Illinois governor Bruce Rauner is taking criticism for signing a bill that essentially makes Illinois a “sanctuary state” for illegal aliens.
The governors of California and New York have essentially withdrawn their states from the Union, much like the idiotic Southern governors did in the run-up to the Civil War, when it comes to enforcing laws against the harboring of millions of fugitives, many of whom are rapists, robbers, jihadists, and other killers, from foreign countries. The governors of Oregon, Washington, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Minnesota are ruling along the same lines. Rauner is moving his state in a similar direction. He is the only alleged Republican in the bunch.
Rauner signed legislation in August 2017 that would limit cooperation with federal immigration officials, angering members of his own party who say the law creates a “sanctuary state.” So reported Brooke Singman, a scribe for Fox News, on 8/28/17.
“The Illinois TRUST Act (the bill Rauner signed) bans local law enforcement from stopping, arresting, searching or detaining anyone based solely on immigration status. …it bars local officials from detaining anyone solely on the basis of a federal immigration detainer, unless federal officials have a criminal warrant.” So reported Ms. Singman.
Another woman is questioning whether Rauner is making Illinois a sanctuary state for bad foster parents.
We were contacted by this woman, who has been trying to gain custody of her grandson and adopt him. Her quest has run for at least four years. Her daughter and the natural father are both druggies, so she wanted to protect the little boy.
Instead, child protective services people in an Illinois county placed the boy with a relative of the sperm donor “in the best interests of the child.”
The woman asked us to look into the sperm donor and the foster couple, who state officials consider good enough to be foster parents.
We found the natural father has a string of convictions and lesser punishments for drug offenses, multiple DUIs, theft, car title violations, a concealed weapon incident, and criminal trespass in Illinois and Kentucky. He was also on the wrong end of a child support case. He is probably not father material in the sense of raising the little boy responsibly and setting him a good example.
The “haven” to where local social workers sent the little boy was the house in which the sperm donor’s uncle and uncle’s current honey live. The uncle/foster dude had financial problems, as evidenced by his conviction related to a bad check, and his eviction, as well as a divorce which showed his first ex-wife was the breadwinner. He also had assault and DUI related convictions, and matching ex-wives. The first one sued him for adultery after she was supporting him. The second sued him for cruelty, and had married him even after he beat her when she was his live-in girlfriend. The woman currently keeping his bed warm had an older son (now moved out) a paternity suit against this son’s natural father, who she later married as her first husband, a divorce, and a daughter (now moved out) who had a baby and a restraining order against a boyfriend before she was 20.
All these wonderful people, and the current (for now) wife’s younger son, who turned 18 in 2014, were living in the house the current wife got from her ex-husband when she divorced him. (It’s a rental; the first hubby moved out.) Related to the three divorces (and mentioned in the divorce files) were three restraining order petitions that had the truly bizarre info.
The current wife/foster gal filed a restraining order against her first husband, who had committed the politically incorrect crime of growing chubby. She claimed he became suspicious she was cheating on him, checked her cell phone for evidence of hookups, and called her a slut and a whore. In the divorce, she got the rented house and the fridge.
The uncle/foster dude, who fathered four daughters by his first two wives, was the target of two restraining order requests. Ex-Wife No. 1 filed on him when he refused to return their two daughters from a parental visitation. She had to have the police retrieve her little girls. Ex-Wife No. 2 also filed her restraining order due to a visitation problem. She said her older girl (who was 8) said the 16-year-old boy who was in her dad’s house – the younger son of his current wife – had molested her several times. Ex-Wife No. 2 sought to cut off his visitation rights because she didn’t want the pervert son (allegedly) of his current female raping her little girls.
When I found these cases in 2014, I immediately shot them to the woman’s lawyer. I also contacted the state police and the state inspector general. Putting a little boy in the home with a known or suspected child molester is corrupt or incompetent or both.
The local police had to refer Ex-Wife No. 2’s charge to the Illinois state police, because of “CONFLICT.” In other words, people on the force were friends or relatives of one of the parties or someone in that party’s family circle.
