Placer County STEP Program - Notorious For Putting Children In Harm's Way

Placer County STEP Program consisted of two ladies named Christine Taylor Brown and Chris Trejo. It was supposed to be a co-parenting organization within the court to help mediate between parents of high conflict cases. Christine is a licensed psychologist which is shocking news to me after hearing what she did in the Aaliyah Bedwell, Dustin Thompson vs. Connie Bedwell Case. I just want to keep shining the spotlight on these supposed professionals in Placer County, California and their wretched mistakes or what I could possibly call blatant stupidity or corruption on their part.

According to sources, upon entering the program Ms Bedwell was told by Judge Jeffery Penney that she did not have to participate in the co-parenting classes of the STEP program. In these classes, Ms Bedwell would have had to share a room with the man, Dustin Thompson, whom has on countless occasions abused her and also who allegedly physically and sexually abuses their daughter. Mr. Thompson and Ms Bedwell had a sit down meeting (separately) with these two ladies only on one occasion before the court hearing where these two ladies decided to take baby Aaliyah from her mother and place her full time with her alleged abusive father on July 3, 2008. One talk with each of the parents and these ladies had thought it would be a good idea to disturb this child's entire well being and take her from her mother, the one person whom has raised the child her whole life up until that point. I have said before that I find this entire case disturbing, but these two women of the STEP program particularly. It is reported to me by not only one but three witnesses that these two women of STEP confronted Ms Bedwell outside of the court building on July 3, 2008 and informed her that they were going to take the child from her and place her full time in the home of the alleged child molester. Not only did these ladies just hand her the paperwork right at the door of court but also failed to serve her with it properly. According to sources these women said that they were temporarily putting Aaliyah inside his home to give Ms Bedwell a psychological evaluation. Mind you at this point in the case these two ladies did not have the Daddy’s Worm video so they had not seen it. They took absolutely no effort to learn the facts of this case and look at the evidence MS Bedwell has been screaming about throughout this whole case. There is an extremely exhaustingly repetitive pattern of Placer County's "Professionals" failing to view evidence or even to listen to Ms Bedwell before they make detrimental decisions. It's odd to me how they will listen to an alleged molester call a woman crazy and demand a psychological evaluation but they won’t take proper precaution in case this man is indeed what Aaliyah and her mother are saying he is. These women told Ms Bedwell that "in case he was molesting her” they would get a therapist to visit his home occasionally to see if he was molesting her. These two women warned Mr. Thompson in advance of all of these visits weeks before they occurred. That fact alone should ring some bells for APD, but they are just as guilty as STEP. Ms Bedwell’s court paperwork makes an extremely valid point when describing these events that took place. She methodically points out that warning an alleged child molester of a therapist coming to check on him is just as idiotic as telling a thief there will be a police officer in the home he will try to rob. Now let's all use our heads, do you think that the thief is going to steal knowing he'd get caught? Of course not, so why would a manipulative child molester being warned in advance put himself in prisons way? The STEP program clearly couldn't figure that out and neither could Auburn Police Department.

This all points to logic, logic thoroughly explained by the mother and other witnesses, so let me ask, where is Placer County’s knowledge of logic and who is truly crazy? The more and more this case is reported to me from the mother's witnesses, the mother's paperwork, the videos of Aaliyah, the exchange videos, “Daddy’s Worm” video, reading witness testimonies, the track record of abuse from Mr. Thompson, the multiple restraining orders filed by Ms Bedwell trying to protect herself and her child, the No contact order placed on Mr. Thompson for harassing her even after she fled to Alaska, the court ordered alcohol testing for Mr. Thompson, his suicide threats of jumping of the Foresthill Bridge (stated two times in one audio recording), the child’s nightmares, his own handwriting stating Ms Bedwell is trustworthy as he confesses he is a liar and the 911 transcript where Mr. Thompson slammed Ms Bedwell’s head in his Mercedes’ trunk, there is overwhelming facts that are all against Mr. Thompson. Why are the Placer County "professionals" overlooking these facts? Where is their logic in taking this child away from her mother?

I definitely want to address two very important instances about STEP; it's a good thing they don't exist anymore. These two ladies not only ignorantly placed the child with her father full time but contacted the mother’s counselor, via fax, with a release form which stated the mother authorized for them to have her files released to them, which Ms Bedwell never authorized. The counselor knew of Ms Bedwell’s opinion of these two ladies and noticed the date on the fax was prior to her counselor ever meeting Ms Bedwell and made her aware of the possible fraud. Ms Bedwell demanded on 3-4 separate occasions for that original document that was faxed to her counselor, but the STEP program never produced it. The STEP program recused themselves from the case and claimed Ms Bedwell was too difficult to deal with immediately after they watched “Daddy’s Worm” video for the first time and after Connie approached them for what could possibly be forgery. One direct statement from the STEP program after watching the Daddy's Worm video was, "And CPS has seen this video?" Yes STEP, that is what Ms Bedwell has been "difficult" about this whole time, the safety of her daughter because "professionals" like yourselves don't ask for and or listen to all of the evidence before ripping a child out of her loving mother’s arms and placing her with a person with a track record of abuse and problems. Wake up Placer County!