# Eye Witness
## Photos, tape recording, signed correspondence
### Medical, psychiatric, pharmacy, police
professionals, Registered Nurses, Doctors, Social Service Workers and a Doctor
of Psychology.
Oct 1994 -
Harriet Johnson Moore
introduces Dr. Ryan to Esther Johnson as a geriatric specialist who does house
calls. Dr. Ryan begins to administer harmful drugs and fabricate medical
history, condition, prognosis and misstates the findings of other medical
consultants and specialists. ###
Oct 1994 - April 1995 -
Esther Johnson
expresses to family relatives and friends that Harriet seems to be losing
control of her own individuality and sites articles from Time Magazine,
Newsweek, newspapers, etc., concerning drug behaviors and cult follower
behaviors. Harriet insists having her inheritance up front. Insists that her
mother cash out all C.D.s worth $500,000 for an investment that Harriet and her
colleagues, Doctors, Nurses and Lawyers want to open a private clinic. Esther
refuses. Harriet then insists that Esther write a will leaving 3/4 of all assets
to Harriet. Esther refuses. ##
March 1995
- I stop in to visit Esther
mid-week. Sunday is my usual day. A woman is in Esther's bedroom appearing to be
taking blood pressure. She introduces herself as a Waltham Visiting Nurse and
gives her first name (Leslie?). She states that Harriet wanted her to have
Esther sign a Medical Proxy. The Visiting Nurse gives a minimal explanation as
to its authority. Esther asks me if she should sign. I raise no objection.
Esther signs and then the nurse signs as witness. She does not ask me to sign.
(Proxy requires two (2) witness signatures).
April 9,1995
1:30 a.m. - Esther is
stricken violently ill and is taken to Waltham Hospital E. R. by the upstairs
tenant, Erick Corvera. The medical file now available supports the three (3) eye
witness account of the events occurring during this hospital stay, April 9 - 19,
'95. The E.R. report of 4/9/95 is absent from the file. The remainder of the
file indicates the following: The probable cause of the sudden attack supports
the patient's description and is most likely an Ant- Abuse (disulfiram)
reaction, unknown to the patient. Harriet and Dr. Ryan try to force psychotropic
and mind altering drugs into the patient without success. They try to have her
declared mentally incompetent and fail. Harriet badgers Esther repeatedly to
give her a Durable Power of Attorney (DPOA) and fails. Also evident is Harriet
telling the Staff that she will be starting the process to acquire a
Guardianship over Esther. Esther requests to change hospitals and
wants to go to Newton Wellesley Hospital and is not allowed.
She
requests to have her doctor changed and asks Dr. Davidson to take over her case.
This was not allowed.
She asks me to speak with an attorney, Peter Hardy. Dr. Ryan and Harriet tell
Attorney Hardy that
she is a delusional psychotic and then make fabricated entries in the medical
record. Dr. Ryan fabricates
a need for rehabilitation after her hospital stay and refuses to discharge her
to her home. Esther
sends me to Mar'ist Nursing Home in Waltham and they accept her to have her
rehab at their facility.
Harriet continues to insist on having herself as DPOA. Esther refuses and
Harriet tells her she isn't
allowed to go to the Marist and must have her rehab at Harriet's house. The
record shows that she was
already pre-admitted at the Marist. The rehab was explained to be for only a few
days and then she would
be allowed to return home. Esther was held against her will until May 8, 1995.
Esther had instructed
me to find her an attorney.
April
11,1995, Attorney Hardy declined due to confliction. I found Attorney
John Higgins and retained him for Esther with $500.00 that Esther gave me to
give him on April
23, 1995. During this same time period Harriet has the doctors, nurses and
social worker ask Esther
on three (3) separate occasions to accept a Do Not Resuscitate (D.N.R.) order be
entered on her record.
Esther refuses all three times. ###.
April 20, 1995, Harriet's co-conspirator
husband, John Moore contacts me by phone at Catherine Smith's
apartment in Marlboro and states emphatically that he will not allow Catherine
or me to visit Esther
Johnson at his house. He states that he will have me arrested for trespassing if
I attempt to see my mother.
