Hoggle Children Still Missing

Jacob and Sarah Hoggle, the two Maryland toddlers who disappeared September 7 and September 8, are still missing. Their mother, Catherine Hoggle, who was the last person to see either of them, will not cooperate and tell anyone where they are.  She is now being held in a mental hospital, pending assessment about her capability to testify or participate in her own defense. Her attorney has filed a motion to dismiss the charges filed against her in connection to Jacob and Sarah's disappearance, based on the fact that she asserted her right to an attorney but was questioned for several more hours without one. Chances are rather strong that the case, itself, will not dismissed, but that information gleaned by law enforcement during that time will simply not be usable as evidence. One thing looks very certain, however; as long as Catherine has something everyone wants, specifically information about her childrens' whereabouts, she has power. When she gives that information up either by testifying or cooperating with law enforcement, she has no more power or control over the situation.

Two Children Missing From Clarksburg Maryland

Two year old Jacob Hoggle and Three year old Sarah Hoggle are missing from Montgomery County, Maryland. Jacob was last seen on Sunday afternoon, and Sarah was reportedly last seen on Monday. Their mom, Catherine, was also missing, as of Monday afternoon, but has been located and arrested. Allegedly, she has given conflicting accounts concerning the whereabouts of her children, and Montgomery County Police have charged her with criminal neglect. Hopefully, they will get some reliable information from her, as searches have turned up nothing for the past week. Below are pictures of them, if you know where these children are or think you have seen them, please call Montgomery County Police at 301-279-8000.

ACLU Writes Cease And Desist Letter To My Old School

Yesterday, I noticed this article on Yahoo News, about a high school student in Maryland who was sanctioned for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegience at school. Because I went to high school in Maryland, I read the article. In order to find out more, I clicked on this link. When I noticed the words, "Montgomery County", I became a bit more interested, because I lived in Montgomery County as a child. Then, I noticed that the school was the very school from which I graduated. My jaw dropped in shock, because back in my day, anyone who said the Pledge of Allegience would have been suspected of indulging in hallucinagens. Not that anyone was disloyal, or ungrateful for where we lived, but no one at my high school forced anyone to recite anything that even remotely resembled a religious prayer or chant. Apparently, my old school has changed, and not for the better.

The biggest complaint most well educated people have with the Pledge of Allegience is the "One nation under 'God' " part. While I agree with the offense thereby taken, the reason I taught my own children not to recite it has to do with the ending of it........"with liberty, and justice for all". To me, that part of the Pledge is nothing short of a giant sham and lie, as we do not have, support, or even attempt liberty and justice for ALL in this country. Why pretend that we do? We are still a great country, but I do not see the need to encourage my children to believe that we have attained a level of greatness and benevolence that we actually have not attained......so my children do not have to recite the Pledge of Allegience at any school they attend.

The student who was punished and publicly humiliated in Maryland got the American Civil Liberties Union involved in her case, and they have written the school a "cease and desist" letter. The administrator and faculty would be wise to heed it. While we are on the subject of constitutional rights, here is another disturbing case, from Florida. The father of a fourth grader found the beginnings of an essay in the little boy's backpack. The teacher had assigned an essay on this subject:

 

And to that, Benjamin Franklin had this to say: “He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.”

 

That little boy is now home schooled. Thank the Gods his father was paying attention. Hopefully, more parents will open their eyes.

 

 

Petition Calling For Resignation Of Judge Michael Algeo

This is a petition calling for Judge Michael Algeo, of Montgomery County, Maryland, to resign. In October of last year, he heard a family law court case involving a little boy by the name of Prince Mcleod Rams, and allowed unsupervised visitation  with a sperm donor who was under investigation for two murders in a neighboring state. On Prince's first visit, he was murdered. The sperm donor, Joaquin Rams, is now in jail with no bond, after the Commonwealth of Virginia gathered the evidence necessary to complete their investigations and arrest him. Nice going, Algeo. Creep.

