PETITION TO REMOVE JUDGE LYRIS F. YOUNGE FROM OFFICE/ JUDICIAL RETENTION AND RETAILATION
PETITION TO REMOVE JUDGE LYRIS F. YOUNGE FROM OFFICE/ JUDICIAL RETENTION AND RETAILATION
The Issue
THE ORGINAL PETITION FOR THE REMOVAL OF JUDGE LYRIS YOUNGE IS POSTED BELOW. HOWEVER, I CREATED AN UPDATE DUE TO UPCOMING JUDICIAL RETENTION AND RETAILATION THAT HAS OCCURRED SINCE 2021. PLEASE READ, SHARE, AND SHARE. SHARING THIS HAS NOT BEEN AN EASY PROCESS BUT IT IS NECESSARY.
The Issue
There's a risk that comes with repetition I once read.
I knew retaliation was possible but yet I didn't know how it would appear. I spent eight months fighting for my children, not knowing how something like this could happen to me but then I realized, it wasn't just me, it was happening to everyone under a statistical scope. Was it wrong to fight for my children, to fight for the people I loved the most, to break out of the grid and the statistical view of being a mother with six children who was silently being abused by her spouse? The only thing that was wrong, was my silence about him and the silence of those we stood in front of to seek justice. Only to watch, hear, and later feel their stance and hate.
We, the undersigned, need to stand strong in opposition to the retention and endorsements of these Judges. While everyone is not up for Judicial retention this upcoming November. Judge Lyris Younge and Judge Ourania Papademetriou are. The judges robed, judging us on experiences in which they could not bare if they were to walk in our shoes and succumb to unfair practices; they alike, sharing the same identities, regardless of facial structure, color, and divisions.
Outsiders and colleagues would admire them because of their achievements and involvements with the communities. Those who's gone before them had no one to speak about the evils faced in their court rooms. Judge Lyris Younge, had me put in hand cuffs while she ordered my children to be taken away. Then, I didn't understand what was happening, I saw my entire life as a foster child, someone aging out of the system, to now having children who were being put into the system, without any logical explanation, as I sat in the cell.
Then, only way we could be heard is if we moved in numbers, which I did. The JCB had no other choice but to listen, especially after the articles, however; to petition myself back into their courts hoping to have a fair outcome during my separation from the children's father, showed me that their Judiciary system wasn't built on integrity, honesty, and fair outcomes, especially after what had taken place with Younge. Bias existed and it was practiced as law. Judge Younge took away children unjustly, she terminated parental rights, she alienated children from their families, and NOW, I had other judges doing the same to me for fighting against it the first time!
While outside the family courthouse protesting Judge Lyris Younge, my children's father walked pass me, he walked pass the other parents, the reporters and went home. A year later, I decided to leave him, to write a book about growing up within the foster care system, aging out of it and surprisingly encountering judge Lyris Younge. I was excited to leave him, to be with my children without him, he was and is abusive. however, this time after deciding to leave me for the umpteenth time, i witnessed an infuriation like I never seen before. He saw my progression and hated it. He strangled me while holding our new baby in my arms, he broke into my home, busted the pipes, called DHS on me and told them I wasn't feeding the children, he hired an attorney behind my back. which would assist him in presenting evidence which would make him the judge's new ally, leading to retaliation and alienation.
In 2021 I went before Judge Mark Cohen, who would coercively pressure me to proceed without an attorney as Brian Colon and his attorney Freddy Godoy introduced me as the woman who organized the protests and movement against judge Lyris Younge. He would tell them I was writing a book. He would ask me about sharing legal custody with Brian but then after taking away my custody, he would tell me that this particular hearing wasn't my custody hearing, later denying me access to my children, even visitation. The use of Mark Cohen's Statements, sought to create confusion, which it did then, along with emotional duress. I wasn't placed in handcuffs as Younge did prior while she ordered my children to be taken away, this time the hand cuffs were invisible, the ones on my wrists, the ones on feet, and the weight which would be held over my head. To then again question, what happened in that court room? What went wrong again? Freedom of speech, freedom for peace, freedom to be me? It was a crime to rise beyond the circumstances that sought to keep me silent and in bondage.
