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Haley's Story - A True Story - Page 3
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The Crime For 8 years, my former wife tried to take Haley away from me. She finally did. On February 22, 2000, Haley's mother was driving her to school. She was going in excess of 50 mph in a 30 mph speed zone, around a curve, on a wet road, near a school, with no seatbelt on my daughter. Haley was ejected through the glass window of the SUV driven by her mother. The vehicle then rolled over my daughter. With two collapsed lungs, my daughter got up, took a few steps and collapsed. My former wife never even walked over to Haley after the crash. A witness claimed that my former wife was more concerned about her car and jewelry than her own daughter, Haley was taken to the hospital by trauma hawk, hooked up to what looked like 50 tubes and a brain monitor. I slept on benches in the waiting room for two weeks. Haley's heart stopped beating at 7:27 p.m. on March 7, 2000 at the age of 8 1/2 years old. My former wife tested positive for cocaine, hydrocodone and other drugs. She was charged in June of 2000 with manslaughter and 4 counts of culpable negligence. (Note: I know that Haley would never, ever, ever take off her seatbelt until a car was completely stopped. I have documents from DCF and a child psychologist stating, Haley was afraid of her own mother. Something happened in that car before the crash that scared Haley into taking her seatbelt off). This was not an accident. Accident are unforeseeable. However, it is foreseeable that if someone is doing cocaine, then drives a car with a child passenger, the child will get hurt or killed. On July 26, 2000 my former family law attorney and I met with the prosecutor at the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office. We were told by the prosecutor that the nurses at the hospital noted a tailgate party my former wife had at the hospital while Haley was in a coma between February 22, 2000 and March 7, 2000. The prosecutor stated the plea deal to me as follows: 6 years probation, No driving for 3 years, NO alcohol,
Random Drug testing. On July 27, 2000, my former wife pleaded no contest to Vehicular Homicide and Manslaughter By Culpable Negligence. The prosecutor changed the plea agreement from what she apprised me the previous day to: 5 years probation, Driving okay if DMV says it's okay (They did), Random Drug testing, the prosecutor asked the judge is she could drink alcohol on probation. The judge said yes. The sentencing guidelines were 12 - 20 years in prison, but my former wife received 5 years probation. In December of 2002, my former wife filed for an early termination of probation. The probation officer claimed that my former wife was an exemplary probationer, although I believe that my former wife was drug tested only once in her 2 1/2 years on probation. One day before the hearing to terminate her probation, my former wife was called in for a drug test by the probation officer. She tested positive for cocaine and tried to slip the probation officer someone else's urine. My former wife was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Showing lack of remorse and taking no responsibility, my former wife left the following message on my voice mail ten days after killing Haley. "Jacques, this is Stacie, ya know, ....Haley left this world to leave peace on it. You should kiss my f**king feet. I gave you a beautiful daughter for eight years." This tape is only one of hundreds of abusive, degrading, belittling and threatening messages my former wife left on my voice mail ever since our divorce in 1992. Day after day, year after year, my former wife left these messages. She was obsessed with trying to take Haley away from me, until one day she finally did. I still have every tape. From the time of my divorce, every family law attorney who represented me told me to save them, as they could be used in family court along with my diaries. They never did. The system failed my daughter in life, death and even after death. Haley was my only child...my whole world. As I never re-married, it was just Haley and I. Ever since my divorce in 1992, I was trying to stop the physical and mental abuse being inflicted upon Haley by her mother. I filed complaints of abuse with Florida's Department of Children and Family Services (DCF). The reports even state "the victim child is afraid of her mother". Haley's mother and step-father were ordered into counseling by DCF after Haley's mother threw a book, because Haley wasn't reading up to her mother's standards. DCF never followed up on the case. In 1997, I filed a police report with the sheriff's office and state attorney's office when my former wife threatened to kill Haley and I. Included with my affidavit were threatening and abusive voice mail tapes left on my answering machine by my former wife. No charges were ever filed. Three weeks before Haley was killed, Haley told the nurse and receptionist in her elementary school that, "Mommy punched me in the back". The school didn't report the incident to anyone. Haley made me pinky swear that I would never let her mother hurt her again. I wasn't able to keep that promise. Rabbi Jerrold Levy of Boca Raton breached my confidence by telling my former wife's husband what I told him in confidence as to why I filed a wrongful death claim against my former wife (I was solicited by 2 attorney's at my daughter's memorial service to file that claim). Rabbi Levy was the Rabbi at my daughter's pre-school, performed the service at my daughters funeral and was arrested a year later for soliciting sex on the internet with an underage boy. The cemetery, Menorah Gardens, where my daughter is buried, was charged with discarding bodies in the woods. My former wife bought all the plots around my daughter so I could never be buried near Haley, actually moved my daughter's remains and also refused to allow me to put Haley's last name, date of birth/death or any sign of her religious faith on the headstone I retained an attorney in Boca Raton, Florida, who filed breach of marital settlement agreement in the wrong court (civil circuit instead of family court). It was dismissed for wrong jurisdiction. This incompetent attorney, never re-filed the suit. Maybe one day, the truth in this case will come out, maybe it won't. The tragic death of my daughter has been the most devastating event in my life. You never have closure on the death of a child. I did everything possible to bring out the truth and improprieties throughout this case and other cases as well. In 2002, I sent a letter to Governor Jeb Bush with supporting documentation of improprieties in the investigation of my daughters death. A letter was sent to the State Attorney in Palm Beach County from the Executive Office of the Governor. The State Attorney never addressed this letter. Click here to view that letter. It's true that the system failed my daughter. But Haley's death can also be attributed to the apathy of people who could have reported abuse and didn't. It's too late for my daughter, but not for other children. Awareness for the prevention of child abuse is the most effective way to stop child abuse and neglect which can and does lead to death. Keep the faith, Jacques Bobrowsky, President and Founder Haley's Rights
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