I recently received threats for writing this blog. These people also threatened to hurt my son, telling me "you know what happened to Jeffrey Dalmer".
I was told by these people that they know the prison guards, and people inside the prison. Well I want you all to know that my son told me he is not concerned about the threats made towards him, He knows a lot of people after being locked up for ten years, and as far as I am concerned I am not backing down for anyone.
To those of you who made the threats, I have had Technical difficulties , as well as some personal issues to attend to, but I am up and running again, and I will not take orders from scum. If you want to hurt me, come and get me. You know where I am, and I am willing to die for my son.

From the beginning

I no sooner started this blog, and I began experiencing technical difficulties. I did receive comments, and I apologize for any confusion I may have caused, I am up and running again and I decided I should start from the beginning,to give everyone a chance to familiarize themselves with this case, assuming of course everyone is interested.


I started this blog for Brandon, my only child. He got caught up in the system when he was very young, and he never got out. He was a good kid. He was quiet, and laid back. He loved animals, and brought home every stray he found.
Regardless he started bagging school when he was only twelve, and Chester County Children's and Youth services stepped in, and removed him from my home.

Brandon didn't care, he hated school. The inner city schools had become so overcrowded, they started busing kids from the projects to the elementary school Brandon attended. and the older kids started threatening to beat him up for his clothing, and shoes.
It had gotten so bad he refused to wear a coat to school. This was in the early 90's and kids were getting killed for the clothes they wore.
On one particular day, Brandon was jumped by three older boys, and dragged into the bathroom, where he was beaten severely for the dollar fifty I had given him for lunch money.
When I arrived to pick him up from school His face was so swollen, and bloody I didn't even recognize him, I was hysterical.
The school principal assured me she would handle things, but this was no comfort to my son. He did not feel safe and he refused to go.


Well Chester County Children and Youth Services placed him in Children's home in York where I only recently found out he was assaulted.
He was only there for a couple of days before they moved him without my knowledge

When Children services moved him it was a Holiday weekend, and as I stated it was without my knowledge. I only found this out when I called the shelter to find out if they were having regular visiting during the holiday. I was told my son had been moved to an undisclosed location, and they could not give me any further information.
This was on a Friday, and when I called Children's Services I was told his caseworker Doreen had left for the day and wouldn't return until after the Holiday on Tuesday. They also told me they couldn't give me any further information. for four days.

I was wild, I had no idea where my son was and no way of finding out. I remembered where Doreen said she lived and I found her number in the book. I called her at home asking her to call me and tell me where my son was she never did.
I didn't sleep for four days worrying about my son's whereabouts, and I continued to leave messages on Doreen's answering machine. I never threatened her, but I told her she would have no peace until she told me where my son was.
She didn't care about him, he was no more than a case number to her.
She pressed charges against me for harassment by communication and I plead guilty and I am now a convicted felon.

They had moved him into a foster home which was a three bedroom trailer where he slept on the floor due to the fact that there were five other foster children there, four boys and one girl, and needless to say the young girl needed to sleep in a separate room.
After being there approximately three weeks, and still not attending school, he was moved to an adult detox facility, although he was given several random drug tests, all of which were negative. While in the facility they wanted to administer lithium to him, but I refused to sign papers giving them permission to do so.
I was told his treatment would not begin until I agreed to allow them to drug him, and until treatment was complete he would not be released.
I was not about to let them drug my son, He was removed from my home for bagging school yet they were doing nothing to provide him with an education, and now they wanted to drug him.
So I took matters into my own hands, and kidnapped him, and went into hiding for four weeks, until he got antsy, and decided to sneak out of the house where we were staying.
He was picked up by the police, and I had no choice but to turn myself in.
Due to the publicity surrounding the case the Judge agreed that he would not be given any drugs. He was however returned to the detox facility for a short period of time, and then released into the home quest program.

From there he was placed on the wagon train in vision quest, where they traveled with horse drawn covered wagons cross country. It wasn't long before he along with three other boys ran away, and broke into a store, and stole one pack of cigarettes, and a lighter valued at three dollars and forty two cents. They tried to steal the owners truck but were unsuccessful and they were caught, and returned to the wagon train.

By now Brandon was sixteen, and although he was removed from my home for nothing more than skipping school, he received absolutely no education other than street smarts while in Chester County Children and Youth Services custody. He could barely read or write.
He was smoking now, and one of the boys gave him a jailhouse style tattoo. These programs were nothing more than a way for Children and Youth services to collect money for the children who were placed in their custody.
The only way I could get him released from their custody was to have him adjudicated delinquent. It was not something I wanted to do but they were ruining his life, and I had to get him away from them, so with no other choice, I did just that.


