June 7, 1994 - Jack Ray Pleads Guilty to Child Abduction

Jack Ray's Guilty Plea (Page 1)
June 7, 1994
Superior Court of the State of California
and for the County of Orange

Jack Ray's Guilty Plea (Page 2)
June 7, 1994
Superior Court of the State of California
and for the County of Orange

On March 13, 2004, Riverside County Social Worker Donah Freeman presented her report to Judge Becky Dugan based upon lies that this document doesn't exist.

Item #20 reads as follows:
I offer my plea of "Guilty" freely and voluntarily and with full understanding of all the matters set forth in the pleading and in this form.  No one has made any threats, used any force against myself, family or loved ones, or made any promises to me except as set out in this form, in order to convince me to plead guilty.

Item #21 reads as follows (emphasis added):
I offer to the court the following facts as the basis for my plea of guilty to a felony:
That between Sept. 26, 1993 and Jan 1994 I did unlawfully in violation of a physical custody order of the court, take and detain, conceal and retain (redacted), a child age 2, after the expiration of a visitation order with the intent to deprive (redacted), his natural mother, of her physical custody rights.

Yes, that is Jack Ray's dated signature under that statement and not the victim's, so it is not clear how Donah Freeman and Riverside County came to the conclusion they've defended for eight years that Jack's subsequent incarceration was the victim's fault.


On March 13, 2004, Riverside County Social Worker Donah Freeman presented her report to Judge Becky Dugan that the crime to which Jack Ray pleaded guilty never occurred.  She unquestioningly accepted Jack Ray's explanation that he had merely gone on a vacation that weekend in September, 1993, and the only reason he was subsequently arrested in Nevada, extradited to Orange County, prosecuted for Domestic Assault (NM9307973) and Child Abduction, and subsequently sentenced to 180 days in Orange County Jail was because the victim of his crime selfishly reported the matter to the Fullerton Police Department (FPD Case #93-15109 and #93-15124).

That might sound plausible to social workers or Riverside County Supervisors, but it doesn't to intelligent people.

Donah Freeman - Either you deliberately perjured yourself in court on March 13, 2004, or you simply represent a very special kind of stupid....  a kind that is dangerous and criminal.


Following Jack's guilty plea (and detailed confession to the Los Angeles Police Department) he was sentenced on December 16, 1994.

These are easily verifiable facts for even a novice investigator to independently verify.
Superior Court of California in Orange County


For some reason Supervisor John Tavaglione and Riverside County have accepted, embraced and defended the lies Donah Freeman presented to the Court on behalf of Jack Ray on March 13, 2004.

I personally brought this lie to Supervisor Tavaglione's attention when I met with him and his assistant Anne Stephens in the Supervisor's office in April, 2004.  In the nearly nine years since that first meeting Supervisor Tavaglione has yet to acknowledge that the County lied about Jack Ray's 1993 case of felony Child Abduction, and that it is absolutely contradicted by the documented case history by the responsible law enforcement agencies.

Supervisor John Tavaglione's contact information is here.  I wonder if he is ready to admit Riverside County DPSS acted improperly yet.