By Richard Luthmann
In her petition were abuse allegations, including allegations of molestation perpetrated by Ambrose against his children.
The juvenile court appointed Mia an attorney– Michael G. Curley of Mutha Cullina, LLP.
In investigating the matter, Curley emailed Nancy Stewart, Kelly Burke, and Michelle Peterson of CT DCF about allegations against Ambrose on June 6, 2023.
I have not gotten confirmation from my client (or her mother) that they are willing to meet at this time.
When we spoke previously, you indicated that the most recent report included allegations against Mia’s father, including a new allegation of penetration. This is the first time I have learned that there are allegations in the most recent report regarding the safety of the children in their mother’s home. Is that correct? Or did I misunderstand your email below?
Could you please provide a copy of the most recent report? Or a summary of the allegations?
Thank you,
MICHAEL G. CURLEY
Curley’s request was reasonable: “Could you please provide a copy of the most recent report? Or a summary of the allegations?”
The response from the CT DCF Program Supervisor Michelle Peterson is where things get strange:
Good afternoon Attorney Curley,
As Nancy states below, we have been unable to schedule a time to meet with Mia and Matthew in their mother’s home. This is necessary in order to assess their safety given that they are now residing with their mother. Per our own policy, we must continue to make attempts to see the children, mother, and her home.
We have an active assessment related to allegations against both parents. We have received several reports – some of which were not accepted because of duplicate information. Our most recent report is related to the children in mother’s care and allegations that they are not attending school, have missed appointments with providers, and are not taking medication as needed.
Another recent report raised general concerns about the children in mother’s care given there is a court order in effect that says she is only to have supervised contact.
These are all allegations that must be addressed with mother and her children, however we have not been given access to her household thus far.
We would greatly appreciate it if you could arrange a time for us to meet with your client, Mia, and her mother this week. While we also want to meet with Mia’s brother Matthew, I understand that he is not your client. We would like to be able to schedule a time that is mutually agreeable, but frankly our timeframe for doing so has long since passed. We would appreciate it if you could help bring people to the table.
Thank you,
Michelle Peterson
Let’s break this down.
Attorney Curley makes a specific request: “Could you please provide a copy of the most recent report [of sexual penetration]? Or a summary of the allegations?”
DCF Program Supervisor Michelle Peterson evades addressing the report of sexual penetration.
There is no further mention of the sexual penetration allegations. She does not deny they exist, and she does not agree to provide them.
She says: “We have an active assessment related to allegations against both parents.”
In plain English, that means Mia Ambrose complained about sexual penetration by Ambrose. But there were also complaints against Riordan. What are these complaints?
- The Ambrose children are not attending school. [When this exchange occurred, June 6, 2023, it was at the end of the school year, and Matthew, 16, and Mia, 16, were in Riordan’s care. Matthew and Mia were attending school with greater regularity than with Ambrose. Mia missed only three school days when her father was stalking her. But when she lived with Ambrose, she had 17 unexcused absences. Matthew’s return to his mother was a triumph for his schooling. After he left Ambrose and began to live with his mother, his depression lifted, and he began attending full days of school for the first time since October 2022. While in Ambrose’s care, Matthew had 50 unexcused absences, and because of his depression, he only attended half days when he went to school. DCF failed to find educational or emotional neglect against Ambrose but instead targeted Riordan.
- The Ambrose children missed appointments with providers. [They felt they no longer needed the endless rounds of therapy sessions for depression and trauma because they were forced to live with a man, they said, who abused them. However, Matthew saw his ICAPS counselors in his mother’s home for 14 weeks, and ICAPs reported Matthew was a new person. Of course, once his father got a restraining order, Matthew and his siblings were homeless.]
- The Ambrose children are not taking medication as needed. [The teens did not need the anti-depression medications now that they were not forced to live with their father and could live with their mother.]
Who complained about Karen Riordan? You guessed it: Christopher Ambrose.
And the next part is the kicker. What about the sexual penetration allegations?
“We have received several reports – some of which were not accepted because of duplicate information.”
DCF Program Supervisor Peterson stated in writing that it is the policy of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families to not accept multiple reports of sexual penetration because of “duplicative information.”
Let me say that again.
DCF Program Supervisor Michelle Peterson confirmed that DCF would “sometimes” decline to investigate multiple credible allegations that a parent is raping or sexually abusing a child.
But DCF will investigate truancy, missed doctors’ appointments, and medication compliance.
DCF gives no reasons or stated policy standards for why some reports are accepted and others are not. This is the textbook definition of unreasonable. It is arbitrary and capricious, and the CT Superior Court should ask ‘Why?’
