Ashley Deckert Director of Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families Responds to Concerns About Ambrose Children

August 17, 2023
Ashley Deckert RI DYCF has confirmed that her department is aware of the concerns raised about the Ambrose children now living in Rhode Island.

What Rhode Island will do is anybody’s guess. 

But Richard Luthmann, a contributor to Frank Report, and a Substack writer, emailed the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF) about the teenage children of Christopher Ambrose and Karen Riordan, who currently live in Rhode Island.

They lived in Connecticut with their mother until August 8, when CT Family Court Judge Thomas J. O’Neill issued a restraining order barring the mother’s contact with her children. 

Rather than live with their father, the teens went to Rhode Island to live with their maternal grandfather. 

 Luthmann’s email is entitled: 

Danger to Children in RI from Psychopath, Pedophile CT father: Mia Ambrose, 16, Matthew Ambrose, 16, and Sawyer Ambrose, 13.”

Luthmann, whose says the Ambrose children are “at risk from their psychopath predator father, “identifies himself as “a reporter following the story.”

Also copied on the email are RI DCYF personnel, media members, and federal law enforcement, including Kristen Setera, Public Affairs Advisor at the FBI Boston Division, which oversees Rhode Island.

Luthmann provided recent pictures of the Ambrose children and directed authorities to the Frank Report for additional information.

Richard Luthmann

Richard Luthmann

Here is Luthmann’s email to Rhode Island DYCF:

Dear Sirs and Madams:

I wanted to alert you to three children in your state whom I believe are at risk from their psychopath predator father. The children are Mia Ambrose, 16, Matthew Ambrose, 16, and Sawyer Ambrose, 13.

I am also a reporter who has been following the story. I believe the children will be in imminent harm if Christopher Ambrose attempts to cross state lines and forcible remove them against their wills back to CT. 

Their father, disgraced Hollywood writer Christopher Ambrose, appears to be crossing state lines so that he can retrieve the children who fled to their grandfather’s house in Rhode Island for safety. I fear Ambrose may bring the children back to his den of iniquity in Madison, Connecticut, where underage drinking, drugs use, and sex (statutory rape) regularly occurs.

I have enclosed some materials showing Christopher Ambrose’s dangerousness:

  • December 15, 2020 – CT Court Report showing Ambrose as “HIGH RISK” for dangerousness.
  • Email dated June 6, 2023 between Attorney Michael G. Curley of Murtha Cullina, LLP, and Nancy Stewart, Kelly Burke, and Michelle Peterson of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF). In this email, there is a reference to “a new allegation of penetration.” 
  • Report dated May 29, 2023, from Private Investigator Manuel Gomez to WDNY US Attorney Trini Ross’s Office and the FBI Office-Buffalo detailing molestation by Christopher Ambrose. PI Gomez describes the video evidence he transmitted to the authorities and has in his possession. 
  • Report dated May 3, 2023, from Bandy Lee, MD, MDiv, warning of Christopher Ambrose’s dangerousness where his children are involved.
  • Signed statement dated May 29, 2023, of Mia Ambrose detailing Christopher Ambrose’s physically and emotionally abusive activity and improper touching. The statement corroborates the presence of men over the age of 18 (some in their 20s) with children aged 14 and 15 for “overnight” stays where there is underage drug, alcohol use, and sex.
  • Social Media pictures corroborating underage drinking, drug use, and sex, published in the July 20, 2023 article: “How is Wealthy Elite Christopher Ambrose of Madison, CT Involved in Underage Drinking, Drugs, and Sex?

I further believe that Ambrose’s attorneys from Needle Cuda in Westport, Connecticut, may be in contact with the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth, and Families.  

Plenty of additional information is in the public record showing Ambrose’s danger. Particularly, investigative journalist Frank Parlato has covered this case for years. Damning information about Ambrose is contained in the Frank Report coverage

Here are recent pictures of the children:

Let me know if I can be of any further help.

Regards,

Richard Luthmann

Yesterday. Ashley Deckert, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families, responded to Luthmann’s email.

Deckert wrote in reply to Luthmann

Thank you for your report, Mr. Luthmann. I would like to acknowledge receipt of your concern. Due to confidentiality, there is not more I can provide you in terms of addressing your immediate concerns, but please know we are taking your concerns seriously. 

Thank you very much.

