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Children’s Legal Services of San Diego

Guardian ad Litem Office Abuse

 

The Guardian ad Litem’s office in San Diego has weaponized its position against me and my family, abandoning its duty to act in the best interest of my grandchildren. Instead, its staff has carried out a campaign of retaliation and sabotage:

1. Blocking Placement with a Qualified Relative – Despite my being RFA-approved, a blood relative, and the full-time caregiver/conservator/trustee for my 88-year-old dependent mother, the office deliberately blocked placement of my granddaughters.

2. Character Assassination – Lisa Haight spent over a year targeting me personally, demanding records at every hearing, smearing my name in court, and manufacturing reasons to deny the girls placement with me. This was not about child safety — it was about destroying my credibility.

3. Conspiracy with Caregivers and Social Workers – The office colluded with Norma Olivares and her so-called husband Ronald Rivas Silverio, who have fabricated lies and posed as caregivers to seize control of my grandchildren. Together with social workers like David Miller and Ashlee Purnell, County Counsel Jessica Nicole Fellman, and Judge Alexander Calero, they built a paper trail of false reports to sabotage reunification and annihilate the children’s bond with their family.

4. Retaliation Through Restraining Orders – On August 12, 2025, after I refused Nicole McConn’s demand to take down photos of Haight from my blog, a Temporary Restraining Order was suddenly issued against me. This order — which even dragged in my own grandchildren — was clear retaliation for my protected speech.

5. Abuse of Power Against an Elder – By pursuing false reports, conspiracies, and court orders against me — a 67-year-old elder with no history of misconduct — the Guardian ad Litem’s office has engaged in elder abuse and put both me and my dependent mother at risk.

This is not child advocacy. This is fraud, abuse of authority, and civil rights violations in broad daylight.

Meanwhile, two little girls suffer in trauma and terror — crying for their family, begging to come home.

Toward the end, I was informed that Lisa Haight wanted me to have visits with my granddaughters. But why? Why did she character-assassinate me for over a year, only to later support visits? Is she simply trapped in a brutal system where doing the right thing puts a target on her back? Would they even come after their own guardian ad litem if she went against the others?

And then there is Nicole McConn — a supervisor who abused her power by putting restraining orders on a devoted grandfather and even his own granddaughters. My granddaughters light up when they see me, and I have sacrificed over $40,000 to support them. To weaponize the system against that bond is nothing less than child abuse by proxy and retaliation in plain sight.

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