Please sign the petition. Petitions, in and of themselves, are not necessarily tools that force change, but they are methods of making the public aware that change is needed.

 

More About Joaquin Rams And His Arrest

Here is more about Joaquin Rams, of Virginia, who was recently arrested for the murder of his infant son, Prince. It seems, that while Judge Michael Algeo, of Montgomery County, Maryland, was mocking Prince's mother, Hera Mcleod, for wanting more caution and fewer risks with her son's safety, Joaquin Rams was out buying insurance policies on his son.....giving the false information that his son's mother was dead! She looks very much alive to me in this video. So much for Judge Algeo's notion that Rams's dishonestly was overstated by Mcleod....
 

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Joaquin Rams Arrested For Murder Of Baby

Joaquin Rams, charged with first degree murder.

Joaquin Rams, of Virginia, has finally been arrested for the October, 2012 murder of his own infant son, one year old Prince Mcleod Rams. Over the aptly presented objections of Prince's mom, Hera Mcleod, Montgomery County Maryland Judge Michael Algeo, of this post, insisted upon unsupervised visitation for Rams, and on the first visit, little Prince was fatally injured. Looking through some of the court records from  Montgomery County, Judge Algeo was actually quoted in official records as having told Hera Mcleod that in order for Prince's visits with Rams to be supervised, Prince would have to be returned home with "cigarette burns"! Since there were no cigarette burns, Rams was given ample opportunity to commit murder. Nice going, Judge Algeo!

According to The Washington Post, Joaquin Rams has taken out "multiple" insurance policies on Prince. This is exactly the type of thing Prince's mom wanted Judge Algeo to understand, while Judge Algeo continued to mock her. Since the medical examiner ruled that death was caused by drowning, there were no cigarette burns, so Algeo was not in the slightest bit concerned. Now that the cause of death has finally been established, (why the hell did that take so long, anyway?) Rams has been charged with first degree murder. Once again, nice going, Judge Algeo!

Why is it so hard, in family law court, to protect one's children? When I got my divorce in Jefferson County, West Virginia, I had a family law court judge who decided, despite the fact that my then-husband had been found guilty of domestic violence in criminal court, that he was not guilty. She also decided, despite his criminal record in Maryland for everything from child abuse to theft, that he was completely innocent of any wrongdoing, and that the other who had held him accountable in court for his crimes were only doing so at my behest! She ordered him to pay fifty dollars a month in child support for three children, and warned me not to contact child protective services about any abuses the children suffered while in his care. Eventually, my ex-husband lost interest in the children, or so I thought, and stopped exercising his visitation completely. A couple of months after the last time he saw any of our children, my son, who was then four years old, told me that his father had pulled a knife on him because of a potty accident! I was still under orders from a family law court judge not to tell child protective services!

 Later on, when I remarried and moved out of the area, I did not know where my former spouse lived, as his family protected him from bill collectors, process servers, the Bureau of Child Support, the sheriff of any given locale, and any attempts to repossess his vehicle. One of his brothers, a youth pastor at Aspen Hill Christian Church in Montgomery County, Maryland, actually helped him hide all of his income from the court and the Bureau of Child Support so he could not be charged any more than fifty dollars a month. The fact that I had medical problems and required periodic blood transfusions for awhile did not matter to anyone.....it was as if "Jesus" had won some sort of a battle, inasmuch as my ex-husband's family was concerned, when my ex got to keep his money instead of paying child support. When he finally discovered, through the grapevine, that I had opted to move, he surfaced and challenged it. I had to reschedule a blood transfusion for the emergency court hearing too. Yes; we had an emergency court hearing because my former spouse suddenly wanted to stop me from moving after hiding himself and his income from me for several years. Threatening a four year old with a kitchen utility knife does not merit any emergent attention, but moving away after several years of no contact does! Gotta love the way these family law court judges think!

