01/11/2000
Social Services' child endangerment
In the late summer of 1999, a mother came to me to help her
potty train her little girl, Red. Since I raised a couple of kids myself, I
said I would help.
The plan was that she wanted to go to Sioux Falls for ten
days and would leave Red with me, and I would have her trained by the time the
mother got back.
The plan worked well and Red was trained in three days and
we had great fun for the remainder of the time. There seemed to be no problems.
Wrong!
It seems that Red and I were seen all over Gettysburg for
the ten days and someone, being aware of the allegation of child molesting,
notified Social Services in Mobridge to have something done. Several days
after Red's mother got home and Red was with her, the Social worker at her
home.
The Social worker got on the mother's case about letting
Red with me. The mother said perhaps they should talk to me. The worker would
have no part of that. I think she was afraid of me, so she was willing to let
Red in what she felt may be an unsafe situation. She was willing to take
chances with the kid's safety, but not hers.
I thought I would let them prove how concerned they really
were. I sent a copy of Pfeiffer's evaluation to Mobridge Social Services in
which she stated I should never be around children (see Pfeiffer's evaluation)
to see what they would do.
If I were at Social Services, I would have checked it out.
This was pretty serious evidence. I never heard from them. I decided I would
talk to James Ellenbecker, head of Social Services in Pierre. I wondered if
they would check Pfeiffer's evaluation out. After all, Pfeiffer is a licensed
psychologist #152.
I don't know what they did, but no action was taken.
Ellenbecker said that it was the mother's obligation to look out for Red. But
then why do we have Social Services and Child Protection? Clearly, the only one
Ellenbecker was interested in protecting was himself. That is what all those
bureaucrats do. Case of no leadership.
I am not complaining that someone turned me in. I am happy
that someone is paying attention to children's safety. I am pretty steamed
about Ellenbecker not doing his job, which is the last thing I yelled at him as
I left his office.
So, what would happen if something did happen to Red? Would
Social Services take responsibility? How do they know if it did or not? They
didn't investigate. Are they guilty of child endangerment? If it were the
mother's responsibility, (how about the dad) then they should have never brought
it up if they were not going to do anything about it.
This isn't the only experience I have with these people.
They are some of the most powerful and dangerous people in South Dakota.
01/11/2000
Bill Asbury, FBI agent Asbury was in charge of the investigation
from the beginning. As I mentioned before, it took months before he bothered to
show up after he cancelled his meeting with me. I think the plan was to cause
enough stress on me that I would quit. Little did he know that was not an
option for me. I had been brutally attacked by the system and I don't ever walk
away from anyone who is beating the hell out of me. They have to kill me first.
Pick a fight with me and you have a fight forever. It is important to remember
I didn't start this fight, but I will not quit.
After three or four months of working out of Farlee's
office in Eagle Butte, Asbury showed up. I was walking into the BIA education
office after doing something in the lower elementary school next door - where
all the kids were, of course.
As I walked in the door, I was told that the FBI was there
to see me. Initially, I was glad they finally decided to do something. Later, I
wasn't.
Asbury acted like a wild bull. He shouted orders and told
me to follow him. We went down the halls where he was looking for an empty
room. All the rooms were offices except for one. He didn't find it. I wondered,
as we walked by it, if he missed the details in everything he did. That was a
bad sign.
Since he walked right by the empty room, I didn't say
anything. We ended up outside the door to the Education Office where he began
to try to intimidate me. All he accomplished was getting me pretty angry. I
didn't deserve to be treated that way and I was not going to tolerate it and I
didn't give a damn about the FBI.
His strategy was to have me take a lie detector test and
that would clear things up. That sounded like a good idea to me and I told him
to set it up. He handed me his worn old badge to "Make this
official."
I eyed it a bit and resisted the temptation to fling it out
into the muddy street.
I
discussed this matter with a lawyer who advised that even though I was
innocent, I should not take the test. How right he was! That will be written
later as the "Lie detector tests." As it turned out, he didn't get it
set up and I got the blame.
A few months later after hearing nothing, Asbury showed up
at the Education Office again. He was in the office with Cherie Farlee, agency
Supt. for Education. I got an uneasy feeling about this. Soon Farlee came out
and told me to go in. I told her there was no way in hell I was going to go in
alone and that she needed to come in too. I needed strong leadership to protect
me from abuse. Farlee has all the backbone of a jellyfish. She was willing to
feed me to the wolves.
I don't remember all the details, but I was sick of Asbury
and his out of control ego. I went in with all the humor of a wounded badger.
It wasn't long before I was squared off with Asbury and yelling in his face. I
was a proud American Vet and not about to back down from anybody. I didn't want
any citizen of the United States to be abused by any branch of the government.
Asbury was another case of megalomania. He couldn't stand
the fact that I would stand up to him. His power did not instill fear in me.
But in the end, he became the judge and jury on my fate. He had the power to
make me pay for standing up, and he did.
That was the last I saw of him and his also FBI wife Sandy.