Re: Hooray for Jim, CCHR and Payne

[Guest guest]

Thanks Terry,

I would be happier if the girl was home and Mom wasn't being forced against

her will by the state to take antidepressants. When I talked to Payne

she told me she had a friend who's daughter hung herself on antidepressants

and she didn't want her child taking them.

The Associated Press (amongst others) will sometimes pick up articles and

then offer them to other papers to reprint. I think this article is a great

example of what happens to so many. I would imagine that the main journalist

Tona Kunz would appreciate feedback and it might spur some more press. Tona

has written about this family and situation extensively. She has my respect.

Sheila Mathews, www.AbleChild.org has been posting news releases on

Payne's plight here:

http://www.prleap.com/pr/22146/

Who are you to release a news release? Arn't you about to be the Arkansas

State Director for the International Coalition for Drug Awareness?

Jim

Hooray for Jim, CCHR and Payne! Now, how do we help get this out to

the media? If it is sent to a local paper, who should it be sent to and

under what authority? I can't submit it as a " Letter to the Editor " and who

am I to issue a " news release " ? So, what do we do?

Terry

Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:

Kane County crime & justice

NEIGHBOR

Anti-medicine advocates step in to local custody case

Tona Kunz & Adam Kovac

511 words

19 December 2005

Chicago Daily Herald

F3,F4

1

English

Copyright © 2005 Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company. All

rights reserved.

Payne, the former Batavia woman who lost her mother to an ex- husband's

methamphetamine-fueled rampage, has a new advocate in her battle to gain

custody of her daughter.

Payne's mother, Duchaine, had custody of Payne's 13-year- old daughter

when the elder woman was kidnapped and beaten to death by the girl's father,

ph Foreman, in April 2004. Payne was living with Foreman in Batavia at

the time. The girl and grandmother were visiting.

The loss of the girl's guardian threw her into the Illinois Department of

Children and Family Services system.

Payne had a hearing earlier this month to check the progress of a transition

plan to regain custody of her daughter. She will have another progress

hearing in about six months. Payne abdicated custody to her mother when the

child was 4 years old, but now wants the child back.

The not-for-profit Austin, Texas-based advocacy group Citizens Commission on

Human Rights is trying to draw attention to Payne's plight. The group

focuses on what it views as the abuses by government or medical agencies

forcing children to take medication against their will.

DCFS guardians have required both Payne and her daughter take

anti-depressant medications while they work through the emotional issues of

the attack. Payne was beaten nearly into a coma by Foreman before he took

off with Duchaine, leaving his daughter to find her bloody mother. Both

mother and daughter have contested their need for medication and fought

taking pills.

Jim , director of research for the group, argues that the drugs the

girl is being forced to take exacerbate her reckless behavior. She has run

away from a Streamwood residential care center as well as her paternal

grandmother's home and a Naperville teen center. Family court officials have

said the trauma of the attack, an unstable home life and emotional issues

have caused the girl to act out.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights does not supply attorneys for

custody hearings, but hopes to use media blitzes to generate interest among

legal groups willing to do pro bono work.

[Guest guest]

Thanks Terry,

I would be happier if the girl was home and Mom wasn't being forced against

her will by the state to take antidepressants. When I talked to Payne

she told me she had a friend who's daughter hung herself on antidepressants

and she didn't want her child taking them.

The Associated Press (amongst others) will sometimes pick up articles and

then offer them to other papers to reprint. I think this article is a great

example of what happens to so many. I would imagine that the main journalist

Tona Kunz would appreciate feedback and it might spur some more press. Tona

has written about this family and situation extensively. She has my respect.

Sheila Mathews, www.AbleChild.org has been posting news releases on

Payne's plight here:

http://www.prleap.com/pr/22146/

Who are you to release a news release? Arn't you about to be the Arkansas

State Director for the International Coalition for Drug Awareness?

Jim

Hooray for Jim, CCHR and Payne! Now, how do we help get this out to

the media? If it is sent to a local paper, who should it be sent to and

under what authority? I can't submit it as a " Letter to the Editor " and who

am I to issue a " news release " ? So, what do we do?

Terry

Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:

Kane County crime & justice

NEIGHBOR

Anti-medicine advocates step in to local custody case

Tona Kunz & Adam Kovac

511 words

19 December 2005

Chicago Daily Herald

F3,F4

1

English

Copyright © 2005 Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company. All

rights reserved.

Payne, the former Batavia woman who lost her mother to an ex- husband's

methamphetamine-fueled rampage, has a new advocate in her battle to gain

custody of her daughter.