Ashley Deckert, MSW, MA

Director

RI Department of Children, Youth & Families

Editor’s Note

It remains to be seen if Rhode Island will take steps to protect the three teenagers who seek a safe haven or work with the father to bring them back by force to him. 

 

NOTE: A Go Fund Me Page has been established to help Karen Riordan and her three children, Mia, Matthew, and Sawyer, reunite and achieve justice in her unequal fight against her well-funded ex-husband, Christopher Ambrose. Please donate and help this family.

 

CT Judge Orders Teens Away From Mother; Ignores Claims of Father’s ‘Abuse’; Ambrose Teens Homeless

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Fraud and Injustice #3: The Ambrose Children Make Contact as Allegations of Abuse, Pedophilia Are Suppressed By CT Family Court

 

The Ambrose Papers #5: Longtime ABC Reporter Wayne Dolcefino Investigating; Says Children Reached Out to Him Alleging Abuse by Father

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Something’s wrong in Rhode Island, too.
Something’s wrong in Rhode Island, too.
2 years ago

A Rhode Island family court case from 2006 …

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

Rhode Island should help that grandfather provide a safe refuge for those three teenagers. Unfortunately, some of the worst men posing as Connecticut lawyers and judges have equally nefarious political connections in Rhode Island.

Will Ashley Deckert Director of Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families respond as most bureaucrats do when threatened by the kind of politics that covers for blatant corruption?

What does her conscience tell her to do? Is she a good person?

So much good and free information for those who truly care ...
So much good and free information for those who truly care ...
2 years ago

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This is the most important work - protecting children
This is the most important work - protecting children
2 years ago

Mr. Luthmann you are a true hero! We are all so grateful for your work and dedication to our most precious children. This is a very big deal!

Pilgrim
Pilgrim
2 years ago

DCYF: Department of Child-trafficking, Yellow-bellied, Fuckwads

Keith Harmon Snow
Keith Harmon Snow
2 years ago

Dear Anyone who says they care about child welfare,
Dear Anyone who says they care about child welfare,
2 years ago

“Keith Harmon Snow’s meticulously documented investigation into sex-trafficking of children by American judges is not to be missed. This scandal is one of the most important censored stories in our country today. I might not believe what Mr. Snow has written if I had not independently investigated two dozen cases not discussed in his article, and found ample evidence of the precise dynamics he lays out for us here. Anyone who says they care about child welfare needs to learn what is happening in family courts and take action until it is stopped. Once you start reading this exposé, you won’t be able to put it down.” Lundy Bancroft, Author of Why Does He Do That?

https://www.amazon.com/Worst-Interests-Child-Trafficking-Children/dp/0981611486

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.”

Max Eastman

For some, secrets matter more than children and families.
For some, secrets matter more than children and families.
2 years ago

Abolition of all ordered governments ✔️
Abolition of private property ✔️
Abolition of inheritance
Abolition of patriotism ✔️
Abolition of the family ✔️
Abolition of religion
Creation of a world government

https://www.michaeljournal.org/articles/world-government/item/a-history-of-the-new-world-order-part-i

The Manifesto of the Communist Party ...
The Manifesto of the Communist Party ...
2 years ago

Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists:

“… Abolition [Aufhebung] of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.

On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.

The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.

Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.

But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.

And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, &c.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.

The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parents and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all the family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.

But you Communists would introduce community of women, screams the bourgeoisie in chorus.

The bourgeois sees his wife as a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women.

He has not even a suspicion that the real point aimed at is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production.

For the rest, nothing is more ridiculous than the virtuous indignation of our bourgeois at the community of women which, they pretend, is to be openly and officially established by the Communists. The Communists have no need to introduce community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

Our bourgeois, not content with having wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other’s wives.

Bourgeois marriage is, in reality, a system of wives in common and thus, at the most, what the Communists might possibly be reproached with is that they desire to introduce, in substitution for a hypocritically concealed, an openly legalised community of women. For the rest, it is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of production must bring with it the abolition of the community of women springing from that system, i.e., of prostitution both public and private.

The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality. …”

A tip for Richard
A tip for Richard
2 years ago

Richard, just go on upwork and other freelancing sites. Share your education and credentials and advertise yourself as a ghost writer. you will make bank ghost writing for attorneys who don’t have the time to do it themselves. Many need an endless stream of content for their websites, and they pay very well for someone with a law degree to do the writing. You don’t have to forge a path destroying people’s reputations to make money writing.

