Remi's Ramblings 1 - A Journal of a False Accusation of Child Abuse

You look good --- NOT!

2009-01-25T16:05:00.003-05:00

lol. Hey Twyla! How come you looking so haggard these days? You were just seen at Sav-A-Lot and you ain't lookin' so good! You were described as looking "aged, drawn in, haggard, blah."
What's the matter? Bad conscious got you down? It should!
See what happens when you lie about people and try to fuck up their life? Karma, baby. Karma. It takes a lot out of you when you lie like that. You look 20 years older than you are.
aw gee, too bad, so sad.
I told you, don't fuck with me. And you didn't listen. Now you pay the price bitch.

Life's Lessons 101 - Lesson Two

2008-12-31T18:18:00.004-05:00

In my last post, I mentioned Karma.
There is a thing called Karma and Karmic Justice. It means that what you do in life, you get back.
Nobody skips through life without consequences.
So Twyla, former friend, just because YOU didn't caught by the law in your lies, and the CPS Nazi's believed your filthy lies, doesn't mean you will get off scott free.
Your evil deeds will come back to haunt you. And I'm sure they already did. Did you sleep well the night of May 13, 2008? What happened at say, 5am? chuckle, chuckle. I told you to be careful of me. chuckle chuckle. I am the source of your nightmares. And you know it.
So keep on living your filthy evil life Twyla. Karma is gonna get you. gonna slap you in the face.
See, I won't have to do anything to do, except keep telling the world what a bitch you are. And I'm gonna keep warning people about you.
Just like I warned your inlaws about you. Your father in law never acknowledged your marriage in the first place. Now he knows he was right to give you and your daughters the cold shoulder all these years. He knows what a bitch you are. And so do your mother in law and your sister in law.
chuckle chuckle. yep. you tried to ruin my family life with my husband? ha ha ha. Your relationship with your inlaws got fucked---BY ME!
HA HA HA.
remember, Twyla, KARMA AND KARMIC JUSTICE.
May 2009 be hellish for you. the universe will see to it. You miserable two faced lying bitch, you deserve all the bad luck that's headed your way. And it's not up to me: it's up to the universe, God, Jesus, whatever you believe in. Cos, remember, God don't like ugly, and Jesus don't like liars. And the lies you told and your filthy deeds were so ugly, you ain't gonna go to heaven. You will burn in hell. And saying sorry ain't gonna help. You need to make restitution: you need to clear my husband's name. You need to look ME, your best friend, in the eye, (can you have the guts to?) and apologize to ME!!
Otherwise, your nightmares and your bad luck will continue! I promise that! Until the end of your days, and beyond, you will know no peace for what you did to me, my husband, and to Tay. and Lau. And that's the worst, what you did to your own little girls, you slut.

Life's Lessons 101

2008-10-15T05:02:00.007-05:00

Life's Lessons 101
Today's Lesson: Don't try to fuck up someone's life, because it just might backfire.

Ever hear that saying "What goes around, comes around?" Well it is very true. When you set out to make someone else's life miserable, you're only going to make yourself miserable. "What you reap is what you sow." Or, "What you give is what you get back."

Twyla tried her hardest to make shit for me and my husband. But we're still here, still as strong as ever! Where is she? Is she all happy-happy with her husband? Oh, hell no! HA HA HA HA! She is reaping the rewards for what she did. That bitch ain't never gonna be happy. But that's what she gets for trying to fuck up my life and my husband's life. Instead, her own life got fucked! Karma, baby, it's a bitch!

Happiness will always elude her, because she tried to fuck with someone's life. Oh, she may be laughing and whooping it up, but a truly happy person does not need alcohol or drugs. A substance abuser is really an unhappy person TRYING to be happy.
go look in the mirror Twyla, what do you see? A very unhappy person. A very jealous person.
But that's what you get when you fuck with someone.
Ha ha ha ha.
how's the grandma label fitting you?
Hope you didn't slap that daughter in the face and call her a whore like you did with your first born, when the child was only 12.
Maybe if you were a better mother and told A. the facts of life you'd not be a grandma by her now. Like you did such of wonderful job with J. You didn't tell her the facts of life either. Instead, you pawned the job off onto me.
yeah, karma bit you in the ass fo' shor' with that one!
I'm laughing at your "wonderful" little family life now. ha ha ha ha ha.

Friendship...love...BETRAYAL

2007-06-29T03:50:00.000-05:00

I had a wonderful friendship with Twyla. We were very close. I loved all her kids. When John and I got married in 2002, I was torn between chosing Twyla or my other friend Fran as my matron of honor. I couldn't bear to hurt either of them, so I chose my niece.
One time, I took Twyla to a woman's gathering. We met at this artist's house, where we had a potluck dinner, tarot card readings, and an outdoor circle. We gathered around a bonfire, quarter calls were said, drumming and percussives were used. One by one we women turned to each other and said, "I am (name), I am your sister, take my hand," until the circle of women-sisters was complete. It was a magickal evening, connecting with others in the sisterhood of women. Twyla also felt the magick.
so what happened Twyla, why did you do this to me? Why did you do this to my husband?
I loved you. I treasured you. I treasured our friendship.
Why would you try to set my husband up as you did?
Even if you thought that what you accuse my husband of doing was true, WHY DIDN'T YOU COME TO ME, YOUR SISTER, AND TALK TO ME?
The mere fact that you didn't talk to me, couldn't look me in the eye when you bumped into me at the bus stop (when I was coming off, and you were coming on, about a month after the accusation), shows me you DID REALLY LIE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED!!!
I know you too well Twyla, I know you lied about what happened. And that leaves me with this question:
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THAT FRIENDSHIP THAT YOU HAVE ADORED IS SNATCHED FROM UNDER YOU AND YOU NEVER SEEN IT COMING???
Do you know how much I cried? Not only over what you did to my husband, but what you did to our friendship. You took out my heart and killed it. You turned my heart black against you. Do you know how I felt when I sat on my porch and saw Jade leaving the house in her graduation dress and I couldn't come over and hug her? How all of a sudden, I was shut out? And I was supposed to become Lauren's godmother, and now I couldn't even say hello? How I took you to the hospital when you were in labor with Tiona, and I held her in the car when your stepfather died and we were leaving the funeral home? How I held her on your porch and gave her a bottle, and now I could only look across the street and wonder why you did this? How I gave Jade the birds and the bees talk, 'cos you were scared to and you begged me to do it?
WHY???? HOW COULD YOU?
What kind of woman are you?
the only mistake that John and I ever did was chose you and your rotten family as friends. All of you are liars. Every single last one of you are fucking losers.
One is on the way to being a high class call girl, (a fancy name for a 2 bit ho.)another is fucking wild.
At least John and I can hold our heads up and know in our hearts that our consciences are clear. We will stand before the Maker of All Things on the Judgement Day and know we did nothing wrong. Can you, me dear ex-friend say the same thing? Can your daughters say the same thing?

I am against child abuse, read this beautiful quote and take note of the person who says it.

2007-06-21T06:35:00.000-05:00

"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
-Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf

When I said this was a beautiful quote, I was being facetious. And take note of the person who said it. Several times in my blog here, I refer to Child Protective Services as NEO-NAZIS.
YES they are. They are following Adolf Hitler!

Just because some bitch of liar says my husband abused her kid, when she knew it was her own boyfriend, the CPS Nazi didn't bother to find out everything in the case. She just left my husband labeled a pervert. I hope that Nazi bitch rots in hell.

Game time again

2007-06-15T06:16:00.000-05:00

Wheel of Fortune (sort of) time again , but first, a word.
To anybody reading this, before you go further, be warned. This is a blog of an unpleasant happening. It is the story of a little girl who was sexually molested by her drunken mother's live-in boyfriend. It is the story of that little girl's mother who did nothing to protect her. It is the story of a rotten mother, who knew what was going on, did not stop it, and to prevent herself from implicated and charged as child abuser herself, plotted and schemed and put into motion events that would lead to an innocent man being accused of the abuse of her daughter.
That innocent man is my husband. And I know with every fiber of my being and soul, that he is innocent. I have known him since 1978. He lived with my other best friend for 6 years. Between the two of us, we know everything about that man. We both know he is innocent.
In some of my posts, particulary this one, I use explicit and sometimes harsh language. So let this be a warning: if you are easily offended, go now. But if you can overlook some of the harsh language, please read this story of justice derailed in this United States of America, where you are supposed to be innocent before proved guilty, but when you are dealing with Child Protective Services Neo-Nazis, you are labeled a pervert without getting both sides of the story told.
Put yourself in my shoes. How would you feel if your spouse or someone you love very much is accused of doing something, and you know they did not do it. How would you feel if the person who accuses your loved one is your best friend? How would you feel if you caught that person in lie after lie and that so-called best friend never came to you to talk about it, but comes to your door crying one night after hearing that your mother-in-law has died? She was crying and saying "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. AND THEN I read J's mother died."
What was she sorry about? she never met my mother in law. She has 2 statements: she is sorry, AND THEN she read J's mother died.
what was she sorry about? that she stabbed me and my husband in the back? I did not answer her, I didn't slam the door, I simply shut it in her face and went to bed. The next day, she complained to our neighbors that I wouldn't let her in my house. Why the hell would I? She was told she was wrong. Then that night, and this is after my mother in law's funeral, she sees my husband on our porch. She comes down off her porch steps, waving a liqour bottle around and starts swearing at my husband, and she calls me a slut.
What? Less than 24 hours previous, she was sobbing and apologizing, and offering condolences for my husband's mother death. Now she is verbally abusing us in her drunken state.
This blog shows that after 4 years, I am still hurt, angry and bitter. DAMN RIGHT I AM!

mother's name: a character in the 1952 movie King Solomon's Mines (in the movie, it is a male, and a king). But this Tw..a is not royalty, she is a straight up bitch! And her daughters are liars, just like she is.
A daughter of a preacher, Tw. P. has not learned her 10 Commandments. A drunken slut, who had affairs outside her marriage and in one drunken crying jag, she told me she loved her husband Gr. P. but they had not had sex for over 10 years.
mmm, at the time, her youngest 2 children were under the age of 10. Who are their fathers? The 2 oldest girls look like Gr. The other 2 look nothing like him, their 2 older sisters, or each other. And Tw. had the nerve to call ME a slut? Sorry toots, since 1975, I have had only TWO sexual partners, both of my husbands.
Tw., I think you need to learn the meaning of the word SLUT, because that is what YOU are, not me.A drunken, drug addict SLUT AND LYING BITCH! and a STANKY HO!
Hey, hope your movie star cousin don't find out what a slut you are. If I ever meet him, I will clue him in. And don't think I won't either. Cos you got me going, and I am like a bulldog: once I get my teeth into something, I don't give it up!
I told you once before what I am capable of, and you apparently didn't listen. I am proud of my heritage: German, Irish, Polish. (GIP).I got German arrogance, Irish temper and Polish stubbornness. Bitch ex-friend, ya'll got the GIP in me out, and it won't go back in until my husband and I get justice!
I told ya once before about me being a GIP. Next time, better listen when someone tells you something and don't fucking stab them in the back they way you did to me and my hubby.
Liar. You even lied to your own sister and told her my hubby's DNA was found on your daughter.Now, bitch, you know that ain't true, your kid wasn't even to the doctor's yet when you said that. And I read the doctor's report, it was in the Erie County file and it did not say that samples were taken from your daughter. And no samples were taken from my hubby.
And bitch, if the DNA matched, my hubby would be in jail RIGHT NOW! But he isn't, COS NO DNA FROM MY HUBBY MATCHED ANYTHING FOUND ON YOUR DAUGHTER.
SO WHO THE HELL IS LYING HERE? YOU ARE!
And only a slut would move here psycho boyfriend in to her house while her husband still lived there. (history of psych inpatient at a local hospital and going off on your mother on her birthday, calling her a bitch to her face).
The Erie County file shows that your 2 oldest daughters didn't like him. they told the investigator that there were physical fights between your boyfriend and your husband, physical fights between you and your boyfriend, physical fights between you and your husband. Nice environment for your kids. And your 2 oldest daughters told Child Protective Services that your boyfriend favored your 2 youngest daughter and verbally abused your 2 oldest daughters.
Bitch, slut, what kind of mother are you? You move this nut, who worked at a porn shop, into your home, slept with him in his bedroom off the kitchen, knew that he verbally abused your 2 oldest daughters, sexually molested your youngest daughter, and you think you are a good mother and a non-slut? HA! Think again.
When the so-called scenario of you first finding out about the abuse on the evening of May 13, 2003, do you immediately call 911 or Child Protective Services? NO. You wait until the next morning, and when he comes to your house to take the girls to the busstop, you say to him, you need to talk to him. You walk with him up A. St. to Bail. Then you wait until you are in front of your girlfriend Mo.'s house and pull out a knife. My hubby choked you, and when you go back home, do you call 911 that you were just choked? NO, you wait until May 26 to call child welfare hotline. Then you don't take your kid to a doctor until the middle of June.
And that bitch investigator thinks that this is decent family?
the father couldn't pay his gas bill because of his drugs. The family goes without heat for 3 years in a row. Meanwhile, my hubby and I felt bad for your kids and sent over a heater.
WE LOOKED OUT FOR YOUR KIDS BETTER THAN YOU DID AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY US!!!!!!!!!
Oh yes, you told the investigator that on the morning of May 14, 2003, you called my hubby and told him to meet you at the firehall.
Now, bitch I caught you in a lie. There were NO calls to my house from you, either your house or your cell. I check the caller ID of all calls to my house everyday. And you did not call.
You told the investigator that you met my husband at the firehall and confronted him about molest Tiona.
LIAR! I was on my porch that morning and saw YOU AND MY HUBBY WALKING UP A. ST TOWARDS BAIL.
YOU DID NOT MEET HIM AT THE FIREHALL LIKE YOU LIED AND SAID TO THE CPS WORKER! I SAW YOU. BY THE GODS, I WISH I HAD A PICTURE OF IT TO PROVE IT. BUT I KNOW WHAT I SAW. YOU DID NOT CALL MY HOUSE, YOU DID NOT MEET HIM AT THE FIREHALL, YOU WALKED UP THE STREET WITH HIM!
And you walked calmly, you did NOT have the demeanor of a mother who is walking up the street with the man who molested your daughter.
BECAUSE YOU WERE SETTING HIM UP!
WHAT KIND OF PERSON ARE YOU, YOU LOWLIFE? I SPIT 10,000 TIMES ON YOU. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABORTED BEFORE BIRTH!

Then, my wonderful good friend sees me on the bus in August 2005 and she is still with her skunky boyfriend, but she told the investigator in 2003, that he was out of the picture.
Yeah, your boyfriend threatened me on the bus, and you mouthed off to me. I had 7 teeth pulled out just a few days before, and had stitches in my mouth. I said not one word to you or your psycho boyfriend, I simply changed my seat to get away from the bus wheels and them bumping my sore mouth and you 2 fucking assholes start with me!
And the next day you call a false child abuse report on me!
What did I ever do to you, my good friend? I sent you a letter in August 2003 urging you to get help for your alcholic problem. I see you took my advice and went into rehab. But you didn't learn did you? You went back into detox in March 2005.
You are total fuckup, a straight up bitch, a drunken slut, a ho who slept around on her husband, had 2 kids by 2 more men while still married to your husband, move in your psycho boyfriend and sleep with him while your drug addict husband is still living there, you let that pig boyfriend molest your kid, look the other way, and blame an innocent man for it.
And you call me a slut?
AND you are a welfare cheat! You and your husband defrauded the welfare system for over $9000.00. You didn't report his unemployment and his job at Rand Machine (corner of Jefferson and Best) did you in 1990?
And your skunky boyfriend did the same. He owed over $3000.00.

Above in my warning, I said that Ywla plotted and schemed and put into motion events that would lead to an innocent man being accused of the abuse of her daughter. plotted and schemed and put into motion events that would lead to an innocent man being accused of the abuse of her daughter.
I say this because of this: the family consisted of Ywla, her husband and their 4 kids and Ywla's live-in boyfriend. Gr. husband lost his job in March 2003. ok, the 2 older girls left for school before 8am. Ywla left around 8 to go to her job. I am not sure when Gr. left for his job prior to getting fired. Yes, he got fired, not laid off. Jeff, the live-in boyfriend did not have a job. He would get the younger girls ready for school and take them to the bus stop. All of a sudden, in April 2003, Ywla came to my husband and said that Jeff was sick and would he, my husband take the girls to the busstop. As my husband's job started in the afternoon, and he was only part time, he could do this as a favor. After a couple of weeks, Jeff was better, but my husband continued taking the girls to the busstop, because they always liked him.
Now comes the shit. In April 2003, Ywla's nephew came to live with the family. Sooo, when my hubby got there in the mornings, M. the nephew was there, as was Jeff and Gr, who both had no jobs but were up and about. Remember, Jeff got the girls ready.
When ywla made the child abuse call on May 26th (altho she supposedly "found out" about the abuse the evening of May 13), she specifically says that my hubby had been taking the girls to the busstop for 6-7 months. Counting back 6-7 months takes us to November. Well, my hubby was working full time at K-Mart in November-December. For the holiday shopping season, K-Mart opened up at 5 and 6am. My hubby was at work.
You see what I mean? Ywla lied to the Child Protective Services worker. My hubby did not start taking the girls to the busstop until April and did that bitch of a CPS worker bother to listen when we tried to tell her of the lies that we caught Ywala in? NO, THAT NAZI BITCH DID NOT!
This was a set-up from the word go. Ywla did this because she knew that if it got out that her boyfriend the true molestor got caught, she would be charged with aiding and abetting it. She was an accomplice in her daughter's molestation and she knew it. And to save her own rotten skin, she let it continue, and she knowingly labeled an innocent man a child abuser.
And equally as immoral, she DID NOT PROTECT HER LITTLE CHILD, THAT SWEETHEART, WAS LEFT IN THE HANDS OF THE BOYFRIEND TO BE FURTHER MOLESTED.
DAMN YOU TWYLA, DAMN YOU TO HELL!
Slut?, no, I don't think there are any names or words strong enough to call you.
I hate you til the day I die and beyond. I will haunt you until I die. I will haunt you after I die. You know what I can do. I will haunt your dreams. You will never rest. You will regret what you did.
I will break no law, because bitch, you ain't worth me ruining my good record. I have broke no law in the past, and I won't now.

But I curse you and hex you. And you know what I speak about.
For what you did to my husband and to me, I will exact a heavy toll.
For what you did to your own children, the gods will exact a heavy toll.
sleep well while you can, Twy-a.

Sex Offender Issues: Brother Of Jessica Lunsford Faces Sex Charges

2007-06-13T11:47:00.000-05:00

Sex Offender Issues: Brother Of Jessica Lunsford Faces Sex Charges

Yeah, Joshua Lunsford, 17 years old, was kissing his 14 year old girlfriend and he "fondled her. He probably did a little bit of "petting" which is quite normal with teenagers. And now he is labeled a child molestor.
THIS is why my husband cannot get his name cleared!
Jessica Lunsford was abducted and killed by a child predator. Her father, Mark Lunsford pushed for laws requiring sexual offender registries.
John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted, whose Adam was killed in 1982, is another one who USED his son's murder to create a climate of Fascism in our country.
YES, child molestation is terrible, and the offender should be punished ACCORDINGLY. But with all the public hysteria, and this modern day witchhunt and blacklisting just like in the 1950's McCarthyism, ANY person with just a HINT of this crime is labeled as guilty IMMEDITALY.
Child Protective Services is working with a severe caseload and not enough workers. It is easier to just shove things under the rug, label the person as guilty, and go on to the next case.
This is what happened with my husband's case. As soon as CPS knew the police were involved, Rachel Grohman the investigator of the case, rubberstamped my husband's file just to get it off her desk. To do this, she HAD to label my husband as guilty. The police and the DA continued their investigation for a few months later and determined that my husband is INNOCENT! But CPS won't rescind their finding, because then they would have to admit that they DID NOT investigate into WHO REALLY MOLESTED TIONA POWELL.
Ms. Grohman "followed" the family for a few months and closed the investigation in December of 2003. Her final findings were that the mother's boyfriend was "out of the picture."
NO HE WAS NOT AND NEVER WAS! The family covered up his existence, with his address listed as elsewhere. (the maternal grandmother's house).
Tyra Powell and her daughters listed their address as 1970 Cl. St., lower apartment. I know, because I talked to R. S., the owner of the house.
She subsequently moved out of that house in 2004. Where, I do not know, BUT in late March of 2006, Jeff Shaw (the mother's boyfriend and who I suspect as the true molestor of Tiona), was living in that same apartment! His name was on the mailbox!
AND his body was found in that same apartment when he died. AND I SAW TIONA AND HER SISTER LINDA'S BIKES IN THE BACKYARD OF 1970 CL. ST IN APRIL 2006! (purple and pink bikes, the same bikes that they had when they were living across the street from me, I know those bikes. I saw them in the backyard of the apartment building (well 2 apartment house), where Jeff Shaw was living when he died!
OUT OF THE PICTURE? HELL NO, HE WAS VERY MUCH STILL IN THE LIVES OF THE POWELL FAMILY AND MY HUSBAND AND I SAW HIM ALONE WITH LINDA AND TIONA POWELL SEVERAL TIMES ON THE BUS!
But CPS says that by December 2003, Jeff Shaw was out of the picture and not in their lives!
mmm, yes, you can see that I have done my bit of "private investigating." It seems that I have done a better job investigating my husband's case than that bitch of an investigator
(umm, to those interested, I also happen to know that Jade, the oldest daughter in the family worked in the pastry shop across and down the street a bit from where she lived at 1970 Cl.) (dayam, I'm good! I'm a hell of a better investigator than the so-called lying professional CPS worker).
I also found evidence in 2005 on a computer that Jeff Shaw was accessing internet porn on a day that he was home alone with Tiona and Linda when they were 3 and 4 years old. This occured at 4 in the afternoon. The computer was given to me by Jade Powell and it was broken. I finally had it fixed and found the urls of porn sites and the dates and times those sites were accessed, other sites accessed from 5 - 8pm. Yeah, Rachel Grohman, it seems you didn't know that a child predator was living in the Powell family did you?
Rachel Grohman, may she rot in hell. Because of HER stupidity and laziness, an innocent man is left with the label of a pervert, and it is RACHEL'S fault, along with the mother of Tiona, Tyra Powell, that Tyra was molested and left in the hands of a fucking drunken mother and her child molesting boyfriend!

Get it Right T.S.!

2007-04-03T22:49:00.000-05:00

ok Tyra's brother in law complained to our nieghbor that I posted his name on the internet and Jade's picture. LIAR! I have changed EVERY NAME and I HAVE NEVER POSTED JADE'S PICTURE HERE or anywhere else on the internet. I described the picture, but not her. I did publish pictures of a computer that Jade gave me, and I found evidence of internet porn accessed during the daytime, when the girl's mother's boyfriend was home alone during the day with the 2 youngest girls when they were 3 and 4 years old. It's on a post right here, a few posts down.

So anyway T. S. if you are pissed, go complain to your lying sister-in-law. She started this mess, not me.

And also if you are so damned smart, please explain the following inconsistencies in the official file. With handwritten notes by the Child Protective Services investigator. The investigator's own notes show the 4 children contradict each other, and Tiona contradicts herself. The investigators own notes catch Tyra in a couple of lies. The investigator herself notes Tyra's "lack of cooperation."
No where in the file does it say that DNA samples were taken from Tiona, or my husband, yet prior to that, Tyra was telling her sister, your wife, Teddy, that my husband's DNA matched that found on Tiona. And if your wife denies saying she asked me that question during our phone conversation, the morning after her son assaulted my husband, well, then I see she needs to learn the 10 Commandments.
("Well didn't J.'s DNA match that found on Tiona?")
Ok Mr. SmartyPants, if my husband's DNA matched whatever was "found" on Tiona, how come he ain't in jail? DNA freed an innocent man this week who spent 20 years in jail for 2 rapes that he was wrongfully accused and convicted of, 2 rapes that the bike-path rapist did.
See DNA is a wonderful thing. You can't get around it. If my husband's DNA WAS on Tiona, he'd have been charged and put away. This shows that your sister in law is a fucking liar!

The following are the "facts" that we know of, and some of them don't ring true. And why don't you come and talk to me, and not gossip to the neighbors and trying to spread more lies? See, all you did was make yourself out to be the fool.
But then Tyra has been making all you guys fools all along since she moved that pig boyfriend of hers into her house and carried on with him right in front of her no-good husband. The 3 of them, Tyra, Gary and Jeff Shaw are to blame for this mess. Go put the blame where it belongs.

1. When Tyra called child abuse the evening of 5-26, 2003, she reported that the abuse happened every MORNING before school. Tiona says it “always happened in the morning.” Then Tiona says, it “always happened at night.”
? How did Jeff Parker abuse Tiona at night?

2. Jade says Jeff Parker picked her up when she was 5 years old. We were not friends with the Powell family until 1992, when Jade was 7. Prior to that, we only knew them as neighbors. Jeff worked the night shift at Quality Markets, 250 E. Ave. and slept during the day. Jade was never at our house, nor was Jeff at her house when she was 5 years old.

3. When Tiona was asked “where was your sister (Linda),” (when the abuse happened), she said “sleeping.” Tyra reports the abuse happened in the morning prior to Jeff taking the girls to the bus stop. The girls (Linda and Tiona) were awake when he arrived at their house to take them to the bus stop. Or did Linda sleepwalk all thru getting ready for school? Linda says she saw Jeff Parker put his sexual organ in his mouth. This contradicts what Tiona said.
? How does 7 year old Linda know what a man’s sexual organ is? She didn’t learn it from Jeff Parker, and NO-ONE has said that Jeff Parker did anything to her, in fact, Linda says he did not.
? Why did the investigator not pursue the issue that Jeff Parker “exposed” himself to Linda if this in fact had happened? But then Linda says he didn’t do anything to her, so her whole statement is contradictory.

4. Tiona says that both she and Jeff Parker were “fully clothed.” Amy says she saw Jeff Parker come out of Tiona’s bedroom with his pants down around his knees. This contradicts what Tiona said.
? Why would Jeff Parker come out of the bedroom with his pants down around his knees. Would he not pull them up before he came out of the room?
? When did Amy see this? If it was the morning of 5-13-03, why did Amy not report it to her parents or Jeff Shaw? When Jeff Parker got Linda and Tiona off the school bus at 4pm, 5-13-03, and brought them home, Amy was home from school and her father Gary was there. Why couldn’t Gary or Amy get the girls off the bus? Obviously she had not told Gary about it, as Gary acted normally towards Jeff Parker that afternoon. She also did not tell her mother about it when she got home from work, as Tyra says she first found out about the abuse the evening of 5-13-03. Jade reports that that evening, she saw Tiona “looking scared.” She questions Tiona, and Tiona says Jeff Parker has been abusing her. Then Jade tells Tyra. Was Tiona not scared all day in school or when Jeff Parker got her off the school bus at 4pm? Now in the evening, when Jeff Parker is not at their house, all of a sudden she is scared, and all of a sudden Amy comes up with seeing Jeff Parker with his pants down around his knees. And all of a sudden Amy tells a story that the previous summer Jeff Parker had tried to kiss her and put his tongue in her mouth. Why has Amy not told anyone about the kiss or seeing Jeff Parker with his pants down before the evening of 5-13-03? She does not say that Jeff Parker threatened her into silence.

5. Tyra has found about the abuse the evening of 5-13-03. Why does she not call 911 or take her daughter to the doctor until the middle of June. She does not call anyone until 5-26-03. The morning of 5-14-03 she says she confronts Jeff Parker and he chokes her. Why does she not call the police and have him arrested for abusing her child and assaulting her?

