In Memory Of:

Benjamin M. Schoonover

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         February 14th 2007

 

 

 

February 14, 2007

 

The hearing scheduled for yesterday, February 13, was postponed for two weeks.  The reason?  Pamela, your biological mother, could not be found.  Why?  They did not look.  Whatever other reason could she not be found?  I know that she is in Oklahoma City somewhere.  Her Probation Officer knows where she is.  They know his name and have his phone number which is more than I know and have.  It is as frivolous a ‘reason’ to postpone a hearing and keep you from coming home that I can think of.  How can Pamela not being present have anything to do with you coming home? 

 

Then today was our hour long visit in the tiny 7’ by 8’ cell at DHS.  CASA volunteer worker Teri Hughes was present to observe the visit along with Mikah McCray.  Teri Hughes would remain with me for an hour and half interviewing me on more subjects than necessary to determine my fitness as a father. 

 

It was established, among other things, that I am not a queer nor have any inclination toward such…oh, “queer” is not politically correct.  One cannot call a spade a spade in today’s society.  It is considered to be derogatory discrimination against “Alternative Life Styles.”  Odd that only humans and earthworms practice “Alternative Life Styles.”  Not even dogs or farm animals do that sort of thing.  So my apologies to any human penis vacuum pumpers that I have possibly offended by voicing my inappropriate [politically incorrect] nomenclature on this subject that I consider a significant deviation from normal activity. 

 

To be “Politically Correct” perhaps I should have answered her query into this subject with the present lackadaisical military policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and let it go at that!  I did not have to voice my opinion so blatantly. 

 

It was established that I follow the philosophies of Plato concerning discipline, punishment and teaching.  Actually, Teri Hughes asked only about discipline and punishment; I explained to her how proper teaching renders punishment archaic.  “Spare the rod, spoil the child” is such a grossly misunderstood aphorism when the true meaning is as simple as Taoism and if Teri Hughes did not understand it before, she does now.  To illustrate consider the role of an orchestra conductor with his ‘rod’ being used to instruct his students lest there be undisciplined audio pandemonium. 

 

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Teri Hughes also inquired if I had acquaintances in my life that I was romantically inclined with…I thought that odd.  I wondered if this was some vague method of profiling that could result in an ambiguous conclusion with negative impact regardless of the answer.  If I say “no” am I a pretending monk or abnormal or if I say “yes” am I an immoral playboy?  Perhaps I should have answered that I am not Jerry Falwall or Jim Bakker. 

 

I am 70 years old, son of mine.  Just because my gun still works does not mean I take it to the firing range to prove to myself that I have not forgotten how to use it properly.  I have nothing to prove and I am not in the habit of wasting ammunition.  Besides, what has this got to do with properly raising you? 

 

My health issue was also raised and that is understandable but factually not applicable.  I am your father regardless of age or health and you belong with me.  My health is such that, as I admitted, can no longer swim across the lake as I have done in the past but am quite physically capable of taking proper care of you.

 

Too old?  We have Federal laws against age discrimination and I will use them if necessary!

 

In Mikah McCray’s presence the door of opportunity was opened for me to volunteer that “One time in my Benjamin’s short life I bruised both of my boy’s legs just above his ankles.”  That statement got undivided attention.  I then explained how he was riding on my shoulders and holding onto my head.  We were in Wal Mart in Claremore.  There was a distraction and Benjamin let go of my head and started over backwards.  I dropped what I had in my hands and grabbed his legs by my head to prevent his falling to the floor.  I grabbed with such force that I left bruises from my fingers on both of his legs.  They remained visible for a few days. 

 

“When I grabbed him hard enough to make the bruises…I did not break any bones!”  This revelation to Mikah McCray should have made it clear that I could not have possibly twisted your arm as she three times demonstrated or even squeezed it with sufficient force to break your arm in any way without leaving serious bruising and none existed!  It is an ignorant twit that will continue to believe that the impossible was performed.  If Mikah McCray is not an ignorant twit then she has an insidious ulterior motive for keeping you tormented in her custody. You are a valuable baby.     I would like for Mikah to prove that it is not for her monetary gain. 

 

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Follow the Money – A Simple Fact

 

If Elan was home with me, where he belongs, a lot of taxpayer money would not be wasted for no benefit whatsoever to the tax payers paying Pawnee County their hard earned money. 

 

The Prosecutor, paid by the tax payers, would have extra time to “Seek the Truth” as he states when he answers his telephone and prosecuting real criminals instead of making up stories to keep Elan in DHS custody.  Or perhaps get a job in the private sector.

