On June 27^th, 2009, where my son, Corey James Ritlinger, was the informant that led to his father being discovered with a mass of drug paraphernalia while on vacation with Corey in Panama City Beach, Florida.  The officer, Officer Womack, stayed at the vacation condo with Corey, for his safety, until my daughter and I made the trip from Navarre, Florida, to collect Corey from his father’s custody.  I went home the next day to Raleigh, NC, with Corey to attend to securing his safety further as Corey was supposed to return to his father’s custody on July 7^th, 2009. 

                        On July 2^nd, 2009, I took Corey down to the courthouse with me to file an Emergency Change of Custody Motion for Corey’s continued safety.  Judge Wyczk was the judge that wrote the order for that after she spoke with my son Corey, now thirteen years of age.  During his time in Chambers with Judge Wyczk, he informed her of the horrendous abuse that he was the recipient of at the hands of his father, and sometimes other members of the Ritlinger family, the drug use he was the witness to where his father has done illegal drugs around him since criminally gaining full sole custody of Corey, despite overt evidence to the contrary, and how he wanted to come home to me, his mother who has always loved and nurtured Corey and from whom he should never have been taken from and was done so in the most vicious criminal manner you could never imagine not short of felony crimes.  During the court hearing that followed in front of Judge Wyczk, Mitzi, opposing counsels assistant where Lorion M. Vitale was on vacation, appeared arguing that I didn’t follow court procedure in giving either the law firm or her client, Kevin R. Ritlinger and my ex-husband, a two hour notification of my intent to file an Emergency Change of Custody.  I argued that, my recent past attorney had taken $30K from me and dropped us at a time when he realized he would have a dog fight in this case against Lorion M. Vitale, Kevin Ritlingers actual attorney, and I was not familiar with court procedure.  Judge Wyczk in the ten day hearing that occurred on July 10^th continued it to be heard in front of Judge Christian.  In one way I was glad that it was Judge Christian, but in another I knew, having observed this before, that there was a very warm familiarity between Judge Christian and opposing counsel, Lorion M. Vitale.

                        On July 14^th, the continuance of the Motion to File an Emergency Change of Custody was heard before Judge Christian.  Right away, in an attempt to access a fair hearing for the safety and welfare of Corey, and in attempting to receive, for both of us, equal protection of the law as a result of my not being familiar with court proceedings, I requested to continue the hearing to afford me time to raise funds for a retainer and to afford an attorney.  Lorion M. Vitale, opposing counsel, refused to honor that request and then I requested for the court to please, in the safety and welfare of the child, my son, Corey James Ritlinger, not hold me accountable for court procedure since I had no knowledge of such or education to that effect.  There are no classes or educational seminars for lay people, such as myself, that can’t afford the over inflated fees of an attorney and yet don’t have the formal education one would need to be able to function perfectly in court.  Again Judge Christian stated that I had to be held to court procedure as she had to assure that I did.   Becoming more upset as the court hearing proceeded, I showed Judge Christian years of abuse that Corey had been the recipient of at the hands of his father, showed her evidence of my ex-husband’s drug use in and around Corey at the home they resided in with Corey’s grandma, who has served only to cover up for her son, Kevin Ritlinger in all aspects of his criminal behaviors there, and showed beyond any doubt, evidence of what a pathological liar Kevin Ritlinger was, but still she sided with opposing counsel forcing Corey to go home in violation of domestic violence laws.  Judge Christian’s stand, in favor of her friend, attorney Lorion M. Vitale, was that in her opinion she alleged that Corey, despite turning his father in for drug use around him, “Is in no imminent danger.”  Whether he was or not, unless she was or is God, which she is not, she couldn’t not predict the unpredictable behavior of a man who was found with crack cocaine paraphernalia, residue in a homemade bong fixed out of a Mountain Dew bottle, and a crack cocaine pipe.  Despite my attempting to inform Judge Christian what a dangerous drug Crack cocaine is, and the adverse behaviors it can induce on its recipient, she refused everything and anything that I offered in my argument to protect Corey from the domestic violence of his father.  

