Mentally ill woman treated as criminal .

This blog is about Brittany age 44 a woman that lives in Oregon and has had severe schizophrenia for the last 4 years.She is a very wonderful person most of her life I have loved her for many many years and we have a son together.Our son is name Joshua my name is Dean we all live together in Eagle Creek,Oregon on a private 10 acre property.Brittany and I were married for 14 years and even worked together as sleeper team couple driving truck from Oregon out to Idaho for 8 years and yes Brittany would drive over the mountain passes on I-84 even in the winter months. She was a really good truck driver.Then in 1997 we went and bought our own truck and started our own family business within 2 years end of 1999 Brittany and I got a divorce and ended our 14 year marriage.Brittany wanted it because she could not handle the stress of running a family business and was also lured by some guy named Scott that lived in American Fork, Utah that Brittany had been communicating with over the internet.

Brittany got her divorce rented a truck emptied the house of all our belongings we had accumulated over our 14 year marriage and loaded our son up now 8 and headed to Utah. 7 months later after they left for Utah Brittany sent our son Joshua back to Eagle Creek to live with me. Joshua did not like Scott at all and was rebelling.So then I was forced to take Joshua in the truck with me when I could and my father help take care of Joshua when I was going to be gone to long that Joshua would miss school my father would stay at my place and care for Joshua and get him to school every day.

Scott and Brittany were spouse to get married but it never happened for what ever reason only Scott and Brittany really know.July 2003 Brittany left Scott she bought a car and just started traveling around living in the car staying were ever not sure were to go.I think that the mental illness may have started over in Utah I cant be sure of that because I have never spoken to Scott. Plus Brittany was really starting to miss Joshua and he refused to come back to Utah to live with her and Scott.By August 2003 she was back in Oregon to visit and has never left. We have always stayed friends throughout the divorce for our sons sake.

When Brittany started living with us again it was like when we were first married we were in love all over again it was a great feeling we went on a weeks vacation to Shasta Lake,Ca. Stayed on a house boat with friends of my from the company that I do most of my business with.My son was with us it was like old times. But when we got home from the vacation I started noticing things where not the same with Brittany. She had paranoid thoughts ,though the government and other people were watching her. That was not as bad after a while or maybe Josh and I just got use to all that I don't know.

Around late March early April 2005 she started having one voice in her head. When the voice started it turned her live up side down that was a rough year for all of us. She was getting hauled to the hospital at least once a month no one would help her the way she needed to get helped. She even tried to kill her self 3 times that year but was unsuccessful all 3 times luckily. She got put in the Clackamas Mental Health system but it was not working for her they could not seem to help her no matter how hard they tried.

In to 2006 and 2007 Brittany began to have multiple voice talking in her head to this day she really can't get any sleep because the group of voices she says never stops talking 24 hours a day 7 days a week one of her voices will be talking. The only time she really falls a sleep is watching TV in the family room because she is so tired from not able to sleep when she needs to. It has been so sad to see her having to deal with this illness.

In 2008 she had so many voices in her head I lost count and so did Brittany and she started calling the her talk group or for short The group. By this time the voices are running her life telling her what to do sending her on wild goose chases everyday.The voices insult her tell her she fat or don't eat that what ever insult they can come up with. She is still like this to this day.

In 2008 was when the trouble started with the police and when I really found out how bad the system is against the Mentally ill in Clackamas County and the rest of Oregon. This is the year that Brittany discovered a brand new house being built about 4 miles from were me live and she started going over to the construction site when ever she had a chance to watch the house being built.I did not know any thing about this house or that she was over there just about everyday.Well this went on for 10 months while the house was being built. She was over there so much the contractors thought she was family of the owner of the house.

When the house was completed and the owners were just days from moving into the home is were everything went terrible wrong and Brittany ended up in jail. Brittany I guess was over at the house when the owners were there asking them when she could move in to her house. In the time she was watching the house be built her voices group started telling her the house was being built for her and even today she still thinks that is her house. She can't figure out why everyone keeps stopping her from moving in and why the police keep sending her to jail for being over there. That night Brittany was charged with Criminal Trespass and went to jail for about 3 hours that night.

The arresting officer called me and told me that sending her to jail should scare her into never going over to the house again I told him she was mentally ill and he was very aware of that and what he called Catch and Release jail time with a treat of more jail time should put a end to this problem. I bet you can guess that it did not.She kept going over there sometimes she would stand at the road and look at what she still thinks is her house.The owners of the house had custom made signs put at the end of both sides of there driveway.Stating that,
No Trespassing,Brittany this is not your house in big letters.

Brittany's case went through regular court for 6 months she would go down to the Clackamas County Court every other week but nothing ever happaned just kept dragging a long. Then the end of May 2009 her case was getting sent to Clackamas County Mental Court.I and Joshua thought she might get some help even her mental health councilor thought she would finely get the help she needed.We were all wrong.Terrible wrong what has happened could have never been guessed by any one.

First court date in Mental Health Court,Brittany's mental health councilor came out to the house to pick her up and take her to court plus she was asked to come by the new Judge the date was June 2,2009. So we had all the people that know first had about Brittany's case MHC,the attornery and everyone was ready to help the Judge figure out how to handle her case.As so as Brittany entered the court room the Judge had her arrested,her attorney was surprised as was her MHC.The judge claimed that the people called in to the police the day before claiming Brittany had got close enough to the house to touch it back to jail she went for 4 hous this time. I had to stop from leaving town I got the call when I was walking out to my truck to leave on a trip.

After I got her out of jail I took her home and left for a trip to New Port, Oregon which took all night.The next morning Brittany was to be back in court at 9 AM or this new Judge was going to send her to jail again.I new that Brittany would not show up for court after what had happened the day before and how they arrested her with in minutes of arriving at the court room the day before.I tried calling her at 8:30AM to make sure she was going to show up in court she would not anwser her cell phone. I headed over to the court room I wanted to have it out with this Judge that is suppose to be in charge of the Mental Health Court Program. Plus June 3,2009 was a very special day in Brittany's life and she could not be sent to jail that day no matter what I had to stop this Judge.

June 3,2009 was Jushua's Graduation day from high school that only happens once in a life time event and Joshua is Brittany's only son. I explained the evening event to the Judge asked him to put her in jail the next day if that was what the court had to do for her for not showing up and I explained to him about the way she thinks because of her illness he did not care and ordered a warrant for her arrest because I did not know were she was but if I could find her and bring her to court and agree to come to court the next day he would drop the warrant on her.

I am going to stop here its getting late and I need to go trucking in the early morning heading for Seattle.