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http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/Research/PAS/PAS4/pas4.html
Walter Teague, LICSW, LCSW-C
Clinical page: http://www.erols.com/wteague
Political page: http://www.redandgreen.org
sixties@lists.village.virginia.edu wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
> :
>
> ::
> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001
> Subject: The Whole World's Watching an Admitted Child Abuser
> :
>
> 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.)
-- "That old law which says an eye-for-an eye and a tooth-for-a-tooth will eventually leave everybody blind and toothless."-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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