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I have sent this to all major newspapers and media outlets coast to coast.  Forward if you feel you this message speaks to you.



SIT DOWN AMERICA DAY
LABOR DAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2003
 
 
As the mother of four, a woman divorced and separated
from family, and an American citizen who loves my
country, I would like to share a message with you.
Let us make this Labor Day, September 1, 2003 Sit Down
America Day.  This Labor Day, please America join with
me in sitting down.
We, as a nation, are moving too fast.
We, as a neighbor in our global village, are out of
control.
We, as a country in spirit,
 have forgotten how to
weave the fabric in family that binds our nature
together.
 
This past February, 2003 I traveled to the country of
Costa Rica to protect and save my daughter, Nicole
Helene Deniken, from the Academy at Dundee Ranch, a
behavior modification institute advertised by its
World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP)
as a "Paradise for Troubled Teens."  It was everything
but this.  Nicole endured 6 months of physical and
psychological "treatment" from staff who were neither
degreed nor licensed in practicing
 medicine or
psychology.  Most were former hotel and tourist
industry workers.  The director was degreed in
mechanical engineering.  Nicole was sent in violation
of a 1996 North Carolina custody order in which I am
the defendant.  Even though I formally declared that I
forbid my daughter, Nicole to be sent out of nation to
be treated for her issues of family, I was powerless
to stop this.  I contacted family attorneys, legal
aid, police and politicians, family and friends.  No
one stopped Nicole from enduring 6 months of stress
and trauma because she had been labeled a "troubled
teen."  
 
I arrived in Costa Rica in February and visited
Nicole.  I found her to be confused, depressed,
stunned, traumatized.  I went to remove her since I
had joint custody.  The staff held me off implementing
the wishes of her father who paid the $30,000
treatment fee.
 
 
The second week after arriving in Costa Rica, a
custody hearing was called for by Nicole?s father and
held in Goldsboro, North Carolina.  Judge Joseph
Setzer awarded full custody to Nicole?s father even
though she was sent out of nation and I followed to
guarantee her safety.  I faxed this judge asking for a
postponement.  I could not get anyone in Goldsboro,
including legal aid, to represent us.  Nevertheless, I
stayed in Costa Rica working for her release.
 After
networking for 3 months, I was able to convince a
Costa Rican prosecuting attorney to visit this
facility.  Fernando Vargas closed the facility within
hours of his initial visit.   He informed the 200
mostly white American teens that they were protected
by United Nations Human Rights.  If aged fifteen or
older, they could leave if they felt harmed.  Eight
American teens, worth at least $30,000 each, running
barefoot down the dirt road outside of the compound
carrying their belongings in
 pillowcases is one of the
moments captured by the leading Spanish newspaper, Al
Dia.  Many teens returned home to their families.
Some did not.  They have been forwarded to other WWASP
programs in the United States and Jamaica that have
been cited with worse conditions than Dundee. Even
though I went to the compound on the Friday following
the closing I was not allowed to see her.  In an act
of deception, the Dundee staff took her off campus and
flew her out of San Jose as I was told to wait in the
Director?s office with a representative from
 the
American Embassy.  Nevertheless, in God?s full grace,
Nicole safely returned to these United States on May
23, 2003, her 15th birthday.  In June, I returned to
America to no home with no money.  I had sold my car
to pay for this journey.  I lost a family and home
that I had built and loved in Virginia to yet another family custody court as I decided to leave for Costa Rica to protect my daughter.  If I had to, I would
do it again.
My daughter was lucky.  She roomed with a girl
 from
Alabama whose mother paid two men to break into her
home, handcuff her in front of her boyfriend, remove
her from her home and escort her to Dundee.  There are
more stories.  I am gathering them on a YAHOO! GROUP
site,
[email protected]
 
Wilson Acres, Apartment E3
Greenville, North Carolina   27834
(252) 329 - 8922

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Instituti ... Alive/post

I have posted this entry to the Group forum I began last week to drum up stories.  If you have a story to share, please post it to the site above.  I have alerted national media to this site.  International media is next.  

Please share your stories.  We, as a nation, need to hear you.  

And, of course, I let it be known I found this on Fornits' which is a great forum.  Thank you, Fornits' Home 4 Wayward Forums.
In peace,
Su

If you go to the SEARCH WWF on this site and put in [email protected] in the KEYWORDS SECTION, you can find her posts...she is listed as ANONYMOUS as a USERNAME.

