BMaria
Marietta,#2Consumer Comment
Sat, March 09, 2013
I have personal knowledge of the person who filed this false report and the circumstances related to it.
Susan Boyan deals with families in high conflict where innocent children are involved. This is usually because one or both of the parents have mental health issues, personality dissorders, or major dysfunctionalities that hinder their ability to work cooperatively for the benefit of the child.
Usually both parents are at fault to some degree, but in some cases, one parent exhibits such sociopathic and harmful behaviours that the child needs to be removed from excessive exposure to them, especially if the other parent demonstrates that they are fit.
So this means that by necessity, there is often a parent that looses custody of a child. Of course this is very traumatic for the parent loosing custody, and because they often have mental health issues, they often manufacture a version of reality that helps them cope with the loss.
Of the hundreds of families Susan sees each year, there are many such parents who are bitter and delusional. And seek to "blame" Susan, when it is their own abuse of the children and that leads to the outcome. It is a miracle that there are so few of these complaints, given the number of bitter parents that must be out there after lossing a custody battle. Yet in the end, one parent always wins and one always looses, unless they are able to work cooperatively as a team. Unfortunately, in about 20% of cases, as in this one, there is a parent that is unable to act responsibly and cooperatively with the other parent or in a manner that is focussed on the child's best interests.
In the case of the woman who filed this false complaint, she was psychologically abusing her daughter, engaging in sociopathic lies that were easily discovered, was attempting to manipulate a wide circle of medical personnel, teachers, and friends and has a history of domestic violence, drug abuse, and mental instability and attempted suicide. As is often the case with people like this, ironically she actually tried to project these behaviours onto the other parent, and took great pains to fabricate false evidence. She has a circle of friends and associates that she manipulates and presents with manufactured "evidence" designed to make it appear that she or her daughter is a victim, when in fact she is a sociopath that will stop at nothing to achieve her aims, regardless of the impact to her own daughter. She in fact routinely victimizes others. This false report is on attempt to vicimize someone who she feels stands in her way. She does not mention that two other independent mental health professional's agreed with Susan and came to the same conclusion without talking to Susan first.
For example, she was so good at manipulating some people that when she was mandated to go to treatment for Anger Management after assaulting the other parent she twisted it around to the exact opposite -- that SHE had been the one assaulted. By claiming she was the victim, her therapist never talked to the other party (out of "fear of retaliation", ensuring that she would never see any of the evidence related to the story and realize that she was being manipulated. In actuality, the person she assaulted, bent over backwards to convince the prosecutor to not press charges, and have all charges expunged, because he did not want his child to be without a mother for the duration of her prison term or have trouble getting a job due to a prison record. She took the paperwork that the Prosecutor had to prepare to drop the case and waived it in front of her therapist, insisting that it proved that she was the victim and not the other way around. So she is very adept at manipulation.
The irony is that she herself found a report on this site from another bitter parent and assumed it must be true and that Susan could be used as a "hired gun" to win her custody case. She had no ability to comprehend that bitter people lie and distort reality when they have suffered a loss and try to point the finger and blame anyone but themselves.
So she actually selected Susan Boyan herself after reading these complaints, expecting to be able to pay Susan off to get an Expert Witness on her side and win her case. Unfortuanately for her, Susan is actually a person of imense integrity who is all about the children's best interest. And Susan could not be used like that. It didn't take Susan long to get to the bottom of what was truley going on and act to protect the child.
So if you want someone who cannot be deceived by people with BPD, NPD, and other disorders, and is truely focused on helping families and more importanly the children, Susan is your person.