The Story

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Keyarah was born on January 1, 1996, in Waukegan , Illinois . Not only was she the Lake County “New Year's” baby, she was also the first girl born to our family in 30 years -- so that made her extra special -- not only to my family, but to everyone who met her. Keyarah and my mother a.k.a. "Nonnie" had a very special bond, I won't try to explain it, only because you had to be there to understand it.

Immediately following her birth, Jon W. Kujawinski, my husband at the time and the biological father, claimed that Keyarah wasn't his and wanted a blood test. However, when he realized he could get money for her through Social Security he immediately wanted custody -- oh I almost forgot, he didn't see her until she was five months old – and that was at my prodding. One thing to note here, Jon W. Kujawinski has not worked since 1988 – he has been proudly claiming that he is disabled, living on aid, and indigent, as well. To my knowledge, he has not been to doctors to diagnose this ‘supposed' disability and has only taken over the counter Tylenol for pain. He does do a great job of hanging around restaurants smoking and drinking coffee though -- as well as transcribing telephone messages and providing desktop publishing services for his under the table business "Jon's Desktop Publishing" -- again, I have proof of this. He can't WORK though!?

At any rate, given that I was enlisted in the army, I had to put a guardianship in place because Jon wouldn't come to Illinois to help with Keyarah after she was born. My mother, my sister and my cousin had to take guardianship of my daughter. The guardianship was in place for a year and half, when Jon then claimed he had not been notified. He also claimed that he never said that "Keyarah wasn't his child"; however, he forgot he wrote Congressman Norm Dicks in a congressional review request disclaiming her -- I just so happen to have a copy of the letter. Oops!

Jon had the guardianship vacated on a technicality in August of 1997 and then walked away for four and a half years -- no communication -- nothing.

During this time, a couple of life changing events occurred -- I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, medically discharged from the army and horribly, my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer --- she subsequently passed away in 1999. This had a profound effect on our family, but even more so on Keyarah. She was at the age where she desperately needed strong familial connection – and she had just lost her strongest link -- her "Nonnie".... one day she asked me to find Jon. I told her I would….. I regret the day I agreed to this; I should've told her he was dead and let her hate me later, but that's water under the bridge.

I had to pay a person locator and they found Jon hiding out in Lakewood , Washington . He claims he wasn't hiding out; however, if you know you have an infant out there and you don't try to make contact to find out about how YOUR child is doing -- THAT'S hiding out -- period .

When I located him, Jon convinced me that he had changed, that he was now employed, and that he wanted to be reunited with us as a family – against my family's and friends' advice, I packed up everything I owned, along with my daughter, and I moved out to Washington state in October 2000 --- BIG MISTAKE!!!!!

Once we got out there Jon showed his TRUE self again -- stealing from me, lying on me and.... I also believe he may have been actually poisoning me (he was doing all of the cooking). I was constantly sick, in exacerbations and hospitalized all the time I was out there. Since I've been away from him, I've had few problems with my health, but nothing to that extent.

Jon was constantly hitting, yelling and punishing Keyarah for the smallest infractions -- I have proof of this, as well -- after I saw several black and blue bruises on her buttocks and legs, I TOLD HIM IF HE EVER STRUCK HER LIKE THAT AGAIN, I WOULD BLOW HIS BRAINS OUT!!! AND I MEANT IT!!!! I told him that I knew his father beat the crap out of him because his mother allowed him to, but I was not his mother and he was not going to strike Keyarah ever again.

In the beginning of 2003, both Jon and I decided to move to Kentucky . Jon put Keyarah on Southwest Airlines for Chicago to spent time with my family and he drove me to Chicago to pick up Keyarah for us all to travel to Kentucky . However, Jon and I got into an argument en route about him not contacting Keyarah when she left him messages asking him to call her. Please note, I found out later he planned the altercation because he had no intentions of moving to Kentucky ! He just wanted Keyarah and I out of the way (I have proof, again......), he apparently was in a relationship with our neighbor who just so happened to have two girls -- both of whom could wear all of Keyarah's clothes...by the way, he kept all of our belongings. (He has since told Keyarah that he threw all of our belongings -- my mother's, mine, and hers) away! (She shared this with me at my first paid and supervised visitation with her).

