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On 8 August Mark Dalton of DHHS insists on reading half of a paragraph of the Spurwink report and claiming that this one sentence, absence the ne t sentence which begins However is wh! DHHS need not substantiate abuse based on Spurwink" The context in which these statements have been made must be taken into consideration. There is always the potential for influence when a child is in the midst of a high level of parental conflict. The risk is greater the younger the child and the greater their susceptibility to suggestion. Mila has been questioned by a number of adults. However, the specificity of Milas statements is quite compelling and difficult to dismiss merely as the result of suggestion #. Spurwink sa!s it is the opinion of the entire team that Mila has been se uall! abused b! her father. $. Dan Despard, Head of %hild &rotection, informed 'etired Sgt. Ste(e &ickering, also recorded, stating officiall! that DHHS need not consider criminal records and domestic (iolence records, in direct contradiction to e(er! federal and state law, polic!, guidelines for DHHS and now in direct contradiction to )o(ernor *e&age+s recent , ecuti(e Order on this topicI asked Despard if Malenko s past criminal violent behavior and a lack of that same behavior by !andrahan had any bearing on their investigation. Despard stated that those things may be applicable in a divorce court but the standard the D!!" goes by is do the things that are alleged cause the child harm or could they cause the child harm. Despard does not think you can make the case that someone who may be guilty of domestic violence could be a danger to the child if the two parties involved in the domestic violence act are not together. Despard and I discussed other aspects of this case and it came down to him that the Maine "upreme #udicial $ourt three times ruled against !andrahan. I commented that it was my opinion that the court dropped the ball. Despard laughed and stated that I was a braver man than him to go against the courts.% .. DHHS &ortland case worker Alisha %ummings refusal to obtain hospital records and photos of a contusion, bruise on Mila+s forehead that Mila said her father did. Alisha %ummings telling Mr. &ickering, again recorded, wasn+t it /ust a 0birthmark1 not a bruise the same line that 2gor Malenko used and coached Mila to late sa! to co(er for her father+s abuse of her. 3. DHHS %!nthia Sergeant+s comment to Mr. &ickering that it was a shame 2 had no friends when DHHS 0in(estigators1 ha(e refused to inter(iew a former DHHS case worker, who is the mother of Mila+s best friend and of m! closest mom friends4as well as man!, man! other people, friends for decades, who ha(e been begging someone to do something to protect Mila and telling an!one who will listen what a good mother and person 2 am. 5. DHHS intake telling m! doctor the! ha(e no idea what 35ng of M,6H in a three !ear old+s urine means, because m! doctor called the general intake number with the so7called

0highl! trained staff1 and this staff not onl! did not know the! refused to in(estigate or figure it out. 8. DHHS caseworkers then attempting to lie about what Dr. %arl 9aum of :ale said about this meth result. 8. DHHS Head of %hild &rotection Dan Despard then lies to %ommissioner Ma!hew, among his man! lies, sa!ing that no one at DHHS e(er knew that Mila has ten times the reporting le(el of meth in her urine and because DHHS did not know, so lied Dan Despard, nothing could be done about it. 6his was o(er a !ear after it had been called into intake.