 

His assistants and secretaries would be working on genuine cases of substance instead of frivolous accusations of inaccuracies. 

 

The Court Clerks would have more time to do works of a more genuine nature. 

 

The Court Reporter would not be drawing her taxpayer paid salary for non-consequential bickering by DHS.

 

Mikah McCray would have time to investigate genuine cases of neglect and or child abuse.   Not seeking easy profit from Elan.

 

Her co-workers would not have to sit in a tiny cell playing solitaire on a computer during the weakly hourly visit with Elan. 

 

The foster parents would not be paid for letting Elan cry his eyes out unattended with only plastic toys to play with. 

 

Any medical required for Elan would come from my own pocket as it should; the tax payers would not be paying all Mikah McCray deems “necessary” by searching for some physician that will agree with her immature conclusion before all the facts are in. 

 

All of Elan’s food would be paid by me as it was before and there would not be that expense to the tax payers. 

 

All of Elan’s diapers and clothing would be paid by me as it was before and there would not be that expense to the tax payers. 

 

Mikah McCray is costing Pawnee County Tax Payers far more than she is worth!  Not to mention what she is costing Elan Lee Montgomery Schoonover by abusing his birth right.

 

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February 23, 2007

 

Revelations of Coercions

 

 

My son:  I have often suspected that “there is more to this” than simple concern over what some could consider ‘suspicious’ child abuse.  It has been well over three months since Mikah McCray greeted me at the hospital with her prepared “Emergency Protective Order” the morning I took you in for professional medical attention.

 

No attending physician would agree that your accidental injury was not an accident.  Despite this fact I was not even allowed to see you and I was not even allowed to speak with the attending physicians at the Tulsa Regional Medical Center where you were extensively examined and treated!

 

“This is the District Attorney’s office, in constant search of the truth.”  Well, I search for it too.  What I have found is what others suspect, that Charles Ramsey, the Assistant District Attorney of Mayes County, has called in a favor from his fellow member of the District Attorney’s Association of Oklahoma.  Telephone records are difficult to obtain, but not impossible.  I called in a favor, too. 

 

In 1999 I was accused of torturing with a pitchfork and brutally beating to death my three year old adopted son, Benjamin Michael Stanart Schoonover with a baseball bat. 

 

Proof that the “Information” supporting the Probable Cause Affidavit was perjured was made evident at the bond hearing.  George Klatt, Charles Ramsey’s investigator, committed the perjury and Charles Ramsey knew it had been done. 

 

Benjamin did suffer a fatal accident.  Because it was not visibly witnessed it was, by law, considered “suspected” child abuse to be investigated as such…a standard practice in any unwitnessed accident. 

 

 

 

 

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The Coroner, Dr. Ronald Distefano, discovered a cranial fracture that did not exist when Benjamin had been admitted into St. Francis Hospital.  He indicated it as being posterior occipital.  That is, in the back of the head.  He also revealed that there was no bruising that would be consistent with any beating and that there was no indication of any visceral injuries or any external injuries…stoically scoffing at the suggestion of any pitchfork torture. 

 

I HAVE the St. Francis Hospital records of the X-rays and MRIs of my Benjamin’s entire cranium dated the day prior to by boy’s death with Dr. Philip Barton’s name on them as he was the attending physician that clearly states there was no fracture at all. 

 

There were two trials.  The first trial was overturned by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.  Dr. Philip Barton’s testimony at the second trial was that there was more than one fracture; they were huge, and the Prosecutor, Charles Ramsey, exacerbated these phantom fractures and ‘moved’ them both physically and prior to their manufacture in time so he could pantomime to the jury “Benjamin’s brains gushing out the top of his head.”

 

                 “This is the District Attorney’s office, in constant search of the truth.”

 

I do not believe Dr. Distefano committed perjury by “making up” the single occipital fracture he discovered at his autopsy.

 

I do believe the five attending physicians, including Dr. Philip Barton, and their examinations via X-rays & entire cranium MRIs, confirming Dr. Barton’s diagnosis of “Subdural Hematoma, Closed head injury, No fractures.”

 

Somebody lied.  Was it Dr. Barton and four attending physicians Angela Ozment, David A. Fell, Scott Johnson, and Kim R. Hauger who made the records prior to Benjamin’s death or was it Dr. Barton alone on the witness stand years later at the second trial testifying for Charles Ramsey? 

