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IS ISABELLE ZEHNDER PLAYING HIDE THE BALL?

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Anonymous:
Friday, June 8, 2007

Isabelle Zehnder and Sue Scheff - Team work

Sue Scheff and Isabelle Zehnder believe in team work. They not only work with each other but they work with a group of other professionals who all share the same goals - to keep families together whenever possible and to help find safe alternatives when it is not possible.

Isabelle Zehnder is the Founder and CEO of Positive Family Solutions, LLC, and the Founder and President of the Coalition Against Institutionalized Child Abuse (CAICA).

Sue Scheff is the Founder and President of Parents Universal Resources Experts (PURE) and the author of At Wits' End (coming soon).

Today more than ever families are seeking outside help for their children and teens. Today more than ever parents are enrolling their kids into programs and facilities without really understanding what they are getting their child into. They don't realize they are dealing with an unregulated industry that has no governmental oversight.

While both Sue and Isabelle wish all families could stay together and resolve their issues at home that is not always possible. There is a rise in judges giving parents and teens the option to spend a year in a program rather than face a criminal record that will follow them for the rest of their lives. Parents and teens often choose this option.

And often parents are faced with issues with their teens that they feel they cannot resolve on their own. They need outside intervention and often need it quickly. There are times things are so out of control at home that there is no other option but to seek outside intervention.

Often they find Sue and Isabelle asking for advice as to where to send their child. If these parents are turned away the likelihood of their child being placed into a potentially abusive environment is high.

Read the rest here

http://isabellezehnder-suescheff.blogspot.com/

Anonymous:
Only way to believe Izzy has cut ties with Scheff/Pure is a public announcement by Isabelle Zehnder, CEO, President of CAICA;or perhaps by Izzy's Board of Directors, stating why.

Izzy does claim to have a Board of Directors.

Does Izzy think she can simply remove this ONE Whitmore Blog from her blog page; and eliminate any damage she has caused; without, at least, a public apology?
  What about the "upcoming Whitmore blog" which is advertised; telling her readership to "stay tuned" because this blog will be based on the transcripts and testimony from the ongoing Whitmore civil case?

Sure, Izzy can delete this ONE Whitmore Blog; and put forth the appearance of doing the "right thing."  But, this Whitmore Blog has been on the internet for months; and seems to have served her purpose.
Sue Scheff's Whitmore Blog remains on the internet.
More Whitmore Blogs have been advertised, and one even has a title: "Whitmore Academy, The Secret Shhhh" and these BLOGS will most probably be written and published.

Who do you think you are kidding, IZZY?

Anonymous:
I agree guest - Izzy is simply playing hide the ball, IMO.

My guess is the flack that Alex took for even being remotely associated with CAICA is what convinced her to clean house.  Only problem is, she didn't really clean house.  She swept it all under the rug.  

Poor Izzy.  Dufus that she is, she thinks she can just hide the mess she created.   She forgets all the advocates and survivors who are fighting this industry and consider her to be more foul than pond scum are not going away but rather, multipying in number.

ZenAgent:
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--- Quote from: ""Izzy"" ---CAICA recently received e-mail and voice-mail correspondence regarding this Blog, and most recently an e-mail where the writer states “the Whitmore was criminally charged, Whitmore is gone, shut down and shamed, and Cheryl is forbidden to open any such facility in Utah again.”

This person has obviously not done his or her research - those facts are incorrect. First, the Sudweeks were not criminally charged for abusing children at the Whitmore. Second, Cheryl was not forbidden from opening any facility in Utah again. She goes on to say CAICA is worried because we referred children there. CAICA is not a referral agency so never referred any child there.


The e-mail and phone call CAICA received came within days of each other and were both defamatory and threatening in nature.
--- End quote ---

As the author of the "e-mail" mentioned above, I'd like to respond:  I didn't send her an e-mail, I left a comment on the blog.  She had forgotten to set comments to administrator approval at the time.

The comment was:

You must be joking...three countries have gone after the Sudweeks, they are confirmed criminals. If you really believed the rubbish you were posting, you wouldn't hide behind the disclaimer. "Hearsay" has to be proven at some point. Can you do it? Also, you're focusing on some anonymous parent as the root cause of the Sudweeks' problems - I only wish one family could have an impact like that on an abusive program. I don't need a disclaimer about the abuse - it's proven. Why did Cheryl cop a plea bargain? If she were innocent, she should have gone the distance to clear her name. Your reputations will not be improved by this activity, only worsened. Whitmore's gone, shut down and shamed, and Cheryl is forbidden to open any such facility in Utah again. Your activities look slightly desperate - are you worried about possible legal action from families you referred to Whitmore? Keep defending convicted criminals, you're doing a huge favor for the drive to eradicate these programs.

