Once again, well ahead of his time, Leon Koziol targeted a family court judge back in August of 2011, seeking to have him removed from a custody case involving his 7 and 9 year old girls in Syracuse, NY. Mr. Koziol repeatedly objected over the years to any sessions known as “Lincoln” hearings conducted without the parents present in the privacy of a judge’s chambers. Eventually, Judge Hedges granted Mr. Koziol’s motion and removed himself from the case. Only 6 months later, the judge was brought up on charges of sexually abusing a 5 year old handicapped girl and the New York Judicial Conduct Commission removed him from the bench.
This is the same commission where the 28 page report was submitted by Mr. Koziol that was published here at Leon Koziol.Com on April 23, 2013. Just 2 days later, the high court of New York affirmed Judge Hedge’s removal.
The following excerpt was taken from Page 9 of Mr. Koziol’s report:
Another named defendant was Family Court Judge Bryan Hedges who was removed from the bench by this Commission in a recent published decision. He admitted to sexual interactions with a handicapped 5 year old girl (relative) while in law school. The sordid details are better left to the decision but only months prior to his removal, this same judge presided over my ongoing custody case. My motion for his recusal was opposed by the divorce lawyer and child attorney on grounds that this judge was beyond reproach. It was fortunately granted prior to the standard “Lincoln” session in chambers (without the parents) involving my then 7 and 8 year old girls.
Within moments of parental advocate Leon Koziol, J.D., releasing an alarming 28 Page report which predicted an increase in violence arising from litigant abuses in our courts, we were made aware of this tragic story from the Chicago Tribune. (Read Story Here). We are not suggesting the family court or litigant abuse was the cause of these senseless killings nor are we condoning these random acts of violence.
However, as previously expressed here at LeonKoziol.com, we continue to believe that a strong correlation undoubtedly exists between ongoing custody battles and the violence arising from litigant abuses which can be found in a variety of mainstream news media reports. Mr. Koziol’s recent report to the Judicial Conduct Commission was intended to further serve as a wake up call in hopes that both corrective action and reform can take place in an effort to prevent similar future tragedies from occurring.
A random Google Internet search of the terms “custody battle lead to killings,” revealed these disturbing recent news headlines:
The following column was offered to the Utica Observer-Dispatch for publication on Father’s Day 2012, however, it was rejected without explanation. We believe this was meant to suppress the greater message here at www.leonkoziol.com. It was also offered in a modified format to the New York Times, Albany Times Union and The Boston Globe. Only 2 days earlier, a major protest occurred in support of Leon Koziol and his parenting rights litigation at a federal appeals court in lower Manhattan. Exactly, one week later, a murder-suicide occurred (Article 1)(Article 2)(Article 3). What you’re about to read presents a chilling and accurate indictment of the lucrative family court industry. A strong likelihood exists that the now deceased parents might have resorted to non-violent means of resolution had they been exposed to this unpublished column and profound reform efforts which underlie it.
Unpublished Guest Column:
David Dudajek
Opinion Editor
Observer Dispatch
221 Oriskany Plaza
Utica, New York 13501
Dear Editor:
Exactly one year ago, a man sat down, doused himself with gasoline and lit up a public square to bring world attention to an oppressive government. It did not occur in Tiananmen Square, Moscow or any other foreign venue. It happened right here in one of our original 13 states involving a maternal descendant of America’s first president.
Thomas Ball martyred himself in this painful fashion to protest the mistreatment of fathers in domestic relations courts. It was patterned after the identical suicide of Mohammed Bouazizi of Tunisia who gained sufficient attention to cause a wave of protests across the Arab world. Yet few beyond the city of Keene, New Hampshire took notice of the American version.
Despite efforts to isolate this event, evidence of a growing epidemic was everywhere. In our region alone, a police investigator took his life and that of his ex spouse after exiting “child support” court, leaving three children without their mom and dad. A mother took a knife to the throat of her divorcing husband and was sent to prison for 13 years, a father shot his boy in front of state police in a domestic stand-off, a sheriff deputy was killed in a similar exchange, and a purple heart soldier attempted suicide after years of court abuse.
Not far away, a mother drove her children into the Hudson River, and just when we thought it was safe to come out, at least three new incidents have arisen in Oneida County featuring parents engaged in stand-offs with law enforcement. Only last week, a man was pulled from a burning home in a bizarre case resembling the Thomas Ball incident. Had these cases involved a virus or related health factor, the Center for Disease Control would have flown in agents from Atlanta within a matter of hours.