6. The door to the Powell house needs a key to lock it. Jeff Parker was never given a key to the house. Who let him in the house in the mornings and who locked the door when he left with Tiona and Linda to go to the bus stop? There obviously was an adult there when he left as Jade and Amy have gone to school. And this can be proven with dates and time records of when Linda and Tiona were put on the school bus (9am) and when Jade and Amy have arrived at their schools. So this proves that Jeff Parker was never alone with Tiona. Tiona's father Gary Powell and Tiona's mother's boyfriend Jeff Shaw were there! Gary did not have a job. He had no place to go on weekday mornings. He was home. He was there when Jeff Parker supposedly abused Tiona. As was Jeff Shaw. They were up and about to let Jeff in the house and lock the door after he left.

7.The district attorney says “all the activity happened in the back room.” The back room was Jeff Shaw’s bedroom. If the activity happened in Jeff Shaw’s room, why did Amy say she saw Jeff Parker with his pants down coming out of Tiona’s bedroom.

8. Why did Gary and Tyra Powell give Romana Grohman the run-around the days of 5-27-03, and 5-28-03, and not speak to her? Her own notes say this and she has to go to the school to talk to Linda and Tiona. Why would Tyra call the child abuse hotline and then not make an effort to speak to the Child Protective Services investigator? Meanwhile, the whole summer of 2003, the Parker’s were on the phone calling Ms. Grohman to come and talk to them. She never returned their phone calls.

9. Tyra lies to the investigator when she has to go rehab in August 2003. She fails to tell Grohman that the foster mother is her sister A. B..Why was it necessary for the children to go to a foster home? Their father, Gary Powell did not have a job. Since he was an incapable parent, and the mother was an alcoholic, it is clear that the Powell family was dysfunctional.

10. During the investigation, Ms. Grohman notes that all 4 girls have told her that their mother, Tyra hits them with belts. Why did Ms. Grohman not immediately charge Tyra with child abuse and remove the children?

11. Why did Tyra Powell lie to the investigator about Jeff Shaw’s whereabouts? In September 2003, his address is given as ** Co. Ave. Jade Powell, 17 ½ years of age, is also listed at that address. Did the investigator not see that a minor child is now living with a 60 year old unrelated male? Also ** Co. Ave.is a house that is owned by H.P.M., the mother of Tyra Powell. In December 2003, Tyra’s address is listed as 19** Cl. St. (lower apt.). Tyra says that Jeff Shaw is “out of the picture.” (and she has a new boyfriend.) If Jeff Shaw was out of the picture, why was he seen by both Jeff and Remi Parker at different times on the city buses with Linda and Tiona, and when he died in March 2006, his body was found by the Buffalo Police in his apartment at 19** Cl.St. (lower apt.) The apartment was officially Jeff Shaw’s as his name was on the mailbox and mail from Rent***, addressed to Jeff Shaw, 19** Cl. St. was in the mailbox. If Jeff Shaw was “out of the picture” by December 2003, why were his funeral arrangements and death notice in The Buffalo News in April 2006 made by Tyra Powell?

12. Why did Tyra come to the Parker’s house the night of August 1, 2003 to express condolences to Jeff Parker when she found out his mother died? This is not consistent for a mother to express condolences to the man who molested her daughter. She was crying (why?, she never met D. Parker) and she said to Remi Parker, “I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry, and then I read that Jeff’s mother died.” Remi did not say anything to her, just shut the door. The next afternoon (8-2-03), Tyra was going to the neighbors complaining that Remi would not let her in the Parker’s house and later that night, (after D. Parker’s funeral) Tyra was screaming obscenities at Remi and Jeff Parker, calling Remi a slut.

Tyra’s behavior from May 13, 2003 to August 2003 is contradictory, evasive to the authorities and is not consistent with a mother concerned for the health of her child.

13. Why is it that all 4 of the girls (Jade, Amy, Linda and Tiona) and Tyra’s statements all contradict each other, and sometimes contradict their own statements, yet all 4 girls have this same exact wording: “(Jeff Parker) was mean to me and I was uncomfortable around him.” Why did none of the girls say to any adult, that Jeff Parker had made them uncomfortable until May of 2003. Why did Jade say she was uncomfortable around Jeff Parker since she was 5 years of age, yet we have photographs of her around Jeff and she is very much comfortable with him. Why did all the girls say they were uncomfortable around him, yet 10 months prior to May 2003, on August 10, 2002, when the Powells hosted a barbecue in their backyard to celebrate the Parker's wedding, all the girls were very involved will all 4 of them playing special roles in the barbecue. Jade was the DJ, Linda and Tiona were “ushers,” greeting the guests and escorting them to the backyard and Amy helped with serving the food. All 4 girls were happy to see the Parker’s get married and in the photographs of this event, were all smiling around Jeff Parker, and did not appear uncomfortable at all.

K's Let it out Part 2

2007-02-15T17:24:00.001-05:00

I finally did hear back from Let it out. They said the following:
Unfortunately, your recent upload is not suitable for the Let it Out(tm) site. Why?
1) Inappropriate use of language.
2) Your image or video contains content that could be considered copyright infringement.
3) Inappropriate to our community.
WOW! Talk about sticking their heads in the sand!

Right now, their server is down. I haven't been able to get to the site for over 24 hours. When I do, I will copy and paste what I wrote. There was no offensive language. I merely said that my husband was falsely accused of child abuse. I then gave the url address to Remi's Ramblings, my more thorough blog. There is no copyright violation, as all I did was give a web address. So I guess it falls under it being inappropriate to their community., Yep, REAL issues faced by people are NOT welcome there!

A Clarification on my husband's status.

2007-02-15T03:20:00.001-05:00

A Clarification on my husband's status.
To all readers of my blog:
I hope I didn't give the impression that my husband is in jail. He was never charged with a crime. The police and the DA did investigate the situation in 2003, and concluded that he did not molest the child. It is Child Protective Services that think he did it, and want to put him in the New York State Registry for the maltreatment and abuse of children.
It is not the same as the general Sexual Offenders Registry, where they publish the offender's name and picture all over the internet.
And basically, even if they do put him on the NYS registry, it would only be open to those employers who work with children, (day care centers, schools). He has never worked as day care worker, or child care provider in his life, he has always been in retail and is going to retire in 7 years anyway.

Our fight against CPS is that:
1. His name is cleared.
2. He is not placed on the NYS registry.
3. Why won't CPS see that they made a mistake?
4. What is their basis in thinking that he is a child-care provider? He only walked the 2 girls to the school bus stop at the corner of our street for a period of 6 weeks.

A recap of what happened, my best friend ripped out my heart.

2007-02-11T03:29:00.000-05:00

Ok, I just wanted to post this because my last blog entry was rather, shall we say, "intense."
I'm still not giving up with getting my husband's name cleared. Those people who lied about him are going on with their lives, while this horrible thing is still ongoing for us for 3 1/2 years, not to mention the money we are spending in legal fees. For something that my husband did not do.

You are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but in cases of an accusation of child abuse or molestation, you are guilty first, and you must prove you are innocent. That is not right. And the substance abuse mother of the child, who put her daughter in harm's way, by moving that sleaze ball boyfriend into her house thinks she will get away with it. Not if I have anything to say about it.

When you find out that your daughter has been molested, you call 911. Does the mother do this? Does she take her daughter to a doctor? NO, she waits 13 days to call the authorities, and she doesn't even take her daughter to a doctor for 6 WEEKS! Then she goes around the neighborhood telling people that my husband's DNA was found on her daughter! Oh really? New York State law says organic samples from a rape or sexual assault victim must be taken within 96 hours of the last known incident. 96 hours is 4 days! But the child is not taken to a doctor for 6 weeks, and the doctor's report does not state that samples were taken from her. Also, the police never took DNA samples from my husband.

The mother is a proven liar. She knows it was her boyfriend who molested her child. She lied over and over to Child Protective Services, and those Nazis will not admit they made a mistake.
Buffalo Police and the Erie County District Attorney concluded that my husband did not molest the child, but we are still fighting to get his name cleared from Child Protective Services.

T.P. the mother of the child, was my BEST FRIEND! She ripped out my heart when she did this to us. I hate her. I hope, no I KNOW she will rot in hell!

A Landlord's Responsibility:

When T.P. falsely accused my husband of molesting her youngest child, she was living across the street from us in a house owned by her sister and brother-in-law. The P. family moved out and another family moved in, but the house is still owned by T.'s sister.

The family living there now hasn't had heat in 2 weeks due to a faulty furnace. Buffalo has been in a severe winter pattern the past few weeks, with temperatures dipping down into the single digits. There is a baby living there, but A. B. and her husband T. B. won't get the furnace fixed! R. (the lady who lives there) has been calling the landlord T. B. and he won't return her calls.So the whole damn family are fuckups!

Hey A.B.! It appears that you are like your sister: a total fuckup!Well, when the water pipes freeze and bust, it'll just cost you more money in the long run.How the hell do you collect rent and let your tenants go without heat? There's a baby there for Christ's sake! And you call yourself church going people? You call yourself Christians? You don't know the meaning of the word. You will answer to God for this. And your sister will answer to God for the lies she told about my husband. Your whole damn family is going to rot in hell.

K's Let it Out (from my companion blog, Remi's Ramblings 2)

I saw the commercial for K's new site: Let it Out where you supposedly can post what is on your mind. Well, in the companion blog to this journal, Remi's Ramblings 1, A Journal of a False Accusation of Child Abuse, I have chronicled the entire saga of what happened to my husband and me in 2003 and the ongoing battle we are going through to clear his name. It is a long story, and Let it Out gives you space for only one paragraph, (how much can you let out in one measly paragraph?) so I tried to be concise, and gave the url address to this blog. They say it will post within 24 hours, IF the material is not offensive. So my post of a few days ago is STILL pending. They also say that if they deem your post as unsuitable, they will send you an email telling you why. They haven't even done me that courtesy.

Yes, Child Molestation IS offensive, but I am NOT advocating that, I am trying to get my husband's name cleared of a false accusation of child abuse. He is going thru hell. I am going thru hell. "Let it out?" Let it out only if it doesnt' offend the sole editor of the site. I posted it again this evening. We'll see if the editor thinks it is suitable.

No, my journal is not of a pretty thing. It is a horrible thing. It is a true tale of a child being put into harm's way BY HER OWN MOTHER. Further, it is a true tale of the mother chosing her boyfriend over her own flesh and blood. Further, it is a true tale of the mother putting the blame on an innocent person, a person who, along with his wife, were her best friends!Since May of 2003, I cried many tears, and gone thru many tissues to mop up those tears and blow my nose. Well guess what? They weren't K. brand: they were Tops Markets brand.And if K.com don't have the damn guts to post a little paragraph steering people to my blog, which is of a sensitive, but a very pertinant and important matter, well, then, to hell with them. I don't buy their product anyway. I get a comparable product at a cheaper price.

To the sole editor of that blog: go stick your head deeper in the sand. If you can't face the tough issues that some people encounter and need to "let it out" on your so-called "help" site, then I suggest you rethink your advertising. "Let it out" ONLY if you have a so-so problem.

Let's Play Wheel of Fortune

2007-01-20T22:18:00.000-05:00

You can have two vowels, you don't have to buy them. Just guess them. And they are both the same.
Six letter name, starts with P, ends with K. W and L between with the same vowel in the second and fifth position and there you go!

I can be a bitch, can't I?

Only when I'm fucking backed into a corner. That's right, ! mmm, polacks? Close, but no cigar.

Yeah, your dirty laundry sure stinks on the internet. Stinks in Buffalo too! So clean it up ya polacks!

disclaimer: I'm of Polish descent as well, no disrespect intended to people of Polish descent. Just those Polack niggas who keep fucking lying about my husband.

Restitution

2007-01-20T06:11:00.000-05:00

I read these words somewhere, I think on some lying conceited bitch's myspace page:
All I can do is climb further in life so I can acheive all that I desire, so when i'm on my deathbed, I can say I had a good life. Always live life to its fullest. Just don't get arrested!

I would like to add the following:
When you are on your deathbed, the things that you did in life will weigh heavily on your conscience. That will be the moment you will regret not doing something, such as coming forth with the truth when you had the chance. Because when you are on your deathbed, it will be too late. The Grim Reaper will be awaiting you. Your miswords and misdeeds have already condemned you to his domain. And you will spend eternity regretting your lies, and/or chance to come forward and right a wrong.

Living life to the fullest does not mean trampling on someone's life. And merely "not getting arrested" don't mean a damn thing. Hell, I shoplifted when I was a teenager, I never got arrested for it. Did that make my shoplifting a right thing to do just because I got away with it? Absolutely NOT! The store I stole from has long since been out of business, and the building is now a church. There is no way I can make restitution to the store. HOWEVER, what I do, is donate to charity. I donated to the Saint Jude organization, I donated at the Our Lady of Victory Basilica (gorgeous place, very peaceful, and is the resting place of Fr. Nelson Baker), I have donated to the Red Cross and donated blood after Hurricane Katrina. I donated to Noah's Wish, an organization that goes into disaster areas to locate and care for pets and stray animals left behind.

I don't tell you these things to make myself "look good," as in the Bible when Jesus points out the Pharisees when they do good things to be "seen" doing them, I'm only telling you them because sometimes you can't always right a wrong. Sometimes it is too late for it. My conscience is clear. I knew what I did as a teenager was wrong and asked forgiveness. I know that I have been forgiven.

Back in the late 70's, there was a girl who hung out with our "disco gang." We couldn't stand each other. She started the prank phone calls first. By 1979 it deteriorated to a fist fight. In 1984, I talked to her and apologized to her for all the crap I did to her. She did not accept my apology. And this happens sometimes. And you have to accept it and move on. HOWEVER, in June 1985, while I was in the hospital after emergency surgery following my miscarriage, this woman sent me a card and when I got home, she called me and wanted to know if I was eating. "Can I send some food in some Tupperwares for you?" What a woman!

Right now, I don't want food in Tupperwares. It is true, I hate to cook, but I am a capable cook. I make great chili, wonderful chicken soup, (my friend was begging me this week to make it), my spaghetti is wonderful, and I make kalaba and aseed the real Arab way. So I'm ok with that. What I DO want is justice for my husband. (and so does he, by the way, he would tell you himself, but he is computer illiterate). I want those lies told about him recanted. I want the truth to be told.

And eventually it will. And as soon as we get his name cleared through legal channels, we are coming after those who did lie, via lawsuits.

Sleep well if you can, my prettys, it ain't over til it's over.

Lying to coverup for a relative led to 3 murders, at least 5 rapes by the Bike Path Rapist

2007-01-18T13:59:00.000-05:00

The following is a commentary by Buffalo News reporter Don Esmond. But I would like to say that just as Carabello's covering up for his nephew led to the Bike Path Rapist getting away with it for all these years, those who lied about my husband to coverup for their friend and/or relative contributed to a child being left in the hands of the true molestor and an innocent man being labeled a pervert. Lying is lying, and with the example of the Bike Path Rapist having a relative lie for him, we see the tragic turn of events. Three women were murdered because Altemio Sanchez was not stopped way back in 1981.

When our friend Tyra Powell (not her real name) decided to lie about my husband molesting her child and covering up for her boyfriend, the true molestor, she not only fingered an innocent man and tried to ruin his life (and mine), but by chosing her boyfriend over her own flesh and blood, she betrayed her own daughter in the worst possible way.

And those family members who continue the coverup as just as bad. COWARDS! Come forth and speak the truth! And if you are too cowardly to do the right thing, well, as I said before, you will not have to answer to me, but to the highest of all authorities: GOD! Ponder that the next time you go to church you hypocrites! Every single last one of you, on both sides of the family, are nothing but lying hypocrites, and I spit on all of you!

COMMENTARY
Silence heavy on conscience of Caraballo 1/17/2007
By DONN ESMONDE

It is coming down now on Fred Caraballo's head, and he doesn't like it.
Fairly or not, the finger of fate points at Caraballo. People think - although he never directly harmed a woman - that he may bear some responsibility.
A lie that police said Caraballo told 26 years ago might have left Al Sanchez, the alleged Bike Path Killer, free to exact a deadly toll on local women.
Police say DNA evidence links Sanchez, a seemingly harmless family man, to at least five sexual assaults and three homicides over the last 20 years.
It might have started as early as 1981. A Buffalo State student was raped in Delaware Park. Soon after, she noticed her attacker at Boulevard Mall. She followed him into the parking lot and got the license number of the car in which he drove off.
The car was owned by Caraballo. He is Sanchez's uncle.
When police working the rape case contacted Caraballo in 1981, he said the car was uninsured and had not been driven in a month.
Caraballo was recently reinterviewed by police going over old leads in the bike path case. This time, Caraballo - who moved six years ago to North Carolina - told a different story. He admitted he lent the car to Sanchez on that day in 1981. The information was the straw that broke the case of the murderous Bike Path Rapist.
"It led us to Sanchez as a suspect," District Attorney Frank Clark said.
If Caraballo had told the truth 26 years ago, the link between Sanchez and sexual assault might have been made long before Linda Yalem was killed; long before Majane Mazur's body was dumped on a Buffalo railroad track; long before Joan Diver was found dead near a Newstead bike path.
If only Caraballo had told the truth 26 years ago.
Better late than never, I suppose. But it is too late for at least 10 women.
Authorities believe that Caraballo lied in 1981 to protect his nephew.
"The information," Clark said, "was purposely withheld."
The information was withheld not just back then. It has been withheld for 26 years since then. Even as the notorious Bike Path Rapist struck time and time again, Caraballo kept silent. Even as police drew sketches of the suspect and said he was likely of Hispanic descent, Caraballo kept silent. Even as police pleaded for folks with suspicions to come forward, Caraballo kept silent.
Silence, in this case, was not golden.
In an interview Monday with Buffalo News reporter Lou Michel, Caraballo contended, "I don't remember" what he told detectives in 1981.
"Maybe I did [mention his nephew]; maybe I didn't," Caraballo said.
Caraballo said he later asked his nephew if he did something wrong. Caraballo didn't fully believe his denials, but he didn't do anything about it. He said he never mentally connected his nephew to the Bike Path Rapist, since none of those attacks was in Delaware Park.
I called Caraballo on Tuesday, after his story was on the front page of The News, to ask why he didn't speak sooner. He was not in a talkative mood. "I don't have a bad conscience," he said, sounding agitated. "That's not true."
Then he hung up.
Police asked the public for years to come forward with any suspicions about the Bike Path Rapist. They asked because they wanted to catch a monster.
But there is another reason why anyone with suspicions should have spoken. If you don't, you lose. The burden of conscience falls on your head.
With three women murdered and at least five others sexually attacked, that burden is a heavy load.
It is a load that Fred Caraballo will carry for the rest of his life. I can't say I feel much sympathy for him.

Remi's note:
"But there is another reason why anyone with suspicions should have spoken. If you don't, you lose. The burden of conscience falls on your head."
Donn Esmond, you couldn't have said it better. The family members who lied to coverup the real molestor of Tiona Powell, and all the extended family members of BOTH sides should hang their head in shame for allowing the lies to continue and an innocent man still taking the rap for something he DID NOT DO! COME FORTH YOU LYING COWARDS! You are just as bad as Caraballo! Every relative on both sides of the family are lying hypocrites.
I mailed them the details of what happened, and they sit in silence, cowardly dogs, all of them! I mailed it to them the first week of January. They know the truth, but will not speak up! Carabello at least did not know the truth all these years, but both maternal and paternal grandmothers of the child have been notified of the truth, but still will not speak up! Two maternal aunts of the child have been notified of the truth and they will not speak up! The hell that my husband and I are going through since 2003 and STILL ONGOING with MORE legal fees ahead of us, ARE NOW ON THE GRANDMOTHER'S AND AUNT'S HEADS! AND THE OLDEST DAUGHTER!
AND YOU CALL YOUR SELVES DECENT PEOPLE? YOU DON'T KNOW THE MEANING OF DECENCY! I SPIT ON ALL OF YOU!

Lie on you pathetic people, hell is only half full, with plenty of room for your entire family, 'cos that's where you're all going!

Kudos to Buffalo Police, Erie County DA and jabs at CPS Nazis

2007-01-16T11:28:00.001-05:00

The 20 years of effort of the Buffalo Police Department, Erie County Sheriff's Department and the Erie County District Attorney to catch the "Bike Path Rapist" is to be applauded. This is not the first case that I know of that they have been meticulous in solving.
In September 1996, my girlfriend was brutally raped and beaten in front of her 6 year old son, by a man who followed them off the bus and forced his way into their apartment. For 2 hours he terrorized them, tying them up with phone cords, hitting the child in the head with his gun and raped and sodomized my friend while her son was forced to watch. I held that little boy in my arms later. He was white as a ghost and shook uncontrollably.
In late 2002, a man was serving time for armed robbery. He was mandated to give a DNA sample, which ended up matching that found on my girlfriend and on another unsolved rape case.
The man was brought to trial. At his sentancing, he tearfully told the judge that he was sorry, but the judge sentanced him to 175 years in prison. As he left the courtroom, I couldn't help myself. I yelled out, "Don't drop the soap." The animal yelled "Fuck YOu." to me and lunged at me. Dummy. I was on the end of the bench with 3 people between him and me. The Sheriff's deputies grabbed him and escorted him out the door. HA! So much for his remorse!
Unbeknowst to us in the courtroom, the tv newspeople knew he was coming out and had their camera's trained on the door. The door was opened at the same time he lunged at me. His outburst was caught on camera. The cameras followed him as 2 deputies practically dragged him down the stairs and down a hallway. It was related to us that once out of the range of the cameras, the animal got the shit kicked out of him.
At every stage of my friend's ordeal, I was with her. From the time she had to give a detailed report to the police and up to the sentancing of the animal. I learned the processes that the Buffalo Police Sex Offense Squad and the District Attorney office go thru in bringing a rape suspect to justice.
Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark is a no-nonsense man. Although I have never met him, I admire him. A former Vietnam veteran, he pulls no punches in bringing criminals to trial. He frequently gives interviews to the press and the tv news, and he "tells it like it is."
The Buffalo Police and the Erie County District Attorney's office do not take rape or sexual assault lightly. They worked for years, YEARS, to find the Bike Path Rapist and my friend's rapist.
So if the Buffalo Police and the Erie County District Attorney's office do not think that my husband sexually molested Tiona Powell (not her real name) in 2003, that should be good enough for the Child Protective Services little Gestapos! He should be exonerated immediately!
And those family members of Tiona's who know that her mother Tyra is an alcholic liar won't step forward and do the right thing in front of GOD, then I feel sorry for them. for they will all, ALL rot in hell. Even those who did not live in the house, but saw what a creep the mother's boyfriend was, they will have to answer, not to me, but to GOD!

click on "older posts" to continue

Silence is Consent?

2007-01-14T03:52:00.000-05:00

Silence is consent. Standing by and not helping or not correcting a situation is consenting to the situation. The picture here shows a media person preventing the Red Cross from helping the distressed child. mmm, I can correlate this picture with the subject of this post.

Well, it's been a week since I have gone public with my journal of the false accusations laid against my husband back in 2003. I have heard nothing from anyone from either side of the family. The only action taken was the oldest daughter of the family removed me from her myspace page, which is her perogative.

But what I find strange is that nobody, has come forward to protest. Not even to say (in the oldest daughter's case especially), "I did not lie." No one has come forward to tell me that I'm barking up the wrong tree. No one has come forward to say that I am mistaken when I say it was Jeff Shaw, the mother's boyfriend who molested the child.

No one has come forward to defend their parenting style and the choices they made when they decided to spend their money on drugs and vodka and beer instead of paying the heating bill and letting their 4 children live a freezing house for 3 winters in a row.

No one has come forward to defend the actions of the drunken mother on the night of my mother-in-law's funeral when she stood in the middle of the street and yelled obscenities at me and my husband, and calling me, (her good friend) a slut. (and I was not accused of abusing any of the children, nor accused of doing ANYTHING wrong, but all of a sudden I'm labeled a slut).

No one has come forward and defended the mother's boyfriend, Jeff Shaw when I related how he was a former psych patient, went berserk once and called the children's maternal grandmother a bitch to her face on her birthday.

No one has come forward and defended this nut when I related how he used to verbally abuse the two oldest children in front of their mother. No one has come forward and defended the mother when she let this nut disrespect her own flesh and blood.

I know why no one has come forward, they all know I am right and have no defense for all the charges I have laid against them. Otherwise they would be clamoring for THEIR truth to be told. However, they do not believe in the truth. They would rather pretend that they are good decent church going folks. But they are nothing but hypocrits every single one of them, on both sides of the family.

In the Catholic Church, we were taught that you can be guilty of a "sin of omission." This means that even if you weren't a party to something, but if you knew about it, and did nothing to prevent or correct it, you are just as guilty as the wrong doer. Well, the paternal side of the children are Catholics. Hope they remember this point the next time they partake of the Eucharist.

As I said before, God don't like ugly, and Jesus don't liars. And neither likes hypocrits.

Are you honorable with your words and deeds?

2007-01-06T04:59:00.000-05:00

Of all things, this I believe in most:

Your word is the gift that comes directly from God. Your word can create the most beautiful dreams, or your word can destroy those around you. Beng impeccable with your word means using your energy in the direction of truth. When you speak with integrity, you are impeccable with your word. If you make an agreement with yourself to be impeccable with your word, the truth will manifest through you. You can attain the kingdom of heaven from this agreement. Be impeccable with your word.

The family who accuses my husband has no honor, no integrity, no impeccabililty with their words. They are liars. And those who know the truth and stand by, doing nothing, are just as bad. Honor and integrity means standing up for what is right and true. Honor and integrity means coming forth and righting a wrong. Knowing a wrong has been committed and looking the other way is the same as the original liars. Either way, God don't like ugly and Jesus don't like liars or those who are content to let a wrong go unrighted.

And removing someone from your myspace page just because they alerted you to the source of truth isn't going to change the truth. It shows you took the cowards way out instead of examining the evidence and the truth and doing the right thing. All you accomplished is to show that you have no honor or integrity either. If Jesus and God are a part of your life, you need to examine the hell that you and your family are putting my husband and me through.

You say you have a "nice family?" Sure, your mother was so nice, she slapped you across the face and called you a whore when you were 12. Then she told me to give you the talk about the birds and the bees. She publicly humiliated you when you had your first period. Your father wouldn't pay the heating bill letting you shiver in the cold, while my husband and I felt awful and sent over our electric heater to help keep you warm. We looked out for your welfare better than your own parents. The truth is not pretty, especially learning that your parents are fallible and make mistakes. The thing about life and growing up and becoming an adult, is to see your parents for what they are. This doesn't mean that you stop loving them, it means not being part of their toxic lifestyle. It also means that you do not repeat their mistakes. It means growing and becoming a better person than they are. And when you show that you have honor and integrity, some of that honor and integrity can rub off onto them. For no matter how old a person is, they can make mistakes, and learn from them also.

addendum, Jan 12:In my post entitled "A rose is the crown of the garden" on December 22, I wrote the following:"The one is a beautiful young woman. She is striking in her beauty. But her beauty is only on the outside. For when she did what she did, she showed that her heart is as ugly and dark as her mother's. There are no roses in her heart. There are no roses in her mother's heart. Only evil."

Well, Baby Doll, you went and proved my point. If you think that your face is the definition of beauty, you are sadly mistaken. All you accomplished with that statement is to show everyone for what you are. Not a caring loving person, but the shallow conceited little brat that you are. You are destined to have the same unhappy life that your mother has. I don't feel sorry for you. You and your mother are not deserving of my pity. We have choices in life. Your mother has had a history of constantly making the wrong choices. Looks like the apple is not falling too far from the tree.

People will routinely plan a shopping trip to say, New York City or a trip to Atlantic City or a Bingo trip to a rez. They will charter a yellow school bus and meet at a large parking area, like Wal-Mart. Depending on the amount of time it takes to drive to their destination, the trip may leave Wal-Mart at say, 11pm. Nothing funny about it. Open mouth and insert foot, dearie ..... which seems to be a habit with your family.

