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Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 15:48:39 -0700
From: radtimes <resist@best.com>
Subject: The Whole World's Watching an Admitted Child Abuser
From: smythe@ojai.net
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Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001
Subject: The Whole World's Watching an Admitted Child Abuser
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To Robbin Henderson, Executive Director:
As you prepare to open your exhibit on the 60's & 70's, you may want
to know who the real Marshall W. Krause is. I suggest you read the
following about this man, an admitted child abuser. In addition to
making your skin crawl, you might want to reconsider his participation
in your event.
The issues related to the Krause case and the Karen Winner
investigation of Marin County Family Court have been reported in over
50 articles in every major bay area newspaper for the past 1-1/2
years. Thosepapers include the Chronicle, the Examiner, the SF
Weekly, the Pacific Sun, the Marin IJ, and the Novato
Advance. Further the story has been covered in the the National Law
Journal, the SF & LA editions of the Daily Journal legal news and the
Marin Court Reporter. KCAL-9 TV in LA did a three part expose on this
case last November.
Before you include a man whose present has betrayed his past you must
know:
WHO IS MARSHALL KRAUSE
Marshall Krause is the former Counsel, Board Member and Fundraiser for
the ACLU of Northern California; Past President of the Marin County
Bar Association and partner (of counsel) in the firm of Krause &
Baskin.
In 1998 Mr. Krause pled "No Contest" to WIC Section 300 (a) & (b)
charges of child abuse and endangerment for actions against his own
daughter, Alanna Krause, in Los Angeles
Juvenile Court. There is also a Domestic Violence Restraining against
Mr. Krause, issued by Ventura County Superior Court in 1997 and
renewed again in 2000.
Welfare and Institutions Code 300, (a) and (b) states in relevant
part: " (a) the minor has suffered, or there is substantial risk that
the minor will suffer, serious physical harm inflicted non
accidentally upon the minor by the minor's parent... and (b) there
must be evidence that the child is exposed to a substantial risk of
serious physical harm or illness."
The LA ruling was based on numerous incidents of Mr. Krause's abuse,
which occurred over many years and his inappropriate past and planned
placement of a healthy child in a locked, out of state facility.
All charges were investigated by LA social services, who reported that
incidents of abuse had been brought to the attention of Marin Child
Protective Services nine times and Marin Family Court (Commissioner
Sylvia Shapiro), who had failed to take appropriate action.
The LA investigation report was a month long, impartial examination of
the Alanna Krause's charges against her father and included testimony
and hundreds of pages of evidence.
It reported the evaluation by Dr. Ed Oklan was lacking professionalism
and it and the rulings by Commissioner Shapiro were based on "tainted"
reports offered by Mr. Krause's family therapist, Lana Clark, LCSW,
who had been involved in a "relationship of an intimate nature" with
Krause at the time.
Karen Winner reported that Commissioner Shapiro, the attorney she
appointed for the minor, Sandra Acevedo, Ed Oklan, Lana Clark and
Marin CPS all knew about the abuse and should be investigated for
their conspiracy to cover it up.
Note Federal law, Title 18 of the US Code, Obstruction of Justice:
"Whoever knowingly... uses intimidation, force, threatens or corruptly
persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in
misleading conduct, harasses another person and thereby delays,
prevents or hinders another person, with the intent to influence,
delay or withhold testimony, evade the legal process."
In her Op-Ed piece for both the SF and LA Editions of the Daily
Journal, Alanna Krause had this to say about her father, Marshall
Krause:
http:www.leadershipcouncil.org/Research/PAS/PAS4/pas4.html
"My father is an abuser, and living with him was a mental and physical
hell and definitely not in my best interests. Yet, in Marin Family
Court, that seemed to be irrelevant..."
"My father, a wealthy and well connected lawyer, used his influence
and money to manipulate the system..."
"The judge, Sylvia Shapiro-Pritchard, an admitted long-time friend of
my father's, rubber-stamped any order my father requested. I wrote the
judge letters, called her office and did everything I could to make
myself heard. She ignored my pleas. I had no rights."
"Finally, one day my father threw me into a stone wall at school and a
teacher called Child Protective Services..."
"...My father panicked. He had worked so hard to build a delicate set
of lies to present himself as the well-meaning parent... The truth
was his worst fear..."
"Acting quickly, he had my therapist, his lover (Lana Clark), suddenly
decide I was dangerously troubled and needed to be locked up. So I,
an 11-year old straight-A student who
had never tried sex, drugs or alcohol, nor ever been in a fight, found
myself in an out of state lock down facility with 17-year old
drug-dealing gang-banging street kids.
I was beaten up, taunted and was blocked from communicating with the
outside world. I was forced into therapy where they tried to
brainwash me into believing my mother was insane, that my father's
drug use didn't exist and that the abuse my father inflicted on me was
all in my head."
17-year old Alanna Krause now lives in safety with her mother.
She is a National Merit Scholar and scored a perfect 800 on her SAT
verbal exam.)
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