January 21, 2004

Ginger Warbis
webmistress@fornits.com
P.O. Box 67
Monessen PA 15062

Subj:	Warning about publication of Slanderous Material on the Internet 
Dear M’am,
I am writing to inform you that I am aware of the slanderous materials on your website about me personally as the Director of Academy at Ivy Ridge. As a result of these postings, I have been fearful of my safety and that of my family.

I am writing first to ask you to remove such defamatory attacks that have been posted on your site webmistress. Second, I am giving you the opportunity to remove the element of intent from the use of this defamatory information. The organizations that are being assaulted all have trustworthy programs that are being regulated by state agencies.

Third, this letter will serve as a warning that tough legal action will follow, if the request and warnings are not complied with. In most states, and particularly here in New York, such organizations and the named individuals have well-established rights that protect them against the dissemination of such slanderous and otherwise harmful information.

Some of these rights include protection against common law slander (prohibiting the publication of defamatory information about legitimate educational organizations) and the civil laws that prohibit intentional interference with the right of contract, providing strict rules about false publication of ideas aimed at denying the right of such organizations to conduct their licensed business without harassment or illegal interference. Individuals who are slandered also have the right to file a tort claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress where the slander is particularly egregious.

I trust that you and your organization will be more careful in the future about the nature and content of derogatory criticism of legitimate types of institutions which are serving the community and the parents of pre-delinquent children who are required to attend a highly-structured educational program simply because they have previously failed to succeed at home, in their communities, at church., and within the public school system.

Simply stated, such programs deserve your praise not your unwanted, unjustified, and untruthful criticism and misrepresentation of their worthy programs.