Clay County Family Court Prompts Free Book to 72,000 Voters

Chicago, IL - 5/19/2009

When Chicago father Bill Stoneking wrote his book, "The Diary of a Patient Man, A Father's Struggle", it was intended to raise awareness of domestic violence against fathers and their children that gets condoned in the Clay County Family Court System. It has had success in raising the voices of families that have continually been wronged by the Court and the practices of "The Good Old Boy Network." Released in October 2006, nothing in Clay County has changed. The author's daughter who was abused by his ex, has once again been abused and once again, the medical evidence and track record of an abuser ignored.

"It appears that the book has had it successes with men and women calling from from Clay County and surrounding areas." Stoneking said, "but it appears that the volume on cleaning out the Courthouse and sending a message to the good old boys that when a woman abuses a child, you change custody, you don't condone it and when a woman abuses a man, you don't condone that either needs to be turned up."

On April 30th, 2009, Shirley Anne Lincoln (amongst one of her many names) was found guilty of contempt of court for violating Child Custody Orders for the umpteenth time. This was the second time she's been found guilty of contempt and as with the first finding, she did not draw even a slap on the wrist. Despite her abuse of the CPS system which led to Platte County Family Services - Children's Division, Synergy Systems and Children's Mercy Hospital testifying against her, with medical records and testimony stating "Based on clearly demonstrated behavior, conflict will continue so long as there is shared custody of a child", the behavior was condoned.

The behavior was not only condoned, but this abuse, defined by law as "Child Abuse" was in fact rewarded and encouraged, the future conduct, based on the historical behavior is again facilitated and again enabled. Child abuse in Clay County keeps the dollars rolling in the pockets of the lawyers, and the best interest of the child keeps getting ignored.

"This practice of allowing a woman to damage a child in Clay County needs to come to a screeching halt." Stoneking said, "and they have to stop blaming a father's anger which results from the exclusive conduct of the mother. They need to address the cause, not the result."

With over 50 child custody violations in 7 years, subjecting a little girl to numerous invasive sexual abuse examinations, psychotically having formal hearings with the school board in attempts to circumvent court orders, school board policies and federal laws, and even calling the secret service on Mr. Stoneking on several occasions to harass him, making false police reports to airport police to harass Mr. Stoneking's departure from kansas City with his daughter while violating an active order of protection shows a well defined pattern of domestic violence that seems to be just fine with the Clay County Court System. Behavior, mind you, that would strip a man of custody (if he had it) and have him prosecuted for aggravated stalking and child abuse, is ignored with the woman does it.

Stoneking added "if the laws are enforced, and violent and abusive women held accountable in total, this type of conflict gets significantly abated, but so far, the practice of the prosecutors and judges have been to perpetuate and escalate this dysfunctional violence."

With the ongoing failures of the Family Court System in Clay County Missouri, Bill Stoneking announced today, May 19th, that to help educate the voters in Clay County Missouri of the tragedy that the Clay County Family Court RICO operation is, his book, "The Diary of a Patient Man, A Father's Struggle" is being offered free in electronic format to all 72,000+ registered voters in Clay County Missouri.

Stoneking also announced that there is a follow up book in the works which names the other game players in this racket that joined up after his first book was released. "If you've participated in helping the harm that is placed on my daughter continue, your name is in the book and the public will know who you are" Stoneking added, " I said STOP the behavior that harms my daughter and I said NO to abuse.' What part of those words did they not understand?" Stoneking questioned.

"Society scorns the type of behavior my ex has engaged in and several other courts provide substantial case law that defines her conduct as child abuse, but in Clay County, the law and evidence is repeatedly ignored. Perhaps the attitudes of the judges will change once we change the judges in the Courthouse." Stoneking added, "because let's face it, those judges that are there we're picked by their buddies who are there and they protect their own, not our children so raising our voices isn't a solution. Replacing the body in the chair replaces the attitude that comes with it. "

"This is about fathers, children and families and the practice of perpetuating conflict for judicial economic gain needs to end. We want solutions, not protracted and vexatious litigation. Enough is enough." Stoneking stated, "Your votes count in theory, so on Election Day, for the Judicial Retention Ticket in Clay County Missouri, wipe the slate clean. For every judge listed, when you see the question, 'Shall we retain...?' The sweeping answer is 'NO.' We the people are the human resources department and our children deserve a better attitude in the Judiciary and better results from it."

This article will be updated with the link for Mr. Stoneking's book within the next week.
The recipient will also have the option of purchasing a printed copy as well.


~Emma Milstein - Contributing