Was Mia dressed in a purple shirt, and is it DCF policy not to take seriously multiple, specified, and particularized sexual penetration complaints from minors in purple shirts?
Or is it because Mia is brown-skinned and adopted, and her father is white? Is it DCF policy not to accept multiple, specified, and particularized sexual penetration complaints from minors who are black and brown when the alleged perpetrator is white?
DCF Commissioner Vannesa DoranteDCF Commissioner Vannesa Dorantes said of former DCF employee, brown-skinned, Hispanic, Eliezer Rijos, 40, who sexted with a 15-year-old girl but never touched her, “No child or youth should be subjected to or victimized by this type of behavior.”
On the other hand, allegations of sexual penetration by wealthy Chris Ambrose, white as an Albino, by his adopted brown-skinned teen are ignored by her supervisor, Peterson.
Commissioner Dorante saw to it that Rijos was fired on the spot, the girl was interviewed and offered therapy, an investigation was made in the DCF to make sure Rijos sexted no one else — and DCF referred his conduct to the police, where he was arrested.
Rijos sexted a girl. He was arrested.
In the meantime, DCF is fighting to get the Ambrose kids back from NY to CT to place them in the hands of Ambrose.
Suppose DCF investigated Ambrose as they did the lowly Rijos. In that case, it might divert the cash flow Ambrose pays family law attorney Alex Cuda and possibly divert it for a less deserving criminal defense attorney.
On Dorante’s watch, an affluent abuser can get the wholesale endorsement of DCF about how wonderful he is.
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What an uneducated rant this was.
I wonder if the song, Bad Boys ever plays in Chris head these days?
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/navy-seal-connecticut-pedophile-ring/
God bless the Navy Seals.
God bless the Navy Seals. Bring in the seals save the children of Connecticut from the pedophiles and abusers in Connecticut!
God bless the Navy Seals. Bring in the seals save the children of Connecticut from the pedophiles and abusers in Connecticut!
Saying that they ignore the allegation is a LIE. They went to the house to interview and probably examine the children. The mother refused to cooperate and wouldn’t let them see the kids . It says right there in the emails that you shared.
Why did the child never seek medical care for this alleged anal penetration?
DCF employees are said and led by the GALs and the parent who finances the trafficking of their children. I have evidence of dcf employees who acted properly only to then be barraged with information (fraudulent and omitted info) from the gal and demands of action that must be taken.
The untouchable gal (total immunity) asserts herself or himself in every institution established to protect children – dcf, police, therapists, and schools, among others. Anyone who shows resistance is fired or threatened. Dcf employees are often convinced of the narrative allegedly “protected under Hippa but shared because the targeted parent is unstable and dangerous” – and these employees feel they are given the “inside scoop” and their expertise and actions are imperative. The abuse parent expresses thanks, cries and seeks their help – the children who need their protection are discredited and dcf deems them to be “scripted” “brainwashed” or “makes false allegations bc of the mentally ill parent”.
The targeted parent is cut out of all communications and treated like a mentally disturbed person in need of institutionalization. Years go by and cries from children are silenced. They are assigned to court appointed therapists who endorse the false reality that the abusive parent is really the victim of the parent they love and need. Sadism rules.
GALs like Jocelyn Hurwitz (star of: In the Worst Interest of the Child: Trafficking Children through Family Court), Sue Coussineau (who is now running to retirement because of the spotlight thrown on her decades of criminality), Janis LaLiberte, and Candace Fay (who, as a guardian in probate court it was proven that she had a US Veterans forced from his home, locked in a facility without cause, and stole his life savings — but continues her criminal conduct as GAL in family court) each of whom work in lockstep with family court vendors:
1. Custody evaluator Jessica Biren Caverly – who fabricates diagnoses not contained in the DSM-V, makes medical diagnoses without a license, ignores credible psychiatrists, and gives sole custody to the paying parent, and deems the protective parent incompetent and a danger to their children
2. Court clowns: “therapists” “patental supervisors” “psychologists” like Jessica biren Caverly, Robert Horwitz, Linda Smith, Bruce Freedman, William Horn, Deborah Gruen, Sidney Horwitz, and Lisa Kerin, never make a report of abuse or neglect to DCF.
3. They are each mandated reports, and are legally obligated to report suspected abuse or neglect of any child within 12 hours.
4. These court actors are protected by judges. They are given immunity meaning there is no accountability for any of their actions. It’s a license to abuse our children and innocent parents.
