Another Website about Judge Larry Thompson

http://www.hollygracelockard.memory-of.com/Timeline.aspx Below is the letter from the Grandparents of a slain child to Judge Larry Thompson who allowed the dead child's half siblings be adopted by the murderer's family members. My two cents, is that if the gand parents who wrote this letter lived in Pike County; they would have been allowed to adopt the children. July 2007 This is a letter that I have mailed to Judge Larry Thompson, Family Court Judge, who allowed Holly's half sister and brother to be adopted by James Robinson's aunt and uncle. I am wanting him to reconsider placing them with relatives of Holly's murderer. To Judge Larry E. Thompson Your Honor, Is it the intention of Family Court to break up or divide the family’s home, or is it to do what’s best for the children involved? When the case of Haley Faith Lockard began, on Nov.2,2005, she was picked up by Kentucky State Police and Children’s Services in Pike County and placed in a foster home. She had just gone through a traumatic experience by seeing her half-sister Holly Grace Lockard, who had been murdered by her dad and mom. and then seeing her dad and mom arrested for that murder. Instead of placing Haley back with me, her maternal grandmother, who had been raising her and Holly for the previous 2 years. Two months prior to that, the girls had been taken from their safe home, by an untrained and uncaring social worker in South Carolina and placed with their negligent mom, where Amber later took them to Kentucky with Haley’s biological dad, James Robinson. The Social Services in Pike County Ky were informed about the danger the girls could be in, and the social workers there, also uncaring, didn’t investigate the parents properly, by their own acknowledgment How could you, a Family Court Judge, not investigate the situation when the accused dad and mom, having been found guilty enough by a Grand Jury to stand trial for murder, and both having a million dollar cash bond placed on them, and both come before you and state where their living child should be placed, did you have that much faith in their opinion to honor their wishes? The family, a great aunt and uncle, that the parents wished to have their child placed with, did you care that the child had never even stayed even one night with them? This family, Donnie and Cathy Robinson, was also aware of the abuse and neglect of Holly, but never cared enough to report it. In May 2006, another child was born, a boy named Noah, and he also was immediately placed in the Robinson’s home, because you had placed Haley there in Jan. 2006. The Robinson’s had been taking the children to the jail weekly to see both their mom and dad, also promising their mom, Amber that the weekly visits would continue if they, the Robinson’s, were allowed to adopt them. The visits allowed to me, the maternal grandmother, by this Court and the Robinson’s, totaled three (3). I had three (3) one hour supervised visits at the Social Services office in Pike County. On Feb.22, 2007, you, the Family Court Judge, told us, the maternal grandparents, we was not allowed to intervene on the adoption of my grandchildren, because they did not live with us, although a motion to intervene had been filed on Sept. 25,2006 and a hearing set for Nov.1,2006, and after arriving for that hearing was told it was to be postponed like all the previous hearings set in 2006. On Feb.22,2007, you allowed Donnie and Cathy Robinson to adopt my grandchildren, Haley and Noah. Also, Feb.22,2007, I, Haley’s maternal grandmother, was handed a report from Tammy Skeens, Haley’s guardian Ad Litem, that I was the cause for Haley’s headaches and stomach troubles, and Haley no longer wished to see me. Did you even consider the fact that I had only seen Haley three times the previous year, and those were supervised visits? Did you also know that it was I, who informed the Social Services in Pike County, that Haley was being treated for an ulcer? Did you even consider that Haley had been intimidated by the Robinson’s to believe the lies they told her? Did you not check back to Tammy Skeen’s first Guardian Ad Litem’s report on Nov. 29,2005, and read where Haley stated that if she couldn’t live with her parents that she was “ suppose to say with Donnie and Cathy Robinson. When asked who told her to say this, she replied Toni and Randy, who are her foster parents. Haley stated that she had never spent the night with Donnie and Cathy but would only go to visit. Haley did not appear to have a strong bond with them. But still on Jan. 26,2006, you allowed Haley’s name to be changed to Robinson from Lockard, and on Jan.31,2006, you allowed Haley to be placed in the home of Donnie and Cathy. Haley stated that she used to live with her Mamaw and Tom Guest in South Carolina and had her own room there. She also stated that they were mean to her. When questioned as to how they were mean, she said “they spanked me”. Haley stated that her parents do not spank her but they did spank Holly. In my own defense, Haley was never spanked here, but put in time out. A lso while you’re checking back, explain why you ordered us, the maternal grandparents, to pay $250.00 for the Guardian Ad Litem when we didn’t even have the children. Why did you allow Ms. Sipple and her partner Ms. Goodman, James Robinson’s attorney’s, to make us try to prove that we were Haley’s De Facto Custodians, when in Criminal Court, Ms. Goodman stated herself that we were in fact the ones that had raised Haley and Holly both for the previous two (2) years? The Criminal Court for James Robinson’s murder trial, proved that Frank Robinson, the paternal grandparent of Haley, had manipulated Haley’s mom into trying to convince the jury that it was she who was to blame for Holly’s murder, but the jury seen through that scheme and convicted James Robinson of the murder of his step-daughter and is now serving a life sentence also. On Feb.22, 2007, we, the maternal grandparents, were ordered by you to have one (1) hour visitation with Haley provided we make the 840 mile round trip in order to do so, or two (2) one hour visits if we stayed overnight. Did you not even consider the expense and the time traveling that we would have to endure to have those visits? Now on May 11th,2007, we received a notice of hearing to be heard in your Court, by the Guardian Ad Litem, to suspend all contact with her maternal grandparents and biological parents. Now do you see how this story is unfolding? Do you now see that over the past year and a half that the Robinson’s are yet again manipulating lives? But this time it’s the lives of my grandchildren. For the past year and a half, I have been denied my grandchildren, one that I helped raise and one that I haven’t been allowed to bond with, and haven’t even seen but twice for a few minutes each time when the Robinson’s allowed it. Am I to believe that you, a Family Court Judge, is really looking out for the best interest of my grandchildren? Or have you also been manipulated by the Robinson’s? That because they are Pike County Ky residents and we are not, that you would honor their requests and ignore ours? That the Social Services in Berkley County SC and Pike County Ky both had said our home was more than adequate and suitable to raise Haley in, but yet you still allowed parents of a murdered child and a great aunt and uncle that knew of the abuse that led up to the murder of a 23 month old, convince you to allow Haley to live there. Have you been so blinded by the opinions of the Robinson’s and their attorneys, that you can’t even see common sense? Or do you just not care about the children after all? Your Honor, if you would look at all the facts from the time of Haley’s birth, all the Court cases in Mingo County WV, of James and Amber Robinson’s ,from 2001-2004,and the evidence proved in their criminal case, you would see for yourself, that not only are the Robinson family manipulating and self-serving, that the Robinson family is also capable of murder in order to get what they want. Frank Robinson, paying $10,000 to Robert Wright, Amber’s attorney, successfully got her to plead a blind plea of murder. But his role in getting James to convince Amber to bring the girls to Kentucky was priceless, all it took after they arrived was to get rid of Holly and Amber, then they would have what they wanted since 2001, and that is Haley, and now a bonus of Noah. Those promises to Amber about seeing her children every week if the Robinson’s were to adopt them? You see now how they keep their promises. Let me end by saying this your Honor, I love my grandchildren, all of them, and someday they will be old enough to understand what you let happen, and what the Robinson’s have done, and then we will let them decide if they had been cared for.