Posted by Impure
April 8, 2007 9:20 AM

Since she had deleted the post, Iz was free to have a go at a rebuttal - and picked one sentence out of the entire comment.  Even then, she was wrong.

Izzy wrote:
"First, the Sudweeks were not criminally charged for abusing children at the Whitmore."

From the Deseret Morning News, September 22, 2006:

"Sudweeks, 51, pleaded no contest to four charges of attempted hazing, all class C misdemeanors. She was originally charged with six counts of child abuse, class A misdemeanors, and two counts of hazing, one a class A misdemeanor and the other a class B misdemeanor.


Those were criminal charges, Iz.


Again from Iz:
"Second, Cheryl was not forbidden from opening any facility in Utah again."

From the Deseret Morning News, September 22, 2006:

as Juab County Attorney Eldridge said, "It addresses some of the concerns I have — not all of them — but it resolves Mrs. Sudweeks to a be a law-abiding citizen for a year. Even if we got a conviction, that's all the probation she would have been given anyway. It requires her to pay a fine and do community service.  And it shuts her down, at least here in Juab County, so they can't do business here. I believe it effectively shuts them down in the state of Utah,"[/b]  

Sounds permanent and state-wide to me.  Eldridge sent the details of the plea and a letter from Cheryl Sudweeks admitting to "attempting" to haze four kids to the Utah licensing board, which is why he said they were shut down in the state.  Considering the hassles with licensing the Whitmore had already gone through, I can only hope even Utah would deny them.

I knew she didn't directly refer, but at the time I wrote the comment, I thought it likely that a desperate parent asked Iz for help, Iz passed them onto Scheff, and Scheff referred them to the Whitmore.  There didn't seem to be any other reason for Iz to participate in such a ludicrous defense of a proven abusive facility.  

After all, Iz, you claim it's all for the kids.  Whitmore kids don't count?

Last from Izzy:
"The e-mail and phone call CAICA received came within days of each other and were both defamatory and threatening in nature."[/b]

Since you pulled my post, I guess everyone was supposed to take your word.  Read my comment again, and show me how it was threatening in nature.  You and Sue can't continue trying to intimidate your critics into silence, because your critics are telling the truth, and why should they fear you if they can back up their words?
 


--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Izzy's whitmore blog is definitly M.I.A.

Cease and desist?

Just guessing - I have no idea why she suddenly removed it.

Maybe she read Zen's post and is worried the GAO may report unfavorably on Caica and Pure?

Err ... if so, I'd say she's a day late and a dollar short.
--- End quote ---


Yeah, if my post sparked her concern, she's obviously not the sharpest knife in the drawer...one fry short of a Happy Meal.

Izzy, we've discussed you and Sue with the GAO already, and the investigators have read your Whitmore blogs, and your Disney-based attacks.  You're concerned  what your place will be in the investigation?  You and Sue will be involved...on the other side of the fence, with NATSAP, WWASP, and that lot, right where you belong.  Maybe you guys can sit next to the Kays and Big Bob Lichfield.

The two of you shot your mouths off thinking you were untouchable, and the sure wheel of Karma has turned.  Sue, you've always been trash.  Izzy, I've been told you started out with good intentions, but Scheff and the allure of money burned you.   Iz, you entered into a Faustian bargain with MephistSheffeles, and you've lost your soul.

Anonymous:
Zen, based on what I read Izzy did with ISAC and the investigation they were conducting on Majestic Ranch, I must respectfully disagree that Izzy started out with "good intentions".

Her first website called Kids in Captivity by Isabelle Zehnder, investigative journalist (LOLS) was created during this time frame.

She volunteered to help ISAC then proceeded to insert herself into the investigation screwing it up.  Her "report" is not even on the same level as ISAC's and yet, she does not link at all to ISAC.  What's that tell ya? ME, ME, ME.   She did the same thing with her "deaths" in facilities list.  The orginial source was TAUSA, that was obvious from the get go, yet she gives no credit to TAUSA or others who have been tracking these deaths for years.

In my opinion, Isabelle suffers from sort of delusional personality disorder.  The constant use of "WE, US" has been discussed before but I think it is a significant clue, as is the highjacking of other people's work, even their identity.  This goes beyond lack of integrity.  But I am not a psychiatrist.  I am simply pointing out how her "behavior" on several levels seems to suggest something bigger is going on.  What that is, I do not know but I can say it does not surprise me that Zehnder would be proud to call herself a "friend" and "colleague" of Sue Scheff.

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