After I retain Attorney John Higgins as my mother's lawyer, John Moore recants
and calls to say that
he will allow a visit. Esther Johnson was allowed to see her son two (2) times
during her twenty (20)
day stay at Harriet and John Moore's house. All visits were closely monitored to
prevent free discourse.
#.
A Social Worker who was not a part of Harriet
and John Moore's circle of friends intervenes on Esther's behalf
and forces Harriet to let her return to her own home May 9, 1995. Esther
recounts the horrors of her
incarceration at Waltham Deaconess Hospital and at Harriet's house to Catherine
Smith, Sandy Wertz
and Taylor Johnson. ###
May 9, 1995, Esther begins to inventory what
Harriet and John Moore had removed from her home at 410
Lexington St., Waltham. She discovered all bank and C.D. pass books missing.
Also, two-thousand ($2,000)
dollars cash, her fur coats, jewelry, silverware and valuable antiques. Esther
Johnson forcefully tells
her daughter to return these articles. Harriet reluctantly brings back a large
number of articles and claims
that is all she took. She assured her mother that all was returned. She stated
that the jewelry was placed
in their mutually held safety deposit box. #
May 10, 1995, Esther assigns me to take
over the renovation of the R.I. property from Harriet's mismanagement.
Esther noticed a page missing from her check ledger book. She sends her son to
the bank stating that
the numbered checks indicated by her could not bear her signature. The bank
officers investigated
and concluded that the checks were indeed forgeries and stated that they would
make good on the
$22,000.00 forgeries and requested the name of the suspected forger. They were
advised that the family
would attempt to handle the recovery privately. ## Harriet
admitted to the forgeries May 12, 1995 and returned the remaining money with an
unsatisfactory explanation.
May
14, 1995, Harriet returned $1,000 of the $2,000 cash stating that was all
she found. She gave
further assurances that now all removed valuables had been returned and
reiterated that the jewelry was placed in the safety deposit box. ## May 20,
1995, Taylor Johnson noticed the absence of the Confederate Money Display (all
denomination of bills printed by U.C.S.A., fifty cents and up, all in mint
condition in a glass display. Erick Corvera said he saw the case hanging on
Harriet and John Moore's kitchen wall. She was forced to return this May 21,1995
and was again told to devulge the where abouts of the jewelry. Final and
absolute assurances
were again given that the jewelry was in the safety deposit box and that the
U.C.S.A. money concluded
the return of all removed valuables. The argument by Harriet was that everything
was hers anyway, by
virtue of her birth rite. ##
May 24,1995,
W.V.N.A. nurse Marcia Como
recommends that Esther go to the hospital for a check-up. Esther
insists not to go to Deaconess Waltham Hospital because of the events of April 9
- 19 and is sent to Newton
Wellesley Hospital. Dr. Ryan comes to the hospital that evening and in the
presence of Taylor Johnson
and a nurse states that he will be discharging Esther back to Harriet and John
Moore's house in the morning. Esther vehemently protests to the doctor and staff
and she is allowed to return to her own home May 25, 1995. At that time Harriet
yells at Marcia Como, in my presence, to never send Esther to the hospital again
without first contacting her. Esther informs her attorney John Higgins of this
event and instructs him and his law partner, Attorney McDonough to draft a
protective legal document to prevent further affacks from her daughter and John
Moore. ##
May 26,1995, Attorney Higgins brings the
Durable Power of Attorney (DPOA) to Esther's house and has a two (2) hour
meeting with his client. ##
On June 4,1995 at 10:00 a.m. Attorneys
Higgins and McDonough are notified by telephone that Esther is ready to sign and
put into effect the DPOA naming her son Taylor Johnson. Only five (5) minutes
after the phone is hung up Harriet arrives. She indicates by recitation her
knowledge of conversations which only occurred in Esther Johnson's living room
when she was not present.
