Mom Bailed out of Prison; MSM Covering Her Story
Case Heading to Supreme Court & Legislature
Kalea, a Colorado mother of three, is in the news—again. She has been in the news on and off, when not in prison, since she started to speak out publicly four years ago.
MSM is covering her case anew because a pro bono attorney generously bailed her out of prison and is appealing her case to the Colorado Supreme Court. They are also working with Senator Barb Kirkmeyer on legislation to make gag orders less restrictive.
Kalea had been sentenced to 2 years on bogus findings that she violated a Family Court gag order. She was thrown in prison without means of contacting attorneys, having been told the gag order restricted her from talking about her case to even an attorney.
That’s a Family Court twofer: the gag order enabled the judge to throw her in prison and to keep her from getting an attorney to appeal the unjust order.
But let’s not get in the weeds too much about the gag order. Gag orders are just one of the many methods used to silence mothers and cover up abuse by fathers, most frequently sexual abuse, as in Kalea’s case.
Instead, let’s talk about what led up to Kalea’s judge issuing the sham gag order in the first place. MSM is not covering this part of her story.
THE COVER UP
In 2017, all three of Kalea’s young girls began telling her and others about how their father was sexually abusing them. They told CPS and other professionals in horrific detail about their father’s serial sexual assaults. At first CPS sided with the children, substantiating the abuse.
Then the cover up began in Family Court, which Judge Natalie Chase dutifully oversaw, appointing a GAL/minor’s counsel and therapist to aid and abet. CPS became an active colluder, eventually filing a parental termination case against Kalea, finding she had falsely accused her ex which caused emotional harm to her children.
As the girls continued to to tell mandated reporters, Judge Chase refused to investigate the disclosures. Instead, Judge Chase and her minions made it clear to Kalea that if the “allegations” of abuse continued, she would lose custody. As this sword of Damocles hung over her head, the girls continued to tell about the disturbing assaults to police, teachers, a principal and a dance instructor.
My daughters have made many outcries of sexual abuse by their father and there is overwhelming evidence of abuse.
THE TAKING & BRAINWASHING
In 2019, in predictable fashion, Damocle’s sword fell.
Judge Chase took her children away completely, no contact at all, and gave the father sole custody. This made them vulnerable to coercive persuasion, i.e. brainwashing, a common tactic used to silence children, damage or destroy their bond with their mother, and break their will to live with her.
There was never a plan to reunite my daughters and I, only a plan to sever and destroy a loving mother/child bond.
This removal of children from their primary bond often leads to life-long trauma symptoms, commonly manifesting as depression, anxiety and dissociative disorders. But judges do not care about children’s or mothers’ mental health. They are there to maintain fathers’ age-old power, control, and prerogative to sexually abuse their own children.
The pain of living through this court process has been so unbearable that the only way I have been able to cope is to mask the pain by acting strong.
Judge Cruella Chase made sure to add to Kalea’s pain by saying, “Wait until your children turn 18—they will say ‘Bye bye, I am done with you!’”
GOING PUBLIC
With no other option in sight, and like so many mothers before and after her, Kalea went public. A petition garnered nearly 10K signatures; the public was horrified; MSM reported on her compelling case.
But Judge Chase responded to the intense public pressure to do the right thing by ratcheting up the cover up. A loss of public face was apparently less concerning than not going along with the OBN [Old Boy Network] agenda to cover up and enable paternal sexual assault.
Chase issued a gag order and inducted a colleague, Judge Elizabeth Volz, to sentence Kalea to 5 months in jail for slander. Judges often aid and abet each other in punishing and silencing mothers who dare try to protect their children from sexual abuse.
But Kalea had not slandered anyone. It was she who was being mercilessly slandered by judges and court officials painting her a liar and mentally ill, when she was clearly and provably neither. She was also falsely accused of coaching, alienating, and being emotionally abusive to her girls, when she had only ever been a loving, nurturing, wonderful mother.
In order for the cover up to succeed, the girls were kept away from anyone who believed them, including the maternal family, friends, schools, teachers and even a dance instructor one of the girls had told about the abuse.
Some time after this, Kalea was sentenced to 2 years in prison on the bogus finding of having violated the gag order. But she lucked out when, nine months into her sentence, a pro bono attorney put up her bail.
It is unclear what has happened with her children since the gag order was issued, as Kalea stopped speaking out. Appeals are public, so she is able to speak out about the gag order aspect of her case. Hopefully she is at least able to visit with them.
MISINFORMATION BY PPO’S
A conglomerate of Protective/Safe Parent organizations [PPO’S] in the U.S. hosted an “advocacy session” last week regarding the misuse of gag orders. They advertised the problem as courts using gag orders to silence “safe parents” and “protectors”.
This is misleading. It is misinformation. It is not good advocacy for mothers.
The truth is, there is no problem of safe “parents” or “protectors” being silenced with gag orders in Family Court. The only real problem in Family Court is women in their role as mothers being silenced with gag orders to cover up abuse by men in their role as fathers. A previous column, “Down the Abuse Rabbit Hole”, goes into depth about this deflection.
The Custody Crisis is most definitely gendered and Kalea’s case is a perfect example. Judges issuing gag orders on loving fathers to silence them about a mother’s abuse, especially sexual abuse, is so rare as to not even be a thing.
It is important to identify systemic discrimination against women is causing mothers to lose custody because the only way we will have enough power to stop it is to unite as women, as half the population. Women must band together under a shared set of facts, and fight the source of the crisis: structural sexism.
Join The Women’s Coalition to help end the Custody Crisis.
Kudos to Kalea for staying strong despite the torture inflicted on her.
NOTE: The information in this column comes from public sources from years ago, before the gag order was issued.
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Thank you for sharing truth on this story 🙏Kalea and I were very good friends and so were our children. She was one of the most loving mothers I have ever seen.
Natalie Chase used to work for/with acdhs before becoming a district judge. They have a code word “needs a mental health eval” to prevent people with evidence that the county would be financially liable for when a child is abused (perjury, false reporting, falsifying evidence etc) called State Created Danger. I was vetted and approved in Chases court/district 18 in 2017-18. Then in 2020-21 acdhs completely perjured the court to hide their previous perjury from 2016-17 from being exposed. I called Natalie, she was interested in seeing my copy of the cps reports showing that acdhs had lied to her in court and my grandchild was placed with one of her abusers and asked if I wanted to retain her.