6/15/97 Indecent Liberties with a minor. Thought it was funny to tell me how innocently Corey, our son, only 1 year old at the time, touched Kevin’s penis when Kevin was getting out of the shower. Upon seeing me the next time, we were still married at this time, Kevin laughed and did a motion with his finger whereby he stated extending his finger out as he did so telling me, “You should have seen it, it went up as hard as a rock.”

            Lorion M. Vitale was Kevin’s attorney at the time, and sometime later Kevin was summoned to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office accompanied by Vitale whereby at first he denied telling me such a thing.  Then he finally admitted that he did tell me that he had an erection as a result of his one year old son inadvertently touching Kevin’s penis when he got out of the shower, but Kevin continued to deny that he had an erection.  When requested by the Wake County Sheriff’s department to take a lie detector test, Kevin Ritlinger refused, which, the officer informed me, in the opinion of the Wake County Sheriff’s Department is an admission of guilt.  Lorion M. Vitale was witness to all of this and assisted her client in evading the appropriate reprimands for such a crime.

December 31^st, 1997 2:00 p.m.  I was told by my current attorney, Elizabeth Mosley, to meet with her at Lorion McCrae’s office, now Vitale, to discuss how Kevin could safely get visitation of Corey.  Because Elizabeth stated it would only take a few minutes, I took Kimberley with me as we were planning on going shopping afterwards upon retrieving Corey from the babysitters.   From the moment I walked into the office, Kevin and Lorion were across the hall in another office, Elizabeth, alias Betsy, began to barrage me with compliments supposedly from Lorion McCrae whereby, Betsy stated, that Lorion wasn’t able to choose her clients, that she was so afraid of Kevin Ritlinger, how wonderful she thought I was, how sorry for me she was that I had to go through this and on, and on, and on.  I was constantly misled in this manner for the entire three hours that we were there, and all I wanted was supervised visitation of Corey when Kevin Ritlinger had him as a result of Kevin’s chronic drug use and his abuse of Corey at different times.   For three hours we fought over this until finally Betsy come back to me and stated that, “Kevin is becoming angrier and angrier and Lorion is becoming so afraid of him,” and she went on to convince me that “Everything that you want is in there so just go ahead and sign it, you can read it later.”  Trusting my attorney, I signed it and didn’t read the contents believing what she told me was the truth.   After being so barraged with compliments for three hours, I thought that it was funny that Lorion McCrae might have been representing Kevin Ritlinger but was empathizing with me.  I dropped Corey off that evening feeling comfortable that Janice Ritlinger, Kevin’s mother, was not going to allow Kevin to do anything to Corey that Kevin could be imprisoned for. My daughter Kimberley Miller was witness to this.

January 10^th,  1998 5:30 a.m.  While at work this morning at this time, I can’t say what instigated this feeling, but a terribly bad overwhelming feeling came over me that something was terribly wrong with Corey, and I had no concrete reason for feeling that way.  I decided, for what it was worth, that I would drive by the Ritlingers home just to make sure that all was well and that my fears were unfounded.

January 10^th, 1998 Saturday 08:00 a.m.  I went past the Ritlingers and went into a terrible state of panic as I observed the Airstream trailer of the Ritlingers had gone where it was there the evening prior.  That meant that Ralph and Janice Ritlinger, Janice Ritlinger was supposed to supervise Kevin’s visitations, had gone on an airstream rally of which they are planned sometimes a year in advance.  I called the Raleigh police department and bombed home to go and get the paperwork from our agreement and drive back to 126 Crestview Road to meet the police there.  I told the officer of our prior agreement, that Kevin Ritlinger was not supposed to have anything other than supervised custody, but when the officer looked at the order there was nothing in there that pertained to supervised visitation.  That’s when I realized that I had been fraudulently misled to the detriment of my eighteen month old son.  The officer said he would go in and check the baby was okay, but would not let me, a registered nurse go in and view the baby.  After a long time, the officer came out and said the baby was okay, but Kevin Ritlinger was “Shaking all over with fear at loosing visitation of the baby.”  I told the officer, being a Wake Medical E.R. nurse at one point in time, that Kevin wasn’t shaking all over with fear, he either had too much drugs in his system or too little and I requested that the officer do a drug test on Kevin Ritlinger.  The officer refused stating that he had nine years in the force and he knew when someone was in Delirium Tremens or not. I stated I had been a nurse of nine years and I knew Kevin Ritlinger.   I asked to please be able to remove the baby and the officer refused.  I had to leave knowing that Corey was in very detrimental danger.

