We are nearing the end of the year and its just about break time. We have a lot to cover and will wind down for the break on the 17th. We will cram in as much as we can before then.
The Devil Lives in Virginia: The Conspiracy that Killed Anastasia Adams – by Yolanda Adams-Bell
“The devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in many and various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.”
-Wikipedia
The Devil Lives in Virginia chronicles the story of Anastasia Adams’ nine-month ordeal from her abduction to her murder from the viewpoint of her family. It is a story of a family’s desperate fight and struggle to free Anastasia from a system (and its predatory guardianship) that was created to help individuals like her but instead abandoned her to nine months of untold pain and suffering. It is a story of massive obstruction, the powerful and morally bankrupt preying on the weak and those that protect them from accountability. It is a story of public apathy and indifference to the abuse, neglect and torture that is right under their noses and within their line of sight. It is the ultimate commentary on the attitude “if it doesn’t affect me it does not matter, it does not exist”. It is a story of lives – countless lives lost, but most importantly it is a story of two sisters, a bond that only sisters share, and their love for one another.
In 2005 Yolanda became her sister Anastasia’s sole caregiver after she suffered a brain injury. On February 15, 2017 after being hospitalized for pneumonia and developing fluid around her heart and a hospital born infection Yolanda’s sister Anastasia was abducted by Inova Fairfax Hospital, a well-known and major level one trauma center in the Washington, D.C. suburbs of Northern Virginia, through a legally questionable guardianship. While in the custody of Inova’s contracted guardians Anastasia allegedly suffered horrendous neglect and abuse. When Yolanda blew the whistle on what Inova, their guardians, and the Fairfax County Circuit Court, were doing the guardians isolated and then allegedly killed her sister. Nine months after abducting Anastasia the guardians ended her life through dehydration and starvation. After 6 days without food or water, doped up on the opiates Fentanyl, Morphine, and other sedating medications Anastasia succumbed and died on November 16, 2017. Due to the guardians severe restrictions on visitation for Anastasia she died alone, without family or clergy there to comfort her.
Yolanda is now focused on ensuring what happened to her much beloved sister never happens to anyone else because elderly and disabled lives matter.
Marian Leonard died in a nursing home that she was forced into by a judge in early 2018. Last month, her court-appointed guardian Sidney Summey restricted her from having any visitors except a token hour and a half visit twice per month from her daughter – the woman that Mrs. Leonard had designated as her chosen power of attorney, not just once, but 3 different times over a 30 year period.
She died alone. No family or friends were permitted to be with her in her final weeks. The guardian had even taken her away from her roommate, whom Nancy viewed as her mother’s “guardian angel.”
Nancy, who has been fighting the court since custody of her mother was seized by the state, is devastated.
It’s like being in the middle of a horror story.
All her mother’s planning to ensure that she would live out her elderly years on her own terms vanished with the stroke of a judge’s pen, at the request of social workers from the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) and St. Vincent’s Hospital. The simplest request, that her only daughter be with her at the end, was denied.
Nancy’s voice cracked as she cried:
I couldn’t save her. I tried so hard to get her out of there.
Marian Leonard was known to her former English students as “Mrs. Gregory.” Yearbook photo provided by family.
All that Nancy Scott has wanted was for her mother, retired Alabama schoolteacher Marian Leonard, to be able to live out her final years surrounded by the love and support of her family. Nancy never dreamed that such a simple wish could be thwarted by lawyers and judges and doctors. Now, it appears that time has run out for her to get her mother closer to her home in the Wiregrass area of southern Alabama.
A Hospice staff member called Nancy Scott Wednesday morning and told her that she needs to return to Birmingham as soon as possible, because the end is near.
A year and a half ago, retired Alabama schoolteacher Marian Leonard was taken from her family, placed under state guardianship, and forced onto Hospice, all against her will.
Marian Leonard assigned her daughter Power of Attorney, but all of her documents were set aside by probate judge Alan King. She is in solitary confinement, though she has committed no crime. See story: More
A number of studies have found that the greatest fear expressed by senior citizens, a demographic that’s exponentially growing in number in this country, is not death but the eradication of their independence if they are forced to live in a nursing facility. According to a lawsuit filed on May 8, that fear became reality for a vital and healthy Detroit-area woman, Virginia “Jean” Wahab, who spent two years falsely imprisoned in a Waterford, Michigan, nursing home owned by Lourdes, Inc., and sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Peace religious order. The home demanded payment of what amounted to a ransom of $25,000 to release Wahab from the facility.
