Publish Mark Hallburn and his son have been put through the same family court Hell millions of fathers face. He has one difference: he’s willing to tell his story publicly, call out the officials by name, and never be shamed into silence.
Welcome to West Virginia, where a corrupt judicial system has grown a tangle of judicial malfeasance as dense as a prized rhododendron. Mark Hallburn, a local investigative journalist, has been subject to retaliation for pruning back the overgrowth. He’s had custody of his son Matthew stripped away, and now he’s taking the case as high as it can go. [Photo: Mark Hallburn]
Children’s rights activists are being dodged by legislative leaders like West Virginia Speaker Timothy “Tim” Miley, John Brown has the story, with video.
Despite his repeated lies, outrageous, and illegal behavior, Kanawha County Family Court Judge Michael J. Kelly remains on the bench collecting nearly $100,000 a year in salary and benefits as he harasses more people each day.
In West Virginia’s court system corruption runs rampant because the West Virginia Judicial Investigation Commission refuses to clean up its processes. John Brown brings you details of the Commission’s recent failures and proposes it be replaced with an independent civilian review board.
In their Stalinesque secret courts, West Virginia judges continue to persecute not just children and their fathers, but journalists, in order to protect their corrupt financial self-interest and hide their gross abuses to everyday citizens. An updated report from Putnam County, West Virginia.
One man in West Virginia refuses to give up on the routine abuse of children by family court judges. While the disgrace to the bench known as Michael J. Kelly is one of the first, we predict he won’t be the last Family Court judge to be exposed as a corrupt fascist.
The harassment of a West Virginia man fighting for his son’s right to see his father continues, as a corrupt judiciary circles the wagons to protect its own – even if it has to jail members of the Fourth Estate on bogus charges.
West Virginia courts, famous for corruption and routine violation of civil rights of children & fathers, have decided that the fix for pesky 1st amendment issues is: lock up journalists who report on their abuses!
It appears that all it requires to be a judge in West Virginia, especially places like Harrison County and Putnam County, is having a black robe, a gavel, and a shameless sense of self-interest, arrogance, and complete lack of fear or conscience when it comes to corruption and conflict of interest. Case in point: West Virginia Family Law judge Michael J. Kelly.