January, 12^th, 1998.  06:30 a.m. Monday.  On the Monday morning that I went to pick Corey up, I rang the doorbell again and again waiting for 5 minutes or more for Kevin to finally come to the back door. No one came, so I went around the house frantically beating on the doors and the windows, and eventually, Kevin came to the back door.  When he did, my heart sank.  Kevin’s skin was literally gray, such as I have only seen in people that look as if they are going to die.  He was unshaven, his cheeks were sunken, he had dark black circles around his eyes, he had bad hand to eye coordination, he was trembling all over, and he came out with a t-shirt on that looked all wrinkled with brown watery stains down the front.  He had on shorts with no socks or shoes in 30 degree weather, and his pupils were the size of large saucers, >9mm.  When he brought Corey out after a prolonged period of time, Kevin had put Corey’s day clothes on over his pajamas, which I had taken Corey in on Friday night, but the back of his shirt was all rolled up at the back.  Kevin refused to allow me to take Corey from him, and such was Kevin’s bad hand to eye coordination that he banged Corey’s head on the top of the car as he bent down to place Corey in his car seat.   Corey was crying, “cup mamma,” “cookie mamma,” but he had no tears only salt water tear stains where, at some point in time during the weekend, he had cried and now had salt water tear stains down his cheeks, the number one sign of dehydration.  Corey stank like a badly kept nursing home, both of urine and feces, and as Kevin attempted to bring down the tray on Corey’s car seat and click it into the seat, he pinched Corey’s scrotum and/or penis in the latch causing him to scream out in pain.   It was obvious that, as has happened so many times before when Janice & Ralph Ritlinger have gone on airstream rallies, that Kevin Ritlinger had been on an all weekend drug and alcohol binge and, not pot, as pot doesn’t do to you what I saw in Kevin Ritlinger on this Monday morning.  All was not well as I arrived at Wake Medical Center pediatric E.R. to a nurse by the name of Amy Hall R.N., who was more interested in going home at that time of the morning than documenting the signs and symptoms of neglect and abuse on Corey that she and I looked at together specifically so that she would document everything.  Instead, all she could document was my concern that Corey may have been exposed to second marijuana smoke and she never documented the hard dried feces that Corey had smashed against and all the way up his back, the very soaked diaper in urine that was dark orange, smelly, another sign of dehydration, and where he hadn’t been changed his entire diaper lining was totally disintegrating, urine crystals in Corey’s groins where he hadn’t been changed in God only knows how long, crying he was hungry and thirsty, another sign of neglect and abuse, salt water tear stains on Corey’s face, the number on sign of dehydration, and the appearance of his clothing and how it had been applied by Kevin Ritlinger.  When I spoke to nurse Amy Hall R.N. on the phone she admitted that she had seen the signs and symptoms of abuse and neglect that we had looked at together when she triaged Corey.  Lorion M. Vitale had aided and abetted Kevin Ritlinger in child abuse, child neglect, and endangerment of my son only eighteen months old at the time.

RITLINGER VS. RITLINGER

THE CONSPIRACY, DEVIANCE, CORRUPTION, AND LIES IN THE CUSTODY TRIAL.  (This was done to Corey and me, but Corey suffered the consequences and detriment more severely because, at three and a half years old, he didn’t understand why he had so suddenly and so cruelly been ripped away from his mother.)  Lorion M. Vitale was very much a party to this, but to what extent can only be determined by a full and thorough FBI/SBI investigation.

