Allegation 3: Enabled Abuse of Minors Via Improper Custody Changes

Summary:

I believe Judge Longsworth violated my children’s rights and enabled their abuse.

She did this by improperly granting parenting time to the defendant, making significant changes to their established custodial environment, in violation of the process outlined in Michigan Custody and Parenting Time Investigation Manual 2024 and MCL 552.505. She repeatedly changed custody, parenting time, and parenting time conditions without any motions requesting changes, without any proper cause or change of circumstance being established, without holding a proper hearing, without viewing evidence, without hearing from therapists or LGAL, and without considering best interest factors, or any factors at all. She allowed my children to regularly be taken out of the country by the defendant, without means to call for help[1]. She even went as far as to order my kids out-of-state into a deeply disturbing “reunification” camp[2] without the due diligence of actually vetting said camp. She allowed the defendant’s violations of her own orders[3] (one example: an order to use a child therapist which neither party has had previous contact), going so far as to protect the violating actions when the LGAL brought them up during a discussion for her emergency motion[4] thereby forcing me to continue taking my kids to a tainted therapist, against court order. Judge Longsworth ignored child abuse reported by the LGAL in that same motion[5]. She did all of this, despite knowing of several potential criminal investigations against the defendant [6a], [6b]. She even gave the defendant’s counsel legal advice for him to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights to avoid speaking about the abuse investigation[7]. She knew of domestic violence situations against me, which were witnessed by my kids. In fact, Judge Longsworth herself found the defendant guilty and sentenced him to jail for a PPO violation[8]. She was aware there were hearings scheduled to discuss additional violations of my PPO[9]. She did this despite testimony from one court ordered therapist regarding her quitting out of fear of the defendant[10]. Judge Longsworth relied wholly on her own self-serving imagination and invented her own process for parenting time changes, while ignoring every legitimate red flag indicating danger.

For most of these changes, she did not allow any input from me. The defendant would make an allegation against me, Judge Longsworth would respond by immediately issuing an order tailor-made to his request.

She appointed and then refused to seek input from her chosen LGAL, or therapists. In fact, she outright denied an emergency motion[11] from the LGAL when she sought protection for my kids.

When the LGAL brought the tainted therapist issue up during the discussion of the motion, Longsworth continued ordering the children to use the tainted therapist. This was in violation of her own order.[12] Judge Longsworth knowingly protected the defendant’s violation of her order, and forced me to violate it as well.

This therapy practice had received at least one previous payment from the defendant (as evidenced by his credit card statements), demonstrating that he most likely had a prior relationship with them. The tainted therapist, unsurprisingly, was causing distress to my child, telling them their complaints were not valid and minimizing allegations of abuse or any concern or hurt the child expressed, generally not believing the child. The tainted therapist later lied to CPS regarding my reasons for withdrawing my child from her practice (this lie can be seen in the MDHHS discovery packet, which I believe is confidential pending an upcoming NA trial. The therapist’s lie, which disparaged me, can be proven false via emails, and was contradicted by her own coworker). Judge Longsworth also let the order stand to send the kids to the out of state reunification camp that the LGAL had serious concerns with.

Judge Longsworth viewed color pictures attached to the LGAL's motion, of my child’s bruises (bruises which were so extensive that when they finally did receive medical care, the hospital found it necessary to x-ray for broken bones). She took no action. My lawyer informed Judge Longsworth about this particular incident of abuse during the hearing on 7/18/25[13], as did the defendant’s lawyer (although that lawyer blamed my child). Unsurprisingly, Judge Longsworth blamed me, despite my having not been in the same country when this happened. Somehow, she found a way to twist it into being my fault[14].

After Longsworth squashed my efforts to help my child, their LGAL filed an emergency motion[15] that very same day, 7/18/25. To no effect.

All of this information and evidence was provided to Judge Longsworth, and makes it impossible for her to deny awareness of the abuse. But her response was always to blame me. She put me in jail and banned any contact between me and the kids, or any of my friends/family, so we could no longer do anything to protect my kids.

Judge Longsworth was also aware that one child had been to the hospital (refer to court hearings on 6/24/25 wherein my child was taken to the ER by the police, and 7/8/25 wherein we discussed my child’s hospitalization).

Despite being of age, intelligence, and maturity to express their experiences and wishes, Judge Longsworth refused to hear from the children themselves (ages 15 and 11).