All the research I did, everything I worked on during that year would have to go on a back burner. I can hear Judge Leanne Litwin say, you fought for your kids once, I know you will fight for them again. I hear the whispers in the air repeating back her words, it's a psychological thing. I can hear judge Litwin telling me to comply with the courts and maybe I would be able to visit and see my children, after being alienated for two years. As I continuously objected on the record, Judge Litwin would ask me if I was making a threat to appeal as if it were not a right. On January 9th, 2024; she would ask me four times if my appeal was threat. The Judge's meant harm, however, they could only use Brian Colon to do it and so they did. Every violation of the orders would go unchecked, every contempt, every recusal, every appeal, would be hidden in silence behind their doors. I was, I am being retaliated against for fighting for my children, but I do think that there is something bigger. The Importance of Publishing the book or not publishing it. It was a denial of freedom of speech, as i now had to work Pro Se, instead of moving towards my personal Goals.
Their continued service on the bench is the THREAT to us as people, as parents, as grandparents, as those who believe in a system which should be fair. Yet, we are a threat to them and so our silence is bought behind those closed doors. I have been alienated for 2 years after going in front of Mark Cohen, Besty walh, and Judge Leanne Litwin unjustifiably so, since 2021. Almost two years after Lyris Younge was tried for the violation of OUR RIGHTS and abuse of the court's discretion, she was removed from the Philadelphia Family Courts and a lot of children got to go home, Alot of us got the justice we deserved.
For those reasons we cannot allow these judges to continue to violate our rights and silence us regardless of the outcomes. Most of the families I met and worked with were afraid during those 8 months, lived in fear, grief, hopelessness, and lack of understanding. We all are being taught to accept a faith, a judgement, an order being handed to us. Yet, we have the choice to decide who sits behind those closed doors and if they cannot rule fairly and adequately to protect us from harm in clear and convincing evidence, they need not sit behind the desk in a robe, as now, they are to be judged for their actions.
Judge Papademetriou, Like Mark Cohen, Like Lyris Younge, Like Besty Wahl, Like Leanne Litwin, would also violate my rights and try to force me to accept the terms and conditions as she ruled over my case and tainted my history. While publicly affiliated with organizations like Women Against Abuse, somehow Brian Colon contacted women against abuse, in this contact Brian hired them to represent him for one case, he quickly fired them for other future proceedings, obtaining his original attorney, However, his original attorney would not represent him until the last hearing; The attorney's partner would sit in for Freddy Godoy. A conflict of interest of me retaining an attorney with free legal aid had to be created, but Godoy would have to not incriminate himself on the record. He knows of father's history criminal, abuse, and drug addictions; therefore, it would lead to further complications for their record and evidentiary bias.
My original attorneys were not allowed to represent me and opportunity for free legal service was blocked. I filed a Nunc Pro Tunc on the case in front of Papademetriou, for procedural error; as she never looked into Brian's criminal history, she never looked into his drug history, she never looked at my bruises he left on my body, my police reports, anything. His lawyer would appear to court and present testimony without, adhering to the judicial docket of the hearing being postponed until custody matters had been established. Brian was granted a PFA with my attendance at the hearing and just as custody, my motions and appeals would be denied and blocked from reaching the superior court, surprisingly by the staff or someone in particular who worked within the superior court.
An ally for the judges at first but now; they needed to protect themselves from oversight from their abuse and retaliatory practices. For Papademetriou to support and affiliate with Women Against Abuse, indeed shows contrary support for women who are actually being abused in their homes. If judgement is available, if evidence is available, for who is it available to and why would it now be allowed?
However, Mark Cohen did submit an opinion to my NUNC PRO TUNC, only after mailing it to a different address not associated with the address on my Dockets. He would use Judge Litwin's EDA, instead of the EDA his was provided for his case number, which then reveals nothing more but ex-parte communication.