He was then placed into a program called ARC in Chambersburg. I only wish I would have done it sooner. He was writing me letters within a couple of months, and while his spelling left a little to be desired his penmanship was beautiful, and within six months he had prepared for and taken his GED. He was participating in track and field events and he got several first place ribbons.

Just before turning nineteen he was finally being released. His counselor Steve really liked him. He thought he was a really good kid and had a lot of potential.He was concerned about him returning home, and asked him to come and stay with him at his home, and attend Stevens Trade School in Lancaster.
Brandon had been in lock up since he was twelve and he did not want to do this. He was anxious to get home, and see his girlfriend and two year old daughter who was born while he was in the ARC program.
I wanted him to stay with Steve but I couldn't blame him for wanting to come home. After all he had been away for almost seven years.
So he came home. He looked up friends he met in lock up with Children's services and shortly after he started smoking crack.

It wasn't long before he was addicted and started stealing from me and my family to support his out of control habit.
My sister found a rehab up state that was willing to take him, but he was eighteen, and he refused to go. Because it wasn't court ordered, there was nothing we could do.
We tried tough love, and told him either go into rehab, or get out. He was gone three days when an unidentified body of a man was found shot to death in Downingtown.

I was sick when I heard the news. I hadn't heard from Brandon, and I was so afraid it was him.
I called his girlfriend Tammy to see if she had talked to him, and she assured me she had. It was long after that the mans body was Identified as
Daniel Hesse of Delaware a truck driver for Exxon Mobil.

The following day my son contacted my niece and her boyfriend and told them his friend Duffy was the one who shot this man during a robbery, and that he was there, and witnessed it.
Brandon was suicidal at this time, he had never seen anyone murdered and although he tried unsuccessfully to stop the shooting, he blamed himself, and wished it were him that took the bullet. He said he had to tell someone, that he kept seeing it over and over again in his mind.

My niece, her boyfriend, and my mother went to the state police and gave them the information they needed to make an arrest, and eventually a conviction.
The DA withheld this information at the trial and Brandon's trial counsel who was ineffective never brought it out either.

Brandon never received a fair trial, and he was denied his due process rights, due to ineffective assistance of counsel, and prosecutorial misconduct. He was denied all of his state appeals, and he filed a handwritten petition for writ of habeas corpus in federal court, but he was time barred. This was his last chance at receiving a fair trial and I will provide documentation proving all of this in this blog.

PHOTOCOPIES FROM ARTICLES IN THE DAILY RECORD

PHOTOCOPIES OF ORIGINAL STORY REPORTED IN THE COATESVILLE NEWSPAPER THE DAILY RECORD

YOUR ALWAYS HEARING ABOUT ALL THE KIDS WHO ARE ABUSED, NEGLECTED, STARVED, OR KILLED, BECAUSE CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES FAILED TO CHECK UP, OR FOLLOW UP, OR JUST FLAT OUT IGNORED THE WARNING SIGNS.

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SCREW UP THE LIVES OF THE CHILDREN THEY DO FOLLOW UP ON AS WELL. YOU JUST DON'T HEAR ABOUT IT AS OFTEN.

WHEN I KIDNAPPED MY SON , PEOPLE STARTED COMING OUT OF THE WOODWORK WRITING LETTERS ASKING ME TO HELP THEM BECAUSE CYS HAD DONE THE SAME TO THING TO THEIR CHILDREN.

I CONVINCED THE SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ALL OF US, BUT IT DIDN'T CHANGE THINGS TOO MUCH FOR MOST OF THE FAMILIES. ONE YOUNG GIRL ENDED UP HANGING HERSELF. SHE WAS SIXTEEN YEARS OLD, AND SHE CHOSE SUICIDE OVER FOSTER CARE. CYS REMOVED HER FROM HER HOME FOR TRUANCY, AND PLACED HER IN FOSTER CARE WHERE SHE TRAGICALLY ENDED HER OWN LIFE.

I MENTIONED JUDGE SMITH IN MY PREVIOUS POST, WHILE WRITING ABOUT THE COUNTY TRYING TO DRUG MY SON WITH LITHIUM. I WANT TO MENTION THAT HE WAS NOT THE ONE TO ORIGINALLY PLACE MY SON.
NO MASTER GILHOULY (NOT SURE OF SPELLING) WAS THE ONE WHO PLACED HIM IN CHESTER COUNTY CHILDREN'S AND YOUTH SERVICES, ENDANGERING HIS LIFE, FOR NOT GOING TO SCHOOL.

