On Worley's recently created Facebook page, she writes in the Info section: "I appreciate the trust that Wake County voters have placed
in me. For the past three years, I have enjoyed going to a job each day that
allows me to help children and families. Now, I am readying to kick off my 2012
campaign and I hope to be allowed to give Wake County four more years."
So, I have some commentary about her perception that Wake County voters placed trust in her. We did not place trust in her - most voters are unaware of a new judicial candidate's position on legal issues, integrity in the courtroom or ability to fairly and appropriately decide complex issues for families in crisis. We placed trust in her promise to apply the law correctly, to practice integrity and to have the background, wisdom and understanding to decide complex issues for families in crisis. For many families who have endured horrific custody decisions rendered by Worley, she appears to have not delivered on that promise.
Administratively, Worley was rated the lowest of any 10th district judge. This is no small matter in family court. Hearings postponed for over a year (my own husband's hearing on his motion for a parenting coordinator in his custody case with his ex-wife was postponed for over a year - he finally just voluntarily dismissed the case, as it wasn't worth missing so many work days only to have Worley continue it again at the request of attorney Steve Palme), court cancelled the morning of, cases pulled from the calendar with barely a day's notice, orders entered over 5 months late, orders NEVER entered.
I know I keep harping on this, but Worley HAS NO CHILDREN. She HAS NO HUSBAND. She HAS NO EXPERIENCE BEING A PARENT RUNNING A FAMILY. How on earth can she possibly run other people's families when she has no context? A book does not experience make.
Does she know about the research which abounds on the negative implications of what appears to be her preference toward a "parallel parenting" philosophy? Because she is not a mother, she has no experience with the damage that parallel parenting can cause to a child. The damage is increased tenfold if one of those parents has a personality disorder (borderline or narcissistic personality disorders). Parents with personality disorders wreak havoc in a family (both intact and divorced families), especially when a family court judge does not understand deeply how personality disorders play out in a courtroom.
I fervently disagree with Worley's assessment of how she has helped children and families. I am a parent that by all appearances should be glad to have been in her courtroom - I have sole legal and primary physical custody, all granted by Worley. But on the way to that final judgment, Worley allowed so much damage to my children. Based on false allegations leveled in an emergency custody motion filed by my ex-husband, Worley granted my ex 50-50 custody for 2 months. In that two month period, my ex drove with my three boys with his driver's license revoked, was pulled by law enforcement and forced out of his vehicle along with my three boys, and told to surrender his license and get another ride home. My ex called his current girlfriend, who came to pick up my children and return them home to me. My ex also took my three boys to my husband's ex-wife's house for 8 gruelling hours while I sobbed and begged him to allow me to come pick them up.
That summer also included a scene in the Whole Foods parking lot during which my ex called me a "fucking cunt" in front of my three boys, told me to "get that pole out of my ass," "shut the fuck up," and reminded me as he had so many times before that I am "mentally ill and everyone knows it." His apparent narcissistic personality disorder rage attack finally ended when my oldest son started yelling at his dad to apologize.
That's how Worley helped my family and my children. That's what she allowed to happen. That's why she needs to be off the bench, in my humble opinion. The damage to my boys from her sudden custody change (when she simply did not have the information to needed to make a decision) has taken years to undue. The offending parent makes no effort to undue the damage done to the children. The offending parent is apathetic. Yet Worley empowers the offending parent seemingly out of her own lack of wisdom about family dynamics, personality problems and the underlying psychological issues that manifest as an inability to communicate and co-parent.
Voters have a right to demand a judge who can adequately address these very complex family and custody issues. In my experience in Worley's courtroom, I just haven't seen her handle these things in a way I think is helpful to anyone.
Please, voters, do not allow Worley to "give" four more years to Wake County! Fight this!