The hearing ended with Corey having to go back to Kevin as a result of my not knowing to notify the opposing party two hours ahead of time that I was intending to file an emergency change of custody to attempt to maintain the safety and welfare of my son from his chronically abusive, drug addicted, and often times violent alcoholic father.  Even though I notified Judge Christian that back in 1999, when Lorion M. Vitale conspired so corruptly to take Corey from me affording Kevin Ritlinger full sole custody based on lies and false testimonies under oath, and never gave me a two hour notification of her intent to file an emergency change in custody, it did no good to afford me consideration in this hearing even for the continued welfare and safety of my son.  Judge Christian forced Corey to go back to his drug addicted, violent, and alcoholic father in violation of domestic violence laws whether he was determined to be in “Imminent danger,” or not.  The domestic violence laws states nothing of “Imminent danger,” only the potential for serious bodily injury of which I have much evidence of injury to Corey by his father over the years.  

I also requested of the court, my son being 13 years old now, that after all arguments were done between opposing counsel and myself that Judge Christian please meet with Corey and listen to his voice as this has been the problem for years that no one wants to listen to the voice of my son and his rendition of the domestic violence that he has had to endure as a result of the corrupt acts of attorney Lorion M. Vitale doing what she chose to do to win her drug addicted, violent, and alcoholic client full sole custody of my son in light of the fact that I am a very credible and good parent.  Judge Christian told me that she didn’t want to hear Corey’s voice that she was not going to meet with him in chambers to listen to what he had to say, that she was only going to listen to me and opposing counsel and would decide from that.  I was appalled. To refuse to listen to a 13 y.o. was not only not affording both of us a fair hearing, it is also a gross violation of our civil rights, and I have been informed by many attorneys that when a child is twelve years old their voices should be heard and could be heard beyond that age.  Judge Christian told me not to bring Corey down to the courthouse, and that for me to have done that was awful and pretty much implied that I am a bad mother because of that when really I am the only true advocate that my son has.  I brought him with me on July 2^nd not only so that Judge Wyczk could speak with Corey, but, also, to protect his so that his father couldn’t come and snatch him up and hurt him if I left Corey at the house alone without me there for his protection.

                        In wanting to maintain the safety and welfare of my son away from his father, I immediately went and refiled giving opposing counsel the two hour notification that procedure required.   Corey, so afraid to go back to his father’s house, knowing the mass of abuse he had been the recipient of there at the hands of his father and grandma, he even called his father and lied to him stating that we had gone to the movies and he would be back later in order to give me more time to file again adhering to court procedures.  While I was waiting for the last case to be finished before our hearing came up again, Corey called me in a panic and left several messages on my voicemail.  Where I had turned it down to vibrate for court, I didn’t realize it was vibrating and it was Corey in a panic stating and crying, “Mom, come home quick, dad’s going to come and get me in twenty minutes, you have to come and get me quickly.”  Then he hung up.  In rush hour traffic as it was around this time, 5:00 p.m., there was no way that I could make it back to the house in 30 minutes and maybe longer than that depending on the traffic lights.  Not only that, I knew that if I left, the case would be automatically dismissed if I wasn’t there.

I don’t condone lying, and didn’t know about Corey lying to his father about going to the movies with me until it had been done, but in the next hearing Judge Christian immediately jumped on me assuming that I had put Corey up to that.  When I informed Judge Christian of Kevin Ritlinger being a pathological liar, showed her evidence to support that where Kevin Ritlinger had exploited Corey by having his picture with Corey placed on a section of the 2000 News & Observer which stated falsely in an article that he had never committed any acts of domestic violence against me or Corey,  and noted the deposition of Kevin Ritlinger’s third ex-wife, Rochelle Dunn, that Kevin Ritlinger was a pathological liar and you couldn’t trust one word he said, all of this had no consequence at all.   Judge Christian continuously kept stating that, in spite of all the abuse and pictures of abuse to Corey and me, in spite of all the pictures of Kevin Ritlinger’s drug paraphernalia through the years taken by Corey and me, she didn’t believe that Corey’s safety was in any kind of imminent danger even though he was the informant that led to his father being discovered with drug paraphernalia while the two of them were on vacation together. 

Opposing counsel kept referring to the fact that CPS was involved.  I again tried to inform Judge Christian that they are merely trying to extort monies from both parents in their attempts at bypassing me as a quality parent and attempting to put Corey in some residential place in order to achieve greater income for their department when Corey has a perfectly good parent in me. I tried to show Judge Christian years of abuse to my son of which I had pictures and a massive file of documented incidents, none of which done any good.   I showed her the picture of where Corey’s MP3 player had been bent in half having absorbed the baseball bat that Corey stated was meant for his head when his father came at him with it in a ferocious rage.  I referred to Rochelle Dunn’s deposition where she stated that she had been aware of Kevin going to see a “Hit man,” to have me killed to which Judge Christian responded, “Well he obviously didn’t do that Ms. Ritlinger as you’re not dead!”  Whether or not one is alive or dead, it’s illegal to conspire to commit murder?!  I told her of the many documented incidents that I have noted whereby Kevin is not only threatening to kill me but Corey to!  Still nothing I showed the Judge made any kind of difference in any manner whatsoever.  Judge Christian, despite all of this that clearly showed that even on a good day my son’s safety had been and continues to be in the highest element of danger in that household, especially given the fact that Kevin Ritlinger is a crack cocaine addict, continued to state that she didn’t perceive that Corey’s safety was in imminent danger and she dissolved the motion for an emergency change of custody in violation of domestic violence laws. 

