Paterno and Sandusky Compared to DCF’s Dorantes and Peterson: Parallels of Institutional Neglect?

By Richard Luthmann

HARTFORD, CT — Allegations have arisen surrounding Christopher Ambrose and his adopted Latino children, Mia Ambrose, 16, Matthew, 16, and Sawyer, 13. All three have run away from him and are living in New York. 

He is trying to use the law to force them to return to his home.

Reports suggest that Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) Commissioner Vanessa Dorantes might have overlooked the children’s claims.

DCF Commissioner Vannessa Dorantes 

Rijos vs Ambrose

Last month, DCF’s Commissioner Dorantes acted promptly when a DCF employee, Eliezer Rijos, faced accusations of sending inappropriate texts to a minor he was supervising.

Rijos

Dorantes declared.

“No child or youth should be subjected to or victimized by this type of behavior.”

Allegations of sexual abuse by wealthy Chris Ambrose against his children Mia and Sawyer have been ignored by Michelle Peterson, a DCF Supervisor, despite medical, clinical, and investigative evidence.

Past Echoes in Present

Joe Paterno, the winningest coach in major college football history.

A similar scenario played out years ago at Penn State University. Joe Paterno, then the head football coach, faced criticism for not adequately addressing reports of misconduct by his assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky. Sandusky was convicted in 2012 for the abuse of ten boys, receiving a sentence of 30 to 60 years in prison.

In 2012, Sandusky was convicted on 45 of 48 charges of sexual abuse.

A former Penn State quarterback, Mike McQueary, had reported witnessing Sandusky raping a boy in a Penn State locker room shower in 2001. Paterno informed Penn State officials but did not contact law enforcement. The revelations led to Paterno’s firing in 2011. He died a few months later.

Following this, several high-ranking officials at Penn State received jail sentences related to the case.

Drawing parallels with Paterno and Sandusky – the failure to take seriously, investigate or report credible allegations of abuse against Ambrose to law enforcement by DCF Commissioner Dorantes and DCF Supervisor Peterson might be tempting and help portend Dorantes’ future.

As the Ambrose story gathers national attention, Dorantes’ coming decisions and actions may be pivotal in shaping her legacy.

One thing is certain: When it came to the alleged sexting DCF worker Rijos, Commissioner Dorantes conducted an in-house investigation, confronted Rijos, fired him, referred the matter to police and cooperated with their efforts in his arrest.

She left no stone unturned including interviewing the girl, and almost everyone Rijos came in contact with during his 10 years with DCF.  

Rijos allegedly sexted but is not accused of physically abusing the 15-year-old girl. Meanwhile, DCF failed to do a thorough investigation into one man, with substantial assets, Chistopher Ambrose, who was accused by his children of doing a lot more than sexting. 

 

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Compare Penn State, DCF, NXIVM and the Biden millions.
Compare Penn State, DCF, NXIVM and the Biden millions.
1 month ago

Robert Abrams was in the New York State Assembly, then Borough President of the Bronx and then Attorney General of New York State.

“Widely heralded as a champion and protector of consumer rights”, he somehow didn’t notice when Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman did for twenty years everything AG Abrams said they weren’t allowed to do. Did Bob Abrams then know how political AG Leticia James would be today when he promoted her career aspirations?

Why did Former FBI Director Louis Freeh do what he did in the Penn State case? Why did he give $100K to the Biden family?

https://nypost.com/2021/05/20/ex-fbi-chief-gave-100k-to-biden-grandkid-trust-as-he-sought-future-work-hunter-emails/

Most Americans would happily agree to fewer political labels such as “Democrat” and “Republican”. Most would agree to use more labels such as “right”, “wrong”, “legal” and “illegal” to sort out the purposeful chaos.

Zero tolerance for law breaking in politics, in law and in DCF is a good place to start. Mandatory reporting is mandatory. Crimes against children are crimes. Law and politics aren’t rocket science — and law works much better in politics and rocket science than dishonesty.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

Chris Ambrose is a pedophile.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/staten-island-attorney-richard-luthmann-sentenced-four-years-prison-fraud-and-extortion

Know the background of the writer who sits and judges Ambrose and before that Allan Kassenoff. Yah stand up guy

NiceGuy
NiceGuy
1 month ago

Luthmann-

Incredible disturbing stuff.

It’s important you tell this story!
***

The pedo shit is so goddamn disgusting.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago
Reply to  NiceGuy

Lutthman is a criminal and the irony isn’t lost on him reporting.

NiceGuy’
NiceGuy’
1 month ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Anonymous 7:29-

I’m not a Luthmann fan. He’s an arrogant cunt.