Mark Cohen's clerk would write in his opinion; While she seems to believe she has enough legal knowledge to successfully self -represent, she in truth, does not have enough legal knowledge to make sound arguments to support her case in law or in fact."
Was it my skin, was it my class, Was it my financial status? This doubt, this kind of emotional abuse could be enough to mentally disturb someone. It's a psychological thing Litwin would say. I am not Mark Cohen, do NOT mention his name in my courts, do not!
Justice available to whom?
I hired an attorney to sue judge Lyris Younge in 2020. Yet, after filings were made, I was told they could no longer represent me. Had the case persisted, would I have been able to escape retaliation? To go into a court room and have a fair hearing? Bigger question, would I have known that my children's father would have done this to me and aide them in doing so? To what point did I have to be demeaned in order to feel less than, to give up, to know my place in this world? It wasn't enough being Handcuffed and stripped searched, while my children were taken away? It wasn't enough being raped and abused by my children's father; it wasn't enough that my character was being discredited because of who my children's father is and how we initially ended up in front of Judge Younge. Goal, to continue to discredit and distort the realities of those who they believe are mentally ill, those who they believe have suffered through more than enough trauma and can be challenged to break at any given moment. This is what they sought, what they seek, and what needs to be fought against again.
While I know many of these details are personal, it needs to be spoken about. Please read over the transcripts and know the importance of determining who we would like to sit in our family Courts and courts as Judge's. While judge Leanne Litwin, Besty Wahl, and Mark Cohen are not up for retention I do believe they need to be acknowledged as well. This time the JCB did not take my complaint as I submitted alone, Although the superior court is an option I have no way of gaining access to these options considering those who are aiding in their movement. All remedies for relief have been exhausted. We can either heal, aide in healing, or be the cause of someone's death. Those people who do break because of these abuses become unpredictable and may harm themselves or others, if we can stop this, if we can advocate for change, we can save lives and generations from this trauma which is being used as a judicial tool within cycles.
Below are the Links to Portions of my transcripts; from Judge Mark Cohen, Judge Leanne Litwin, and Papademetriou. This includes docs of strategy by the superior and family courts; to be discreet about abuse of discretion, intimidation, emotional coercion, and due process.
https://smallpdf.com/file#s=29ce8cf4-9768-4420-a03e-0857e597ba1c
https://smallpdf.com/file#s=1d551884-fa0c-4650-9dc3-2e577a09bf48
https://smallpdf.com/file#s=cb538c9d-1a19-4475-bc7b-88dc8be849f4
if we stop this—if we advocate for change—we save lives and generations.
Philadelphia Family Court Judge, Lyris F. Younge is well known for her history of violating parents rights, Lack of providing due process in court proceedings, and creating Judicial parental alienation. Within her short time on the bench, Younge has amassed more appeals then any other judge in the Philadelphia Family Court Of Common Pleas, which has resulted in 9 ruling overturns by the Superior Court. Hundreds of families have been affected due to younge's unsupported decisions. Younge is suppose to preserve the family unit, and ONLY place children who are not safe and in danger. Lyris Younge has made it her goal to separate families, terminate parental rights, and adopt their children out. How can we have faith in our judiciary system when the superior court acknowledges, Lyris Younge's goal is to deteriorate the bond between parents and children. Younge has been warned many times to be faithful to the law, However; has yet to be. There needs to be a serious change made + we need everyones help to do so.
Below are quotes by Superior Court Judges during their decision to overturn Younge on an appeal and several articles that will support our change petition.
“Despite record evidence that the trail court allegedly relied upon, the one factor, the elephant in the room, is that the trail judge was and remains the cause of deteriorated bond between parents,"
“ Despite the goals of child protective service laws, the trail judge seems to have done everything in her power to alienate these parents from their child, appears to have a fixed idea about this matter."
“The punishment effectuated by the trail judge was, at best, neglectful and, at worst, designed to affect the bond between parents and N.M. So that termination would be the natural outcome of the proceedings.”
“ We find that the record herein provides example after example of overreaching, failing to be fair and impartial, evidence of a fixed presumptive idea of what took place, and failure to provide due process.”