Instead of giving them protection, she gave my kids a Neglect/Abuse Case and a Gun Storage Case[17].

I made clear to her that the kids were being abused. She blamed me[18a], [18b]. I was shushed when I mentioned bruises. I was told to stop talking when I spoke about assaults[19]. She said police reports regarding abuse were actually evidence that I was alienating the kids from their father[20a], [20b]. She never noted that several of the reports came from sources other than me.

She cited an accusation against me for which she had not enforced a subpoena for testimony[21], preventing me from defending against it. Somehow this accusation was given serious weight despite it having not been examined.

She knew forensic interviews had been ordered by the police, she actually smiled when I told her this, as if it were a joke. She looked me in the eye and smiled. This was most likely during one of the June 2025 hearings (most likely 6/9/25). Sorry, I can’t bring myself to view the videos, they make me sick for days. But, maybe you can check them out.

Judge Longsworth then effectively declared me guilty of Parental Alienation, with the following two statements.

The first, saying (non-ironically) I should have stopped any behavior that the court might “view” to be alienation, regardless of whether it actually was.[22] What does that even mean? What behaviors, which are not alienating, might she choose to view as being alienating?

I can only assume she meant that I should have stopped filing legitimate police reports, because the Court was favorable to viewing any police report filed as being alienation. In her defense, Judge Longsworth does acknowledge that my behavior may not have been alienation (presumably it would then have a different explanation, which she does not explore) before saying she might still view it as being such. In other words, the Parental Alienation accusation was unproven yet she might still consider it fact. She said this out loud.

But I digress. She then calls those behaviors, which she just said might not have been alienation, “poor behaviors”. Incidentally, I don’t think even that description was ever proven true. I wish she’d say something, anything, that made any logical sense. To recap (I think??) any legal behaviors I choose to engage in, which may have been mentioned by the expert, are subject to being viewed by her as evidence of Parental Alienation, regardless of whether they indeed are. I think that’s the nonsense her blabbering was attempting to communicate. Hard to tell. She did reference “the expert,” perhaps to lend legitimacy to this lunacy. More on that expert later.

A few moments after these judicial ramblings, Judge Longsworth moved on to statement 2, wherein she solidified her thoughts by saying very clearly that I should have notified medical professionals of my alienation of the children, explaining that is why they were rejecting their father[23] (and not because he actually, truly is abusing them). Apparently, somewhere between the first and second statements (which were made minutes apart), I had definitively been declared guilty of Parental Alienation. The transcripts must have accidentally missed the presentation of evidence for that.

My “conviction” of having committed Parental Alienation is really strange, because the expert witness hired by the Defense, and proudly cited by Judge Longsworth, made clear that:

· Parental Alienation in our case was only alleged, not proven[24]

· Out of 1450 cases she had been hired by the courts to evaluate for alleged Parental Alienation, she determined over 69% (1000 out of 1450) were false accusations.[25] In the expert’s experience, the vast majority of allegations of Parental Alienation made in court, are false.

· She had made no determination in our case, had no access to me or the kids or any of the pertinent records[26]

This is the expert testimony Judge Longsworth cited. An expert witness who had concluded nothing.

My kid’s last phone call, after losing their mom completely, before being handed over to their dad in tears and hysterics, was to their LGAL. Their last hope. Judge Longsworth easily squashed that help too.

Details:

Starting 1/4/2024, the defendant voluntarily cut all ties with our two children[27].

On 5/8/2024, the defendant unexpectedly showed up at my child’s school, causing alarm to both my child and the school. Around this time he also requested full custody, and to move the kids out of the country.

On 6/25/2024, as a result of the FIGC investigation[28], I was granted sole legal and physical custody of both my children. At this point, the kids had not had any meaningful contact with their dad in over 6 months.

On 4/11/2025 (after only ~4 hours of supervised, in-person contact in the past year and four months), after two failed attempts at reunification with court ordered therapists, and without any motion requesting parenting time, and without following the legal requirements outlined in the Michigan Custody and Parenting Time Investigation Manual or MCL 552.505, Judge Longsworth changed both custody and/or parenting time conditions, repeatedly.