In keeping my word, I told the family members that I would be opening a new blog each week and posting their dirty laundry all over the internet until my husband's name is cleared. Well, I posted it at another blog site: http://www.reallifelog.com/Remi/

When I say something, I mean it. I maintain honor and integrity with my word, the Powell family does not.

to see the post wherein I detail the computer porn I found; a lie that Gary the father of the kids told about me and I refute; and the WHOLE TRUE story of what happened in 2003, click on "older posts" below.

2007-01-05T17:44:00.000-05:00

from my myspace blog
The response to my blog and the support has been overwhelming!
I blogged my journal of the false accusation of child abuse laid against my husband (from 2003) only last week. I have had 15 people read it. Everyone who has commented on it or have gotten back to me have ALL pretty much said "What the F---?"
They have given their full support to my husband and myself.
15 people. Strangers to the family and my husband. It only takes 12 for a jury. In November 2003 the District Attorney threatened us with a Grand Jury, but then dropped the investigation. To the thought of a grand jury against us, I say, "Bring it on!" This way our side of the story can be told!
Innocent before proven guilty? Not according to Child Protective Services!
The Constitution of the United States says that citizens are innocent before proven guilty. This means it is up to the prosecution to prove they are guilty. But when you are dealing with little Gestapos like Child Protective Services workers, the innocent have to prove their innocence first.
This is not what is in the Constitution, that is why I call CPS workers little Nazis.
Also a couple of days ago, I went to my myspace groups and asked for blessings. I asked for candles to be lit between 11 and midnight (New York time) on Thursday night, with blessings and energies sent. I got responses from my myspace friends from Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Texas, even as far away as England who responded and who lit candles in support of me and my husband.
I doubt the abusive family who falsely accused my husband would garner that kind of support. The truth prevails, no matter what the lying mother of the abused child (bless that little one) says, or what the Child Protective Services Nazis say.

I'm posting this family's dirty laundry all over the internet until justice is gained.
I just posted my blog at www.fightcps.com
Until my husband's name is cleared, I'm going to plaster this abusive family's dirty laundry all over the internet. And when I say abusive, I don't mean just abusive to the children, but I also mean abusive to their friends. The mother of the child was my best friend. I loved her like a sister. She repaid my love with a stab in my back. She knew it was her boyfriend who molested her child. She chose her boyfriend over her own flesh and blood, and that is even worse than what she did to me and to my husband.
This woman will rot in hell.

Child Protective Services, protecting children? no, they are the new Gestapo.
I just joined a new website, www.fightcps.com Three and a half years ago, good friends of my husband and me accused my husband of molesting one of their kids. We got the full report and read the full file in May 2006. Many inconsistencies and lies were in the file. The investigator did a poor job of investigating and left my husband labeled a pervert, even though the police and the district attorney dropped their investigation, concluding that my husband did not do it. Meanwhile, the child was left in danger at the hands of the mother's boyfriend. CPS did not protect this little one from harm.
Child abuse and child molestation are heinous crimes, and too often innocent people and their family members are caught up in false accusations and suffer needlessly. Child Protective Services are like little Nazis, and they can break people's lives with their little power plays. But they will never break the love I have for my husband, or his love for me.

I found another inconsistancy in the child abuse file against my husband.

2007-01-05T16:08:00.000-05:00

And I take Gary, the father of the children to task for his lie about me.

These pictures are my id card as a VIABLE volunteer. For explanation, keep reading.

I was talking on the phone with my friend, telling her the part in my journal/blog where 7 year old Linda Powell says she saw my husband "put his sex organ in his mouth."
I put forth the question, "Where does a 7 year old get the knowledge of a man's sex organ?" (let alone, how does a man put his own sex organ in his own mouth).
But I missed something---if she saw my husband's sex organ, then he must have exposed himself to her, but she says he did nothing bad to her. The Child Protective Services worker wrote this down, but does NOT RECOMEND MY HUSBAND TO BE ARRESTED FOR EXPOSING HIMSELF TO A MINOR CHILD!!!!
As I said, the worker did a shoddy investigation job. This point shows she was a poor investigator. And Linda specifically says that my husband did NOT do anything to her.
Damn you CPS.
Also, in a lie told by Gary Powell about me to the CPS investigator, he says that I told him once that I like to make prank child abuse calls. He was referring to a call made about my manic depressive sister back in 95, where someone called child abuse on her, gave them my correct name, and said that she allows MY HUSBAND, JEFF PARKER to sexually abuse her daughter.
Right, I call child abuse, naming my own fiance (we weren't married at the time), the man I love, and I give my correct name.
Well this was a lie. In my blog, I say that my sister was harrassing me at the time. I had meetings with CPS, the police and the district attorney and family court. I was granted an Order of Protection against my sister.
In 1997, in conjunction with my work as head of my street's block club I applied for a position with Buffalo Police's VIABLE program. (Volunteers in aiding Buffalo Law Enforcment). To be accepted as a candidate for this program, I was thoroughly invgestigated by the Buffalo Police. Since my sister, who suffers from paranoid delusions, was "convinced" that I was out to "get" her, she had filed criminal charges against me. The Buffalo Police investigated the situation between me and my sister. Well, I was accepted into the program, and attended classes at the Buffalo Police Headquarters for my training as a civilian volunteer with Buffalo Police. Gee, Gary. When you tell tales about someone, make sure you get your fucking shit straight. If I had a record of making prank child abuse calls, don't you think the Buffalo Police would have found out about it when they investigated me? And by the way, they also investigated my husband at this time and he also turned up "clean."
Shut your lying mouth Gary. Lay off the drugs. Grow up. Be a man. I believe that Tiona's molestation was a direct result of your being pussy-whipped and doing the classic passive-aggressive role of a hen-pecked husband. If Gary had been more of a man, this situation would not have occured. He failed as a man AND AS A FATHER to not only protect Tiona, but her sisters as well. He put his drug habit before paying the gas bill. The family went without heat for 3 winters in a row.
PAY YOUR HEATING BILL SO YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE WARM, BEFORE YOU BUY YOUR DRUGS!!! Yeah, then come to me and lay out accusations of false child abuse calls. And like I asked, who called child abuse on me in August 2003, and August 2005. In August 2003, I was accused of beating my 10 year old daughter Angela. In August 2005, I was accused of starving my 5 kids.
I DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS. I had a miscarriage in 1985 and have not been able to get pregnant ever since.
Guestion to Gary--who's got a history of making false child abuse calls against the Parker household? Your drunken wife and her creepy boyfriend.
And what kind of father allows his wife to move her boyfriend into the house? A man who verbally abused your daughters Jade and Amy? In my opinion, Gary, YOU are guilty of abusing ALL FOUR OF THOSE GIRLS. YOU DID NOT PROVIDE A SAFE WARM ENVIRONMENT FOR THOSE CHILDREN. YOU DESERVE TO ROT IN HELL JUST LIKE YOUR WIFE AND HER BOYFRIEND.
How could you allow a strange man to verbally abuse your two oldest girls?
You deserve no respect at all. I spit on you. You made this situation occur.

Pic of the computer that had porn on it. The family who said MY husband molested one of their kids, owned it and gave it to me. I found porn on it.

2006-12-28T14:35:00.000-05:00

To the person who is interested: Recognize it? This is the computer you gave me. After I got it fixed, I found evidence of many, many porn sites that was visited on it via the internet. Sometimes in the afternoon around your little sisters. And it was NOT my husband who did it. It was your mother's boyfriend! Read my next blog entry and get the TRUE STORY. (click on "older posts" below).

click on the pictures to enlarge them.

A False Accusation of child abuse and how it broke my heart.

2006-12-26T16:56:00.000-05:00

In May of 2003, our friends across the street suddenly turned on us and stabbed us in the back big time. We had been best friends with the Powell family for 10 years. I even drove Tyra to the hospital at 3am when she was in labor with Tiona. Out of the clear blue sky, my husband Jeff was accused of molesting Tiona. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that my husband did not do this. The Powell family was a dysfunctional mess with substance abuse, two men living in the house, the children exposed to violence. My husband and I tried to help them, but we got rewarded with a kick in the teeth.
The main characters in this saga are me, Remi, age 51 in 2003, Caucasion, my husband Jeff, age 60 in 2003, African-American. The Powells are Gary, Caucasion, and his wife Tyra, African American. Their children and their ages in 2003 are: Jade, 17 1/2; Amy, age 11; Linda, age 7; and Tiona, age 6. Also a part of the household for 6 or 7 years was Jeff Shaw, age 60 in 2003, Caucasion. Jeff Shaw and Tyra were sexual partners, with Tyra's husband still living in the house. This is a wonderful way to bring up the children! Also living in the house when the charges were leveled against my husband was Tyra's 21 year old nephew, Marlon Workman. Gary Powell, Jeff Shaw and Marlon Workman did not have jobs in May 2003 and were home at the time(s) the "abuse" occured. I firmly believe it was Jeff Shaw who molested Tiona. And every time Tiona named the man who molested her, it was always "Jeff, Jeff, Jeff." NOBODY, and this includes the Child Protective Services worker and the district attorney and the physcians assistant and the nurse asked Tiona, "Was it black Jeff or white Jeff?"
My husband and I believe that Tyra knew all along that her boyfriend was molesting her child and it was close to coming out in public so she pinned it on my husband. Her actions the evening of May 13, 2003, when she says she first heard about the abuse, and her actions the morning of May 14, 2003 are NOT the actions of a mother who has just learned that her six year old daughter has been sexually molested, specifically: penetrated vaginally. She calmly walks 3 blocks with my husband, suddenly turns to him with a knife and accuses him on the morning of May 14. She does not call ANY authority until she calls the New York State Child Abuse hotline the evening of May 26, 2003. She does not take her child to a doctor until the middle of June. New York state law states that organic samples must be taken from a rape or sexual assault victim within 96 hours. (4 days). When Tiona is finally taken to a doctor, no samples have been taken from her. No law enforcement personell talks to my husband until July, but Tyra is telling the neighbors and her family that my husband's DNA was found on Tiona. To this day, December 29, 2006, my husband has NOT been DNA tested. He did undergo a lie detector test, but because he had a cardiac problem, he could not pass the test. In fact, he underwent open heart surgery 5 weeks after the lie detector test. The CPS worker was grossly negligent in her investigation. I have outlined every detail that has happened from 2003 to now regarding this sordid saga. It is a long tale, it might be easier for you to copy and paste to word document. My husband and I did nothing wrong, we want justice. If we can't get it thru the court, we will do over the internet. Either way, our side of the story needs to be told. We believe that Tyra (who is a control freak, and beats her children with belts), threatened her children to lie to the authorities. Some of the lies are just so outlandish, I can't believe Erie County personell could believe them! And a month and a half after the charges are leveled against my husband, on the night that we buried his mother, Tyra comes over to our house. She is crying on my porch, "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, and then I read that Jeff's mother died." I shut the door in her face. 24 hours later, she is in the middle of the street, screaming obscenities at my husband and me, all the while whe waving a liquor bottle. Well, read further for more of this pathetic, lying family. And how they broke my heart and my husband's heart. We loved them. They took our love and shattered it.

I wrote the following for the purposes of sharing this with certain family members of the Powell and Perkins family in anticipation of my husband being cleared of the charges of sexual molestation placed against him in 2003. However, the judge denied our appeal. But we will be filing a second appeal.
First I must explain something. The County’s position is that they want to place my husband’s name on a registry in Albany which states that he can no longer work in a day care center of other facility where he can work with children. This is ludicrous. My husband has never worked at a day care center or work with children in any capacity in his whole life!
The county’s findings contradicts itself when it says that what my husband did to the child was bad. Yet they do not recommend his being arrested. And the law authorities have NOT charged him with any crime. Neither the Buffalo Police, nor the Erie County District Attorney have charged him. They did investigate the situation in November 2003, but dropped all charges against him.
In May of 2006, I read the entire official Erie County file on this matter. The Child Protective Services worker, did not do a fair investigation, and what she did put in her report had fallacies and inconsistencies. For one thing, she had my husband’s birthdate entirely wrong. In another, she relates the ONE AND ONLY CONVERSATION SHE HAD TO OUR HOUSE. She puts in her report that “Mrs. Parker was going out of town.”
I said no such thing. I said that I was going to be off work on vacation. I never left town. The term “going on vacation” MIGHT mean going out of town to some people, but for the working poor, it does not. I was going to be off work for 2 weeks, but not on a cruise. If you are an investigator, you are supposed to QUOTE the person, not put down what you THINK THE PERSON MEANS.
I was on the phone constantly, leaving messages to her, “please call us. Please come talk to us.”
She NEVER came to our house and further sent a certified letter stating she had been trying to phone us, but couldn’t get thru! Nonsense. This is a lie. I have a caller ID on all my phones. I have a fax machine which prints out a full report of EVERY CALL THAT COMES TO OUR HOUSE AND HER NUMBER NEVER SHOWED UP!!!

I think what has happened is that Erie County has realized that they made a mistake in leaving the abused the child still in danger in 2003, 2004, and 2005 and they will not admit they made a mistake. It is easier to just say that my husband did it.
Also, in the official file, the mother of the child tells the authorities that her boyfriend Jeff Shaw(who we believe was the true molester) was “out of the picture.” Oh really?
The county closed their file on the family in December 2003. THEY ARE UNAWARE THAT JEFF SHAW CAME BACK INTO THE PICTURE RIGHT AFTER THAT, INDEED, HE NEVER LEFT, HIS OFFICIAL ADDRESS WAS GIVEN AS THE ADDRESS OF THE MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER OF THE ABUSED CHILD. AND HIS DEAD BODY (WHEN HE DIED IN MARCH OF 2006) WAS FOUND IN THE SAME APARTMENT THAT THE FAMILY LIVED IN!
OUT OF THE PICTURE? NOT BY A LONG SHOT, AND I SAW HIM WITH THE ABUSED CHILD, HER SISTER, AND HER MOTHER ON THE BUS IN AUGUST 2005 AND HE THREATENED ME ON THE BUS!!!
So please read this whole story. I know it is long, but it is the only way for our side of the story to get out. My husband did not molest ANY child.

December 26, 2006

All names have been changed.

Just because the Child Protective Services investigator, Romana Grohman put in her report that “Mr. Parker scored a –24 on his polygraph which indicates he was being deceitful,” this doesn’t mean a damn thing. All it means is that she didn’t bother to find out WHY Jeff scored a –24 on the test. First, a polygraph test is NOT admissible in a court of law. Why? Because any number of mitigating circumstances can throw a test off. The Buffalo police and the District Attorney’s office stayed on the case and when they found out that Jeff had a cardiac problem, they took his health problems into consideration and ruled that there was no way that Jeff could pass the polygraph test. A polygraph measures a person’s blood pressure and heartbeats and is geared towards a normal heart rate of 72 – 80 beats per minute. Jeff’s heart rate is slower than that, dropping at times to the lower 50s and higher 40s.
To further test Jeff, they threatened us with a grand jury investigation, which we were actually looking forward to, as this all would have been resolved and not dragged on for more than 3 years. A month later the DA asked him to plead down to a lesser charge. They did this to see what he would do. Jeff said, “F*** you. I’m not pleading to anything, because I did not do anything.”
A guilty person would have jumped at the chance to plead to a lesser charge, but an innocent person would stick to his guns, which is what Jeff did. The police and the district attorney’s office dropped their investigation and concluded that JEFF PARKER DID NOT DO ANYTHING TO TIONA POWELL!!!!
The only reason Romana Grohman thinks that Jeff Parker molested Tiona is because she is a poor investigator and never bothered to come to our house to talk to us and get our side of the story. In going through the official Erie County file containing Ms. Grohman’s notes, I have caught her in at least one lie, and we are going to sue her and the Erie County Child Protective Services for their gross negligence in their handling of this case and their continued harassing us and refusal to admit that they made a mistake in labeling my husband a child abuser. I can’t do anything about the fact that because of Ms. Grohman’s poor investigation Tiona was left in the hand of the true molester, that is on Tyra and Gary’s conscience. But then, since Gary and Tyra’s choice of dysfunctional lifestyle contributed to Tiona being molested in the first place, it falls on Tiona’s extended family to ensure that Tiona is safe, and getting proper counseling.
And just because Tiona says it was Jeff Parker who touched her, well I just don’t believe it and I believe that what happened was the true molester threatened her and told her to say it was Jeff Parker. And if she is still saying that it was Jeff Parker, well it is a well known fact that a child will begin to think that a thing that isn’t true, IS true. This is called “false memory.”
When I was a child, my father’s second wife had a brother who used to build and fly model airplanes. We kids would go to the park with him and fly the planes with him. One day, I was sitting at our kitchen table with my stepmother. I was thinking of something that occurred and I asked my stepmother, “Do you remember the time Uncle Dominic took me on that airplane ride?” I proceeded to tell her of a time when Uncle Dominic took me for a ride in an airplane. And he landed the airplane in our back yard to drop me off. My stepmother said “He never took you for a ride.” I insisted he did and told her “And I remember he dropped me off in our backyard.”
My stepmother kept telling me it never happened, and I kept saying that it did. It wasn’t until I was in my teens that I realized, it couldn’t have happened. There is absolutely no way an airplane is going to land in the backyard of a house on S. Street between H. and W. It ain’t gonna happen, even if you had a Piper Cub or a Cessna.
But even as I am typing this, I can still see the vivid image that made me think Uncle Dominic took me on an airplane. I can still see the bright sunshine. I can still see the cherry tree. I can still the clothesline. I can still see the roof of our shed and the roof of the shed of the house next door (which was torn down, the house we lived at, 8** S. is still there, with it’s tiny back yard). I can still see the roofs that me and my brothers used to climb up on to get the wild cherries.
The explanation: I had a very vivid dream, which in my child mind, I believed that it really did happen. If you were to have given me a polygraph test when I was 10 years old, I would have told you that I had gone on an airplane ride with my uncle and I would have passed the polygraph test. I would have passed the test because I REALLY TRULY BELIEVED THAT I HAD GONE ON AN AIRPLANE RIDE. If you had given me the test when I was 15, and I still said that I had gone on an airplane ride, I would have failed, because by then, I figured out that it didn’t happen. And the following year, when I did take my FIRST airplane ride with my father to Georgia, I knew then that I absolutely DID NOT go on an airplane with my uncle. But the vivid images still stuck in my head, and it wasn’t until in the 80’s when I told my brother-in-law this story, he told me that I must have had a very vivid flying dream. I had suspected as much, and it must have been a dream, because there is no way an airplane is going to maneuver around a cherry tree, clothesline, and a swing set. Yet I kept my telling my stepmother that it happened. And even when Uncle Dominic told me that it didn’t happen, I thought he was fooling around with me. I believed that it happened. Even when Uncle Dominic himself told me over and over that it didn’t.
Tell a kid that the lady down the street is crazy, and pretty soon, all the kids in the neighborhood will believe it. And they will tell an adult stories that they think happened, and it didn’t really happen. This is how shit starts. And I have lived through a lot of shit on A. St., started by bratty kids.

I believe that Tiona was coerced and coached and threatened into saying that Jeff Parker touched her. By now, she probably believes that he in fact did touch her, but he didn’t. And as for Amy saying that she saw Jeff Parker in bed with Tiona, now that is an outright lie. She was getting back at him for him not letting her friends in the house and “getting her in trouble with her mother.” (see Chronology of Events).
Amy lied about skipping school just a few weeks before she lied about my husband. And she was old enough at the time to know that she in fact told a lie. She doesn’t realize the ramifications of that lie. We did not know until May 2006, that all 4 of the Powell children told lies about my husband. And that took us by surprise and hurt us very deeply.
They will have to answer for their lies. It will be on their consciences, not mine or Jeff’s. We have been truthful from day one of this soap opera. And our consciences are clear. We have done nothing wrong, we have not lied. What happens now, in regards to the Powell family, is none of our business. Except for our lawsuits, we want nothing more to do with the Powells or their dysfunctional problems.
Gary and Tyra, put the blame on my husband Jeff Parker, but he was innocent. Jeff and I believe that Gary and Tyra know who molested Tiona, but chose to protect that person. We believe that person is Jeff Shaw, Tyra’s live-in boyfriend and sexual partner (while Gary was living in the same house). And we believe that Gary and Tyra know Jeff Shaw is the person responsible.
Yes, Tyra and Jeff Shaw had a sexual relationship – Tyra told me so herself on several occasions. The relationship was going on since at least 1996, up to and including 2003, and beyond. I don’t remember exactly when he moved in with Tyra, but he was living there when he had an incident in 1996 and had to spend 3 days in the psych unit. Prior to living with the Powells, he worked at The L D., a porn shop at the corner of B, and in 2005 he worked at P. B., another porn shop at B. and S.
I n August 2005, I called P. B. the salesman Jeff. I described him and the guy said, “Oh yes, Jeff Shaw. He’ll be in at 6 tonight.” This phone call was monitored by my friend on the extension.
When he lived at -- A. St. with the Powells, he had his address listed at -7 A. St. when Tyra’s sister Maxine lived there. I know this for a fact, because I saw a mailbox with the name Jeff Shaw on it ON the porch of -7 A. St. Why should there be a coverup for where his address is? Actually, I don’t care what people do with their lives. Cheat the welfare, cheat the system, sell or do drugs. I didn’t care back then, and I still would not care, except for the fact that these people had the gall to be our friends and then turn on us and try to send an innocent man to jail and ruin both of our lives.
When Tyra and Gary accused Jeff of molesting Tiona, we were shocked and hurt, very hurt. Gary and Tyra were our friends – we loved them. Their accusations and their spreading lies throughout the neighborhood almost drove my husband to a fatal heart attack, and me to a nervous breakdown.
I had to share many private things to the judge. My husband and I had to reveal private things about our relationship to the judge. We had to reveal private things about our sexual habits, preferences and history from prior to our meeting in 1978, up to and including the time we moved in together in 1987, and up to and including May 2006, when we had our hearing. Our most intimate privacy was violated due to the Powell family and their lies and their false accusations.
Wwe are in discussions with our lawyers as to the feasibility of filing lawsuits. Certainly the Child Protection Services investigator and her supervisor will be sued. The investigator did a shoddy job and left my husband labeled as a pervert. Her supervisor ignored my pleas for a different investigator. Perhaps your family should sue them as well, as their erroneous labeling of my husband as Tiona’s molester, left that child in a dysfunctional family and in the hands of the true molester for three years after the Powell family decided to lie and keep the child in harm’s way.
Gary and Tyra will be sued for the defamation of my husband’s character and the hell that they have put us through the past three years. They’d better line up a good lawyer, they will need it. We had always intended to push for lawsuits against the Powells and Jeff Shaw. But now that he has died, well that has been taken out of our hands. I know that he is rotting in hell for what he did to Tiona, the results that his molestation of Tiona has caused to my husband and myself and for his destroying the Powell family. Even my friend says that when she first met the Powells, they were so happy. As soon as Jeff Shaw entered the picture, whammo!
My husband and I have told everything we know to CPS – and the fair hearing judge - it is out of our hands now. And except for our lawsuits - we wash our hands of this. This situation is no longer our problem. It is a Powell and Perkins family problem, and I lay it in the laps of the Powell and Perkins families. I have also laid it in the hands of God.
We want nothing more to do with the Powells. We want only to be left alone. We have suffered needlessly enough over this already. You can not know how many tears have been shed because of their lies. Not only by me and my husband, but our families as well. Jeff’s ex-wife, his brother, and other family members, my father, other members of my family, our friends, even people we work with; many tears, many tears. And many prayers. Which thankfully have been answered. Because God doesn’t like ugly, and Jesus doesn’t like liars.
We will never contact you again. And we want no contact in return from you. We want no contact from the Powells. We are prepared to obtain Orders of Protection placed against them if they contact us. I myself, was threatened, even though I never did anything to anybody! Except stand by my husband, who I knew from day one was innocent. There was never a doubt in my mind. I know him too well. I know he is no pervert. And now everyone will know. And everyone will know what liars Gary, Tyra and the girls are and what a liar Jeff Shaw was.
We harbor no ill feelings toward Tyra’s nephew Thomas for his attack against Jeff in June 2003. He was only acting as an uncle would - unfortunately, he was deceived by Tyra's lies and went after the wrong man. He is also a victim.
When I say that we want to put this all behind us, I mean that we do not ever want contact with the Powell family or the extended Powell and Perkins families - EVER!! This means that we do not want to see or speak to, or hear from any of you ever again. It would just be too painful.
My husband was one step ahead of a heart attack because of what the Powells did to us, and with his coronary artery disease, it would have been fatal. I was close to a nervous breakdown over Tyra stabbing us in the back.

#1. What kind of mother KNOWINGLY sticks up for her skunky boyfriend after he molests her child(ren)?
#2. What kind of low-life would take it further by scheming to set up and pin the abuse on an innocent man?
#3. What kind of slime-ball would to this to her friends?

It is bad enough to know that slimeball sleazy bastard Jeff Shaw molested Tiona, but to have Tyra stick up for him, against her own flesh and blood, and then stab two of the best friends she ever had in the back--she will burn in hell. What Jeff Shaw did was awful, the sleaze should have had his balls cut off, but what Tyra did was worse--she left her child stay in that situation, where she could be hurt again and again, and then she tried to set up an innocent person. She will burn in hell, cos God don't like ugly, and Jesus don't like liars.
Yes, we are bitter - that will fade in time, but as I said, we don't want anything more to do with "The Powell Problem." We have prayed and will continue to pray for Tiona's physical and emotional well-being, but we basically are through with all of it!

I don't know if I could ever forgive Tyra for what she did to my husband. And to indulge in a little self-pity, how could Tyra do this to ME? I loved her. She was my friend. Did she not think that I would be affected by this? Not only did she try to destroy my husband, the man I love, did she not think how my life would be changed if he were sent to jail over something he did not do? How would I be able to make my mortgage payments? I would have lost my husband, my house, my life. If I had a near nervous breakdown because of just her lies, I would have been sent over the edge if I had lost Jeff over a pack of lies. THIS is the legacy that my friendship with Tyra has left me. I have been betrayed way beyond anything I could put into words. And not only me, I see how my husband has been affected by this. The anger, the tears, you just don't know what these last 3 and a half years have been like for us. But we shall overcome this. Because we have the truth on our side, and always did. We had people who believed in us, and helped us through this terrible time.

It was on May 2, 2006, that Jeff and I finally saw the copy of the file from Erie County. We saw Romana Grohman’s handwritten notes of her investigation. And it was on this date that we were first made aware of EXACTLY what Tiona said what happened to her, and we were first made aware that the other 3 Powell children lied about Jeff.
First, Romana Grohman came to -- A. St. on May 27, 2003 to investigate the call that was made the evening before. Gary came to the door, said he knew nothing about it and Romana would have to speak to Tyra. For 3 more days Romana attempted to do this. Finally she got tired of the runaround (her own words in her own report) and went TO THE SCHOOL TO SPEAK TO TIONA!
Gee, nice parents! The mother makes a complaint, the father knows nothing, then both mother and father give the investigator the runaround. Meanwhile, for the next 2 months, Remi and Jeff Parker are on the phone constantly, leaving messages to the investigator, “When are you coming to talk to us? When can we see you? Can we set up an appointment?”
So Tyra waits a full 12 days to make a complaint about her daughter. Then she gives the investigator the run-around. She doesn’t take her daughter to a doctor. She doesn’t take her daughter to a counselor. Does this sound like a woman who is concerned about her daughter? NO! She sounds like a woman who KNOWS her daughter was being molested by her boyfriend and is afraid that she herself will get charged as an accessory for allowing the abuse to happen under her nose. So she needs a scapegoat, my husband, and then she tries to hide from the authorities. Well, maybe not hide, but blow them off is more like it. Otherwise, she would have called 911 and the child abuse hotline the evening of May 13, 2003 when she first heard about it. And she would have been up the investigator’s ass and the police’s ass to arrest Jeff Parker from day one, May 13, 2003. But no, she waits and waits. She can mouth off to me on the bus in August 2005, (see page 39) when I did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG OR ANYTHING TO HER OR HER FAMILY, but she can’t take the proper steps to bring her daughter’s so-called molester to justice? She can pull a knife on Jeff and gouge his face, the morning of May 14, 2003, but can’t call the police or the child abuse people? What’s wrong with this picture?