She states that her mother's mind was not recovered from an alleged T.I.A. which
occurred May 24, 1995. She states that she has arranged for Dr. Ryan to make a
house call that same morning."to see how you are doing". Bv the time Dr. Ryan arrives,
three relatives from R. 1. had arrived before him. The less than five (5)minute
interview he has with his patient concludes with his verbal assessment that she
is mentally and physically in good shape. "As far as I'm concerned, you
pass". There were six (6) witnesses to this event present at the house. ###
June 5,1995, Attorney John Higgins and
Attorney Patrick McDonough arrive to put the DPOA into effect. They suggest that
Esther make a will. She replies that she would be instituting a Living Trust in
the near future which the attorneys acknowledge they would help her with its
preparation. They are asked and give assurances that the DPOA will allow her son
to access the safety deposit box to verify the return of the stolen jewelry.##
June 13, 1995, I gain access to the safety
deposit box and with two bank officers as witnesses discover that it is empty
(the safety deposit box access card has since been altered to give the
appearance that the entry was
done on June 15). After reporting to Esther the absence of the jewelry, she
determines to file criminal charges and commence disownment and disinheritance
procedures as well as institute the Living Trust on the following day. ##
June 14, 1995, Esther' s secretary
Catherine Smith is present when WVNA Marsha Como arrives and after exam states
that she thinks that Esther is having a stroke. After telephoning the doctor,
Christopher Ryan, she tells Catherine that there is nothing to worry about and
that she will check on Esther the following morning. Catherine reports what the
doctor and nurse had said late afternoon of the 14th when I returned from
working on the estate property in R. 1. ###
June 15,1995, I stay home from working in
R.I. and make repeated calls to the WVNA.(5), until R.N. Como arrives at 4:00
p.m. closely followed by Harriet. Harriet waives papers at me and announces that
"I'm taking over now". She states that Esther is having a stroke and
that she is having her sent to the hospital. She telephones the doctor to have
him arrange ambulance and admittance to Newton Wellesley Hospital. When I asked
Harriet, "if you knew she was having a stroke, why didn't You call the
ambulance yesterday?". She responds "why didn't you?". Harriet
and R.N. Como leave together. The ambulance arrives one hour later and Catherine
and I follow the ambulance to Newton Wellesley Hospital. After another hour and
a half wait, without any exam conducted, Esther is admitted. We stay with Esther
until 9:00 p.m. No doctor of any kind sees the patient. Dr. Ryan calls me at
10:30 p.m. to inform me that he will be discharging Esther back to Harriet's
house the following day. I inform him of my DPOA authority and that I will
object at Newton Wellesley in the morning ###
June 16, I arrive at Newton Wellesley at
9:00 a.m. and explain to the hospital legal council, Attorney Kapuchinsky what
the situation is and voice my objection as DPOA. She copies the DPOA and confers
with her superiors who side with the DPOA over the Medical Proxy of March '95 as
the document of authority and Esther is discharged back to her home under WVNA.
supervision approximately 2:00 p.m. During the time she was at Newton Wellesley,
June 15 - 16, I did not see Harriet, Dr. Ryan, or any other doctor approach
Esther for examination. June 17, I inform Attorneys McDonough and Higgins of the
near "Kidnapping by Pretense" which nearly occurred. They advise me to
take the further precaution of getting a guardianship from the court and
they advised me to seek an evaluation for incompetence from a neutral medical
team and I write to Dr. Ryan to arrange such an evaluation on June 28, 1995. ##
June 30, 1995, Esther complains of back pain. I
call Dr. Ryan's office secretary three (3) time without a call back. The third
time I inform her that I will call the ambulance myself. When E.M.T.'s arrive,
they manage to contact the doctor. When they begin transport they inform me that
they can't do anything for her because the doctor said that she was fully D.N.R.
