Jane Doe Files

Lock Down 2021, from across the room in her own home, a  6 year old child watched a young woman become terrifyingly light as Wine Cellar clamped his hands around the victim's neck, lifting her off the floor.

The child immediately sees the assault and runs to them from across the room. The victim then broke free and left the house where it had occurred and called the authorities. Writing a full statement the next morning. The perpetrator of this physical assault, Wine Cellar, was 68 at the time.

To a child, the world is supposed to be a place of predictable stability, but in that moment, the laws of reason broke and the path to justice proved to be just as suffocating.

Despite the physical evidence of the choking, the legal focus shifted to revenge. Retaliatory allegations were made by Wine Cellar, a temporary removal was initiated and later deemed unfounded and false and it was then determined that the prior temporary order in this matter was dissolved, declaring the defendant willing able and fit.

However, in 2023 CPS reversed this ruling and declared Wine Cellar made allegations with merit - - still with zero evidence. But once the removal was initiated CPS never checked either home, did not conduct anymore interviews, and added no evidence to the still-false allegations.

That is not how the law is to operate.

In positions involving child welfare, public safety, or mandated reporting, the policy 1.60 for “neglect of duty” squarely fits the intent of a Group III classification which would justify the most severe administrative response available.

The Group III violation actively places the employee in a zero-tolerance posture—The consequence is immediate termination, even for a first offense. Mitigation is technically allowed, but requiring clear, documented circumstances and even then, the alternative penalties include demotion, suspension without pay, and/or salary reduction.

By allowing the violence witnessed by the child to go unacknowledged and entertaining such a defense in the face of such striking harm, CPS has failed its most basic duty.

There is no question that Wine Cellar did physically assault the victim by lifting her off the ground by her throat. There is no question that a minor child was present and witnessed the entire event. By that simple fact alone, the encounter was an act of domestic violence that no defense of "consent" or "misunderstanding" can excuse. Additionally, the presence of a child during such an act of strangulation is a severe aggravation of the crime.

The domestic violence and choking this young child witnessed is striking in and of itself—but what CPS has said and done to not only this household but to ALL victims of domestic abuse is an irreconcilable deviation from both the spirit and the letter of the law.

If CPS does not have faith and consistency in their own profession, there is no reason for the public to respect their continuance in the position involving child welfare, public safety, or mandated reporting.

For the reprehensible precedent CPS has set by not upholding the law, we ask that you to hold them accountable by means of suspension, and/or removing current workers from their position in CPS. Replacing them with court ordered district intervention.