Single
mother Heather Collins (Heather) has (4) four hours a week of
supervised visits with her children ever since reporting her husbands
child sexual abuse (5) five years ago as well as throughout the
divorce. On April 28, 2022 attorney Noel Scott Johnson (Johnson) filed a
motion for his attorney fees in Collins v. Collins, Rogers County
FD-14-308. He seeks over ($100,000) one hundred thousand dollars on
behalf of his client to reimburse the fees spent since 2016. Sources
indicate that DHS has (5) five substantiated Department of Human
Services (DHS) allegations against Johnson’s client, Clayton Collins, a
man who has had sole custody while his ex-wife has had over (5) five
years of supervised visits, the online record appears absent a reason
why.
Heather
has consistently told the Court of a danger to her children just to be
continuously admonished for mandatory disclosing. Heather through
counsel reported that she went to speak with the Rogers County District
Attorneys office many times about the allegations eventually going to
the State of Oklahoma Attorney General’s (OAG) Office to seek help. Her
counsel made the appointment, explained the contentious family law with
Johnson’s law firm, and advised his client to attend. When Heather did
sit down with the OAG it was by and through Attorney Joy Thorp
(Thorp). Heather notes that after divulging her story Thorp said there
was ‘nothing’ she could do and that Johnson was the Thorp family
attorney. (See Part 3 of this expose)
Clayton
Collins (Collins) files for divorce August 14, 2014 in Rogers County.
By December Attorney Noel Scott Johnson (Johnson) enters his
appearance. A month later in January the parties enter into an agreed
temporary order with mother having temporary sole legal custody, ie-
decisions over major life decisions like religion, school, etc. The
parties were on a two week cycle wherein dad would have the child
Wednesday to Friday in week one and Wednesday to Sunday week two.
Within the first two weeks of this schedule the Heather is filing for
emergency custody alleging that on January 28, 2015 her minor child RJC
volunteered, “I touched Daddy’s private.” There are many other similar
statements and DHS is notified.
By
March 25, 2015 Mr. Collins is on ‘supervised visits’ and his wife is
being supervised by his mother. By April 28, 2015, it appears by the
Heather’s filings that Mr. Collins is being ‘supervised’ by his ‘family
and friends.’ By May 4th, 2015 Jeff Anderson is appointed to
professionally supervise Mr. Collins. By September Mrs. Collins is on
her fourth attorney. It does not appear she has done anything ‘wrong,’
it just appears that maintaining such litigation takes an exorbitant
amount of money, time and dedication.
By
September 22, 2015 the case came on for trial and the decree was to be
submitted, a transcript was made. By November Johnson is noting that
the minor child has made no
disclosures to Bart Trentham regarding sexual abuse in his response to
her application for emergency filed November 12, 2015. Of course Jamie
Voigt, who part one of this article noted is currently being sued for
work done in the Chico matter, has been involved as the child’s
therapist the whole time. Emergency custody is denied but by December
an agreed decree is entered swearing that both parties proper and fit
and sharing custody 50/50 on a 2/2/3, if I have Monday and Tuesday you
have Wednesday and Thursday and I have that weekend, likewise if you
have Monday and Tuesday I have Wednesday and Thursday and you have the
weekend.
It
is hard to keep track but it appears as though the mother is now on her
eighth attorney in the year this matter was pending, she is entitled to
($5,000) five thousand dollars alimony for property and each side is to
pay their own counsel. By June 2016 the fighting begins again at first
with disagreements with Parenting Coordinator recommendations by the
mother. By January 2017 the Court rules both parties unfit and appoints
Becki Murphy (Murphy) and David Francy to serve as temporary emergency
guardians. Stephen Hale is noted as the Guardian Ad Litem and as
petitioning for the emergency guardians. It appears as though Heather
alleges that the children are being exposed to the Cowboy Church in
Inola. Currently pastor Roy Shoop is pending trial after waiving
Preliminary Hearing in May, 2022, he was pending prelim for (2) two
years. In that case the pastor of the Cowboy Church in Inola is accused
of nearly a dozen counts of child molestation on (5) five separate
young women under the age of sixteen and some fourteen.
The
guardianship is dismissed about two weeks after on February 17, 2017
for ‘lack of evidence.’ Per GAL Hale’s recommendation the Court decides
the child is to be put back with the father, mother to have supervised
visits at Safenet (4) four times a week for (1) one hour. Online
filings in other matters indicate there are allegations Murphy exposed
the child to the Cowboy Church. By September 2017 Mr. Collins is
motioning to terminate the joint custody plan and award himself sole
legal custody.
Ironically
the Frontier did an article on Safenet in 2016 called ‘Pay to Play’
alleging misconduct by the Rogers County District Attorney, the same one
who fails to prosecute Johnson’s client Collins for any of the child
sex allegations. In that article ‘Pay to Play’ the Frontier noted that
Ballard’s wife was the chairman of the board of directors of Safenet and
several of its sub charity boards under it. It also said Ballard was
collecting an illegal fee that added up to nearly ($500,000) five
hundred thousand dollars.
A
bunch of wrangling occurs until eventually the Court is recused by
March 2019 with Judge Crossen to now be the new Judge, Judge Smith heard
it previously. Heather is still on supervised visits. Heather has
nearly had a dozen attorneys and currently pays around $60 in child
support to her ex-husband. She is still facing six figures in fees
against Johnson and her children are with their accused abuser.
Whenever Heather wants to see her kids she has to pay Matt Ballard’s
wife’s charity all while he refuses to prosecute the substantiated
allegations.
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