5. Caverly will complete an eval and make sure it’s never released for public view or peer review because no credible medical professional will endorse her reports. She’s a protected court cow.
6. Absent any call to dcf caverly appears at ex parte contrived hearings to banish the protective parent from the lives of their children- recommends no contact orders between living parent and children, and tells the judge the kids are in possible imminent harm and immediate change in custody is warranted.
7. The GAL , who in CT is given the super power of the “hearsay rule”- stating a GAL can provide hearsay as fact and the judge accepts it.
8. As FR wrote about years ago- the triangle of corruption: a judge, a custody evaluator, and a GAL is all that’s needed to steal and traffick children to the paying parent.
9. The protective parent is brutalized for years – being dragged through family court for no purpose but to paper a false narrative, fleece life savings, and abuse the targeted parent so badly that by the end of ongoing torment and loss, they begin to appear as they were described years before by the custody evaluator.
10. Most with complex ptsd can barely survive, and to the court criminals delight of a job well done, they announce they were right all along.
Idk. Curley asked for a summary of the most recent report, and the most recent report was summarized. Did he email again saying he specifically wanted the report about sexual abuse?
What? Are you that thick in the head or illiterate? The whole email inquiry from Curly to Simmons was for the sexual abuse (penetration) report. See above.
Simmons ignored the inquiry and deflected to her disingenuous concern about a handful of unexcused absences and the drugs she wishes to force on these teens.
Did you miss the part where the mother did not allow DCF to investigate the allegation? So there was nothing to summarize beyond the fact that there was supposedly an allegation.???
Allow or an appointment was never made?
Not true. The allegation was made when kids in his care.
He was already proven to molest and assault these teens in January 2021. It’s proven. It was covered up by his dcf pals. Evidence is there.
He had custody taken. He’s a molester. See tictok video by robharvey. No doubt.
Sitting judge Levine in Bridgeport CT. In the Wilkinson as well as Lynda Monroe. The state of Connecticut since the 1990s. The case is full of the illegal curruption of the state of Connecticut. Hampden CT put in for arrest of Hartford judges. Hartford refuse to cooperate. Satanic belief protected by religious beliefs. The state of Connecticut is going to be bankrupt when the law suits finally hit the state.
Those moms who have lived through and still endure what Karen and kids are living though know this DCF trick all too well. Some- -Gigi Rodrigues- the father gets custody and then does a termination of parental rights, handing the kid to DCF- bought by the richest pedo or whomever. Rest of us watched as these monsters knew about abuse, hunger and psychological torture of the children by the hands of the father see another place in which NO ONE protects the children or mothers from abuse. The family court creeps ensure that is continues in perpetuity
The GALs and psychologist are the sickest of them all. Gerald Adelman is pretty bad but these GaL and psychologist are straight out of hell. Sons and daughter of Satan.
Perhaps Michelle Peterson or her boss Dorantes can enlighten us as to why they aren’t following their own POLICIES on sexual abuse investigations and reporting? How is it that Michelle Peterson can unilaterally decide to NOT follow their own policies if her negligent disregard of those policies is not supported by her own boss Dorantes?
Ladies, if you need a refresher on your own DCF policies, fortunately those are readily available on the internet and can be found below. Once you’ve had a chance to review your own policies perhaps you can explain to the general public why you aren’t following them (and by what authority you can disregard them? )
https://portal.ct.gov/DCF/Mandated-Reporter-Training/Model-Policy-For-Reporting-Child-Abuse-and-Neglect
Why did Karen refuse the DCF investigation when the children were at her house? Sounds like she had a lot to hide. if Ambrose had refused a DCF investigation, you all would want him hanging from a tree.
DCF wanted to investigate these new allegations, but the mother refused investigation. why? because she knew her lies wouldn’t hold up under scrutiny.
Because to this day, and in the past, whatever we tell DCF gets ignored. It’s like talking to a brick wall, there’s no point in talking to them if they’re not going to help us whatsoever. Sawyer had told Nancy Stewart that there was sexual abuse, and what did she do? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. So what good is talking to DCF if they’re going to place you back with someone who sexually abuses us?
Not to mention our previous encounters with DCF, like Tomas Villanueva, who wouldn’t let my sister comfort my little brother when we were scared and nervous, telling her she “absolutely cannot” comfort my crying little brother, who was 10 at the time. What good is talking to DCF if they won’t even help the children?