However…..

…..Luthmann paid his debt to society. He is now genuinely trying to help people.
***

There are only four unforgivable crimes:
1. Murder
2. Rape
3. Child Molestation
4. Being a shitty parent

Luthmann is not guilty of any of those crimes.

He’s only guilty of being pompous and delusional which are hardly crimes.

The good news about his pomposity and delusion – the man believes he can change the world for the better. Maybe he’ll be successful.

I wish him well!

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

Stop sitting when you pee – and you won’t be a cunt anymore.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

I agree with everything you wrote expect one thing. You said that this pedophile, CHRIS AMBROSE, waited until the children were old enough to diddle.. pedophiles don’t wait until they are old enough to sexually abuse. These demons ooze over any innocence that they can and gorge on their purity.
They are real live monsters.
Chris Ambrose’s only success in life was based on developing twisted tales for Hollywood. Bones normalized cannibalism. Child sacrifice. Satanic rituals. Chris Ambrose is a living breathing Gargoyle. God is watching him.

NXART
NXART
1 month ago

I think all of what you said is accurate and the rest, if i wrote it, it will get censored. It’s interesting that Chris is crossing state lines to further his predatory acts against children. I’ve actually started having nightmares about this man and look forward to his incarceration.

Pilgrim
Pilgrim
1 month ago

Jesus, Richard. That shit gave me the chills.

Chris Ambrose is not suing anyone. He’s dumb, but he ain’t stupid. Last thing he wants is to get dragged through Discovery. My lawyer would feed his bitch-made ass through a wood-chipper (figuratively speaking of course) if he ever got brave enough to try to sue me.

Brent Musburger
Brent Musburger
1 month ago

Dorantes needs to win two more national championships so she can stay out of jail.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

Your characterization of Paterno’s reporting of McQueary’s report is misleading. Few things to note. I believe who he took McQueary to report the incident to was the College police version of Police Chief (not the same title but effectively the same position and rank). McQueary’s recollection of what he saw has been fluid. Imagine if someone came to you with a wishy washy story. McQueary took the weekend to discuss with his dad before approaching Paterno. No one ever vilified him for not going to the police directly. Of all these folks involved in this it seems the one person who DID act and did bring it forward with some urgency was Paterno.

Nutjob
Nutjob
1 month ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Paterno had more power at Penn State than anyone else. Did you really just try to make him out to be the hero? He went down in flames just like he deserved to.

Similar scenarios with the same kinds of coverups. 🙄
Similar scenarios with the same kinds of coverups. 🙄
1 month ago

Were Connecticut DOJ friends and acquaintances so busy covering for Penn State they had no time to investigate Connecticut AFCC, Inc. perverts in their 2014-2015 “five-agency public corruption investigation”?

“… When you read the other communications we’ve seen, the NCAA is saying ‘we have an image problem.’ So it looks like the NCAA was looking to improve its own image at the expense of Penn State. And to do that, they were orchestrating an outcome with Freeh to make it happen … A lot of people were hurt by the sanctions brought down by the NCAA, and to think it was achieved possibly by this coordination by Freeh and the NCAA makes me very, very angry. …”

https://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/11863293/court-documents-indicate-ncaa-freeh-investigators-worked-together-penn-state-nittany-lions-investigation

“Build it and they will come.”
“Build it and they will come.”
1 month ago

“Connecticut joins a lawsuit against AFCC, Inc. alleging coercive tactics …”

… could never be a headline?

https://www.wshu.org/connecticut-news/2023-09-26/connecticut-joins-a-lawsuit-against-amazon-alleging-coercive-tactics

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

So now Frank a criminal is having his buddy Luthmann, also a criminal, writing an article about corruption?! The irony isn’t loud on me. Who are these criminals to write about any type of corruption given their pasts?!
I would read what they write with a great deal of caution. Wouldn’t want another innocent man being wrongfully accused of heinous things without verifiable proof.
As we have learned select videos from dropboxes and a 5 minute TikTok don’t negate the thousands of files that the courts took into account

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago
Reply to  Anonymous

I don’t give a hoot about ANYTHING but the FACT that these kids have repeatedly stated that they are terrified to go back to a man who adopted children. Not only have they literally begged not to go back to a sexually, physically and emotionally abusive person, their actions prove that they are in fear

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago
Reply to  Anonymous

As if it’s not possible that the mom coached them and that court officials didn’t recognize that. Cmon it’s so obvious

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FafHAKHQQD0

Chris be stylin wit he gangsta cap moves.
Chris Ambrose is a psycopathic egg head boob. The only people who condone his pedophile operation are either paid off or understand his perverted obsession to dominate. All these SOBs are like “mentally challenged” inbred dogs pissing on their territory, trying to bury their bones. No pun intended, but yeah, Bones. Dude worked on a show about an obsession with people who eat human flesh. References to child sacrifice, and of course, bones. The production actually had an actual judge “ consult “ in the writing room repeatedly.
Hollywood and politics are one big circle jerk.