So when we first got the file in May, 2006, we read what Tiona says to the investigator and the DA. Jeff was laying on top of her. Jeff was fully clothed. Tiona was fully clothed. And Tiona makes a point to say that both her and Jeff were FULLY CLOTHED! (Remember this point). She says that Jeff put his finger up her vagina. And how can he do this when she is fully clothed?

Assistant District Attorney Roxanne Nelson: When did this happen? Tiona says it ALWAYS happened at night. (Um, I thought it “happened” every school morning for the past 6 – 7 months. (According to Tyra when she called child abuse hotline, 5-26-03). ADA: Where was your sister? (Linda). Answer: Sleeping.
Was Linda sleeping when Jeff took her and Tiona to the bus stop? NO, Tiona told the DA the abuse happened always at night when Linda was sleeping!!!! So, Jeff Parker came across the street, broke into the house every night and abused her? No, this is not what ANYBODY in the house said in the beginning. They said it happened in the morning before school, then Tiona said it happened in the middle of the night!!!! Why does the story keep changing?
DA: (another time) When did the abuse happen? Tiona says it ALWAYS happened in the morning.
A complete contradiction of what she said before. How does it ALWAYS happen in the morning and then it ALWAYS happened at night? Again, why does the story keep changing?

Linda tells the DA and the investigator that Jeff was mean to her. (Oh really? Then how come every time he was over there she was hanging on him?) Then she says that she saw Jeff put his sex organ in his mouth.
Tiona says Linda was sleeping when the abuse happened and Linda didn’t see anything. But Linda contradicts her. And she says she saw Jeff put his own sex organ in his mouth. How does Jeff put his own sex organ in his mouth? Jeff is not double jointed or a contortionist, and does not practice yoga. What Linda says is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE!!!!! And how does Linda at the age of 7 know what a man’s “sex organ” (her words) is? She didn’t say that Jeff did anything to her, in fact she goes out of her way to say that he DIDN’T touch her!!! So where does she get this knowledge? I will bet that Linda was also abused, but she didn’t pin it out my husband.
What we have here is a COACHED LIE that went bad. Somebody told her to say that she saw Jeff put his sex organ in HER mouth (either her own, or Tiona’s mouth), and the lie came out wrong!
When Amy is questioned, she says that the previous summer, Jeff had tried to kiss her on the mouth and he put his tongue in her mouth. If he put his tongue in her mouth than he DID kiss her!!! Ya’ can’t have it both ways, either he tried to kiss her on the mouth or he did kiss her on the mouth AND stuck his tongue in her mouth. You can’t put a tongue in somebody’s mouth unless you are actually in the kiss! And Amy felt uncomfortable since that “incident” the year before. Yeah, well we have a picture taken of Jeff and Amy after our wedding barbecue, sometime in the fall, well after the so-called kissing incident. Jeff has his arm around Amy’s shoulder and Amy is smiling broadly, not looking uncomfortable at all!
Amy then says that she saw Jeff Parker come out of Tiona’s bedroom one morning before school. Jeff had his pants down around his knees. THIS CONTRADICTS WHAT TIONA SAID! TIONA SAID THAT BOTH HER AND JEFF PARKER WERE FULLY CLOTHED! And why would Jeff come out of Tiona’s bedroom with his pants down? Wouldn’t he pull them up BEFORE he came out of the room? And why the hell didn't Amy tell anyone about this? Did Jeff threaten her and tell her not to tell? She did not say this at all when she talked to the investigator. She did not say the reason she did not come forward was because she was scared. She did not say she was scared at all. She just mentioned the so-called kissing incident and then she says she saw Jeff come out of Tiona’s bedroom with his pants down. And when did this happen? What date? How long before May 13, 2003 did this occur? With Gary and Jeff Shaw sitting in the kitchen? And you can see into the dining room from the kitchen.
Remember the “wall” separating the kitchen and the dining room is only a half wall with pillars on the top half. You can see Tiona’s bedroom door from the kitchen. If Jeff came out of Tiona’s bedroom with his pants down, someone would have seen him. And why would he have taken the chance of being caught? How did he walk out of the bedroom with his pants half down, wouldn’t this result in a sort of stumble that would raise Gary and Jeff’s Shaw’s suspicions? And so what happened next? Did Jeff pull his pants up while he was standing in the middle of the dining room?
Oh come on! He’s not going to pull his pants up in FULL VIEW OF GARY, JEFF SHAW OR MARLON WORKMAN!
No, this whole scenario does not make sense. And we know that Amy was mad at Jeff and gave him the finger and said “Fuck you” to him the afternoon of May 13, 2003. And we know that Amy is a known liar. She skipped school in March 2003, was found at Broadway Market and lied about it. Sounds to me like she just wanted to get Jeff Parker in trouble, in retaliation for her getting punished by Tyra for saying “Fuck you” to him. When you examine her lies, and pick them apart, they don’t hold much water now do they?
And how did Amy see Jeff come out of Tiona’s bedroom in the morning, when she left for school BEFORE Jeff got there? What, she has super vision? She is on her bus, going to her school, but like Superman, she can look back, use her super and x-ray vision and see what is going on in her house when she’s not there!?
So let’s review a few facts. According to the official Erie County file, the evening of May 13, 2003, Jade sees Tiona acting strange. She questions Tiona. Tiona says she is scared. Jade asks why. Tiona then tells her that Jeff Parker has been abusing her in the morning before school.
Now lets back up a little. At 4pm, May 13, Jeff Parker gets Tiona and Linda off the school bus and brings them home. Gary and Amy are home. (And why couldn’t lazy Gary get his own kids off the school bus?) Two friends of Amy’s are on the porch and want to come in the house and use the phone. Jeff says no. (Tyra had said that no one is to come into the house unless she is there). Amy gets mad, gives Jeff the finger and says “Fuck you” to him. When Tyra comes home, Jeff tells Tyra what Amy did. Tyra punishes Amy.
Now all of a sudden, Amy comes out and tells Tyra that she saw Jeff Parker come out of Tiona’s bedroom with his pants down around his knees. But the following morning, when Tyra accuses Jeff of molesting Tiona, she says, “Amy says she saw you in bed with Tiona.” This contradicts what Amy told the investigator.
I have to question whether the scenario where Tiona was looking scared and opened up to Jade really happened. Well, I wasn’t there that night, so I don’t know. All I know is that Amy swore at Jeff, got punished for it, and then comes up with this lie about him having his pants down around his knees. And how convenient that Amy swore at Jeff, got punished, told her mother about Jeff the very same evening Tiona finally opened up about Jeff “abusing” her.
But I have to ask again, when did Amy see Jeff with his pants down? This is the evening of May 13, 2003. Gary was home then. Did Jeff Parker come out of Tiona’s bedroom with his pants down around his knees the afternoon of May 13? Gary was home then. He would have seen this, as would Linda. If he didn’t, why didn’t Amy go get him and tell him? Did Amy see Jeff with his pants down that morning? Why didn’t she say something then? Or tell Gary that afternoon when she got home from school? Or better yet, when she was angry at Jeff Parker and said “Fuck you” to him and gave him the finger, why didn’t she also say “I’m going to tell my parents what I saw,” and then TELL THEM! Or did she see Jeff Parker with his pants down say on May 12? May 1? April 17? February 8? December 10? WHEN? AND WHY DIDN’T SHE SAY SOMETHING WHEN IT HAPPENED???? AGAIN, IF JEFF PARKER HAD THREATENED HER NOT TO SAY SOMETHING, SHE WOULD HAVE TOLD HER MOTHER THE EVENING OF MAY 13 AND TOLD THE INVESTIGATOR THAT JEFF HAD THREATENED HER NOT TO TELL ANYONE!!!!
Why did Amy not run and get Gary or Jeff Shaw when she saw Jeff Parker with his pants down around his knees? Is the story that Amy and Linda and Tiona WERE HOME ALONE WITHOUT ANY ADULT SUPERVISION EXCEPT FOR JEFF PARKER???? NO!

Of all the lies told by the Powell children the one that took us most by surprise was Jade’s lie. She said that when she was 5 years old, Jeff picked her up and held her. His hand was on her thigh and butt and it made her uncomfortable. And she remembered it ever since and was uncomfortable around him ever since! LIAR!
Jade turned 5 in December 1990, right? Well in 1990-91, Jeff and I were not even friends with the Powell family!
When we first moved on A. St. in 1987, we saw Gary and Tyra living across the street, but did not know them. Then they moved out. Gary had left Tyra because of her cocaine addiction. Then there was Beverly Westfield and her family living at -- A. St. in 1988 and 1989. In October 1989, Jeff’s cousin Jeri and her two daughters, Jem, age 9 and Maggie, age 4 moved in with us. Sometime in 1990 or 91, Beverly moved out and Gary and Tyra moved back in -- A. St. Jade would play with Jem and Maggie, but WAS NEVER IN OUR HOUSE! In fact she was NEVER at our house, neither inside, nor on the porch. NEVER when she was 5 years old!
The only child that came into our house was Amaris Roberts one day after school because no one was home at her house and she did not know where to go, so I took care of her. Amaris and Jem played together at Amaris’s house. And Maggie would play with Jade ACROSS THE STREET FROM US, IN VIEW OF EITHER JERI OR TYRA! Jeff and I did NOT know Gary or Tyra or Jade except as neighbors!!! And Jeff was working the night shift at Markets at this time and was asleep when the girls were playing together ACROSS THE STREET FROM OUR HOUSE. So how the hell did he pick her up when she was 5? And wasn’t she a bit too big to be picked up? My husband doesn’t go around picking up the neighbors’ daughters especially when they are too big and too old to be picked up!!!! Just like Amy’s lies, when you pick this one apart, it does not hold much water!!!

The evening of M, 1992, I went to work and as I approached the hospital, I saw Gary standing outside the emergency room. He told me that Tyra had just had her baby (Amy). I remember his saying that he did not know that I had worked there. (if we were friends with the Powells at this time, he would have known where I worked). The next morning, before I left for home, I stopped in to say hello to Tyra. Jeff and I became friends with the Powells the summer of 1992 when Jade was going on 7 years old. I suppose you can reason that she got her age mixed up and she was 6, going on 7 when Jeff picked her up. But then, she would be a year older, and a bit BIGGER now, WAY TOO BIG TO BE PICKED UP!!! Again, we see Jade for the liar that she is.
And she was uncomfortable around Jeff ever since she was 5 years old? Then explain why she had such a crush on him when she was 11? And Tyra KNOWS she had a crush on him, because WE DISCUSSED IT AND JOKED ABOUT IT!!!!
And ask Jade about the times she raced across the street to accompany Jeff to Park when he walked our dog!!! Or the times she sat on our porch and talked to Jeff about boys. And we have a picture of Jade on our porch laughing with Jeff. But she felt uncomfortable around him since the age of 5! Yeah, right little liar!!!! And why would she even want to come over to our house and use my word processor to do her homework if she was uncomfortable around Jeff?

Blog readers: The picture I am referring to is included in the copy of this document that I sent to the family members. It is a picture of Jade when she was about 11 years old. She is standing on the right side of our porch steps on the second step down. My husband is standing on the porch right by the steps. Our dog is on the left side of the steps. My husband is smiling down at Jade, and she is looking at the dog, and she has a nice smile on her face. Yes, she is smiling. Although she is standing less than 3 feet away from the person she has been “uncomfortable” around since she was 5 years old. (And we weren’t even friends with her and her family until she was 7.)

After we read the file on May 2, 2006 and finally saw the lies that all the girls had said, and especially Jade’s, while we waited for the bus, I actually broke down and cried. I expected more from Jade. She was 17 ½ when she told those lies. All she had to say, if she believed that Jeff had molested Tiona, was, “Well, I am angry that he touched my sister, but I never had a problem with him.” But no, she had to go and tell a lie.
Well it didn’t work. And you know what? NONE of the lies told by all 4 of the Powell girls worked. They contradicted each other and in some cases contradicted what their mother said and even contradicted themselves individually!
I also find the wording by all 4 girls interesting. Despite their lies not only contradicting each other, but also not backing up what each other said, what they all said was Jeff Parker was mean to them and they were uncomfortable around him. EACH ONE SAID THEY WERE UNCOMFORTABLE AROUND HIM. Really? We have been friends with the Powells since 1992. We have been to their birthday parties, barbecues, Jeff was there almost everyday. THE GIRLS WERE NOT UNCOMFORTABLE around him at all. They all liked him. And when was Jeff mean to them? NEVER! He would always bring them candy, when he and Tyra both worked at Mart, Jeff would bring home Tyra’s layaways, (toys). And just as I posed the question in regards to Jade, if all the Powell girls were “uncomfortable” around Jeff, pray tell why were they ALL clamoring to come over to our house?

What I find interesting is that all 4 of the girls seemed to go out of their way to say that Jeff was “mean to them” and “they were uncomfortable around him.” Gee, if all 4 of the girls felt that way, wouldn’t it have come out sooner? I mean, wouldn’t one of them say to their mother, they didn’t like Jeff, and wished he didn’t come over? NO. And up to the very day this shit started, the girls all LIKED Jeff! There was no indication in their behavior that they were UNCOMFORTABLE around him. No, it sounds as is they were all coached and told to say that Jeff was mean to them and they were uncomfortable around them.
Not one of them substantiated each other to any actual event, (in fact they contradicted each other), but all 4 of them had the same wording when it came to Jeff being mean and they were uncomfortable around him. Each girl went out of their way to say “Jeff was always mean to me and I was uncomfortable around him.” Each girl used the same exact words to the investigator, but when it came to describing an actual event, each girl had a different story and nobody could agree on what actually happened.

Linda said that Jeff “used cuss words” around her. Well, maybe. Both Jeff and I have a bad habit with swearing. I know a few times, I slipped and said a few “cuss words” in front of the girls. Does that make ME bad and a child abuser? And what about the foul language that was used by Tyra, Gary and Jeff Shaw?
Tiona told the investigator that Jeff scared her one time. Yes, he did, on Halloween! They came over trick-or-treating. Jeff came to the door with a mask and costume and scared Tiona. She was 4 years old. She started screaming and crying, but when Jeff took off the mask, and she saw that it was him, she stopped crying IMMEDIATELY. We both felt bad about it, but Tyra said that Tiona would be all right. Nothing more was ever said about it.

And even after Jeff was accused, Tiona showed no indication that she was afraid of Jeff. Several times I saw her across the street and when she saw Jeff, did she tense up, show fear? NO! She ignored him and continued playing. And when she saw him on the bus shortly afterwards, she smiled at him! But she was “uncomfortable” and “scared of him.” Yeah, you always smile at the person you are uncomfortable around and you always smile at the person who molested you and scared you. Her behavior shows her for the liar she is.
Another interesting thing. One day, shortly after the accusation, Jeff was walking home and passed Gary and Tyra on the sidewalk. Neither Gary, nor Tyra looked at Jeff or said anything. They didn’t even bother to give him a dirty look.
This is inconsistent with the “facts.”
If this man molested your daughter, you would want to kill him. But of course you don’t want to go to jail, so at the very least you would be nasty and disrespectful to him. And of course, you wouldn’t want to start a brawl in the middle of the street, so the least you would do is give him a nasty look. And taking into consideration Tyra’s visit to our house to express her condolences for Jeff’s mother dying. No, none of this adds up. This guy molests your daughter, and you come over to say you’re sorry? NO, if anything, you would feel bad that the woman died, but you would feel no pity for the man who molested your daughter. And don’t even try to say that it was Tyra being a good Christian woman. A good Christian woman would not go to the neighbors and complain that I wouldn’t let her in my house. (Why would I under the circumstances?) And a good Christian woman would not stand on her porch 24 hours later and scream obscenities at the man she just tried to express condolences to, and do this while waving a liquor bottle around in her hand! And we all know that Tyra was an alcoholic at the time, because she went into rehab in August 2003! And don’t try to tell me she didn’t. Because the investigator noted that she did. She followed the Powell family until December 2003. And I know that Tyra was in rehab again in early 2005. But Jade lied and told the investigator that her mother had no drinking problem when she was asked that question! So the investigator herself caught Jade in a lie. It is right there in Romana Grohman’s own handwritten notes! Jade is a liar, just like all 3 of her sisters and her mother!!!!
Romana asked Jade if there was any drinking or drug use going on at --1 A. St. And she said no. Umm, no, Tyra did not hide her beer and vodka bottles that well. Jade knew full well that her mother drank. All the neighbors know it. Tyra is out there the night we buried Jeff’s mother and she is waving a liquor bottle and screaming obscenities and Jade does not know that her mother drinks? Give me a break!!!

Jeff could not have molested Tiona “every school morning before taking the girls to the bus stop” as Tyra reported. BECAUSE HE WAS NEVER ALONE WITH TIONA. THERE WAS AN ADULT AT ALL TIMES WITH HIM AND THE GIRLS, EITHER GARY OR JEFF SHAW WAS THERE. AND MARLON WORKMAN WAS THERE AS WELL!!!!
And don’t think that he was alone in the house with Tiona and Linda because, when he left the house with the girls to go to the bus stop SOMEBODY HAD TO HAVE LOCKED THE DOOR AFTER THEY LEFT!!!!!! WHO LET HIM IN THE HOUSE AND WHO LOCKED THE DOOR AFTER HE LEFT? WHO LET HIM IN? TIONA OR LINDA? IS IT BEING SAID THAT LINDA AND TIONA, AGED 6 + 7 WERE HOME ALONE? NO THEY WERE NEVER LEFT ALONE! SO HOW THE HELL DID JEFF MOLEST TIONA WHEN THERE WAS ALWAYS AN ADULT HOME IN THE MORNING?
AND AGAIN, WHO LET JEFF IN THE HOUSE WHEN JEFF HAD NO KEY TO THE HOUSE!!!!
The door needs a key to lock it, and since Jeff had no key to lock the door behind him, DID TYRA AND GARY LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN ALL DAY? NO!!!!
Let’s review the morning routine here. Jade and Amy have left for school. Tyra has gone to work. Linda and Tiona are getting washed and dressed and ready to go. Here comes Jeff Parker. A few minutes before 9 Jeff Parker takes the girls to the corner. When the school bus comes, Jeff Parker either comes home or he goes to his brother’s house to care for his mother. He does not return to -- A. St. He does not have a key to lock the door behind him when he leaves with Linda and Tiona. So who the hell closed and locked the door after Jeff Parker left with Linda and Tiona? The tooth fairy?
GARY OR JEFF SHAW OR MARLON WORKMAN CLOSED AND LOCKED THE DOOR AFTER JEFF PARKER LEFT WITH THE GIRLS, SO THAT MEANS JEFF PARKER WAS NOT ALONE WITH TIONA IN THE MORNINGS!!! AND THIS MEANS THAT EITHER GARY OR JEFF SHAW OR BOTH, WERE AWAKE AND UP AND ABOUT!!!! AND WHY COULDN’T THESE LAZY PEOPLE GET TIONA AND LINDA ON THE BUS THEMSELVES? WHY WAS IT “NECESSARY” FOR A NEIGHBOR TO DO IT FOR 6 WEEKS? BECAUSE THEY WERE SETTING JEFF PARKER UP!!!!!
IF GARY AND JEFF SHAW WERE UP AND ABOUT, THIS BRINGS UP THE QUESTION AGAIN OF WHY AMY DID NOT GET GARY OR JEFF SHAW WHEN SHE “SAW” JEFF PARKER WITH HIS PANTS DOWN AROUND HIS KNEES!!!
JEFF SHAW AND GARY DID NOT LEAVE JEFF PARKER ALONE WITH THE GIRLS. AND LINDA WAS ALWAYS WITH TIONA, SO SHE WOULD HAVE SAID SHE SAW SOMETHING, BUT OTHER THAN SAYING THAT NONSENSE ABOUT JEFF PUTTING HIS SEX ORGAN IN HIS MOUTH, LINDA DOES NOT RELATE ANY INCIDENT OF SEXUAL ABUSE TO TIONA. AND TIONA SAID LINDA WAS ASLEEP WHEN THE ABUSE OCCURED! ASLEEP AT 8:30AM WHEN SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE UP AND GETTING DRESSED and on the school bus in a half an hour!!!
IS GARY SAYING THAT JEFF PARKER MOLESTED TIONA RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM?? WHEN HE WAS IN THE KITCHEN? WHEN LINDA AND TIONA WERE GETTING READY FOR SCHOOL? WHEN IT WAS JEFF SHAW WHO GOT THE GIRLS UP, WASHED, DRESSED AND GOT BREAKFAST? HOW THE HELL DID JEFF PARKER GET TIONA ALONE IN THE BEDROOM WHEN GARY, JEFF SHAW AND MARLON WORKMAN WERE ALL THERE????? ARE THEY SAYING THAT THEY WERE THAT STUPID THAT THEY LET JEFF PARKER GO INTO TIONA’S BEDROOM ALONE FOR A PERIOD OF TIME?? SO TIONA WENT BACK INTO HER BEDROOM AFTER SHE GOT UP, GOT WASHED AND DRESSED BY JEFF SHAW, GOT SOME BREAKFAST AND THEN WENT INTO HER BEDROOM EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL MORNING (FOR 6-7 MONTHS AS REPORTED BY TYRA,) TO HAVE SOME QUALITY SEX TIME WITH JEFF PARKER AND GARY AND JEFF SHAW AND MARLON WORKMAN SAW IT, AND SAID NOTHING????? AND AMY SAW JEFF PARKER WITH HIS PANTS DOWN (when she wasn’t even home) BUT SAID NOTHING!!!
EXPLAIN THIS TO ME AND I WILL PAY YOU A THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!!

NOW THAT I HAVE PUT FORTH THIS SCENARIO, GARY CANNOT CHANGE HIS STORY. HE CANNOT SAY, YES, THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED, BECAUSE THEN HE WOULD BE GUILTY OF KNOWING THAT JEFF PARKER ABUSED TIONA IN FRONT OF HIM AND HE CONDONED IT AND HE WOULD BE CHARGED WITH ENDANGERING THE WELFARE OF A CHILD!!!

NO. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IS THAT IT WAS JEFF SHAW WHO MOLESTED TIONA AND TYRA KNEW ABOUT IT ALL ALONG! AND LIED TO SAVE HER OWN SNARKY BOYFRIEND FROM GETTING INTO TROUBLE AND LIED TO KEEP HER OWN ASS OUT OF TROUBLE WITH CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES!!!

And a lie was told about me, BY GARY!!!!! He told the investigator that I make prank revenge child abuse calls. And that I told him this myself. Oh really? What he is referring to is the fact that 10 years ago, my younger sister, who is manic depressive, was harassing me. I can’t get into the whole story here, but she was calling my place of employment, trying to get me fired. She wrote letters to the mayor of Buffalo about me. She wrote to Jeff, sending the letters to his mother’s house, and urged him to break up with me. She wrote me a letter saying that Jeff had an affair with the lady living next door to me, and they had baby girl in 1994. (The only two babies born to --. St. were Derrick (DJ) McCray Jr. and Justin Sears Jr. BOTH BOYS!!
In December 1994, somebody called child abuse on my sister and identified themselves as Remi Stallworth (my maiden name). They said that my sister allowed Jeff to sexually abuse her daughter. Right. I call up child abuse as a prank and give my correct name. I also name my own significant other and fiance as the perpetrator.
NO, what happened was my sister and her husband were going thru a divorce and her husband got his girlfriend to do this call and I got blamed for it. At the time the call was made, I thought it was my sister who called child abuse on herself, to implicate me to “prove” to Jeff that I was a bitch and he should leave me. I told this to Gary. I told him in a fit of anger, that I should call abuse on my sister as revenge to see how she liked it. But I never did. And I only found out about my ex-brother-in-law’s girlfriend 2 years ago. Gary twisted my words and told a lie about me. I never told him that I make “revenge child abuse calls.” I repeat, I told him that I felt that I SHOULD call abuse on my sister to see how she would like it. And that WOULD have counted as a revenge child abuse call. But I NEVER called child abuse on my sister. AND IT IS ON RECORD THAT I DID NOT! I HAD MEETINGS WITH CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND FAMILY COURT BETWEEN 1995-1999 ABOUT THE SITUATION WITH MY SISTER AND HAD AN ORDER OF PROTECTION PLACED AGAINST MY SISTER IN 1996-99. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THE PAPERWORK ON THIS TO PROVE THAT I DID NOT CALL CHILD ABUSE ON MY SISTER AS REVENGE???? AS I SAID, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE AND CPS AND FAMILY COURT WERE INVOLVED AND THEY KNOW A HELL OF A LOT MORE ABOUT THE SITUATION THAN GARY DOES. IN FACT, HE KNOWS NOTHING!!!!
And this comes from a man, who is such a poor parent, that he can’t take care of his children when his alcoholic wife goes into rehab in August 2003. His kids have to go into a foster home, albeit it was their own aunt, because Gary is a poor excuse for a father!
Hey, my dad took care of us when his second wife went bonkers! What’s your excuse Gary? But go and tell lies on someone who never did anything to you, but you stand there and let your wife move her boyfriend into your house and sleep with him right in front of you. And the girls did tell the investigator and the DA that Jeff Shaw slept in the back room with Tyra. It’s right there in the official Erie County file.
In regards to the child abuse call I made about the Powells after Thomas jumped Jeff, it was not a revenge call. We had legitimate concerns about the family. We were going to bring them up with the investigator when she came to talk to us, but she never returned my calls, never bothered to get our side of the story. If she had given us just 15 minutes, we could have avoided this whole mess. The truth would have been out, and Thomas probably would not have jumped Jeff. But then again Ms. Grohman was such a poor investigator, that she didn’t get even get my husband’s birthdate correct. She never bothered to get such basic information correct, or other information from us, so the bitch will get sued. She showed gross negligence and prejudice towards us and even though her and her supervisor know that substance abuse was going on in the Powell household, and the kids were being hit with belts (from their own mouths) and this is AGAINST THE LAW IN NEW YORK STATE AND CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES IS REQUIRED TO TAKE THE KIDS AWAY, AND GROHMAN ADMITS FROM DAY ONE THE POWELLS WERE GIVING HER THE RUNAROUND, SHE TAKES THE POSITION THAT THE POWELLS ARE ABOVE REPROACH AND JEFF PARKER IS THE WRONGDOER!
Since the investigator refused to return our calls and get our side of the story and listen to our LEGITIMATE concerns about the Powell family, I decided to make my own child abuse call. My call was about the FACTS that due to the substance abuse by both parents, the mother sleeping with her boyfriend while her husband is under the same roof, the fighting, the lack of heat in the winter (because the substance abusers in the household could not pay their gas bill), the hitting of the children with belts, (and the children told the CPS investigator that their mother hit them with belts – it is in the official Erie County file). I called the child abuse hotline and told them that the children were not provided with a safe warm environment, the father had angered his drug suppliers and they threatened to shoot up the house, thereby putting the children in danger. Tyra and Gary did not provide a safe environment for the children and this is why I called. NOT OUT OF REVENGE BUT BECAUSE I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE CHILDREN!!!
I had these concerns for a long time, but never called child abuse on the Powells, because FRIENDS DO NOT CALL CHILD ABUSE ON FRIENDS, THEY HELP THEM. AND JEFF AND I TRIED TO HELP THE POWELLS FOR YEARS AND AFTER THEY REWARDED OUR FRIENDSHIP WITH A KICK IN THE TEETH I DECIDED TO LET THE AUTHORITIES KNOW JUST WHAT KIND OF ROTTEN PARENTS GARY AND TYRA WERE!!!
The next day, I informed my lawyer about what I did and wondered if I had done the right thing. He told me that I had. He said that we had waited long enough for Child Protective Services to act (come and talk to us and get the WHOLE picture of the Powell family) and he said it was time for us to go on the offense.