I inform the EMT's that any such order was not authorized by myself or my mother
and that my DPOA authority was now stating that the order was officially
rescinded and was no longer to appear on any chart of my mother's. After
reaching the Newton Wellesley E. R., the intake doctor had difficulty making a
diagnosis and Esther was admitted. A surgeon colleague of Dr. Ryan, Dr. Milton
Friedman was in charge of the case. Dr. Ryan made no appearance nor did Harriet
in my presence. ###
July 3, Dr. Friedman informed me that a
gall stone lodged next to the pancreas and that a procedure down the throat is
required to disiodge it.The procedure is scheduled forJuly 6,1995. Dr.Ryan calls
that evening and states that he had given Harriet a certificate of mental
illness about Esther. Dr. Friedman also informs me that an ultrasound picture
reveals that she has multiple other stones in her gall bladder and recommends
removal of the gall bladder by elective surgery on July 7,1995. I instruct him
to conduct a thorough pre-op work up to see how she would handle such a surgery.
The work up gives a picture of a -woman in good health with no signs of any
alcohol abuse, who should handle the procedure well. I inform Dr. Friedman that
I will sign consent for the throat procedure of July 6th but will withhold
consent for the July 7th surgery until I see how she weathers the first
procedure. The evening of July 6th, Harriet arrives with her husband John Moore.
She surveys the record at the nurses station and leaves after seeing her mother
for no more than a few seconds. ###
July 7,1995, 8:00a.m.,I visit my mother at the
hospital. She appears fully recovered from the procedure of the previous day and
is alert and in good spirits. I explain the proposed surgery and she consents
that it should go forward. I sign the consent, walk the hospital transport down
to the operating room and go home to await the call from Dr. Friedman. He calls
at 2:00 p.m. to inform me that everything went perfectly and that by 5:00 p.m.
she should be recovered from the anesthesia.
At 4:00 p.m., Harriet arrives at 410 Lexington
St. with a restraining order, a temporary guardianship decree and two Waltham
Policemen. I am forced out of my residence with nothing but my brief case. I
arrive at Attorney Higgins office at 5:00 p.m. He reads from something from
Harriet's attorney. "Did you refuse to sign for emergency surgery?".
He calls Newton Wellesley Hospital and speaks to Attorney Kapuchinsky who
informs him that the hospital is under strict orders from the guardian not to
devulge any information about their patient to anyone including any and all
family members or relatives. Attorney Higgins informs me that there is nothing
he can do until Monday morning, July 10. I convince Attorney Kapuchinski of the
danger Esther Johnson would be in if the hospital releases their patient into
Harriet's custody. She agrees that the hospital will hold up any discharge plan
to give Attorney Higgins an opportunity to correct the wrongfully obtained
emergency guardianship.
July 10, 1995, Attorney Higgins makes no attempt
to approach the Judge who was deceived July 7, 1995, Judge William Highgas. He
asserts that he must have an immediate $2,000.00 "to fight this". All
Esther's money was in Harriet's hands, my money had been spent on the R. 1.
Property rehabilitation. Esther Johnson asked her friend and secretary for a
$2,000 loan to pay Higgins. Catherine Smith wrote a check without hesitation and
I delivered it to Higgins that afternoon. I found out later, that under these
exact circumstances, the Ward or her attorney has three working days to object
to the emergency guardianship in court. Although his client Esther Johnson and
his secondary client the DPOA instructed him to object, he took no action and
told us that he couldn't until July 21, 1995 when the temporary restraining
order against me was scheduled to be heard. ###
July 21, 1995, Harriet and her attorney
Andrienne Knudson who presented the original perjuries on July 7th on behalf of
her boss, Attorney William Brisk, met with Attorney Higgins and myself. We were
accompanied by Esther's secretary and companion as well as Sandy Wertz, Esther's
cousin. Both were prepared to testify to Judge Highgas as to the malicious and
perjurious nature by which the non-existent emergency guardianship was obtained.
