San Diego > Vista: Child Trafficking Network (CTN)
We’re not harassing anyone. We’re fighting for our blood. When children ask to go home, a family has a duty to speak.
INSIDE SAN DIEGO’S CHILD TRAFFICKING NETWORK
Does this look like a family that must be terminated? The County of San Diego Child and Family Well-Being thinks so because they are being exposed for THEIR abuse and being a child trafficking network!
The Removal of Malaika and Xayah — and the Ongoing Retaliation Against an Entire Family. Held in state custody since June 2024. Still waiting to come home.
This post outlines the documented actions taken under the authority of San Diego County’s child-welfare bureaucracy that resulted in continued separation of these children from their biological family.
The children consistently identify their mother as their primary attachment and express a clear desire to remain with her. Their connection has not diminished with separation; it has remained visible, emotional, and intact. Attempts to disrupt that bond have failed. The relationship persists because it is real.
At the center of this case is Nicole McConn, Guardian ad Litem Supervisor, operating within and alongside Children’s Legal Services of San Diego.
What has unfolded is not child protection. It is retaliation, punishment, and the systematic destruction of a family after speaking out.
The Role of Nicole McConn — Guardian ad Litem Supervisor:
As Guardian ad Litem Supervisor, Nicole McConn holds a legal and ethical duty to protect children’s best interests. Instead, the documented record reflects a pattern of conduct that undermines that mandate.
Despite repeated public and formal concerns, McConn actively shields and empowers Guardian ad Litem Lisa Haight. She continues backing Norma Olivares, a non-relative caregiver, despite overwhelming evidence of alienation, false reporting, and interference with family bonds. After the public exposure of Lisa Haight and the distribution of advocacy flyers, control escalates rather than eases, retaliation intensifies, and family access is further restricted.
Most notably, retaliatory restraining orders were sought and issued against a non-offending grandfather, using the children themselves as named parties. These orders were not issued because the grandfather posed a risk to the children. They were issued because he spoke out. That distinction matters. This is retaliation disguised as “protection.”
After public testimony, media exposure, and formal complaints, the system’s response was not corrective — it was punitive.
Family access was restricted further, not restored. Reunification was delayed, not advanced. Retaliatory legal mechanisms were deployed. The children were transferred farther from their family, including international removal. This was not neutral case management. It was punitive escalation.
Judge Shopping and Judicial Leverage:
The case was routed into the courtroom of Judge Morales, imposing extreme travel burdens and extraordinary leverage on a family already under strain.
Statements made in court asserting that the children are “better off going with the family” refer to non-blood caregivers and are used to justify international travel with very young children to the Dominican Republic. Experienced child-welfare professionals in multiple states report having never encountered such conduct. This reflects displacement, not reunification. It is not child protection. It is family severance.
Crimes and Violations Raised by the Record:
Based on documented filings, court actions, recordings, and public testimony, the record raises serious concerns, including:
Children treated as transferable placements rather than protected family members, constituting trafficking under color of law.
Severe emotional and psychological trauma inflicted on two toddlers through prolonged, unnecessary separation.
Cruel and unusual punishment of a mother who complied with services yet was met with retaliation instead of reunification.
Cruel and unusual punishment of a non-offending, law-abiding grandfather subjected to restraining orders, surveillance, intimidation, and forced isolation after speaking out.
Cruel and unusual punishment of an elderly, dependent great-grandmother deprived of contact, dignity, stability, and family presence. Violation of human dignity across generations. She passed without ever seeing her great-grandchildren again, and as the girls grow older, the bond that was stolen can never be restored.
Misuse of judicial power and dependency procedures to silence whistleblowing.
Failure to follow California kinship placement law.
False reporting and perjury embedded in addendum reports.
Misuse of federal Title IV-E incentives, prioritizing placement over reunification.
This is not a single violation. It is a pattern.
Collective Punishment:
No crimes were committed by this family.
No violence was committed by the grandfather.
No danger was posed by continued kinship contact.
What occurred was collective punishment — not for wrongdoing, but for refusing silence.
Why This Matters to San Diego:
This is not an isolated case.
If a Guardian ad Litem Supervisor is willing to weaponize restraining orders, protect false reporting caregivers, and escalate retaliation after public scrutiny, then other families may already be affected.
San Diego deserves to know:
Who else has been silenced?
Who else has lost children after speaking out?
Who else has been punished for demanding reunification?
Call to Action:
If you or your family have been harmed, retaliated against, or silenced by Nicole McConn, Children’s Legal Services of San Diego, or related Guardian ad Litem actions, come forward. Patterns matter. Silence protects abuse.
Final Statement:
This case is not about protecting children.
It is about protecting power, funding streams, and institutional reputation.
Free Evelyn Lopez. Free Malaika and Xayah. Bring Them Home,
End San Diego County’s institutional abuse of families.
Reunify this family — now!
— The Collective for Family Justice & Human Rights
Tip line: 619-678-1442
As public exposure expands, calls are growing for the investigation and indictment of Guardian ad Litem Supervisor Nicole McConn for actions families describe as crimes against humanity. Central to these allegations is her continued denial of severe and ongoing child trauma, even as children exhibit clear psychological distress resulting from prolonged separation, coercive placement, and the suppression of family bonds.
As public exposure increases, additional families are coming forward with similar concerns involving Guardian ad Litem Supervisor Nicole McConn. What was once treated as an exception now presents as a pattern.
Click here for an inside view of psychological trauma.
— The Collective for Family Justice & Human Rights
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