Nine Years Later and Supervisor Tavaglione is Still Allowing his Constituents to be Victimized

"Investigators don’t properly consider past history, such as parents’ criminal records, when looking into allegations of child abuse and neglect in Riverside County, according to a grand jury report."


Yes.

More than nine years after Riverside County's so-called "investigators" kinda sorta forgot to mention that Jack Ray had a documented history of violent family crimes (see Orange County court case #NM9307973) this is still going on.

More than nine years after Riverside County's so-called "investigators" kinda sorta forgot to mention that Jack Ray pled guilty to felony Child Abduction this is still going on.

More than nine years after Riverside County's so-called "investigators" kinda sorta forgot to mention that Jack Ray voluntarily gave a detailed confession (in which he admitted knowing there was a specific court order that prohibited his little "vacation") this is still going on.

More than nine years after Riverside County's so-called "investigators" kinda sorta forgot to mention that Jack Ray voluntarily admitted knowing there was a warrant for his arrest stemming from August 24, 1993, assault (that contradicted the County's characterization of his his hateful, violent crimes as merely a vacation) this is still going on.

More than nine years after Riverside County's so-called "investigators" kinda sorta forgot to mention that Jack Ray had refused to pay even minimal Court-Order child support obligations for 11 years this is still going on.

More than nine years after Riverside County's so-called "investigators" committed multiple acts of perjury in Superior Court on behalf of the unemployed violent felon Jack Ray and gave him custody of the child he hadn't been supporting for over 11 years (well, in all fairness to Jack, he had been in Orange County Jail for a couple of months as a result of some crimes he committed), these indefensible and inexcusable crimes are still going on!

From the July 8, 2013, online edition of the Press-Enterprise:
Riverside County: Grand Jury Criticizes Child Protective Services


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RIVERSIDE COUNTY: Grand jury criticizes Child Protective Services

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BY JEFF HORSEMAN 

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July 08, 2013; 04:37 PM 

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• WEBLINK Grand Jury report on Riverside County Child Protective Services
• WEBLINK Riverside County Social Services website

Investigators don’t properly consider past history, such as parents’ criminal records, when looking into allegations of child abuse and neglect in Riverside County, according to a grand jury report.

The report released last week also found heavy caseloads for investigators in the Child Protective Services unit of the county Department of Social Services. In addition, the jury found that families aren’t properly told how to file a complaint and that some social workers lack required training.

In an email, county spokesman Ray Smith wrote: “Riverside County will thoroughly review the findings and recommendations and will respond to the report after that review has been completed.
“A written response will then go to the Board of Supervisors and then be forwarded to the grand jury within the time frame specified by law.”

Yes.
Riverside County's constituents should believe Ray Smith when he says the County is going to resolve these problems.  Because John Tavaglione and the other impotent and corrupt supervisors have known about this type of misconduct by their so-called "investigators" for over nine years, but now they're Serious You Guys!

I'm sure the same incompetent clowns who have concealed, enabled and perpetuated their County's crimes since March, 2004, are now going to Get RIght On It!
Serious, You Guys!

“Sworn testimony revealed that (CPS) has not diligently considered all the law enforcement calls to the homes where dependent children reside, which limits their ability to access all factors related to the children’s safety,” the report read, adding that social workers have limited access to law enforcement records.

“Testimony revealed not all social workers investigate fully into the criminal history of adults living in the home, nor do they investigate the medical, psychological, or school records of children with ongoing neglect and abuse complaints,” the grand jury found.

Social workers said “they are overloaded with cases and cannot properly evaluate the cases assigned to them,” the report read. Some said they had 40 cases and were “overloaded” with paperwork, including seven to 14 reports a month and court reports that take, on average, 6 hours per report to write, the report added."

Yeah...

Social "workers" like Sensitive Ben Slagter, and Teresa 'Jack's-crying-so-this-must-be-true' Solomon-Billngs, who refuse to read police reports and court records that contradict their preferred narrative are actually the victims here.  Did you catch that?  Read it again.  Essentially they told the Grand Jury's investigators it wasn't their fault.  They were "overloaded," and investigators didn't have time to, you know, investigate!  So that's why they felt it was perfectly acceptable to lie and kidnap children from victims of domestic violence, deny the families Due Process and permanently deprive mothers of their God-given parental rights.

And even though Tavaglione and the County have known about this since as long ago as April, 2004, these crimes have been allowed to continue, and children are still being endangered and families are still suffering irreparable harm.

So it isn't their fault the County's social workers chose to lie...  they're the victims!

Serious, You Guys!