The fact that Joaquin Rams had bought insurance policies on his son should have been a giant red flag for any family law court judge. While Hera Mcleod probably did not have the paperwork in hand to wave in the judge's face, it is abundantly clear that she tried to tell the judge about two other open cases involving insurance policies, Joaquin Rams, and unexplained deaths. The state of Virginia had not completed their investigations at that time, so Rams had not been charged. That has changed now. Why couldn't Michael Algeo give the situation just a little more time for investigation, rather than taking chances with a child's life?

Michael J. Algeo On The Bench In Maryland

To the left is a picture of the honorable Michael J. Algeo. He is a judge in Montgomery County, Maryland, who recently made the insane decision to turn two year old Prince Mcleod Rams over to his father, Joaquin Rams, for unsupervised visitation. Joaquin Rams has a rather extensive criminal resume....that is, record for such things as domestic violence and sexual assault, and is also a suspect in the death of his mother. But none of this was legally factored into the decision made by Judge Algeo, and when Algeo was presented with evidence concerning the other cases and the murder investigation, along with testimony from witnesses, the judge referred to the information as "smoke, which he could see through." On October 21, after Judge Algeo saw through the smoke, Prince visited his father, unsupervised, and was taken to the local emergency room with assorted injuries and dried blood in his nose. Social Services was called because Joaquin Rams did not explain these injuries to hospital staff's satisfaction, and Prince later died. If Judge Algeo is so good at "seeing through smoke", why didn't he see this coming?

First of all, domestic violence and sexual assault are serious crimes, and thugs who commit these crimes really never change. Second, people who are being investigated for murder do not generally make the best parents. Yes, that's a bit biased, but hey......who might suddenly have a reason to run from the law, taking the child along for the ride? Someone who is being investigated murder, of course. May the Gods help the child who is old enough to talk and notices his noncustodial but visiting parent has committed a crime: how safe is a child in THAT situation? Third, the judge should not have said "smoke, which he could see through." He should have said, "smoke, through which he could see." Either the smoke from whatever he had smoked before court had not cleared, or Algeo smoked too much of the wrong stuff when he should have been learning proper grammer. Upon closer examination of this case, it appears that Hera Mcleod, Prince's mother, meticulously presented evidence to the court, and attended hearing after hearing, only to be told by Judge Algeo that the situation was "her fault", for "falling in love" with someone who had violent tendencies, and that he "hated" family law court hearings! Why does the judicial system in this country have a permanantly open season declared on mothers who try to protect their children?

Judge Algeo will probably not have any difficulty with Maryland because of Prince's death. In Maryland, assault and battery is generally not even prosecuted if the victim is a child. Children who are kidnapped from other states and taken to Maryland are often not returned for months. Victims, especially women, are blamed for incurred assaults, and the only language the courts in Maryland occasionally understand is money, and even then, whoever has the highest priced attorney and can pay for the most time from an attorney usually wins. When a child's life is at stake, no one in the judicial system in Maryland is concerned. This is just a part of Hera Mcleod's letter to Judge Michael J. Algeo. The rest of it can be read here.

"In case you still don’t remember me, I would like to take a moment to remind you. I was the woman who came into your court room in March of 2012 (and again in July 2012) begging you to keep my son safe from his father. You heard testimony from several women Luc had abused. I told you about how I had fled Luc’s house in July 2011 with my newborn son and the clothing on our backs – that was after Luc had raped my then 19 year old sister. You heard testimony about all the people who died around Luc (including the mother of his older son and his own mother) All the horrifying information we presented, however, was still not enough for you to choose to keep my son safe.

I watched my son’s body slowly shut down for nearly two days as I waited for the doctors to officially declare him brain dead. As I watched my innocent baby boy die, I thought about you. I remembered how you told us you hated Family Court. I remembered how you blamed me for falling in love with a con man. I remembered how you talked about fairy dust and how you explained that my son would need to come home with cigarette burns before you would believe Luc was abusive. I remember how you rolled your eyes, appeared to fall asleep on the bench, and openned up your computer as if to read your email – you did all of this as I pleaded with you to keep visitations supervised."