While I was in court, Kevin Ritlinger had come to my house and taken Corey back into his custody trespassing on my property when he did that.  Corey tells me that his father did drugs and massive amounts of alcohol while partying with his, Kevin’s, twin brother Keith Ritlinger that night, whereby Kevin was so drunk, he told Corey, that he couldn’t barely drive home.  Once again, on top of the mass of crimes this monster, Kevin Ritlinger, and his cohort in crime, Lorion M. Vitale, have gotten away with all they have done to me and my son all these years.  The two of them are making a mockery of the judicial system and they are both laughing all the way to the bank because of the loyalty of the judges to the attorneys over and above even the welfare and safety of a child and where, I am told, a judge will never let a Pro Se litigant win over that of an attorney.

                        Judge Christian made an error in judgment when she allowed my son to return to the home of Kevin Ritlinger, because Corey was the informant that led to his father being discovered with drug paraphernalia and residue while they were on vacation together, and whereby the officer seizing all this drug stuff felt the need to secure Corey’s safety at that time by staying until my daughter and I could safely retrieve Corey from Kevin Ritlinger’s custody.  Furthermore, to not allow my son, Corey James Ritlinger, a voice, to tell him that he can’t enter a public building that I pay taxes to help maintain and pay the state employees there is a violation of his civil rights, mine to, and his right to a fair hearing and equal protection of the law. I also know from ten years of being subjected to the court system that there is a serious “Click,” between the judges and attorneys there and that they all participate in exparte communication, which is illegal, and the judge’s talk about their cases in Chambers, which is also illegal.  So how does one get equal protection of the law and a fair hearing?  Where are provisions for the middle class to have equal access to the protection of the law and fair court hearings.  Not in Wake County that’s for sure?!

August 17^th, 2009 09:00 a.m. Monday         Judge Christian stated in court, as soon as our case was up for discussion as to when it was going to be rescheduled where Judge Christian stated that she didn’t have four days to hear our case.  In that instance, where my son is being abused, Judge Christian should have then turned it over to someone else.  Now my son has to continue to reside in that abusive, dysfunctional, drug and alcohol infested violent environment where Judge Christian erroneously forced my son to return to his father in violation of domestic violence laws and as a loyalty to her friend Lorion M. Vitale Attorney.

            Furthermore, CPS forced me and Corey to be subjected to an outside evaluation, which they have done before.  Corey told me how he told the evaluator, Heather Kane Psychologist, all about the abuse to him by his father, his grandma, and other members of the Ritlinger family, the drug use he has seen his father do around him, the excessive drinking and so forth, and now the document is sealed and Judge Christian will not let us look at it.  I also showed Heather Kane ten years of domestic violence directed at Corey, my daughter from a previous marriage, Kimberley, and me, and I’m sure that they have corruptly had that document sealed whereby CPS is trying to put Corey in a residential home so that then they can merely extort monies from both Kevin Ritlinger and me.  Corey cried to the SW for CPS as to how he was being abused by his father, witnessed drug use by his father, and the CPS worker said that she wouldn’t remove Corey only counsel his father while he continues to be abused.  Judge Christian was fully supportive of CPS and refuses to allow me to look at the bogus report that is sealed in the file which is a violation again of our civil rights.  If it concerns either Corey or me, I have a right to look at it as evidenced by NCGS 50-13.2.