Attorneys Higgins and Knudsen averted an appearance before the Judge by
conducting a sham settlement meeting which excluded the two witnesses. Higgins
avoided even raising the question of the perjuries and made the appearance of
having arranged a "gentleman's agreement" for Harriet and I to have a
shared guardianship with Harriet controlling all financial assets and
I reoccupying my legal residence at Lexington Street. A further agreement was to
have Esther evaluated
at a neutral facility as to her ability to regain her faculties to assume
control away from the measure
of total guardianship. After the meeting, when questioned as to why he hadn't
taken a more strident
stand against the usurpation of the DPOA authority which he and his law partner
had authored and
witnessed, his main defense answer was shouting repeatedly "Your mother is
going to be dead in three
weeks!". This assertion was forcefully pronounced in the presence of Ms.
Smith and Mrs. Wertz. ##.
July 22, 1995, I find out that Harriet
had her mother transferred from her home to a psychiatric hospital in
Brighton (URI) in the early evening of the 21st without notice to the parties.
It was later discovered that
Harriet had close ties with this facility (nurse supervisor). When I arrived to
see my mother, I found her
in three point restraint's in a locked unit. This was without any court
authority. Nothing had been explained
to her and she was reasonably frightened and confused. The nurse who was in
attendance was openly
rude and hostile to me in the presence of Esther. I spoke to another nurse on
the floor who agreedthat the hostility and restraints were unwarranted. ###
July 23,1995, I was present when Dr.
Philip Wang conducted the intake interview and evaluation. There was
a different head nurse on the floor, (Martha Cheim). During Dr. Wang's
interview, Esther by instruction,
recited the presidents from Roosevelt through Clinton without error, the months
of the year forward
and backward to May where she faulted and the doctor said he did the same. He
conducted a short
term memory test where she recalled two out of three in a five minute interval.
I informed Dr. Wang
of my mother's recent stroke, June 14 - 15, 1995, to which he said, " he
hadn't been informed of that
and that could certainly account for any mild confusion she might be
suffering". He concluded that there
was no mental illness he could detect and that Esther was merely in need of some
post stroke therapy.
R.N. Chen concurred. Because of the patient's understandable ill ease at being
in these wrongful
surroundings, Dr. Wang requested with concurrence of Head Nurse, R.N. Chen, that
I supply my mother's
lunch and dinner meals from my own hands from outside the hospital (home cooked
meals) to ease her
understandable apprehensions (given her daughter's close ties and the
circumstance of the gaurdianship).###
July 31 1995,
Esther is rushed to St.
Elizabeth's Hospital when an M.R.I. reveals that she'd had a recent stroke and
was experiencing a "cordate bleed" in the brain. R.N. Chen was
extremely upset, "She's been given Cumadin, that's a powerful blood
thinner, she shouldn't be having that. No one told us she had a recent stroke,
she doesn't belong here." I followed the ambulance to the hospital.
Harriet, the guardian had her discharged back to H.R.I. three hours later. ###
Aug. 1, 1995, a consultant, Dr. John Temte speaks with me at H.R.I. He assures
me and my mother that he and Dr. Wang were making arrangements to have her
transferred out of H.R.I. "She should be in a medical facility, she doesn't
belong here. She needs post stroke therapy". Later that day a member of the
nursing staff, R.N. Sandy Hannon reveals that a member of the social service
staff, L.C.W. Gerry Butler had given Esther a test to determine her writing
skills. She had responded by writing an "extraordinary, remarkable"
treatise on her views of care for the elderly in the richest country on earth..
The staff and the doctors involved used this writing to emphasize their
conclusion that there was no dementia of any sort. ###
Aug 4, 1995,
Harriet discharges Esther
back to her and John Moore's house which Esther had escaped from in May. The
Discharge Summary of H.R.I. signed by Harriet's friend, Dr. Robert Karr bears
little resemblance to the facts of the patients two week stay and states,
Werniche's-Korsakoff's Dementia and Multi-infaret Dementia. These two specific
conditions are the conditions ruled out by Psychiatric R.N.'s Martha Chen, Gary
McNabb, Sandy Hannon and Psychologist and Social Worker, Gerry Butler, Dr.
