The Ambrose Papers #7: Forensic Examiner Investigating Image of Ambrose’s Hard Drive – Charges May Be Coming for Father Who Allegedly Abuses Children

What kind of a man comes back into his children’s lives after years, working away in another state, not really knowing them at all, back into their lives after losing his career through a stupid, fateful act of dishonesty, back home to execute a plan to divorce his wife of 14 years, snatch millions from their joint accounts, and leave her penniless?

What kind of man contrives to take his children away from their mother, his wife, against their wishes? He does the latter not because he deeply loves or cares about his children, at least not in a paternal sense, but wants them, it seems, to save money on child support and alimony, possibly to wreak vengeance on his wife, and, if the children’s statements to professionals are true, to mentally and sexually abuse them?

What kind of man is this?

In Connecticut Family Court, he is a man to be cherished.

He is, after all, a parent with money.  Because this man is crafty, unlike many other parents with money, he does not have to be manipulated to be bled  He knows the game. He knows that family court operates for the welfare of lawyers.

He knows that whenever a family with money comes into their field, it is, for the lawyers, a field day. They work together to create confusion, contention, to select the wrong parent, then rake in fees from the fight between them. They are aided and abetted by the judges, who are, after all, lawyers themselves, who through influence and party boss support, which means the support of lawyers, donating lawyers, are appointed by the governor.

Ambrose was wise. He helped them. He never protested. He let them know he would cooperate. They appreciated a man so wise in worldly ways.  Ambrose of course is a lawyer himself though he has not practiced in years.

Wise man. He let them feed, this avaricious, ravenous crew of lawyers, and, in particular, the rapacious Jocelyn Hurwitz, of Cohen and Wolf.  She is the guardian ad litem, the court appointed attorney who looks after the welfare of the children. She billed more than $180,000 so far on this case – at $400 per hour – and every dime paid or to be paid by the father, for he controls the money.

The expense is a good investment for the father.

After all, he planned to arrange that, at the end of the day, the lawyer-feeding-frenzy would come out of his wife’s share. In exchange for her selling out what is the worst result for the children, he pays the guardian ad litem, just as much as she wants.

This man knew he could buy lawyers and he could buy a psychologist by the name of Jessica Biren-Caverly. It was a win, win, win.  He knew that whatever he paid to unprincipled lawyers or a corrupt psychologist in the short run, would be less than alimony, child support, and the division of marital assets in the long run.

Let’s meet this clever dad who fought for his own financial preservation, after he lost his career.  He is former TV screenwriter, Chris Ambrose, 59.  Former, I say, because he got caught plagiarizing from another TV show.  That makes you “former” in this business.  No Hollywood producer will trust a man to write when he is willing to put his name on material he did not write, and say it’s his.

Ambrose was a writer and he cleverly kept notes and sent emails, always making a record to show any time he went to the store. Any time he cooked a meal or did anything with the children.  Karen thought he was only trying to be a good dad for the first time in his life.  She did not know why he came back from his TV work.

It was all to set her up. All to show he did 50 percent of the caretaking, when in reality she did 90 percent even when he came back home and 100 percent for the first 12 years of the children’s lives.

Forget the fact that this guy has been a fraud probably all his life.  Even his marriage was a fraud from the start.  Chris Ambrose married Karen Riordan in 2004 under false pretenses, which arguably makes her the victim.

He used her, and this is blunt, as his “beard.” But he never told her.  It seems pretty damn apparent that he was a closeted gay all his life.  He has recently admitted he views gay porn. How could he deny it?  Evidence shows he is addicted to porn.

But he told Karen, when they started dating, and led her to believe, that he was heterosexual.  He hid his secret, a secret he kept hidden for years in conservative small town, Wethersfield, Connecticut, from his conservative Catholic parents and family.  They would have been aghast if they thought their Chris was gay.

To them it is an abomination.

He tried to have intimacy with Karen before the marriage but he needed the lights out. He was ashamed of his body, he said.  But he tried and to a degree he succeeded. Karen thought it would get better.

On the marriage night, he felt tired. On the day following their wedding, he took off to Los Angeles from Connecticut to begin work on a new TV show, Judging Amy. He never consummated the marriage. Not in 14 years.

Karen was heartbroken about this, but Ambrose was so lively, so endearing at first, so sympathetic. He had valid excuses. He had, poor man, erectile dysfunction. Viagra did not help. He was anxious and tense. He had so much stress at his demanding work. But it would get better. He would try to calm down and like every other couple, he promised, they would have intimacy. Soon.

When work did calm down a little and he was doing well, he had another problem. He pointed out to Karen that she was in top physical shape and he was, he said, crestfallen, and perhaps with a little tear, not in good enough shape, He did not feel worthy. He was embarrassed. He shed tears. Karen tried to console him. She felt so bad for him. She said it did not matter that he was a little soft.  But he said, he just could not. He would be too shaken up by it, He would try to get into shape.