Hi Matthew,
I’m so sorry you’ve been let down by the DCF and I really struggle to understand why you guys aren’t receiving any help or support. It’s really upsetting to hear. But? I’ve been in this position myself and remember the early days. In my case, it was initially assumed that I was the problem, which wasn’t true. This probably mirrors your situation. Your workers are likely assuming that Chris is justified in his claims against your mom and that you’ve all been brainwashed.
I think you’ve done the right thing in seeking shelter with your mom and others who love and care about you. And I think you’ve done the best thing by keeping up attendance in school and otherwise demonstrating your competency as young adults. For me, it took a while and definitely several placements, but all these things provided an opportunity for me to demonstrate my strength, integrity and maturity. Because of these things, the truth was eventually made apparent and I was eventually taken seriously. I can only hope the same for you.
I’d really like to see you three returned to the care of your mom. But if these courts and all the dirty players continue to insist on bullying and destroying your beautiful family? I’m glad you have someone like Frank standing up for you. Just remember that even if the DCF isn’t taking you seriously? Your voice matters. And you have every right to ask for what you believe is in your best interests.
You are 16 years old now. Not a little boy anymore. You’ve lived through 3 years of this hell. You can survive anything. Stay strong. Be loud. You matter. And your voice deserves to be heard.
You are strong and powerful, Matthew. I believe in you.
Much love to you and your family.
-my2cents
DCF and the state of Connecticut treats rape victims like criminals…
This is tragic. The reports of sexual assault is becoming criminal. The state of Connecticut doesn’t want to spend the money to prosucute. They have made little effort to support the protectors office. Rapist are being protected. The legislator from Windsor is a prime example. An attempted rape out side a religious house of worship. The Hartford police department careless, with the report. It starts with the police department. They appear uneducated and unwilling to protect women. The Attorney general office trying to make it a hate crime. We have it on record. A woman legislator treated poorly and ignored by the Hartford police department. A police department overcome by crime infested city. Crimes spilling in the the neighboring towns. Jumping off 91 . The residents of Windsor and police department reported asking Hartford for help. They are too busy and overcome. Probably knowing crimes will go unpunished. Maybe that is why the ignored the attempted sexual assault on the legislator. Attorney general William Tong knows there is financial assistance for hate crimes. No money for protection of women. The state of Connecticut ignoring crimes against humanity. Open season on women in our state. Lack of protection for victims of crimes.
Hogwash.
First and foremost, citizens are not obliged to engage w DCF particularly when those DCF workers have an agenda other than protecting the minors involved. If I were her, I wouldn’t engage w this thug either. Simmons hubris with Curly and her brazen dismissiveness of serious allegations demonstrates she is seriously conflicted in her DCF role (and unbothered by serious sex crimes but rather more concerned about some ambiguous timeline she has determined to be reasonable for follow up) and clearly biased against the mother.
OK sure you don’t have to engage I guess. Then why make the report at all? Then why be upset about what they do or do not send in a report since you don’t trust anything they say anyway? This post makes no sense.
Whatever you say, Chris
Not true. The allegations were not known or investigated. They were burying them.
This is Very helpful .
I remember when the show Law and order took a play written by the Frank Report about a man leading an all women’s branding cult. Will law and order do a show on a screen writer gone insane on false allegations of child rape? I can see it now, S.W.A.T team comes to the wrong house while the victims are being raped by the “tip off” man.
Connecticut copperhead Cuda. Former head of the bar. What secrets are you protesting?
Wasn’t there an incident in Hartford? Where the police were distracted as a mother and case worker escaped out the backdoor of DCF? The mother accused of children trafficking? Wonder if the good DCF employees know it wasn’t true or were the assisting a trafficer? In Connecticut one can never tell.
Truly astounding and hits the nail right on the head that DCF and Michele Peterson are willing to investigate truancy and force these kids to take head meds that they don’t need if they’re not being abused but she WONT investigate sexual penetration that has been reported multiple times? Michele Peterson is very clearly more concerned about truancy and forcing head meds than she is sex crimes. She has no business holding her job. It is clear her motives are not to protect these teens but rather is protecting their abuser.
DCF are very glaringly not working in the best interest of these teens but rather covering for the years long errors they’ve made in handling this case. Given the Rijos matter, they are inept, unqualified, immoral and are not capable of protecting anyone given one of their own perpetrated illicit sexual contact with a minor.
This should serve as a warning to the citizens of New Haven County: if you think DCF will protect you and yours against sex crimes, think again. They aren’t in the business of investigating or preventing sex crimes but rather in the business of sedation so that you don’t focus on the sexual abuse you are enduring and you damn well better get your math homework right.