 

 

 

 

 

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As of this date, my son, I am preparing to submit all the evidence I have uncovered that proves Charles Ramsey knew his Probable Cause Affidavit had been perjured, suborning of perjury from Dr. Philip Barton and suppression of the truth that would free innocent Gilda Marie Schoonover, the one Charles Ramsey blamed when he failed to convict me of the non-existent murder of my little Benjamin. 

 

Already, as I have been exonerated by both a jury of twelve and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on the grounds that “Schoonover has not committed the crime” and violation multiple Constitution laws, both State and Federal, restitution by the State for illegally confining me in their cage for four long years is appropriate and has been asked for.  Other innocents who have been illegally caged have sued for and received judgments of $ One Million per year of illegal incarceration.  Am I entitled to any less for two illegal convictions and confinement?

 

What about Gilda Marie Schoonover who is still languishing in prison after six years because of this same perjury and suborning of perjury by Prosecutor Charles Ramsey? 

 

Here is the favor:

 

If John pleads guilty to this trumped up charge of “Wilfully (sic) and maliciously injuring…using unreasonable force…breaking the child’s arm resulting in a spiral fracture of his arm…” he will be given a suspended sentence equal to  the illegal time he has already spent in prison and will be credited and he will be free to live out his life in peace…or the maximum of life in prison will be asked for. 

 

It would mean I would forfeit any legal claim I have for State restitution for the four years illegal incarceration and Charles Ramsey would be “off the hook” but I could still pursue freedom for my innocent wife as we now have added proof she was not at the scene of Benjamin’s fatal accident. 

 

I could live with this lie but for one other small clause:

 

Your father must also stipulate to relinquishing all parental rights, giving you up for adoption and never seeing you again.  My answer to this deal: Go to Hell.  I love you, Elan, I will risk my life for you. 

 

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February 25, 2007

 

 

ANSWER TO DENIAL OF APPEAL FROM DHS

 

 

Cynthia Carroll, MSW

Programs Field Representative

Children and Family Services Division

Appeals Section:

 

                        Innocent victims of DHS should have no fear of our court systems.  Innocent individuals should have no fear of DHS. 

 

                        But when an accident happens to a child that one single immature worker decides upon her own volition that the injury is not an accident despite the fact that three attending physicians will not agree with her that it is, and she is so confident that she is right that she uses all her resources to seek out and find some outsider who will agree with her assessment based on her opinion only without benefit of any information from the individual that witnessed the accident…

 

Three times Mikah McCray acted out to me with her hand on her opposing wrist and dictating: “You had to twist his arm [thusly] to cause this spiral fracture.” 

 

That I did such is simply not so and not even possible.  To do so could not physically be done without leaving a bruise from the grip required.

 

But now you have before you this “Confirmed” Child Abuse.  How can it be “Confirmed” prior to a hearing to determine the facts?  Have you empowered Mikah McCray with the power of God? 

 

“I have been informed that the finding in this investigation resulted in pending court action.”  Your letter of February 12.

 

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The court action began mid November within 12 hours of the accident if not before as Mikah McCray met me at the hospital during Elan Schoonover’s admission where she first accused me of breaking his arm.  She had a prepared “Emergency “Protective Order” in hand when she greeted me even before she saw Elan Lee Montgomery Schoonover. 

 

Where is “full due process” when you can state that your later finding of “confirmation” is prior to the due process?  This is no less than “Since we have confirmed this, among our own ranks, lets hang him now keep his child and get it over with.  If he can afford a trial later that is his problem.  We’ve got what we want and since we have ‘pre-confirmed’ the “abuse” of John maliciously breaking his son’s arm based on Mikah McCray’s immature conclusion we can send Elan’s Father to prison and get him out of the way for our justice to do whatever we want with this Dad’s Only God-given Son.”   

 

Tell me that is not so!

 

Tell me that innocent citizens have nothing to fear from DHS!

 

Tell me that you are not discriminating against me because of my race!

 

Tell me that you are not discriminating against me because of any other factor prohibited by State and Federal Statute!

 

Tell me that you are not using every glob of mud you can find to throw at me to keep my only son from me because you know no such child abuse was inflicted to justify your actions!

 

Tell me that I am not guilty before proven innocent!

 

Tell me that I am the only innocent victim you single out and treat this way!

 

Sincerely,

 

[signed]  John Schoonover U.S.N. Ret

                 Elan Lee’s Only Dad

                 RR 1 Box 67 Cleveland Oklahoma 74020

 

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