After what appears to be a severe case of parental alienation carried out during a parental kidnapping, mother Crystel A. Strelioff has been sentenced to 12-years. Before anyone can begin to celebrate what appears to be a fairly stiff sentence, in Illinois, the sentences for each charge (4 of them in total) run concurrently. Therefore, in addition to the time Strelioff has already served in conjunction with the 3-years of sentencing on each count of felony child abduction, Crystel Strelioff may be release in a mere year’s time.
Apparently, the kidnapping mother duped several organizations into helping her to severely alienate the children against their father, Brian Strelioff, who was tested voluntarily and apparently found not to be guilty of anything he was ever falsely accused of.
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This case is shameful. The mother tricked protective parent organizations such as Justice for Children into spending their time and other resources on a sham case. The father underwent extensive testing voluntarily and the children did not give convincing accounts of any abuse by the father, according to court documents. Worse, the children seemed to the evaluators to have been coached, meaning they suffered verbal and emotional sexual abuse by the people who coached them.
James and Helen Lynn (Crystel’s parents) were apparently granted custody of another child in 2007 despite being declared a risk to the safety of the children, over the objections of the father.
A lot of questions surround the disappearance of the children, and despite this conviction, a lot of serious concerns about the safety and welfare of the children still exist.
For the full article about this heavily litigated case, click here: Crystel A. Strelioff Sentenced in Child Abduction
The organization Justice for Children has been mentioned with regard to involvement with Crystel Strelioff. I would dearly like to hear more about this connection. Justice for Children (JFC) destroyed the lives of both myself and my daughter seventeen years ago when it took my daughter from me after I had very successfully raised her from the time she was eighteen months until she was 6 1/2. JFC facilitated her rmoval form our household and returned her to her mother’s. Her mother was out committing three felonies while she got their free ‘help’. Her motehr is a severe level alienator. JFC rejects the existence of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). It also throws materially powerful lawyers at the person they alone decide is a predator. Attorney members and employees of JFC has made sexist statements to the media in the past as well. Hence is would likely follow that it should be making a lot of mistakes where its intrusions on children and parents is considered.
What is more shocking is when a mother has a one night stand. She some how believes the child is only hers. She goes after the father for child support then before the young father can learn his rights she disappears with the child. The father is stuck paying child support with not knowing how to locate the mother. If you call the Child Support Department asking for her location they only tell you “where not allowed to relinquish that information”. This is wrong. Things need to change. There needs to be changes where the only way they are not allowed to relinquish the information is by if there was a restraining order on file with them (I do believe there is real abuse out there). It is wrong to withhold hold child from the parent period.
This happened in California. Now that the father has found the child and got visitation which was 7 years later. The mother upped an moved to a different state a month in half after she was served just before the court date for visitation. There was child abduction papers in the visitation package she was served with. The mother is now making up false sexual assault charges on the first two visits. She got a ex parte restraining order from the judge based on lies. Interested to see how this turns out. I pray she gets punished. This is absurd disgusting and scary. Now it really makes you wonder what sex crimes or real or false. People like this mother should be punished for abusing the system the way she did. My problem is now when I read a story about abuse with children involved I wonder if it is true or not. Talk about hurting the real victims in this world.