Prior to the court hearing but in close proximity to its execution as described here, Kevin Ritlinger made these comments, a small example of the many comments he made, which indicated that he may have had some insight as to the outcome of the case before it even took place on the first day;

November 6^th, 1998 Friday 5:34 p.m. Tape 2e 098-138  Kevin makes a comment while grinning, “Well you’re going to lose your butt in court.”

November 24^th, 1998 Wednesday 5:30 p.m. Tape 2C 041-?  Pushed me and raised his fist at me as if to hit me during drop off of Corey when I had temporary sole custody. Continued to push on me several times after that.  Janice Ritlinger denied that Kevin hit me five months pregnant and denied that the scar on my face was from that attack.  Janice Ritlinger then proceeds to yell at me and shake her finger in my face.

March 1999 Sunday 6:00 p.m. Tape 2A 052-183  Kevin laughs when he assures me, “Oh no honey, you are gonna get screwed in court.”  This comment along with others that Kevin had made suggests that he knew what the outcome of the custody trial would be even before it was heard.  Admitted that Stephanie Jenkins, Assistant D.A., supposed to prosecute Kevin for his crimes, was on his side.  All crimes Kevin had committed were conveniently shelved and forgotten and/or dismissed by the assistant D.A. Stephanie Jenkins.  Kevin laughs and makes another comment, “You’re gonna find out that last Friday was just the start of the fall in the down direction.”

1)      Allowed a supposedly, “Emergency meeting,” at 6:00 p.m., after court was out and changed custody in my absence from myself to Kevin who has a long history of drug abuse, alcoholism, and domestic violence.

2)      No “Emergency,” incident occurred that would warrant such an, “Emergency,” hearing, especially one where I wasn’t present, whether my attorney at that time, David Vesel who was a passive participant in all of this, was there or not.

3)      My attorney originally told me that this, “Emergency court hearing,” took place on Wednesday night when Kevin was having visitation of Corey, at a time when I had temporary full sole custody, and then later, after I told him that I was in my office all night and the phone hadn’t rang once to let me know of such a hearing, he stuttered and stated, “Oh, no, it was Tuesday night.”  Even then I told him I was at home, and he went beet red and said nothing more but changed the subject to something totally away from this topic.

4)      Neither Vitale or Vesel gave me the mandated “Two hour notice,” to file an Emergency Change of Custody,” and Wake County Judges are normally so intent, “On all parties being present,” until this time of course!

5)      Two nights before this secret, “Emergency court hearing,” Corey sat up at bedtime in his bed tearful declaring that he knew that I was going to go away and leave him and asking me why I didn’t love him anymore, despite my reassurance that I would never do that and he never would tell me what made him believe that.

6)      The way that I learned that I no longer had temporary full sole custody of Corey was when I returned to my office the night after Kevin’s Wednesday night visitation where I received a message on my voicemail from David Vesel telling me that he had something urgent to tell me and that I was to come to his office at 11:00 a.m., that he wouldn’t discuss it over the phone.  I felt as if my ex had either killed my son, or seriously harmed him. I was sick to my stomach with worry.

7)      Upon arriving to the office of David Vesel, he told me that they had an “Emergency court hearing,” at 6:00 p.m. the previous night in front of Judge Gessner and that Dr. Ginger Calloway, who operates in all three counties judging by the attorneys that have called me and divulged how she lied and discriminated against their female clients in custody cases, who falsely told the judge that I was a psychotic schizophrenic that would hurt Corey.  I have since had a private evaluation to dispel that obvious, horrendous lie under oath, a felony no less, without telling the psychologist ahead of time as to why I wanted the evaluation, and he told me that I am so mentally stable I could qualify for the higher criteria of being on any SWAT in the country.  He cracked up laughing when I told him what she had falsely accused me of saying how ridiculous that was.