Like so many ominous signs in our region’s history, this is a crisis which is being ignored or misunderstood. It emerges largely from domestic relations processes that continue to engage in parental abuses and gender bias. Victims denied sensible recourse then resort to violence and the taking of matters into their own hands. It is a common feature of all civil rights movements and the natural consequence of any dysfunctional system of justice.
Only last month, the USA Today placed Utica/Rome at the bottom of depressed regions nationwide. Unwittingly the feature was more important for its national forecast than a local assault because economic declines inevitably occurring elsewhere will bring similar extraordinary events. When people lose their homes, jobs and children, they have nothing left to live for when dealing with law enforcement. A meaningful study of the problem is therefore long overdue, and an opportunity emerges for local leaders to pave the way.
While our federal government intervenes in foreign countries for the sake of human rights, families on the domestic front are being sacrificed to needless custody and support wars through arbitrary money formulas and incentives. Billions of dollars in federal grants are based on the number and magnitude of support orders mass produced in state courts. This has the effect of transforming judges into profit makers contrary to their neutral character under the Constitution.
In 1925, the high court of New York adopted ancient practices of British monarchs to assert state control over all children impacted by divorcing parents. In its day, this seizure of power caught little attention because divorce was an anomaly and fewer lawyers were preoccupied with more legitimate matters of the profession. Today, separate parenting units are the mainstream and the state of California alone is impacted by nearly 300,000 lawyers.
As a result, parental authority is becoming seriously undermined while children are exploited for ulterior purposes. By simply declaring any government act involving a child to be in his or her “best interests”, the state can remove one or both parents from their gender based functions. It is a gold mine for attorneys perverting a natural order of childrearing. Adolph Hitler exploited similar propaganda to build a war machine.
This perversion is cultivated by a “separate but unequal” doctrine of laws which forces parents to name a gender merged “custodial parent” in all separation cases. Competition for a child’s favor then leads to immature behavior and breakdowns in development. Agreement, mediation and shared parenting are opposed as litigation substitutes because they would reduce conflict, thereby eroding a multi-billion dollar state industry.
With federal intervention, this industry grew exponentially as did the dysfunction of our families. Child support laws removed the needs-based formula and replaced it with a highly abused way-of-life standard even in cases where neither parent was on public assistance. This led to increased revenues and a giant bureaucracy featuring states and localities as collection agents for a central government complicit in the creation of lucrative domestic controversy.
In terms of childrearing, this fixation upon money is producing a fatherless America with devastating impacts. Data from the National Fatherhood Initiative shows that children fare better when both parents are involved. Under the current system, a father is influenced to abandon his role and any responsibilities which apply because he cannot overcome blatant male stereotypes, residual living expenses and fraudulent report tactics common to these court battles.
Meaningful reform will not occur as long as the victims allow these injustices to continue. As one veteran Family Court judge declared ten years ago, custody and visitation should be replaced with parenting plans in the majority of cases. The “oppositional framework” has long “outlived its usefulness” and should not be applied to presumptively fit parents. Such wisdom must be embraced by those seeking public office who exploit Fathers’ Day by essentially asking good fathers to accept their sub-class status.
Very truly yours,
Leon R. Koziol
Parenting Rights Advocate
(315) 796-4000
In the wake of a profound and constructive protest at the federal appeals court in lower Manhattan this past week, parenting advocates have set Constitution Day, September 17, 2012, for their next reform initiative in our nation’s capital. This provides an ideal setting for victims of government abuse to be heard, and it could become a game changer for an otherwise lackluster national election. We ask all moms, dads and family advocates to spread the word, make your plans, and join us at the steps of our United States Supreme Court on that day when a petition for writ of certiorari will be filed with our high court. This petition asks the court to hear a parenting case on the subject of family privacy and discrimination in our domestic relations courts. We plan to visit the Justice Department on the same day to deliver our many individual complaints so that a comprehensive investigation may be commenced into court abuses. Finally, we hope to visit the White House with our petitions for “hope” not unlike gay rights activists who were welcomed there recently by the president himself.
The central mission of this event is to save the American family from further erosion by divorce, custody and support processes which needlessly abuse good parents. The state is taking increased control of our children through expansive monitoring of parent-child relationships and fraudulent report practices. Federal incentive grants reward our family courts based on the number and magnitude of support “awards” entered in these courts, thereby transforming them into profit centers for third parties feeding off of a multi-billion dollar industry. In the end, our parents, children and moral fiber as a nation suffer most. The Supreme Court has repeatedly declared parenting to be “the oldest liberty interest protected by the Constitution”. Yet the erosion of this right and federal deference practices have resulted in widespread human rights violations rivaling those in China that have preoccupied our state department. It’s time to get seriously active in exercising our First Amendment rights before we lose them altogether through public apathy. We ask all religious, family and parenting groups to help us promote this potentially historic event.
