Amy Leichtenberg
Please tune into the DR. PHIL SHOW tomorrow, April 14th, check your local listings for the time. I was invited to be a VIP in the audience that day for the taping. The topic is "Crisis in the Family Courts" and the guest that day had a story very similar to my own.
They are planning on showing pictures of Duncan and Jack and I was given a few minutes to briefly tell my story
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Bloomington, Illinois -- UPDATE: Amy Leichtenberg files $10 million lawsuit against city; last spring her ex-husband Michael Connolly murdered their two sons
"In the wrongful death action filed in McLean County Court Tuesday, Amy Leichtenberg claims that delays by LeRoy police in issuing an Amber Alert allowed her ex-husband Michael Connolly to leave the area March 8, 2009, with Jack, 7, and Duncan, 9. The children were found about three weeks later in the back seat of their father's car in rural Putnam County. Connolly's body was found nearby."http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/article_ce0d5eae-2c69-11df-bbf0-001cc4c002e0.html
McLean County Circuit Judge James Souk granted this mentally unstable man unsupervised visitation. Police inaction appears to have contributed to the systemic snafus that unnecessarily resulted in two children's deaths at the hands of their father.
Justice's prior posts on this issue:
http://justice.posterous.com/father-murders-boys-after-judge-gives-him-uns
http://justice.posterous.com/update-mother-of-slain-boys-continues-her-act
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Innocent Woman in prison 8 years and the children has custody.
Please link this and forward it everywhere. The woman is innocent. She needs to be out!
Elsa Newman is a heroine in my book….
Her only crime was trying to protect her two young sons from abuse,….Elsa Newman was wrongly convicted first by the media which sabotaged her due-process before she ever walked into a courtroom and then by an aggressive prosecutor with an important political agenda, whose focus was to uphold the broken, biased social service system which Elsa criticized. … she was convicted and sentenced for a crime she did not commit, that indeed was committed, and confessed to by another. It is an injustice of epic proportions.
The Petition Site
Maryland Delegate Joan Pitkin (Retired)
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/4/Free-Elsa-Newman Read and sign. To read more search Rachel Weeping for her Children Elsa Newman.
“Ms. Newman…has shown herself to be a dependable, caring person of significant intellectual accomplishment and it is a pleasure to know and work with her.”
Judge Brenda Murray
National Association of Women judges’ Women in Prison Project
“Someone who approaches life as Elsa does with commitment, love and understanding is not capable of planning the injury of anyone.” P. Christopher Schwartz, Deacon
St. Lawrence Catholic Church
“Ms Newman is not a member of our Therapeutic Community, but … (she) is very knowledgeable regarding Yoga and meditation practices… I have appreciated (her) energy, insight and positive interaction… Loretta Elizalde, Program Director
Second Genesis
“Miracle of miracles, Sara finally got her GED. You were a God’s send….without your patience and kindness in helping her succeed, it would not have happened.”
Mother of an inmate tutored by Ms. Newman
“…(Elsa Newman) cares about her children very much and worries about their well being a great deal….I think her faith has been a strong support for her in these difficult times, and it works for her because it has been a part of her makeup for a long time…a woman of intellect and human compassion. “
Rabbi William D. Rudolph
Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County
http://www.thepetitionsite/4/Free-Elsa-Newman
Friends of Elsa Newman
Margaret Candler
Elsa Newman is an innocent woman now in prison 8 plus years while the children live with the father they feared and accused of abusing them.
There is a new website for Elsa at http://www.justice4elsanewman.com
Read more of her story and link directly to a new petition to free her.
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