“Mom was a fearless, independent woman before Lourdes took control of her,” Wahab’s daughter and caregiver Mimi Brun said. “When I finally got her out of there, it took me a long time to wean her off all the unnecessary anti-psychotic and anti-depressive drugs they had been giving her.”
Brun is the plaintiff in the lawsuit, which claims her mother was subject to false imprisonment, negligence, breach of contract, malicious prosecution, abuse of court process, and the intentional infliction of emotional distress. Filed in the Oakland County Circuit Court, the complaint is a first for Michigan and comes on the heels of Attorney General Dana Nessel’s creation of an Elder Abuse Task Force.
Brun said that although her mother had been living alone before her ordeal began in 2016, by the time she was able to secure Wahab’s release after a protracted legal battle, “She couldn’t stand up. She was terrified of being locked in a room and of someone coming to take her back to Lourdes.”
Before Wahab passed away at the end of April, mother and daughter were finally able to spend a precious few months together after having been kept apart by a court order obtained by Lourdes that severed Brun’s visitation rights.
Short-term rehab to long-term guardianship
According to the complaint, the family’s problems began in February 2016, when Wahab was admitted to Lourdes Senior Community, a $21 million nonprofit organization housing 250 residents at four facilities, for short-term rehabilitation following a recommendation from her doctor. By April 2016, Wahab’s insurance company, Health Alliance Plan, had terminated Wahab’s Medicare benefits at Lourdes, stating that she needed no further services or medication and was “medically stable for discharge.”
We should have taken a lesson; we should have paid attention because we all know that what the government gets away with in other places will soon be brought home and visited upon us. So it is with what is referred to as “extraordinary rendition”. ( explanation provided below) Now this same methodology is used to cull and and disappear senior citizens. No crime has been committed. No evidence is produced to substantiate the capture, imprisonment, robbing, and eventual serendipitous deaths of America’s senior citizens.
The Rendering of America’s Seniors
We have a system of extraordinary rendition occurring right here at home and utilized to traffic and cull senior citizens. But in this system it isn’t the military or CIA who are taking prisoners. It is attorney’s, predatory for-profit guardians, Adult Protective Services and other “stakeholders” who have been given the green light to capture, isolate, psychologically torture, forcibly medicate, rob and eventually end the lives of seniors. And these prisoners of guardianship are held in secret locations; the floating prisons and black ops sites now replaced with “nursing homes”, “hospice” and of course hospitals where they can languish for years as insurance and medicare is exploited.
As no crime has been committed by the elder that is targeted, that would activate civil or criminal courts, the probate system was constructed to treat them as though some nonchargeable crime had occurred. In this system they have no rights, and are treated worse than a felon with even fewer options.
Every day these predators kidnap unsuspecting elders, snatching them from their homes, from hospitals and from their families, friends and others. Their crime? Usually just aging with assets that the predators have decided should belong to them. We don’t call the elderly prisoners of war, we call them wards of the state. But they are prisoners none-the-less. And even though statutes supposedly restrict isolation, forced medication, and abuse, prisoners of the guardianship system are immediately isolated. No reason needed other than the predator ordered it. Medications are forced on the elderly, and many are left in such neglect and despair that they quickly deteriorate mentally from these things and the forced isolation. Many families have no idea where their family member is being held prisoner.
“After Dr. Regimbal [of St. Anthony Hospital] examined Casey Kasem, his medical report concluded that Casey had been receiving appropriate medical care prior to his arrival at St. Anthony Hospital and that Casey was stable and could return home to the care he was receiving.” (Emphasis ours.)
Kerri didn’t allow her father to return home, however, and the day after that examination, there was a hearing about it in Kitsap County Superior Court.”
We’re very glad to see that the CBS program 48 Hours is taking on the bizarre story of Casey Kasem’s final days, and that they appear to be taking seriously the work done by a private investigator on behalf of Jean Kasem — work that has revealed new facts so troubling, a Washington state police chief announced this week that he has opened a new look at the legendary radio DJ’s 2014 death.
Jean sent us the same documents when her investigator, Hank Foresta, put them together more than a year ago. Some of the material he had dug up about the Kasem family drama was simply stunning. But it was a huge undertaking — Foresta’s document package was hundreds of pages long — and we never got the chance to dig into it the way we had wanted to.
