff says he can’t do his job when we are constantly accusing the C.A.S. of wrong doing. We tell Jeff that they are not just accusations, they are facts with evidence to back them up. We ask Jeff if he has even read any of Lisa Mascherin’s affidavits. He claims he has, and we ask him if he has not seen that she continues to change her stories over and over again in every affidavit. We tell him this proves she is lying and she is just exposing herself more every time she submits a new affidavit. We also point out that Lisa has also exposed Kathy’s lies as well. Jeff rolls his eyes and says we don’t have a chance and it is in James’s best interests to just drop it and accept what they offer. At this point I am extremely upset. I get up and leave the room and head outside for a smoke. Shortly after, James joins me, in tears. I assure James everything is going to be alright, that I will do everything I can to make sure he is treated fair. But in my mind I actually have no idea what to do. The C.A.S. seems totally untouchable and able to tear families apart for no reason at all whenever they want to and even the courts don’t seem to care. Sue then joins us and tells us that Jeff said we don’t have to be in court to set the placement hearing date if we are too upset. James tells Sue, “Then go up and tell Jeff we are going home and that after he sets the placement hearing date he is fired.” The next court date was set for about a month and a half away.
Later that day James contacts Legal Aid and asks if he can transfer his certificates (he has two legal aid certificates, one for the C.A.S. case and one for the family court case). They instruct him to come down to the office and fill out the transfer application. He submits the transfer application, and in the mean time we are looking for a good lawyer. Sue’s brother Billy had won sole custody of his son with the help of a lawyer named Isaac. A friend of ours brother also had won sole custody of his children using Isaac. We decided to call Isaac. The first thing we asked Isaac’s receptionist was if he was free to take new cases and she told us that he was indeed free. She then set up a meeting for about a month away. During this time something had come up that we needed the lawyer to know about (I can’t recall what it was at this time). James called Isaac’s office and was told that his case was switched to a different lawyer in the firm named Betty Anne. We were kind of disappointed as we would prefer to go with a lawyer who’s track record we knew, and we knew Isaac was rated as one of the best lawyers to use against C.A.S. However we decided we had to try Betty Ann. James and I went to the meeting with Betty Anne. In the beginning everything seemed pretty good. Betty Anne seemed like a fighter and seemed like she wanted to fight for James and told us that she and the judges know that there is indeed corruption in C.A.S. and workers who are vindictive and will perjure themselves. We begin to feel better. I then tell Betty Anne that I had researched their firm and found out that one of the partners, Karen Selick, was a big advocate for father’s rights and that this made our decision to choose this firm easier. Betty Anne then states that maybe she wouldn’t be the best lawyer for James then because she is in fact a big advocate for the rights of mothers. James and I just stare at each other dumb founded. Betty Anne then says she can check and see if Isaac might be able to take the case. She leaves and comes back after several minutes and tells us that Isaac still can’t take the case. She tells us that she can look at the material and see what she can do. After discussing things for a while Betty Anne states that she saw in an affidavit that Lisa wanted James to move out of our house and she said that James would have to do this to even help his case. James tells her he can not do this as he is only sixteen and does not have the resources to be on his own yet. Betty Ann tells him that C.A.S. can help him and he states that he wants nothing to do with C.A.S. because they are the ones who ripped Junior out of his life in the first place. We discuss things for a while longer and all of a sudden Betty Anne tells us she is too busy to take the case. We leave the office dejected and wondering what we will do. Later that day, Sue called Betty Anne and told her how desperate we are. After speaking for several minutes Betty Anne tells Sue to have James e-mail her his most recent affidavit and she will look it over. James does so and later Betty Anne calls back. She again tells James she can not take the case and tells James he is slinging mud at Kathy. James asks her what she means by this and she tells him he should not be making all the accusations against Kathy. James informs Betty Anne he is not slinging mud, he is simply telling the truth. He tells her that C.A.S. is attacking our family and lying about me being violent and a danger to Junior and that James is not a fit father. He asks Betty Anne why it is ok for Kathy and C.A.S. to submit all these lies to the court but it’s not okay for him to tell the truth in his own defense and the defense of his family. Betty Anne simply tells him she is too busy to take the case and hangs up. 
During a meeting with my lawyer, Peter, for my “obstruction” case Peter asks me how things are going with James’s case. I fill him in on everything that has happened including our difficulty finding a new lawyer. Peter tells me it is very strange for all these lawyers to be so busy that they can’t take a case. He tells me that it sounds like we have been black balled. I am shocked at this and ask if he is kidding. He tells me he is not kidding and that it happens all the time. He then gives me a list of lawyers we can call for James. We decide to call a lawyer named Wendy. James and I go to the first meeting with Wendy and everything seems to go fine. She informs us that because of the next court date being so close she would need to seek an adjournment to a later date so she has time to review all the material. Wendy seems like a good lawyer and a tough lawyer. We are somewhat relieved.