Thanks for the inquiry...
Su

An email-received Joke~


Another reason I am not a lawyer:

>>A Charlotte, NC, lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive
>cigars,
>>>then insured them against fire among other things. Within a month
>having
>>>smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars and without yet
>having
>>>made even his first premium payment on the policy, the lawyer filed
>claim
>>>against the insurance company. In his claim, the lawyer stated the
>cigars
>>>were lost "in a series of small fires."
>>>The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason:
>that the
>>>man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion. The lawyer
>sued... and
>>>won! In delivering the ruling the judge agreed with the insurance
>company
>>>that the claim was frivolous. The Judge stated nevertheless, that
>the
>>lawyer
>>>held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the
>cigars
>>>were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against
>fire,
>>>without defining what is considered to be "unacceptable fire," and
>was
>>>obligated to pay the claim.
>>>Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the
>Insurance
>>>company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000.00 to the lawyer for
>his loss
>>>of the rare cigars lost in the "fires."
>>>NOW FOR THE BEST PART... After the lawyer cashed the check, the
>insurance
>>>company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!!!! With his own
>insurance
>>>claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him,
>the
>>>lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property
>and was
>>>sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000.00 fine.
>>>This is a true story and was the 1st place winner in the recent
>Criminal
>>>Award Contest. ONLY IN AMERICA !!! NO WONDER THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES
>THINK
>>>WE'RE NUTS!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Instituti ... tillAlive/

Description Category: Families
A tribe of American Teens who have managed to stay alive while being institutionalized in behavior modification institutes, boot camps, wilderness programs, and reform schools in and out of these United States of America.


I have started this group to collect data nationwide. Please pass this information along so I can build a database specifically from the survivors.

Thank you.
Su Flowers

I will alert all members to this website of Fornits' Home.

Exactly, Ginger...we need to get back to loving our children and that is what I am making room for in this society...I am an adult who managed to get to a healthy space in my life now...My brethren adults who spoke truth to power, where are they?  In prison or worse, on medications believing that they can't handle the troubles or the troubled teens in their life.

Keep your head up, children...I am working my butt off for all of you.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Instituti ... tillAlive/

Description  Category: Families  
A tribe of American Teens who have managed to stay alive while being institutionalized in behavior modification institutes, boot camps, wilderness programs, and reform schools in and out of these United States of America.  


I have started this group to collect data nationwide.  Please pass this information along so I can build a database specifically from the survivors.

Thank you.
Su Flowers

I will alert all members to this website of Fornits' Home.

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In response to what happened to Su Flowers' daughter, Nicole was sent out of Costa Rica while I waited in Director Fran's office to see her on the morning of May 23, three days after Prosecutor Vargas went in per my legal work.This heroic gentleman interviewed Nicole and informed her she could leave with him if she wanted to.  The Dundee staff made Nicole talk to her father by telephone who told her that if she left with this prosecutor, she would have to repeat the program.  Because of this control and manipulation, Prosecutor Vargas informed all the teens in Dundee of their right to leave at age 15 because of their protection under UN Child Rights Act. Prosecutor Vargas put his career in jeopardy that day in a bold move that rescued many American teens from the helacious nature of the Academy at Dundee Ranch.

The highlights of this story:
Last fall after Nicole became upset and then hospitalized once again living in her father's house in NC,  she was sequestered from me in New Jersey in the home of her father's brother Richard Deniken in violation of a 1996 NC Custody Order several weeks before being illegally taken out of country... Nicole and I were allowed only one telephone conversation for 2 hours which took place the night before she was taken out of country by Linda Deniken, her aunt and Kevin Deniken, her father. Ironically, the celebrity families of the Osbourne's and then Eminem's mother were being shown on network television that evening.  As I talked with Nicole that night I kept thinking, if they only knew what is truly happening in family these days...


I was powerless to stop her exportation even though I had full legal right to do so.  I contacted the police, attorneys, and politicians.I could not prevent this.
After accumulating two months of information about Dundee and other places, I knew I had to do something.
Plus, I believe I was able to feel the pain of my daughter as a mother will. She has confirmed this. One night in January I actually felt and thought that they had killed her.