8)      As a Realtor at the time, and also an R.N., even my boss, Ross Rhudy, stated what, “A circus,” of a court case the preliminary ten day hearing was and even worse the full blown week long custody trial.

9)      In the preliminary trial, despite the evidence of my ex that he was abusive towards me and the children, despite my daughter and I told them of my ex’s drug and alcohol abuse, Judge Gessner stated to my attorney, “If she makes anymore unfounded complaints against Kevin Ritlinger, I will take away the one hour nightly supervised visitations that I have awarded her.”

10)   During one of these nightly visitations, I took Corey to the bathroom, he was 3 ½ years old at the time, and he had a great big red whelk across his bottom.  When I showed my supervisor, my best friend Janice Bunn, now Wagstaff, we were so afraid of losing the one hour visitation I had been given, based on Gessner’s previous comment, that we didn’t know what to do so we did nothing.  The whelk was put there, Corey told us, by his father.

11)   In the main week long trial, Judge Gessner repeatedly told me that, “It’s your fault that you got beat up because you pushed all the right buttons.”

12)   Despite my testimony of the abuse and horrors that my ex put me and the children through, Judge Gessner kept telling me, “I don’t want to hear one more time how afraid you were.”  I described the time when Kevin hit me while I was five months pregnant whereby I had to have eight stitches in my face, squeezed my neck until I briefly lost consciousness, hurt the children in various incidents, especially my daughter Kimberley, threatened to kill Kimberley and I one night and told us to leave the house for our safety, and so on and so on all to no avail.

13)   Prior to this, Judge Gessner allowed Kevin Ritlinger to go to a local lab and take his own drug tests, which were, of course negative.  Even though I tried to tell Gessner of how, in the past, to render employment drug tests negative Kevin had gone and taken mega doses of Golden Seal followed by temporary cessitation and by drinking buckets of water, Gessner either completely ignored everything significant such as this or rationalized it away.  Since then, Child Protective Services have offered Kevin to do his own drug test stating that, per Lender Caldwell, CPS, SW, that if he did she would fix it that I could never have contact with Corey ever again as evidenced by Rochelle Ritlinger, now Dunn, third ex-wife of Kevin Ritlinger.  Of course, Kevin didn’t do one.

14)   Even though Dr. Ginger Calloway admitted that there was nothing wrong with my evaluation in her report, where she had told the judge according to David Vesel in the “Emergency court hearing,” that I was a psychotic schizophrenic, she described Kevin Ritlinger as “Prone to impulsive and violent outbursts,” that his drinking by anybodies standards was, “Excessive,” and that he didn’t do drugs anymore even though I showed her pictures of his drug paraphernalia hidden in the garage, or so Kevin thought it was hidden.  Her stand now was that, “We are going to rehabilitate Kevin Ritlinger to be a good parent.”  That Kevin wasn’t able to handle, “The everyday stresses of living.”

15)   Judge Gessner let Kendra Ritlinger, Kevin’s first ex-wife, go on this long rant about how she was so unhappy being heterosexual, and how she finally found out she was gay and found herself a lover and now is happy as she can be.  Annoyed I kept thinking, “What has this got to do with the custody of my baby?”  Ironically, immediately after the trial, Kendra Ritlinger went from working at Winn Dixie to a job at the Wake County Courthouse as a security guard there.

16)   Throughout the trial, Gessner laughed and joked with Kevin and his attorneys, gave them all kinds of concessions that he wouldn’t allow us, sat back in his chair, stared at the ceiling looked disinterested, bored, and basically, as if he had already made a decision even before the trial began, and I’m not the only one that felt this way either.

17)   Reika McKeithan, Child Protective Services Social Worker falsely testified under oath that Kevin was a wonderful father, that Janice Ritlinger was a wonderful grandma, and they tried to get Reika McKeithan a $1000 professional witness fee for her lies.  I later caught her whispering in a remote corner of the courthouse with the Ritlingers, and when she was asked under oath what she was discussing, she lied and told the court she was discussing her arthritis and her back problems. Double felony on her part.