“ In essence, this is an example of Judicially- created parental alienation.”
“ Further she prohibited evidence to be introduced that might have forced her to change her opinion.”
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The Issue
THE ORGINAL PETITION FOR THE REMOVAL OF JUDGE LYRIS YOUNGE IS POSTED BELOW. HOWEVER, I CREATED AN UPDATE DUE TO UPCOMING JUDICIAL RETENTION AND RETAILATION THAT HAS OCCURRED SINCE 2021. PLEASE READ, SHARE, AND SHARE. SHARING THIS HAS NOT BEEN AN EASY PROCESS BUT IT IS NECESSARY.
The Issue
There's a risk that comes with repetition I once read.
I knew retaliation was possible but yet I didn't know how it would appear. I spent eight months fighting for my children, not knowing how something like this could happen to me but then I realized, it wasn't just me, it was happening to everyone under a statistical scope. Was it wrong to fight for my children, to fight for the people I loved the most, to break out of the grid and the statistical view of being a mother with six children who was silently being abused by her spouse? The only thing that was wrong, was my silence about him and the silence of those we stood in front of to seek justice. Only to watch, hear, and later feel their stance and hate.
We, the undersigned, need to stand strong in opposition to the retention and endorsements of these Judges. While everyone is not up for Judicial retention this upcoming November. Judge Lyris Younge and Judge Ourania Papademetriou are. The judges robed, judging us on experiences in which they could not bare if they were to walk in our shoes and succumb to unfair practices; they alike, sharing the same identities, regardless of facial structure, color, and divisions.
Outsiders and colleagues would admire them because of their achievements and involvements with the communities. Those who's gone before them had no one to speak about the evils faced in their court rooms. Judge Lyris Younge, had me put in hand cuffs while she ordered my children to be taken away. Then, I didn't understand what was happening, I saw my entire life as a foster child, someone aging out of the system, to now having children who were being put into the system, without any logical explanation, as I sat in the cell.
Then, only way we could be heard is if we moved in numbers, which I did. The JCB had no other choice but to listen, especially after the articles, however; to petition myself back into their courts hoping to have a fair outcome during my separation from the children's father, showed me that their Judiciary system wasn't built on integrity, honesty, and fair outcomes, especially after what had taken place with Younge. Bias existed and it was practiced as law. Judge Younge took away children unjustly, she terminated parental rights, she alienated children from their families, and NOW, I had other judges doing the same to me for fighting against it the first time!
While outside the family courthouse protesting Judge Lyris Younge, my children's father walked pass me, he walked pass the other parents, the reporters and went home. A year later, I decided to leave him, to write a book about growing up within the foster care system, aging out of it and surprisingly encountering judge Lyris Younge. I was excited to leave him, to be with my children without him, he was and is abusive. however, this time after deciding to leave me for the umpteenth time, i witnessed an infuriation like I never seen before. He saw my progression and hated it. He strangled me while holding our new baby in my arms, he broke into my home, busted the pipes, called DHS on me and told them I wasn't feeding the children, he hired an attorney behind my back. which would assist him in presenting evidence which would make him the judge's new ally, leading to retaliation and alienation.
In 2021 I went before Judge Mark Cohen, who would coercively pressure me to proceed without an attorney as Brian Colon and his attorney Freddy Godoy introduced me as the woman who organized the protests and movement against judge Lyris Younge. He would tell them I was writing a book. He would ask me about sharing legal custody with Brian but then after taking away my custody, he would tell me that this particular hearing wasn't my custody hearing, later denying me access to my children, even visitation. The use of Mark Cohen's Statements, sought to create confusion, which it did then, along with emotional duress. I wasn't placed in handcuffs as Younge did prior while she ordered my children to be taken away, this time the hand cuffs were invisible, the ones on my wrists, the ones on feet, and the weight which would be held over my head. To then again question, what happened in that court room? What went wrong again? Freedom of speech, freedom for peace, freedom to be me? It was a crime to rise beyond the circumstances that sought to keep me silent and in bondage.
