We are more than 30 mothers (and one father) who are in enormous pain, as our children have undeservedly become victims of a system that was designed to protect them.  Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca of Bergen County, New Jersey, is at the epicenter of our grievance, as she has egregiously mismanaged each of our cases, resulting in our children being trafficked to their abusers.  The Judge’s abuses of authority have created unimaginable horrors for many families. 

It is said that the judiciary forms the backbone of our society, sworn to uphold justice and protect our rights.  The Judge’s repeated failure to conduct thorough investigations, failure to hold violent abusers accountable, but rather rewarding them with sole custody of their victims, child support payments, and no obligations to the parent who raised these children has turned our lives into living nightmares. 

The issues are not isolated and reflect a larger, egregious pattern of abuses of authority.  We reached out to renowned forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Bandy X. Lee, M.D., who had the following to say:

“As a specialist in dangerous personalities, I must alert against a predatory personality pretending to be a judge and devouring the lives of innocent children and adults.  She is running an exploitative operation of stealing children from healthy and successful parents to ‘sell’ them to their abusers, who are often their rapists, batterers, and attempted murderers.  She seemingly drags out cases only to maximize harm and to induce ‘trauma bonding’ (separating children from their primary caregiver and isolating them in a life-or-death situation with their abuser, so that they cling helplessly to the latter to stay alive).

“Judicial immunity was never meant to be impunity.  As an expert witness for the courts for twenty-five years, I have encountered hundreds of judges—but never have I met a judge so outlandish in treating everyone with disdain, who dehumanizes litigants to dangerous degrees, and who treats clear-cut evidence and qualified witnesses with such contempt.  She shows respect for no fact or law that interferes with her ability to ‘fix’ her predetermined rulings and to perform what can only be described as show trials.”

We have been wrongly labeled as “disgruntled litigants,” but the desire to protect our children from destruction is only a natural response of loving parents.  With great hope, we call on the New Jersey State Legislature to take immediate action, conduct a transparent investigation, and impeach the Judge if found guilty of these crimes.  No judge should continue to preside over cases where she can commit atrocities against children and families and remain unaccountable to the law.

We implore fellow Bergen County residents, those affected by similar judicial negligence, and empathic citizens across the country to support us in our plight.   Please sign this petition to help us remove this Judge from her position and to protect our children and families.