18)   Dr. Jerry Bernstein, pediatrician, who I had asked him to help me please protect Corey from the clutches of his father, went under oath, without any evidence, and lied to the court when he falsely accused me of having, “Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy.”  This is a bogus diagnosis, for which he had no evidence and there was no testing for, so that fathers can win custody of the children.  He also got a $1,000.00 professional witness fee for his overt lies under oath, of which lying under oath is another felony crime.

19)   Later, when I was rehashing this with David Vesel, he denied that he had told me such a thing, but he did state, “They are trying to prove you’re mentally unstable.” That he didn’t know why, but he thought that Kevin’s criminal attorney, Mary Wells of Cheshire & Parker, and Lorion McCrae, now Vitale of the same firm, had, he told me, “Adopted a personal vendetta against you.”

20)   Rochelle Ritlinger reported to both Wake County Child Protective Services the abuse against Corey that she had witnessed against him by his father, Kevin Ritlinger, and the use of drugs in front of and around Corey and neither department did anything about it. Child Protective Services gave Kevin the option of doing a drug test at his leisure which he never did, and Detective Limper of the Raleigh Police Department told Rochelle that, “If we arrested every parent that smoked pot we’d be in a mess.”  The best we all know, Kevin Ritlinger is participating in a variety of illicit drug use and not merely just pot.

21)   A year or so later, I went and had a private psychological forensic evaluation by one of the top psychologists in the state which, at the time, I paid $1000.00 for, and although he kept asking me why I wanted such forensic testing, I refused to divulge that information to him.  On the day of testing, I drove to Goldsboro, North Carolina, and informed Dr. Leudtke that I would discuss the rationale for my wanting such extensive testing after we sat down to discuss the results of such. In the late afternoon, after being tested all day and having Dr. Leudtke score my results, we sat down together to discuss my mental instability. Prior to giving me the results of my testing, I informed him of all that had been falsely alleged of me and my mental instability, and what had been done to Corey and me.  When I told him that Dr. Ginger Calloway had accused me of being a psychotic schizophrenic, Dr. Leudtke began laughing heartily stating that was the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard.  He then informed me that, I met such a higher level of mental stability that I could qualify to be on any SWAT team in the country!  So perfect was my testing that he informed me that he couldn’t even link me to a borderline personality which merely reiterated to me the immense amount of conspiracy and corruption that Corey and I had so innocently been the recipients of.  To this day, despite complaints of myself, Corey, and some of the other innocent women and children that some of these same players have done similar crimes to, these monsters have yet to be held accountable for their felony crimes of discrimination in courts of law and failure to provide equal protection of the law to this gender, females, and this population, children.

22)   Attorney Hayes Hofler, Durham, NC, sent me a letter and called me to tell me of Dr. Ginger Calloway’s overt discrimination and lies under oath against his female client in a custody battle.  The letter remains in my many multiples of volumes of documentation that I have kept of all that has occurred and been done to Corey and I, not to mention other women that have contacted me with similar complaints of some of these same players over the years. Two attorneys from Chapel Hill at different times also called to tell me of their female clients in custody battles that got overt discrimination from Dr. Ginger Calloway such that she was removed from those court cases also and/or another parental evaluator was introduced in their relevant trials. The attorney told me that, attorneys that are aware of her overt discrimination against women in custody battles use her knowing that fathers that shouldn’t have custody of dogs, let alone children, can get some part or sole custody of the children away from good loving mothers, no matter how sorry the fathers are.

23)   The sad thing is regarding all this adverse information about Dr. Ginger Calloway, she continues to be hired for parental evaluations in at least Wake County, NC, and has never been held accountable for her crimes against innocent women and the detriment to their children.

