{"id":3166,"date":"2013-03-11T17:20:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T00:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2013-03-12T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:37:37","slug":"protection-orders-should-you-get-one-or-not-the-million-dollar-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=3166","title":{"rendered":"Protection Orders – should you get one or not? The million dollar question."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ask most any law enforcement officer if they agree with protection orders, and you will most likely get an answer something like, you are taking a big chance with protection orders.\u00a0 And are they are right, and if so why?\u00a0 Because too many times a TRO, aka Temporary Restraining Order, aka Protection Order is issued and the person meant to be protected is vandalized, beaten or killed.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t sound like a very good thing does it?<\/p>\n

But how could this be?\u00a0 If you are being stalked or a victim of a sexual crime, or domestic abuse you need protection, you deserve protection, your life depends on it.\u00a0 And once again, why is that?\u00a0 Because your tormentor, your perpetrator, the pervert who has you in their cross hairs needs to be stopped NOW, and the ugly truth is that at present this piece of paper states simply, \u201cyou (the perpetrator) need to stop this, now, or else!\u00a0 This person is so close to unhinged that a little piece of paper like this could send him or her over the edge, completely unhinged, and they will retaliate, against you, for doing nothing except trying to protect yourself, your children, and your pets.\u00a0 And your death could be on the table as one of the potential retaliations to this piece of paper.<\/p>\n

Then of course there are the less lethal varieties of retaliation, your tires could be sliced, all four, your home may be entered and destroyed, your pets could be threatened, and then killed, on and sickening on, and sickening on.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t sound very much like protection does it?\u00a0 And if your perp is that close to being unhinged to begin with shouldn’t that be a clue as to how dangerousness he is to begin with?<\/p>\n

Ever notice that if law enforcement is responding to a call, and there is a warning that the suspect is \u201cto be considered armed, and dangerous\u201d oh boy, there is now an entirely new protocol in place.\u00a0 Double the responders, weapons all drawn, shoot to kill.\u00a0 Why is a Protection Order in Place less important?\u00a0 Why is a suspected felony stalking that includes tapping on windows again any less of a danger?\u00a0 Why was a call for Morgan less important than \u201cto be considered armed, and dangerous\u201d.\u00a0 Why is she dead while her tormentor lives on?\u00a0 To Steve and I this does not seem very fair, or equitable.<\/p>\n

Morgan identified her stalker to others, including law enforcement over 35 times.\u00a0 Five months after her death the Garfield Sheriff’s Department not only had no suspect, they all of a sudden NEVER had a suspect.\u00a0 Who was it that Morgan was reporting?\u00a0 K.V.G.,\u00a0 grand theft auto, trespassing, breaking and entering, theft by receiving (as part of a plea bargain), possession with intent to distribute,\u00a0 identified by J.H., B.H\u2019s father, as the stalker.\u00a0 The stalker that I was told with certainty, to the exclusion of all others, by the detective assigned to catch him, only two days before Morgan was murdered. \u00a0The same detective that told me that things might escalate. \u00a0The young man in question who so quickly pointed the finger at his \u201cex\u201d girlfriend.\u00a0 Then pointed the finger at his next door neighbor, sorry Wiley, we know better, but he did try to blame you. The young man in question, that pillar of society, according to his manager at work, caught with a trunk load of drugs, and a scale, who regularly pawned gold for cash to the point they instantly recognized him as a regular customer.\u00a0 Where is he getting all this gold to pawn anyway? isn\u2019t that worthy of one question?\u00a0 And in case you forgot, all of Morgan\u2019s valuable jewelry was missing the night she was killed.\u00a0 Pumped up with at least 2,500 mg of a deadly drug.\u00a0 While pathologists across the country are lost for an explanation as to how her levels could be just under 8,000 ng\/ml, which is ten times the level that would have caused little Morgan\u2019s lethal dose. \u00a0You read right, they were ten times what would have caused her death!<\/p>\n

Dr. Kurtzman, the Forensic Pathologist that did Morgan’s autopsy had no problem with an explanation, “insignificant”, that\u2019s what he said it was, insignificant even when questioned by other doctors!\u00a0 Until almost nine months later, when he decides it suddenly becomes “significant”, so much so that it proves her suicide, is this guy really serious?\u00a0 Did he talk with Morgan\u2019s doctors, any of them? NO! \u00a0Did he talk with her teachers, any of them? \u00a0NO!\u00a0 Did he talk with her friends, any of them?\u00a0 NO!\u00a0 Did he talk with her parents, yes he did, and when we told him that she wasn’t taking that he told us the parents are always the last to know. \u00a0I said that is not true, and he hung up.<\/p>\n

I could go on for hours, but I\u2019m sure you get the idea. Did they have a suspect? Yes! \u00a0A #1, oh he did it, we are a 100% sure suspect.\u00a0 They just changed their mind, the Sheriff’s Department, after Morgan was found dead.\u00a0 Morgan does not get to change her mind, she suffers the consequences of incompetence, forever. \u00a0Dead at age twenty, with a book full of plans for her future, only two years left before she can get her Bachelor’s degree and take the LSAT’s to go to law school, and the Sheriff’s department is content to read through her iphone, and decide no evidence on her death existed there.<\/p>\n

Then where was it? \u00a0The evidence? Or was Garfield County just more concerned with keeping their perfect suicide record they have going?<\/p>\n

So what about those protection orders?\u00a0 I feel like it comes down to who is enforcing them, how, and how seriously.\u00a0 When I asked in the beginning about a protection order for Morgan I got double talk.\u00a0 It went like this – If you hold off on the protection order, we can do all these things that we won\u2019t be able to do after you get a protection order.\u00a0 Sounded good so we held off with a protection order and then they promptly did none of the things they were going to do if we held off with the protection order.\u00a0 What exactly was the reasoning for that?<\/p>\n

Read about protection orders, they travel with you.\u00a0 It is up to you, but a copy can be filed with every law enforcement agency at places you travel to, and they are required to be upheld.\u00a0 Are you thinking that only if you travel they are worth it?\u00a0 Remember my story about different agencies right here in the valley that do not communicate?<\/p>\n

If Morgan had a protection order I could have filed it with the Garfield Sheriff’s Department, the Pitkin County Sheriff\u2019s Department, the Aspen Police Department, the Snowmass Police Department, the Basalt Police Department, the Eagle County Sheriff\u2019s Department, the Carbondale Police Department, the Colorado State Troopers, and the Glenwood Springs Police Department.\u00a0 Then whenever Morgan saw the man, anywhere in this valley, that she had identified over 35 times to others, she would have an agency to call and they would be required to arrest him.\u00a0 Do you know how I know this?\u00a0 A lawyer explained it for me last week.\u00a0 Not Morgan\u2019s detective who told me to hold off so he could implement a few things first, then did nothing.\u00a0 A lawyer told me.\u00a0 And this was just one of the many reasons he told us about protection orders, some were good, and some were not so good.<\/p>\n

MISTAKE, trusting the local law when it comes to protection orders, see a lawyer or see a judge, and ask their advice, then ask the judge for free legal counsel, call victims rights in your state, and ask them for a referral.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let your child get killed.\u00a0 They mean far too much to you, and to the world.\u00a0 And you deserve answers, early and often, not apologies, and avoidance, long after it is too late.<\/p>\n

Morgan prays for all of the victims in the world\u2026Steve and I join her.\u00a0 You deserve the best – the absolute best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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