On March 27 2008 we are back at court awaiting the case to be called. James and Sue had gone downstairs to get drinks for us and I remained in the court waiting area in case we were called in to court. While I was sitting there Kathy’s lawyer came walking by. She looked at me and gave me a very arrogant smirk, and continued to stare at me, with this smirk, until she passed me. I thought nothing of this until I heard Kathy’s lawyer speaking to Kathy. She told Kathy she had great news, she told Kathy that she “gets to keep the baby”. Kathy asked what she meant and her lawyer replied the case was being adjourned. Kathy asked what this meant and her lawyer told her that it meant the case would be put over to another date because “Shipman is submitting another ridiculous affidavit”. At that point Kathy, her mother and her lawyer began laughing loudly. Kathy’s lawyer then told her “The case is ours now. Shipman is just pissing the court off with his stupidity. Now you’ve had the baby longer than he did and it doesn’t hurt that we have C.A.S. in the palm of our hands either.” Again, Kathy and her mother and her lawyer began laughing loudly. Sue and James had returned as the group were still laughing, and I told them what they were laughing at.

As if to prove her comment about having C.A.S. in the palm of their hands, Kathy’s lawyer then walked past us and over to Lisa Mascherin. Kathy’s lawyer asked Lisa if she heard the news. Lisa said she hadn’t heard any news and Kathy’s lawyer repeated her comments about the adjournment and James’s “ridiculous affidavit” then stated, “not just any affidavit, but a 22 page affidavit.” Kathy’s lawyer emphasized “22 page affidavit” as if it were something totally outrageous. Kathy’s lawyer and Lisa then laughed and Lisa stated “how many affidavits are they going to submit? This is getting out of hand.” Kathy’s lawyer then replied “it won’t do them any good. They’ve as good as lost already anyway.” 
Then, to even further rub salt into the wounds and even more so prove her comment about C.A.S. being in the palm of their hand, Kathy’s lawyer and Lisa walked down the hall a little ways to meet with C.A.S. lawyer Cory Deyarmond. The three then began collaborating on their strategy against James. Kathy’s lawyer told Mr. Deyarmond he had to push for James to move out of our home and told Mr. Deyarmond and Lisa that they also had to ensure that James only receive supervised access. Mr. Deyarmond and Lisa agreed and Mr. Deyarmond asked Kathy’s lawyer if she was sure Kathy would go for it. Kathy’s lawyer replied “Oh yes. She’ll do anything I tell her to.” Kathy’s lawyer then said that C.A.S. also has to stipulate that James has to attend the Daddy N’ Me program and also attend parenting classes as per their previous conversation. Mr. Deyarmond and Lisa again agreed and Lisa claimed that was already in the works. We had no idea what Lisa was talking about at this time as no one had ever mentioned the Daddy N’ Me program or parenting classes to us. However, about 20 minutes later we found out. About 20 minutes after Lisa saying “how many affidavits are they going to submit? This is getting out of hand.” Mr. Deyarmond served James with yet another C.A.S. affidavit from Lisa. In the affidavit James found out what Lisa was speaking about when she stated the Daddy N’ Me program and parenting classes were already in the works as she makes a request in the new affidavit for James to attend these programs.
We are extremely disturbed by the actions of Kathy’s lawyer, Lisa, and Mr. Deyarmond. We believe their actions are a direct conflict of interest in this case. This also perfectly corroborates my earlier comments about Lisa Mascherin and C.A.S. showing favoritism toward Kathy. 