24)   When confronted as to why Corey and I are not getting equal protection of the law, Captain _____, RPD, (name taken out at this time to protect the privacy of the  individual short of an SBI or FBI investigation) stated, “I’m sorry Ms. Ritlinger; I don’t know what to tell you.”  “You’ve upset someone in this town.”  Colon Willoughby, Chief DA of Wake County, per the Wake County Magistrate, states that neither Corey nor I can bring anymore complaints against the Ritlingers and that such complaints are to only come from either the Magistrate’s Office, the RPD, or the DA’s office. Yet Kevin Ritlinger has been allowed to get away with DUI on two occasions, drug use, child abuse, domestic violence on me, and they rationalize away as to why they are not going to hold him accountable each time dismissing the crime committed.

25)   Lt. (name taken out at this time to protect the privacy of the individual short of an SBI or FBI investigation), RPD, when confronted, stated on the phone to me that the RPD was investigating complaints of child abuse and other complaints and taking them to the Wake County DA’s office for prosecution, and that such requests for prosecution were being refused by the Wake County DA’s office. When asked as to why such investigations were being refused, Lt. Rigsby stated she didn’t know why.

26)   Wake County CPS, although confronted with pictures of abuse to Corey, Corey’s cries of abuse to him by his father, mostly, and his grandma, despite all my documentations of abuse submitted to them along with the fact that such behaviors meet the criteria of the general statutes of what constitutes abuse, denies the abuse stating that such behaviors are, as Dr. Ludwig falsely described, “No more than bad parenting skills.” 

27)   One CPS worker, Lender Caldwell, SW CPS, attempted to make a deal with Kevin Ritlinger stating that if he would submit to a drug test she would make it that I never had contact with Corey again.  Kevin would not submit to a drug test.

28)   Lender Caldwell, SW CPS, attempted to falsely accuse me of child abuse where I would take pictures of marks put on Corey by his father and secretly tape Corey’s confessions to me of abuse done to him by his father, mostly, but also his grandma on occasion to.

29)   Initially, many CPS workers, seeing the pictures of abuse, the overt lies of Kevin Ritlinger, in a newspaper article where he falsely states that he was falsely accused of domestic violence by me in my attempt to gain custody oblivious to the contradicting evidence I have, seeing the years of documented abuse I have noted, listening to abusive tapes where Corey confesses the abuse to him, and testimony of abuse and drugs rendered against Kevin by his last ex-wife, Rochelle Dunn Ritlinger, have openly admitted that Corey needs to come back to me because of the abuse so overtly done to him and covered up by Janice Ritlinger, Corey’s grandma.  Then, after it goes before Dr. Ludwig, and/or Maria Spalding, head of CPS, does the complaints then come back incorrectly and falsely, “Unsubstantiated,” in every single complaint.

30)   The last complaint filed against Kevin Ritlinger by school social worker Susan Conner has met with yet another controversy in that, where CPS doesn’t want to admit years of error they have concocted yet another fabrication to prevent Corey coming home from where he should never have been taken from.  To accommodate and rationalize them putting him into a residential entity and/or foster care, they have made interventions and/or demands that, if Kevin and Janice Ritlinger along with myself don’t submit to these demands, they are threatening to take Corey away from both of us and place him in such facilities when he has a good loving, nurturing, and educated mother in me.  They completely ignore that Corey’s anger stems from the fact he was criminally ripped away from his mother at 3 ½ years old being told that his mother no longer loves him and is going to go away and leave him, they ignore the years of abuse he has been the recipient of at the hands of both his father and grandma, they ignore the drug use he has observed of his father and uncle, and blame the anger that is directed at me by Kevin and Janice Ritlinger, and the anger that I feel at what has been done to us!

31)   Two attorneys, (name taken out at this time to protect the privacy of the individual short of an SBI or FBI investigation), and (name taken out at this time to protect the privacy of the individual short of an SBI or FBI investigation),, admit that Corey and I are not getting equal protection of the law, that they see this, but no one does anything to correct such violations of the Constitution.