Over the past several days, we have received a number of telephone calls from various parenting groups in Connecticut, Upstate New York, New Jersey and Long Island that have committed to attending this major event. In addition, representatives from the Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network have also confirmed and agreed to send members of that organization to participate in the rally.
If possible, please bring a sign or placard as they will not be provided. One suggestion for a message would be, “Justice for John Parent” (“John Parent” is a fictitious name allowed by court order to represent abused parents in this precedent seeking case). For those of you who need directions to Foley Square, here is a link to Map Quest (Click Here).
“The Occupy and Tea Party movements featured an admirable focus upon economic justice, however, we look to our courts to do this job. This will not occur as long as there is a profit motive in such government forums. The biggest victims here are mainstream fathers and minorities,”says Dr. Leon Koziol. Therefore, we are asking all followers and supporters of LeonKoziol.Com to help make the final push over the next 5 days! We urge you to pick up the telephone and call media, friends, clergy, Rabbi, family, victims, citizen groups and most importantly, get yourself to Foley Square!
Please help me understand just what exactly is any different about the blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who fled house arrest and sought refuge with US diplomats after local officials waged a vendetta against him for exposing a campaign of forced abortions and other abuses of China’s harsh birth control policy in comparison to what you’ve experienced (Pg. 31) for criticizing our domestic relations laws here within the United States?
Unless, I’m missing something here, how is your ordeal really any different?
Sincerely,
Steven Levine Sarasota, Florida
Dear Mr. Levine:
Your May 1, 2012 message that was forwarded to me by email is quite extraordinary because a growing number of Americans are making the same comparisons of my ordeal as a civil rights attorney here in the states to that of a Chinese civil rights attorney who is currently seeking asylum in the U.S. Embassy in China. Both of us criticized domestic relations policies of our respective governments, both of us were threatened with our livelihoods, both of us were denied contact with our children, and both of us were made subject to similar forms of “house arrest” in retribution for our activities on behalf of victimized parents. Ironically in my federal appeals court brief in New York City, John Parent (Leon Koziol) v State, docket 11-2474, at page 31, you will find earlier comparisons to another (detained) Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng. His experiences no doubt motivated the current (blind) lawyer to seek freedom here.
Unfortunately Attorney Chen Guangcheng might want to reconsider his move insofar as he can expect more retaliation at the hands of Hillary Clinton’s socialist policies should he decide to criticize them as I did. Today she has caused good fathers to be committed to debtor prisons and “retaliation camps”. Many Americans following these parallel human rights cases have already contacted the Chinese Embassy in Washington D.C. to advise its government of the giant international hippocracy that Hillary is facilitating. They are attempting to expose her communist “village” for what it really is, a government controlled community raising our children and removing parental authority from families to produce a multi-billion dollar industry for her lawyer friends. More than anything else, this is what is destroying our health, productivity and moral fiber as a nation while harming America’s children like never before in human rights history.
Thanks for your astute letter. You obviously know the issues. Please share your message with media and fellow parents.
Best regards,
Dr. Leon R. Koziol www.leonkoziol.com
Parenting Rights Institute
United States of America
Well we’re finally here meeting with staffers and policy makers lobbying for reform to benefit fathers, families and children. Please join us through Friday at Hotel Harrington and Old Ebbitt Grill for meetings.
Dr. Koziol and Heather at Old Ebbitt Grill Wednesday night after day of lobbying in capital. Picture taken by Mike the bartender and a D.C. Lobbyist who supports our cause as a victim himself!
Fellow parents and aggrieved families: we’re getting closer. 15 days and counting to the day when we converge on our nation’s capital to protest divorce, custody and support laws which destroy parent-child relationships all across America. The lawyers reap the profits, courts provide the means, and today’s mainstream families remain the victims. We all pay the price in our schools, workplaces, neighborhoods and moral fiber as a nation.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. Under our Constitution, drafted by the Founding Fathers, you have the right, indeed the duty, to secure reform by making your views known on the west lawn of Senate Park in Washington on April 20, 2012. Once again, the sponsors of this march are not funded by any one, and donations have remained less than $1,000 since its inception last year. We are concerned parents victimized by the system just like you, and we’ve sacrificed enough on your behalf to make this event possible. Now it’s your turn. Contact your friends, make your travel plans, get those signs ready for your cars and trucks, and get viral on all this, for the sake of future generations if not your own. Please share this message with others.
