My kids are now men, and it's been 16 years since the following article was published. Its amazing how the alliance lost this case due to the miss information provided by jennifer durcan, a kitsap-area lawyer. Bold print comments are mine 16 years later
Oct. 15, 2006
Bremerton
Jackie van dorn still has nightmares about the seven months her sons went missing. My kids had worse nightmares of the abuse the suffered from seth van dorn jehovah witness cult leader and jackie husband
The divorced north kitsap mother of two had let bryce, now 11, and preston, now 8, spend some of their summer vacation with their father's family in arizona in june 2005.
The divorced kitsap mother that remarried a abusive cult leader that was convicted years later for abusing 2 girls and did time in jail and court investigators discovered the scamion filed 2005 for convection of the abuse.
But the day they were to return with their father came and went — and she was informed the kids "weren't coming back," said jennifer durcan, a kitsap-area lawyer.
Van dorn had no idea what to do. "i just thought, ‘no one's going to help me,'" she said.
No one should help her bring 2 kids back to and abusive cult leader
Her plight is similar to that of an estimated 1 million washingtonians who can't afford civil legal services. Eighty percent of them never get any help at all, according to the alliance for equal justice, a washington-based group aimed at raising awareness of the problem.
Great job alliance for getting my kids abused and ripped out of my life. Great job not getting the truth and exposing my kids to a dangerous cult leader
Unlike criminal legal services, in which a court-appointed attorney is provided, civil matters such as child custody battles — in van dorn's case, an extreme one — rarely see free services.
The case was lost in civil court, without a lawyer. I didnt stand a chance in criminal court.Melonie overton was forced to drop me as my defense.
But with help from kitsap legal services and some pro bono work from durcan, who works in the kitsap county prosecutor's office civil division, the wheels of justice went into motion.
The wheels of justice were set in motion ? The real justice is about to be filed in kitsap county court in 2022. Basis of seth vandorn abuse of my kids and his convection of abusing someone elses kids.
Van dorn wound up living without her kids for seven months, she said. An off-duty u.S. Marshal spotted the kids in arizona and helped return them to washington, she said.
The marshalls wire tapped a cell phone another lie
Van dorn told her story last week before a packed room of lawyers, judges, observers and even u.S. Attorney john mckay, inside bremerton's kitsap legal services office — the very place the nk resident sought the help that would eventually reunite her with her kids.
Wow, the alliance for justice based everything that happened from only one side of the story
Mckay, appointed by president george w. Bush to represent western washington, said van dorn's story took "a lot of courage," and was important because of the "realness" that "reminds us of why we're doing this work."
Mckay, you are as real as the kids that got abused because of one side of the story. Im going after you and the alliance 16 years later with proof of everything
Mckay, who served as the washington state chairman of the equal justice coalition in 1995 and 1996, was also president of the legal services corporation in washington, d.C., between 1997 and 2001.
The alliance helps more than 20,000 low-income residents around the state get legal aid each year.
The alliance failed in the cival case because the judge said that there was more to the story not being told
"the way you get justice is to have a lawyer," mckay said. "so how can you have justice if people who need it the most can't have lawyers?"
Mc kay my x wife was pretty convincing but you are right justice is when you get a lawyer and soon as i can find one will get the justice of my kids and the abused kids from seth vandorns the cult leader
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My kids are now men, and it's been 16 years since the following article was published. Its amazing how the alliance lost this case due to the miss information provided by jennifer durcan, a kitsap-area lawyer. Bold print comments are mine 16 years later
Oct. 15, 2006
Bremerton
Jackie van dorn still has nightmares about the seven months her sons went missing. My kids had worse nightmares of the abuse the suffered from seth van dorn jehovah witness cult leader and jackie husband
The divorced north kitsap mother of two had let bryce, now 11, and preston, now 8, spend some of their summer vacation with their father's family in arizona in june 2005.
The divorced kitsap mother that remarried a abusive cult leader that was convicted years later for abusing 2 girls and did time in jail and court investigators discovered the scamion filed 2005 for convection of the abuse.
But the day they were to return with their father came and went — and she was informed the kids "weren't coming back," said jennifer durcan, a kitsap-area lawyer.
Van dorn had no idea what to do. "i just thought, ‘no one's going to help me,'" she said.
No one should help her bring 2 kids back to and abusive cult leader
Her plight is similar to that of an estimated 1 million washingtonians who can't afford civil legal services. Eighty percent of them never get any help at all, according to the alliance for equal justice, a washington-based group aimed at raising awareness of the problem.
Great job alliance for getting my kids abused and ripped out of my life. Great job not getting the truth and exposing my kids to a dangerous cult leader
Unlike criminal legal services, in which a court-appointed attorney is provided, civil matters such as child custody battles — in van dorn's case, an extreme one — rarely see free services.
The case was lost in civil court, without a lawyer. I didnt stand a chance in criminal court.Melonie overton was forced to drop me as my defense.
But with help from kitsap legal services and some pro bono work from durcan, who works in the kitsap county prosecutor's office civil division, the wheels of justice went into motion.
The wheels of justice were set in motion ? The real justice is about to be filed in kitsap county court in 2022. Basis of seth vandorn abuse of my kids and his convection of abusing someone elses kids.
Van dorn wound up living without her kids for seven months, she said. An off-duty u.S. Marshal spotted the kids in arizona and helped return them to washington, she said.
The marshalls wire tapped a cell phone another lie
Van dorn told her story last week before a packed room of lawyers, judges, observers and even u.S. Attorney john mckay, inside bremerton's kitsap legal services office — the very place the nk resident sought the help that would eventually reunite her with her kids.
Wow, the alliance for justice based everything that happened from only one side of the story
Mckay, appointed by president george w. Bush to represent western washington, said van dorn's story took "a lot of courage," and was important because of the "realness" that "reminds us of why we're doing this work."
Mckay, you are as real as the kids that got abused because of one side of the story. Im going after you and the alliance 16 years later with proof of everything
Mckay, who served as the washington state chairman of the equal justice coalition in 1995 and 1996, was also president of the legal services corporation in washington, d.C., between 1997 and 2001.
The alliance helps more than 20,000 low-income residents around the state get legal aid each year.
The alliance failed in the cival case because the judge said that there was more to the story not being told
"the way you get justice is to have a lawyer," mckay said. "so how can you have justice if people who need it the most can't have lawyers?"
Mc kay my x wife was pretty convincing but you are right justice is when you get a lawyer and soon as i can find one will get the justice of my kids and the abused kids from seth vandorns the cult leader