And what makes Gary so goody-goody that he can tell tales about me? This poor excuse for a man and a father would steal money from his own wife’s purse to support his own drug habit. And even though he was working at XYZ Hardware, the gas bill couldn’t get paid and the Powells went without heat for 3 years in a row. They owed Fuel over $3000.00 in 2001. How do you as a parent put your drug problem before providing a warm house for your children in the winter? I was over there in the winter, and it was damn uncomfortable, downright COLD and you let your children shiver, wash with cold water, but sit and tell lies about a woman who was trying
to help the entire family and the children in particular. The following judgments against Gary are from public records obtained from Erie County Hall:

12-20-05
$3500.00 for child support

3-17-04
(with Tyra Perkins)
$636.16 to NYS tax

8-13-99
(with Tyra Powell)
$9250.88 to Erie County Dept of Social Services
entered 6-30-98, rendered 7-20-98, from 1990, was getting welfare and food stamps, failed to report Gary’s unemployment and employment at RND Machine Co.

Do you think I am making this up? To check it out, go on the internet, and under Google, plug in “Erie County Online Records.” Click on “Index and Document Retrieval,” sign in as “guest.” Plug in the last name, then first name. There are 3 entries for Gary Powell. Erie County changed the system last year, so you cannot get the detailed account. Also on the internet, you cannot view the document in question, but you can always go downtown and check the computers in Erie County Hill. You can see the actual document. Or you can go to the courthouse on Delaware and look at the judgement books.
Blog readers: of course you cannot check this out as I have changed this person’s name. But his real name is in the copy of this document that I have sent to the family members. They can check this out and see.
People in glass houses really should not throw stones. Yes, Gary, you’re a drug addict and a welfare cheat, and a poor parent, but you tell lies about Remi, who never did anything to you. Hope you sleep well at night. Yes, Gary is such a goody-goody but in the official Erie County file, Tyra herself tells the investigator that “Gary is no-good. Good for nothing” That’s pretty sad when your own wife tells the authorities you’re no good. But then, neither is she.

I found another interesting thing in the Powell file in May. According to the district attorney’s findings, all the activities (the abuse of Tiona), took place in the BACK ROOM, NOT TIONA’S ROOM!!!! And this contradicts what Amy said. So if Tiona was molested in the back room, and not her bedroom, and the back room is in full view of the kitchen, where Gary was having his coffee in the morning, HOW THE HELL DID JEFF PARKER MOLEST TIONA IN JEFF SHAW’S BEDROOM which was the back room???? AND JEFF SHAW DIDN’T SEE JEFF PARKER ABUSE TIONA IN HIS OWN BEDROOM???

Oh and the kids all say that there were physical and verbal fights between Gary and Jeff Shaw, Tyra and Gary, Tyra and Jeff Shaw. What a wonderful family. What the hell did Jeff and I ever see in that drug and alcohol cesspool, I’ll never know.
Both Amy and Jade told the investigator that Jeff Shaw favored Linda and Tiona, Tiona in particular, and treated them (Amy and Jade) badly. This is consistent with a child molester. The child who is favored is the one WHO IS BEING MOLESTED! And that was Tiona. And who was the molester? JEFF SHAW NOT JEFF PARKER!

Getting back to the topic of revenge child abuse calls. Who the hell called child abuse on me? In August 2003, right after the Powells moved off A. St, somebody called and said I was beating my 10 year old daughter Angela. They also made a separate call the next day and said that Jeff Parker was sexually abusing our daughter.
And then in August 2005, the day after Jeff Shaw threatened me on the bus and Tyra mouthed off to me, somebody called child abuse and said that I was starving my 5 kids. When I told the investigator of how Shaw threatened me on the bus the day before, her eyes got real wide. Yep, the Child Protective Services now know that the Powells have a history of calling false child abuse on Jeff and Remi Parker, from May 26, 2003 to August 23, 2005.
Question to Gary: who’s making prank revenge false child abuse calls?
And who called my neighbor Maya Blum at -- A. St. in August 2005 to ask “is Jeff Parker incarcerated?” This call came a few days after my run-in with Tyra and Jeff Shaw on the bus. Very interesting. Tyra sees me for the first time in 2 years and all of a sudden, child abuse is called on me and a neighbor (who just happens to be Amy’s godmother) gets a prank call concerning Jeff Parker.
Getting back to the official Erie County file, Tyra told the investigator that on the morning of May 14, 2003, she told Jeff Parker to meet her at the firehall. This is a lie. I got home from work around 7:35am. Jeff was up and dressed and we talked for a few minutes and then I started getting ready for bed. (brushing my teeth, etc.). Around five minutes to 8, Jeff left the house, saying he was going across the street to Tyra’s house. A few minutes later, I heard a thump on my porch. I opened the door, but I couldn’t see anybody, so I came out and saw the cat from next door. I was petting him and I looked up and saw Jeff and Tyra walking up A. St. I assumed she was on her way to work and Jeff was walking her up to the bus stop. I went back in the house and upstairs to the bedroom. I changed into my sleep clothes and got in the bed. I hadn’t even turned out the light when I heard Jeff come back home. He didn’t slam the door, but did close it hard. Usually he closes it very softly when he knows I’m in bed. I knew something was wrong and came right downstairs and saw his face was scratched up and he was angry. He told me what happened. He told me that Tyra accused him of molesting Tiona. We talked for a few minutes and then I placed a call to my friend. I called her around 10 or 15 minutes after 8.
I’d like to know how Tyra “told” Jeff to meet her at the fireHill. She did not phone our house. I checked our caller id boxes later that day, as per my usual routine. There were no calls from her that entire day. And I saw her walking with Jeff. I did not see him walking up A. St. alone, supposedly to “meet” somebody. Tyra was with him. So much for her LIE to the investigator that she told him to meet her at the firehall.

For the past three years I have been haunted by the question of why Tyra did this. I totally believe and have said from day one that she was setting Jeff Parker up. But I could not figure out why. On Wednesday, May 3, 2006, I was talking to my friend Marci Bower and she had the key. Tiona was being molested by someone in that house and it was close to being found out. How I don’t know, but if it were to be found out, Tyra would be charged with child neglect and child abuse herself because she knew about it and did not do anything to stop it. She bamboozled my husband with a bullshit story about Jeff Shaw being sick so Jeff Parker would take the girls to the bus stop. Jeff Parker supposedly had been taking the girls to the bus stop for 6-7 months. This was a lie. He only started taking them to the bus stop in April 2003. But anyway, who was taking them to the bus stop in September 2002? (going back 6-7 months takes us back to November-December 2002). Whoever was taking the girls to the bus stop in September and October 2002 could have done it all this time Jeff Parker was supposedly doing it. And certainly during the month of April and the first 2 weeks in May. And why couldn’t they do it anymore?

Here is an excerpt of a letter that I submitted to the judge. The letter is included (with some sensitive private information edited out, later on. But I want to bring this point up:

Going back 7 months from May takes us to November 2002. And in her own words, the molestation had been going on for “every school morning for 6-7 months.” Well, my husband was employed by M during those 6-7 months, and starting after Thanksgiving, Mart started opening up early for the holiday shopping season. At 7am, and sometimes as early as 5 and 6am. We did not have a car at that time, we were taking the bus. So how did my husband leave his job, get two buses back home EVERY SCHOOL MORNING, take Linda and Tiona to the bus stop at 9am, jump back on 2 buses and go back to work? No, this simply did not happen. Nobody is going to leave their job every school morning for a time period of 2-3 hours. This scenario is just plain ludicrous.

As I said, it only started in April. Tyra was setting things in motion. The evening of May 13, was when one of the kids talked. So Tyra supposedly found out about the evening of May 13. Does she call 911? Does she call Child Protective Services? Does she take her daughter to a doctor? (and CPS’s own notes indicated that she DID NOT TAKE TIONA TO A DOCTOR!). Does Tyra get angry and come across the street and accuse Jeff? NO! She waits to the next morning and tries to stab him and scratches his face. He chokes her and throws her to the ground. Does she call 911 that she was just assaulted? NO! She goes back home, and then goes to work. Then she goes to work the next day. She DOES NOTHING FOR 12 DAYS AND THEN CALLS CHILD ABUSE.
The file from Erie County indicates that Tyra found out about Tiona’s “molestation” the evening of May 13. She admits that on the morning of May 14, she confronted Jeff Parker. Why then did it take her 12 days to call the authorities? During the call, she says that Jeff Parker “penetrated the child vaginally.”
When a mother finds out that her six-year old child has been penetrated vaginally, the very first thing she does is call 911 and have the child taken to the emergency room. The emergency room staff will contact the authorities, as they are mandated by law to do so. Tyra could also have taken Tiona to her private pediatrician the following day. The pediatrician is also mandated by law to call the authorities. Since no mandated health care workers called the authorities, we know that Tyra did not provide health care for her sexually abused child in a timely manner, between May 13 and May 26 and still had not taken her to a doctor until the middle of June!!!! This is a full month after Tyra finds out that her daughter has been sexually molested!!! What kind of sleazy mother is Tyra anyway??? She waits a full month to take her sexually abused child to a doctor!!! I saw the doctor’s report! I can’t remember the exact date, but it had two digits, so it was at least June 10, but I think it was later than that.
Tiona should have been seen by a doctor as soon as possible, if she was penetrated vaginally. She could have suffered vaginal and/or perineal tears and/or bruising. She could have contracted a sexually transmitted disease. Does Tyra think about this? No, she only thinks about Jeff Parker and how she can hurt him. When Tiona is finally taken to a doctor, the doctor’s report does not support Tiona being vaginally penetrated. And I read the actual doctor’s report, it is part of the county’s file! It sounds as though Tyra was making it all up as she was going along.
After Tyra finally does call the Child Protective Services, the CPS worker shows up the following day. Gary Powell doesn’t know anything and won’t talk to the investigator. The Powells put the investigator off a few more times and then the investigator gets tired of the runaround and goes to the school to talk to Tiona and Linda. However, during the months of June and July I was on the phone constantly, leaving messages on the investigator’s voice mail, asking when she was going to come and talk to my husband and myself. WE had no problem talking with the authorities, WE weren’t giving the investigator the runaround, and playing games, the Powells were.
I called Tyra the morning of May 15, 2003 and asked her what was going on. She could not talk to me as she was at work. She told me she would talk to me later. She never did. During my conversations with her friend Melora Hill and her sister Dionne Spence, they both told me that they told her to talk to me. She never did. Why not? Because she couldn’t face me because she knew she was setting up my husband.
On the morning of Tuesday, June 24, 2003, I was on the southward * bus coming home from work. I had missed the train that connected me with the * bus that I normally take home and I stayed on the train to catch the* bus at the * train station. I was standing at the front of the bus as we approached my stop I saw Tyra and Jeff Shaw at the bus stop. They were talking and Tyra was smiling. As the bus door opened and I came down the steps I looked at Tyra right in the eye. She stopped talking and smiling, got a funny look on her face, and dropped her eyes to the ground. She couldn’t face me. The look on her face was one of someone who got caught and it was a look of shame. It was not the look of “oh, my poor friend Remi, her husband is a child molester.” No, it was a look of shame. Tyra could not look me in the eye!
And as to her coming over the night before my mother-in-law’s funeral to express condolences to Jeff…That is ridiculous! This man molested your child and you feel sorry for him? And she wants everybody to know what a good woman she is that she comes over to express her condolences to Jeff Parker, but she could not bring herself to talk to me, her friend. No, she just left me hanging to wonder what happened.
When she did come over, her exact words were: “I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry. AND THEN I read Jeff’s mother died.”
What was she sorry about? That she lied and tried to send an innocent man to jail. Her conscience was getting to her that’s why she came over to express condolences. And she thought it would be a good way for her to get her conscience cleared. But when I shut the door in the face, she got angry. The following morning, when I went to get the newspaper, I saw Jeff Shaw and told him to please keep Tyra away from us at this time. He yelled “Go Fuck yourself” to me.
This was witnessed by Ellen Mitchell, my next door neighbor. She did not say anything to me, but I saw her face and she was shocked. She also heard me say to Jeff Shaw, that by his response to me, I knew who the true molester was.
If I had not been getting ready to go to my mother-in-law’s funeral I would have marched across the street and slapped that son of a bitch in the mouth! How dare he swear at me? Why was I suddenly the enemy? There were no accusations of child abuse placed against me towards the Powell children? What sin did I commit? That I did not let Tyra in my house the night before? And for this I get told to fuck myself? From a former psych patient at that! And how dare that son of a bitch threaten me on the bus in August 2005? Because I changed my seat? I had 7 teeth pulled out and still had stitches in my mouth! I was originally sitting near the front wheels and it was bouncing me too much and hurt my mouth. I changed my seat to get away from the bus wheels, and so what if I did sit across from Tyra and Jeff Shaw? Who the hell are they to tell me where I can sit on a public bus? If I did not have stitches in my mouth I would have told both of them where to go.
During the months of June and July 2003, I would frequently sit on my porch right by my front door and smoke. I had put a chair and small table next to my front door and mailbox. I kept a small notebook and pen in my mailbox to write notes. Anytime anybody who lived at -- A. St.were on their porch, within minutes they would run back into the house. Even when they weren’t on the porch, if their front door was open and they would see me on my porch, they would close the door. (You can see my front door through the open front door of -- A. St., even when you are standing in the kitchen doorway, through the dining and living rooms.
Why couldn’t the Powells stand the sight of me? I would expect this kind of behavior if they did not want to look at Jeff Parker, but why couldn’t they look at Remi? Not even the children. What did Remi do to the children? I believe that the entire household knew they had lied about what happened and couldn’t face me.
On Sunday May 29, 2005 I ran into Jeff Shaw and Linda and Tiona at the bus stop at the corner of W. This was the first time I had seen the girls since the family moved off A. St. Both girls saw me and looked at the ground, and I saw on their faces the same look that I saw on Tyra’s face when she saw me coming off the bus. It was a look of shame. What were they ashamed of? That they lied and they knew they lied.
Oh speaking of lies, here’s another one. And this one is a beaut! During the month of June 2003, Tyra told her friend Melora and her own sister Maxine, that Jeff Parker’s DNA matched that found on Tiona! The following are 3 entries from my Chronology of Events that I compiled for legal purposes: (and which was submitted to the judge and is included later on for you to read).

June 20, 7am
I placed a call to Dionne Maxine Spence, the mother of Thomas Workman and asked why her son jumped Jeff Parker. She did not know that he did. I told her what happened. During our conversation, she asked me, "Didn't Jeff's (Parker) DNA match that found on Tiona?" I said, "What DNA? The case worker has not even come to talk to Jeff yet." I told her of my attempts to reach Romana on June 12 and 13 and that when I did talk to her on Monday the 16th, she said that she would talk to us when she got back from vacation.
Maxine (Dionne, who goes by the name of Maxine), expressed surprise and disbelief. "Do you mean nobody has talked to Jeff yet?"
I said "Yes, and nobody has taken a DNA test from him either."

June 27th, app.4pm
I called Precinct ** and asked why a detective had not gotten in touch with us about the assault reports that we had filed on June 20. I was told to call the * District office. I did so, and talked to Det. Nichole Wolfe, who picked us up around 7:30pm. We went to * District office and made out a statement.
Det. Wolfe checked in the computer and found no evidence that any complaint was made against Jeff Parker. She also said that a DNA test would have to be ordered thru the Sex Offense Squad, not Child Protective Services. And since there was nothing in the computer, it had not been reported as of yet. This was 6 weeks after Tyra first accused Jeff on May 14.
We did not pursue the assault charges against Tyra and her nephew Thomas because we were overwhelmed with all the stressful occurrences during the summer. (funerals, health issues).

June 29 approx 1pm
Melora Hill of ---- B. Ave. was visiting at the Powell house. I was sitting on my porch when she left Tyra's house and started to cross the street towards my house. I came down my porch steps and approached her. I asked her if she could tell me what was going on. According to her, Jeff Parker was DNA tested and it matched that found on Tiona. When I told her that Jeff had NOT been DNA tested, nor even talked to by any person investigating the matter, Melora expressed surprise. She also said that she and other people (she did not say who), have told Tyra that she (Tyra) should talk to me about the situation. She also told me that Tiona is being taken to doctors and is being tested. (present tense, although the "attack" had taken place at least before May 14th, more than 6 weeks prior to this conversation).

Also during 2003, the people living at -- A. St. were told this lie by Tyra. They told it to their cousin, who works with me. She asked me about the DNA. When I told her that Tyra lied and told her about the police reports my co-worker was livid. She said that clearly, the whole story was made up. This from someone who never met Tyra, nor my husband.

WHERE DOES TYRA GET OFF BY TELLING NEIGHBORS, FRIENDS AND EVEN HER OWN SISTER THAT NON-EXISTENT DNA WAS FOUND ON TIONA AND IT MATCHED MY HUSBAND? HOW DOES SHE KNOW THAT ANY DNA FOUND ON TIONA BELONGED TO MY HUSBAND? THE POLICE NEVER TESTED MY HUSBAND. CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES NEVER TESTED MY HUSBAND. NOBODY HAS DNA TESTED MY HUSBAND EVEN TO THIS DAY!!!!
THIS SHOWS THAT TYRA IS AN F*ING LIAR!

Hey don’t take my word, do your own research. Go ahead and call Det. Drew Kipler of the Buffalo Police Sex Offense Squad and ask if there was ever any DNA testing performed on Jeff Parker in May or June 2003. Remember that I found out in June 2003 that Tyra was telling people that DNA matching Jeff Parker’s was found on Tiona. You would have to have found DNA on Tiona and tested it. Then you would have to have tested Jeff Parker and matched it. BUT since Jeff Parker was never tested, this means, as I said, that Tyra is an f*ing LIAR.
And also we never even spoke to any Buffalo Police officer until July 12, 2003 regarding Tyra’s complaint. We spoke to the police when we filed assault charges against Tyra and Thomas on June 20 and we had the follow up interview on June 27. The subject of Jeff Parker being accused of abusing Tiona did come up, but as of JUNE 27, 2003, THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE BUFFALO POLICE COMPUTER REGARDING A COMPLAINT BY ANYBODY NAMED POWELL AGAINST JEFF PARKER AND THERE WAS NO RECORD OF JEFF PARKER BEING DNA TESTED AS OF JUNE 27, 2003. BUT WHEN I SPOKE TO TYRA’S SISTER MAXINE, THE MORNING OF JUNE 20, 2003, SHE SAID THAT JEFF PARKER HAD BEEN TESTED! NO, SHE WAS MISLED (LIED TO) BY HER OWN SISTER.
So how the hell did the Buffalo Police test Jeff Parker’s DNA in June 2003? And the stupid Child Protective Service investigator, Romana Grohman NEVER spoke to Jeff Parker until August 11, 2003. She never even came to our house until August 18, 2003 when somebody placed a false abuse report on ME. And the Erie County Protective Services CAN NOT order a DNA test on a suspect. This must come from the Buffalo Police Sex Offense Squad, or the District Attorney’s office and the District Attorney’s office never spoke to Jeff Parker until November 2003. So how does the neighborhood, Tyra’s friends and Tyra’s family get the idea in JUNE 2003 that Jeff Parker’s DNA matched that found on Tiona? They got that idea from LYING TYRA’S MOUTH!
GO AHEAD AND ASK THE POLICE, THE SEX OFFENSE SQUAD, THE CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY IF ANY DNA TEST WAS EVER PERFORMED ON JEFF PARKER. THEY WILL ALL TELL YOU NO! THEY DID NOT TEST HIM FOR DNA!
YES TYRA IS CAUGHT IN A NICE FAT LIE HERE AND SHE CAN’T TAKE IT BACK WITHOUT MAKING HERSELF LOOK THE LYING FOOL THAT SHE IS. SHE TOLD THIS LIE TO SEVERAL PEOPLE ON A. ST. THEY HAVE BEEN SET STRAIGHT. I HAVE TOLD THEM JUST WHAT I HAVE SAID HERE: TO ASK THE POLICE AS TO THE “STATUS” OF JEFF PARKER’S NON-EXISTANT DNA TEST. EVERYBODY ON A. St. KNOWS THAT TYRA IS A LIAR AND THEY HAVE NO RESPECT FOR HER!!!! Indeed, the entire neighborhood has expresed disgust with what Tyra did and furthermore has fully supported Jeff and me.
On June 24, 2006, I was assigned to work in the emergency room of the hospital where I work. While I was there, I checked on the policy and procedures regarding rape and sexual assault. The hospital policy and procedure manual quotes New York State law which states that specimen collection must be taken within 96 hours of the assault. This is because after 96 hours, the sperm, hair or other organic specimens deteriorate after that time and cannot be used. Of course evidence of physical trauma (bruising, abrasions, etc.) may still be evident for several days. I also asked the ER personnel questions as to the time limit regarding the collection of physical specimens from rape and sexual assault victims.
So according to the official Erie County file, Tyra learns that Tiona was molested on May 13, 2003. She does not call child abuse hotline until May 26, 2003. Tiona has not been taken to a doctor. And this is documented in the file as dictated to Romana Grohman by Tyra herself. Tyra confirms the dates and confirms that Tiona has not been seen by a doctor. When Tyra does call child abuse she says that the last know occurrence (of the sexual assaults on Tiona) occurred the previous week. Way past the 96 hour time limit that any sperm or other organic material can be collected.
On June 27, 2003 Tyra’s sister tells me that Jeff Parker’s DNA matched that found on Tiona. On June 29, 2003 Melora Hill tells me the same thing. So I have to ask again, how did Jeff Parker’s DNA match that found on Tiona? Not only has he never been tested by the police or the district attorney, no specimen was taken from Tiona in the 96 hour period that is mandated by New York State law.
96 hours is 4 days. Tyra does not call child abuse for 12 days after finding out that her daughter has been molested. And Tiona is not even taken to a doctor until the middle of June. This is way beyond the time limit where a viable DNA sample can be obtained, tested, classified and identified.
By the time Tiona is taken to a doctor, any DNA that was on her would not only be corrupted but in all likelihood gone from her body. First, I doubt that any DNA was on her, and if there was, it was probably from Jeff Shaw, not Jeff Parker.
Also, the doctor’s report included in the official Erie County file does not state that specimens were taken from Tiona. YES, YOU READ CORRECTLY! THE DOCTOR EXAMINED TIONA BUT DID NOT TAKE ANY SAMPLES FROM TIONA TO BE DNA TESTED.
SO HOW DOES NON-EXISTANT SAMPLES FOUND ON TIONA MATCH WITH JEFF PARKER’S NON-EXISTANT DNA TESTS? THE SAMPLES EXISTED AND MATCHED ONLY IN TYRA’S LYING ALCOHOLIC DERANGED MIND!!!!
Sorry Tyra, you went up against the time limits that New York State law says that specimens can be taken from a rape or sexual assault victim. And even common sense will tell you that no sperm or other physical organic matter will remain on or in a rape or sexual assault victim for 12 days. So, Tyra, not only the fact that Jeff Parker was never tested for DNA, but the fact that your daughter herself did not have any specimens taken from her to be DNA tested shows you for the lying bitch that you are.
Sorry Toots, you’re a liar, and the whole purpose of writing this saga to your family is to show them that you, Tyra, are a liar! That’s right, dear readers, your family member is the liar, not my husband, or myself!

Here then is my chronology which was submitted to the judge:

Chronology of Events
compiled by Remi Parker

I compiled this chronology to keep track of the happenings of the summer of 2003 to the present concerning the situation with the Powell family, after the false accusation of child abuse against my husband Jeff Parker by our former friend Tyra Powell. Many of the incidents are in my words and witnessed by me because during the months of March – July 2003, Jeff’s mother, Deanna Parker was dying of cancer. During that time, his hours were cut at his job at Mart, and he was mostly working in the evening. In the mornings, he would go over and take care of her.
When Tyra made the false child abuse report on him, Jeff went into a depression. He was also depressed due to his mother’s long illness and her death on July 28, 2003. During the months of April to July, he would be at his brother’s house, where his mother stayed, and took care of her, bathing, dressing, feeding her.
He would rarely leave the house otherwise, and even through the hot summer months, he would not come out of house. I also became depressed and began smoking again. I do not smoke in the house and would sit on my porch to do so. That is why much of these incidents that I am reporting, I witnessed, but Jeff did not. Jeff also dictated to me the events that he witnessed. I put all our observations and opinions in chronological order to present a cohesive account of these events.

March - April 2003
Amy Powell was suspended twice from school for fighting.

March 2003 exact date unknown
Tyra called Jeff Parker to come over and get Linda and Tiona into bed because she couldn't control them.

March 2003 exact date unknown
Jeff Parker took our video of Men in Black for the Powell children to watch. He sat in the back room where Tyra kept her tv sitting room. This room also served as the bedroom for Jeff Shaw, Tyra’s boyfriend. The room had a twin-sized bed in one corner of the room. At the foot of the bed was one easy chair. There was no other seating available in the room. Opposite the bed was the tv and vcr. Jeff Shaw was sitting in the chair, so Jeff Parker sat on the bed. Then he relaxed back on the bed. Both Linda and Tiona were cuddling up next to him, on either side of him. Tyra witnessed Tiona and Linda cuddling with Jeff "on the bed."

April 2003, exact date unknown
Amy Powell skipped school and was found near Broadway Market with several of her friends. When confronted by her mother, she lied and said that she did not skip school. Tyra told her husband Gary that he would have to go to the school and talk to the school authorities. Gary refused. Said he would not go. This conversation was witnessed by Jeff Parker. Tyra Powell took a belt to Amy and beat her and said "I beat that bitch's hip."

April 2003, exact date unknown, approximately 10:00am
One Saturday morning, Jeff Parker stopped by. Tyra was not at home, but Gary was. Gary told Amy to get Tiona out of bed. Amy went into the bedroom, but Tiona would not get up. Jeff Parker then witnessed (from the dining room), Amy drag Tiona out of bed, pull down her underpants and hit her hard on the buttocks.

April - May 2003
I personally saw Marlon Workman, a nephew of Tyra Powell at -- A. St. during April and the beginning of May 2003. Many times while I was outside doing gardening or yard work, I saw him coming and going into the house, using his own key. One afternoon, I witnessed him passed out on the living room couch while I was using the internet on the Powell family’s computer. The oldest daughter Jade told me that he was stoned from drugs. She told me this in front of Tiona and Linda Powell. Tyra also told me that one day she bought a pizza for the girls’ dinner while she went out and Marlon ate the whole thing, even taking the girls' portions off their plates, leaving the girls hungry. Another time, in the morning, Jeff Parker was let in the house by Linda Powell. Marlon was sleeping in Tiona’s bed and Tiona was sleeping with Jeff Shaw, in the back room.
Tyra complained to both me and Jeff on separate occasions that Michael was lazy and won’t help around the house or get a job.

May 2003, exact date unknown
A handwritten note was found on the Powell's front door addressed to Gary. It said that if he did not pay the money he owed (to the note-writer), the windows of his house would be broken out and the house shot up. Jeff Parker saw this note.
Gary had been threatened in the past by the drug dealers that he owes money to, and one night in May 2003, Jeff Parker had to accompany Gary to the corner store so that he (Gary), would not be accosted. (On June 27, the Buffalo Police computer did show that Gary filed a complaint against someone called Rodney, saying that Rodney punched Gary sometime the first week of June 2003).

Tuesday May 13th, 2003 approximately 4pm
When Jeff Parker brought Tiona and Linda home from the bus stop, he saw Gary Powell at home. (Why couldn't their father go to the bus stop instead of a neighbor)? Amy Powell was also at home. Two of Amy's friends came by and wanted to come in to use the phone. Jeff said no (under instructions from Tyra Powell, that no one comes in the house when she is not there). Amy got mad, said "Fuck you" to Jeff Parker and gave him the finger. (The week prior, she asked Jeff Parker for a dollar and did the same thing when he wouldn't give it to her). The next morning when Tyra accused Jeff she specifically said "Amy said she saw you in bed with Tiona."