I GUESS SHE IS NOT REALLY A JUDGE, THAT'S WHY THEY CALL HER MASTER, I DON'T KNOW, BUT IN MY OPINION SHE DIDN'T BELONG IN FAMILY COURT EITHER.
MY SON WAS SOFT SPOKEN AND SCARED, AND SHE PUT HIM UP ON THE WITNESS STAND, AND SHE SCREAMED IN FACE, CALLING HIM A LIAR. SHE EMBARRASSED HIM, AND TREATED HIM LIKE A HARDENED CRIMINAL. AND IT TOOK ALL I HAD NOT TO JUMP UP OUT OF MY SEAT.
SHE DIDN'T LIKE ME, AND NEITHER DID C.Y.S. BECAUSE I WASN'T QUIET LIKE MY SON. I BELIEVE THIS WAS DONE TO SPITE ME, AND THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND C.Y.S. DID IT FOR THE MONEY.
THEY ARE ALLOTTED SO MUCH MONEY PER CHILD IN THEIR CUSTODY, PLUS THEY COULD CASH IN ON MY MOTHERS HEALTH CARE.
THEY KNEW MY SON HAD A LOVING FAMILY, THAT WASN'T THE PROBLEM. THE PROBLEM WAS BRANDON REFUSED TO GO TO SCHOOL. THE THING IS, THAT DIDN'T CHANGE AFTER I LOST CUSTODY. THEY HAD HIM LOCKED UP AND YET HE STILL WAS GETTING ANY TYPE OF AN EDUCATION OTHER THAN STREET SMARTS.
BUT INSTEAD OF TRYING TO HELP HIM ACADEMICALLY THEY DECIDED IT WAS EASIER TO PUT HIM INTO AN ADULT DETOX FACILITY, AND DRUG HIM. NO ONE WILL EVER CONVINCE ME THIS WAS IN HIS BEST INTEREST. LETS NOT FORGET, HE DID NOTHING MORE THAN REFUSE TO GO TO SCHOOL.

SO NOW THE POLICE FINALLY HAD SOMETHING TO GO ON. THIS WAS ONLY BECAUSE MY SON HAD A CONSCIOUS, NOT GOOD OLD FASHIONED POLICE WORK.

I WAS TOLD THE NEXT DAY ABOUT CHARLES LINTON'S (A.K.A. DUFFY). INVOLVEMENT IN THE SHOOTING. MY MOTHER INFORMED ME THAT RONALD AND MY NIECE NICHOLE, HAD TOLD HER THAT DUFFY WAS THE ONE THAT SHOT THE MAN AT THE EXXON. SHE TOLD ME THEY HAD ALREADY GONE INTO TALK TO THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE.

I IMMEDIATELY ASKED IF BRANDON WAS INVOLVED. DUFFY HAD JUST BEEN RELEASED FROM COUNTY LOCKUP A WEEK EARLIER AND HE CAME TO THE HOUSE LOOKING BRANDON, WHO WAS NOT AT HOME AT THE TIME.

ONLY A COUPLE OF DAYS AFTER DUFFY STOPPED BY BRANDON WAS SCHEDULED TO GO INTO REHAB, AND I WASN'T ABOUT TO TELL HIM THAT DUFFY WAS LOOKING FOR HIM.

BRANDON WAS ADDICTED TO CRACK, AND I GAVE HIM THE ULTIMATUM GO TO REHAB, OR GET OUT. HE WAS STEALING FROM ME AND MY MOTHER. WE HAD TO SLEEP WITH OUR KEYS AND MONEY. HE HAD ALREADY SOLD ANY JEWELRY, ETC. HE COULD GET HIS HANDS ON. MY MOTHER BOUGHT HIM VALUABLE ROOKIE CARDS OVER THE YEARS, AND HE SOLD THEM ALL FOR CRACK.

HE ONCE TRADED MY MOTHERS CAR FOR WHAT THEY REFER TO AS A DEUCE RIDE. I THINK IT 20 DOLLARS WORTH OF CRACK, BUT DON'T QUOTE ME. I DO KNOW IT ISN'T MUCH, NOT A 30,000 DOLLAR VEHICLE WORTH.