Jack Ray's Confession, Part IV

JACK RAY CONFESSED TO CHILD ABDUCTION

AUGUST 24, 1994

Los Angeles Police Department Disciplinary Hearings into his Mother's Involvement in the Unlawful 1993 Abduction and Concealment of the Child Jack Would Subsequently Refuse to Support for 10 Years

As a reminder:  On June 7, 1994, Jack Ray pleaded guilty to felony Child Abduction in the Superior Court of the State of California in Orange County.  On December 16, 1994, he was sentenced to 180 days in Orange County Jail and three years of Formal Probation.

For Context, On August 24, 1993, Jack Ray violently assaulted his child's mother in front of their 12-month-old child as well as adult witnesses.

On September 9, 1993, The Superior Court of the State of California in Orange County issued a Protective Order which prohibited the abduction Jack claimed was merely a "vacation."

SINCE MARCH, 2004, JOHN TAVAGLIONE AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY HAVE DEFENDED THE LIE THAT THIS DOCUMENT DOESN'T EXIST, AND THAT JACK'S HATEFUL ACTS OF VIOLENTLY ASSAULTING HIS CHILD'S MOTHER, VIOLATING THE COURT ORDER, FLEEING FROM DETECTIVE ALLRED'S ARREST WARRANT AND LEAVING THE STATE WITH ALL OF HIS BELONGINGS ON TWO TRUCKS WERE MERELY A "VACATION"

Jack Ray's Confession, Part III

JACK RAY CONFESSED TO CHILD ABDUCTION

AUGUST 24, 1994

Los Angeles Police Department Disciplinary Hearings into his Mother's Involvement in the Unlawful 1993 Abduction and Concealment of the Child Jack Would Subsequently Refuse to Support for 10 Years

As a reminder:  On June 7, 1994, Jack Ray pleaded guilty to felony Child Abduction in the Superior Court of the State of California in Orange County.  On December 16, 1994, he was sentenced to 180 days in Orange County Jail and three years of Formal Probation.

For Context, On August 24, 1993, Jack Ray violently assaulted his child's mother in front of their 12-month-old child as well as adult witnesses.

On September 9, 1993, The Superior Court of the State of California in Orange County issued a Protective Order which prohibited the abduction Jack claimed was merely a "vacation."

SINCE MARCH, 2004, JOHN TAVAGLIONE AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY HAVE DEFENDED THE LIE THAT THIS DOCUMENT DOESN'T EXIST, AND THAT JACK'S HATEFUL ACTS OF VIOLENTLY ASSAULTING HIS CHILD'S MOTHER, VIOLATING THE COURT ORDER, FLEEING FROM DETECTIVE ALLRED'S ARREST WARRANT AND LEAVING THE STATE WITH ALL OF HIS BELONGINGS ON TWO TRUCKS WERE MERELY A "VACATION"

Jack Ray's Confession, Part II

Jack Ray Confessed to Child Abduction

August 24, 1994

Los Angeles Police Department Disciplinary Hearings into his Mother's Involvement in the Unlawful 1993 Abduction and Concealment of the Child Jack Would Subsequently Refuse to Support for 10 Years

Pay Particular Attention to Page 387, Line 6 - 8

Jack Admits Knowing There Was a Warrant for his Arrest Stemming From the August 24, 1993, Assault on his Child's Mother.

As a reminder:  On June 7, 1994, Jack Ray pleaded guilty to felony Child Abduction in the Superior Court of the State of California in Orange County.  On December 16, 1994, he was sentenced to 180 days in Orange County Jail and three years of Formal Probation.

For Context, On August 24, 1993, Jack Ray violently assaulted his child's mother in front of their 12-month-old child as well as adult witnesses.

On September 9, 1993, The Superior Court of the State of California in Orange County issued a Protective Order which prohibited the abduction Jack claimed was merely a "vacation."

SINCE MARCH, 2004, JOHN TAVAGLIONE AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY HAVE DEFENDED THE LIE THAT THIS DOCUMENT DOESN'T EXIST, AND THAT JACK'S HATEFUL ACTS OF VIOLENTLY ASSAULTING HIS CHILD'S MOTHER, VIOLATING THE COURT ORDER, FLEEING FROM DETECTIVE ALLRED'S ARREST WARRANT AND LEAVING THE STATE WITH ALL OF HIS BELONGINGS ON TWO TRUCKS WERE MERELY A "VACATION"

Line 6 thru 8 - Jack Admits Knowing About the Arrest Warrant

Jack Ray's Confession, Part I

Jack Ray Confessed to Child Abduction

August 24, 1994

Los Angeles Police Department Disciplinary Hearings into his Mother's Involvement in the Unlawful 1993 Abduction and Concealment of the Child Jack Would Subsequently Refuse to Support for 10 Years

As a reminder:  On June 7, 1994, Jack Ray pleaded guilty to felony Child Abduction in the Superior Court of the State of California in Orange County.  On December 16, 1994, he was sentenced to 180 days in Orange County Jail and three years of Formal Probation.

