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06-18-2006
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Virginia
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Rep Power: 0 | | I have got a problem and have no idea how to deal with it I have a case of "kidnapping" (I think) that is so convoluted that I can't even reason out what to do about it. I don't even know how to talk about it, it's so deep and has been going on so long, there is just too much to it. I will try my best to describe what's going on.
Three years ago, I met my fiancee, who is from another state. She moved in with me and we were working on getting married and starting a life together. She developed heart failure, very terminal, and they had to do emergency surgery to save her life.
Her family came up and completely ripped her away from her life. After just a few days, they had the hospital believing that I was a drug dealer (!) that I was unemployed (I've owned my own business for 3 years!) and had no transportation (!! despite my 98 ford mustang feet away in the parking lot) No matter who I talked to, they had already talked to them.
And finally when the hospital staff started raising questions and asking my fiancee about the situation, her family banned me from being able to contact her and threatened her with all kinds of things that would make someone in her emotional state fear seeking help... and me too.
The level of the ferocity that they "covered all the bases" was just inhuman.
For the next six months, it was pure hell... With better legal advice I probably wouldn't have felt my hands were tied. They had already told her (yes, just out of open heart surgery) that if she told anyone, they would take her medicaid checks, not take her to her appointments, and take away her medicines... and they did
Basically it was a situation where extreme malice would be inflicted on her if they even had an inkling that we were seeking help. To the point where since I had limited contact, they would've already made good on their threats before the police could even check it out.
I need to add this part because it also shows that everything seems futile... One day she called me sobbing and choking on tears saying that someone called them about what they are doing and her dad was going to send her to a mental institution and the police were on their way.
I called the police in her very very small town, and spoke directly with the deputy. He listened to what I had to say, and said "I work with Donna [her mother] and she's told me all about you. If I hear another peep out of you I am going to have you arrested for (and this is the term he used) "interfering with guardianship"
I know that is probably complete bunk. But that was a threat, and I found out later that him and her mother are in fact very close friends. And for whatever crooked reason, there was going to be no help from the police there and that made it even more horrifying.
They didn't take her to any institution that day... they took her to the hospital instead when she was found laying on the floor unable to breathe and thinking she had a heart attack. | 
06-18-2006
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Virginia
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Rep Power: 0 | | there's more That is about the point they backed off some. They still took away her medicine and her medicaid checks when she did something to make those irrational people angry, so she had to keep in line.
And right there is where I was able to get her out of there. I moved down to her state, picked her up and moved to a nice place right next to her hospital where we lived very happy for 3 years.
We got guff from them every week. Every week my job would ask me about something they had called and told them. Every week either our utilities or property manager would come to us about "anonymous calls."
I wanted to get much farther from them, but her health situation was such that I really needed to keep her near her hospital.
Finally after 3 years, 3 months ago, she had her heart transplant. It didn't go well and she almost died, but then recovered completely. Barely 2 weeks into the stay at the hospital, they again did a complete "shutdown" of the hospital....and here is the messed up thing...
While she was still unconcious, and still in critical condition, they had my car towed, because stupid me was put in a position a few months before to buy through her mother's auto company. They did what people there call a "phantom lien" where they can take a car on a false lien and resell it.
They did this to get me out of there... and another thing... her younger brother now owns my car. As far as my family can find on the internet it was towed by the mother and retitled the very same day.
They told all the hospital staff that I could not call and ask about my fiancee, that I was not allowed to see her... nothing.
I called the adult abuse services immediately and didn't hear anything else about it.
I called the police and didn't hear anything else.
I was without a vehicle and without anything but my savings. I had no way of knowing if she was alive or not. It was the most horrible thing I have ever gone through. Nothing I could do could help.
I hung on for 3 months with my savings in complete emotional torture. My boss at work told me that a woman called and was asking if I still worked there, and my property manager asked if I had left yet. They were trying to kill our home and get me out of there apparently. And I didn't have unlimited means to survive more than 3 months without a car, and I am sure they knew that.
Days after they had my car towed, they tried to forward OUR mail to their address. I can't express enough how badly they want her checks... My fiancee was in terrible shape when they did this.... She was still unconcious, on a respirator, and her kidneys were thought to have been destroyed by the life saving measures they did to keep her alive. She was in BAD shape, and they were already securing her money to go to them.
The emotional distress I went through because of all of this is STAGGERING, I can't even think about it, and try to pretend it didn't happen because it's just too much. | 
06-18-2006
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Virginia
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Rep Power: 0 | | now She tried to talk to people at the hospital, nurses, social workers, psychologists, and they all asked if she wanted to seek some kind of help, but, and I kind of can see why, she wouldn't take it that far with her parents right outside the door. (she's very timid and sweet natured, but also very sick and sad because of her condition) and out of every time of us seeking help, it's just made things worse... So she didn't press charges.
But she was seriously reprimanded obscenely for talking to people with: "if you get rid of us, who are you going to live with now?"
These people are so messed up! I mean they REALLY know what they are doing is wrong! They do not care.
Now, I am here asking for help because she is back with her father, she's feeling healthier and stronger and things are so much worse this time on her and her and I want to get out of this situation permanently. We want to know what I should do and how to have this brought to light and have her remain safe.
Everything I've said here is not even the half of the situation. I cannot even list the number of people they have involved, the things they have done. They have us afraid to get help, but at the same time, we *have* to. They've set up a catch-22 for her, and I need some advice. | | Domain Names Sponsor | | |
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