On January 22, 2003 Nicole's father, Kevin Deniken, through his attorney, Janice Head of Mount Olive filed for a full custody hearing to take away my rights to be the mother of my three children, Jessica Sue, Nicole Helene, and Daniel Edward Deniken.

I left for the country of Costa Rica on Lincoln's birthday, Feb. 12 2003 only by selling the one asset I had, my new used car.
On February 17, the first day I saw Nicole, I knew she was in severe traumatic stress.  That evening I called her father and told him so.  I begged him to take her out of there.  He told me to 'get the f*** out of Costa Rica because I was ruining her tretment.'

I returned to Dundee two days later with Tim Rogers of the Tico Times and Adilia Zuniga Caravaca, an attorney from Allajuela, Costa Rica who was kind enough to donate her services for the release of my daughter.  Since I had joint custody, I should have been able to get Nicole out.  Adilia showed strength and determination to make this happen when she confronted Narvin Lichfield and his staff.  Narvin cursed me out and told me I had no right to be on his private property.  I informed him that as long as my daughter was in his 'care', I had every God-given right to be on his property.  He then called the police.  After careful negotiations I was allowed to see Nicole for several minutes.  She despaired when it was clear to both she and I that she was not leaving Dundee with me, yet...
A few days later, Adilia generously wrote and filed a Habeas Corpus with the Constitutional Court of Costa Rica on Nicole's behalf.  It was rejected as not suitable for this court, but after I spoke with the Supreme Court Justice, he turned the matter over to the Criminal jurisdiction.  Not much came of this.

 On February 27, Judge Joseph Setzer of Goldsboro, NC awarded Kevin full custody even though I did my best to send in representation while I was in Costa Rica. Two attorneys in Goldsboro that I had previously employed refused the case. The Monday before this hearing, Adilia contacted the Goldsboro, NC  Legal Aid and was informed that they could arrange for a motion to postpone.  On Wednesday, the day before the trial I received a fax from the Legal Aid office telling me that they could not represent me at all, giving me a list of things for me to do to file my own motion.  It would have taken me a week to do everything on that list which came to me less than 18 hours before the hearing.  I faxed Judge Setzer the morning of the hearing alerting him to the fact that I was working on behalf of the safety of my daughter and to please postpone judgment.  This faxed letter is in the court records on file in the family court of Goldsboro, North Carolina.  In effect, her father paid for her imprisonment in another country and then paid to take away my rights as her mother and her rights to be in my care.  Without our presence, our rights as mother and child were discounted and dismissed.

Throguh March, April, and May, I networked  with PANI (the family service agency), the American Embassy, different courts, student activists like Mariela Solano, musicians, Monte Verde Quakers, new friends throughout the country, many strangers and the press.  If you had a conversation with me in Costa Rica, you knew why I was there.

I had one hope left.  On May 15, with a document written by another wonderful Costa Rican attorney, Alvaro Jimenez Calderon of San Jose,
I sought to employ help from the Athenas prosecutor in the criminal court of Costa Rica.  This fine gentleman, Fernando Vargas took my plea sincerely and seriously.  After he researched Dundee on the Internet, he went to Dundee on May 20 and the rest is history.


The full adventure  is filled with stories of the Grace, Blessings and Miracles that I lived in coming from many people as I travelled, networked, and stayed in Costa Rica until Nicole was safe. From the United States, Carey Bock was with me every step of the way by email and phone.  She was my right hand angel.  Patti Thompson, Nicole's boyfriend's mom from Roanoke, Va was my left hand angel.


Two weeks after May 23, I returned to America. Right now, I have no home to speak of except to stay on the couches of Good Samaritans right now.
However, I have no problem with this. Keeping my voice active in the Light during these days of darkness for children in America is my reward.  These days must end.  Our children are being taken from us in a powerful scheme of conformity in this country.  I cannot believe the number of children who have died because they were labelled and instituted as troubled.  Yet I must believe to share this ugly, horrific truth.  I am blown away by the knowledge that teens have been killed in institutes and their parents have not spoken a word.

I work now to release into this global community the truth of this holocaust in  America of  teens.  My daughter could have died in one of these places.  Read her words.  She is willing to speak truth to power.  She has been labelled "troubled" as well as bipolar.   She is nothing more than very aware and spirited.  
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I know if Nicole was killed, I would be at the White House NOW...

If you want to help me, please email me at
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