However, we did look into one crucial part of it, and we hope and expect that CBS will also dig into it in their episode tomorrow night.
We’re going to assume that you know much of the backstory already — Casey Kasem developed Lewy body dementia, a devastating wasting disease that there is no cure for. As his health declined, he was caught in a tug of war between the children of his first family—daughters Kerri and Julie, and son Mike—and his second family, with wife Jean Thompson Kasem and their daughter Liberty. READ MORE HERE
“How does an individual become so detached from humanity, so lacking in compassion or empathy, so devoid of ethics or morality, that preying on other human beings without regard to the harm and suffering you are causing, become just part of your daily work? All of it done so that you could avail yourself of someone elses assets? How do you disconnect yourself so totally from the insidious activity you have involved yourself in so as to allow yourself to prey on what you now see as a simply a “thing”, a commodity?”
We have the ”War on Poverty”, the “War on Drugs”, and the wars against other sovereign nations that have posed no threat to us. There is also apparently a well-funded and facilitated “War on the Elderly”. As our politicians openly promote, or actively avoid the insidious programs designed to deprive elderly individuals of their identity, property and their rights, to enable the theft of estates. The result is thousands of elderly individuals are captured, isolated, abused and robbed every day of the week. It’s all perfectly “legal”. The elderly have been targeted as have been the disabled, as being an economic threat to the rest of the country. A newly defined “waste population” that must be eradicated because they can no longer produce and now are expecting their investment in Social Security and Medicare to begin the promised return on their investment.
While claiming that guardianship is to protect the vulnerable, that the elderly will be treated as ”protected” individuals, it clearly is nothing more than a system of monetizing and treating the elderly and disabled as chattel…owned movable property that can be sold, traded or otherwise disposed of at the whim of the guardians and the probate system. All of it done for no other reason than to steal the estates of those targeted. This can include real property, liquid assets, personal items of value, art work, family heirlooms, trusts, and any other thing you might have of value.
It is unfortunate that these professional predators see no value in human life; a trait that puts them into a class of a recognized sociopath. The entire system is populated by unethical attorneys willing to prey on the elderly for no other reason than access to the assets they may have, and predatory guardians who have been provided the protection in this system of human trafficking facilitated by the probate tribunals. All of it done without regard to the suffering they are causing to the individual or by extension to the family and friends who are forced to endure this criminal activity and are blocked by the tribunal from accessing courts of law and rescuing the victim. All of it to access the proceeds of someone elses life: to profit by targeting, capturing, isolating and robbing an elderly individual because stealing someone else’s identity and their estates is far easier than working for a living. More
Here we are at the Whistleblowers Summit…bad hair day and all! A special thanks to Marcel Reid who organizes the Summit each year. It was an honor to speak at the Summit and we will be back again next year! This was our panel on Guardianship abuses, Family courts and Medical kidnap. On Facebook we have had more than 7000 views and a response from viewers that has been unprecedented. IT is my opinion that we as a population have been divided up, section off and monetized and made over into commodities. We are being bought, sold and traded as chattel..moveable property and goods…. Loss of economic value equals death.
“June 27 was petition day at the Oakland County Court. As soon as people saw my press badge, I was approached by at least 15-20 different families all begging me to write about their case. It was as if I had carried a loaf of bread into a village of starving people. Midway through the morning, I was escorted out of the building by at least a half-dozen sheriff’s deputies who were acting on orders of the courts judicial attorney Ryan Deel’s claims that I had not been given permission by the clerk of the court to be there.”
After the above article was published detailing elder abuse by professional guardians in Northern Michigan, I visited the Oakland County Probate Court to watch a June 27 hearing on a petition for visitation brought by Mimi Brun who has not seen her mother Virginia Wahab for the two-years since Mimi’s power of attorney was tossed out Wahab had been assigned a professional guardian Jon Munger.What is happening in Oakland County is systemic and in literally hundreds of pages of documents I have already collected, I am seeing the same pattern in multiple cases involving at least six professional attorney/guardians there and three out of the four judges.
