Why Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca Needs to be Impeached, Part 5
Excerpts from Patricia Lee's Temporary Restraining Order
Many are horrified to hear that my sister’s case is mild compared to others I encounter in Family Court. My sister went from perfect health and superior functioning to being bedbound most of the day and requiring 24-hour care after five years in Family Court. Just this week, I learned of a young mother who may become deaf and another youthful mother who may be confined to a wheelchair because of Family Court. Before Family Court, they were all vibrant, healthy, and admired for their talents and success. Violent criminals, especially those with psychopathic tendencies, target for destruction persons who are exuding with life and love—which highlights what they do not have—and Family Courts offer the “service” of covering for their violent, wishful fantasies (perhaps only war zones or political persecution offer comparable licenses to “violate”).
The end result is that I have never seen a greater concentration of the most beautiful, brilliant, psychologically well-developed, previously wealthy, and professionally successful persons—who are also terrific parents—as among the victims of Family Court. By the time Family Court is through with them, they will have been reputationally ruined (physicians or lawyers typically lose their licenses), lost all their assets and destitute, psychologically broken, and physically debilitated, if not dead.
An example of an outspoken critic of Family Courts who died recently is Elizabeth Harding Weinstein. She was once a successful attorney, a philanthropist, and a friend of another high-profile attorney whom Family Court killed: Catherine Kassenoff. Family Court destroyed Weinstein by granting her abusive husband the ability to obtain false restraining orders, to evict her, and to gain full custody of their children, whom he allegedly abused. She was then subject to forced psychiatric hospitalization, incarceration in solitary confinement, and ex-parte (obtained in secret) guardianship, which was used to seize her assets and to invalidate her legal claims.
Weinstein once reached out to me about a psychiatric evaluation but then disappeared, and the next I heard of her was when one of her advocates tried to hospitalize her where I had admitting privileges, so that she could at least be under my watch. This was shortly before she was sent elsewhere and medicated into a “chemical lobotomy.” When I spoke with her, just as when I spoke with Kassenoff, she did not appear to need a psychiatric evaluation, much less hospitalization—and certainly she did not need guardianship! Family Court, after barring her from any contact with her children, incarcerated her for trying to tell them she loved them.
Like many strong-minded and principled persons who do not tolerate criminality and corruption, Weinstein spoke up about Family Courts. But Family Courts are more like totalitarian regimes than legal bodies, and as such, they crush dissidents rather than consider reform. This is what happened to her, and what is happening to my sister (even though my sister is not much of a dissenter, unlike I—her humanity, generosity, and compassion are enough to grate on her ex-husband, as reminders of what he is not a part of). Some of his dynamics are obvious in my sister’s amendment to her temporary restraining order (TRO) against him, excerpted below:
On January 31, 2025, [my ex-husband] smashed the stone step at the bottom of the stairway to my house, violently shattering it into pieces. It happened in the context of his threatening me on a daily basis, and he was giving me a very graphic and violent message that he was going to shatter my physical body in the same manner in which he shattered the stone step to my house. [He] avoided the video but left terrifying traces of his presence by placing pieces of the stone step precisely where he knew I would be putting out the recyclables that morning. My blood pressure skyrocketed, and I was medically seen for the stress.
[My ex-husband’s] actions on January 31, 2025, must not be seen in isolation but in a pattern of hidden but ongoing threats, intimidation, harassment, and control….
The latest smashing incident reminds me of an event on or about February 14, 2021, when [my ex-husband] violently smashed icicles only in my and my children’s direct view with a shovel, claiming it was “for the gutter.” The deliberate destruction of the stone step and icicles demonstrated to us his capacity for destruction. My children went into wailing after the incident, and as a mother, I was gravely concerned that my children would also be targeted as “objects” for harm. For example, on or about June 23, 2021, he smashed my 7-year-old son’s head against a window in front of me and walked away, for me to pick up the pieces. This was the first episode that caused me to be transported to the emergency room on June 29, 2021, when I was told I almost died from lethal-level blood pressures.
Since learning that he could endanger my life without laying a finger on me, he started hurting my children repeatedly, so much so that I needed to go to the emergency room again just four (4) days later, on July 3, 2021, when a TRO was offered to me. Through his legal abuse and coercive control, however, he “flipped” the TRO so that it would be turned against me instead—denying me access to the children as he harmed them—and I was forced to drop it.
My sister’s ex-husband did not calm down with Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca’s coddling of him but became exponentially more entitled and violent. Now, furious that he had not dispossessed my sister of her home years ago, he came by to smash a large stone step to pieces. He does not see how abnormal his expectations are: that growing children should not have one second with the mother who raised them since birth, or that he alone should have all marital assets, six-digit “child support,” all his legal fees, the house, and my sister’s life insurance, too, if he can pull it off! This is the dangerous sickness that Family Courts breed.
(At the time of this writing, Judge Gallina-Mecca has positioned herself to drive my sister out of her house at gunpoint on July 18, 2025. There are cameras all over the house, and whatever Judge Gallina-Mecca, Alan T. Chan, or anyone connected to them tries to do in retribution will be immediately updated in all the books and in this newsletter.)
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