For Context, On August 24, 1993, Jack Ray violently assaulted his child's mother in front of their 12-month-old child as well as adult witnesses.

On September 9, 1993, The Superior Court of the State of California in Orange County issued a Protective Order which prohibited the abduction Jack claimed was merely a "vacation."

SINCE MARCH, 2004, JOHN TAVAGLIONE AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY HAVE DEFENDED THE LIE THAT THIS DOCUMENT DOESN'T EXIST, AND THAT JACK'S HATEFUL ACTS OF VIOLENTLY ASSAULTING HIS CHILD'S MOTHER, VIOLATING THE COURT ORDER, FLEEING FROM DETECTIVE ALLRED'S ARREST WARRANT AND LEAVING THE STATE WITH ALL OF HIS BELONGINGS ON TWO TRUCKS WERE MERELY A "VACATION"

October 24, 1994 - Part IV

October 24, 1994

Orange County Superior Court

Case #93P4783

Part IV

As the Hearing wound down Jack Ray was trying to persuade the Court that he could be trusted with visitation, even though he had just been convicted of violently assaulting his child's mother, pled guilty to felony Child Abduction (June 7, 1994) but wouldn't be sentenced until December 16, 1994.

Here on Page 34 Jack tries to give casual, stupid listeners (I'm looking at you, Teresa Solomon-Billings) the impression he is accepting some nominal degree of responsibility for his hateful, criminal actions towards his child's mother.

Page 34, Line 12:  (The Court speaking)  "Did you not plead guilty to some assault on Plaintiff?

Mr. Ray:  No I did not.

Mr Giddens (Plaintiff's legal counsel):  He was found guilty of it, your Honor.

Mr. Ray:  Well, It's under appeal, your Honor.  That sin was forgiven on September 9th when they ordered three and a half days to me on that day."

The Court:  The sin was not forgiven if -- if you assaulted her."

On April 8, 2004, Riverside County social "worker" Sensitive Ben Slagter furnished a report to Judge Becky Dugan in which he knowingly, willingly and completely failed to address all of the dishonest claims Jack presented to Teresa Solomon-Billings 22 days before.  Slagter's fairy tale included a report from a contracted psychologist who reviewed the false narrative and -- shocked face! -- agreed that Jack must be an ideal parent.

Now intelligent readers must wonder what Dr. Ryan's "professional opinion" would have been if Slagter had actually done investigative work and gave the doctor the facts of the case alongside the falsifications reported by Solomon-Billings?  In this matter here from October 24, 1994, what does it say about Jack that he tells the Court his "sin" has been "forgiven" because he was found guilty, was sentenced to jail and served time in jail?  A realistic evaluation of Jack's mentality would surely reveal that he has no remorse or sense of personal responsibility for his actions.  This is still a dangerously unstable person who was in no way fit to be left alone in the presence of a child.

Isolated incident?

Poor choice of words?

Jack's arguing with the Court continued (emetic warning, Lines 9 and 10):

Page 35, Line 2 and 3:

"I'm not playing games.  I haven't played any games since last year when my mistake happened."

Does this sound like a person accepting responsibility for their actions?

Not only was his violent assault merely a 'mistake'...

Not only was his conscientious act of violating a Court Order merely a 'mistake'...

Not only was his planned and prepared abduction of a child merely a 'mistake'...

...these were things that just 'happened,' and he had no involvement in the decision making process at all.

Page 35, Line 22 thru 24:  (Jack Ray speaking):  "On that matter I don't want her address then.  I don't want her to accuse me of knowing where she is.  I'm sorry."

I give you Jack Ray, Professional Victim.

He beat her up.

He violated the Court Order.

He abducted her son.

But she is the mean, scary antagonist because she reported it and caused him inconvenience.

He's scared he might be victimized again by her reporting his crimes to the police.

October 24, 1994 - Part III

October 24, 1994

Orange County Superior Court

Case #93P4783

Part III

As the hearing continued the Court began to discuss the possibility of wonderful father Jack Ray resuming visitation with the son he feloniously abducted.  As the model of perfect behavior himself, Jack begins this page by insulting his child's mother because, you know, he set such a great example of reliability and trustworthiness.

At this point the reader should remember what Jack's mother -- the disgraced LAPD officer Sherry Ray -- had been shown to have done as a result of the LAPD internal investigation into her actions of aiding her son in the commission of felony Child Abduction.