HIS ADDICTION WAS OUT OF CONTROL, AND WE WERE LIVING LIKE PRISONERS IN OUR OWN HOME.

IT WAS SO SAD. BRANDON WAS A SWEET KID. HE STARTED HAVING PROBLEMS AT SCHOOL IN THE EARLY 90'S. IT WAS DURING THE TIME WHEN KIDS WERE KILLING EACH OTHER FOR STARTER JACKETS, AND SNEAKERS, OR WHATEVER THE KIDS WANTED AT THE TIME. YOUNG GIRLS COULDN'T EVEN WEAR 14KT GOLD EARRINGS TO SCHOOL. THE KIDS WERE OUT OF CONTROL.

BRANDON WAS JUMPED BY THREE BOYS, AND DRAGGED INTO THE BATHROOM,WHERE THEY BEAT HIM SEVERELY FOR HIS LUNCH MONEY. I WAS CALLED TO THE SCHOOL, AND I DIDN'T EVEN RECOGNIZE HIM WHEN I SAW HIM. THIS FOR A LOUSY DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS.

HE REFUSED TO WEAR HIS COATS TO SCHOOL, FOR FEAR OF GETTING JUMPED, OR WORSE YET SHOT.

HE FINALLY DECIDED HE WASN'T GOING TO GO. HE STARED SKIPPING SCHOOL AND HANGING OUT WITH THE BOY WHO LIVED NEXT DOOR. HE WAS SIXTEEN, AND HIS MOTHER SIGNED HIM OUT OF SCHOOL.

BRANDON ON THE HAND WAS ONLY THIRTEEN, AND IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE THE TRUANT OFFICER CAME KNOCKING ON THE DOOR.

I HAD NO IDEA HE WASN'T GOING TO , I WAS WORKING EVERY DAY AND WE WOULD LEAVE THE HOUSE THE SAME TIME. BRANDON WOULD WALK TO HIS BUS STOP, OR SO I THOUGHT, AND I WOULD GET IN MY CAR AND DRIVE OFF TO WORK.

NEVER THE LESS BRANDON WASN'T GOING. WE HAD TO APPEAR IN COURT, AND CHESTER COUNTY CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES GOT INVOLVED. WHAT A JOKE.

I'M GOING TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT BY SAYING THEY TOOK MY SON, OUT OF MY HOME, AND PLACED HIM FIRST IN A SHELTER, THEN IN FOSTER CARE WHERE HE SLEPT ON THE FLOOR. FROM THERE THEY PLACED HIM INTO AN ADULT DETOX FACILITY WHERE THEY WANTED TO DRUG HIM WITH LITHIUM.

IT WAS INSANE, HE DIDN'T NEED DETOX. HE WAS GIVEN SEVERAL RANDOM DRUG TESTS BEFORE BEING REMOVED FROM MY HOME. THEY WERE ALL NEGATIVE. I TOOK MATTERS INTO MY OWN HANDS. I TOOK HIM OUT OF THE FACILITY AGAINST COURT ORDER, AND WENT INTO HIDING, UNTIL THE COURTS AGREED NOT TO DRUG HIM. I MADE THE FRONT PAGE HEADLINES AS MOM ON THE RUN FOR THREE WEEKS. IT WAS ONLY BECAUSE OF THIS MEDIA ATTENTION THAT THE COURTS ( JUDGE CHARLES B. SMITH) RULED IN MY FAVOR.

IN MY OPINION HE SHOULD HAVE NEVER PRESIDED OVER JUVENILE, OR FAMILY COURT.

KEEP IN MIND THIS WAS BECAUSE MY SON SKIPPED SCHOOL, NOTHING MORE.

BRANDON NEVER THE LESS WAS STILL REMOVED FROM MY CUSTODY, UNTIL I WENT TO THE COURTS AND ASKED TO HAVE HIM ADJUDICATED DELINQUENT, IN ORDER TO GET HIM OUT OF C.Y.S. CUSTODY.

CHESTER COUNTY CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES NEVER DID ANYTHING FOR HIM. HE RECEIVED ABSOLUTELY NO EDUCATION FOR THE THREE YEARS HE WAS IN THEIR CUSTODY. THEY WERE PAID WELL OVER TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM HEALTH COVERAGE MY MOTHER HAD ON MY SON FROM WYETH LABS.

THEY RUINED MY SON'S LIFE JUST MOVING HIM FROM FOSTER CARE TO SHELTER TO REHAB, TO VISION QUEST.