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

As Dr. Bandy Lee has said- this isn’t a hard case.
Kids don’t have to repeatedly prove they feel unsafe. They don’t have to prove every way they’ve been abused.
Only in child trafficking cases is this warranted.
And these kids and medical professionals have confirmed the allegations for years. Ambrose then brings targeted court appointed therapists (non MDs) to support his lies that mom is crazy.

Enough.

Stay In RI!!

Never return to CT. Ever.

More lack of ethics
More lack of ethics
2 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Dr Bandi Lee was fired from Yale for unethical behavior. The same type of unethical behavior she exhibits here.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2023/06/29/yale-professor-who-diagnosed-dershowitz-tweet-loses

“On occasion psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individual who is in the light of public attention … a psychiatrist may share with the public his or her expertise about psychiatric issues in general,” the rule says. “However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.”

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

She can have a personal opinion about Hitler’s personality disorders, but she can’t make a professional diagnosis, because:

“It is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.”

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Those are some mighty leaps of logic you were taking and they don’t land right at all. On what planet would it be denying the Holocaust if you refrained from “diagnosing” Hitler as anything?

Ummmm.. “ it’s unethical “ @ 6:34 pm..
Ummmm.. “ it’s unethical “ @ 6:34 pm..
2 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Kind of like it’s unethical for a judge to make a decision to put a RO on Karen Ambrose, that Chris Ambrose wanted done, (but said it was on the children’s behalf ).. and the judge only hearing Chris Ambrose speak, and not hearing anything from the children or listening to anything at all they have to say?? that is kind of what you’re saying .. right? The judge gave his professional opinion without conducting any examination also!! That’s only fair to say .. correct!! You have to admit it when someone else is right!! So go ahead., I’m waiting on your response

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

We’re all supposed to “trust the science” now, 3:10 pm. Get in line and remember: Just obey and do as you are told. No questions are allowed, anymore.

Pilgrim
Pilgrim
2 years ago

@Richard, aside from the Ambrose case:

Bandy was terminated for breaking the Goldwater Rule. That’s not accepted by the American Psychiatric Association nor Yale.

Also, Yale had her in their malpractice insurance group plan. To me, this indicates they could smell a possible lawsuit.

She claims it us her “duty to warn” when a public figure is a danger. She has lost two appeals.

Is her interpretation of “duty to warn” too broad?

More lack of ethics
More lack of ethics
2 years ago
Reply to  Pilgrim

@3:10pm: No, I do not believe it is unethical for a family court judge to make a decision on an issue presented before him when his decision was based on facts and hard evidence. There was solid proof that Karen told the kids to lie about abuse in hopes the court would flip custody to her. Coaching kids to lie against a parent is abuse. There is no point in listening to what the kids have to say in court when it is on record that the mother stated she had them lie about abuse. Karen did this to them. If she never taught them to tell heinous lies,
she and they wouldn’t be in this predicament.

Frank Parlato
Admin
2 years ago

So do you believe the voice of the teens in making decisions about their lives needs not to be heard?

Dr Gardner knows best
Dr Gardner knows best
2 years ago

Pedophiles are people too. Dr Gardner provided guidance to us here. The kids and the mother overreact to this and need to be shown that pedophilia is common in every culture but America. This super Puritanism is denying a good father with ample means and a great deal of intelligence from educating his children. You take the good with the bad. As Dr Gardner guides us it is society hysteria that makes the problem not pedophilia.

Cut this good father a break. Reunite him with his loved ones.

Pilgrim
Pilgrim
2 years ago

4:19 am, what is your position in the Biden Administration?

Pilgrim
Pilgrim
2 years ago

Lol.. truth.

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

Satire at its best

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

I hope that Rhode Island takes an interest in protecting these kids. God knows Connecticut didn’t.

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

This is no one’s business but Christopher Ambrose. He has legal custody. Those brats better go back to him right away. He alone can make all decisions for them. Not their mom. Not this stupid blog. Not this Deckert woman. Not the kids themselves. They have no say until they reach 18.

Rhode Island better watch their step. Connecticut is a sovereign state and the Connecticut Courts decided.

They should arrest the owner of this shitty blog for interfering with the privacy rights of Mr. Ambrose. Enough is enough.

Enough is definitely enough.
Enough is definitely enough.
2 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Whoever “they” are, should they arrest you, 10:48 pm?

