FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: April 21, 2026 CONTACT: Parents United SUBJECT: Structural Fraud, Jurisdictional Usurpation, and ADA Civil Rights Violations in the 27th Judicial Circuit
PARENTS UNITED EXPOSES UNPRECEDENTED STRUCTURAL FRAUD, STATE-SPONSORED ABDUCTION, AND ADA VIOLATIONS IN BERKELEY COUNTY, WV CIRCUIT COURT
GERMANTOWN, MD – Parents United has concluded a comprehensive, independent forensic audit of Berkeley County, West Virginia Case No. CC-02-2024-JA-229, presided over by Judge Catherine A. Delligatti. The organization’s findings reveal a staggering, coordinated criminal enterprise disguised as a child welfare proceeding.
The evidentiary record exposes how the 27th Judicial Circuit and the West Virginia Department of Human Services (WVDOHS) actively conspired to launder a felony child abduction, bypass federal jurisdictional laws, and systematically strip a disabled father—a former government executive with the highest national security clearances—of his constitutional rights.
The Parents United independent audit has categorized the top 20 most egregious, documented facts of misconduct, fraud, and abuse of power committed by Berkeley County officials:
I. JURISDICTIONAL USURPATION & CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS
1. Absolute Lack of Jurisdiction at All Times There was an absolute lack of jurisdiction with West Virginia at all times. Maryland courts, police, and child welfare authorities thoroughly investigated this matter—an investigation that also involved West Virginia law enforcement—and reached a final determination that was best for the child. West Virginia officials intentionally bypassed this binding resolution and violated the U.S. Constitution.
2. Absolute Lack of Subject-Matter Jurisdiction and No State Nexus There is absolutely no legal nexus connecting the Father to West Virginia. His sole relationship with the state consists of 15-minute drives across the border for school exchanges. This complete lack of jurisdiction makes the state’s intervention illegal and void.
3. Third Relitigation of Precluded Claims The Berkeley County Court engaged in an illegal “third relitigation” of identical allegations that had already been thoroughly investigated, disproven, and dismissed as “Unsubstantiated” by Maryland authorities.
4. Obstruction of Maryland Contempt Hearings WVDOHS and the Mother conspired to file a fraudulent emergency petition in West Virginia on September 26th—timed precisely to obstruct and derail the Mother’s pending contempt-of-court trial in the State of Maryland.
5. Bypassing Federal Systems of Record WVDOHS actively bypassed mandatory federal tracking systems (NCANDS and NEICE) to hide their tracks, constituting a conspiracy to defraud the United States and masking the illegal interstate placement of the child.
II. JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT & SECONDARY PROSECUTION
6. Judicial Kidnapping and Acting as a Second Prosecutor Abandoning all judicial neutrality, Judge Delligatti engaged in judicial kidnapping by acting as a second prosecutor alongside the Mother’s attorney. Because the actual state prosecutor did not speak for almost the entire hearing, the Judge stepped in to issue 34 unprompted objections to protect the Mother and State.
7. Blocking All Evidence and Refusing Due Process Through her unprompted objections and procedural maneuvers, the judge blocked all evidence and refused any due process to the Father, effectively outsourcing the prosecution to the Mother’s private attorney while covering up for crimes committed by state employees.
8. Evasion of Mandatory Law Enforcement Scrutiny Despite entering a finding of “clear and convincing evidence” of sexual abuse, Judge Delligatti refused her mandatory duty to refer the case to law enforcement. This was a calculated move to prevent professional criminal investigators from uncovering the Mother’s perjury.
9. Systemic Prosecutorial Blockade The local Prosecutor’s Office—operating under the influence of Judge Delligatti’s husband (Legal Director)—actively blocked nine-count formal criminal complaints and police investigations into the Mother’s abduction and perjury.
III. FELONY ABDUCTION & CRIMINAL COVER-UP
10. The April 19, 2024 Felony Child Abduction The Mother kidnapped the child from school on April 19, 2024. Under oath, she admitted she had no reason to do so. The evidentiary record proves abuse allegations began outside of the Father’s custody and were only manufactured after the Mother faced a minimum of one year in jail for the abduction.
11. 1189-Day Deprivation Without Due Process The Court facilitated and sanctioned the illegal deprivation of a nine-year-old child from her father for 1,189 days—one-third of her life—based on a manufactured emergency, without providing the father lawful due process.
12. Shielding Confessed Felony Acts and Pretextual Lockdowns Despite the Mother admitting under oath to the abduction and to instructing the child to touch herself, Judge Delligatti intentionally omitted these confessed criminal acts from the final Adjudicatory Order to shield the Mother from federal prosecution.
13. The “Shock” Perjury Admission The Mother testified under oath that she was “shocked” to hear of abuse allegations on April 26th, definitively proving her April 19th police reports of an “active medical investigation for abuse” were aggravated perjury.
IV. ADA VIOLATIONS & MEDICAL COERCION
14. Judicial Mockery of a Stroke Survivor Judge Delligatti brazenly mocked the Respondent Father’s biological stroke symptoms on the record, referring to his medical condition as “grimacing.” The Court penalized a medical emergency as a “lack of credibility.”
15. “Trial by Attrition” and Medical Coercion The Court orchestrated a “Trial by Attrition,” subjecting the disabled Respondent to 16 documented incidents of medical coercion, denying Title II ADA accommodations to force a default judgment or medical collapse.
16. Sabotage of Reunification and Ethical Violations The state and court ignored 40 court-ordered sessions of reunification therapy, instead subjecting the child to unauthorized and unethical medical sessions without authority and refusing to speak with the child’s established medical staff.
V. INVESTIGATIVE FRAUD & EVIDENCE SUPPRESSION
17. Administrative Forgery and Suppression of Exculpatory Evidence WVDOHS created a backdated referral entry on September 30th (dated to May 22nd) to manufacture jurisdiction while deliberately hiding a Family Functioning Assessment (FFA) that explicitly deemed the child “Safe.”
18. Utilizing an Unqualified “Expert” to Hide Coaching The Court appointed a sociologist with zero clinical psychology credentials to conduct a targeted evaluation, ensuring scientific “Source Tracing” was avoided and preventing the exposure of parental coaching.
19. Ignored Video Evidence of Child Coaching The Court and WVDOHS entirely ignored video evidence of the child explicitly admitting to “tricking daddy” using coached, adult language, instead framing this psychological abuse as evidence against the Father.
20. Interstate Privacy and HIPAA Breaches Berkeley County actors bypassed mandatory interstate subpoena processes, committing unauthorized extractions of Protected Health Information (PHI) across state lines and breaching the Maryland Privacy Act.
CALL TO ACTION:
- Federal Criminal Investigation: Parents United formally refers these findings to the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia for immediate investigation into the deprivation of rights under color of law (18 U.S.C. §§ 241, 242).
- Judicial Removal: Parents United demands the immediate suspension and commencement of judicial removal proceedings for Judge Catherine A. Delligatti.
- Vacation of Orders: All orders stemming from Case No. CC-02-2024-JA-229 must be vacated immediately as void ab initio.
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