THEY PUT HIM IN ALL THESE DIFFERENT TREATMENT PROGRAMS, BECAUSE HE WAS TRUANT, YET HE NEVER RECEIVED ANY EDUCATION.

I HAD TO HAVE MY SON ADJUDICATED DELINQUENT TO GET HIM AWAY FROM THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE IN FACT ENDANGERING HIS LIFE.

I HAD HEARD OF A GOOD PROGRAM, THE PROBLEM WAS UNLESS BRANDON WAS ADJUDICATED DELINQUENT, THEY WOULDN'T ACCEPT HIM. SO AS MUCH AS HATED TO DO THIS TO MY OWN SON, I FELT I HAD NO OTHER CHOICE.

I ONLY WISHED I WOULD HAVE DONE IT SOONER.

BRANDON FINALLY GOT AN EDUCATION. WITHIN A YEAR HE WAS TAKING HIS G.E.D. AND HE WAS DOING SO WELL. HE WAS COMPETING IN TRACK AND FIELD EVENTS, HE EXCELLED.

IT WAS BITTERSWEET. HE WAS DOING WELL, BUT THE YEARS SPENT IN C.Y.S. CUSTODY HAD CHANGED HIM SO MUCH. HE WAS SMOKING CIGARETTES A HABIT HE PICKED UP WHILE IN ADULT DETOX FACILITY. HE ALSO RECEIVED A JAILHOUSE TATTOO. HE NEVER RECEIVED AN EDUCATION, BUT HE HAD STREET SMARTS NOW. HE WASN'T THE SAME SCARED LITTLE BOY THAT WAS AFRAID TO GO TO SCHOOL.

BRANDON WASN'T RELEASED FORM THIS PROGRAM UNTIL HE WAS READY TO TURN 20. HE WAS THERE ABOUT THREE YEARS. THE PROGRAM WAS GOOD FOR HIM BUT HE COULDN'T WAIT TO COME HOME AND LOOK UP HIS OLD FRIENDS.

ONE OF THE COUNSELORS TRIED TO TALK HIM INTO MOVING IN WITH HIM AND GOING TO STEVEN'S TRADE SCHOOL IN LANCASTER, BUT BRANDON DID NOT WANT TO DO THIS RIGHT AWAY. HE HAD BEEN IN LOCK UP SINCE HE WAS THIRTEEN, AND HE WANTED TO COME HOME .

IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE HE WAS SMOKING CRACK. HE WAS ADDICTED IN NO TIME. HE COULDN'T CONTROL IT.

HE HADN'T EVEN BEEN HOME FOR A YEAR AND NOW HERE WE WERE LOOKING INTO REHAB.

BRANDON AGREED TO GO. HE WANTED TO GET OFF THE DRUGS BUT HE KNEW HE NEEDED HELP. HE COULDN'T DO IT ON HIS OWN.

MY MOM AND HIS GIRLFRIEND TAMMY DROVE HIM 3 HOURS TO THE FACILITY IN BLUE MOUNTAIN, BUT WHEN THEY GOT THERE HE CHANGED HIS MIND AND REFUSED TO STAY.

THERE WAS NOTHING ANYONE COULD DO. HE WAS THERE VOLUNTARILY AND WITHOUT A COURT ORDER NO ONE COULD FORCE HIM TO STAY.

HE FLAT OUT REFUSED. IT WAS TOO FAR FROM HOME, AND HE DID NOT LIKE THE MOUNTAINS. HE HAD SPENT ENOUGH TIME THERE WHILE IN LOCKUP. HE WOULDN'T EVEN GIVE IT A CHANCE. SO I TOLD HIM HE HAD TO GET OUT.

HE WAS ONLY GONE FOR THREE DAYS WHEN THE UNIDENTIFIED MANS BODY WAS DISCOVERED IN DOWNINGTOWN. MY BIGGEST FEAR WAS THAT IT WAS BRANDON.

I HADN'T HEARD ANYTHING FROM HIM OR EVEN TAMMY. I WAS WORRIED SICK. IT WAS THE COLDEST WEEK WE HAD HAD ALL WINTER WITH TEMPERATURES DIPPING BELOW ZERO. I IMAGINED THE WORST.

LATER IN THE DAY THEY GAVE AN APPROXIMATE AGE OF THE MAN, AND I QUICKLY REALIZED IT COULDN'T BE MY SON.

I WAS SO RELIEVED, BUT NOT FOR VERY LONG.