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Family Court Appointed
Psychologist Charged by State Attorney General's Office
July 31, 2007
Dear NJCCR Member Mothers, Fathers,
Stepparents, Grandparents, Friends and Family Advocates
The New Jersey State Attorney Generals office has
officially charged Psychologist Marsha Kleinman of
Middlesex County NJ, with multiple counts of malpractice.
This development was made possible only through the
cooperation of one of our members with the State Attorney
General’s office.
Ms. Marsha Kleinman is a court appointed Psychologist who
has routinely been awarded custody/evaluation cases
throughout NJ. She has been involved with the removal of
children from their parents by utilizing methods that
are considered highly unethical and abusive toward
children.
Ms Kleinman was charged with multiple
counts of gross and/or repeated malpractice on behalf of the
child. Additionally, the charge included misleading the
family court by not reporting all the facts that were
reasonably available.
NJCCR is calling for the
immediate suspension and a permanent revocation of her
license to practice. Additionally, Ms. Kleinman's ability to
be unsupervised around children should be limited
indefinitely.
This
kind of abuse should not be taken lightly. It is the most
severe kind of abuse when a person of trust is given the
power and control over a child's future, and that person
exploits the child's trust and dependency to be able to
substantiate personal biased opinions.
Mental health exploitation of a child
will damage that child for life.
We
expect criminal charges should follow this complaint and
question why they have not already been filed.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable
toward any child or parent, and certainly our Child
Protective Services should not risk exposing any other child
to Ms. Kleinman’s practices until this case is adjudicated.
It is unfortunate that Ms. Kleinman, was allowed to continue
to practice unmonitored during the years of
investigation and thus, there is no way to determine how
many other children and families she has adversely affected
or abused.
It is the New Jersey
Council for Children's Rights position that Ms. Kleinman be
immediately suspended from seeing any child until this case
is adjudicated.
NJCCR views zero
tolerance policy for child abuse and actual domestic
violence to also apply to court appointed professionals.
For the safety and well being of all children and
families, NJCCR urges careful discretion to be used by all
parents when choosing to expose your children to a mental
health professional.
Other individuals whose children have been exposed to Ms.
Kleinman’s practices have already contacted NJCCR. Please
contact New Jersey Council for Children's Rights immediately
by email to
abuse@njccr.org with information of any person who
currently or in the past has used Ms. Kleinman's services
during divorce proceedings and has been victim
to unsubstantiated accusations of child abuse or the like
through her treatments.
The New Jersey Council for Children's
Rights believes that children have the right to both parents
regardless of their parents' marital status and as such
advocates for shared parenting and the protection of
children from predatory professionals that surround the
divorce industry.
It
should be noted that this case is not about a child being
sexually abused by a parent, but about the misuse of
psychological "experts" during divorce litigation and their
ability to mislead the courts and effectually destroy the
family’s potential for a positive post divorce environment
with both parents involved in the child’s life.
Unmonitored, court appointed custody "experts" have
tremendous leverage when it comes to custody matters. An
unbiased opinion from a court appointed Psychologist is
essential to the proper workings of our current family court
system. Left unmonitored and loosely regulated only puts our
children at further risk of abuse.
The
real question here is how many other cases has Ms. Kleinman
performed in this fashion and what we as citizens can do
today to protect our children and make sure that this does
not happen again. Every one of Ms. Kleinman's past
evaluations must be investigated and the cases re-opened for
findings of potential fowl play.
New Jersey Council for Children's Rights is calling for our
State legislature to establish a
"Family safety Act"
for the protection of children from the predatory practice
of child psychology and for oversight of psychologists that
are used in family
court through independent
family centric organizations such as NJCCR.
NJCCR is committed to working with our
legislators in
establishing these safeguards for protection of NJ families and
children.
NJCCR
is calling for funding this initiative so these types of
problems can not only be fully investigated and documented
across the family court system, but also prevented in the
future.
Sincerely,
Michael Argen
President, NJCCR
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