Karen L.

Bowerman 1419 College Ave Visalia, CA 93277 September 24, 2012 VIA US MAIL VIA EMAIL MICHAEL GOSS 1119 Twelfth Street Modesto, CA 95354 RE: Saturday School Fraud and Continued Strategy of Parental Alienation and Child Abuse Dear Mr. Goss On Thursday, September 20, 2012 I received an email from your ofce indicating that my daughter, Olivia Bowerman, was required to attend Saturday School during my visitation time on Saturday, September 22nd from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM as a disciplinary matter determined by administrators at her school. I responded to the notication as requested, directly to you in person in Department 14 of the Stanislaus County Courthouse on Friday, September 21st and inquired as to whether Mr. Bowerman would be paying for my lodgings on Friday evening as his management of my daughter and her schooling was causing a direct hardship for my visitation with my children Elizabeth and Olivia. Visitation was to begin on Friday evening with the inherent hardships described aptly in Jan Trines email to me on the 20th. You quite clearly stated in response to my request that Mr. Bowerman would not provide nancial resources. The problems with Mr. Bowermans actions and the conduct of your ofce in this matter are blatant and voluminous. As a matter of clarity, I will enumerate each issue; The Saturday School Fraud 1. The disciplinary sheet provided by the school indicates that the VOLUNTARY Saturday School session is for an absence on Aug. 7th, 2012. Olivia was with me that day per the custody orders. Her father was not authorized to enroll her in school at Roosevelt at that time and in fact, as the primary caretaker, I planned on enrolling her in school in Visalia wherein school would not be starting until a later date. 2. Your client, Mr. Bowerman, failed to inform me, as the primary caretaker, that the school had notied him of an absence for Olivia on Aug. 7th. He himself did not take

action to excuse the absence with the school, nor did he notify nor provide me with the opportunity to clear the absence for Olivia. 3. When I arrived at the school on Saturday I spoke with Olivias teacher, Mr. Nitta, so I could support Olivia and explain that it wasnt Olivias fault and that if I had been notied I would have provided her an excuse to clear the absence. While I was there I sought to better understand the issues she was having in school. I asked Mr. Nitta to go over the paperwork with me. This is when I became aware of the nefarious and abusive nature of Mr. Bowermans surreptitious attempt to create Parental/Maternal Alienation. 4. In reviewing the paperwork, Mr. Nitta immediately expressed concern and stated that he didnt believe Olivia should be there at all. His records indicated that she had not been enrolled in school until August 10, 2012 and he was quite confused as to why she would have Saturday School for missing a day before she was enrolled. 5. Further, Mr. Nitta disclosed Olivias complete attendance record to me and it is unnerving. Olivia was not in attendance August 7th, 8th or 9th. In conjunction with the school record indicating she was not enrolled until August 10th there is a clear contradiction with prior communications from your Law Ofces regarding the date Mr. Bowerman enrolled Olivia. It also explains why Olivia was not in school on those days as it appears she was not currently enrolled. Mr. Bowerman was in custody and control of Olivia from 2:00 PM August 8th per the custody order, yet, there is no unexcused absence for Olivias absence on the 9th of August nor any Saturday School requirement. Further, Olivias attendance records indicate she has also missed school August 13th, August 20th, August 23rd and September 17th. All dates in which Mr. Bowerman was in custody and control of Olivia. It appears that Mr. Bowerman put forth the effort to excuse Olivia for the dates she missed school while in his custody and control, yet he forced Olivia to attend VOLUNTARY Saturday School for an absence on a date PRIOR to her enrollment. 6. Olivia indicated on Saturday that she did indeed blame me for having to attend Saturday School until I showed up and saved her. She then saw the amount of time I spent with her teacher reviewing her school assignments and listening to his concerns. Mr. Nitta expressed severe concern for Olivia. He indicated she is much more capable and intelligent than her present performance is indicating and he feels there is clearly something wrong at home. I explained that Olivias parents were getting divorced. He acknowledged that and added it seems to be possibly something else as well without being specic. My daughter was a consistent A Student when under my care and supervision, I have attached her grades in Mr. Nittas class for your review - this is heartbreaking. 7. Clearly your client, Mr. Bowerman, manufactured the Saturday School Fraud as a multifaceted parental alienation tactic; he specically created an interruption to my weekend visitation with Olivia by consciously excusing a myriad of absences attributable to his custody and control and specically singling out an absence for a

date PRIOR to her enrollment and then precluding me from addressing it by purposely not communicating it to me. I lose time with my daughter and she is told I am the reason she must go to Saturday School. 8. In addition to the Saturday School Fraud, Mr. Bowerman purposely created alienation by scheduling a Play Date for Olivia and Elizabeth with their friend Sarah at 1:30 PM immediately after the time he expected Olivia to be through with Saturday School. Please Mr. Goss, explain your clients behavior to me. Your ofces clearly communicated that I could come on Friday evening to pick up Elizabeth and then return Saturday to pick up Olivia - OR - I could simply come on Saturday and pick up Elizabeth and Olivia. I was communicative and sent an email on Friday evening that I was ill and returning to Visalia for the evening to take medicine and rest. You yourself had indicated to me that Mr. Bowerman would not provide resources for me to have lodgings in Modesto Friday night. I then got up early Saturday morning and drove all the way back to Modesto from Visalia to learn that both of my children had been alienated by their father from visiting with me. Does he not even listen to you? Why would he ever schedule a play date for the girls on the day I am supposed to visit and everyone has been in communication? The outcome is that the girls were upset and AGAIN I did NOT get my weekend visitation with them. 9. Your client Mr. Bowerman clearly admits in writing to believing he is not required to notify me of issues regarding the girls and that he purposely created parental alienation in retaliation for something he believes I did over a year ago. Please see his email message below:
Did you feel it was alienation when you arranged for the girls to go with Hope and you to take the three girls to some event on one of my first visitation weekends? Regarding 8/7, there was no need to notify you. You knew it was a school day and you did not take them. Now it needs to be cleared regardless of what happened so it doesn't affect her grade. Greg

