An Address to Northampton County Council, 13 Dec 2018

An Address to Northampton County Council, PA, USA

by Ron Shegda,

December 13, 2018

Honorable Mr. Council Vice-President, Councilors, County Executive, All Servants of the People of Northampton County, PA, USA, Fellow Citizens:

I am here as a witness of chronic cruelty and intense abuse by Northampton County Human Services. This culture of cruelty and inhumanity has pervaded Northampton County Human Services, similar to local governments across America and Western nations, for decades. For our family during these last 8 years, I have come to re-name this #1 funded department in the County as “Human Disservices,” or “In-Human Services.”

This enduring and endemic abuse of citizens has deeply spread among the host of sub-agencies to Human Services here and everywhere. Why? These contracted agencies are addicted to County and government funding and will lie about vulnerable people and their families and inflict them with their own brand of cruelty—all for sake of their 30 pieces of silver. These sub-agencies are populated with former employees of the County—or by their relatives, friends and lovers. Agencies that contract with Northampton County like LifePath, Community Options, Pine Brook Family Services, Kids Peace, Quality Progressions, and every such agency that enforces brutal and wicked dictates of separating Families, and imposing an iron will of horror from their depravity on Families and especially vulnerable members of our community, should have no such place in a County that professes “Mercy and Justice.” 1

I bear the wounds of specific employee and sub-agency cruelty, along with my near-twin Sister, Lorraine, with Down Syndrome, whom Human Services by Charter was supposed to care for and serve. Instead, she was separated from her Family for 6 years with no knowledge of her whereabouts; she was drugged beyond belief; bodily dragged from our home by “Guardian” Deborah Jean DeNardo; sexually abused; had her identity as a human being confiscated; her neck was broken from neglect after 8 months of warnings when I was finally “allowed” to see my flesh and blood, and was hospitalized in the EU on a ventilator with near death; then she was placed in the same severely deficient facility—widely known in the community for negligence—where she aspirated twice and was again placed on a ventilator, clinging to life. This was after the in-human Developmental Programs moved her to under 12 different roofs.

For me, the super-intense and unrelenting stress imposed by Human Services and so called “Court Officers, ” including April Cordts and Deborah Jean DeNardo, has led to a ruptured abdomen, heart attack, stroke, and now a debilitated spine.

Since 1990, The Morning Call has routinely reported abuses committed by County Human Service agencies, concerning the breaking up of Families without warrants or evidence—with Northampton County “committing 90% of these offenses.” No one in government cared, with Stephen Barron as an evanescent exception. Ross Marcus could care less and took an illegal job with CACLV. The endless stream of Title-IV federal money kept flowing, in support of this ill-gotten inventory of “legally kidnapped” vulnerables—children, the handicapped, elderly.

It doesn’t require much spiritual depth and preparation to realize you are running a bureaucracy where daughters and sons of God are hemorrhaging their souls.

The same tune is flatly sung by such departments across America and The West since passage of CAPTA in 1974 (the Child Abuse Protection and Treatment Act): where incompetent and disordered case-workers are hired to find abuse where it doesn’t exist. 80% of the 400,000 Families falsely accused every year and their Families are smashed apart for the sake of federal funding and social worker depravity in children’s cases alone. Georgia State Senator Nancy Schaefer and her husband Bruce were brutally assassinated on March 26, 2010 because she continually exposed the horrific crimes against humanity by such agencies.

I ask and expect nothing from this solemn body. No one has given our pleas over the years any heed. Some who harbor similar witness are gathered here, or at home in solidarity. Like Rhett Butler said at the end of Gone with the Wind, no one in office gives a damn. Providentially, I ran into Lamont McClure at an Iron Pigs game last August. He NEVER had the decency to answer my several previous letters as a candidate and then as an elected County official. During that summer night, while walking on a cane because of this persecution, Mr. McClure assured me he would look into this atrocious, enduring and scandalous account of abuse. To this day, Mr. McClure has remained silent.

There is an idea for Northampton County Government and these hallowed halls of the Courthouse concerning this culture of cruelty: remove the huge County Seal proclaiming Mercy and Justice that all employees are invited to glean while leaving the building—quoted from The Book of Baruch and St. Matthew’s Gospel. Certainly, our Family and so many I know in The Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, across the United States, and overseas have not received an iota of Mercy nor Justice, nor any sign of such professions of virtue, from Northampton County Government.
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I would be happy to answer any questions. Thank You.


1 If anyone gives a damn about these remarks, you should closely study a scholarly book by 7 authors that documents how such agencies rampantly and falsely accuse families of “abuse and neglect” for the sake of “legally kidnapping family members,” all by a predominant coterie of “social workers” who lead “disordered lives.”

See the acclaimed and highly researched book, Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Child Protective System, by Dr. Stephen Krason and 6 other scholars (Scarecrow Press, 2013).