Bone on sickos.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

Chris is dumb as fudge. The more he does this the more the kids and the world hate him. He’s like baby huey on crack.

Team Packers
Team Packers
1 month ago
Reply to  Anonymous

—Chris is dumb as fudge.

Well, he’s had his fudge packed quite a few times. Call it a cumulative effect.

Connecticut “lawyers” 🙄
Connecticut “lawyers” 🙄
1 month ago

… “Unless the state argued that some kind of electronic device was used to beat Jennifer Dulos or anyone else over the head, there is zero connection, other than, as we heard, ‘Oh, we would like to get that. There are all sorts of things in people’s homes and computers,’” Schoenhorn argued. …

https://connecticut.news12.com/arguments-wrap-on-police-search-of-farmington-home-in-jennifer-dulos-investigation

It’s an evil circus. 🎪
It’s an evil circus. 🎪
1 month ago

Had Gerard Adelman been the guardian ad litem in the Dlos case, he probably would have joined that senseless sinister banter to say “… Remember that old joke: When did you stop beating your wife? …”

Jan G. Public
Jan G. Public
1 month ago

Shut the state down. Federal take over. These pedophilias and politicians need a political prosecutorial ass whooping. Televised for public views family criminals.

Pilgrim
Pilgrim
1 month ago

When its an entry-level agency counselor like Rijos, Dorrantes and Pedoson take swift and decisive action.

When its a rich, white Democrat Party operative like Ambrose, they ignore, dismiss them eventually slow-walk any “investigation”. Dorrantes and Pedoson need to be IMMEDIATELY FIRED AND CHARGED!!!!!!!!

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago
Reply to  Pilgrim

Lots of guys named “Chris Ambrose” in America, Pilgrim.

Are you sure he’s actually a “Democrat Party operative”?

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s the mandatory Newport training with the fatherhood initiative. All Connecticut father’s to be engaged in the lives of their y. Pediphia or not.

another “Kids for Cash” coverup
another “Kids for Cash” coverup
1 month ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Same as the mandatory guardian ad litem / attorney for minor child training in Connecticut around 2014. The New Haven Department of Justice office claimed to be investigating “public corruption” in 2015. The DOJ said five agencies were investigating the public corruption. That’s a lot of agencies.

Somehow, those five agencies missed “Dr.” Kenneth Robson’s child custody primer. Robson’s custody primer was distributed at the mandatory Connecticut training. According to Robson’s child custody primer, all disclosures of sexual abuse of children were to go to the guardians ad litem, not law enforcement.

So, what happened to the children’s disclosures of sexual abuse in the Ambrose case?

When children disclosure sexual abuse in Connecticut family court cases, what’s supposed to happen next? Where’s a printout of the Connecticut family court system policy?

Does Connecticut’s policy look anything like Newport’s policy? Does Newport’s policy look anything like Dr. Kenneth Robson’s custody primer?

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago
Reply to  Anonymous

“Crime schools” and “crime traditions” instead of “mystery schools” and “mystery traditions” will take a while to catch on and then people will get used to real words for real things, again.

“… Mysteriously, the entire case file for Tirella’s wrongful-death lawsuit has vanished from the Rhode Island Judicial Archives. In 1990, the dossier on the police investigation of the case was reported missing from the Newport Police Department. Even the negative of the photograph of the crashed 1966 Dodge Polara station wagon, which made the front page of the Newport Daily News the next day, disappeared from the archives at the Newport Historical Society. …”

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/9c6ac248-1732-4219-9836-889e56b429d4

Pilgrim
Pilgrim
1 month ago
Reply to  Anonymous

5:37, very true. It does not disqualify rapist or pedophile fathers.

In NY, registered pedophile and Hillary Clinton inner circle member, Anthony Weiner has joint custody of his underage son, whom he photographed while sending dick pics to a child.

The United Nations wants to legalize pedophilia as well: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-united-nations-now-promotes-adults-having-sex-with-minors

Here is a gushing bio of king pedo: https://sdgs.un.org/panelists/justice-edwin-cameron-30123

Someone Who Knows
Someone Who Knows
1 month ago

True story and thank you for sharing this comparison.

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