Later James and I attend a meeting with the new lawyer Wendy. During this meeting the relief we felt with Wendy before disappeared. The first thing out of Wendy’s mouth was “The court is refusing to accept any more affidavits”. James and I are floored. I ask if the last two affidavits James gave her to submit, in answer to Lisa Mascherin’s last two, had been submitted. She stated no. So the court has in effect allowed Lisa Mascherin to submit two new affidavits to the court but is refusing to allow James to answer the lies in those affidavits. Also at this meeting Wendy tells James he should just accept what C.A.S. is offering him (which was every second weekend and every Tuesday and Thursday for two hours each day, the exact same thing he has now). James asked Wendy why he should accept this and her answer was “because, you’re 16 and it’s just a baby.” James and I both at the same time uttered “JUST A BABY????” Then James added “He’s my son!!!” Wendy replied with “So?” Wendy then told James that he should save his legal aid time for the Family Court matter. However, the fact is that Wendy has received two legal aid certificates from James. One for the C.A.S. case, and one for the Family Court case. So we have no idea what Wendy means by saving the legal aid time for the Family case. I then remind Wendy of all the evidence we now have that Lisa Mascherin has been lying all along and we want to fight this to the end. Wendy tells us it is a waste of our time. I inform Wendy that my criminal lawyer Peter is planning on using the evidence to discredit Lisa Mascherin in my obstructing a peace office case should the crown attorney call her as a witness. Wendy then says “That’s great. Make sure he has a copy of the apprehension warrant and all of Lisa Mascherin’s affidavits. Once he tears her apart in the criminal case and discredits her then I can use that in James’s case.” Huh???? Wendy wants MY lawyer to do her job for her in a completely different case and a completely different court. Wendy should be the one using all this evidence in the C.A.S. case to prove Lisa Mascherin has been lying and that she apprehended James’s son illegally.

We now have no idea what we can or will do. James’s lawyer refuses to fight for him. Due to Legal Aid rules he can not transfer his legal aid certificates a second time. If we had known what Wendy was like we never would have hired her. But we were stuck. We had no idea of knowing what Wendy was like beforehand. We had no opportunity to talk to her before confirming the transfer of the legal aid certificate because she was going to charge us $250 per hour just to consult and find out what she is like if we didn’t have the legal aid certificate transferred to her. 

Since day one our family has been saying I am not violent and am absolutely no danger to Junior. We have also told Ms. Mascherin to ask Kathy and her family about this, and even talk to our neighbors if they needed to. However, Lisa Mascherin ignored us. However, after reading Lisa Mascherin’s last affidavit, which the C.A.S. lawyer handed to him in court on March 27^th 2008, we were dumbfounded. In this affidavit Lisa states she spoke with Kathy and her family regarding me. She states that Kathy and her family admitted that I was in fact NOT violent and NOT a danger to Junior. We would like to know why Ms. Mascherin had waited five months to do this investigation, instead of doing it before she obtained a warrant to apprehend Junior. Ms. Mascherin claims she is thinking of Junior’s best interests but she fails to perform an integral investigation that would have shown her the truth from day one. We would also like to know why this investigation was not done before Ms. Mascherin apprehended Junior from our home. This information now proves without a doubt that Ms. Mascherin had absolutely no legal or logical reason to tear Junior from the only home he knew since the day he was born. Kathy’s statement regarding me and Ms. Mascherin’s own words prove that Ms. Mascherin obtained her apprehension warrant under false pretences, which I believe is illegal. We would also like to know why Ms. Mascherin’s supervisor allowed her to perform this illegal apprehension without doing an investigation first and without any evidence whatsoever to back up her claims.
This paragraph in the affidavit, in Kathy’s own words proves that Kathy has committed perjury in her past affidavits when she claimed I was violent, and when she stated she never lived in our home. 
On April 25^th 2008 I spoke with Melanie Raghan, Manager of Children’s Services of the Hastings Children’s Aid Society by telephone. During this conversation Ms. Raghan admitted that C.A.S. did an investigation of me five months after obtaining a warrant used to rip Junior from our home, and that this investigation proved Lisa Mascherin’s claims of me being violent and a danger to children were indeed false. Ms. Raghan admitted that the C.A.S. found out that I am in fact very good with children and pose absolutely no threat to any child let alone my grandson Junior. Again, why was this investigation done AFTER Lisa Mascherin obtained an apprehension warrant based on now proven false information and not BEFORE? Had Lisa Mascherin, and the C.A.S., actually done their jobs legally then Junior would still be living with his father, in our home now. Also during this conversation with Ms. Raghan she informed me that Lisa Mascherin and her supervisor had told her that the relationship between Lisa Mascherin and our family was going great, from day one to the present. One look at Ms. Mascherin’s affidavits will tell anyone that this is indeed not true. Ms. Raghan also told me during this conversation that Lisa Mascherin and her supervisor had told her that they are totally open to communication with our family and they would like to talk out the current situation and work things out. Later that day this was also proven one hundred percent false.
