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Sandra Grazzini-Rucki
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The Sandra Grazzini-Rucki story involves a mother who  encountered a nightmare in a family court that resulted in being forcibly removed from her home, and her children unjustly taken. As a result of proceedings, Sandra was court ordered into a “lifetime of servitude”. She lost everything important to her, and lost her freedom as well.

The Grazzini-Rucki case reached a crisis on April 19, 2013; when Sandra’s two teen daughters ran away after being placed in the custody of a relative whom they feared. The daughters were missing for two and a half years and since being found their story has received international attention.

With seeming he said/she said accusations and confusing terms like “parental alienation”, the truth may seem difficult to reach. Still, with hundreds of stories, the media has yet to find it. Now, the whole unbelievable story is told; it’s a story of domestic violence, court cover-up and a compliant media covering up the whole sordid tale. A lawyer is forced to represent her client while “under arrest”, a mother of five with no criminal record is jailed with a convicted murderer, and years of violence and criminal activity by a dangerous man is ignored.

Fox 9 News Coverage of Grazzini-Rucki Case, includes last known footage of Sandra's daughters before they ran away, again the girls raise abuse allegations that have been ignored by the Court: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=047jixzdTwU
 
David Rucki (ex husband) police reports, protective order application: https://justice4grazziniruckifamily.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/druckipolicereports.pdf
 
LETTERS FROM 2 OF SANDRA'S CHILDREN TO THE FAMILY COURT JUDGE (FEB 2013):
 
14 year old girl
 
“I am 14 and in June I will be 15. I am here today to say a few thing to not only you but Ms. Friedrich and Dr. Gilbertson.
 
“I would first like to say I am appalled by the way this court has treated me and my brothers and sisters.
I have not only been called fat a number of times by Julie Friedrich but have been ask if I was pregnant and been called a down right liar by not only Ms. Friedrich but also Dr. Gilbertson. I’m not only disgusted be the way they talk to me, my brothers and sister, but pissed at the way this court has accuse me of being a liar. I’m 14 and in a couple of months I will be 15. I know the difference between a lie and the truth.
 
I stand here today to tell you the truth about my father. To begin with, he has not only told my family that he is homicidal, but sat us down at kitchen table and yelled at us saying that he was not only going to kill me but my brothers, sister and mom. Not even a week later I received a horrifying voicemail of 6 gunshots. He has also choked, slapped, and hit and verbally abused my mother repeatedly throughout their. marriage. He also has lost it on us kids more than a number of time physically and verbally. Also he has made sexual comments to me over the year about my boobs look bigger and so forth and over the year many of my friends could not hang out with me because of my father. The day my father officially moved out of the Ireland place home was not only a day of peace and happiness but safety in the household.
 
“And second I would like to say it was absolutely absurd of you to remove us from our mom’s care. She has been nothing but loving and our rock and you not only removing us from us from her but not letting have contact with her for 6 months, 19 days except for the one 3 hour meeting on January 11. It is down right cruel, ruthless of this court. I ask you to let me live with my mom, let me be happy because all this courtroom has done has cause misery and heartache. Thank you for your time.”
 
13 year old girl
 
“Your Honor,
 
“I am 13 years old. I am here to speak my voice because I have never been given the opportunity to do so.
My father has frightened and hurt my family. After the divorce was final, my father kept repeatedly threatening and shocking myself and my bothers and sister and my mother. I have been called a liar and have not been able to say what I believe without a court member discriminating me.
 
I wish to be with my mother, because my father has brought nothing but pure torture to my family.”
 
(Contact Person: Jane Johnson)
Biography

"For the last five years I have had to endure the loss of my children. They alone were my world.  I have had to witness from afar the repeated abuses of them go unheard and ignored. They came forward repeatedly to the Lakeville Police Department, Judge David Knutson, and Child Protective Services. Psychologists Reitman and Gilbertson and Guardians ad Litem Julie Friedrich and Laura Miles also knew the truth of the abuse that my children suffered, but each time their pleas fell on deaf ears.

Nothing is more sacred than a child's life. And they should have had an avenue to be heard and action taken to ensure their safety. 

The proof of abuse I brought to my trial was also ignored and dismissed with the wave of a gavel. 80% of the evidence documenting David Rucki's violent behavior, stalking and physical and emotional abuse was not allowed to be present at my trial. My witnesses were also denied attendance by Judge Asphaug. Now I am paying the price for doing what any loving parent would do for their children - protect them from harm." SGR Prepared Statement Read at Sentencing by Family Law Attorney Michelle MacDonald

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