Judge Longsworth changed parenting time/custody on:

• 4/11/2025[29]- granted unsupervised parenting time, exchange location at police station

• 6/3/2025[30]- changed exchange location from police station to the home, solidified parenting time schedule till end of school year

• 6/16/2025[31a], [31b]- granted overnight parenting time, joint legal custody, passports. Ordered children to engage in therapy at Child and Family Solutions.

• 6/23/2025-[32] solidified schedule, banned the children from having phones while with defendant

• 6/27/2025[33]- appointed LGAL

• 7/8/2025[34]- banned children from having any electronics while with defendant

• 7/18/2025[35]-sent me to jail, ordered kids out of state to attend therapy camp, banned any contact with me, gave sole physical custody to defendant.

Judge Longsworth banned the children’s phones, and expanded to all electronics, based on the defendant’s false allegation that I was communicating with the kids excessively during his parenting time. I was not given any opportunity to respond to this allegation.

This led to an isolation of the kids from me, their friends, and from anyone they could call for help. It prevented them from recording or documenting abuse. It also prevented my child from attending Summer School classes[36].

Judge Longsworth then ordered the kids to a controversial out-of-state reunification camp (Turning Points for Families), which has been banned by other states and has been sued multiple times[37]. Again, she did this while knowing of potential criminal investigations against the defendant for actions pertaining to my kids. In fact, the defendant had a scheduled arraignment for several criminal charges only days after her 7/18/2025 order[38].

Alarmingly, an expert witness paid for by the defendant, Linda Gottleib, testified to many alarming and concerning things, hinting or implying my children were victims of Stockholm Syndrome, sociopathy, delusions, among other things.

Regardless, none of it should have mattered because the witness also admitted her testimony was about Parental Alienation in general, not about us specifically. She testified she had not examined us, or any critical evidence, and had not made a determination in our specific case. Furthermore, the majority of cases she did examine for Parental Alienation, turned out to be unfounded.

Due to the lengthiness of the transcripts, and given that the witness testified that her descriptions were not necessarily applicable to us, I have not included the entirety of her testimony. I do have it available for review, if needed.

Not to be deterred by actual facts and logic, Judge Longsworth concluded that I was guilty, and did not apply the intelligence or critical thinking necessary to consider that the witness stopped short of stating any conclusions, and may have been motivated to imply my wrongdoing due to a conflict of interest, or that there may be alternative explanations to the ones she proposed regarding my behavior and the children’s behavior. She also did not question whether any police reports were deemed unfounded, or suggest how, in her mind, one should appropriately respond to abuse, given her conclusion that filing a police report was, in and of itself, child abuse.

My therapist was also not consulted. Clearly, statements from the reunification therapist regarding the defendant’s intimidating and threatening behavior toward her were completely disregarded. Evidence to the contrary was not sought out, and evidence presented to the contrary was disregarded.

Likely because everything Ms. Gottleib said sounded so lovely to Judge Longsworth, it was exactly what she was hoping someone would say. And while Judge Longsworth’s own children were safe and protected, she wrote the order sending my kids to the camp of horrors (complying with all conditions set by that camp) on 7/18/2025[39].

Due to a Neglect/Abuse Case being filed by MDHHS, this case was pulled from Judge Longsworth and reassigned to Judge Cavanaugh on or around 7/22/2025.

Judge Cavanaugh and MDHHS immediately restored sanity and rescinded the order for my kids to go to Turning Points for Families and returned sole physical custody to me[40]. As detailed later in this document, Judge Cavanaugh also on this date ordered me to be immediately released from jail- where Judge Longsworth had improperly sent me. Judge Cavanaugh also returned my home to me, removing the defendant. Upon my return home, I discovered the majority of my personal belongings were missing, as were a large number of my children’s personal belongings. There was also substantial damage to the marital home. There was a large fire burning in my front yard, with remnants of electronics and fabric[Hamburg Township Police Report # 25-00724].

I supposed this bad behavior is completely excusable, as it is just another example of the defendant acting out of trauma from his imaginary “rape”- as proposed by the expert witness.

Judge Longsworth’s orders allowed this to happen, causing further trauma and abuse to me and my kids. Again, she had many, many red flags indicating the defendant was likely to act in this manner- testimony admitting to stealing my things, and violating orders by not returning them. For the sake of my time and my sanity, I will not go into that within this document, but may amend my complaint to include those details at a later time as I have a plethora of evidence to support these claims. I have a motion going through the courts now to address the property damage and missing items associated with July 2025. Once again, costing me significant time and money to fix the completely foreseeable consequences of Judge Longsworth’s intentional efforts to harm me. I believe this is nothing short of Judge Longsworth’s implicit participation in the abuse of me and my kids.

