Margaret Sullivan, the mother arrested for texting her ex-husband to speak to her children before undergoing a life-threatening heart operation, appeared before CT Judge Neeta Vatti after being released from the hospital. In a surprising decision, Judge Vatti did not place Sullivan in custody and released her without bail.
Sullivan faces a felony charge for attempting to contact her children from her hospital bed, violating a restraining order issued by CT Family Court Judge Gerard Adelman. Her ex-husband, Randall Hale of Hamden, filed a complaint seeking her arrest once it was clear Sullivan would survive her heart attack, using her text message as evidence of the alleged crime.
After her arrest by five police officers who refused to let her take her heart medication, Sullivan suffered a second heart attack.
Rushed to the hospital, Sullivan was handcuffed to her bed as a state trooper guarded the door. After several days in the hospital, she was released from the hospital and appeared in court.
Judge Vatti, declining to remand Sullivan to custody, issued a criminal protective order against Sullivan during the court appearance, banning any further contact with her children and scheduling a hearing for early June.
Originally, the warrant demanded Sullivan’s arrest, immediate incarceration, and a $20,000 bond. However, Judge Vatti directed her to family court to explain her position, stating there would be no bond or jail time. Attorney Neal Rogan agreed to represent Sullivan in court and accompanied her to a meeting with family court services.
One commenter wrote that the shift from $20,000 bail to no bail was “a significant turn of events. As usual, despite many calls, Connecticut media did not cover this horrifying story. Thank you, Frank Rerport.”
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Transcript of hearing before Judge Adelman, where Randal Hale fights to take the mother, Margaret Sullivan, out of his children’s lives.
Frank Parlato 
Janine Morrison 
J.J. O'Hara 
Richard Luthmann 
Marie White 
Paul Serran
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UPDATE: The trial for the RO has been continued until Sept 5, 2023
However, here is some good news:
Well here is some good news. The links below are the opinions of the appellate court that I did pro se. I was able to get # 2 of my complaint REVERSED – the part about dad having the power over visitation. Right now opposing counsel has asked the court to reconsider, so we are still waiting, but if you read the opinion in that section closely, you will see that two of the three judges “got it.” They pretty much say everything you all have commented about. This has been especially hard for me these past four years, but I will not give up the fight. My children deserve to have me in their lives. Thank you all for your kind words and support. Margaret
https://www.jud.ct.gov/external/supapp/Cases/AROap/AP219/219AP176.pdf
https://www.jud.ct.gov/external/supapp/Cases/AROap/AP219/219AP176A.pdf
Update, last week, the judge found my ex in contempt and fined him for not engaging my daughter and I in family therapy which was a part of the original order. He has until July 10 to comply. This is one of the first times I have heard of a family court judge actually finding someone in con$250tempt and punishing him, $250. I am hopeful that karma is coming around.
Cheers!
This is messed up. My heart feels for this mother. I was banned from seeing my grandmother. I know how it feels to not be able to see immediate family members. What did she do to get the restraining order against her? How old are the kids? This is a good petition that I started that deals with family members need for contact. https://change.org/endbanishment
Hopefully she can sue for negligence AND attempted MURDER!
Barbarism. Shear barbarism. Whose interest does this serve?
Serves interest of those who seek to destroy families, the State of Connecticut. Pretty obvious.
Family court Getting that money
Lawyers Got to pay for that Tesla their mistress named Debra
You cry
they pop the Dom
celebrate all night long
Keep it real
you are paying their water bill
Keep it real
History repeats itself and the only choice is to chill
Get strong like a military deal
Don’t give up
but stop trippin
Keep it real
This is a WAR
THEY ARE AT WAR AGAINST THE FAMILY UNIT
MAKE NO MISTAKE
THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE MASS CONGLOMERATE PROFIT
Never let these muthaphuckers see you sweat
For real
Dang
I’ll be your client
Be my president
She’s straight up OG
“After her arrest by five police officers who refused to let her take her heart medication, Sullivan suffered a second heart attack. Rushed to the hospital, Sullivan was handcuffed to her bed as a state trooper guarded the door.”