I located and talked with Ex-Wife No. 2. She told me a relative of the teenager who reportedly molested her daughter was an official with the county sheriff’s office. That was the apparent “CONFLICT.”
The second ex-wife’s request for a restraining order outed the foster couple as potentially unfit to have that privilege. It also implied local agents of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) were ruling in this couple’s favor against the woman who sought our help perhaps out of personal friendships. And it outed some of these agents’ and local police’s apparent low standards of deciding who to be friendly with.
This revelation about an apparent sex offender should have been the little boy’s “get out of foster jail free card.” But the judges in that corrupt state have not sprung him yet.
I contacted Governor Rauner at his house in January and February of 2016. I didn’t want any aides shortstopping the letters.
There were quite a few news stories about incompetence or worse in the DCFS. Rauner brought in a new boss for the agency to check on things and maybe fix the agency. Rauner had his people contact me, and they essentially asked for patience while the new head of DCFS sorted things out.
But the wheels of justice turn slow. The little boy, now seven, is still in the custody of the foster dude and the foster gal. Meanwhile, the new boss in 2016, George Sheldon, ejected in mid-2017 after he was accused of the time-dishonored practice of giving lucrative no-bid contracts to friends.
To aid the woman in her quest to get custody of her grandson, I re-checked the foster couple and the natural father for new problems.
I went after all police and fire calls for the address of the foster couple in the summer of 2017. Here are the most severe of what turned up. (Don’t read these if you are sensitive.)
(5/17/2010 going to 5/18/2010). Report notes foster gal called police on teen daughter’s ex-boyfriend. He had been staying at foster gal’s house, but had broken up with her girl and moved out. He wanted to get his belongings. She wouldn’t let him come over that night and get them. She said he was driving by the house and sent a suicidal message. Officers went to the home of the boyfriend’s parents. Ex-boyfriend showed cops what appeared to be a suicidal message from divorced foster gal’s daughter to him. Officers evidently took both teens to a hospital in Rockford for evaluation.
(5/30/2011, 11:30 pm). Foster gal made a domestic call against her daughter (then 18) and her ex-husband. The police report notes foster gal and her daughter got into a fight about daughter wanting to spend the night at a friend’s house. Gal called her ex about this. Ex, who is the girl’s dad, came out. His current lady came with him.
Dad told cops divorced foster gal called him to help with their daughter. Foster gal was angry with his current lady’s presence and moved on her, he said.
Foster gal’s current boyfriend was at the house (she married him and he is now the foster dude in the marriage) and he talked foster gal into calming down.
Deputy said he asked foster dude if foster gal needed help (apparently screening or mental help).
The deputy noted, “At one point (foster gal) told me I could leave too.”
(11/18/2011). A sheriff’s deputy arrested natural father of the little boy at the house of the foster dude and the foster gal. Sperm donor is relative of foster dude. They had been apparently harboring sperm donor from a warrant from the Ogle County (Illinois) Sheriff.
12-028735.1 (5/3/2012, 9:20 am). Report notes foster gal came to the sheriff’s office to complain about her son getting a threatening message on his cell phone. She said her teen son was accused of illegal sexual contact with the daughter of his father’s new woman. Foster gal said her teen son was not arrested for the reported sexual assault. (She has juice with the agency and the cops.) Foster gal accused her ex and his woman of spreading rumors about their son “to all the neighbors, friends, colleagues, people in the bars or “whoever will listen” about what (his son by the foster gal) was alleged to have done. Now (son) is getting threats of being beaten up.”
This means the foster gal admitted her son was investigated for molesting a little girl!
(5/10/2012 thru 5/30/2012). Sheriff’s deputy reported going to foster gal’s house. Report says foster gal said threats against her son were “related to an aggravated criminal sexual abuse investigation (12-018059) where (her son) was accused of sexually molesting his two little stepsisters” who are the daughters of her “new husband.” Girls are foster dude’s second ex-wife’s little girls. Foster gal said DCFS was investigating the case and Nancy Woody [sic] was the DCFS “investigator;” she showed a letter from Ms. Woody and also said Illinois State Police were investigating her son. (This is possibly because she and her son apparently had a relative in a position of authority with the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office at the time.)