Philip Wang, Dr. John Temte and St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Esther plans and
executes her first attempt to communicate with the outside world by writing on
the front page of the Boston Globe of that date, her wish to return to her home
with her son Taylor. ###
Aug. 5, 1995, Harriet's former husband of
a fifteen (15) year marriage producing three children, Attorney Bernard Shadrawy
Jr. was informed of the recent events occurring to his former mother-in- law.
His evaluation was that Esther's life was in immediate danger. This was based on
his first hand knowledge of Harriet's greedy intents as well as her intense
hatred of Esther, her mother. He advised that I immediately contact Harriet's
former neighbor and friend, Attorney Roland Segalini to assist me in obtaining
urgent protection for Esther. He further advised that an immediate appointment
of a G.A.L. as a protective
measure should be sought. Attorney Segalini was contacted and agreed to act as
co- counsel to Attorney Higgins. Higgins refused to share attorney
responsibilities and resigned without returning his retainer or supplying
Segalini with the complete file of his former client, Esther Johnson.
Aug.
8, 1995, Harriet's eldest son, Francis Shadrawy came to Lexington St. and
informed Taylor and Catherine Smith of his first hand knowledge that the events
which had occurred since April of 1995, were in fact the execution of a plan
which he had been privy to, which had began to be discussed between Harriet and
John Moore as early as 1987. He also revealed, through first hand knowledge, the
circumstances and events which were soon to take place in the future and the
resulting damages to the estate and person of Esther Johnson, his grandmother.
The following day he passed this same information to Waltham Chief of Police,
Unsworth and Waltham Lt. of Detectives Lambert.
Aug.
13, 1995, I was allowed a visit with my mother. She appeared heavily drugged
and could not open her eyes. John Moore had a chair pulled directly beside her
bed and would not allow privacy. Her pulse rate was in the low 40's. I went to
the police station and reported the situation. An Officer Riley (? ) allowed
that he would send an ambulance to check on her condition. The resulting report
and attached ambulance report shows:
(1) That Esther requested to go to the hospital.
(2) That Harriet tried to obstruct her
transport.
(3) That Esther is being administered Haldol,
Ativan, Zoloft, Chlorol Hydrate in combination.
(4) The E.M.T.'s transport on their own
authority against the wishes of the guardian. ###
Aug. 14, 1995, Waltham Police Officer
Riley informs me that my mother was taken to the hospital on Aug. 13, 1995. He
doesn't know which hospital. No information can be obtained from Harriet or her
attorney William Brisk. #
Aug. 15, 1995, I locate my mother at
Waltham Hospital by making random inquiries at various area hospitals. Esther is
astute and delighted to see me. We are both convinced that this most recent
assault must expose the wrongful nature of the guardianship. She is physically
frail with marked weight loss. It is later revealed that this condition was
brought about by her throat being closed because of adverse reaction to the
Raidol she was being forced to take, without any "Rogers Authority"
from the court (assault
and battery by a dangerous weapon).
NOTE: Haloperidol (Haldol) - Pharmacy literature
which accompanies this drug warns that this is most dangerous to elderly
females. Difficulty in swallowing is one of the many signs of adverse reaction
and the most serious life threatning adverse reaction due to the inevitable
dehydration and malnutrition that must occur when a person's throat is
closed. ###
Aug. 16, 1995, Attorney Segalini advises
me that he has arranged for a G.A.L. to investigate the circumstances of the
guadianship. Fran Shadrawy informs me that he had talked to his two cousins,
Seren and Kristy Morey who had visited their grandmother, August 8th, at John
and Harriet Moore's house. They were told by their Aunt Harriet that Esther was
(a) dying of cancer and that Aug. 8th would probably he the last time they would
see their grandmother alive. (b) They should not expect to receive any sort of
money from inheritance because Esther never paid any taxes and that the
government would be seizing her assets. (e) Taylor was fabricating a wild story
that their grandmother had jewelry which Harriet had stolen. She said their
grandmother never had any jewelry. I visited for less than five (5) minutes at
Harriet and John Moore's house when he ordered me to leave. He would not allow
mother and son to have even a moment of privacy together. ##
Fran Shadrawy called and spoke with the Elderly
Abuse Agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for over an hour detailing his
knowledge of the premeditated, dangerous "Kidnapping by Pretence"
which had occurred to his grandmother. Catherine Smith and Taylor Johnson also
spoke with these authorities. The call was made from Esther's house at 410
Lexington St., Waltham, Massachusetts. ##
Aug. 17, 1995, I contact Attorney
Segalini and asked if he could contact a mutual friend of ours who also knew
Harriet and Esther. As a trustee of Deaconess Waltham Hospital, he might he able
to make discreet inquiries as to the recent allegation of cancer. He later
informs Afforney Segalini with absolute assurites that there is no cancer of
any sort in Esther Johnson.