[1] Exhibit 11: 6/23/25 Parenting Time Order

[2] Exhibit 13: 7/18/25 Parenting Time Order

[3] Exhibit 31: 6/4/25 Order to find therapist for children which neither party has used before

[4] Exhibit 3: Monica Copeland Emergency Order. During this hearing, LGAL informed Longsworth about the therapist being tainted, contrary to court order issued by Longsworth herself. Judge Longsworth declined to take action, forcing kids to continue seeing the tainted therapist.

[5] Exhibit 3: LGAL Monica Copeland Emergency Order

[6] Exhibit 2- Transcripts for 6/16/25 wherein illegal plate criminal charges are discussed on pages 7 and on pages 17-18 wherein potential criminal investigation regarding a forensic interview is discussed. Judge Longsworth discusses how defendant should properly invoke his 5th amendment rights.

[7] Exhibit 2: 6/16/25 Transcript, Pages 17-18

[8] Exhibit 29- PPO violation sentencing June 2024

[9] Exhibit 30- PPO violation hearings for 2025

[10] Exhibit 28- Michelle Sunny Letter

[11] Exhibit 3: Emergency Motion by LGAL Monica Copeland, which was denied.

[12] Exhibit 31: Order to use therapist with which neither party has had previous contact

[13] Exhibit 66: 7/18/25 transcripts, starting pg 19 line 25

[14] Exhibit 66: 7/18/25 transcripts, page 28, starting at line 6

[15] Exhibit 3: LGAL emergency motion, which was denied

[16] Exhibit 66: 7/18/25 transcripts, page 28 starting at line 6

[17] Exhibit 4- List of Associated Cases, charges against defendant

[18] Exhibit 66- 7/18/2025 transcript. Page 28 starting at line 6, Page 29 starting at line 6, Page 44 starting at line 9

[19] Exhibit 15: 6/9/25 transcript, page 148 line 15

[20] Exhibit 66- 7/18/25 transcript. Starting at page 25, line 25- referring to expert witness who said a parent filing police reports was evidence of parental alienation. Also refer to Exhibit 15 for testimony of expert witness Linda Gottleib.

[21] Exhibit 66- 7/18/25 transcript, page 25 line 3

[22] Exhibit 66: 7/18/25 transcripts, pages 25/26

[23] Exhibit 66: 718/25 Transcripts, page 32

[24] Exhibit 15: 6/9/25 transcript, page 140

[25] Exhibit 15: 6/9/25 transcript, page 141- wherein Gottleib states 1000 of 1450 cases the court requested determination on were found by her to have not been parental alienation

[26] Exhibit 15: 6/9/25 transcript, page 142- Gottleib makes clear she has made no determination, and pages 139-140 wherein Gottleib lists typical documents and information reviewed prior to making a determination

[27] Exhibit 2: 6/16/25 transcripts, staring at pg 62 defendant says he cut contact based on advice from his lawyer, notably not because he was required to. He chose to. His lawyer had quit and was not there to dispute this.

[28] Exhibit 7- FIGC reports and orders

[29] Exhibit 8- 4/11/25 Parenting Time Order

[30] Exhibit 9- 6/3/25 Parenting Time Order

[31] Exhibit 10- 6/16/25 Parenting Time Order

[32] Exhibit 11- 6/23/25 Parenting Time Order

[33] Exhibit 33- Order appointing LGAL Monica Copeland

[34] Exhibit 12- 7/8/25 Parenting Time Order

[35] Exhibit 13- 7/18/25 Parenting Time Order

[36] Exhibit 17- 6/23/25 Transcripts, page 16

[37] Exhibit 14- ProPublica Article on Turning Points for Families

[38] Exhibit 20- MiCourt Criminal Hearings Schedules

[39] Exhibit 13, 7/18/25 Order

[40] Exhibit 16, 7/22/25 Order

[41] Exhibit 18- 7/23/25 Police Report with damage to home

[42] Exhibit 15: 6/9/25 Transcript, page 81