What a sick world…
But that mom is a bad ass
I often think these Moms need a criminal defense attorney in family court. Because of the relentless parental alienation claims. Thanks to Neal Rogan and people helping she had counsel. I don’t think anyone realizes how difficult it is for women in Connecticut to get legal counsel for family court related matters. Expense is only one of the reasons. Attorneys go into the court strongly advocating and get big push back by the system. Unfortunately Margaret will need assistance with family relations. There very much like the GALs. Glad an Attorney stepped up to represent her.
It goes both ways from mothers and fathers. It’s not about the parent or the gender. It’s about the money they can extract don’t be fooled they couldn’t give to shits who gets the kids It’s all about how they can steer the case to extract the most amount of dollars even if they got to give the kids to the sickest demented individual.
It does appear there is money involved including funding. However, there is definitely some father’s for what ever reason racked over the coals. Definitely a lot of Moms getting the shaft. Someone needs to get the family court shit show figured out.
Children need to be warned
Marriage isn’t some romantically related bull sauce
When you get married you marry the state
Cinderella got glass in her foot
The true story
True story the system gets a hold of you and they won’t let you go.
Wild cement waves
They r clockin it
wanna make a profit
Theyre down dirty evil
Lookin for the thrill
Makes me Ill
Nuthin to do but put a momma in a jail cell So what’s it gonna be judge ? Heaven or hell? You leavin a nasty rottin smell
Scandalous slug
A legal thug
paper green storm
Judges counting dollars on the WC
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
https://www.gofundme.com/f/bail-attorney-fees-for-a-ct-protective-mom
I hope people send out this go fundly page to raise $$$$ to help her
Thousands of protective mothers have been treated this way in Connecticut family courts- Adelman and Munro I am sure vie for winning the worst treatment of mothers and children – she’s kicked off the bench you may say- but she is still doing it where mothers are buried alive
Yeah the judges who get too much heat and have to retire just move to ADR practices where they continue to destroy people for fun and profit, but now with no record or pesky public scrutiny.
Why focuses only on Connecticut ? Is this blog meant just for Connecticut ? Do you actually think that it’s not happening in other states ? Ridiculously limited
CT is where the money is at. Median income is about 150k. Even “penniless” moms have secret stashes of 10-100k to fund attacks on exes.
I was and a “penniless” mom, and I sure wish I had $ 10.00 stashed away to not have my kids taken away from me, check you facts first
Sorry, I should have clarified it is the “penniless” moms in CT with hidden stashes who get the coverage and can afford to pay Wayne Dolcefino and the like.
I’m another penniless mom. Perhaps a naive one as I should have thought to stash away money. it never occurred to me and many others.
After the decree was issued I ended up not being able to buy a tank of oil for a year, heating a pot of water on the stove to take army baths everyday. I was lucky I still had a roof over my head. Tell me again how we’re acktschuaallly really rich after our kids are taken and all of our money…
The only state this happened is one state that’s not true that is comical
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ranking-the-states-from-most-to-least-corrupt/amp/
Of course it happens in other states. CT is the origin where they perfected the child trafficking, which they then franchised out to other jurisdictions. It literally started in Yale and CIA hive in Stamford back in the 50s, then SoCal in the early 60s. They have such a lock on CT now that nothing can penetrate to save the kids.
7:12,
Any primary sources/original documents to prove what happened?
https://www.scribd.com/user/200345275/JournalistABC
5:55,
The worst judges, lawyers and vendors such as: Adelman, Munro, Horowitz, Horwitz, Gould and Caverly in states like: Connecticut, California, Georgia, Texas, Colorado and New Hampshire in countries like: United States, Canada, The UK, Netherlands, Australia and Argentina need the best judges, lawyers and vendors in the best states and provinces in the best countries to name and shame the worst judges, lawyers and vendors. Parents and children are easy prey when destructive family court players go rogue.