The following link will take you to an article published by AAP in
Australia today. It is about Andrew's abduction & my efforts to find him.
Please read the story & if you feel like adding to the comments, please do so.
Please forward it to others as well & ask them to do the same.
http://www.news.com.au/world/dad-cycles-europe-in-desperate-search-for-son/comments-e6frfkyi-1225910835975
Kind Regards
Ken Thompson
kenthompson@fastmail.fm
www.findandrew.com
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News.com.au
27 August 2010
Australian Ken Thompson cycles Europe in desperate search for his son
By Miles Godfrey
- Mum flees country with son
- Dad on three-month cycle to find them
- Mother is suffering mental illness
Australian Ken Thompson has spent every day for three months cycling
through Europe, looking for his son.
But there is no telling where, when, how or even if his remarkable journey
will end.
He says, quite frankly, he doesn't care if it takes the rest of his life,
just as long as he finds his little boy.
He has cycled through over half a dozen countries in his desperate search
to find his missing son.
Mr Thompson's story is one of love, betrayal, physical determination and
weight loss so drastic his jeans once fell down in the middle of a
Luxembourg street.
But it also raises a more fundamental question: How far would any of us go
to help a loved one?
It is a question the relatives of Australia's 1600 long-term missing
persons ask themselves every day.
Some agonise over ways to shed new light on cases which the police have
long ago failed to solve - some set up Facebook pages, distribute
leaflets, travel vast distances to investigate possible sightings.
Australian Ken Thompson cycles Europe in desperate search for his son
SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2010
SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2010
Scenario:
Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight
after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins.
Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2010 - Police called, arrests Johnny
and Mark.. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny
started it. Both children go to anger management programs for 3
months. School board hold meeting to impliment bullying prevention
programs
Scenario:
Robbie won't be still in class,
disrupts other students.
1957 - Robbie sent to office and given
6 of the best by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does
not disrupt class again.
2010 - Robbie given huge doses of
Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. Robbie's parents get
fortnightly disability payments and School gets extra funding from
state because Robbie has a disability.
Scenario :
Billy breaks a window in his
neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 - Billy is more careful next
time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful
businessman.
20010 - Billy's dad is arrested for
child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State
psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused
herself and their dad goes to prison.
Scenario :
Mark gets a headache and takes some
aspirin to school.
1957 - Mark gets glass of water from
Principal to take aspirin with.
2010 - Police called, Mark expelled
from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario :
Johnny takes apart leftover
firecrackers from Guy Fawkes, puts them in a model airplane paint
bottle, blows up a bullant nest.
1957 - Ants die.
2010- State Police, Star Force,
Federal Police & Anti-terrorism Squad called. Johnny charged with
domestic terrorism, Feds investigate parents, siblings removed from
home, computers confiscated. Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list
and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario :
Johnny falls while running during
recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary .
Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels
better and goes on playing.
2010 - Mary is accused of being a
sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in Prison. Johnny
undergoes 5 years of therapy.
This should be sent to every e-mail
address to show how stupid we have become!
Think about it!
Honoured campaigner forced to sleep in car - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Bloody disgusting.
Honoured campaigner forced to sleep in car - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
New Zealand Family Court under scrutiny.
This TVNZ news item on the unfair Family Court has made my blood boil. Unfortunately I own a huge array of evidence that proves the Family Court to be corrupt and malicious.
Judge Boshier the disgusting creep knew that I was a forced client of the sadist gender bias Family Court for a heartbreaking eight years.He just fobbed me off after the sick Family Court killed my mother. I will get even!!
I must write to Simon Power the Injustice Minister and ask the ex lawyer wimp on how many million of taxpayer dollars was spent by a corrupt system intent on backing false allegations of child abuse and domestic violence. The damage to my children has been horrific. I will make them pay dearly for the despicable things forced on my family.Rot in hell you scum animals.
tvnz.co.nz/national-news/family-court-under-scrutiny-3736678
Plotting ex-wife gets 7-14 years in jail
Plotting ex-wife gets 7-14 years in jail
By JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
Friday, Aug. 20, 2010
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Plotting+ex-wife+gets+7-14+years+in+jail&articleId=14addb23-2910-4e11-8279-d6466abd6fe5
BRENTWOOD – Kristin Ruggiero will spend 7 to 14 years in state prison for what police say was part of a years-long ploy to use the criminal justice system against her ex-husband, who was thrown in jail and nearly lost his career during a bitter divorce.
Judge Kenneth McHugh said Ruggiero's attempt to set up her ex-husband and use the legal system as a weapon was unlike any other case he has seen.
"There's a lot of people, usually women, who have been subjected to abuse by their significant others," McHugh said, during Ruggiero's sentencing yesterday. "As a result of her actions, their cases, their safety, their security has been damaged. The web for this is much greater than what has just happened to Mr. Ruggiero."
A jury found that Kristin Ruggiero registered a disposable cell phone under her ex-husband's name and sent herself a dozen threatening and suicidal text messages. She then reported to East Kingston police in May 2008 that her ex-husband had violated bail conditions tied to a criminal threatening case, which police learned was also fabricated by the 34-year-old mother.
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RUGGIERO
By portraying herself as a victim, she duped local police and portrayed her ex-husband, Jeffrey Ruggiero, as a violent monster while the couple was going through a contentious divorce in family court, according to prosecutors.
The couple battled over finances and their 7-year-old daughter.
While Jeffrey Ruggiero was being investigated, his ex-wife called him at all hours and taunted him over the phone, according to court testimony.
"She mocked him. She laughed at him. (She said) 'I took all your money, I took your daughter and now I am going to take your career'," Assistant County Attorney Jerome Blanchard said in court yesterday.
Click below to view some of Judge Kenneth McHugh's comments during sentencing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4mBfxM7GpQ&feature=player_embedded