The guardians are alerted to a new admission by a nursing home with whom they have a downstream relationship. The nursing home then files a petition for guardianship which is granted by an Oakland County judge regardless of an existing power of attorney or whether or not the senior or his/her/their family is represented by counsel. The guardian then immediately halts visitation by the family members. In complete control of his ward’s medical and financial life, he proceeds to strip the estate, sell the house at far below market cost and bill the ward thousands. Within months, the ward has been declared both incapacitated and destitute. The guardian then applies for Medicaid benefits on behalf of the nursing home. Both the guardian and the nursing home make a tremendous profit while the ward is left to rot, often in a substandard facility.
In the Wahab case, detailed in the article, the reason that Munger had been assigned was stated as a past due-bill owed Lourdes and a need for the organization to apply for Medicaid benefits for Wahab. There is no Michigan statute that allows for a petition to be made or a guardian to be assigned because a nursing facility is owed money.
Jun 25, 2018 — WARNING THIS POST CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES! (Family members may not want to view). THE FOLLOWING IS ONLY PART OF WHAT THEY DID TO MY SISTER!
The Office of the Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia supposedly conducted an “investigation” into Anastasia’s death. The investigator sent me the following letter stating they found no evidence of abuse or neglect and therefore were closing their investigation. Additionally the Commonwealth is attempting to rule Anastasia’s death an “accident”. WARNING THE FOLLOWING IMAGES ARE GRAPHIC! Hmmm, I am not a cop (Anastasia was) but how in the blue blazes do you come up with a finding of no abuse or neglect when someone suffer injuries such as those below? Sounds like a sham kangaroo investigation to me because the following injuries look like criminal neglect to me. Bare in mind the below images are only a couple of the numerous injuries that my precious sister Anastasia suffered while under the control of Inova’s guardians. THIS IS ONLY PART OF WHAT THEY DID TO MY SISTER
WARNING THIS POST CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES! (Family members may not want view)______________________________The Office of the…
I have been hosting an internet radio show for about eight years most of which has been dedicated to exposing the ongoing trafficking of the elderly and the disabled with no other intent than to disinherit families by seizing the accumulated assets of someone else’s life’s work by professional predators. The result of these criminal acts, are the robbed and traumatized victims and family’s and the greatest transfer of wealth ever witnessed in this country. When government studies are done such as those by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) they look at only those cases that will support the contention that it is family or friends who commit these acts, without ever alluding to or even acknowledging the massive number of cases of guardianship and conservator abuses by professionals who make their living preying on the elderly who have committed the new age crime of aging with assets.
Having called your agency numerous times, and, after hearing from numerous other individuals attempting to report to your agency the human trafficking of the elderly and disabled by predators who operate as professional “guardians”, “conservators” and “attorneys” across the country, I am appalled by your lack of action on this issue. I suppose I shouldn’t be, after all, your agency is populated by individuals who are also BAR Association members and none of this human trafficking has happened without great efforts by BAR members to pass arbitrary and unconstitutional statutes in every state that allow them to traffic the elderly and disabled without penalty. The associated professional guardians also profit handsomely from targeting elderly victims and seizing their assets. And, during this process their bank accounts, property holdings and assets of all kinds are exponentially increased as they avail themselves of every possible dime in the estate with padded billings, spurious and inflated charges of all kinds, and repeated motions in these tribunals which of course is an absolute gold mine for siphoning money off the estate.
You do know, don’t you, that the targeted victim’s estate is forced to pay for every action brought against it. I liken this to having to pay for weaving the rope they are going to hang you with.
Maybe you could explain to me:
How the living, breathing human being is forced to suffer a statutory civil death, equal in its legal consequences to a physical death, and then:
have their identity taken from them and assigned to a known predator, who now assumes and presents themselves as the victim, along with all their assets?
Why is it that in these tribunals, the rules of evidence do not have to be adhered to?
Why does the code of civil procedure not apply?
Why is due process never adhered to?
Why are ex parte hearings allowed to occur without notice to the family or the victim?
Why are these professional predators allowed to levy charges of all kinds against the victim and the family and friends without ever producing any evidence that the charges are in fact valid?
Why are they never asked for such evidence?
Why is no evidence allowed to be entered into the record of the tribunal refuting the claims of the predators?
And why is the victim forced to pay for the actions brought against them when no crime has been committed, there is no injured party and no damage to property that the predator does not own or have an interest in….yet.
