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.
Almost 3. Hope that helps.
Okay let's do the math. July 31, 2000 to scheduled trial date July 7, 2002 = less than 2 years not almost 3.
That threat was present from July 2000. It was nothing new. The Christines thought they could manipulate the system with intimidation and their new found radical friends. It didn't work and that is when they decided that the threat was real. They soon discovered that they had pissed away their opportunity to legitimately get their kids back.
Again --I don't know enough about this case or exactly what happened. I don't think kids should be removed from a family for attitude or politics---but I do believe if real abuse is happening they should be removed. If it's over politics then no ---The Clintons emotionally abused Chelsea when they would sit at the table and make her cry (pretending they were preparing her for their politics) ---but no one removed her from them and Hillary pretends to be a big child advocate.
False friends who used and abandoned them.
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?
Because your imagination is working overtime. Sieradzki wrote you an email citing the Xrays and further into the email he gets into the incriminating evidence from the "mouths of babes". This is in reference to the alleged bedwetting/striking incident when the youngest child made statements to the police incriminating Brian. Why do you deny Sieradzki made these statements?
No it wasn't. That was NOT what was being said and it is not what the mission of CPS states. The Christines weren't the ones doing the intimidating no matter how badly you wish it were so.
And you know this because?
In which county?
Because you posted it.
They tried to muscle their way through the process. Placing more importance on being defiant than getting their kids back. They went to at least one important custody hearing with as many as a dozen protestors in tow, some wearing printed t-shirts with a message directed to the court and Social Services. Judge Coon refused to hear from them. Great tactic for making the news, lousy for getting the kids back. From their attorney Edgar Steele:
Brian's public defender made an unfortunate statement to the press about cutting a deal and precipitated a flood of vituperation from the people in Grants Pass who were advising the Christines all along. They loudly accused all the Christine lawyers, including myself, of selling Brian and Ruth down the river in typical lawyer fashion. Sigh. But for those people advising this young couple, they wouldn't be in jail today, with their children living in two different states. They would be an intact family unit somewhere.
I agree that the legal system, especially in Oregon, is abysmal and needs a radical overhaul. However, I am not willing to sacrifice Brian and Ruth to that objective, particularly since it would be a futile sacrifice. Those people in Grants Pass really need to figure out that they are a part of the problem in some of these cases down there; an example of creating your own opposition.
Those zealots used the now abandoned Christines as pawns.
They asked for and received help and support. Steele wasn't their lawyer at the time so his statements are a bit over the top. There was no "muscling" going on. I am not surprised that you think activism is a form of intimidation or improper in some way.
And why were some of these so called "activists" banned from the FR?
How much of Ruths bail money came from the Christine supporters?
Their friends and supporters don't have a problem exercising their roles as "activists" when the only price to pay is the loss of someone else's children.
When it's time to dig into their pockets for bail, activism is dead.
I wonder if they've found new victims for their "Sovereign White Citizen" poison yet?
The children had already been taken. Thus your idiocy knows no bounds apparently. The people of Grant's pass gave Brian and Ruth support and even a place to live.
The fact that they don't have 50G's or so to post bail is not an indication that they didn't support the Christines. Steele wasn't the Christine's lawyer at the time so his posturing is more than likely for the benefit of the press. You and Roscoe have accused Steele of being a neo-Nazi so I find it hillarious that you consider his statements to be credible in this one particular instance.
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