On this same day, April 25^th 2008, Lisa Mascherin visited our home to inspect it. I video taped the entire visit. During the visit I attempted to ask Lisa Mascherin very valid questions, which our family has a right to know the answers to. But Lisa Mascherin refused to answer any questions at all. Also during this visit I showed Lisa Mascherin photo’s of the many bruises and cuts Junior had received while living with Kathy. Ms. Mascherin at first attempted to blame our family for these injuries and claimed they were received while he was living with us (just as my son stated she would do in one of his previous affidavits) until I pointed out that Junior was nine months old in the photos and that the photos were taken just a couple of weeks prior to Lisa Mascherin’s visit. I find it rather baffling that a C.A.S. worker can not tell the difference between a five month old baby and a ten month old baby. Ms. Mascherin then tried to sweep the issue under the carpet and protect Kathy and her family by stating the injuries occurred while Junior was learning to walk. My wife and I have raised three children. I also helped raise two of my nephews and my niece. My wife, as well, has raised three children and has baby sat and been around countless children learning to walk. Never once have we ever seen injuries like the ones Junior has sustained on a child learning how to walk. Everyone who saw these injuries on Junior and has experience around children leaning to walk have said the same thing. Junior has also been learning to walk in our home during his visits and yes he has bumped himself and fallen over and such as babies do when learning to walk. However, never once has he ever sustained an injury from it in our home. In fact, as I have stated numerous times, Junior has never been ill in our home, he has never sustained any injuries in our home. Yet as soon as he moved in to Kathy’s parent’s home with Kathy he has been ill several times (twice so ill he needed hospitalization), and he has sustained several bad injuries while there. Lisa Mascherin stated that if I was concerned about Junior’s injuries then I should report them. What did Lisa Mascherin think I was doing by showing her the photos?? I was in fact reporting it. However, Lisa Mascherin, once again, fails to do anything. Our family told Lisa Mascherin, before she apprehended Junior, that we feared for Junior’s safety at Kathy’s family home. We warned her of what could happen to him should he be living there. All the warnings our family gave to Lisa Mascherin have come true and she continues to turn a blind eye to it all. Our family warned Lisa Mascherin about Junior’s cough that he developed after living at Kathy’s for only two weeks, and about how it kept getting worse. Lisa Mascherin ignored these warnings and Junior ended up in the hospital twice because of this ignored cough. 
Also, during this visit Lisa Mascherin continued to harp about the one single time when she visited back in July of 2007 when there was a toy on the floor. It is quite obvious that Lisa Mascherin knows very little about children. If she knew even the basics about children she would know that any home with children, especially of Junior’s age, is going to have toys on the floor. No parent can hover over their child and pick up every single toy the child pulls out of their toy box as they pull it out. The moment you place a toy back in the box the child pulls it right back out and throws it back on the floor, and eventually sees it as a fun game. The practice of most parents with children Junior’s age is to wait until the child goes down for a nap or to sleep for the night to pick up the toys, or even at a time when the child’s interest is elsewhere and the toys will stay in the box for a good period of time after being placed there. Lisa Mascherin’s expectations are completely impossible and show a complete lack of experience with live children. However, our family has taught Junior to help clean up his toys when it is time to put them away. We make a game out of it and have fun with Junior doing this. Junior is a very smart little guy and he learns things very quickly. James and I have already taught him how to play catch with his favorite balls by rolling them on the ground to him, and he rolls them back to us. We also taught him to say ‘ball’ when he wants his ball. We have also taught him that “ta ta” means he needs to hand over something he has. We have also already taught Junior to drink from a sippy cup and hold his own bottle. Junior is also wanting to feed himself with his spoon. While he has not completely learned to do this fully right now I have no doubt at all that it will be long before he can do this.  
On April 28^th 2008 I recorded a telephone call between myself and Manager of Children’s Services of the Hastings Children’s Aid Society, Melanie Raghan. During this call Ms. Raghan again admitted that Lisa Mascherin obtained her apprehension warrant without doing a proper, legal, investigation. She admitted that the investigation was done five months after the apprehension and that in fact the investigation proved Lisa Mascherin wrong in her accusations against me. Also during this conversation Ms. Raghan admitted that I have never been violent or aggressive with any of the C.A.S. workers, quite contrary to the many false accusations to this effect by Lisa Mascherin in her affidavits to the court. So once again it is proven that Lisa Mascherin has been lying about me and our family during this entire case. I asked Ms. Raghan if she had read Lisa Mascherin’s affidavits and she admitted that she did not. I stated that Ms. Raghan should read them in order to see the lies that Lisa Mascherin has been telling. Ms. Raghan stated that she and Ms. Mascherin’s supervisor stand behind Lisa Mascherin’s affidavits one hundred percent. I then asked Ms. Raghan how she could stand behind something she hadn’t even read and didn’t know the facts about. I told Ms. Raghan about the four completely different stories Ms. Mascherin has told regarding the events of the night of Junior’s apprehension. I stated that these four completely different stories across four different affidavits prove that Lisa Mascherin is lying. Ms. Raghan then stated that she and I were reading the affidavits differently. I asked how that could be when Ms. Raghan didn’t even read them. Ms. Raghan simply stated, again, that she stands behind Lisa Mascherin. I then informed Ms. Raghan of the two completely conflicting police reports from Officer Madden and Officer Abrhams. How Madden claimed I was aggressive and violent and even shoved officer Madden and screamed obscenities at him. I then informed her that Officer Abrhams report was completely contradictory and stated I was not aggressive or violent in any way, shape, or form. I then informed Ms. Raghan that this was in fact six different, conflicting, stories coming from just three people. Ms. Raghan stated that she and I were simply not seeing things the same way. Of course Ms. Raghan and I are not seeing things the same way. I, and my family, have actually seen the facts, whereas Ms. Raghan has not seen the facts and seems to refuse to even look at them. If this were how the criminal courts were run then there would be a horrifying number of innocent people in our prisons right now. 