Now, in our final countdown, we feature short stories from callers and e-mailers as promised in a recent post. We call them the “Parenting Papers”. They are intended to stimulate attendance at this month’s event because our court victims apparently believe that it’s someone else’s job to protest for them- and of course reform will not occur with this kind of lame attitude. These stories are based on real events. However, names and content have been edited to protect the sources. Our sixth story of this series, Day 15, is entitled: “Justice Lynch”.
Lady Liberty and Lady Justice were two of the figures in her formative years which induced her to become a lawyer and eventually a Family Court judge. The statue which spent more than a hundred years in New York harbor and the one found upon courthouse walls everywhere impressed her so much that it became her mission to promote the ideals symbolized by each. Her father was a prominent member of Congress, and this greased the other wheels of justice easy enough to make her appointment and election possible.
However it wasn’t long before the feminist activism of her law school caucuses got the better of her. In Family Court, she could abuse the powers of her entrusted office to correct centuries of historical injustices upon women. Here a man was still the enemy, and despite anything he might present in a custody or support case, her mind was already made up. The more money that could be transferred over to the female litigants, the more balance she could secure in her twisted version of the court’s “scales of justice”.
It didn’t matter that a guy wanted to spend more time with his children or that a mom was fabricating or embellishing facts to damage a father’s career. As far as she was concerned, anything he did, an angry look, stark movement or inconsistent testimony was sufficient to rule against him. And if he persisted, the next thing she would order is anger management, maybe a “parent education class”. She didn’t know anyone qualified to teach it or even what it meant, but it made her feel powerful. And the lawyers loved her, even the ones representing the dads because it got more fees for everyone including those donating to judge campaigns.
Yeah, Justice Lynch. She loved her name and her title. Privately, she was referred to as the “Justice who Lynched Justice” by those around the courthouse who knew her better. But no lawyer was going to complain because the judicial commissions were political or impotent, focusing their energies upon small town judges who possessed little clout. Moreover, any lawyer who took her on directly was bound to become a target. She had all the time in the world to make him pay, maybe even get a hold of his own case if the opportunity should arise.
Then one day she received a letter from a teenager who proved to be more courageous than the “law guardian” appointed to represent her in this lucrative system. Her name was Polly Paine, and she had been separated from her daddy for as long as she could remember. She knew that Justice Lynch abused his natural rights to be a part of her life. In it, she asked how her father could be located after he gave up a battle over power and money awards which the courts called “custody” and “support”. She asked how her life could be so tortured by a woman whose own father made her judgeship possible. But alas Justice Lynch could ease her own conscience with the stock answer. Sorry little woman, “it’s the law”.
Thank you for helping make LeonKoziol.Com one of the most active websites in the preservation of parent-child relationships and court reform. Over the past several months, we have noticed a significant increase in website traffic for assorted reasons including events planned at our nation’s capital and breaking news not found in the mainstream media. As well, the public has been given access to reform initiatives, network capabilities and a wealth of research at no cost. Despite a dearth in monetary contributions, we continue to press on for the sake of families and children everywhere.
To continue this momentum, we will alter our focus somewhat to the individual ordeals facing parents across the country. Many of you have reported startling experiences and useful cases to accent the need for reform in America’s domestic relations courts. You need to be heard, and we need to get people assisting one another until official accountability is achieved. To be sure, we have confirmed scrutiny of our site by lawyers, judges and the media. However, vital reform remains ever elusive due to the vast money being made off of unsuspecting parents and children.
Since 2009, much of this website has focused upon Dr. Koziol and his efforts to educate the public to the intrusive nature of government and its damage to our childrearing liberties. Unfortunately, as a consequence, Dr. Koziol is facing higher levels of career backlash and message suppression than previously disclosed. This makes his work all the more unique, valuable and worthy of support. It is likely that additional litigation will be commenced in federal court on First Amendment grounds challenging the state’s scrutiny of this site.
In the meantime, an excellent opportunity exists to provide such examiners a real life picture of the damage they are causing to American society through a publication of your stories on this same site. In a change of practice, we are now opening the floodgates to your news releases, case summaries, war stories, corruption discoveries, video proofs, and other diverse reports of parent-child abuses. Please ensure that your information is both factually and grammatically correct as we cannot publish irresponsible material and editing processes may impair content. There is no guarantee that we will publish your submission, however, your participation is highly encouraged. All submissions should be emailed to admin@leonkoziol.com . In extraordinary situations, you may even contact Dr. Koziol directly and confidentially at (315) 796-4000.
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