Now here comes the good part....Jon was able to obtain one of the most unethical attorneys in Pierce County (...and probably the state of Washington ...maybe even the United States ) -- Steve Downing -- check his record!! They were able to somehow resurrect a 1997 order of protection that Jon had against me and conveniently place Keyarah's name on it! (Please note here: this is Jon's modus. He clogs the court with orders of protection, restraining orders -- and more -- in Illinois , in Washington , etc. Additionally, he lied to me and assured me that this “order of protection” had been vacated!) Conveniently, Jon's attorney wanted to depose me in person -- he wanted me to take Keyarah out of school so that "his appointed" guardian ad litem (GAL) could "make a finding" as to Keyarah's welfare. I offered to fly the GAL to Kentucky and pay for her room and board for her to see the school Keyarah attended, to see the apartment and neighborhood in which we lived -- this was unacceptable to her! She went to Lakewood , Washington , and looked at the squalid condition in which Jon lived and deemed it acceptable for my child. This was the same place we had lived (one door down) when we lived with Jon. Unless they had cleaned this neighborhood up, there was disposed drug paraphernalia - including used syringes and needles all throughout the neighborhood! Finally, she NEVER even interviewed Keyarah! My attorney of record then said that Downing could depose me via telephone or video conference -- we recommended this, but Downing in his usual spiteful way was not having any of it ...., My attorney believed he and Jon had plans to have me arrested for the order of protection violation -- remember, Keyarah and I lived with Jon and this order of protection was still on the books -- known to Jon -- unbeknownst to me!

My attorneys in Washington (on two separate occasions) withdrew -- I believe they didn't know how to argue the case -- in that I continually told them that Washington did not (under its own definition have jurisdiction over Keyarah's custody --they did; however, for Jon's divorce). It's important to note here too that Jon was ordered to pay Keyarah a whole $25 a month for child support -- Washington , what's really going on here? Anyway, he still owes that money! Interestingly enough, my attorney withdrew right before trial, and the court gave everything (since I did not have representation) -- including sole custody (whom he NEVER had sole extended exposure to) of Keyarah on a SUMMARY JUDGEMENT -- meaning Judge Kitty Van Doornick NEVER read the case!

The way this was done is as follows: Jon told the court in Washington that I kidnapped Keyarah and abandoned the home. Again, they granted him sole custody in October 2004, based on the lies he told them, but that's not the best part -- he came to Kentucky on January 5, 2005, went to Keyarah's small private Christian school with a federal Marshall and deputy sheriff. He took a crying and screaming Keyarah from that school traumatizing her other classmates as well as her -- he took her with only her bookbag and a thin jacket -- I still have all of her possessions, toys, pictures, furniture and her Bible. For him to get Kentucky to recognize the bogus order from Washington , he told the courts in Kentucky that he had in fact previously moved to Kentucky with Keyarah and myself.

Get this, though! The family courts system in Washington ordered me to pay child support upwards of $650 per month, Keyarah's social security goes to Jon (approximately $300+ monthly), and I have to pay him back child support from the date of the bogus summary order (October 2004) -- (taking more social security from me). This is not about what's in Keyarah's best interest for this man -- it's about "How can he be taken care of financially so that he doesn't EVER have to work"? He gets an added bonus or kick of believing that he is getting to hurt Keyarah, my family, and I through his demented control tactics. Even though I and my family have always created a loving, supportive environment for my daughter from birth, this "so-called" father now has sole custody, has placed her in a public school, has censored all of her calls -- my family has not heard from her since her birthday this year (four days prior to Jon taking her), and I can only have supervised visitation with her -- remember, I live in Kentucky! AGAIN, WHAT ABOUT KEYARAH'S MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING? I had to force the system out there to get her seen by a counselor -- she was deemed "adjusted" when the insurance ran out! (By the way, Jon has even gone SO FAR in his sick attempts at control to try to get the MOST expensive and restrictive supervisors in Pierce County -- and then lied to them as well about me kidnapping my daughter from Washington to move her initially to Kentucky -- this costs me $50 per hour and I'm to include the supervisor in our activities -- I have multiple sclerosis -- I am on a fixed income; this man knows that this type of stress can potentially take me into an advanced exacerbation and given too much could even kill me)........I'm wondering the whole time when is everyone going to catch on ?

The best part came when I went back to court in July 2005, under civil rule 60! I proved to the court that Jon did indeed lie in his petition, I also proved to the court that there was an objection raised regarding Washington's jurisdiction of custody -- and still with everything I proved, Judge Kitty Van Doornick made the following statement and I quote, "I'm going to make a specific finding that she waived her argument about jurisdiction as it was almost a year and a half later when the court entered the final orders in regards to the parenting plan," SHE was the original court!! Too embarrassed to overturn your own finding, Kitty?? ( .....and actually it was only NINE months -- October 2004 to July 2005 equals 9 MONTHS, Kitty!!) .....oh and by the way, sitting "Judge" Kitty Van Doornick...... you cannot ever waive your rights under subject matter jurisdiction , I was paying attention in my basic law class... what were you doing ?  

Hence, the reason for appeal -- Keyarah was unjustly snatched away from me and my family by a malicious man who has had decades of practice in manipulating the court system as well as the welfare and social security systems (it's again proven that he has stolen from social security and defrauded housing in Washington). He has a grown son whose child support I paid when his father wouldn't -- which was ALL of the time! He has placed two daughters up for adoption -- WHY does he want my beautiful, intelligent, 9-year-old innocent daughter?? Someone please understand and help right this grievous wrong!