Somehow it never happened. And when Karen noticed this, she urged him to get beyond it. He now said he had trauma. Karen wanted him to go to therapy. He agreed but did not go.  When she pressed him, he came up with a new reason.

He went to a medical doctor, he said, who diagnosed him with venous leakage. Now he had a valid medical reason: His penis could not store blood enough to hold an erection.  Therapy would not help. Nothing could help.

So years went by and Karen, who was a special education teacher, earning about $90,000 per year – in fact, she was awarded teacher of the year in 2004, in the Greenwich Public School District – thought perhaps she and Ambrose should have children.

Karen suggested they adopt children. Ambrose agreed. They adopted three Latino children.

Karen who quit her job, became a full time mother.  She raised the children every day, usually in Connecticut, but sometimes joining her husband in California with the kids.

It was not until much later that Karen realized that Ambrose lived a double life.  He never did show her any medical evidence that he had venous leakage. In fact he did not seem to suffer from erectile dysfunction at all. As long as the model was young and male, especially if he was Latino, he seemed to have no problem at all.

Ambrose could get past his dysfunction also easily if the man was in the military and happened to like forced haircuts. The man who could never once make love to his wife, would go online and pretend to be a gay barber.

Here is screenshot from his private messages on Instagram.  Ambrose is CA0515 [stands for Chris Ambrose, May 15, his birthday].

He is making an awkward approach to a muscular gent named Sergeev.

Ambrose writes him, posing as a barber: “You should let your hair grow a least a little – it would be so sexy.”

Yes, he was gay.

Finally Karen confronted him. She was understanding.

She said, “if you are gay, just admit it. Live authentically.”

He denied it, of course.

“But we have never had sex all the years we’ve been married.”

“You won’t be able to prove it,” he said.

Later, she said, “I found gay porn on your computer.”

“You won’t be able to prove it,” he said.

He was wrong about that.

A lot of things come out in divorce and it was discovered that on his computer – analyzed by forensic experts – and on his phone — seen by his own children – that gay porn was his daily fare.  He especially liked sites featuring young Latinos and this might be concerning since his sons are Latino.

LatinoBoysblog.com is one of his perennial favorites.

In a bizarre and seemingly twisted move, Ambrose tells his teenage daughter she acts more like a guy

 

Here is an audio where Ambrose’s son, says his father kisses and repeatedly touches his private parts:

 

The overly excessive kissing of S and the inappropriate touching of M is described by M in a letter:

Mathew writes, “We tell our truth and we get PUNISHED for it.”

S’s letter [below] describing the abuse.

Another letter [below] from S describing his fear of his father.

Here is a link to Connecitcut Children’s Hospital report of S’s claims of sexual abuse by his father.

Here is a link to Yale New Haven Hospital  “Alleged Child Abuse per older siblings pt has told him that the father has fondling his penis and when police arrived he reported to them he doesn’t feel safe at home with his dad.”

 

And here is an audio where the children confront their father about him secretly recording them. When he tries to lie to them saying the device is only a USB and cannot record and that he only uses it for work, one of the children says he does not work since he was fired for plagiarism.

He also put a recording device on M’s watch, which she later found out about to her distress.

Now some might say that these children are brats to object to being secretly recorded by their father, but just imagine the friction of living in a house where you never know when you are being secretly recorded.  And in turn, the children recorded their father.

This is not the kind of scene that ever went on with their mother.

Maybe the children are just plain unhappy. Ambrose, on the other hand, said that the children are abusing him, crying that they hit him.  One day, Ambrose chased M and she ran upstairs to escape. She threw a laundry basket at him to prevent him from entering her room. He complained that she might have killed him.

He cried that M, when he was under age 13, punched him hard in the arm.

It would be fair to say that the children deeply resent their father. They know that he arranged to take their mother away and place them in this loveless home. Of course it could not have been done without the aid of three women in a room: the guardian ad litem, Jocelyn Hurwitz, the custody evaluator, Dr,, Jessica Biren-Caverly and Judge Jane Grossman, who ruled that only the father may see his children.

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The good judge demanded the return of the hard drives to Ambrose and ordered that Karen not do any further forensic evaluation, or share what she discovered. The judge even demanded that Karen tell the court anyone she had told about the forensic investigation.

Among the website, Karen discovered Ambrose had visited were a raft of sites featuring young, gay Latino males. This might have been concerning to some less ravenous guardians ad litem, less compliant custody evaluators or less reckless judges, since the children are Latino, but all was fine with this trio of brigands.

The wanted any investigation into child porn quashed and fast. It almost worked too.