Note: This aidpage was started as a comment on "Home page of Shell09"
The only reporter brave enough to investigate and report on what was going on with The AIDS Coalition of Volusia & Flagler Co., Inc. was Anne Geggis of The Daytona Beach News Journal. What is so repulsive about this agency and what I discovered can be found in the CDC stats, is Florida (aside from I believe Virginia) is the only state which has more people living with AIDS than those living with an HIV+ diagnosis. That give you an idea on how Florida has managed to allow HIV+ people to be come ill when it is a preventable disease. “Non-profit” agencies like The AIDS Coalition of Volusia & Flagler Co. have not only done a horrible injustice to those ill and begging for help, they attempted to destroy the one person, me, by involving my child in their repercussions of my Whistle blowing, who cared (and continues to care) about this very misunderstood and abused community of people. I have done my best, I cannot do anymore until my child is home with me. I am strong with my child and this County as far as I’m concerned slapped anyone in the face who is suffering with AIDS. How can Florida have more people living in this state with AIDS that they have living with an HIV+ diagnosis? It’s because of agencies like this one, greedy, ambivalent, and nonchalant about the HIV\AIDS community so much so that they involved the emotional, mental and physical well-being of my child by going to the Court and telling them I was “delusional” with my allegations of the agency's "going-ons." We know, HUD knows, OIG knows, the US Attorney General knows and the Volusia County Court knows the truth and yet they refuse to admit that they not only ignored my civil rights and the law, the are accountable for my child attempting suicide and keeping us apart for three years. Why are we as a country amazed when we abuse and push people down so hard when they threaten the greed and fraud of others by standing up to them, and yet we don’t understand that a mother who grieves daily cannot sit idly by and wait for the system to do the right thing? I have been the picture of focused sanity and yet this judge, Judge Richard “Dick” Graham abused every civil and human right I possessed. He treated me as if I was an insane criminal and gave me no time to even retain representation, not only that, the opposing council (whose office partner defended the subordinate co-worker who attacked me in my office twice as she wheeled a knife) continues to tell everyone including all of the new Judges in my case, (four have disqualified themselves at various times during a Hearing) that I'm crazy. This stupidity stalls the proceedings. What's crazy is that he continues to say (what obviously works in Volusia County) things that have been proven wrong by everyone from OIG to the media. If no one steps up and ACTS-UP to help in this situation with me and my child, then no one will ever have the incentive to do the right thing for HIV\AIDS clients and patients again. I lost all of my worldly possessions and I lost the child I raised alone for 11 & 1\2 years (on a Temporary Custody rulings which has lasted three years) because I felt I had to do the right thing. Everyone I have spoken to has told me “they will never whistle blow for anything at anytime ever.” I am not trying to say that’s the right way to feel, but people who love me have seen the daily pain I go through and the unbelievable power an annoyed judge has over lives and futures, is simply too dreadful to be a part of. I just couldn’t be part of an agency (with my extensive history in the HIV\AIDS field) that robbed the very clients I fought so hard to protect and educate since I began my work in the 80’s.
