MugShot Mamas: The Epidemic of Mothers Being Incarcerated
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Countless mothers are being incarcerated as a direct result of attempting to maintain custody or protect their children.
It is an epidemic within the pandemic of mothers unjustly losing custody.
Just last week and last month two mothers’ cases were featured: Rabia and Katie. They are still sitting in jail. Another brave mama, Jaime, is being profiled today. They’ve all been charged with kidnapping.
However, even more mothers are being jailed for contempt of court, when they simply refuse to obey a judge’s order that endangers their child. Or for not paying the father child support. Or for violating a gag order. Or for not paying the exorbitant evaluator or minor’s counsel fees. Or for no valid reason at all. Just because Family Court judges can.
The Women’s Coalition has posted and heard about hundreds of mothers who’ve been incarcerated. So we are starting a “MugShot Mamas” campaign today to raise awareness about this horrific state of affairs and to pay tribute to all the brave mothers who’ve endured this persecution. [See below].
Jaime is one of the many and she is facing a criminal trial as we speak…
JAIME’S STORY
Jaime was born and raised in Louisiana. That is where she received her doctorate in pharmacology.
She dated a man who is also a doctor from Louisiana. He specializes in OB/GYN medicine and started a practice in northern Texas.
Jaime gave birth to their son, Jrue, in 2019, however, they did not marry. When Jrue was two, they separated.
Jrue would come home from visits with his father with behavioral and emotional problems. He would have anxiety. He would hide under furniture. He would be sick. He would be afraid at bath time.
In July of 2023, when he was not quite 4-years-old, Little Jrue told his mom about his father sexually abusing him. Jaime was horrified. She had not suspected that was the cause of his problems after visits with his father.
She took him to New Orleans Children’s Hospital where he disclosed the sexual abuse to a forensic interviewer. He described in detail what his father was doing with his front and back private parts. He said it happened often.
Jaime reported the sexual abuse to the police and CPS. She got a restraining order against him.
HIDING??
Jaime moved to Eastern Louisiana. She did not tell her ex where she was as she had a restraining order against him. So it is hard to describe what she did as going into hiding, much less abduction.
Jaime’s ex filed for custody in Texas and claimed she was keeping Jrue from him. He was granted sole custody and procured a criminal arrest warrant. He was able to get the US Marshals involved since it was an interstate case.
The DOJ, with their unlimited resources and law enforcement talent, did zero investigating before taking on the case. They never do. They know what their job is: to get the child back to the rightful owner. No matter that child told about being sexually abused by him.
Jaime was found, arrested, and charged with felony “kidnapping” just a few months later in October of 2023. Jrue was sent to live his identified molester.
PROSECUTION
Back in New Orleans, Jaime had to sit in jail for a couple months before being able to get out on bond. It’s just not enough of a punishment if a mom can bail out right away.
As usual, the New Orleans D.A. is going forward with the sham prosecution despite the evidence of sexual abuse and Jaime’s clear intent to protect her child. This lack of malicious intent is supposed to be a case breaker. It is, or should be, an element of the crime. But that principle goes out the window in cases where women/mothers run to protect children from men/fathers, i.e. interfere with men’s power over “his” children.
In fact, prosecutors and judges often go through contortions to exclude evidence of abuse and anything that supports the mother had good intentions when fleeing. They come up with all sorts of tricks, sometimes through jury instructions that tie the hands of jury members so they cannot acquit.
It is unclear if that is happening in Jaime’s case, or to what extent if it is. What is clear is that Jaime has not been allowed to see Jrue at all since he was taken away in October of 2023—not even supervised. Shameful but typical.
TAKEAWAYS
Being incarcerated is really the worst case scenario for victims of the Custody Crisis (on top of losing children), whether having to be confined to a cell for weeks, months, or years.
Federal law enforcement, local police, D.A.’s, CPS, and attorneys often go along with the cover up of the father’s abuse as they have in Jaime’s case—especially when the father is high status, such as a doctor. In fact, the higher the socioeconomic status, the harder it seems to be for mothers to protect their children.
When trying to figure out wtf is going on—why would all those professionals participate in the unthinkable cover up of child sexual abuse—you need to back up and look at the big picture. Think power—as always. Locking up the mother is the penultimate means of empowering the man/father and disempowering the woman/mother. It quite literally gets rid of her—that insubordinate female interfering with a man’s power in “his” family over “his” children—the man’s power to take/abuse/molest/rape/profit/whatever…
Incarcerating incalcitrant women serves many purposes. It aims to punish, intimidate, threaten, and terrorize them—the uppity, insubordinate women who dare interfere with men’s entitlement in the family. It is arguably the sharpest tool in the Old Boys’ toolbox.
The fact that thousands of mothers are being incarcerated everywhere, with everyone involved colluding to cover up the father’s abuse, demonstrates that this is not an individual case anomaly. It is systemic—multi-systemic.
It’s important to note that this does not happen to men. Incarceration is not used to punish, disempower, and silence men who are trying to maintain custody or protect their children from a mother. That. does. not. happen.
So ditch the gender neutral explanations. The Incarceration Epidemic Is Gendered.