Wednesday May 14, 8:00am
I was getting ready for bed (I work the night shift), when Jeff Parker came back home and called me downstairs. I went into the kitchen and saw that he was upset and his face had scratch marks. He said "Tyra did this." He was walking down B with her, and all of a sudden she turned, and tried to stab him with a knife. Jeff said that Tyra said "Why did you touch my daughter? Amy said she saw you in bed with Tiona."
Jeff told me that he tried to push her away and then she scratched his face and he lost it and started to choke her. While he was choking her, he said "I did not touch Tiona." He let Tyra go and returned home immediately.
We did not know what to do. We were afraid to call 911 for fear that he would be arrested for child-rape and for choking Tyra. I called my friend Iris Koenig at the N Coalition of Block Clubs. She said that she would call a lawyer for some advice. She called us back about 10 minutes later. She said that she spoke to Daryl Burke, a lawyer, and he said to take pictures of Jeff and to go to the emergency room. He also said don't give any names at the emergency
room.
I took two pictures of Jeff and then we got on the next bus to go the emergency room at ------- ------- --------, where I am employed.
When we were on the bus home, I got off and returned home, Jeff went on to the Coalition office to talk to Iris. Later that afternoon, Jeff called Mr. Burke and set an appointment to see him the following Wednesday morning.

May 15, 9am
I placed a call to Tyra's cell phone. She answered and I said who I was. I then asked her "What the hell is going on?" I may have said "what the fuck is going on?" I can't remember for sure.
Tyra said that she was at work and she could not talk to me right then. She then asked me if I had to work that night. I said yes. She said she would try to get home early and if I could, to stop by and we could talk. The tone of her voice was friendly, although she sounded hoarse.
When I told Jeff later that afternoon that I called her, he said "Don't go over there. That woman is crazy. She might pull a knife on you too. Please don't go there." I promised that I wouldn't. I did not go to her house, nor have I gone to her house, or called her either at her job, or at her house. I have not spoken to her in person either. I also have not spoken to anyone from that household until July 14, when Gary Powell said hello to me. (see note for July 14). Jeff Parker also has had no contact whatsoever with the Powell household since May 14th.

May 2003
Since medical personnel, counselors, and school employees are mandated by New York State law to report suspected child abuse cases, and no calls were made prior to May 26, 2003 (and this one being made by the mother of the child), Tiona Powell was NOT taken to any doctor, health care professional, school guidance counselor between May 14, the date Tyra accused Jeff Parker of molesting Tiona and at least May 27. This alone makes one wonder about the sincerity of the mother's intentions. Any mother would have taken her child IMMEDIATELY to a doctor and called 911 IMMEDIATELY to have the molester locked up. Tyra did not do this. Further, she went to work on May 14 after she recovered from Jeff choking her, and went to work the following day, May 15.

May 16 or 17,
Jeff Parker was waiting for the bus on the corner of Walden and Bailey to go to work. Tyra's sister Maxine (Dionne) Spence and her husband Teddy Spence drove up. Michelle said hello to Jeff and offered him a ride. But since they were going in the opposite direction, they did not drive him to work.

Wednesday May 21, 9:00am
We went to see Daryl Burke and spoke to him for an hour. He agreed to be our attorney in this matter.

May 19-21, 2003
I sent an email to my niece Kelly Faulkner in B, New York, telling her of the events of May 14 on May 19. I followed it up with a message posted on the website “A T L of the Rs” message board to check her email for a follow up email that I sent her. She sent me a return email on May 21. I did not save a copy of the emails that I sent her, but do have printed copies of Kelly’s response to me.

Thursday, May 22
Went shopping and to lunch with my friend Felicia Masud and told her of the allegations made about Jeff Parker. Felicia, who is also the ex-significant other of Jeff Parker, expressed surprise, disbelief and outrage of the allegations. Said, "Jeff may have issues but he is not a pervert."

Monday, May 26, 10:00 – 11:00pm
I posted messages on the message boards of 6 websites that I belong to, telling my internet “penpals” the events of May 14, and asked for prayers to help Jeff and me through this trying time.

section edited out it is none of your business what my screen name is or where I go on the internet. The copies of my activities on the internet was submitted to the judge.

I posted these messages 2 – 3 hours after Tyra made her first official notification to the authorities (Child Abuse Hotline), at around 8pm on May 26, 2003. Of course, I had no way of knowing when I posted my messages, that Tyra had called the hotline that very evening. I also had no way of knowing exactly what time Albany notified Erie County Department of Social Services to send an investigator out to Tyra’s house.
I have printed out copies of the messages I posted to prove that I was going around telling people, (family, friends, penpals and strangers on the internet) about Tyra’s accusations of Jeff molesting Tiona. All these people knew about it BEFORE the authorities!

Monday June 2nd.
Received in the mail a notice from Child Protective Service case worker Romana Grohman, that a report of child abuse was filed against Jeff Parker. The notice gave the intake date of May 26, 12 days after she accused him.

Sunday June 8, 3pm
Amy, Linda and Tiona playing out front. Tiona acting normally.

Tuesday, June 10 (time not marked down)
Heard Jeff Shaw tell Vaughan Dixon (of 35 A. St.) that one night during the prior week (June 1 - 7), Linda and Tiona did not get to bed until 5am. Also said "Tiona's the little boss. What she wants, she gets."

June 12 and 13 exact times unknown
I placed 3 or 4 calls to Child Protective Service caseworker Romana Grohman to set up an interview and clear up this matter. Each time I got her voice mail and I left her a message stating to call me back. She did not.

June 16, app. 9am.
I called Romana Grohman again and got her voice mail and left another message. I called again about an hour later and this time Romana did answer the phone. She said that she did get my messages and she was very busy. I said I understood, but I wanted this thing cleared up. She said that she was going on vacation soon, and we both agreed that when she got back from vacation, we would get together.

Thursday, June 19, 8am.
I was getting off the bus, returning from work. Tyra and Jeff Shaw were getting on the bus going to work. I did not look at Tyra as I got off the bus. Just passed by her.

June 19, 9:30pm,
Tyra's nephew, Thomas Workman approached Jeff Parker as he was leaving the store. Thomas punched him, knocking him to the ground and he and 2 of his friends began kicking him. I was on my way to work when this happened, and returned home when Jeff Parker told me what happened.
During the night, I left several messages on Romana Grohman's voice mail regarding the situation. I also made my own official call to the Child Abuse Hotline regarding the situation at the Powell household.

June 20, 7am
I placed a call to Dionne Maxine Spence, the mother of Thomas Workman and asked why her son jumped Jeff Parker. She did not know that he did. I told her what happened. During our conversation, she asked me, "Didn't Jeff's (Parker) DNA match that found on Tiona?" I said, "What DNA? The case worker has not even come to talk to Jeff yet." I told her of my attempts to reach Romana on June 12 and 13 and that when I did talk to her on Monday the 16th, she said that she would talk to us when she got back from vacation.
Maxine (Dionne, who goes by the name of Maxine), expressed surprise and disbelief. "Do you mean nobody has talked to Jeff yet?"
I said "Yes, and nobody has taken a DNA test from him either."
She then told me that she rarely goes over there (Tyra's) house, and she did not know really what was going on. She did tell me that she had told Tyra to talk to me. She also said that Thomas was a grown man and was responsible for his own actions, but she did agree to talk to him, to stop any violence until this matter was cleared up.
She then said "This must be tearing you up." (Presumably that my husband is a child molester).
I said "Yes. Michelle, Jeff did not do this. Why would Tyra lie and say this. I have known him for 25 years. He just doesn't do this sort of thing. How can Tyra be my friend and do this to us?"
As soon as I hung up the phone, I called Romana Grohman and left another message on her voice mail. I was livid. I told her that I had just spoke to Tyra's sister and she is under the impression that Jeff Parker had been DNA tested and that it matched that found on Tiona. I told Romana that she knew damned well that Jeff Parker had NOT been DNA tested and that she hadn't even gotten to our house to speak to him yet. I then told her that she had better go to Tyra's house and tell her shut her mother-fucking lying mouth.
I then placed a call to Daryl Burke and left a message on his answering machine. When he called back, I told him of the nights events. He told me that Jeff should go to Precinct ** and file assault charges against Thomas Workman and Tyra Powell. (We did so at 11:00am).
While we were at the Precinct , the officer taking our report found it odd, that Tyra did not report the abuse until May 26.

Saturday, June 21, app. 7pm
I went to Precinct 11 to pick up our copies of the report that we had made on June 20.

Monday, June 23, approximately 11am.
Jeff Parker was waiting for the bus on the corner of W and B to go to work. As he boarded the bus and sat down, Jeff Shaw and Tiona and Linda came on board the bus. BOTH girls smiled at Jeff Parker and looked as though they wanted to speak to him.

Tuesday, June 24, 8am.
Again, I was getting off the bus, as Tyra and Jeff Shaw were getting on. This time, in light of Tyra's nephew attacking Jeff Parker, I looked Tyra dead straight in the eye, and gave her the filthiest look I could muster, but I said nothing.

Wednesday, June 25, app. 11am.
After hanging my windchimes on my porch, I was relaxing and filing my nails. Maxine and Teddy Spence, sister and brother-in-law of Tyra Powell, arrived in large 4 door dark grey car. Michelle waved and said hello to me. Maxine went into Tyra's house, while Teddy went down the street to talk some of the neighbors.
After a while, Michelle and all 4 of the Powell children came out on the porch. Tiona acting normally.

Thursday June 26, 5:40pm
I was on my porch smoking. Tyra's mom Hester Mills pulled up, parked her car in front of 32 A. St. and went in Tyra's house. After 5 minutes she came out and when she approached her car, she saw me and said hello. I did not return the greeting. Hester returned about 10 minutes later. Other family members in 2 more cars came. Jade came out in white cap and gown (graduation). Tyra took pictures. At same time, a couple of friends of mine came and parked their car in front of 41 A. St. Their car needed some water in the radiator and one of them came in my house to fill up their jug. I had told them of the allegations made about Jeff Parker, and they were watching the Powell family in case any of them tried to hurt me while I was going across the street.

June 27th, app.4pm
I called Precinct ** and asked why a detective had not gotten in touch with us about the assault reports that we had filed on June 20. I was told to call the * District office. I did so, and talked to Det. Nichole Wolfe , who picked us up around 7:30pm. We went to * District office and made out a statement.
Det. Wolfe checked in the computer and found no evidence that any complaint made against Jeff Parker. She also said that a DNA test would have to be ordered thru the Sex Offense Squad, not Child Protective Services. And since there was nothing in the computer, it had not been reported as of yet. This was 6 weeks after Tyra first accused Jeff on May 14.
We did not pursue the assault charges against Tyra and her nephew Thomas because we were overwhelmed with all the stressful occurrences during the summer. (funerals, health issues).

June 29 approx 1pm
Melora Hill of ---- B. was visiting at the Powell house. I was sitting on my porch when she left Tyra's house and started to cross the street towards my house. I came down my porch steps and approached her. I asked her if she could tell me what was going on. According to her, Jeff Parker was DNA tested and it matched that found on Tiona. When I told her that Jeff had NOT been DNA tested, nor even talked to by any person investigating the matter, Melora expressed surprise. She also said that she and other people (she did not say who), have told Tyra that she (Tyra) should talk to me about the situation. She also told me that Tiona is being taken to doctors and is being tested. (present tense, although the "attack" had taken place at least before May 14th, more than 6 weeks prior to this conversation).

June 30, approximately 11:30am
I was talking to Vaughan Dixon of -- A. St., which is directly next door to the Powell house of -- A. St. Mr. Dixon and his significant other, Maya Blum are also friends of the Powell family and are the godparents of Amy Powell.
Mr. Dixon and I were talking about gardening and then the conversation turned to the situation with Tyra. Mr. Dixon indicated that he did not want to get involved, but did tell me that he could not believe that Jeff Parker would do what the Powells accused him of. He then went on to say that he heard three different versions of what happened from Tyra and mentioned that he had told Tyra that Jeff Parker had done favors for her, and therefore she shouldn't lie.
He also said to me, "It is not necessary to lie." And "She needs to clean her own house first."
I then told him that he should be careful, because he may be the next person that lies would be told about. He then told me that Maya makes sure that he is not alone with the Powell children.

June 2003 exact date unknown
Jeff Parker was walking on A. St. . Gary and Tyra Powell were walking from B and passed him on the sidewalk. There was no reaction or words spoken from anyone.

Date unknown, (forgot to write it down), during the week of July 6 – 12
Gary Powell was talking to someone in a red car. Gary was saying something about "she said (words unclear) about an hour before you go." The man in the car asked Gary something, I couldn't hear the words. Then Gary answered, "Who knows why Tyra does anything."

Saturday July 12, approximately 6:30pm
Jeff and I were downstairs in our basement when we heard knocking on our front door. By the time we got up there, a car was leaving. We found a note written by Buffalo Police Detective Drew Kipler instructing us to call him.
We immediately called him and left him a message. Within 15 minutes, he called us back and told us that he wanted to speak to us regarding the situation with Tiona. I had answered the phone, and I told him that we wanted to fully cooperate and wanted our lawyer present when he spoke to Jeff. Det. Kipler said that was ok. I then asked him when the alleged incident with Tiona Powell took place (because up to this time, we had no official information as to exactly what happened). I heard papers rustling and then he said, "Uh, this took place on a morning before he took them to school in June." I said thank you and goodbye.

Sunday July 13 11:30
Jeremy (last name or relationship to Powell family unknown) with small white 4 door car with black grill protector, lic. number --- ---- came and picked up all 4 Powell children. Children acting normally, and saw me on my porch. They did not say anything to me (or I to them). This car was also at -- A. St. the evening of June 26.

July 13, 4:26pm
Was on my porch. Tyra's friend Melora Hill came over to her house with her daughter (app. age 3 years old). She put her daughter's bike in Tyra's house. Tiona, Linda and Amy came out and were talking with Melora's daughter. From the conversation, they were saying they were going to the Taste of Buffalo. During the conversation, I heard Linda say loudly: "Take it off baby." A few minutes later, Gary and Tyra Powell came out of the house, and the whole group walked up the street, presumably to go downtown.

July 14, 12 noon.
Went outside to open car windows to allow car to air out. Gary Powell was coming down his porch steps as I was crossing the street. I glared at him, but said nothing. He saw me looking at him and said "Hello." I said, "Don't even bother."
As I was unlocking my car, I said to him "Keep your mouth shut to me."
No other words were exchanged between us, although I continued to glare at him until he drove off.

July 21
Jeff’s maternal grandfather, Chester Donaldson, died in Syracuse, New York.

July 23, (approximate, exact date unknown)
I called Romana Grohman to inquire if she was going to come and talk to Jeff Parker about this matter, as the 60 day time limit (July 26) for her investigation was quickly approaching. She told me that she was waiting for something.

July 28
Jeff’s mother, Deanna Parker died at 10:30am in ----. We had been called to the hospital along with Jeff’s brother and Deanna’s sister at 7:30am. The doctors told us that Deanna had a 1% chance of making it through the next 24 hours. As Jeff was the oldest, and Deanna’s health care proxy, he made the decision to have her extubated from the respirator. We went in to say goodbye before this was done and left the hospital. She died before we got back home.

August 1, 2003
At 11:30pm, Jeff and I were going to bed. Jeff was in the bathroom, and I heard a knock on our front door. I looked through the window on the door, and saw a woman and opened the door. The screen door was still closed, and then I saw that it was Tyra Powell. She was crying and blubbering, “I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. And then I heard (or read) that Jeff’s mother died and I…”
I did not hear the rest, as I slammed the door in her face. I said nothing to her. I told Jeff what happened, and he said, “Just shut the lights out and go to bed.”
Before I went to bed, I placed telephone calls to, and left messages on the voice mail of: Child Protective Services worker Romana Grohman and Buffalo Police Detective Drew Kipler, about the inappropriateness of Tyra’s coming to our home.

August 2, 2003 8:30am
I went to the store to get the paper. When I came back and parked the car, Jeff Shaw, Tyra’s boyfriend was sitting on their porch. As I got out of my car, I said to him to please keep Tyra away from us at this time. He said to me, “Go fuck yourself.” I said, “From your response, I know who the true molester is.”
I said nothing further and went in the house to prepare to go to my mother-in-law’s funeral. I did not tell Jeff Parker about this, as I did not want to upset him.

9:45pm
After my mother-in-law’s funeral, Jeff and I spent the day at his brother’s house and got home at 9:15pm. Jeff was going to go across the street to talk to our friend Vaughan Dixon at -- A. St. who knew Deanna Parker from years ago. Jeff was on the top step of our porch when Tyra Powell, who was sitting on her porch, saw him and started yelling at him, saying something to the effect of: “You fucking bitch….slut.” (exact words not heard, except for “fucking bitch” and “slut”). Mr. Dixon was sitting on his porch and witnessed this. Jeff did not reply to Tyra, but came back into our house. Again, I placed calls and left messages for Romana Grohman and Det. Kipler about this incident.
I also called Buffalo Police Precinct ** and spoke to an officer, but I did not catch his name. I explained the situation and he said basically that the occupants of -- A. St. were now harassing us. He also said that it was inappropriate for Tyra to have come to our house the night of August 1, and this new incident was most likely retaliation for me slamming the door in her face. He said that I could call 911 for someone to come and talk to Tyra, but it could escalate the problem. He told me to let it die down for the night, but if there were any further incidents to go ahead and call 911 and request that they talk to Tyra.
I also have to wonder why, if Tyra could yell and scream for all the neighbors to hear, at my husband after I refused to let her in my house, why she couldn’t yell and scream at him back in May, when she “thought” he had molested her daughter? I mean, isn’t that a much more serious offense?
And also, why has not Gary Powell or Jeff Shaw, the two MEN in Tyra and Tiona’s lives speak up? Why were they not angry at Jeff Parker? Why were they not men enough to take care of the problem? Only Thomas, Tyra’s nephew stepped up to defend Tiona’s honor, and he (Thomas) is just a victim as everyone else. He was misled by his aunt’s lies enough to assault someone and risk being arrested. It speaks volumes that the child’s own father has said NOTHING to Jeff Parker, but the drunken mother yells and screams and lies over and over.

Monday August 4, 12 noon
Jeff came from talking to Dwayne Monroe, -- A. St. Dwayne told Jeff that over the weekend, Tyra was complaining to him that I did not let her in my house. Dwayne told her that she had no right to intrude on our private time.
1pm
I talked to our attorney and he advised me to send a letter of “no contact” to Tyra. I did so immediately. The letter I sent to Tyra consisted of a short typed cover letter, and a couple of hand written pages (of which I do not have a copy). In this hand written letter, I asked Tyra, as a friend, why would she do this to us? I also spelled out to her that she had a drinking problem and I pleaded with her to get help.

Wednesday, August 6, app. 3pm
I was getting out of my car when I saw Tyra and Jeff Shaw getting out of a car with groceries. They saw me, but said nothing. I said nothing to them.

August 7 (approximate date).
We received a certified letter from Romana Grohman addressed to Jeff Parker, dated August 4, 2003. In she says writes: "I have spoken with your wife, Remi Parker, regarding the Report but I have not spoken with you. I have attempted to contact you by phone several times, but each time the line is busy."
I find this hard to believe. I worked the night of August 3 - 4, so I was sleeping during the morning. Jeff was at work, (his first day back to work after his mom's funeral) and I was home alone and watching television in the afternoon. I received 5 telephone calls on August 4: an annoyance call at 1:27pm; 2 calls from our lawyer at about 5pm; another annoyance call at 5:30pm and a call from my employer at 10:30pm. My phone was on the hook and working all that day. Two annoyance calls could get through but not Ms. Grohman?
I have 3 telephones, all have caller ID with name displays. One in my bedroom, one in my kitchen, and one in my living room. In addition, I have a fax machine with caller ID and after every 30 calls, it automatically prints out a report of all calls placed to my phone number.
If Ms. Grohman was trying to reach us an another date, again I have to question this. My incoming call lists show calls from Buffalo Police, our friend Raymond Falzone (councilman), my father, my sister in England, my sister in W, New York, my niece in B, New York, our friends, our lawyer, my employer, and several annoyance calls. All these people can get through to us, but not Ms. Grohman.
And as I stated, when I talked to her approximately on July 23, she said she was "waiting for something." So she did not want to talk to Jeff Parker until she received this "something." She did not attempt to call or come to our house to talk to Jeff Parker from May 27 to at least July 23. Clearly she was NOT interested in hearing Jeff Parker's side of the story.
Also, while she was on vacation in July, I called her supervisor Jessie Ferrara to ask for a different case worker. I felt that Ms. Grohman was not interested in conducting a fair investigation. Ms. Ferrara said that we have to wait until Ms. Grohman came back from her vacation.
I have to include a formal protest here, because Ms. Grohman had until July 26 (the legal 60 day time limit she had to conduct her investigation) and was still "waiting" for something. And as I stated above, she made NO attempt before that time to call Jeff Parker or come to our house to speak to him. She could have spoken to Jeff Parker and gotten his side of the story and then waited for her "something."
When we received the certified letter, we immediately called her and set up an appointment to see her on August 11, 2003. I do not remember the exact date we received Ms. Grohman's certified letter and called her, as that week, I was dealing with the death of a close cousin of mine on August 4. Her funeral was Friday, August 8. I was going back and forth from my cousin's house in E, New York; the funeral home in Angola, New York; and my father's house in T, New York. Jeff was back to work and we were both grieving for the losses of our loved ones.

Friday, August 8, 8am
I was sitting on my porch when Jeff Shaw came out of the house. He saw me, but quickly averted his eyes as he came down his porch steps. He said nothing to me, and I said nothing in turn.

Monday, August 11, 9am
Jeff and Remi Parker went downtown to Buffalo Police Headquarters with our lawyer. Jeff underwent a polygraph test. The police felt that Jeff was not being truthful. While at the Buffalo Police Headquarters, Jeff Parker stuck out his arm and asked if the police wanted a blood sample to obtain his DNA and test it against any that may have been found on Tiona Powell. The police declined. As we left the building, our lawyer was explaining to us that polygraphs are based on a normal person’s heart rhythm and people with a heart problem would not pass a polygraph. We then remembered that Jeff had a previous heart problem – we had not remembered it due to all the stress we had been undergoing and his heart problem was not serious (or so we thought). Our lawyer said he would need to obtain Jeff’s medical records from his doctor.

August 11, 11am
Jeff underwent an interview with Child Protective Services worker Romana Grohman. Jeff told me that he felt she thought he had molested Tiona.
During the interview, Ms. Grohman told Jeff that according to Tyra, this molestation had been going on for 6 months. Why did the Detective Kipler tell me on July 12 that it happened on a (one) morning in June. Why was he unaware that this allegedly was going on for "six months?"
Why did Tyra tell Child Protective Services that the incident took place in May and then tell the Buffalo Police that it took place in June? And then it got changed to 6 - 7 months! How would Jeff Parker molest Tiona in June, when on May 26, Tyra said he was being kept away from Tiona? How would Jeff Parker get into the Powell house in June? Who would have let him in and allowed him access to a child that he allegedly already molested? Why would Gary, Tyra, or Jeff Shaw let Jeff Parker in the house if they thought he molested Tiona? Jade and Amy are both old enough to know to not let him in the house, and possibly call 911. Did Tiona or Linda let him in? If they did, wouldn't any other person there have told him to leave? Unless Tiona and Linda were alone in the house in June. Then wouldn't the Powells be guilty of leaving two little children alone and unattended? Or did Jeff Parker break into the house? If so, were the police called? Why not? No police officer has been to our house to investigate any such break in. Romana Grohman was at -- A on June 20. Was she told anything about Jeff Parker molesting Tiona in June? Why not? Was Tiona taken to the doctor for this new molestation? Could Tyra's not taking Tiona to a doctor (in either May or June) constitute child neglect in itself?
When we got home, Jeff made an appointment to see his doctor to talk to him about his medical history. Our friend Felicia came by about 2pm. I went out on the porch to smoke and witnessed something very strange at -- A. St. At first everything was quiet, there were 3 cars parked around the front of the Powell house. As soon as a 4th car pulled up, Gary, Jade, Amy, Tiona and Linda Powell came out of the house carrying bundles of clothes and starting throwing the clothes into the cars. The drivers of the cars starting carrying full green garbage bags out of -- A. St. and loading them into the cars. I called Jeff and Felicia outside to witness this. In just 20 minutes, the cars were packed, the drivers and the Powells got into the cars and everybody left. Tyra Powell and Jeff Shaw were not seen during this incident.
Throughout the month of August 2003, Gary Powell and the girls were at -- A. St. almost everyday, cleaning out the house. The Powells left most of their furniture and belongings behind. They threw most of it out in the garbage.
Was the intent to move to spare Tiona the pain of seeing her alleged abuser? Well, she had been seeing Jeff Parker across the street since the middle of May, and many times simply glanced at him and went about her playing. Also, Tiona was present while Gary and her sisters were cleaning out -- A. St. She never acted as if she were scared of him. (see note for June 23, where she boarded a bus, saw Jeff Parker and smiled at him).
Tyra Powell and Jeff Shaw had not been seen at -- A. St. since the week of August 10, 2003. Neither were present while her husband and daughters were cleaning out the house.

August 18
I went out on my porch and found a business card of Romana Grohman with a note asking me to call her. (I must have missed her knock on my door). I called her and Ms. Grohman told me that a child abuse report was made against me and Jeff for beating my 10 year old daughter Angela. Ms. Grohman said she was sure that I had said that I no children, and I confirmed this. This was clearly another false child abuse report made against Jeff Parker, and now me. While I was on the phone with her, Ms. Grohman informed me that her supervisor had determined that Jeff Parker did abuse Tiona Powell. I asked her, "Even though the Powells change their stories every other day and Tyra is clearly a liar (re: her lie about Jeff Parker's DNA) you think Jeff abused Tiona?" She answered "Yes."
I then reminded her, that in view of the false accusation of me beating and Jeff molesting our non-existent daughter Angela, and the constant annoyance calls that we had been getting, that this was all a hate campaign against Jeff Parker by the Powell family. Ms. Grohman had no answer to this. I said "Fine," and hung up.

August 22
I answered a knock at my door and Shawqi, a cousin of my ex-husband (and still good friend, Amir Aziz) was there. He told me that Amir had died the week before in Yemen.

August, 2003 exact date unknown
Jeff Parker went to see his cardiologist, Dr. G. to speak to him about the need for his medical records being sent to our lawyer to show that he had an existing cardiac problem at the time of his polygraph test on August 11. Dr. G. consented and gave Jeff a check up and stress test as long as he was in the office.

September 1, 2003
I received a phone call from my father telling me that my brother, Lucas Stallworth Jr. had died that afternoon at his home in a suburb of P, Arizona. I immediately called various family members and went to my father's house.

September 3, 2003
At noon, I, along with my father, stepsister, younger sister and brother flew to P, Arizona for my brother's funeral. At 1:40pm R (a furniture and appliance rental agency) called my home and left a message on my answering machine looking for Jeff Shaw. When I called my husband later that evening to tell him that I had arrived safely in Arizona, he informed me of this.

Monday, September 8 (approximately 10am)
I accompanied Jeff Parker to his appointment to his doctor. Jeff told him that my brother died and that I had just got back from Arizona around midnight, Saturday. Dr. G. immediately expressed shock and offered his condolences. When I told him that my brother had had a massive heart attack, he started asking me questions about the condition of my heart. I told him my heart was fine. I started to cry and said "I just lost my cousin, my ex-husband, my mother-in-law and now my brother. I don't want to lose my husband." Dr. G. said that we would not lose Jeff.
Dr. G. then told us that Jeff's stress test did not look good. At this time, Jeff told him that he had been having some mild pains, but they were not in his chest/heart area, but off to his left ribcage area. Dr. G. then ordered a cardiac angiogram to be done to see what was going on.
When we got back home, I called the rental place to inquire why they were calling my home looking for Jeff Shaw. I was told by the manager, Chuck (last name I can not recall) that back in 1999, Jeff Shaw of -- A. St. rented a computer and gave my name and phone number for reference. I told Chuck that Mr. Shaw had moved and I did not know where he moved to.
I never gave Jeff Shaw or anyone permission to use my name as a reference to any rental agency and was angry that my phone number was given out without my permission. In view of this, and the annoyance calls that we were still getting, I had our phone number changed the beginning of October 2003.

