Posted on 04/12/2002 6:55:25 PM PDT by RGSpincich
The Associated Press
4/12/02 5:26 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Ruth Christine, accused with her husband of kidnapping three of their daughters at gunpoint from state social workers, has been released from jail after her father posted bail.
Christine was freed from the Douglas County Jail in Roseburg on Sunday after her father, Philip Medland, posted the minimum bail in the kidnapping case being tried there. He also posted the minimum in a child mistreatment case being tried in Grants Pass.
Court papers listed Christine's address as a Jacksonville post office box.
Christine and her husband, Brian Christine, have been in jail since their arrests last August in Montana, where the children were also found.
They are scheduled to go on trial April 30 in Douglas County Court in the kidnapping case.
The mistreatment case is scheduled for July 9. That case accuses the couple of abusing their three daughters in 2000 while living in a converted city bus they had driven to Grants Pass from Indiana.
Child welfare authorities took custody of the girls after the charges were filed.
Last August, after a birthday visit, Brian Christine allegedly followed the social workers driving the girls back to a foster home and kidnapped his children at gunpoint at an Interstate 5 rest stop. Ruth Christine is accused of helping her husband.
The girls have been put in the custody of her parents, who live in England.
Is that how you say he has been arraigned on a superseding indictment?
No it's how I say the original indictment was thrown out and the charges were brought before another grand jury. How would you have phrased it?
Didn't the state send the children to Ruth's parents?
Not in the beginning. They placed them in foster care and denied the Christines visitation for 8 months even after the Christine's obtained a court order. The state abusers determined that visitation wasn't a good idea and was "traumatic" to the children given the tearful goodbyes.
It was only when the state threatened to terminate their parental rights permanently that the Christines acted to take their children back by force which was exactly the manner in which they were taken from them.
How many years?
Almost 3. Hope that helps.
And Kidnapping at gunpoint is a good idea?
I'm repeating Sieradzki.
Ask the state. They seem to think so.
No. You're not. I notice a distinct avoidance by you to acknowledge facts you've claimed were true but are in error. And a near obsession to change the subject once it has been shown you are stretching the truth if not breaking it entirely. Why is that?
Then it was more than the flu. They all spent several days in the hospital before being placed in foster care.
Oh good grief. There was no evidence that there was anything wrong with the children that required the hospital stay. That is SOP for the state and they were given food and water just like they were given when with their parents. Later, a press release stating that they were treated for "dehydration and malnutrition" was issued.
Being treated for something and having it are two different things.
Doctors can't do much for the flu since it's a virus ---I also don't take my kids to a doctor for the flu or colds. In fact my kids rarely see a doctor because I don't believe in overprescribing antibiotics.
Don't forget the startling low weights that were reported. Must not forget Bernie Conrad's statement concerning keeping food from the children as discipline. Brian "sort of confessed" to him and I believe him. If you want to grasp onto the "sort of" go ahead, I don't see any reason for Conrad to lie.
LOL. Yes and no corroborating evidence has been offered for those reports. And you keep bringing up Bernie's press statements as if they mean anything. You've already admitted it doesn't prove anything and could be construed to mean just about anything including that he sent his daughter to bed without supper once.
To who? The Christines have seen the evidence and willingly relinquished their parental rights.
It has something to do with the attitude and cooperation of the parents.
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