Foster gal claimed foster dude’s second ex-wife and her new husband were spreading rumors about what her teenage son did to the little girls. She also claimed the second ex-wife’s new husband and a “bar buddy” hired teenagers to harass her son and beat him up.
The teen who was supposedly threatening the son reported to the sheriff’s office, apologized, and said no one put him up to hassling the foster gal’s molesting son (allegedly). He promised not to harm the perv (allegedly).
The report said foster gal still demanded action against foster dude’s second ex-wife’s new husband. The new husband told deputies he and his wife (the second ex-wife of foster dude) thought it was not safe for either of her girls to go to foster dude’s and foster gal’s rented connubial residence because foster gal’s son apparently molested the older girl and the investigation (such as it was, considering local DCFS had been involved) was ongoing.
The report noted foster dude’s second ex-wife and her new husband were not happy with DCFS’ alleged investigation into foster gal’s son’s reported molestation of the older daughter, but would wait to see if the county prosecutors would press charges against him.
This means the foster gal admitted her son was investigated for molesting yet another girl! He was checked into for reportedly molesting the little girl of his father’s girlfriend, and for reportedly molesting his stepfather’s older little girl.
The mother of the girls, who I have spoke with, has apparently refused home visitations to foster dude since the older little girl told her the son of the foster gal had been sexually molesting her in the foster couple’s house. If the girls’ mother was in the wrong, foster dude could easily go to court and compel her to provide both little girls for home visitations. In my opinion, the fact that he has not done so and/or he has not been able to compel enforcement self-evidently indicates sexual abuse took place.
(4/26/2015; 12:55 am). Barn fire killed maybe 15 to 20 cattle. Foster dude and foster gal rent their house from a farmer. It is on a farm of at least 70 acres. A cattle barn behind the house burned after midnight, resulting in the loss of a number of cattle, per the report. (The foster gal’s suspected molester son was the only teen still living there, per the report.)
Despite foster gal claiming she woke up, saw the barn fire, and started screaming for everyone to get up, no one in the house went out to let the cattle out from the barn or the barnyard so they could escape the flames. Instead, the first officer on the scene rescued cattle by opening a gate for them to escape.
There was another item of interest in the report. Foster gal right away threw blame toward someone for the fire. She said a blonde in a Chevy seemed to be watching an Animal Control raid at her house days earlier. This implies there was reason to believe foster gal and foster dude were doing or allowing something unsanitary or unsavory or dangerous to animals or something else that was illegal on the premise they rented. It also implies the government in Illinois pays as much or more attention to the welfare of animals as they do to foster children in questionable places.
One last item: The report noted there were three young children at the time in the house that “(foster couple) are caring for.” Were these also foster children?
(11/14/2015; 10:09 pm). Call to “get rid of a car that belonged to a person who used to live there” from the foster gal and the foster dude’s address. (See following.)
(11/15/2015; 5:34 pm). (See above.) Report notes deputy met complainant, a woman who was trying to recover a 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix from the residence of her daughter’s ex boyfriend’s family, who were the foster gal and foster dude. (Foster gal’s suspected molester son, now of age, was still at the house in 2015.) Apparently someone immobilized the girl’s car, because the woman and the deputy were awaiting a wrecker. At least this girl was old enough to drive, unlike the two much younger reported molestation victims. The report didn’t note why the foster gal and foster dude or anyone else connected with the address tried to dispose of the car, or for what gain.
Why would a mom need a wrecker and a police escort to pick up her girl’s car from the foster couple’s place? After a call from the place asking how to dispose of a car? Some uncharitable souls would call the stunt “attempted grand theft auto” or “attempted criminal conversion.”
I also did some other follow-up work. Here’s what I found:
The natural father of the little boy, who is a relative of the foster dude, as of this writing is in prison in Kentucky on drug convictions.
The foster gal evidently has two bankruptcies in US Bankruptcy Court in Rockford, Illinois. The latest one was in 2014, after child protective services people put the little grandson in her home. Foster parents are supposed to be financially stable.