Payne's mother, Duchaine, had custody of Payne's 13-year- old daughter

when the elder woman was kidnapped and beaten to death by the girl's father,

ph Foreman, in April 2004. Payne was living with Foreman in Batavia at

the time. The girl and grandmother were visiting.

The loss of the girl's guardian threw her into the Illinois Department of

Children and Family Services system.

Payne had a hearing earlier this month to check the progress of a transition

plan to regain custody of her daughter. She will have another progress

hearing in about six months. Payne abdicated custody to her mother when the

child was 4 years old, but now wants the child back.

The not-for-profit Austin, Texas-based advocacy group Citizens Commission on

Human Rights is trying to draw attention to Payne's plight. The group

focuses on what it views as the abuses by government or medical agencies

forcing children to take medication against their will.

DCFS guardians have required both Payne and her daughter take

anti-depressant medications while they work through the emotional issues of

the attack. Payne was beaten nearly into a coma by Foreman before he took

off with Duchaine, leaving his daughter to find her bloody mother. Both

mother and daughter have contested their need for medication and fought

taking pills.

Jim , director of research for the group, argues that the drugs the

girl is being forced to take exacerbate her reckless behavior. She has run

away from a Streamwood residential care center as well as her paternal

grandmother's home and a Naperville teen center. Family court officials have

said the trauma of the attack, an unstable home life and emotional issues

have caused the girl to act out.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights does not supply attorneys for

custody hearings, but hopes to use media blitzes to generate interest among

legal groups willing to do pro bono work.

[Guest guest]

I live near Aurora, and this is the first time I have heard of Payne's

struggle to get her daughter back. Have they not been through enough? It is a

bit surprising that the Aurora Beacon-News has not covered this at all. The

attack on Ms. Payne and the murder of her mother took place within this

newspaper's marketing area, and needless to say, they had extensive coverage in

it. Foreman was found, and arrested, at a frind's home in Aurora. He is now in

prison for his crimes.

I have also sent this e-mail to Mike Cetera of the Aurora Beacon-News. Should

any of you wish to communicate with him on this, his e-mail is mcetera@...,

his phone # is 630-844-5853.

Sincerely, Balsamo

Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:

Thanks Terry,

I would be happier if the girl was home and Mom wasn't being forced against

her will by the state to take antidepressants. When I talked to Payne

she told me she had a friend who's daughter hung herself on antidepressants

and she didn't want her child taking them.

The Associated Press (amongst others) will sometimes pick up articles and

then offer them to other papers to reprint. I think this article is a great

example of what happens to so many. I would imagine that the main journalist

Tona Kunz would appreciate feedback and it might spur some more press. Tona

has written about this family and situation extensively. She has my respect.

Sheila Mathews, www.AbleChild.org has been posting news releases on

Payne's plight here:

http://www.prleap.com/pr/22146/

Who are you to release a news release? Arn't you about to be the Arkansas

State Director for the International Coalition for Drug Awareness?

Jim

Hooray for Jim, CCHR and Payne! Now, how do we help get this out to

the media? If it is sent to a local paper, who should it be sent to and

under what authority? I can't submit it as a " Letter to the Editor " and who

am I to issue a " news release " ? So, what do we do?

Terry

Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:

Kane County crime & justice

NEIGHBOR

Anti-medicine advocates step in to local custody case

Tona Kunz & Adam Kovac

511 words

19 December 2005

Chicago Daily Herald

F3,F4

1

English

Copyright © 2005 Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company. All

rights reserved.

Payne, the former Batavia woman who lost her mother to an ex- husband's

methamphetamine-fueled rampage, has a new advocate in her battle to gain

custody of her daughter.

Payne's mother, Duchaine, had custody of Payne's 13-year- old daughter

when the elder woman was kidnapped and beaten to death by the girl's father,

ph Foreman, in April 2004. Payne was living with Foreman in Batavia at

the time. The girl and grandmother were visiting.

The loss of the girl's guardian threw her into the Illinois Department of

Children and Family Services system.

Payne had a hearing earlier this month to check the progress of a transition

plan to regain custody of her daughter. She will have another progress

hearing in about six months. Payne abdicated custody to her mother when the

child was 4 years old, but now wants the child back.

The not-for-profit Austin, Texas-based advocacy group Citizens Commission on

Human Rights is trying to draw attention to Payne's plight. The group

focuses on what it views as the abuses by government or medical agencies

forcing children to take medication against their will.

