Look at the document “Woodlock – DM’s Partial Victim Impact Statement” that was submitted on the eve of James Woodlock’s sentencing last week by David Vicinanzo and Russ Rilee. It was sent to the media as well. The media link goes into Jane Doe #146’s lawsuit, which states that Woodlock sexually penetrated (raped) Jane Doe when she was on probation in 2015 – a more serious allegation than the charges he faced in trial and for which he was convicted: being an accomplice to rape. It calls itself “David Meehan’s partial victim impact statement”. But to my knowledge, it is not David Meehan’s impact statement at all. It is a victim impact statement submitted by his lawyers to outline the rest of their civil suits for claimants who had nothing to do with this trial or the charges brought by the State.
The exhibits also include claims from another suit that Woodlock raped Jane Doe 62 between 2007 and 2010.
This being the case, these are felony rapes, and they are under the statute of limitations. So why didn’t the State charge and prosecute Woodlock for these? Why has the State never mentioned these, but did charge Woodlock on a Grand Jury Indictment that it had to retract because David Meehan had never made the statements that the particular charge was based on? In addition, in the case of Jane Doe 146, there is mention of sexual images shown to Jane Doe on Woodlock’s phone. These would be retrievable, I suspect. Why has the State not prosecuted for any of this? These are very clear felony level rape claims with many more potential witnesses and evidence around.
Sylvia Gale is listed in the exhibit (D) of the David Vicinanzo/Russ Rilee victim impact statement as the “investigator for YDC”. But in the late 80s/early 90s she wrote a letter making up claims against Father Gordon MacRae about sex abuse of a child in Florida – a State he’d never visited. A claim that turned out to be proven to be completely untrue.
Sylvia Gale gave her claims about Father Gordon MacRae in Florida to James F McLaughlin, a dishonest police officer, who was sex obsessed with children as he proved in US v Paul Gamache (1998) – posing as “Francis” aka “the Government” who sexualized minors and boasted about making sex video tapes of them.
It’s a little too ironic that Brandon Chase from the AG’s office defended the State against David Meehan in the civil suit and was also the attorney for the State, allowing James F McLaughlin to have his name removed from the Laurie List in secret hearings that coincidentally happened right before the David Meehan suit in Spring 2024.
I believe this is all connected and that this is why a) James F McLaughlin’s records were redacted and that he was removed from the Laurie list and b) why DCYF were instructing interns to delete files of sex abuse at YDC and c) why the State referred claimants to the NHCADSV (contracted with DCYF and thus damage control) who referred them to David Vicinanzo (specializing in defending against allegations of Gov Fraud) who managed to prevent the Grand Jury report on St Paul’s School from being published while securing a contract for his client, the NHCADSV. David Vicinanzo knows all about James F McLaughlin from the Diocese of Manchester investigation and from the St Paul’s investigation for which he was hired out of retirement to work on. Vicinanzo greased Jane Young’s wheels on the St Paul’s case despite the fact that she informed him in writing that it was the AG’s office’s opinion that he had a conflict of interest in the St Paul’s Grand Jury Criminal Investigation.
Sylvia Gale had a legal case against her in 1999 for conflicts of interest with Nashua Child Services and her work with non-profits. She managed to get off.
Thomas Grover, Father Gordon MacRae’s accuser, was the son of Sylvia Gale’s colleague, Patricia Grover. He was a drug addict. In a 2008 affidavit signed by Charles Glenn (John Doe #9 in the original David Meehan lawsuit against the State), Glenn claims that Thomas Grover came to visit him at YDC (Grover was married Charles Glenn’s mother and had bought a house off the proceeds of the claims against Father Gordon MacRae) and admitted that he’d fabricated the claims against Father Gordon MacRae because of the money that he was told he could get from the Diocese if he fabricated claims.
Charles Glenn maintains that Thomas Grover was sexually inappropriate with Glenn’s sisters and that that is why he ran away from the home Grover bought with the money from the Diocese.
When I said that the NHCADSV, Police, and AG’s office and attorneys were in a “Kids for Cash” enterprise in 2021 to Russ Rilee, he said, “Nothing would surprise me”. But he forwarded my letter to the NHCADSV, who got Shaheen & Gordon to threaten me with a defamation suit on behalf of NHCADSV and Amanda Grady Sexton. According to NHCADSV’s IRS Form 990s, no payment was made to Shaheen & Gordon for this service. Shaheen & Gordon backed off when my First Amendment attorney reminded them that it’s not defamation if it is true and of my constitutional rights.
The Shaheen & Gordon attorney, Timothy McLaughlin, left S&G in May 2024, just a few days after I filed an NH Bar ADO complaint against him for witness intimidation of a member of the public on behalf of a publicly elected official, Amanda Grady Sexton. I suspect that he left so that Shaheen & Gordon could avoid liability. They also had a very serious conflict of interest representing the NHCADSV when they’d also represented Andrew Thomson in NH v Owen Labrie – a witness for the State who Amanda Grady Sexton informed Prosecutor Ruffle, had been tampered with by former AG Michael Delaney (representing the school). This is why Michael Delaney had to withdraw from consideration for the First Circuit – Chessy Prout, the State’s witness and complainant, had written to inform the US Senate Judiciary Committee about this felony level witness tampering of witnesses for the State and of Amanda Grady Sexton’s and Prosecutor Catherine Ruffle’s Knowledge of it.
According to LinkedIn, Timothy McLaughlin recently got a job as General Counsel to NH Restaurants Inc. He also says he was at Shaheen & Gordon until March 2024, but I believe he was still there (he was still listed on their site and on Secretary of State paperwork for S&G) in May 2024. He is the son of AG Phil McLaughlin, who hired James F McLaughlin for the Diocese 2002 investigation. The initial list of 15 priests issued in February 2002 did not include Father Gordon MacRae, but it did include Father Francis Talbot, a convicted priest who was the chaplain at YDC and was convicted for child abuse at YDC. The list published on July 31, 2019, did not include Father Francis Talbot’s name, although it did include Father Gordon MacRae’s, complete with information about sex tapes that James F McLaughlin had admitted didn’t exist. Two “retired police officers” vetted this list before it was published on July 31, 2019.
I believe those police officers are James F McLaughlin and Julie Curtin. Why would they remove Father Francis Talbot’s name? It was 2019, the same year that AG Gordon MacDonald (who used to represent the Diocese) launched the task force to investigate YDC. Was Talbot’s name removed because it would be embarrassing for Nixon Peabody, AG MacDonald, James F McLaughlin or Chuck Douglas (who allegedly made two claims against the Diocese for the abuse by Talbot at YDC)?
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