Numerous bills have been presented recently here in Minnesota as a result of the nursing home scandals that rocked the state. It quickly became apparent that the only people who were unaware of this looming crisis, were our state legislators. But reading through these bills, which are legislative monstrosities that are comprised of some of the most tortured and unintelligible language imaginable, it becomes readily apparent that the bills were not written by the legislators, but rather, by interested stakeholders who profit daily from the human trafficking of the elderly.
A recent change to the Minnesota Health Care Bill of Rights, looks on the surface to be a positive change for advancing the rights of those subjected to institutional health care while the estate is robbed. At first glance, it would appear that the legislature is securing the right of patients to be free from forced isolation by professional predatory guardians and conservators. But a closer examination reveals language that allows the very predators in the system, those who prey on the elderly with the intent to profit, to continue their trafficking, unimpeded
“Pending the outcome of an enforcement proceeding the health care facility may, in good faith, comply with the instructions of a guardian or conservator.”
An enforcement proceeding? Gosh, I wonder how that will turn out? I would like to see an explanation of why a conservator (this person only controls the finances of the victim) would have any excuse whatsoever, for isolating the conserved individual. Guardians on the other hand, control everything and once the individual is guardianized they become chattel property. Meaning they become moveable property and goods. More
Editor’s Note: Probate reform is not possible in my opinion. The only solution is to abolish it altogether. No one should have their identity stolen by court approved and appointed predators and NO ONE should be deprived of their Constitutional protection by being rendered dead in the law. This is a money laundering scheme where estates are plundered by professional predators who prey on the elderly and the disabled to enrich themselves. These tribunals are unconstitutional and violate numerous protected rights.
In 2013, a former Berkeley resident, Greg Cooke, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. A physician deemed Mr. Cooke’s wife unable to care for him, and he was referred to a nursing home. A private conservator became aware of Mr. Cooke’s situation and began to petition for conservatorship. Mr. Cooke’s wife fought to retain her role as his caregiver, but ultimately, the Alameda County Probate Court assigned Mr. Cooke to the private conservator. The conservator began billing Mr. Cooke $8,000 a month in the form of excessive fees and charges. The conservator refused to communicate with Mr. Cooke’s family regarding his condition. They refused his family visitation rights and recently sent a letter to Mr. Cooke’s wife stating that he was deceased. Yet, in spite of the letter, the conservator has continued to bill Mr. Cooke’s estate.
Our probate court system is failing seniors and people with disabilities such as Mr. Cooke. Predatory for-profit conservators are taking advantage of vulnerable community members through a system of conservatorship that is rife with elder abuse and civil-rights violations. This process is a part of a larger trend robbing families of color of their property and wealth. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act and it is time to address this problem.
A conservatorship in California is a probate court proceeding where a judge appoints a caretaker for an adult unable to care for him or herself.
Once a conservatorship is established, the caretaker (legally termed a ‘conservator’) has nearly total control over the person put under his or her care (a ‘conservatee’).
PLEASE see attachment.. Notice – ALL ADULT Guardianships are removed from the online and in house public access records in the court of Logan County.* These are absolutely Public Records. (ORC 149.43) But when the GA gave total access for the courts to monitor what they deem public records in 2011 they opened up the door for them to HIDE public records. This is SELF-SERVING to let the court monitor itself. This is public records being buried. How is any attorney going to be able to work for their clients in that county given we are living in the computer age?
I fought for our public records** and it resulted in my disabled mentally impaired Dad being abused in filth, hording, cat feces, exploited and then incarcerated in a place he did NOT want to be and drugged to death.*** Now the court is trying to steal my parents TRUST that probate has NO authority in and I can’t get any public attention on this abomination. This is a repulsive system and does not represent the free country many have died for. Why have the conditions of guardianships and robbing estates escalated downward since the series of probate abuse stories the Columbus dispatch reported on in 2014? Why are there more and more stories reported across the country and things get worse? Have we come to the point human life is worthless?
If these adult guardianship cases were public for decades what changed? Personal identifiers were already redacted. And how can you remove what was already out there? Isn’t that a POST FACTO decision? We pay taxes for gov’t employees to keep our records in any media form that exists today. What other counties are CLOSING down record access?
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 2 additional award of attorney fees for the preparation of a response to Brady’s motion to vacate the fee award, and we remand the cause to …
Join me this evening as Carly Walden of Hospice Patients Alliance launches her new program on TS Radio dealing with medical murder and the use of Hospice to end the lives of the elderly and the disabled.