All the research I did, everything I worked on during that year would have to go on a back burner. I can hear Judge Leanne Litwin say, you fought for your kids once, I know you will fight for them again. I hear the whispers in the air repeating back her words, it's a psychological thing. I can hear judge Litwin telling me to comply with the courts and maybe I would be able to visit and see my children, after being alienated for two years. As I continuously objected on the record, Judge Litwin would ask me if I was making a threat to appeal as if it were not a right. On January 9th, 2024; she would ask me four times if my appeal was threat. The Judge's meant harm, however, they could only use Brian Colon to do it and so they did. Every violation of the orders would go unchecked, every contempt, every recusal, every appeal, would be hidden in silence behind their doors. I was, I am being retaliated against for fighting for my children, but I do think that there is something bigger. The Importance of Publishing the book or not publishing it. It was a denial of freedom of speech, as i now had to work Pro Se, instead of moving towards my personal Goals.
Their continued service on the bench is the THREAT to us as people, as parents, as grandparents, as those who believe in a system which should be fair. Yet, we are a threat to them and so our silence is bought behind those closed doors. I have been alienated for 2 years after going in front of Mark Cohen, Besty walh, and Judge Leanne Litwin unjustifiably so, since 2021. Almost two years after Lyris Younge was tried for the violation of OUR RIGHTS and abuse of the court's discretion, she was removed from the Philadelphia Family Courts and a lot of children got to go home, Alot of us got the justice we deserved.
For those reasons we cannot allow these judges to continue to violate our rights and silence us regardless of the outcomes. Most of the families I met and worked with were afraid during those 8 months, lived in fear, grief, hopelessness, and lack of understanding. We all are being taught to accept a faith, a judgement, an order being handed to us. Yet, we have the choice to decide who sits behind those closed doors and if they cannot rule fairly and adequately to protect us from harm in clear and convincing evidence, they need not sit behind the desk in a robe, as now, they are to be judged for their actions.
Judge Papademetriou, Like Mark Cohen, Like Lyris Younge, Like Besty Wahl, Like Leanne Litwin, would also violate my rights and try to force me to accept the terms and conditions as she ruled over my case and tainted my history. While publicly affiliated with organizations like Women Against Abuse, somehow Brian Colon contacted women against abuse, in this contact Brian hired them to represent him for one case, he quickly fired them for other future proceedings, obtaining his original attorney, However, his original attorney would not represent him until the last hearing; The attorney's partner would sit in for Freddy Godoy. A conflict of interest of me retaining an attorney with free legal aid had to be created, but Godoy would have to not incriminate himself on the record. He knows of father's history criminal, abuse, and drug addictions; therefore, it would lead to further complications for their record and evidentiary bias.
My original attorneys were not allowed to represent me and opportunity for free legal service was blocked. I filed a Nunc Pro Tunc on the case in front of Papademetriou, for procedural error; as she never looked into Brian's criminal history, she never looked into his drug history, she never looked at my bruises he left on my body, my police reports, anything. His lawyer would appear to court and present testimony without, adhering to the judicial docket of the hearing being postponed until custody matters had been established. Brian was granted a PFA with my attendance at the hearing and just as custody, my motions and appeals would be denied and blocked from reaching the superior court, surprisingly by the staff or someone in particular who worked within the superior court.
An ally for the judges at first but now; they needed to protect themselves from oversight from their abuse and retaliatory practices. For Papademetriou to support and affiliate with Women Against Abuse, indeed shows contrary support for women who are actually being abused in their homes. If judgement is available, if evidence is available, for who is it available to and why would it now be allowed?
However, Mark Cohen did submit an opinion to my NUNC PRO TUNC, only after mailing it to a different address not associated with the address on my Dockets. He would use Judge Litwin's EDA, instead of the EDA his was provided for his case number, which then reveals nothing more but ex-parte communication.
Mark Cohen's clerk would write in his opinion; While she seems to believe she has enough legal knowledge to successfully self -represent, she in truth, does not have enough legal knowledge to make sound arguments to support her case in law or in fact."