The woman who called me brought what I found to her lawyer in Illinois.
Why? The little boy is still in that house, thanks to the court system and the child protective services stooges in Illinois. More litigation is pending.
Since apparently the last honest man to hold public office in the corruptocracy known as Illinois was shot in Ford’s Theater, I’m not counting on the agency or judges or state officials reforming any time soon. In my lifetime four Illinois governors did terms in Springfield, then did terms in prisons. (Otto Kerner, Dan Walker, George Ryan, and Rod Blagojevich, if you’re keeping score at home.) That’s double the number of World Series victories by the Cubs and White Sox in the same time.
The public record on foster dude and foster gal implies Illinois child protective agents did no background checks on either of them. Or even worse, Illinois child protective agents checked on the behaviors of these two very flawed people and still decided they met the standards of acceptable foster parenthood participants in Illinois. Apparently the bar is low enough that it can be slithered over.
One last note:
According to the reporters of the Belleville, Illinois News-Democrat, Congressional shooter James Hodgkinson was an Illinois-certified foster father. His wife Suzanne was certified also. They reported the following:
One girl in the Hodgkinsons’ care, Wanda Stock, burned to death in a car, allegedly a suicide. Suzanne claimed the pretty brunette killed herself over a boyfriend. By burning herself alive? When two gas cans were found quite some distance from the car Wanda was burned in?
Police and the local coroner did not investigate Wanda’s death because they were told she was a suicide. Reportedly she left a note. But if you don’t check it for fingerprints or writing style, how do you determine it is authentic? And if you don’t check a girl’s corpse for a bullet hole or for hatchet or knife or machete cuts that nicked bones (meaning they also cut blood vessels) or cut tendons or windpipes, or for carbon monoxide and other drugs and toxins in the blood, how do you know a fire killed her?
Another girl, Cathy Rainbolt, who lived with the Hodgkinsons under an arrangement called “subsidized guardianship,” ran away from their loving home after James repeatedly beat her and humiliated her, beat a friend of hers who was a girl, and shot at this other girl’s boyfriend.
Cathy Rainbolt, by the way, was the Hodgkinsons’ grandniece. Cathy’s own natural father, and her mom’s boyfriend had sexually abused her and/or her sisters before any of the girls turned 10.
Cathy hid in the neighbor’s home, but Hodgkinson entered the dwelling, grabbed her by the hair, hit her repeatedly, and threw her around. She and another girl who was visiting the neighbor girl ran out of the house and got into the other visiting girl’s car to escape.
Hodgkinson used a knife to cut Cathy’s seatbelt so he could drag her out of her girl friend’s car. He also beat the friend girl. Suzanne Hodgkinson joined her husband in the assault; she hit Cathy, pulled her hair, and tried to drag Cathy out of the car. The caring Suzanne then threatened to dump Cathy back into the foster care system, according to a police report the reporters referenced on the incident. Hodgkinson choked Cathy and tore her clothes, and struck the other girl when she came to Cathy’s aid. Hodgkinson then evidently shot at the other girl’s boyfriend, who came to the house to intervene, and the kid ran. Police found a spent shotgun shell after the boy reported the future Congressional shooter to the law.
Cathy had not fared well in foster care. Other foster parents had also abused her (thus the threat from the witch, errr, “subsidized guardian”). The next foster parents after the Hodgkinsons would continue to abuse her. She ran away from them when the man of the house reportedly started touching her inappropriately.
At year’s end the Hodgkinsons submitted expenses for Cathy. Per the article on the Hodgkinsons in the wake of his attempt to murder members of Congress: “In that report, they detailed the expenses incurred on her behalf, including legal fees, intermediate foster care, damage done to the front lawn and $300 to repair a hole kicked in her bedroom wall.” “ … in addition to the lost work time we incurred for counseling, court dates, incarcerations and medical expenses for the stress the rest of the family was put through while (the girl) manipulated her way through the system,” James and Suzanne Hodgkinson wrote.”
Excuse me for not being sad. Incarcerations are what should happen to those who beat and choke girls and shoot at a teen without justification!