Mia’s attorney seems to be a smart, reasonable person working in her best interest, perhaps she will be able to further bring to light the abuse that these teens have been subjected to and their abuser aided and abetted by corrupt DCF workers which is glaringly evident by this one email exchange and is an absolute outrage!
It is such an outrage that the citizens of New Haven need to express their outrage with their collective voice to demand their local elected officials open an immediate investigation of DCF and the abuse being perpetrated by them not only against the Ambrose-Riordan teens by likely countless children throughout the county.
When is enough going to be enough ? If this one email exchange doesn’t do it what would be enough ? Do perpetrators have to be caught in the actual act of sexual abuse? The victim reporting it multiple times isn’t enough?
Appalling. All of it.
Michelle Pedoson is covering for Ambrose.
She is implying the need medication. Another brainwashed big pharma zombie. Drug them up, then they can be controlled with less resistance.
Another HACK is the CT system of child-trafficking. She needs to be investigated.
Richard, the entire state is ignoring crimes against humanity. Unfortunately it’s bigger business to ignore and sweep under the rug than to admit Connecticut and many other states have a serious problem regarding children’s welfare 🙏
I like how you repeated, DCF Commissioner Vannesa Dorante’s words, to show how seriously she takes her job. Interestingly, she responds without actually answering a direct request for a copy of the abuse. Why is she protecting Chris Ambrose?
Which “professionals” advised DCF in that case?
Connecticut AFCC Inc. Treasurer “Dr.” Robert Horwitz? “Dr.” Biren-Caverly?
If Connecticut AFCC Inc. Treasurer “Dr.” Robert Horwitz advised DCF in that case, did he tell DCF to ignore all disclosures of sexual abuse?
DCF follows “professional” advice in cases involving disclosures of sexual abuse. Mr. Adelman and Mr. Horwitz are very convincing professionals.
Remember: Connecticut AFCC Inc. Director Gerard Adelman was the judge in that case. Connecticut AFCC Inc. Director Gerard Adelman gave those three children to Mr. Ambrose three years ago. All three changed drastically after three years in his “care”.
Who was at fault for putting those three children in that dangerous situation in the first place?
All three children are themselves again. They are again the healthy children they were before Connecticut AFCC Inc. Director and Treasurer took full control of their lives.
If anyone needs to blame anyone: Blame those who funded and enabled Connecticut AFCC Inc. Director Gerard Adelman and Treasurer “Dr.” Robert Horwitz for so many years. Those two “professionals” destroyed thousands of lives.
“I was just following orders from my superiors.”
That argument didn’t work in Nuremberg for the Nazis. But if DCF wants to adopt the defense of those who “looked the other way” on mass murder, it would be fitting. DCF has questions to answer why it looks the other way on sexual abuse and child rape.
“Who was at fault for putting those three children in that dangerous situation in the first place?”
Wrong answer, 12:56 pm
Everything was fine until Ms. Grossman and Mr. Adelman destroyed everything — maybe on purpose.
Dcf takes the direction from the gal and Caverly. They ignored all evidence – ignored the kids and the mother. They did whatever Jocelyn abd Chris told them.
And his brother Neil is an attorney who invented himself into this case and as medical malpractice attorney on the side of hospitals- he would appear and help flip the medical findings. The truth is coming out. No worries.
These kids will prevail and Ambrose will be in prison.
Michelle Peterson is a hired gun for Ambrose. She testified in court before judge Rodrigues and it was evident she had no clue about what occurs under the watch of Ambrose.
Transcripts demonstrate when riordan asked Peterson if she was aware Matthew missed 50 days of school – she said no. Nor was she aware Matthew was removed from his fathers care when taken by ambulance after the school reported concern for the teen as a result of his FRIENDS alerting the administration that Matthew hadn’t been seen in several weeks!
Peterson knew none of this, nor did she know of the rampant, daily drug use in Ambrose’s home, financed and permitted by Ambrose.
Friends, photos and videos confirm partying all night long with Ambrose condoning it. Peterson was unaware and failed to investigate the claims made in court. Ambrose gets a pass on everything, while dcf hunts for reason to find the 57 year old mom and special education teacher of 25 years – to be guilty of something… anything to support Ambrose’s claims that she’s mentally I’ll and brainwashed his teenage children.
Reality: they don’t like you Ambrose. You make them feel devalued, hopeless, powerless and unloved.
They are out and there’s no going back. Anyone who forces their return will be brought up on charges of child abuse and lawsuits are being prepared because eyes are on this case.
Thankful for FR and social media.
It’s over for Ambrose the psychopath.