September 16, 2003
Jeff underwent the cardiac angiogram at ---- at 6:00am. I was out in the waiting area and Dr. G. called me in to the imaging room and showed me the film results of Jeff's angio. I did not understand what Dr. G. was showing me. Dr. G. introduced me to a doctor that was sitting in the room. Dr. G. then told me that my husband needed open heart surgery. I almost fainted and burst into tears. After Dr. G. calmed me down, we both went to the recovery area and told Jeff.
The angiogram showed a 100% blockage of one heart vessel and a 70% blockage of another heart vessel. Jeff had bypass open heart surgery on September 24, 2003 at ECMC.
Following Jeff's open heart surgery until 2005, Jeff and I were busy with our own lives and did not pay any attention to what was going on with Tyra, and as we heard nothing further about the case, we just went on with our lives, which continued to be rather chaotic.

October 2003
Jeff's 19 year old cousin and namesake, Jeffrey Scanlon was shot and killed. The following week, I was injured at work and was on worker's compensation for about a week. The stress of the past 6 months events got to me and one day, I felt as though I was having a nervous breakdown. I called my doctor, and told her this. She asked me to come in to see her the following day. I did so and told her everything that had been happening. I told her that I kept watching a particularly violent movie, that had a scene where a knife was plunged into a body and twisted around. Although this is completely out of my character, I kept watching the movie over and over and imagining doing this to Tyra. I also kept imagining Tyra falling off a steep roller coaster and seeing her head smashed like a busted pumpkin.
When I told this to my doctors PA (physician assistant), she asked me, "But you recognize the consequence of your actions?" I said, "Hell yes. I know I would go to jail, and Tyra is not worth going to jail over." She then asked me if I had any thoughts of suicide. I answered, "Hell no. I want to kill her (figuratively), not me. I didn't do anything wrong. And neither did my husband." She chuckled at this and told me I was fine, just under a lot of pressure. She recommended that I go through some counseling to help me cope with the stress. I arranged to see a counselor through my employer's Employee Assistance Program, and went for an interview the last week of October. I do not remember the exact date or the name of the person I saw.
The counselor that I saw, a man who actually works with sexually abused children, was astounded when I told him my story. He said Tyra’s whole story was so full of holes that he wondered why my husband was not cleared. He further explained to me that Erie County Child Protective Services have no authority to order a DNA test on sexual abuse suspects and only the Buffalo Police could order that. Since Tyra was telling people (one being her own sister), that Jeff's DNA matching what was found on Tiona BEFORE the police were involved, it was clear that Tyra was a liar.
The counselor told me that under the circumstances, it was no wonder that I was feeling stressed out, but I was not having a nervous breakdown. He told me to come back and talk to him whenever I felt the need, but just knowing that I wasn't going crazy helped me a lot and I was able to get a better handle on things. And I actually stopped watching that silly movie.

November - December 2003
My father, Lucas Stallworth Sr. was admitted to ----- ----- Hospital for chest pains. On December 18, he underwent bypass open heart surgery. He came through just fine, and when Jeff and I went to see him on one particular visit, the two of them were showing each other their stitches and scars, and sharing stories of their surgeries and the bad hospital food.
My father developed a swallowing problem due to the endo-tracheal tube that was placed in his bronchial tube during surgery. This necessitated the placement of a feeding tube in his abdominal area. He was discharged from ----- ------ Hospital to -------- Senior care in Niagara Falls for rehab.

January 2005
we were back to taking the bus, which brought us face-to-face with the Powell problem again.
April 2005 exact date unknown, but it was a Sunday
Jeff and I took the bus to do grocery shopping at T. On the way back, we were sitting on the sideways-facing seat, directly behind the driver and Jeff Shaw boarded the bus (where, I do not recall). He noticed us and sat directly opposite the aisle from us. We did not speak to him, and he did not speak to us. I do not recall where he got off, but he did get off the bus before us.

May 2005
Jeff was on the bus coming home from work and saw Jeff Shaw on the bus. Neither spoke to each other.

Sunday, May 29, 2005
I was on my way to a friend's house and got on the bus near my house, getting off at B and W. I crossed the street to the bus stop where I would catch my second bus, the S bus. Inside the shelter at the northeast corner of B and W, I saw Jeff Shaw with Tiona and Linda Powell. I stood outside the shelter. I looked at Shaw and the girls and they all looked at me. We did not speak to each other. After a few minutes, Shaw and the girls left the shelter and crossed the street and went into the bus shelter on the northwest corner of B and W. This shelter serviced the bus that I had just gotten off of. A few minutes later, the S bus that I was waiting for came. Shaw and the girls made no movement to board this bus. After I boarded the bus and sat down, the bus continued on its route towards downtown. As we passed Shaw and the girls, I looked out the window and saw Shaw's head turn as he watched me through the window.

June 2005, exact date unknown
I was on my way back home from grocery shopping and Jeff Shaw boarded the bus that I was on. I do not recall where he got on, and I also do not recall where he got off. He did get off before I did. We did not speak to each other.

August 22, 2005 9:03am
I approached the corner of Court and Main to catch the Br bus. I noticed it was still down at Court and Pearl. I then noticed out of the corner of my eye, Jeff Shaw, Tyra Powell, Linda Powell and Tiona Powell inside the bus shelter. I said nothing to them, and they said nothing to me. When the Broadway bus came to the corner, I stepped up to the curb and Tyra and company also approached the curb. Tyra and I both looked at each other, and again, neither of us said anything. I got on the bus first, and sat down where I usually sit, towards the front of the bus. Tyra's two kids got on, saw someone they knew sitting in the immediate front of the bus and sat with her. Shaw and Tyra passed me and sat on the driver's side towards the middle of the bus. As the bus left the downtown area, I decided to change my seat because where I was sitting, I was close to the wheel area. This produces a bumpy ride, which I normally do not mind, but on August 17, I had undergone extensive dental work (7 teeth extracted at ------ D, Rd, C) and was still in quite of bit of mouth pain. I also still had stitches in all 4 quadrants of my gums. I decided to sit towards the middle of the bus. I sat across the aisle from Shaw and Tyra. Since there hadn't been a problem between me and Tyra regarding the situation with my husband Jeff, and I had previously bumped into Shaw on the bus with no problem, I didn't think I was doing anything wrong. I had looked over at them, and all of sudden Shaw turned to me and said, "If you're looking for trouble, you're going to get it." I did not respond, but I did look back at him, but then looked away. About 10 minutes later, when the bus passed B and F, I turned to my left and was looking at the boarded up Mart store, and remembering when I was kid, it used to be S's. Tyra looked over at me, and I returned her gaze, and then she said "Why the hell are you looking at me?" Again, I did not respond. Nothing further happened, and I got off the bus at the Mall. They stayed on the bus. I caught the Br bus going back towards Buffalo, at 12:09pm. As I boarded the bus, I saw Tyra and company sitting at approximately the same place. This time, I sat towards the front, and put up with the bus wheel jostling me, to avoid any trouble. I got off the bus at the T Mall to do some shopping at W M and again, they stayed on the bus. I am bothered by Shaw's sort-of threat to me. And by Tyra's nasty question. I feel that as a paying customer of a public bus system, I have the right to sit where I choose, and look out whatever window I choose. It was not my intention to "look for trouble." If it were, I would have spoken back to them. My mouth pain prevented me from doing so, and I guess, that was the right thing to do in any case. I will admit that I was little frightened. I was feeling vulnerable. Having 7 teeth extracted and having stitches in your mouth does not exactly tickle. My face had been swollen, and very sensitive. I was worried that one of them might have come across the aisle and physically assault me. But on the other hand, Tyra's question was kind of comical: sort of - "Mom, she's looking at me!" I really wish she would grow up. Perhaps then her kids would be properly taken care of.
I have to wonder why Shaw felt the need to mouth off to me and threaten me. I have done nothing wrong in this matter. He has seen me on the bus several times. And he boarded the bus in April 2005, saw me and my husband and sat down directly across the aisle from us. But when I sit across the aisle from him and Tyra, all of a sudden, there’s a problem! And a month later, he sees Jeff Parker on the bus, but says nothing! What kind of man is this to bother a woman who has done nothing wrong?

Tuesday, August 23, approximately 4:30pm
I answered a knock on my door and a woman named Jill O’Hara from Child Protective Services was there. Someone had reported me to Child Abuse the previous evening. When I told her I didn't have any kids, she said she would make a note of it and there was nothing to worry about. I told her that I believed it was Tyra who called and told her about the incident on the bus. He eyes got real wide when I told her what Jeff Shaw said to me. I told her that Tyra has a history of making false accusations against me and my husband to Child Protective Services.
Despite my concern about Tyra, I thought it was comical that a child abuse call would be made about me and my so-called "kids." I had actually started laughing, and I although I know this was not a humorous situation, I guess it hit me sort of like, what kind of idiot would make a child abuse call on a woman who never had any kids. Further, my so-called youngest child was given the age of 4 or 5. Well, since I had a hysterectomy in November 2000 it is quite impossible for me to have a child of that age.
Although I cannot prove that it was Tyra or Jeff Shaw who made this child abuse call on me, or the one against me and my husband in August 2003, it just seems strange. As soon as the Powells move off of A. Street, somebody calls child abuse on us. As soon as I bump into Tyra on the bus (and this is the first time I laid eyes on Tyra for 2 years), child abuse is called on me.

September 2005, exact date unknown
Jeff Parker was waiting for the Sycamore bus to go to the Mall. He boarded the bus and as he sat down, he noticed Jeff Shaw and Tiona and Linda Powell boarding the same bus. They saw him, but said nothing. Jeff Parker said nothing to them and got off the bus at the Mall. Shaw and the girls also got off at the Mall and Jeff Parker saw them enter the mall. He went directly to get his hair cut and did not see them any more.

December 3, 2005
We received a letter from Albany stating that our case against Tyra Powell would be given a preliminary hearing on January 23, 2006. I made a photocopy of this letter and sent it off to our lawyer.

December 7, 2005 approximately 5:30pm
While trying to recover a deleted text file on my computer I made an awful discovery in the recycle bin of the computer. I note my knowledge of this particular computer:

In the beginning of summer, 1999, the Powell family acquired an IBM computer which had Windows 95 on it. Sometime in the fall of 1999, the computer stopped working. Apparently some files were deleted by the Powell children, fooling around, and it prevented the Windows program from working properly. In other words, they broke it.
This computer had been hooked up to the internet, and on several occasions, I was on the internet with this particular computer in the living room of the Powell household. For Christmas of 1999, Tyra Powell and Jeff Shaw rented a computer system from R-way for a Christmas present for the children, and gave me the old computer just before New Years of 1999-2000.
In October of 2005, I was finally able to find someone to fix the computer. On November 5, 2005, I deleted the temporary internet files to free some space on the computer. On December 7, 2005, I accessed the recycle bin of the computer to see if I could "undelete" a text file of mine that I had deleted a few days prior. While I was searching for my file, I found that the internet temporary files that I had "deleted" were still listed in the recycle bin.
The recycle bin was last modified (emptied) on May 21, 1999, apparently just before the Powells acquired the computer. Therefore, all the internet history of the computer, while it was in the possession of the Powell family is still on the computer. In checking through the internet records of the computer, I found many file titles that raised red flags in my mind. I have listed only a few of them here.

sex.htm - created Sunday, June 13, 1999 at 8:07pm
xxx.htm - created Sunday, August 1, 1999 at 1:14pm
jailbabes - created Sunday August 29, at 5:37pm
sex-com - sex.com - created Sunday August 29, 1999 at 6:18pm
taiwan -sex.htm - created Sunday August 29, 1999 at 6:27pm
hardcore.htm - created Sunday August 29. 1999 at 6:30pm
sexphone.gif - created Thursday September 2, 1999 at 3:00pm
veryhorny.htm - created Thursday September 2, 1999 at 4:38pm
crystal sex.htm - created Thursday September 2, 1999 at 6:47pm
freeporn.htm - created Thursday September 2, 1999 at 6:48pm
wgirls.gif - created Thursday September 2, 1999 at 8:09pm
cellgirls - created Thursday, September 2, 1999 at 8:10pm.

What is disturbing to me are the times these sex websites were visited. On Thursday, September 2, sex websites were accessed from 3 in the afternoon until at least 8:10pm. The computer was set up in the living room of the Powell house in full view of everyone, including the Powell children. Were no precautions taken to shield the Powell children from internet pornography? Obviously not. In 2003, when the allegations were first made towards my husband, I requested that the current computer owned by the Powell family be examined for just such occurrences, along with any child pornography.
The Powell family had internet service through Compuserve and AOL during the time in 1999 that they owned the computer. This is the first computer that I have owned that could be internet-capable, (I had an old DOS computer which crashed and died, and was discarded in the summer of 2004). That computer was first owned by my sister, who purchased it in 1986. She gave it to a friend in 1995, who in turn gave it to me in 1996. It did not have a Windows program and could not be used for the internet. I have never had internet service at my house, and actually have never accessed pornography sites whenever I have been online. I usually am online at the public library, or when I am on lunchbreak at my place of employment. The times that I was online at the Powell house, it was to access Starfleet or to Excite Games to play online games, such as Bounce-Out and Poppit. My husband has never been online at all.

Another thing that is extremely disturbing to me was that I found evidence that on Sunday August 29, 1999 at 4:04pm, it shows that a S T website was accessed. This jogged my memory! Tyra had once told me that I could come over and use the internet anytime I wanted to. A couple of weeks prior to August 29, 1999, I had run into an old high school friend of mine, Marci Bower, who runs a local S T group. This group is part of S I, a large S T fan club. I wanted to research S I, and one Sunday afternoon, I went across the steet to ask if I could use the internet. Jeff Shaw was alone at home with Tiona and Linda Powell. I do not recall where he said the rest of the family were. He turned on the computer for me and set me up on the internet. I was not there long. Perhaps only about 15 - 20 minutes, and then I went back home. What distresses me, is that there is evidence of porn sites being accessed right after I went home. And I left Jeff Shaw home alone with Tiona and Linda Powell, who were only babies at that time! What kind of sicko would sit there on the computer and pull up porn sites in front of children?
I did not access these sites. First, it was not my computer or my home. I have manners enough not to do that when I am guest. Plus, the history of the computer shows a few hours of this activity, and I was only at the house for 15-20 minutes.

December 27, 2005
We received in the mail, a thick packet of papers pertaining to the Powell matter. I made photocopies and sent them off to our lawyer.
Pages 9-12 of this packet lists all persons involved and their addresses. This list was compiled in September 2003. It lists father Gary living at 312 C. St. Mother Tyra and children Amy, Linda and Tiona living at 1970 Cl. St. Daughter Jade living at 3* Co. Ave. Unrelated adult male Jeff Shaw living at 3* Co. Ave. The Powells moved from -- A. St. on August 11, 2003. At that time Jade was 17 ½, still a minor. (She didn’t turn 18 until December 4, 2003). And 60 year old Jeff Shaw is listed as living with her alone at * C. CSt. This is another example of how Erie County Child Protective Services was not paying attention to what was going on in the Powell family when not focusing on Jeff Parker. The list also excludes Tyra’s nephew Marlon Workman (around age 21 in 2003), who was living at -- A. St. during the months of April and May 2003, when the sexual abuse of Tiona took place. Marlon was staying at -- A. St. after a violent episode with his girlfriend.
Page 8 of the packet: conclusion of case. A safety assessment was done on September 3, 2003 and Erie County Child Protective Services determined that Tiona was safe. Either Jeff’s Shaw address was deceitfully given at that time as 3* Co. Ave., and he was/is still living with Tyra and the girls or he was living with an underage girl (Jade). The only other change in the makeup of the Powell household is the absence of Marlon Workman, who was staying with the Powell’s at 31 A. St., a single family house owned by Tyra’s sister Alicia and her husband Tyler Bates.
On page 12 of the packet, Jeff Parker’s birthday is given as January 1, 1954. This is wrong. His birthdate is ----- **, 1943. If the investigator could not determine the correct birthdate, what else did she get wrong?
On page 14 of the packet, it states:
“There is credible evidence Jeff Parker sexually abused Tiona Powell.” What evidence? The packet does not tell us this. The report on page 14 continues: “Mother….when she confronted Mr. Parker, he didn’t deny he had touched Tiona, he just became upset and tried to choke her.”
What was the date and time that Tyra says this confrontation took place? If she says correctly that it happened on the morning of May 14, why then did it take her 12 days to notify the authorities. If she says it happened after May 14, she is caught in a lie, as our own lawyer was notified of the confrontation by 8:30 am on May 14.

February 3, 2006
Jeff Shaw boarded the B bus (going south) at B and B. He looked at me but said nothing. He got off at B and Cl. (and at this time Tyra and her children lived on CL. St.

March 3, 2006
I had acquired a used computer from a co-worker the first week of February and On March 3, I subscribed to the internet for the first time.

April 4, 2006
Jeff Parker arrived home from shopping and told me that he was informed by our neighbor Melora Hill, --A. St., that Tyra was at her house and told her that Jeff Shaw had died recently. Apparently, he was supposed to attend a birthday party at Tyra’s house. This would have been Amy’s 14th birthday as her birthday is **/**/92. He did not show up for the party. He did not answer the phone. Apparently Tyra went to the house and he did not answer the door. The police were called and they broke the door in and discovered Shaw’s body. He was taken to the Erie County Morgue at ECMC. We assume an autopsy was done.
Melora Hill also told Jeff Parker that Tyra was now living with a new boyfriend. (name and address unknown).
I had not gotten all the newspapers the previous week so I went on the internet and did a search on The Buffalo News website, but could not find any information on Jeff Shaw.

April 5, 2006
Since there was still no information concerning Jeff Shaw’s death in the Buffalo News, I called the Erie County Morgue and they confirmed that Jeff Shaw of 1*** Cl. St. was dead. They confirmed that he had passed away on March 27, 2006 and that he was still in the morgue and that ------- Funeral Home would be taking care of him. The address given was the house that the police had to break into. This was also the address that Tyra was living at in 2005.
I then called ------ Funeral Home and they told me that sometime during the last week of March, Tyra had an appointment at ------- Funeral Home. She did not keep her appointment. She rescheduled the appointment for 12:00pm, April 6. She did not keep this appointment, nor for the third appointment she made for Friday, April 7 at 12:30pm. The man at the ------ Funeral Home was understandably upset and said, “What kind of people are these?” He was referring to Tyra.
On April 12, Tyra told ------ Funeral Home that she was waiting for “something.” She finally went to the funeral home on Friday, April 14 12:30pm and made the arrangements for Monday, April 17.

May 2, 2006
Jeff Parker and I finally saw the complete file that Erie County had on the Powell case. Many lies and inconsistencies were noted in the handwritten notes of CPS investigator Romana Grohman. One glaring lie was that by the fall of 2003, it is noted that Jeff Shaw was out of the picture. Then why did I keep seeing him on the bus with Tyra, Linda and Tiona? So apparently as soon as Child Protective Services closed the case on the Powell family, Tyra let that snarky creep back into her and her children’s lives, even though he favored Tiona and Linda over Jade and Amy, and was disrespectful to Amy and Jade. Nice mother to let her boyfriend disrespect her children. And in the county file, both Amy and Jade tell the investigator that Jeff Shaw disrespected them. And Tyra let it happen. She let this man ruin her family.

The following is a letter that I submitted to the fair hearing judge for the purposes of telling her what kind of man my husband is, describing our relationship and how I have observed my husband around children for the past 26 years. I have edited out some sensitive personal and private details that are frankly none of your business. This letter was written between January and April 2006, after our preliminary hearing, and before I read the file from Erie County. I wrote this BEFORE I read all the lies that the Powell children told. I have left the majority of this letter intact, so you can see my point of view of the relationship that Jeff had with the Powell children. I have used the impressions forged from 10 years of friendship with the Powell family. If I saw a healthy, happy relationship between my husband and the Powell children for 10 years, explain why there is such a wide discrepancy between my impressions and what the Powell children related. I am not a stupid person. I am quite intelligent. And I am not lying when I say that the relationship between my husband and ALL of the Powell children, was friendly and healthy. And in 10 years time, NEVER did I notice ANY of the Powell childen act scared, intimidated, or otherwise uncomfortable around my husband. On the contrary, many times I witnessed them hugging Jeff OF THEIR OWN FREE WILLS!

Dear ___,

I am the wife of Jeff Parker, who is accused of molesting Tiona Powell. I have written this statement to provide a character study of Jeff Parker and a study of my relationship with him. I have lived with him for the past 19 years and was a good friend of his for 9 years previous to that. I know my husband like the back of my own hand. I know his personality. I know from the depths of my heart and soul, that my husband did not and could not do what he is accused of doing.
Furthermore, both my husband and I maintain that the mother of the child, Mrs. Tyra Powell is lying to the authorities when she says that my husband molested her daughter Tiona. We suspect she knows who the true molester is and her lies are a setup to make my husband out to be the guilty person and to protect the person who really did molest Tiona. I know Tiona has said that it was my husband who touched her, but I am convinced that the true molester has threatened her and told her to say that it was my husband.
We have explored the possibility that Mrs. Powell may genuinely believe that my husband molested her child. However, when we review her actions and words from May 14, 2003, when she first accused my husband and tried to stab him with a knife, up to and including August 22, 2005, when she and her boyfriend Jeff Shaw threatened me on the bus, it is clear that Mrs. Powell not only knows who the true molester is, but she is on a campaign of hate against my husband and me.
I will present to you past actions of my husband that will show you that he is a caring individual with a heart of gold, who loves children and would never harm them. My husband and I enjoy a full sexual relationship and he does not use children to obtain any sexual pleasure.
I shall also present events that occurred in the Powell household which will show that Mrs. Powell and her husband Gary are substance abusers and have not provided a safe environment for their children. I have also compiled a chronology of events from 2003 – 2005, also listed separately.

How I met Jeff

I have known my husband, Jeff Parker since the summer of 1978. I met him through my best friend, Felicia Masud. At the time, I was living with my ex-husband Amir Aziz Felicia met Jeff at her job at Thom McAn in the Main Place Mall. After several months, they moved in together. Felicia, Jeff, Amir and I, become very good friends. The four of us shared much of our lives together - out to discos and parties, dinners and BBQs at each other's homes.
In early 1983, Jeff was laid off from Thom McAn and a few months later, he and Felicia broke up. I remained friends with both of them and helped them (separately) pick up the pieces.

So Jeff and I both had a rough childhood, and some resultant fears, but we over came them and through the years that we have lived together, our love has deepened. By the end of the 1990's, we decided to get married. We were married on ----- 9, 2002 - my **th birthday.

We moved in together in a large house in 1987. In 1989, Jeff's cousin Jeri fell on hard times and she and her two daughters moved in with us. Her daughters played with Tyra's oldest daughter Jade. After the accusation, we spoke with Jeri, who in turn spoke to her daughters. They said that no, Uncle Butch never touched them and they are outraged that anyone could say that Jeff would molest a child.
As a matter of fact, everyone who has ever had any dealings with Jeff are sick and outraged at the allegations. They all say that Jeff never harmed them when they were kids. Khalid Masud, younger brother of Felicia Masud, was born in 1978, the year Felicia and Jeff first got together. He and his older brother Karem, remember Jeff fondly. They remember him playing with them, throwing them up in the air, etc. When Felicia told Khalid about Tyra's accusations, he immediately said, "Bullshit. Jeff never touched us when we were kids. And that broad across the street is a cunt." (Sorry about the language, but that IS what he said).
Karem and Khalid were just at our house on April 21, 2006 to patch up our roof. The boys have just started their own home repair business and were only too happy to fix our roof. While they worked on the roof, Jeff and I were doing yardwork. Jeff made sure they had plenty of cold water to drink and made lunch for them. Felicia’s son, Elian stopped by and they all had a good visit with Jeff. Elian is now 16, Kassem is 30 and Kaeid is 28. They have all known Jeff since they were babies and are very fond of him.

How and when we met the Powells

When we first moved onto A. St. in 1987, Gary and Tyra Powell were living across the street at -- A. St. The first year that we were there, we didn't really get to know them. We were very busy cleaning and setting up the house. The Powells moved out of -- A., the next year. But around 1990. they moved back in. -- A. St. is a single family home owned by Tyra's sister, Alicia Bates. At this time, Jeri and the girls were staying with us, and Jem and Maggie would play with Tyra's daughter Jade. This is how Jeff and I got to know the Powells. By the time their second daughter Amy was born in 1992, we had become good friends. It was almost a repeat of years ago, when Felicia and Jeff, and me and Amir were friends. The Powells and us had BBQs in each other's yards, and the kids would come over and play with our cats and our dog. Tyra's sister Maxine lived a couple of houses down at -7 A. St. Maxine and her sons, Thomas, Marlon and Sidney also became our friends as did Tyra's mother Hester.
When Tyra's stepfather died, I helped her deal with her grief. Likewise, when my sister's first husband died, and she and their kids, Brent and Kelly came in from out of town to stay with me, Tyra made and sent over a large pot of spaghetti and other food.
As Jeff and I became closer to the Powells, we noticed that there were some serious problems in the household. For one thing, both Gary and Tyra drank a lot. And Gary began to use drugs and have affairs outside their marriage. Tyra became depressed and drank even more, and began to have her own affairs.

Other things started to not look right in the Powell household. Around 1995 a friend of Tyra, a man named Jeff Shaw moved into the house. He had the back bedroom off the kitchen. Tyra did have a tv in the living room, but soon moved it into Jeff Shaw's bedroom. So when the kids wanted to watch tv, they had to go in his bedroom to watch it. Further, there was only one chair in the room. It was not uncommon to see the kids, Amy, Linda and Tiona all on the bed. Sometimes I witnessed Tyra sitting in the lone chair, with Linda and Tiona sitting on the bed with Jeff Shaw.
Eventually it became clear to everyone, no matter how much they denied it, that Jeff Shaw was Tyra's boyfriend and bedmate. Gary Powell continued to live in the house with his bedroom on the second floor. I don't know where Tyra slept on a regular basis, but in the spring of 2001, she did tell me that Jeff Shaw loved her, and he was a great sexual partner.
When the Powells oldest daughter was around 12, it was clear that she had a crush on my husband. Tyra and I discussed it, and kept tabs on the situation, and nothing ever happened. Jade would walk to Schiller Park with Jeff when he was walking our dog. She would sit on our porch and talk to Jeff for hours and play with our dog. She even came to Jeff for advice about boys. She was very comfortable with him, and even though he was aware of her crush on him, Jeff never acted inappropriately to her.
Tyra and I had developed a very close friendship. She had become my other best friend. She was very happy when Jeff and I finally decided to get married. When my wedding dress and shoes were delivered, I called her over so I could model them. Another time, I dressed Tyra up as a harem girl for a Halloween party, using one of my dance costumes. Tyra eventually got a job at the same K-Mart store where my husband worked. Jeff and I, Tyra and Gary would go to the K-Mart holiday parties together. Several times, Tyra would call me when the kids got hurt playing, and one time, I panicked when one of my kittens got hurt and needed Tyra to come over and help me. Jeff would go over and help her with the kids, because they minded him. Tyra could not control the kids, and Gary didn't help at all.
The last couple of Christmas's before the Powells moved, Tyra sent all the kid's presents and wrapping supplies to our house. Jeff wrapped them and we stored them until Christmas Eve. This was because she couldn't control the kids and keep them out of the presents. She would frequently call our house 2 or 3 in the morning for Jeff to come over and get the kids in bed, because they would not listen to her.
There were several times that all 4 of the Powell kids were at our house, either together, or one at a time, or 2 at a time. Jade came to use my word processor for homework before the family got a computer. If Jeff had ever hurt any of the Powell children, why would all 4 of them repeatedly want to come over to our house?
The summer when Jade was 12, Tyra called me very upset. She had just read Jade's diary. Jade had written that she had an encounter with a boy she liked. They had kissed and done some petting. Tyra told me that she got so upset that she slapped Jade across the face and called her a whore. I told her that she wrong for doing that. I asked her if she had talked to Jade about sex and she told me no, she didn't know how and was afraid to. She then asked me to do it, which I did. I then waited 3 weeks for Tyra to ask me what occurred during my talk with Jade. She never did ask me. I was very concerned about Jade, because I knew that if she didn't get the right guidance, who knows what would happen. I picked up 3 books at the bookstore, pertaining to teen sex and development. They were excellent books, and after I read through them, I gave them to Tyra to read before giving them to Jade.
The past several years, the Powell's gas had been turned off, due to them not paying the bill. Gary would blow his paycheck on his drugs, and then take money out of Tyra's purse. Tyra herself was always buying vodka. During the winter of 2002-2003, Gary got one of those large butane open firepits for patios and set it up in them the middle of the living room. This resulted in a large open fire with no ventilation.