Later that afternoon two (2) Waltham Police
Officers arrive at 410 Lexington St. to serve me with a restraining order
preventing me from going to John Moore's house, effectively cutting Esther off
from all outside sources friendly to her cause; All blood relatives and friends.
###
Aug. 17 - 22, 1995, Fran, Catherine and I
continue to call and alert every
agency we can think of in the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts which is mandated to address suspicion of Elderly Abuse.
Attorney General's Office, Middlesex D. A., Protective Services, Elder Affairs,
Waltham Police, State Police, Council on Aging, A.C.L.U., Board of Registration
in Medicine, Board of Registration in Nursing., etc. ###.
Aug. 23,1995, the G.A.L., David Aptaker interviews me at
my Lexington St. home. I inform him of all the events which had preceeded
that meeting. He asked for and was given the names of the medical staff at
R.R.I., as well as the names, addresses and phone numbers of the other
witnesses here-in described. I told him that my nephew Fran Shadrawy had
seen a drug called Haldol among his grandmother's medications. I asked if
he knew what that drug was. David Aptaker told we that he had never heard
of it, "How should I know, I'm not a doctor". David Aptaker,
gave sworn testimony Aug. 1, 1996 that in the past, he had worked for the
A. G.'s Office to educate hospitals, nursing homes, and doctors as to the
laws pertaining to Haldol.##
Aug. 28, 1995, I was heading into the
Probate Court to ask them to allow me access to the medical records. Catherine
Smith was accompaning me. She insisted that we first go to the Waltham V.N.A.
office as she wanted to confront R.N. Marcia Como and ask why she had not called
an ambulance on June 14, 1995 and why she had deceived her as to the stroke she
knew was in progress. In the presence of her supervisor, Kathleen Quirk, Ms.
Como stated that she called Dr. Ryan and he instructed her to call Harriet and
Harriet ordered her not to call an ambulance or to inform Catherine Smith of
Esther's true condition. We informed R. N. Supervisor Quirk of the ficticious
cancer diagnosis and she said that she would have her nurses take a
fresh look at the situation. ###
Aug. 29, 1995, R.N. Supervisor Quirk
informs me that she had sent a nurse to look into Esther's condition after our
meeting of the 28th and that the W.V.N.A. had ordered transport to Waltham
Hospital on their own authority. When Esther arrived at the hospital she is
dying of thirst, starvation, septicemia, six (6) hours from death. Had they not
intervened, had the false medical information they had been laboring under not
been exposed to them on the morning of the 28th, then the murder attempt which
had been temporarily interrupted on Aug. 13 - 15th, would have succeeded on
schedule. When I see my mother at Waltham Hospital on the 29th, she appears like
a person from a Nazi Concentration Camp.
The medical record uses the term "skeletal". The medical record of her
stay at the hospital Aug. 28th through Sept Sth has not one notation of her
weight (weight loss). When I recover from my initial shock at her appearance, I
find my mother's mind clear and animated. She is in full control of her
faculties. She describes what she had been through at Harriet and John Moore's
house as "insideous". Catherine Smith is present when a Hospital
Security Guard confronts me and states that I must leave because of the
restraining order against me. Even though the order is specific to John Moore's
house, he insists that I leave because of orders he has received from the
guardian. From this date to her discharge to Briarwood Nursing Home Sept. 8th,
she is not allowed to receive visits from any family member or friend. Before
I'm ejected, I witness a nurse (Ginny?) giving my mother medications. Esther
inquires, "Which one is this?" The nurse replies "Haidol, its
your sedative". I state "You can't give her that, it is illegal".