DCFS guardians have required both Payne and her daughter take

anti-depressant medications while they work through the emotional issues of

the attack. Payne was beaten nearly into a coma by Foreman before he took

off with Duchaine, leaving his daughter to find her bloody mother. Both

mother and daughter have contested their need for medication and fought

taking pills.

Jim , director of research for the group, argues that the drugs the

girl is being forced to take exacerbate her reckless behavior. She has run

away from a Streamwood residential care center as well as her paternal

grandmother's home and a Naperville teen center. Family court officials have

said the trauma of the attack, an unstable home life and emotional issues

have caused the girl to act out.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights does not supply attorneys for

custody hearings, but hopes to use media blitzes to generate interest among

legal groups willing to do pro bono work.

[Guest guest]

,

Thanks! Maybe we can ge some more awareness on this issue.

Jim

I live near Aurora, and this is the first time I have heard of Payne's

struggle to get her daughter back. Have they not been through enough? It is

a bit surprising that the Aurora Beacon-News has not covered this at all.

The attack on Ms. Payne and the murder of her mother took place within this

newspaper's marketing area, and needless to say, they had extensive

coverage in it. Foreman was found, and arrested, at a frind's home in

Aurora. He is now in prison for his crimes.

I have also sent this e-mail to Mike Cetera of the Aurora Beacon-News.

Should any of you wish to communicate with him on this, his e-mail is

mcetera@..., his phone # is 630-844-5853.

Sincerely, Balsamo

Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:

Thanks Terry,

I would be happier if the girl was home and Mom wasn't being forced against

her will by the state to take antidepressants. When I talked to Payne

she told me she had a friend who's daughter hung herself on antidepressants

and she didn't want her child taking them.

The Associated Press (amongst others) will sometimes pick up articles and

then offer them to other papers to reprint. I think this article is a great

example of what happens to so many. I would imagine that the main journalist

Tona Kunz would appreciate feedback and it might spur some more press. Tona

has written about this family and situation extensively. She has my respect.

Sheila Mathews, www.AbleChild.org has been posting news releases on

Payne's plight here:

http://www.prleap.com/pr/22146/

Who are you to release a news release? Arn't you about to be the Arkansas

State Director for the International Coalition for Drug Awareness?

Jim

Hooray for Jim, CCHR and Payne! Now, how do we help get this out to

the media? If it is sent to a local paper, who should it be sent to and

under what authority? I can't submit it as a " Letter to the Editor " and who

am I to issue a " news release " ? So, what do we do?

Terry

Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:

Kane County crime & justice

NEIGHBOR

Anti-medicine advocates step in to local custody case

Tona Kunz & Adam Kovac

511 words

19 December 2005

Chicago Daily Herald

F3,F4

1

English

Copyright © 2005 Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company. All

rights reserved.

Payne, the former Batavia woman who lost her mother to an ex- husband's

methamphetamine-fueled rampage, has a new advocate in her battle to gain

custody of her daughter.

Payne's mother, Duchaine, had custody of Payne's 13-year- old daughter

when the elder woman was kidnapped and beaten to death by the girl's father,

ph Foreman, in April 2004. Payne was living with Foreman in Batavia at

the time. The girl and grandmother were visiting.

The loss of the girl's guardian threw her into the Illinois Department of

Children and Family Services system.

Payne had a hearing earlier this month to check the progress of a transition

plan to regain custody of her daughter. She will have another progress

hearing in about six months. Payne abdicated custody to her mother when the

child was 4 years old, but now wants the child back.

The not-for-profit Austin, Texas-based advocacy group Citizens Commission on

Human Rights is trying to draw attention to Payne's plight. The group

focuses on what it views as the abuses by government or medical agencies

forcing children to take medication against their will.

DCFS guardians have required both Payne and her daughter take

anti-depressant medications while they work through the emotional issues of

the attack. Payne was beaten nearly into a coma by Foreman before he took

off with Duchaine, leaving his daughter to find her bloody mother. Both

mother and daughter have contested their need for medication and fought

taking pills.

Jim , director of research for the group, argues that the drugs the

girl is being forced to take exacerbate her reckless behavior. She has run

away from a Streamwood residential care center as well as her paternal

grandmother's home and a Naperville teen center. Family court officials have

said the trauma of the attack, an unstable home life and emotional issues

have caused the girl to act out.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights does not supply attorneys for

custody hearings, but hopes to use media blitzes to generate interest among

legal groups willing to do pro bono work.