Was it my skin, was it my class, Was it my financial status? This doubt, this kind of emotional abuse could be enough to mentally disturb someone. It's a psychological thing Litwin would say. I am not Mark Cohen, do NOT mention his name in my courts, do not!
Justice available to whom?
I hired an attorney to sue judge Lyris Younge in 2020. Yet, after filings were made, I was told they could no longer represent me. Had the case persisted, would I have been able to escape retaliation? To go into a court room and have a fair hearing? Bigger question, would I have known that my children's father would have done this to me and aide them in doing so? To what point did I have to be demeaned in order to feel less than, to give up, to know my place in this world? It wasn't enough being Handcuffed and stripped searched, while my children were taken away? It wasn't enough being raped and abused by my children's father; it wasn't enough that my character was being discredited because of who my children's father is and how we initially ended up in front of Judge Younge. Goal, to continue to discredit and distort the realities of those who they believe are mentally ill, those who they believe have suffered through more than enough trauma and can be challenged to break at any given moment. This is what they sought, what they seek, and what needs to be fought against again.
While I know many of these details are personal, it needs to be spoken about. Please read over the transcripts and know the importance of determining who we would like to sit in our family Courts and courts as Judge's. While judge Leanne Litwin, Besty Wahl, and Mark Cohen are not up for retention I do believe they need to be acknowledged as well. This time the JCB did not take my complaint as I submitted alone, Although the superior court is an option I have no way of gaining access to these options considering those who are aiding in their movement. All remedies for relief have been exhausted. We can either heal, aide in healing, or be the cause of someone's death. Those people who do break because of these abuses become unpredictable and may harm themselves or others, if we can stop this, if we can advocate for change, we can save lives and generations from this trauma which is being used as a judicial tool within cycles.
Below are the Links to Portions of my transcripts; from Judge Mark Cohen, Judge Leanne Litwin, and Papademetriou. This includes docs of strategy by the superior and family courts; to be discreet about abuse of discretion, intimidation, emotional coercion, and due process.
https://smallpdf.com/file#s=29ce8cf4-9768-4420-a03e-0857e597ba1c
https://smallpdf.com/file#s=1d551884-fa0c-4650-9dc3-2e577a09bf48
https://smallpdf.com/file#s=cb538c9d-1a19-4475-bc7b-88dc8be849f4
if we stop this—if we advocate for change—we save lives and generations.
Philadelphia Family Court Judge, Lyris F. Younge is well known for her history of violating parents rights, Lack of providing due process in court proceedings, and creating Judicial parental alienation. Within her short time on the bench, Younge has amassed more appeals then any other judge in the Philadelphia Family Court Of Common Pleas, which has resulted in 9 ruling overturns by the Superior Court. Hundreds of families have been affected due to younge's unsupported decisions. Younge is suppose to preserve the family unit, and ONLY place children who are not safe and in danger. Lyris Younge has made it her goal to separate families, terminate parental rights, and adopt their children out. How can we have faith in our judiciary system when the superior court acknowledges, Lyris Younge's goal is to deteriorate the bond between parents and children. Younge has been warned many times to be faithful to the law, However; has yet to be. There needs to be a serious change made + we need everyones help to do so.
Below are quotes by Superior Court Judges during their decision to overturn Younge on an appeal and several articles that will support our change petition.
“Despite record evidence that the trail court allegedly relied upon, the one factor, the elephant in the room, is that the trail judge was and remains the cause of deteriorated bond between parents,"
“ Despite the goals of child protective service laws, the trail judge seems to have done everything in her power to alienate these parents from their child, appears to have a fixed idea about this matter."
“The punishment effectuated by the trail judge was, at best, neglectful and, at worst, designed to affect the bond between parents and N.M. So that termination would be the natural outcome of the proceedings.”
“ We find that the record herein provides example after example of overreaching, failing to be fair and impartial, evidence of a fixed presumptive idea of what took place, and failure to provide due process.”
“ In essence, this is an example of Judicially- created parental alienation.”
“ Further she prohibited evidence to be introduced that might have forced her to change her opinion.”
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Petition created on May 23, 2018