This is no one’s business but We the People. The Connecticut “family court” system has ignored state and federal laws since 1984.

Your use of the term, “those brats” was your decision. He alone already made all decisions for them for three long years. Not their mom. Not any blog, website or documentary film maker, either. Look forward to the film to see what actually happened.

You wrote, “Rhode Island better watch their step.” That looks like a threat.

You wrote, “Connecticut is a sovereign state and the Connecticut Courts decided.”

State governments can’t break laws.

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Does sovereign state mean it’s ok to abuse children, mentally and sexually? If it does you are in the right place so you can get by with it and not be punished. It’s pretty clear why you want to live there. Do you ever pray for these “brats” to get out of your control and that you will get what’s coming to you in hell? I do every day and night. But maybe prayer is not allowed in a sovereign state…sounds about right. If you even knew how to pray I would guess it would be for you to get what you want and screw the “brats”.

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

If they are such brats why do you (Chris) want them back so bad? I know the answer to that and so does everyone else, you don’t fool anyone with half a brain.

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

Let’s hope Rhode island has their shit together. We need a safe harbor in New England. Connecticut, New York , New Jersey, Maine, and Vermont are pediphia heaven.

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

I love how Luthman pretends to be clutching his pearls over a 16-year-old sleeping with a 23-year-old, yet he also was outraged that he could get in trouble as a 40 year old man for having sex with a 14-year-old prostitute. He thinks age shouldn’t matter if it’s a sex worker. Please stop pretending to have a morality that you don’t actually possess. Everyone can see right through it.

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

Hugs and kisses?
Eww
This rebuttal just made you worse

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

“The French are assholes”
– Lloyd Christmas

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Richard did you sleep with a 14 year old? What is this all about?

Not Chris
Not Chris
2 years ago

I’m not Chris. Nor do I live or work in Hollywood.

I am a long time reader of this blog from well before the Riordan story days and God forbid I actually have a working memory and can remember much of what I’ve read. You actually seem angry that I can remember things.

You wrote about statutory rape laws in different countries, but I believe you also wrote about how it was a damn shame that a man who drove underage prostitutes across state lines was charged with sex trafficking minors. They shouldn’t count as minors if they are sex workers, you seemed to argue.

Give me an effing break. Please don’t sit there acting like you are the morality police.

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

For the love of God, please Rhode Island save these kids

Pilgrim
Pilgrim
2 years ago

R.I. DCYF has a long patterned history of enabling and facilitating child trafficking, sexual abuse and general deprivation of human rights of children. They will NOT do a God-damned thing until they get their orders from O’Neil and Cuda.

The DCYF is a highly politicized Department, chocked full of fundraising bundlers for majority power players. I know people on the inside, and they say it’s uglier than ever before, with political retribution for whistleblowers.

This article is from five years ago, but “improvements” have been minimal.
https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2018/10/05/federal-audit-finds-fault-with-ri-dcyf-but-notes-heavy-caseload/9698393007/

They DETEST local Investigative Journalists like Jim Hummel, Ted Nesi, Tim White, etc. Now they detest Frank Parlato and Richard Luthmann.

Trust me, if there is one thing I know, it is Rhode Island: the powerful protect the powerful, thats the only order of business. Get out of line and they will try to bury you.

Pilgrim
Pilgrim
2 years ago

Ohhhh boy!!!! I cannot wait!

I wonder what Ambrose will do:

1. Will he pull a Richard Speck, and grow out his hair and take progesterone to grow breasts and enjoy it?
2. Will he cry like a little bitch and do it begrudgingly?
3. Will he prevent his own rape by “beating off” his attackers?

What oh what will little Chrissy do?!?!?!

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago
Reply to  Pilgrim

The only one likely to go to jail is Karen.

“ I wonder what Riordan will do:

1. Will she pull a Richard Speck, and cut her hair and take testosterone to grow a beard and enjoy it?
2. Will she cry like a little bitch and do it begrudgingly?
3. Will she prevent her own rape by “finger banging” her attackers?

What oh what will little Karen do?!?!?!

Frank Parlato
Admin
2 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Cute Chris.

Pilgrim
Pilgrim
2 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Good one, Chris.

Anonymous
Anonymous
2 years ago

May God help and protect everyone working to expose the horrible secrets of the Connecticut family court system.

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