August 27^th, 2009 Thursday             I had Judge Christian sign a subpoena for me to obtain pharmacy records from Wal-Mart that allowed me to have a list of every prescription that Kevin Ritlinger had filled there for himself, and I served it on Wal-Mart such that they were supposed to deliver these documents to me on 8-25-09 @ 09:00 a.m.  We have good reason to believe that Kevin Ritlinger, based on past behavior and the medical records that exist, falsely diagnosed my son to a doctor who didn’t proceed to check for himself and used my son Corey to obtain, illegally, methamphetamine drugs for his, Kevin Ritlinger’s, own personal and illegal use.  The corporate lawyers of Wal-Mart had a fit about delivering such documents to me; even though Judge Christian had signed the subpoena, and there was a two day all out war over the telephone between me and these Wal-Mart Corporate Lawyers.  Eventually, the Wal-Mart Lawyers agreed to send the list to the court care of Jennifer Gaffe who then agreed to pass them onto me.  Well, Jennifer went on vacation in the meantime, and that left me to find out where that list had been over nighted to and who had picked it up from the courthouse.  Then Melissa, clerk of court, stated that when they came all I had to do was email her a copy of the subpoena signed by Judge Christian and she would let me have the records.  Again, unbeknown to me until later, Melissa went to Judge Christian telling her about all the uproar surrounding my subpoena for these records and the Wal-Mart Corporate Lawyers opposition to my having such records.  Judge Christian then decided to have the documents sealed in the court folder such that I might not only won’t be able to have them as she agreed to when she signed the subpoena, but also she may prevent me from seeing those documents in court also.   Corey and I are still being refused equal protection of the law in that, we believe and have good reason to as according to the way the evidence looks, not only is Kevin Ritlinger a drug addicted, violent, alcoholic that should never have got custody of my son, and did so under the most felonious circumstances assisted by his corrupt counsel Lorion M. Vitale, but he is also abusing prescription drugs and using my son to obtain illegally methamphetamines for his own personal use.   In this manner, Judge Christian is impeding the course of justice, not affording Corey and I equal protection of the law, and aiding and abetting a drug addicted, violent, alcoholic in abusing prescription drugs along with using my son to aid in his illegal possession of drugs for his own personal use.

            Judge Christian, in her loyalty to attorney Lorion M. Vitale, has seriously put my son back into a dangerous environment where on any given day he maybe unlucky and not be able to evade “Serious bodily injury,” such as he has been able to escape from thus far.  Such an environment is also riddled with substance abuse, drugs and alcohol as evidenced by Corey turning his father in for drug abuse around him while they were on vacation in another state to further attempt to secure for himself and our family, some form of equal protection of the law which we are not getting in Wake County as evidenced by the opinions, other than our own, of at least three officials bearing education, power, and/or authority to state such. That Judge Christian further violated the civil rights of my son by refusing to hear his voice at the age of thirteen years, such as Judge Wyczk had afforded Corey such a privilege as this, and where Judge Wyczk had based her decision to allow an Emergency Change of Custody based on what Corey informed her of in her chambers.  Had Judge Christian not been so overly protective on behalf of her friend, Lorion M. Vitale, and listened to Corey, only then may she have even began to realize the extent of the abuse he continues to be the recipient of.  That Judge Christian saw fit to find humor in the fact that my ex actually sought a “Hit man,” to kill me when such an action on his part is a conspiracy and a felony crime, further indicates her having exparte communication with Lorion M. Vitale who has chosen to believe the pathological lies of her client ignoring evidence to the contrary as both Judge Christian and Lorion M. Vitale have thus far chosen to do.  All this is contributing to endangerment of my son, which also is a crime as noted in NCGS and a violation of domestic violence laws.

September 3^rd, 2009 Thursday   Today, despite her refusal to hear Corey’s voice in court, I left a subpoena for Judge Christian to sign whereby I was, per his wishes, subpoenaing Corey to Judges Chambers so that he may have his voice heard as his civil and Constitutional Rights allow him privilege to do.  I put a sticky note on it for Jennifer stating that if Judge Christian is going to refuse such privilege to Corey, then my family wants some legal documentation of that.  I will await a response to that.

                        Today in the mail, I received an altered court order in addition to the first one that Lorion M. Vitale, attorney drew up for Judge Christian to sign.  Both were signed by Judge Christian and both consisted of nothing but mistruths, distorted facts, and overt perjuries lies with malicious intent.  Judge Christian either didn’t read them, or erroneously agreed with them which is a lie as I presented much evidence of child abuse to my son and there was a reason for an Emergency Court Hearing, Corey turned his father in for drugs and was caught with Drug paraphernalia in Panama City, Fl, and contraband that was indicative of someone smoking crack cocaine.  The orders lied from beginning to end, and even though Judge Christian knows that I presented child abuse in court where Corey had photographed injuries done to him by Kevin Ritlinger, she signed a order that stated malicious lies falsely alleging that I didn’t show any evidence to that effect at all.