Time to rant

In procrastinating my paper, I found Judge Robery Lemkau's daughter's blog. In it, she defends her father for the judgement he made in the Katie Tagle/ Stephen Garcia case. That judge COMPLETELY disrespected Katie and didn't look at the evidence staring him in the face when Katie said Stephen was threatening their 9 month old son Wyatt's life. He forced Katie to hand Wyatt over to Stephen and Stephen refused to give him back, so Katie had to get police involved. She said she was scared of going back to court AGAIN and standing in front of this same judge, and having the same outcome in the end. She didn't know what to do. So the next time Stephen had visitation rights to see Wyatt, she handed Wyatt over. Ten days after that initial court date, Stephen Garcia shot and killed his baby and then shot and killed himself. What did Lemkau say to the press?
"This happened at the worst possible time in my career"-- his seat is up for re-election in June. Sooooo very sorry a dead baby is such an inconvenience to YOU. This judge proved he couldn't handle criminal court cases so they put him in family court! What a bunch of morons!
He and his daughter both say based on the evidence before him, that the decision he made was the right one and they still stand behind it.
Um, I'm sorry. WHAT?
This woman had text messages, email messages (that they claimed couldn't be proven to be written by him. Ever hear of TRACING it!?), a full website where he admits to hitting her, even kicking her in the stomach when she was 9 months pregnant with Wyatt... and phone calls and texts. I've read it myself and it should have been EASY for her to get a restraining order at the very least.
What PISSES ME OFF is not that he made a bad call. I know he's human and mistakes. It's the fact that he disregarded her evidence and CALLED HER A LIAR TO HER FACE!!!!!! He said "my suspicion is that you're lying" multiple times and threatened her that there would be consequences for her lying!!! This after he kept calling her Kathy even AFTER she corrected him and told him her name was Katie. Anytime she went to speak he cut her off and said he was denying her request for supervised visits. Why did he come to the conclusion that she was lying? Oh, because Stephen said she was of course! He says that many times too "He claims it's total fabrication on your part, my suspicion is that you're lying, and I'm denying your request". AssHOLE. THEN the court left a mediation hearing date on the calender between Katie and Stephen, after Stephen killed Wyatt and himself, and Katie knew she'd see Lemkau and wanted to tell him next time listen to both sides cause not everyone lies. He read an apology from a prepared statement! What a douche! He couldn't even say what came to mind and speak from his heart? He said he lost sleep for a week after knowing the tragic outcome. I was in no way involved and probably got more worked up and upset and lost more sleep over it than he did! He is nothing more than an old, shriveled up asshole and I hope to GOD the people of California vote his ass OUT.
This is the complete official transcript from the case:
http://www.lemkaumustgo.com/complete-transcript.html
Read it for yourself.
Nothing makes my blood boil more than to see cases where something could've been done, something SHOULD'VE been done to protect a child, and the people in control did NOTHING. Robert Lemkau, in his ruling, sentenced baby Wyatt to death and practically handed Stephen Garcia the loaded gun himself. He robbed a baby of his life. He robbed a mother of her son. He robbed a 4 year old of his baby brother. He robbed a sick man of the chance to get the help he needed. Seriously. Shame on Lemkau. And I can't wait to see his sick sorry ass voted out of office.
Now that I have calmed down a bit, I believe I can go continue reading his daughter's blog.
http://www.judgerobertlemkaumyhero.blogspot.com/
Hopefully she won't say anything else so stupid that I'll wanna lash out again.