Page 15 of this record needs to be read in its 

entirety to fully grasp how dysfunctional Jack Ray and Sherry Ray are.  

On Page 15, Line 2, Jack testified that he had been estranged from his own father for 10 years.  This admission strongly suggests Sherry Ray has a pattern of Parental Alienation.

When Riverside County decided to place a child in the full-time care of the unemployed violent felon Jack Ray they should have completed a Social Background section of their investigation to determine -- among other things -- 1)  why had Sherry divorced from Jack's father, 2)  Why had Jack become "estranged" from his own biological father.

On line 4 Jack commits perjury when he once again is trying to blame his child's mother for the consequences of his own criminal misconduct.  "I have to say in her defense the only allegations came from (redacted)'s mouth.  It's ridiculous.  She got a lot of time off.  My mom has been suspended just based solely on her allegation.  No evidence submitted at all.  I'm supporting her right now."

How noble of you, Jack.

You beat up a woman.  Your mommy then helped you violate a Court Order when you abducted the woman's child.  Your mommy admitted to the LAPD one of the three sustained allegations of misconduct that resulted from her assisting you.

So instead of simply being a responsible adult, getting a job and supporting your child like the rest of us you want pity from the Court because your mommy is also a crook?  These emotional appeals only work with Riverside County social workers, but not with intelligent people.

SHERRY RAY TESTIFIES FOR HER DERELICT SON: 

 October 24, 1994 - After being found guilty by the Los Angeles Police Department Board of Review investigation into her own misconduct when she knowingly aided and abetted Jack Ray with the commission of felony Child Abduction (August 26, 1994) Sherry was perjuring herself in Orange County Court to blame Jack Ray's victim for her totally foreseeable financial hardships.

Seriously....   How stupid do you have to be to be a Riverside County social worker?
Jack Ray and Sherry Ray shouldn't be trusted to be truthful about whether or not gravity works, let alone something as important as the well being of a child.

Fortunately for Jack, Riverside County and Supervisor John Tavaglione have such a tangible contempt for women, children, families and victims of domestic violence that social workers like Teresa Solomon-Billings, Donah Freeman and Ben Slagter are not held to standards of truthfulness or accountability.

So the woman Jack violently assaulted on August 24, 1993, and had to raise without any meaningful financial assistance from him lost her son yet again in March, 2004, and was subsequently blamed for all the hardship poor Jackie endured AND was forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars in court-ordered Child Support to the man who beat her up.

Way to go, Riverside County!
Way to go, dishonest social workers!!!

October 24, 1994 - Part II

October 24, 1994

Orange County Superior Court

Case #93P4783

Part II

10-24-94  Page 7, Line 2 thru 4:  "There's a District Attorney Support case from 2/01/93 ordered to pay $152 per month.  To date he has paid $225.24."

From February, 1993, to October, 1994, was 21 months.

21 months x $152 per month = $3,192.

Jack had paid only $225.24.

$225.24 = 7.05% of the bare-ass minimum of the $3,192 court-ordered Child Support a minimally responsible parent would've paid to up to that point.

7.05% of the minimum.

Not 7% of what an actual hard-working, loving parent could've provided.

7.05% of the bare minimum.

Less than 10 cents on the dollar.

He really must have loved that boy to want him to have so little.

Remember:  Jack Ray is Riverside County's ideal parent, and in their minds -- as evidenced by the fairy tale reports they furnish to the Court -- he had ALWAYS loved his son and ALWAYS did what was in his child's best interests...  as long as it didn't require any effort or financial contribution on his part.

Page 9, Line 10 thru 15:  (The Court speaking)  "I'm not going to doubt the seriousness of the offense.  Sounds like he (Jack) did something about as irresponsible and unfeeling and ill-advised as you could have possibly done for the benefit of your child or for anything else."

For reference, compare the description of Child Abduction discussed here with the version Teresa Solomon-Billings gave to Judge Becky Dugan on Jack's behalf on March 17, 2004...  lies that the County has yet to acknowledge or retract.

Page 10, Line 12 thru 19:  Presumably Jack would like social workers and others to believe that after his arrest and extradition to Orange County that he did EVERYTHING in his power to demonstrate that he was willing to comply with the Court.  Yet here he is -- nine months after his arrest and extradition yet two months prior to his sentencing -- admitting he was UNWILLING TO COMPLY with the Court's order to submit to a psychological evaluation.

JACK RAY IN A NUTSHELL:  He will make all sorts of claims about his commitment as a parent, but the well-documented reality is that he was NEVER willing to do anything that required sacrifice from him.