Reply #24: Greene County Missouri Division of Family Services Create Conflict.

[Missouri Leadership]

Greene County MO Division of Family Services Surreptitiously Invite Prosecutor and Defendant to same Meeting: Conflict of Interest Questioned.

May 2, 2005

During a recent Family Services Team Meeting conducted by the Greene County Division of Family Services a serious conflict of interest was recorded. Sitting at the same table as the father in this open disclosure meeting was a Greene County Prosecutor.

Jill Patterson, the prosecutor, recently leveled charges of child abuse against the Father for an incident that allegedly occurred in December of 2001. The Father has plead Not Guilty in the case which is currently working it's way through the Greene County Missouri Criminal Courts.

"I didn’t know (Father) would be here," Patterson said, while voicing her concern about the appropriateness of the meeting. "I'm Stupid."

It turns out that the Prosecutor may not be so stupid after all. She may have been deliberately led to believe the Father would not be present.

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