On August 24, 1993, a man named Jack Samuel Ray violently assaulted the mother of their one-year-old son in the immediate presence of their child (and several adult witnesses). This assault was documented and investigated by the
Fullerton Police Department (Fullerton, CA) as their case
#93-13173. Detective James Allred was the handling investigator.
Jack was eventually convicted of the assault by an Orange County jury (Orange County Court
Case #NM9307973). In discussing the assault afterward Jack justified his violence by explaining that he was
angry about the child's haircut so he was going to cut the victim's hair in retaliation. Sounds reasonable, right? It wasn't his fault he had to overcome her resistance.
On September 9, 1993, the Superior Court in the State of California in Orange County
issued a protective order restraining Jack Ray from further contacting the victim of that August 24 assault. The protective order also gave custody of the child to the victim of Jack's assault. That Court Order is documented as case
#93V2342.
On September 26, 1993, Jack Ray violated that Court Order. According to his subsequent testimony he found out there was a warrant for his arrest stemming from the August 24 domestic assault. Jack packed "
...all his worldly possessions in a flatbed truck," abducted his victim's child and fled the state with the stated purpose of permanently depriving his child's mother of her son.
Jack's September 26, 1993, abduction of Jane Doe's child was documented and investigated by the
Fullerton Police Department. Their case numbers are
#93-15109 and
#93-15124. These matters were also investigated by Fullerton PD
Detective James Allred, as well as by Investigator Mike Carre of the Orange County District Attorney's office Child Abduction Unit. An additional warrant for Jack's arrest was issued, now including the felony offense of Child Abduction (
California Penal Code 278.5).
Jack Ray was arrested in 1994 in Tonopah, Nevada. He was extradited back to Orange County, California, and the victim of Jack's hateful crimes was finally reunited with the child she hadn't been permitted to see for several months.
Upon his return to Orange County he could finally be prosecuted for the hateful crimes to which he had subjected his child's mother.
The Fullerton jury required all of 20 minutes of deliberation to convict him for the violent assault.
Faced with overwhelming evidence against him -- not the least of which was the September 9, 1993, court order specifically prohibiting Jack's criminal actions -- Jack chose to plead guilty to felony Child Abduction.
On October 24, 1994,
Jack Ray testified in Orange County Family Court that he was refusing to complete a court-ordered 730 psychological evaluation required as a part of his request for visitation. He also testified that he had been estranged from his own biological father for 10 years (Orange County Family Court Case
#93P4783
On June 7, 1994, Jack Ray pleaded guilty to felony Child Abduction. In his written plea he acknowledged that he had violated the September 9, 1993, court order when he fled the state.
On December 16, 1994, Jack Ray was sentenced to 180 days in Orange County Jail and three years of formal probation.
Following his release from incarceration Jack Ray refused to secure employment to support himself or the son he claimed to love. Instead, he directed his energies to perpetuating his crimes and harassment at his child's mother. Although the Court set his court-ordered child support payments at the then-minimum of $152 per month, Orange County District Attorney Family Support Unit records show that by July 31, 2002, Jack's child support obligations were in arrears $10,918.20. Jack claimed his criminal record prevented him from obtaining employment and caused financial hardship. As a self-described carpenter and handyman it must've been tough going, since the largest growing employment field near his mommy's Wildomar, CA, home was the home construction business. And McDonald's is noted for their discerning hiring practices.
On March 13, 2004, Riverside County Social Worker Donah Freeman was contacted by Jack Ray and decided to help him. Freeman presented Jack Ray's lies in Juvenile Court and said Jack Ray's documented and easily verifiable crimes against his child's mother
never occurred. Instead, Freeman related Jack's fictional version of events that he had merely gone on a short vacation in September, 1993, and had been unfairly targeted by a ruthless single mother supporting herself as a waitress and multiple law enforcement agencies and courts that conspired to keep him from being the Wonderful Father he wanted to be. Apparently, Freeman would have us all believe that felons can be trusted to disclose all the details of their background, and that all family "vacations" should begin with domestic violence (
Case #RIJ107551).
Freeman decided to give Jack Ray full custody of the child he hadn't supported for 11 years, and began fabricating an exhaustive compilation of lies and libelous insults to mask her own corruption. I guess in her haste to justify her contempt for the victim's rights she didn't have the 60 seconds required to complete a criminal background check ("rap sheet") on her newest, bestest buddy Jack.
As a result of Donah Freeman's March 13, 2004, perjury and denial of constitutionally protected rights to Due Process the victim of Jack Ray's multiple crimes was permanently deprived of her son.
On April 8, 2004, Riverside County Social Worker Ben Slagter repeated Donah Freeman's lies and added several more of his own. Most notably, he refused to mention that extensive favorable evidence -- including 11 years' worth of police reports and court records that absolutely contradicted Freeman's fairy tale narrative-- had been presented to Slagter to review. Not only did Slagter refuse to read the evidence, he snidely criticized the victim and her family for daring to tape record his indifference to the case history.
http://dpss.co.riverside.ca.us
During the ensuing court proceedings Jack's conviction for violently assaulting his child's mother on August 24, 1993, was never brought up.
During the ensuing court proceedings the September 9, 1993, protective custodial order was never brought up.
During the ensuing court proceedings Jack's guilty plea acknowledging the protective custodial order was never brought up.
During the ensuing court proceedings Jack's detailed confession to the Los Angeles Police Department was never brought up.
There was much that was not presented to the Court, primarily because Riverside County officials had endangered the life of a child by placing him in the custody of a violent felon. The County had then compounded their criminal and civil liability by showing the child that the emotional and psychological abuse to which Jack Ray had subjected him would work.
Since March 13, 2004, the
Riverside County Dept. of Social Services has defended Donah Freeman's lies.
Since March 13, 2004,
John Tavaglione and the Riverside County Board of Supervisors have defended Freeman's lies.
This blog is
not dedicated to Jack Ray's well-documented history of violent family crimes and his continued harassment of his victim and her new family.
Nor is this blog is dedicated to Supervisor John Tavaglione and the numerous corrupt Riverside County officials that have chosen to lie on behalf of Jack Ray and reward him for over 11 years of hate.
Instead, this blog is dedicated to the Riverside County children and families that are still being subjected to perjury, libel, insults, negligent disregard for the truth and gross misconduct by Donah Freeman, Ben Slagter, Libertie Miller, Geovanna Asturias, Teresa Solomon-Billings and other dishonest employees that continue to be employed by DPSS and a county that values job security over its constituents' rights.