The nurse responds, "Don't blame me, I'm only following orders".
If the agencies and agents of the Commonwealth
had, up to this point, been conducting the cover-up of the original
"Kidnapping by Pretence" of July 7, 1995 under the delusion that they
were in fact acting in the best interest of Esther Johnson, they were now faced
with the irrefutable fact that they had, in reality. been participating in the
cover-up of a well orchestrated attempt to murder a Senior Citizen.
Sept 1, 1995 out of fear that Harriet and her
co-conspiritors would have my mother taken out of Waltham Hospital, I bring an
emergency motion before Judge Highgas who, after being apprised of the fact that
he was duped on July 7, 1995, when he issued the Emergency Guardianship, began
to take precautionary measures to safe-guard the person he had placed under
guardianship. He added an attachment which read "suspicion of imminent
danger of abuse". That attachment was removed from the docket file shortly
after it was entered. See transcript of Sept 1, 1995 attached, Exhibit A.
From the point of Esther's rescue and the
subsequent discovery of the Haldol abuse, Attorney Segalini is convinced that
the kidnapping and attempted murder will now be exposed. He has Attorney Brisk
arrange for an attorney with medical credentials to investigate. Without
Attorney Segalini's knowledge and with deliberate deceit, Attorney Brisk assigns
the task to a High School friend of Harriets who she had also worked with in
nursing, one Attorney Geraldine Foley.###
The medical record of Waltham Hospital evinces
that they continue to administer the Haldol until one Dr.
Rhada Agarwal forces them to stop on Sept 7, 1995. In a telephone conversation,
over-heard by Catherine Smith, the doctor declares that Harriet is
"emotionally unstable". William Brisk dockets a motion for
"Rogers Authority" to be heard on Sept. 12,1995.###
Sept. 7, 1995, I bring a motion to amend
the restraining order to the Waltham District Court. I ask that I be
allowed to see my mother. Judge Buckley states that Harriet's preventing a
mother from seeing her son is "insanity". She amends the order to
allow me visits with my mother where ever she may be.###
Sept. 8, 1995, Esther is transferred out
of Waltham Hospital. The staff is under orders form the guardian not to disclose
her whereabouts to me. We find out from Esther's former teaching colleague that
she is at Briarwood Nursing Home in Needham. Catherine Smith and I go to visit
with the amended restraining order. Catherine brings a tape recorder and tapes
our conversation with Esther's full consent. I bring the tape to the G.A.L. the
following day and he erases the beginning of Esther's consent by pressing the
record button, but in doing so leaves his voice on the recording, verifying that
he is listening to it. William Brisk, in a later motion hearing, declares that
he and the Attorney for the Ward, Geraldine Foley, also listened to it They all
knew that Esther Johnson was of legally sound mind. See: Transcript of Briarwood
conversation attached, Exhibit B. Copies of the tape were provided to all the
agencies of the Commonwealth previously listed. ###
Sept. 12, 1995, Judge Highgas orders the
G.A.L. and the Attorney for the Ward to "delve into the validity of the
D.P.O.A.". The three conspiratorial attorneys, Brisk, Aptaker and Foley
avoid the court order by changing the jurisdiction of the case from Judge
Highgas to that of their friend Judge Judith Nelson, Dilday who has since given
the appearance of working closely and cooperatively with them. See Judge
Highgas's order Exhibit C attached. The chronology of abuses to Esther and
myself, at the hands of the perpetrators and the agencies of the Commonwealth,
becomes even more glaring from this point on and I am willing and able to
provide Your Honors with as much detail and evidence you should ask for or
require.
Sworn to this date December 20, 1999, under the
pains and penalties of perjury.
Taylor Johnson