Cathy’s girl friend’s mother took Cathy in and cared for her until she became emancipated. James Hodgkinson ran over the dog of this woman who sheltered Cathy.
Cathy as a young adult got into drugs. Her natural father, out of prison, chose to reconnect with his pretty curly-haired blonde daughter by raping her again. Caring Illinois officials gave this repeat rapist a measly five-year sentence.
Cathy died of a drug overdose in her early 20s. “Foster care is supposed to be foster parenting,” the woman who sheltered Cathy wrote in Cathy’s obituary. “Parenting is supporting the physical, emotional, social, financial and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Foster care is not supposed to be belittling. The child is not supposed to be your free worker bee.”
Suzanne Hodgkinson, reached for comment after police had to put her hubby down for good, got police protection. She demanded the media leave her alone. She was playing the victim again. And Illinois taxpayers subsidized her protection, which was better than what the two girls got.
What lessons apply from this case to you?
You can access the public record like the Illinois child protective services people apparently failed to do. I looked at criminal records, civil records, and calls for services records at the address of the foster couple. I looked at criminal records of the natural father. I called Kentucky authorities and got them to mail me proof of the offenses that led to his incarceration, I called bankruptcy court to verify filings. And I used public records and the Internet to locate the ex-wife who turned in her ex-husband the foster dude for allowing their little girl to be molested during visitations, allegedly. The calls for services records which the sheriff’s people provided me also showed charges were made concerning a second little girl who was reportedly a victim of foster gal’s son.
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Info for the backgrounds of the foster couple and biological father of the little boy comes from several courthouses in Illinois and Kentucky. Here goes.
Foster father had these actions in Winnebago County, Illinois court system:
2012-OP-889 (emergency protection order petition – second ex-wife tried to cut off his visitation with daughters due to son of foster mother (third wife) reportedly sexually abusing foster father’s older daughter in current wife’s house)
2009-DT-1231 (reckless driving, and driving under the influence of alcohol).
2008-LM-181 (eviction)
2008-D-104 (divorce of foster father by second wife for mental cruelty)
1999-CM-2707 (domestic battery by girlfriend, later second wife)
1997-D-1118 (divorce of foster father by first wife for adultery; related emergency protection order filing by first ex-wife because he refused to return girls after a parental visit …. police had to make him return them)
1995-CM-990 (bad check misdemeanor charge)
Foster mother had these court actions:
Winnebago County, Illinois court system: 2009-D-766 (divorce), 1991-F-1748 (order of protection – hers) 2009-OP-801 and 2010-OP-978 (orders of protection – hers)
Stephenson County, Illinois court system: 1993F406 and 1993F168 (paternity case)
Bankruptcies (Northern District Illinois, Rockford):
Chapter 7 bankruptcy twice (Case No. 1483304, closed 2014) (Case No. 98052355, closed 1998)
Info on the natural father comes from the following cases:
Winnebago County, Illinois court system: 2004CM0004695 (theft/unauthorized conversion), 2007CF0003399 (felony controlled substance possession), 2007CM0006371 (possessing hypodermic needles), 2007DT0001034 (DUI) 2010CF0001101 (driving with revoked license, bad car title), 2007DT0001138 (DUI), 2007CM0005821 (possessing drug paraphernalia), 2012CM0001673 (criminal trespass), 2014CM0000161 (misdemeanor domestic battery), 2012F0000945 (child support case), 2012MR0000075 (lawsuit)
Boone County, Illinois court system: 2009CM253 (unlawful car title)
Kane County, Illinois court system: 2010FC002013 (aggravated DUI, driving on revoked license)
Ogle County, Illinois court system: 2009CM442 (drug paraphernalia)
McCracken County, Kentucky court system: 08-M-02010 (concealed knife)
Kentucky: Case No. 16-CR-120, Marshall County Circuit Court, and 16-CR-74, Calloway County Circuit Court (drug offense which has him in prison)
Calls for services I referred to came from the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office.
Info on the Hodgkinsons comes from a article in the 6/17/2017 Belleville, Illinois News Democrat.