What you don’t know about the creeping genocide of the elderly and disabled should scare you. Hospice is no longer the good Samaritan organization it used to be. Now it is used to override the patient, the family and even those few medical providers who might object to the coming premeditated death of the patient. Medical providers now more concerned with profits than patient care are too many times willing and active participants in what is nothing less than medical murder.
This is no country to grow old in, or to suffer a chronic illness or injury. We are in danger and the very people entrusted with caring for us could not care less. Join us in welcoming Carly Walden to the TS Radio lineup. We have a lot to talk about!!
“For the purposes of this Convention, “enforced disappearance” is considered to be the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, which place such a person outside the protection of the law.
No order or instruction from any public authority, civilian, military or other, may be invoked to justify an offense of enforced disappearance.”
While families, advocates and activists fighting this system of human trafficking, perpetrated by state and federal agencies and those who operate under their protection remain impervious to prosecution, a new and more vile element has reared its ugly head. Medical kidnap and abuse is now rampant and the death toll is rising. And who put this predatory system in place?? The very people you elected to public office!
While families opposed to this system have grown immense in numbers, congress still plugs its ears and pretends it doesn’t know. Or, they claim it must be an isolated incident. They never heard of such a thing before. Why didn’t they know about it if it was actually a problem? The fact is they did know, they do know and they also have no intention of interfering with the trafficking as it would result in hundreds of thousands and in some cases millions of dollars in campaign contributions (bribery) that they receive from the very organizations who put the programs in place and profit from them.
So now, in addition to being deprived of your identity, assets and freedom via probate tribunals, you can be deprived of your very life by those in the medical sector. Also, your children can be taken from you for no other reason than you asked for a second opinion on the diagnosis and proposed treatment they have planned. They can also be taken by a cps worker with no evidence of actual wrong doing by the parents, and CPS will never be required to produce any provable evidence that the kidnapping of your child was in any way related to any claimed abuse.
As with the elderly and the disabled, children are rendered dead in the law and become chattel property once they become a ward of the state and are now openly bought, sold, and traded for profit.
Issues that congress could easily and with authority, rectify:
End the theft of identity that results from being a “ward of the state”.More
Earlier this year, Beverley Finnegan, age 69, of Newton, Massachusetts, could walk, talk, and discuss the events from the daily newspaper. That was before she was seized from the condo that she shared with her sister. Police and “Elder Protective Services” social workers literally broke down her door to enter her residence, and then forced her into a nursing home, and drugged her against her will. Years before, she had named her sister as her medical proxy, but the state of Massachusetts has ignored her wishes and placed her under guardianship with strangers. Her whole life, everything she had ever known, was gone with the stroke of a judge’s pen. Now, she is on life support, and on Monday, December 18, guardians and their attorneys petitioned the court in the attempt to have Beverley Finnegan euthanized. They go back to court on Friday, December 22. Janet Pidge is fighting for the very life of her beloved sister who is just one court decision away from having her life snuffed out forever. Read more
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Dec 11, 2017 — It has been 23 days since my beloved and precious sister Anastasia was killed by Inova Fairfax Hospital and their designated guardians Anne Heishman and Kenneth Labowitz. I have been re-listening to various meetings and discussions with Inova physicians and others involved in her unnatural and untimely death. I have been going over medical records and evidence sent to me by various individuals who did not agree with what Inova’s guardians were doing. And since her death three words amongst other things have been prevalent in my mind… premeditated, homicide, and guilty.
During the January 28, 2017 meeting with Chief Medical Officer Scott Betzelos, MD, and Inova’s outside counsel Laurie Kirkland from Blankenship & Keith, PC, Inova was informed that I agreed with Anastasia’s discharge so why did Inova still pursue and take guardianship of Anastasia. As you listen to the meeting with Scott Betzelos, MD, the discussion with Lindsey from Inova’s Palliative Care team, and read the records and notes written by Kelly Armstrong, PhD and the head of palliative care it brings certain things to light and bring the following questions to mind:
“Pt is opioid naive” written by Mary Wheeler, NP, Inova Palliative Care Team. Naive: “not having previously been the subject of a scientific experiment, as an animal.” More
The guardian also wrote: “Ms. Adams executed an advanced medical directive in 2010, specifying that she did not want heroic measures used to extend her life.” Today in the US, providing food and water to a patient is a heroic measure?! Wow. This guardian is trying to justify his killing of Anastasia by starvation—or really, worse, by thirst. This man should be imprisoned.”