Now you may ask, well if the Parker's had these concerns, why didn't they call child abuse on the Powells, instead of bringing this all up now? We didn't call child abuse on them because friends don't call child abuse on friends - they help them. And we were genuinely fond of the Powells; Gary and Tyra, as well as the kids. My husband told Gary to take down the firepit and I sent over our oil-filled electric heater, which we never got back. We both talked to Gary and Tyra about their substance abuse and their financial situation. And although we don't have children, we were asked a lot of advice about them, from people who had 4 children!
Looking back, I am mystified that Tyra relied so much on my husband and myself. I mean, she had her husband and her boyfriend over there, yet was constantly calling us to come over and either control the kids or help them with homework or first aid. And why was it necessary for my husband to be taking Tiona and Linda to and from the bus stop when Gary was there, Jeff Shaw was there, and for a time, (April and May 2003), her nephew Marlon was there. I was just about to put my foot down on this situation when it all blew up on May 14, 2003.

Details of accusation

Did not the Erie County Child Protection Services find it odd that there were 3 adult males (2, because Tyra did not disclose that Marlon was living there), and a neighbor had to be relied on to take the two youngest children to the bus stop? I sure found it odd. I really believe that Tiona had been molested by someone living in the home, and Tyra wanted to pin it on my husband. I believe this having him take the girls to the bus stop was a set up. Why do I feel this way? Because her behavior between May 14 and May 26, 2003, does not make any sense. In fact, nothing about the whole thing makes sense.
On May 13, 2003, my husband went to the bus stop to get Linda and Tiona from the bus stop around 4pm. 11 year old Amy was already home from school. Gary was also home. (Why couldn't Gary or Amy walk one block to the corner and get Linda and Tiona?). When Jeff got back to the house with Linda and Tiona, two of Amy's friends were on the porch and wanted to come in and use the phone. Jeff said no, because Tyra had said she didn't want anyone in the house when she wasn't there. Amy got angry and said "Fuck you," to Jeff and gave him the finger. Jeff told Tyra this when she got home. Tyra punished Amy and it was the very next morning that she accused Jeff and pulled the knife on him. (see chronology of events). During the confrontation, Tyra specifically said "Why did you touch Tiona? Amy said she saw you in bed with her."
So I have to ask: When did Amy see Jeff Parker in bed with Tiona? It could not have been the afternoon of May 13, when she got mad at Jeff for not letting her friends in and she said "Fuck you" to him. Her father Gary Powell was home in the kitchen at that time. Wouldn't he see Jeff going into the bedroom with Tiona and become suspicious? If Amy saw Jeff Parker in bed with Tiona prior to this, why didn't she say something? If she did, Gary would not have let Jeff Parker in the house the afternoon of May 13. Was the first time Amy said anything to Tyra the evening of May 13 when Tyra came home from work?
As I said, I think this was all an elaborate set up against Jeff Parker and Amy's saying that she saw Jeff Parker in bed with Tiona was Amy acting out against my husband. She wanted to get back at him for her getting punished the evening before. And if Tyra was planning to set my husband up, and it seems as though she was, Amy’s accusation was the the perfect time to start the ball rolling.
Why did Tyra wait until the next morning to accuse Jeff? Or did Amy tell her the morning of May 14? Why the delay? Why did Tyra not immediately call 911 or Child Protective Services? Or take her daughter to a doctor or emergency room? If Tyra was angry enough to confront Jeff while pulling a knife on him and gouge his face, why did she calmly walk almost 3 blocks and wait until she was in front of her friend's house to accuse him? Why did it take her 12 days to call Child Protective Services and a further 6 weeks to call the police?
If she was also angry enough to pull a knife on him, why didn't she come running across the street and bang on our door and accuse him right then and there when she first heard about it!?
During the confrontation on the morning of May 14, (see chronology of events for the description of the confrontation), Tyra gouged my husband's face. How do we know that Tyra did not plant Jeff's DNA on Tiona? When she gouged his face there was probably some of Jeff's skin tissue under Tyra's fingernails. What was Tyra doing during the 12 days between May 14th and May 26th, planting her fingernail scrapings of Jeff's facial tissue onto Tiona?
Tyra once had a screaming argument with her sister Maxine when Maxine lived at -7 A. St. over Tyra's continued friendship with Maxine's ex-husband. This screaming argument took place in the middle of the afternoon right in front of Maxine's house for all the neighborhood to see and hear. If Tyra was not interested in protecting Tiona's honor by keeping her "molestation" secret from the neighbors (occupants of 6 house on our street were all told different versions by Tyra), well why wouldn't Tyra be on our porch screaming at Jeff?
Why did Tyra lie to her own family? She told her sister Dionne Maxine Spence that Jeff Parker's DNA matched that found on Tiona, when Jeff Parker was never tested for DNA. Why did Tyra's nephew Marlon Workman (Dionne Spence's son) move out of -- A. St. during that 12 day period?
And why do the dates of the molestation keep changing? First she reports that it happened in May, then June, then all of a sudden it’s been happening for 6 –7 months. Going back 7 months from May takes us to November 2002. And in her own words, the molestation had been going on for “every school morning for 6-7 months.” Well, my husband was employed by Mart during those 6-7 months, and starting after Thanksgiving, Mart started opening up early for the holiday shopping season. At 7am, and sometimes as early as 5 and 6am. We did not have a car at that time, we were taking the bus. So how did my husband leave his job, get two buses back home EVERY SCHOOL MORNING, take Linda and Tiona to the bus stop at 9am, jump back on 2 buses and go back to work? No, this simply did not happen. Nobody is going to leave their job every school morning for a time period of 2-3 hours. This scenario is just plain ludicrous.
On August 2, 2003 at 11:30pm, the night before Deanna Parker's funeral, Tyra knocked on my door. She was crying. She then said through her sobs, "I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. And then I read that Jeff's mother died."
What was she sorry about? Jeff's mother dying? She never met the woman. Why was she expressing sympathy to the man who "molested" her daughter and who she tried to kill with a knife? But she had TWO separate statements: "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry AND THEN I read that Jeff's mother died." What was she sorry about BEFORE (“and then”) she read or heard that Jeff's mother died?
Again, what was she sorry about? That she falsely accused Jeff of molesting her daughter and she felt guilty about it, and now she felt that this was a good time to express her guilt to me? And if she was simply expressing her condolences, as a good Christian person, why did she go complaining to Dwayne Monroe of -- A. St. that I wouldn't let her in my house that night?
And why, not even 24 hours of being so sorrowful and coming to our house to express her condolences, did she stand on her porch and scream obscenities to Jeff Parker for all the neighborhood to hear? Because this is the erratic behavior of an alcoholic person who seems to be in such an alcoholic daze, that she can't control her behavior.
Tyra drinks in front of the kids. One evening early in 2003, I was at the house on the internet. She was staggering around the house, drunk and waving a beer can around. Tiona and Linda were running around the house. It was going on 10:30pm. Jade kept telling the girls to go to bed. They ignored her. Finally she grabbed Tyra and told her to get the girls in bed. In front of me, she said to her mother, "You have to be a mother to these kids now and get them in bed."
Note, June 2006: Now I was there when Tyra was waving that beer can around and drunk as a skunk, and Jade was right there too and saw the beer can and KNEW her mother was drunk, but Jade LIES to the investigator and says that her mother did not drink.
Tyra also is an abusive person. She has pulled a knife on Jeff Shaw on several occasions, one time on a day in March 2003. (exact date we cannot recall) and threatened to bash his head in with a baseball bat. The next day Linda told Jeff Parker about it. She told him not to tell her mother that she told him. Gary and Jeff Shaw's legs are scarred up from Tyra kicking them.
Tyra's husband Gary Powell, has also been physically abused by Tyra. I have mentioned before that he is a drug addict. One day in the spring of 2003, he got arrogant with his boss Mike Sellick and was fired from XYZ Hardware. He has owed money to street pushers, and they threatened to break out the windows of the house. Gary had affairs with Tyra's friend Melora Hill -- A. St. (Her mother's house, Melora also lived on Bailey for a time). Gary has done drugs at her house and often spent whole nights there. In the spring of 2003, Gary was gone for 3 days. Nobody knew where he was. Tyra also was missing overnight on 2 occasions early in 2003, and nobody knew where she was.
-- A. St. is a single family home owned by Tyra's sister and her husband Tyler Bates. The arrangement was for Gary and Tyra to pay the bills for the house. Several years ago, the water was shut off because they didn't pay the bill. Gary went out to the street valve and turned it back on illegally.
After the interview at Child Protective Services on August 11, 2003, our lawyer told me that they (CPS) felt that the Powells were so spaced out that they didn't really know what happened to Tiona. Well, if this is the case, why weren't the Powell children taken away and placed in foster homes? If the Powells were so spaced out, then they cannot properly take care of the children. And is it healthy for children to see their mother have a live-in boyfriend and sleep with him while their legal father is living in the same house? I have heard both Linda and Tiona call Jeff Shaw "Dad." Is this healthy for Amy and Jade?
If Tyra was so spaced out that she didn’t really know what happened to Tiona, then how can Tyra KNOW that Jeff Parker did what she doesn’t really know what happened? And how can Child Protective Services say that my husband did this without the word of a reliable adult? We have only the word of a 6 year child and an 11 year old child. We know already that the 11 year old, (Amy) acted out against my husband the day before Tyra accused Jeff Parker. And how do we know that the 6 year old, (Tiona) was coached or threatened into saying that Jeff Parker touched her. After the accusation, she never acted as if she were frightened of him at all.
Why has Jeff Shaw, an unrelated adult male not been investigated? Before he moved into the Powell household, he worked at the porn shop at B & W. In 2005, he worked at P. B. another porn shop. People do have a right to work where they want, but we have here, an unrelated adult male, who wormed his way into the Powell household, gained a position of authority (I have personally witnessed him putting Gary down while talking to Tyra), and he worked at two different porn shops. A sex crime took place, and we have here an unrelated adult male, who works in the sex industry! Even in this part of the universe, two plus two equals four! And not to mention all the sex websites that I found evidence of on the computer that was once owned by the Powells, and given to me. (see chronology of events, December 2005).

Back in September of 2005, a West side woman, Madeline Irene was killed and her body was dismembered by her own 15 year old son, Angel Rosa. This was instigated by 50 year old Edwin Gimenez who wormed his way into Madeline and Angel's lives. In an article published by The Buffalo News on September 19, 2005, Lt. David F. Mann, Jr. commander of the Buffalo Sex Offense Squad is quoted:
"Pedophiles typically do not grab kids off the street. Rather, they insinuate themselves into the life of a victim they've targeted. And they often are very patient in doing that."
Mann added that pedophiles often develop a supportive and emotional relationship with a child. Only when that relationship is well established will the molester turn it into a sexual relationship,
The article continues to quote Mann. "If people in the community learn how pedophiles actually operate - usually not by kidnapping, but by worming their way into the life of a kid - then they might be better at spotting signs of trouble before the pedophile can become sexually involved with the child."
Child molestors work hard for unfettered private access to a child, and that's something they achieve through becoming a trusted "member of the family," Mann said.
When I read that article, I looked back and saw all the signs in the Powell household. And on December 7, 2005, (see chronology of events) when I found the evidence on the computer, especially on the date of August 29, 1999, when I witnessed Jeff Shaw being home alone with Tiona and Linda and accessing porn sites after I left to go home, I was literally sick to my stomach. I realized that I had left those two little angels with that sicko. I was crying. And when I called our lawyer to tell him what I found on the computer, I started crying again. Mr. Burke said "You didn't know." I wish to God that I had known, I would have stopped it right then and there. I would have called the cops and have Shaw thrown in jail immediately.
Shaw insinuated himself into the Powell household and destroyed the Powells. I have personally witnessed him calling Gary a "lazy mother-fucker," in front of the kids. Shaw is a former psych patient, (was admitted to the psych unit of ------ ------Hospital for 3 days in 1996) and sometimes forgets to take his medication. When this happens, he faints or goes berserk. The police have had to come a couple of times to restrain him. The last time it happened on Tyra's mother's birthday, he threatened Tyra's mother, called her obscene names. Tyra ended up smashing him in the face, in front of the kids.

In either October or November 2002, Jeff Shaw forgot to take his medication. Tyra was preparing a birthday dinner for her mother. Shaw went berserk. I had looked out the window, it was approximately 4 or 4:30pm. I saw several police cars, 2 fire trucks, and an ambulance. I was frightened for the kids and immediately ran across the street. The house was stuffed with police and firemen.
Jeff Parker once witnessed Jeff Shaw going into the bathroom while Tiona was in there washing up. The bathroom is off the kitchen. Jeff Shaw has also been verbally abusive to Amy Powell, saying things like, "I don't like you." Also has said to Tyra, in front of Amy, "She's no good. She's a liar. She's always starting trouble."
How can a mother stand by and let her boyfriend or any man talk this way to her child? And I believe that Tyra Powell knows who did it and is accusing my husband, to protect the person who really molested Tiona.
I also feel that CPS worker Romana Grohman did not do a thorough investigation in this matter. Not only was she deceived by the non-disclosure of Marlon Workman living at -- A. St. when Tiona was molested, but on September 3, 2003 at the closure of the case, she was a given a list of addresses to where the Powell family moved to when they left A. St. in August, 2003.
Gary Powell is listed as living on Ca. St. Tyra Powell and her daughters Amy, Linda and Tiona are listed as living on Cl. St. Her oldest daughter is listed as living at 3* Co. Ave. And Jeff Shaw is also listed as living at 3*8 C. Ave. Jeff Shaw was 60 years old on September 3, 2003. Jade Powell was 17 1/2 on September 3, 2003.
38 Co. is a single family home owned by Tyra's mother, Hester Perkins Mills.
So Romana Grohman types up a list of addresses and does not notice that a 60 year old man is living with an underage girl? Her incompetence and her refusal to come and talk to my husband or me (see chronology of events) has resulted in Tiona and her sisters remaining in a clearly dysfunctional family and still in harm's way of the true molester. And leaving my husband labeled as a child molester, when he has never even been charged by the police for anything.
I'd like to see Tyra Powell prosecuted for the false accusation that she placed against my husband when she called CPS on May 26, 2003, and the continued harassment of my husband and myself with the false accusations of child abuse in August 2003 and August 2005, and her harassment of my husband the night of his mother's funeral.
I will never forgive Mrs. Powell for what she has done. She put my husband through hell, all the while his mother was dying and even the day we buried her, Tyra and Jeff Shaw couldn't leave us alone.

Jeff Parker’s medical history.

Even though my husband had a previous mild heart condition, I believe Tyra's actions of May 2003 contributed to his needing open heart surgery on September 24, 2003. (see chronology of events).
I note here my husband's medical history:
This part is edited out. My husband’s medical history is none of your business.

How the accusation has affected me

When Tyra accused my husband of molesting her daughter, it tore me apart. I loved Tyra. I loved her children. I was frightened that my husband would go to jail for something that he did not do. I began chain-smoking. I would frequently sit on my porch and smoke cigarette after cigarette. During these times, I would sit and look across the street at my former's friend's house and wonder why she stabbed us in the back the way she did. Many times I wanted to march across the street, look her in the eye, and simply ask, "Why?" Other times I wanted to grab her and beat her. The stress of her betrayal and the deaths of several loved ones (see chronology of events) almost led me to a nervous breakdown. As it was, the increased cigarette smoking raised my cholesterol level by over 100 points.
My husband and I quit smoking cold turkey a week before his heart surgery. We have not smoked since. We have never been big drinkers of alcohol, usually a few beers now and then, or a nice bottle of wine for dinner or special occasions. This past holiday season, we only had sparkling cider and sparkling grape juice for our holiday meals. We do not do drugs either.

He has never cheated on me, and I don't say this naively. He doesn't go anywhere. He goes to work and comes home. If he says he's going to the mall to do some shopping, he comes back with bags from the mall, and the receipts are all from Mall. If he says he's going to T. , he comes home with T bags and the receipt says, well whatever the address the store is. And the time span that he is gone does not give him time to take the bus to some chickie's house for a good time. And the times that we had a car, I would drive him to and from work, as he does not drive.
When Jeff lost his job at Markets in 1996, and I had to start putting in overtime to make ends meet, it really hurt his male pride. But he realizes that I make more money than he does (even at the present time, especially since he only works part time), so he does a lot of the housework to help me. Jeff will stay on the bus after work and go on to S to do some grocery shopping. He does most of the cooking and scrubs the kitchen floor, vacuums, washes dishes and other odd jobs around the house, in addition to repairs and yard work. Is he perfect? No, lot by a long shot. We have our disagreements and fights, just like any other couple.

And now Ms. ___, I implore you to expunge my husband's name from the New York State Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment. I also ask that you expunge the records from the false accusations placed against him and myself on August 18, 2003, and the false accusation placed against me on August 22, 2005.
My husband has never been charged with any crime related to this sordid story. The Buffalo Police have never arrested him. It is now 3 1/2 years since Tyra Powell accused my husband of molesting her daughter. If the Buffalo Police thought he had done it, they certainly would have arrested him by now.
I pray that this nightmare will be over soon for my husband and me, I pray for the truth to come out, and I pray for healing for the Powell children.
Thank you for your time.
Respectfully submitted,

Mrs. Remi B. Parker

Addendum:
On April 4, 2006, my husband arrived home from shopping and told me that he was informed by our neighbor Melora Hill, -- A. St., that Tyra was at her house and told her that Jeff Shaw had died recently. Apparently, he was supposed to attend a birthday party at Tyra’s house. This would have been Amy’s birthday as her birthday is -- --92. He did not show up for the party. He did not answer the phone. Apparently Tyra went to the house and he did not answer the door. The police were called and they broke the door in and discovered Shaw’s body.
Melora Hill also told Jeff Parker that Tyra was now living with a new boyfriend. I did a check on the Erie County official website and found out that Tyra’s husband Gary, current address of 1516 Cl. St, is in arrears for $3500.00 for child support. This was listed on 12-20-05.
A check on the address of 1*** Cl. St., the house where Jeff Shaw was living at the time of his death, shows that Tyra Powell, her three youngest daughters, Amy, Linda and Tiona were living at that address with Jeff Shaw..
1970 Cl. St. is also the address that Romana Grohman typed up in her report as where Tyra, Amy, Linda and Tiona were living in September 2003. In that report, Ms. Grohman shows Shaw’s address as 3* Co. Jeff Shaw’s official address at the time of his death was 1*** Cl. St. One of two mailboxes on the front of the house had his name on it. I peeked into this mailbox one day the week of April 3, and I saw a letter addressed to Jeff Shaw, 1*** Cl. St. Buffalo, New York 14206. The return address showed it was from Rent***, on B Ave., the same Rent*** that Jeff Shaw and Tyra had been doing business with for years. I do not know what the letter was about, as I did not touch it.
1*** Cl. St. is a two family dwelling. The 2004-05 phone book lists S. B. as one tenant. And this was the name on the second mailbox that was on the house.
So three years after Tyra’s accusations against my husband, labeling him a pervert, Tyra still is keeping her daughters in an unhealthy dysfunctional lifestyle. Living with two men in front of young girls and having substance abuse problems is not my idea of a healthy stable home. Tyra obviously moved from 1*** Cl. St., leaving Jeff Shaw behind and moving on with her new boyfriend, as she told Melora Hill. While Jeff Shaw is now out of the picture, I still believe that Tyra has a lot of explaining to do about what happened three years ago.

That concludes my letter to the fair hearing judge and in conclusion here, I want to point out that when Tyra told the CPS workers that Jeff Shaw was out of her life, it shows Tyra being deceitful again. In December of 2003, at the closing of the case, CPS indicates that Jeff Shaw is now out of the picture and not around the Powell children. Explain then how we kept seeing Jeff Shaw with Linda and Tiona on the bus and why his address is the same as Tyra’s? Yep, more lies to the Child Protective Services. Why the need to lie? Jeff and Remi Parker do not lie to the Child Protective Services, but Tyra has lied to them over and over. GO SEE THE ACTUAL FILE FOR YOURSELF TO SEE WHERE TYRA SAYS THAT JEFF SHAW IS OUT OF HER LIFE. BUT HIS DEAD BODY WAS FOUND IN THE APARTMENT THAT SHE LIVED IN! HOW IS HE OUT OF HER LIFE, BUT WITH HER ON THE BUS WITH TIONA AND LINDA! LYING BITCH!!!!!! And if he was out of her life, why then did I see her enter the funeral parlor when he was laid out? And 20 minutes later I saw Maxine drive up with Amy, Linda and Tiona! If he was out of her life, how come it was Tyra who made the funeral arrangements? Out of her life and out of her children’s lives? NOPE! THIS WAS ANOTHER LIE TOLD BY TYRA TO THE DAMN AUTHORITIES.

Jeff and I would like to go on record that we abhor any abuse to a child. It is a horrible thing for a child to endure.
I have joined several support groups on the internet. Jeff and I were lucky. We had people that not just from day one, but from minute one, believed in us and supported us. Our lawyer knew us from the Block Club Coalition. And he and his wife, who serves as his secretary, became not only legal representation for us, but personal friends. Our other friend, our city councilman, was told him about it, (around May 20, 2003) and without hesitation said that he would be willing to be a character witness for Jeff. Similarly, our family members, (Jeff’s family wasn’t told until a month after his mother’s funeral), all stood up for Jeff and were outraged. My younger brother volunteered his motorcycle club for some payback, but I said that wasn’t necessary. “Do it by the book,” as Captain Kirk says, my niece advised. “I know how much you want to kick some booty, but take the high road. You’re better than they are. Let them act the fools,” others told us. And we have. The morning of my mother-in-law’s funeral I politely asked Jeff Shaw to please keep Tyra away from us. But he acted like the fool when he swore at me. And you didn’t see me yelling and screaming obscenities in the middle of the street, all the while waving a liquor bottle around. And calling my friend a slut. Gee thanks, Tyra. You know, at the age of 54, I can still count on one hand the number of sexual partners I have had. I am no slut, honey. Try looking in the mirror and count up how many affairs YOU have had (and told me about) the Italian security guard at S, Sam at the corner store, 2 men on A. St. And one time in 2002 Tyra came to my house, drunk as usual. She was crying. She was so upset. She loved Gary. Oh boo hoo. She told me that Gary and her had not had sex for over 10 years. Interesting. Her two youngest children were under the age of 10 at the time. Where ever did they come from?
Shall I go on? No, I think I made my point. Well, just one more little zinger: when I told my ex-husband about Tyra’s accusation, he said it was because she tried to get into my husband’s pants and couldn’t. Now that’s food for thought.
As Tyra’s friend, I passed no judgment on her when she told me of her “escapades.” I figured, well, she’s an adult. If she wants to cheat on her husband, it’s her decision. I never once put her down. Until now. Because of what she did to my husband and to myself. I’m your good friend, and you stand in the middle of the street and call me a slut? Because I closed my door in your face and would not let you enter my home after you lied about my husband?
And Tyra is a church-going woman? Puh-lease! Man, she better review those 10 Commandments before she goes around calling other people a slut! At least I keep it real.
We put together a list of children that Jeff had been involved with during his adult life, whether through family ties, or friends, . The list amounted to 39 children, including the Powell children. But subtracting 3 from that number (Linda, Amy and Jade), we still come up with 36 children. We have contacted these children and/or their parents. EVER SINGLE ONE OF THEM HAS STOOD UP FOR JEFF AND SAID THAT JEFF IS NOT A CHILD ABUSER OR A CHILD MOLESTOR AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM IS OUTRAGED AND UPSET THAT ANYONE COULD SAY THAT HE IS A CHILD MOLESTOR.!!!!!
So I’m finished. And I feel sorry that I have to plop this in your laps. But hey, like I said above, I keep it real. I didn’t start this stuff. But I will finish it. Unlike Tyra, I am not a liar. Everything I have written here is factual and true. And unlike Tyra, I stand by MY husband. And I defend him. I will not let his reputation be run through the mud any longer. This whole thing is to show you that my husband was innocent. Jeff and I take our marriage vows very seriously, because we don’t just say we love each other, we do.
This was not something that could be ignored. It wasn’t a case of somebody saying, “Yeah, he’s the one who threw a rock through my windshield.” No, this was something that almost ruined our lives, almost cost us our lives. If Jeff had not gotten to the doctor after the lie detector test, he would not be here today. Dr. G. said that he was just days to a FATAL heart attack. Brought on by the stress of the false accusation laid against him by people who were our friends. Six days after seeing Dr. G., Jeff had his open heart surgery. But Jeff was told by Dr. G. to immediately quit smoking, stay away from any second hand smoke, don’t lift ANYTHING, avoid stress. Don’t walk long distances. He basically had to just sit and wait until the surgery. At least the lie detector test did some good. It showed that his heart rhythm was irregular and abnormally low. He may have “failed” the lie detector test, but it saved his life.
I blame both Tyra and Gary for this mess. Tyra brought that pig Jeff Shaw into her household, and Gary sat by and let it all happen. Gary, by his lack of standing up to be the “man of the house” contributed to Tiona’s molestation and for nearly ruining my husband’s life and my life. We once loved them. But they have turned our hearts black against them.

Blessed be your day. Remi Parker

A rose is the crown of the garden

2006-12-22T09:04:00.000-05:00

I have beautiful pink and red roses in my garden. Someday I will have blue roses. The beauty of my roses help me to see past the hurt of these past 3 and a half years. My friend's betrayal, her turn to the dark side, if you will, cut me so deeply. But my life has gone on and has become better. My husband and I have come through the lies that my friend and her family have told about us. They will have to live with all of that on their consciences. My husband and I have done nothing wrong. Our hearts and consciences are clear. We see the beauty of our lives. We see the beauty of our roses. Our former friend has only ugliness in her heart. As do her family members that lied. The one is a beautiful young woman. She is striking in her beauty. But her beauty is only on the outside. For when she did what she did, she showed that her heart is as ugly and dark as her mother's. There are no roses in her heart. There are no roses in her mother's heart. Only evil. The little ones are forgiven, as they are innocents that were led astray. But the mother, her husband and her boyfriend, and her oldest one, they are all dark and evil. No roses. Forgiveness? I doubt it. Forgotten? Never. Do I dwell on what my friend and her family did to my husband and to me? Sometimes. But they are not that important in our lives. I lose no sleep over these evil people. Nor does my husband.

And the one who is now in eternal sleep? An hour before the family came to the funeral home, I went to gaze on the person who started the whole mess. I wanted to spit on him. But the thought of my DNA being put on this person for eternity stopped me. I did lean over and gave him my final farewells. I wished him well in his journey to the afterlife, where he is rotting in hell. I know he is. For not only did he harm an innocent, he put the blame on an innocent person. I did not bring roses to the funeral home. No roses for the evil-doers. No roses at all.

Remi's Ramblings number 2: an introduction.

2006-12-22T08:35:00.000-05:00

So I guess this will be my new blog. I've got a lot to put on my blog. I'm just waiting for some more corresponence. All will be revealed soon. I hope. What I need to post may be broken up into 3 or 4 parts, depending on much I can post in a single blog entry.