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"John DeWitt," Essay III, Nov. 5, 1787
Outpost of Freedom
Volume I, No 2 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · (Excerpted from) · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · February 25, 1993
The Best Interest
of the Child?
by Gary Hunt
Last Wednesday the Outpost of freedom received a video from a California father who had, upon failure to gain the order of the court, chosen to remove his son from a day care center in Novato, California. The video tape shows 34 year old Peter A. Tscherneff, who has been reported missing along with his 2 1/2 year old son, as he gave a prepared statement. The video contained numerous allegations targeted at child care, law enforcement and judicial officials. Tscherneff alleges numerous cover ups involving child abuse investigations. He says the cover up "involves exploitation, child prostitution, child selling and even child murder.’ The video includes references to a recent hearing in Sonoma County wherein Tscherneff petitioned the court to remove his son, Alex, from a North Bay pre-school Tscherneff said that his son and other children have been and are being victimized at Miss Sandy’s School Novato. Amidst numerous warnings to parents, Tscherneff questions how our system responds/fails to respond to alleged child abuse charges. Tscherneff says, "Will the court protect children from further severe abuses?"
Mr. Ted Gunderson, a 28 year veteran of the FBI, has reported that the FBI fails to include in it’s annual report the number of abductions of children throughout this country.
Tscherneff has been charged with child concealment an a federal charge of flight to avoid prosecution. His bail for the charge of child concealment has been set at $500,000.00 and a no-bail for the charge of flight to avoid prosecution.
These issues regarding child prostitution, child selling and child murder were completely foreign to us when we first reviewed, and chose to publish, the Operation Monarch article in the first addition, before that decision was made we spent many hours researching the subject to see if there was a possibility that this scenario could exist. Our conclusion was that it could.
We have continued to investigate the matter and have found that Reader’s Digest (Missing: 100,000 Children Per Year, July, 1982) and Newsweek magazine ("Stolen Children", March 19, 1984) both feel that there are significant numbers of children missing each year from across America.
Having established that there is a source from which the number of children could come
from to satisfy the allegations, we continued to look into some of the specifics of the Tscherneff case. We have obtained a copy of a police report which names Lt. Col. Michael Aquino as a suspect in a child abuse charge. We have talked to many parents who have similar stories to tell. We have found that Mr. Tscherneff has had a bail placed on his charges that "shocked" a retired California judge with whom we spoke. The Superior Court in Sonoma County lists the bail on this offense at ten thousand dollars. If the charge were kidnapping, the bail would be twenty five thousand dollars. For kidnapping, for ransom or extortion the bail would be a mere $100,000. Why is the bail set at one half million dollars in this case?. Could this indicate that Mr. Tscherneff's allegations about complicity by the judiciary have merit as well?
The information that has been presented by the press as been directed at a very small aspect of what appears to be the most serious crime operating in the country today. The allegations about abuse of children and the complicity of the judiciary as a part of the cover-up leave the question of whether Mr. Tscherneff could even obtain a fair trial in California.
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