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Clearly your client is not actually concerned with Olivias grades as she is struggling mightily in her classes. Mr. Nitta indicated during his visit with me on Saturday that this was the rst contact he has had with Olivias parents and was so happy to nally be able to communicate his concerns for her educational and emotional well being. And while Mr. Bowerman contends that August 7th was a school day and I should have taken Olivia to school (in which she was not currently enrolled and which as Primary Caretaker I did not authorize her to be enrolled in), he appears unconcerned with the fact that Olivia was not at school the 8th or 9th of August as well and four additional dates since that time.

Alienation and Abuse 10. As I mentioned earlier, my girls were prepared to go with their friend Sarah on Saturday per their fathers pre-meditated alienation strategy and I was again denied my visitation with them. This is a pattern of maternal alienation and abuse that I

have been consistently documenting and ensuring there are always third party witnesses. This continued abuse of the children by their father has caused me to have no more than 1 hour TOTAL visitation time with my children since they started school in Modesto in direct violation of the custody order designating me as Primary Caretaker and the ongoing use of a fraudulent and false agreement that constitutes a Tampered Court Document the father is using to illegally deny me access to my children. 11. The only possible positive outcome of this perversion of the legal system is that it is clear that the current damage being wrought upon my children is the undeniable responsibility and result of their fathers custody and control of them. I am absolutely heartbroken, dismayed and furious at the damage that has been inicted on Olivia in the last 60 days. When I picked her up on Saturday I was simply shocked by the anger and resentment behind her verbally abusive attack on me. I was calm and loving toward Olivia as the words and concepts she was verbalizing were obviously not those of a 14 year old girl. The amount of brainwashing and maternal alienation was staggering. It is evident to me why Olivia reports to me that she must sleep so much and nap as soon as she gets home from school. The stress must be simply unbearable. What follows is the heart-wrenching non-experiential statements she blurted at me nearly non-stop for the rst 25 to 30 minutes after I picked her up from school: ! I dont want you to save me because it is your fault I am in Saturday School. You dont love me You dont care what happens to me I am remembering lately that you yelled at me and choked me and hit me when I was little You didnt even want me because you had to lay in bed for 6 months when you were pregnant with me and I was a burden I dont want you to spend any time with me You only do things for people so you can get more in return Dad didnt tell us what say, Dads never here, hes always at work You are as bad as Nadia (19 year old babysitter) is with a boyfriend. All of a sudden thats all you care about. All you care about is the child support money you get (she didnt realize I get none) My doctor says I have ulcers and ulcers come from stress and you are the cause of all my stress.! 12. It is pervasively well known by my family, friends and acquaintances that I advocate a non-contact, non physical punishment methodology of child rearing. It was so incredibly debilitating to hear such concepts and statements come from Olivia. After about 30 minutes or so Olivia calmed down and became normalized. We spoke to one another lovingly and discussed her running and her music. She then shared with me that she is absolutely terried regarding an upcoming procedure that requires putting a scope down her throat to take biopsy samples of her stomach and

intestine. She has been told there is a chance the procedure may result in puncturing her stomach or intestines and that a surgeon will need to be on stand by. I want to know why her father did not notify me of the procedure, the date nor the location of the procedure or any details? It is clear that Mr. Bowerman and his legal counsel are using the premise of a fraudulent and manufactured custody related document to continue the emotional abuse of my children and perpetrate maternal alienation. There is also clear growing evidence of parental neglect by the father as evidenced by Olivias attendance problems (she reports she is late to rst period nearly every day in addition to her absences) and academic performance. It is mind-boggling that Olivia failed 8th grade last year, is struggling this year and instead of allowing her to be with her mother who guided to her to straight As, Mr. Bowerman is attempting to have her moved up to high school. I expect your ofces to inject some sanity into this process at some point. In the mean time, since I have received no response from the Judge nor your ofces in regard to the fraudulent document being used as the quasi custody order that is enabling Mr. Bowerman to continue his abuse, I have begun distributing the document to various agencies and requesting their input on how we should address the problem. We are sure to note the contradictory nature of the document, the false listing of legal counsel and the lack of ling record for the date stamped on the document. We also clearly indicate the document was sent through the US Mail to no less than three different addresses and recipients. Finally, in light of the latest abuses and attempts at maternal alienation by your client, I will be ling an Emergency Court Order request this week for 100% custody of the children.

Regards,

KAREN L. BOWERMAN

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Gregory Bowerman (w/encl) Evelyn Shaffer (w/encl)