One of the priests that went to visit Anastasia after we were notified by Guardian Labowitz they were going to withdraw Anastasia’s nutrition and hydration provided a statement in response to the guardians assertion that I summoned a succession of people identifying themselves as priests. His quoted statement below says it all.
The guardian’s statement is hyperbolic and rings of resentment about having visitors to their patients. He wrote: “Ms. Bell summoned a succession of people identifying themselves as priests who appeared at the care facility during Wednesday night, well beyond visiting hours, to attend Ms. Adams, who they said was expected to die overnight. . . . Needless to say, these visitors created chaos among the on-site staff at the facility and for their supervisors attempting to sleep at home.”
Two priests visited—validly ordained Roman Catholic priests. That doesn’t make “a procession of people identifying themselves as priests.”
I believe the first was around 7:00 p.m.; I arrived at 9:30 p.m. Envoy’s website says that they are open 24 hours, 7 days a week. So, no one arrived “well beyond visiting hours.”
I arrived after the doors were locked, and an employee let me in. A nurse asked me who I was going to visit. I anointed Anastasia and left; the whole event took about three minutes. I didn’t knock on any doors, and I didn’t turn any lights on, and I whispered the prayers to Anastasia. So, there was no chaos concerning my visit; I doubt there was any with the earlier priest’s visit. Why would there be? Why would it be “needless to say, these visitors created chaos among the on-site staff at the facility and for their supervisors attempting to sleep at home.” This is not a credible claim, but it does expose the guardian’s animus toward anyone visiting Anastasia, whom he pretends to care about—another claim that lacks credibility. Why were the supervisors called at home? And what time do they go to bed that they would be rudely roused at 7:00 and 9:30 p.m.?
I never said that Anastasia “was expected to die overnight,” and I didn’t expect that she would. The guardian distorts the facts in his impatience with the idea that clergy were visiting Anastasia.
The guardian also wrote: “Ms. Adams executed an advanced medical directive in 2010, specifying that she did not want heroic measures used to extend her life.” Today in the US, providing food and water to a patient is a heroic measure?! Wow. This guardian is trying to justify his killing of Anastasia by starvation—or really, worse, by thirst. This man should be imprisoned.
Jean Kasem alleges radio personality’s children from another marriage perpetrated a “homicidal guardianship scam”
Casey Kasem’s widow has filed a wrongful death suit against the late radio host’s children from another marriage. Photofest
The widow of Casey Kasem has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the radio personality’s three adult children from another marriage. Jean Kasem claims that Kerri, Mike and Julie Kasem, along with Julie’s husband and their attorney Troy Martin, perpetrated a “homicidal guardianship scam” and, per a statement, “chemically restrained their father and then killed him to go after Casey and Jean’s financial assets.” Jean is also accusing the Kasem children of harassment and making fraudulent claims of elder abuse as part of their attempts to gain guardianship over Kasem.
Speaking with Rolling Stone, Kerri Kasem denied the claims. “The only homicidal part was her unplugging my father’s IV and feeding tube and leaving the hospital with my dad,” Kerri says. “If a mom delivered a preemie and said, ‘You know what? I’m going to take this baby home. I don’t care what you say’ and the baby died three weeks later, that mom would’ve been brought up on murder charges.”
Kasem died June 15th, 2014 at St. Anthony Hospital in Gig Harbor, Washington. According to Jean Kasem’s new suit, Kerri picked up her father at his home on June 1st and took him to St. Anthony Hospital, even though there was a hospital one block away. Kasem was accompanied by his personal physician, Dr. Donald Sharman, but was examined at St. Anthony by Dr. Joseph Regimbal, who reportedly cleared Kasem to leave and praised the care being administered to him at home.
However, the suit claims that Kerri Kasem kept her father at St. Anthony for an “unauthorized ‘overnight observation.'” On June 2nd, an attending physician at St. Anthony, Dr. Ramon Basa, reportedly told Jean that Kasem could go home, while a judge also ruled that there was no compelling reason to keep Kasem in the hospital. But when Jean arrived to pick up Kasem, Dr. Basa had apparently changed his mind and Kasem was kept in the hospital.
GretchRHammond
The PPJ Gazette 