Also during this conversation, when I informed Ms. Raghan that I had video taped Lisa Mascherin’s visit Ms. Raghan told me I was going against a court order. I told her I was doing no such thing. Ms. Raghan then stated that the court had told us not to be video taping any more. I informed Ms. Raghan that she was wrong, that the court had in fact denied Kathy’s lawyer’s demands to have us stop video taping and told us that we had the specific legal right to do so. We were also told that we also need to under stand that we are subject to the same laws if Kathy wants to video tape us in her home. Again, Ms. Raghan told me I was wrong, she said that Lisa Mascherin and her supervisor had told her that the court ordered us to stop video taping. I told Ms. Raghan that Lisa Mascherin and her supervisor had lied, and that I was in fact in court when the judge made the ruling, and that I actually did the research and found the very laws regarding this issue and they clearly state we have a full legal right to be video taping in our home and recording all phone calls. Ms. Raghan then stated that this was wrong and that she would have to look into it and have something done about it. So it appears that Ms. Raghan, and the C.A.S. is going to attempt to deny my family their legal rights once again.
The facts of this matter are very disturbing. Lisa Mascherin, with the full support of Hastings Children’s Aid Society, illegally obtained an apprehension warrant based on false information without even doing a simple investigation. Ms. Mascherin had absolutely no legal, or truthful, evidence to support her apprehension of my grandson Junior, and in fact abducted him from our home illegally with the assistance of the Belleville Police Service. These facts are backed up by the video tapes we have, the audio recordings we have, and Lisa Mascherin’s own affidavits to the court.
Thanks to Lisa Mascherin and the Hastings Children’s Aid Society my family has been living a horrible nightmare since November 21 2007. They have done everything in their power to destroy our family and it appears they are untouchable. This is an outrage!!! NO agency of any kind should ever have the power that C.A.S. has. For an agent of any agency to be able to kidnap children from their homes with absolutely no legal or logical reason, and absolutely no evidence whatsoever is totally criminal. Another disturbing fact of our case is the apprehension warrant Lisa Mascherin used to abduct my grandson. The warrant had absolutely no information on it whatsoever describing the child they were at our home to apprehend. The warrant also had absolutely no information as to what address the warrant was to be served at. This warrant could in fact be used to abduct any child in Ontario from any home in Ontario. My family was completely baffled with this warrant and thought it had to be illegal, that surely there had to be a child’s name and an address on the warrant. However, I found the Ontario Family Law Act on line and found out that in child protection cases the warrant need not contain a child’s name or address. This is completely ludicrous!!! Our story is not isolated. While reaching out and searching on the internet for help I have found hundreds and hundreds of horror stories from other families who have been attacked unjustly by Children’s Aid in Canada. Evidence of corruption, perjury in court, physical abuse and mental abuse at the hands of C.A.S. workers, children being abducted without just cause from good families. 

So, as if it were not bad enough that our family is under attack from Hastings Children’s Aid Society, we are seemingly also without help. Every lawyer we speak with wants nothing to do with the case. Also, our son is now stuck with a lawyer who refuses to fight for his legal rights because of the rules regarding legal aid certificates. If we could afford it we would just drop this lawyer and get a new one. However, I am on disability and my wife works part time so we can not afford a lawyer. Our family is desperate and we are reaching out for help. Our story needs to be told in order for the public to see the corruption that goes on within the Children’s Aid Society, and my family desperately needs help to stop the Hastings C.A.S. from trying to tear our family apart.