WHAT’S NEXT
Jaime’s trial got started in December in New Orleans Criminal Court. It will continue and hopefully come to an end with an acquittal on April 4th.
If you’re interested in attending virtually or in person to support Jaime, email womenscoalition@gmail.com.
NOTE: Details in this story were taken from other media sources and are based on information and belief.
IN OTHER NEWS
MUGSHOT MAMAS
We are starting a “MugShot Mamas” campaign. Collages of mugshots will be created to bring awareness to this terrorizing of mothers, subset of the larger Custody Crisis.
As well as raising awareness, MugShot Mamas will serve as a tribute to the courageous mothers who’ve had to endure this form of torture for simply doing what every mother is expected to do: care for and protect her children.
If the public finds out about this Incarceration Epidemic, they will be outraged. So, if you have had a mugshot taken, please submit it. You can put it in the comments below or send it to womenscoalitionintl@gmail.com.
And be sure and share with your all your friends to get the word out to all the mothers who’ve been wrongly incarcerated!
UPDATE ON RABIA’S CASE
Rabia’s “fugitive from justice” extradition from Colorado to Louisiana hearing was continued to May.
There is a preliminary hearing this Friday on the kidnapping and related charges. Seems Colorado wants to prosecute her first for kidnapping before extraditing.
For more information about Rabia’s case see:
Mom Captured After 7 Years in Hiding
CHAPTER 28 NEXT SECTION IS OUT!
It’s August '92 and Legion’s third custody trial is underway. She is pro se, doing a stellar job on direct examination of her many witnesses. She’s getting exhibits and documents on the record that correct the lies and omissions she still naïvely believes led the judge to wrongly switch custody to Herry. She’s irked that a children’s attorney was not appointed for her boys, not realizing yet that judges only appoint ones who steer the case to the father and ignore ones who don’t.
Legion has many friends in the gallery, including Tsianina, a Native American who’s alerted her to “the Look” Judge Butcher would give Herry and his attorney—the same one Indians would notice when up against the white man in court. She recognizes “the Look” that that is a tip-off to the truth—that it is just a show trial and she did not have a “snowball’s chance in hell” of winning custody back.
On the third day of trial, halfway into direct examinations of her 15 witnesses, Legion comes down with the stomach flu and asks for the day off. Instead, the judge sticks it to her by scheduling it for two months later—another two months she will not see her precious boys, another year they will be starting school five states away...
In the last section of Chapter 28, Legion gets to sneakily see her oldest son Zane every weekend for a month when he comes to Iowa for a visit, staying with her mother—but only because he did not give his grandmother Herry’s note directing her to keep him away from Legion. She is so pleased to have that little bit of time with one of her children. She has not seen or heard from the others.
Legion is busy pro se for the third Family Court trial, along with her multiple jobs. She is doing discovery, organizing witnesses, and filing all necessary documents timely and properly, including subpoenas. She is miffed that Herry’s shiesty attorney unscrupulously obtained her therapy records without giving her time to object to the subpoena.
CHAPTER 28 of Mother-Fucking: The Saga of One Fucked Mother begins with Act III, Part 4 of “The Opera” from Book 3. The Opera has three Acts with five Parts—one for each of the three Family Court and two Appellate Court trials. Chapter 28 covers all of Act III: Part 4: the third Family Court trial and Part 5: the second Appellate trial. This is a long chapter and will be published in newsletter-sized bites.
Dr. Blue’s novel is based on her own experience of the Custody Crisis. It uniquely conveys how Family Court judges are “mother-fucking” women—a form of systemic oppression—as protagonist Legion is systematically and methodically deprived of her children and money and reduced to “one fucked mother”.
Chapters are stand-alone interesting so you can begin reading anywhere. A Cast of Characters follows to help readers at any point. All published chapters are included in the Section: “Saga of One F**ked Mother” accessible on the top bar of the home page of Women’s Coalition News & Views. Sequential chapters are published every Wednesday so make sure to subscribe if you haven’t yet!
TEASERS
That was the basic substance behind the Indian’s definition of The Look, “You, Legion True, you don’t have my, Tsianina’s, proverbial Snowball’s chance in Mother‑Fucking Hell, Woman! You don’t! You do not! You are ooooone fucked mama.”
Meanwhile––meanwhile what does this delay mean for all of us Fucked Mothers on Trial?! Our children grow older; they grow up. They friggin’ grow all the fuck up. They continue to grow up––without us. Mirzah, Jesse and Zane got older and older and did all sorts of seventh, eighth and high school grades’ things and I, their ma, was still––still … to them … invisible.
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Family court judges have the power to do what they want. Women are frequently jailed and put in psychiatric institutions for trying to protect their children. Patriarchy rules family court. Women are often emotionally, physically and financially harmed. Photographs demonstrate their suffering. Family court judges enable men. They endanger women and children. Women must continue to fight for a new system. A jury would give women and children a chance at justice. Family court judges abuse their power. They must no longer have the power to do so.
Jamie and I have united in the pain of losing our sons to their alleged abusers. She is my idol when it comes to speaking her truth and telling her story and giving other moms the strength to do the same. Love you girl!