32)   We have cried out to every entity in the city, county, and state that we can think of who may have responsibility to intervene, and are met with, “Sorry, it’s not in our jurisdiction.”  When we ask whose jurisdiction is it in, we are met with a redundant statement of, “I don’t know, but it’s not in ours.”  So, who cares if an innocent woman and a child, or innocent women and children as truly exists, are getting intentionally pulverized by the powers that be who are supposed to protect them?  Apparently, no one.

33)   Prior to this, of which my daughter was a witness to this, Lorion M. Vitale participated in a conspiracy with Elizabeth Mosley, attorney, at a time when I had custody to warrant me signing a document without reading that resulted in endangerment to my son and injury to him.  During the meeting in Lorion Vitale’s office, the negotiations when back and forth whereby, all I wanted in this document for Corey’s protection, was nothing more than 24 hour supervised visitation for Corey with Kevin Ritlinger, a known drug addicted, violent, alcoholic.  The negotiation went back and forth for three hours, and during this time, Betsy Mosley kept barraging me with compliments from Lorion Vitale, “Oh she told me to tell you she thinks you are so wonderful, and she feels sorry for you having to put up with Kevin Ritlinger,” “She told me to tell you that she hates Kevin Ritlinger and  being a junior attorney, she can’t pick and choose her clients,” “She told me to tell you that she wishes you were her client instead of him,” “She told me….” (this or that adversely about Kevin Ritlinger) “She told me to tell you…”(this or that adverse about Kevin Ritlinger) and so on and so on for three hours barraging me with such statements to win my trust.  Finally, Betsy came to me and stated,  “Lorion states that Kevin is getting angrier and angrier in her office and she’s really afraid of him, just go ahead and sign this so that she can get him out of her office, everything you want is in there, just go ahead and sign it.” Like a fool, feeling at this time that this corrupt attorney was siding with me while getting funds from her client, I signed it where they had completely won my trust.  That weekend, as I left work on Saturday morning, I had the most God awful feeling that something was terribly wrong.  Not sure as to what I could determine by driving by the Ritlinger house, I drove past on my way home from a Friday night shift.  Much to my horror, the airstream trailer was gone, Ralph, alive at that time, and Janice Ritlinger, had gone on an airstream rally when Janice Ritlinger was supposed to supervise visitation of Kevin that weekend with Corey.  Those rallies have to be scheduled at least three months in advance, and often times a year or more in advance.  In a mad panic, I called the police, dashed all the way back to Knightdale and all the way back to Six Forks in Raleigh.  Only when the police officer repeatedly looked through the paperwork three times did I then discover the conspiracy of Lorion Vitale that endangered my son that weekend.  There was no statement in there that stated that Kevin Ritlinger was to have nothing more than 24 hour supervised visitation.  I requested to remove Corey for his safety, he was only eighteen months old, and they refused stating they had no grounds to do that.  The officer stated that Kevin Ritlinger was “Shaking all over with fear at losing visitation with Corey,” but I tried to tell the officer that Kevin Ritlinger either had too much in his system as far as drugs were concerned or was in DT’s and I needed to remove Corey.  The officer refused that request and refused to drug test Kevin Ritlinger.  I paced all weekend, with worry and fear.  On Monday morning my heart broke into a million pieces as to what I observed.   Kevin Ritlinger came out in 30 degree weather with skin so gray as I have only seen in patients having a severe heart attack, he had generalized tremors all over, he had sorry hand and eye coordination, he had bare feet, a t-shirt and shorts wrinkled as if he had slept in them for a week or more, and brown watery stains down the front of his t-shirt from, I now know, where he had been smoking crack cocaine out of a bong.  It took him forever to bring Corey out, and when he did, what a horrendous sight.  Corey had the following symptoms, all indicative of the most horrible abuse and neglect:

a)      Salt water tear stains down his face, #1 sign of dehydration

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                      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.

Judge Lori Christian made my son return to the full sole custody of this drug addicted, abusive, alcoholic, Kevin Ritlinger.