Margaret Sullivan, a mother with a restraining order barring contact with her children, found herself at the center of a controversial arrest.
Despite no finding of abuse or neglect, Sullivan lost custody of her children to her ex husband Randall Hale of Hamden. Her ex-husband has had custody of the children since 2019.
CT Family Court has been criticized for allowing parents with money to buy exclusive custody.
On March 1, she texted her ex-husband while in the hospital because of a heart attack and waiting for surgery, asking to speak to her children.
Sullivan later said she was worried she might die and wanted to hear the voices of the children she brought into the world one last time.
Two weeks later, when it appeared Sullivan would live, Hale filed a criminal complaint, claiming he was a victim of contact from his ex-wife in violation of Judge Adelman’s no contact order.
CT Judge Neeta Vatti issued a warrant for Sullivan’s arrest.
On April 4, after Sullivan’s release from the hospital, CT State Troopers from F-Troop, led by LT. Alex Cintron and Trooper Julia Bickford, and local police – five armed officers – arrested the mother at her home.
At the scene of the arrest, Sullivan requested her heart medication. The troopers accused her of faking the symptoms of a heart attack, handcuffed her and took her into custody.
The police eventually allowed her to take her medication, but as her condition worsened, Sullivan was taken to the hospital, where she was admitted into the Intensive Care Unit.
Sullivan was handcuffed to her bed in the ICU, and a trooper guarded the door.
She had had another heart attack, and as doctors and nurses treated her, and determined she needed another medical procedure, she remained handcuffed to the bed for hours.
As evening approached and overtime was not authorized, the troopers suddenly decided to fingerprint her in the hospital and release her – though she remained in ICU.
Margaret Sullivan in hospital faces jail time for texting her children
Initially, they claimed she would face a $20,000 bond and immediate jail time upon release from the hospital.
The officers refused to provide Margaret with an arrest warrant.
Police told Sullivan she was scheduled to appear in court the day after her hospital release.
At that time, Judge Adelman or one of his interchangeable judicial colleagues will decide if the woman who had a heart attack and texted her husband to see her children – perhaps for the last time – should go to jail.
She is scheduled to appear today in Middletown for arraignment.
Margaret Sullivan’s wrist is bruised from being handcuffed to her hospital bed.
A GoFundMe has been set up for Margaret to raise money for her bail and legal defense.
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I mean, that is clearly not an ICU.
I know who and what you are
Attorney Neal Rogan agreed to represent Margaret Sullivan this morning in court and accompanied her for her meeting with family court services.
I believe they have. Margaret Sullivan was released from the hospital appeared in court before Judge Neeta Vatti.
The judge put a criminal protective order against Margaret Sullivan and set a hearing for early June.
However, the original warrant called for arrest, immediate incarceration and $20,000 bond.
Today Judge Vatti directed Margaret Sullivan to go to family court and explain her position. Judge Vatti also said there would be no bond and no jail time.
This was a significant turn of events. As usual, despite many calls placed, Connecticut media did not cover this horrifying story.
Thank you FR.
And Adelman should be arrested as he wears his proven hate for motherhood on his inadequate sleeves. I wonder what his mother did to him as a child?
https://twitter.com/suneelchakra/status/1643427238992396290?t=sTNX0MdbUrBhtm79oegIuQ&s=19
Valentines Day, last year:
“Feb 14, 2022 … My ex made a false application for an emergency ex parte order that was granted based solely on a digital test score. No claim of harm – because it never happened. The GAL in my matter, Victoria Lanier of Old Lyme CT, was entrusted to receive my alcohol testing results …”
What numbskulls decided the notorious Connecticut family courts should handle all family cases involving alcohol addiction? The Connecticut governor wears Greatful Dead Bear belts. Legislators legalized recreational pot smoking. It’s party time in “The Constitution State”.
State Rep. Robin Comey was driving drunk a few weeks ago. She hit a parked car and flipped her car.
Will Connecticut taxpayers and legislators now force State Rep. Robin Comey through years of viciously for-profit, purposely adversarial mandatory hearings so sadistic judges such as Mr. Adelman can mock her, take her family from her and also take all that she owns?
Connecticut family courts aren’t non-profit. Family court “evaluators” aren’t medical providers.
Keith Roeder was the “evaluator” in Margaret’s case. Roeder is a long-time family court player.
He and Gerard Adelman go way back — decades even. With so much experience, Margaret’s family’s case should have been resolved by now. How many years has it been so far? How much money have the attorneys stashed away?
Connecticut’s purposely adversarial “family court” arena in which judges, “evaluators” and lawyers compete to push parents over the edge to “win” cases is a sick game. Shame on Connecticut for forcing so many vulnerable parents and children through that hell.
If such viciously for-profit Connecticut “family courts” should never happen to state Rep. Robin Comey after she flipped her car, such viciously for-profit Connecticut “family courts” shouldn’t happen to any already compromised parents and children.
https://connecticut.news12.com/exclusive-video-shows-crash-that-led-to-state-lawmakers-arrest
Oh no! The poor woman actually faced consequences for her actions! The horror!
Don’t they know laws do not apply to women? We do as we please. Who are these cops and courts to try to tell her what to do?
Some of her court filings look more like informal letters to the court (and less like formal motions).
Facts and evidence help most without opinions and emotional venting, but that kind of objectivity is extremely difficult for most moms who are hardwired to raise their children.
The problem in Margaret’s case seems to be that Connecticut judges such as Adelman enjoy watching mothers suffer.
That’s the reason the case needs to be out the purposefully adversarial — often purposely sadistic — for-profit family court ASAP. What’s the alternative, Connecticut family court administrators?
Decide on an alternative and do that ASAP.
Same tactic used on many moms
So familiar! Common to get rookies to do dirty work for attorneys in CT- doesn’t even have to resemble a crime- it will just be one. She will be released in her own recognizance. Always out to doom mothers and children there in CT
Ask for franks hearing and bill or particulars, then sue for wrongful arrest and incarceration
Can you post the text she sent?
Mr. Parlato, I feel like your articles will save this woman’s life.
I sincerely hope she will get better.
Do all the failed Adelman and Albis cases go to Mr. Moukawsher?
320.00 03/23/2022, HON MICHAEL ALBIS recused himself from the case
321.00 03/24/2022 P MOTION FOR ORDER
Motion to re-appoint guardian ad litem
RESULT: Denied 4/21/2022 HON THOMAS MOUKAWSHER
321.10 04/21/2022 …
https://civilinquiry.jud.ct.gov/CaseDetail/PublicCaseDetail.aspx?DocketNo=MMXFA186021801S
I though you were gonna ‘take me down’
Well how can she take you down if you are anonymous?