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Mom in Detroit standoff incident released—Says she was protecting daughter from unnecessary drugging
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A Detroit woman accused of using a gun in a standoff with police when child welfare workers came to take her 13-year-old daughter was released, officials said. Maryanne Godboldo, 56, had been in custody since surrendering to police Friday after a 10-hour standoff at her home during which she allegedly fired a shot at officers, The Detroit News reported.
March. 31, 2011
DETROIT, March 31 (UPI) — A Detroit woman accused of using a gun in a standoff with police when child welfare workers came to take her 13-year-old daughter was released, officials said.
Maryanne Godboldo, 56, had been in custody since surrendering to police Friday after a 10-hour standoff at her home during which she allegedly fired a shot at officers, The Detroit News reported. Godboldo, released Wednesday, has said she was protecting the girl from unnecessary medication welfare workers insisted she be given.
Maryann Godboldo
“I feel wonderful and I’m very excited to see my daughter,” Godboldo said after leaving the Wayne County Jail. “The support of the community has been unbelievable.”
Godboldo has said her daughter’s physical and mental problems were caused by a bad reaction to immunizations the formerly home-schooled teen was given so she could be enrolled last year in a regular middle school.
Lawyers and family say Godboldo’s dispute with authorities is over a subsequent treatment plan that called for psychotropic drugs the mother believed were doing more harm than good.
Police said Godboldo locked the doors of her home when child welfare workers showed up with a warrant to take her daughter and allegedly fired on officers when they broke open her door.
She has been charged with assault, resisting and opposing police and using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
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Rally For Mother Involved In 12-Hour Police Stand-Off
April 2, 2011 12:35 PM
Allison Folmar, Child Protective Services, Maryanne Godboldo, rally, Stand-Off
DETROIT (WWJ) – A rally was held on Saturday morning for the mother who fired a gun prompting a standoff with Detroit Police a week ago. This after Child Protective Services showed up to take her child away.
The Justice for Maryanne Godboldo Action Committee held a rally at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit to bring attention to and draw donations needed to assist Godboldo in her upcoming legal battles.
Godboldo was thrust into the limelight after she got into a standoff with police that lasted nearly 12 hours late last week. It began when Godboldo fired a shot at a CPS worker who arrived at her home in an attempt to take her 13-year-old daughter. CPS workers were there to take the girl after reports surfaced that Godboldo refused to give the child needed medication.
Addressing the crowd on the legal fight ahead was Wanda Evans, Godboldo’s attorney.
“We have a mother that has done her research. She’s intelligent, she’s articulate, she’s attentive and she’s telling you what she needs, and she has gotten the back up here. And she’s saying ‘assist me.’ And that’s what we have to do. Not rip her family apart,” Evans said.
Ron Scott with the Justice Committee said the focus is about parental rights and they have been getting support from all over.
“It’s been unbelievable. People from all over the world have called. It’s everyone from the far right to the far left and everybody in between, who have come together to say, this mother stood her ground to reflect the rights that every parent should have,” Scott said.
Fifty-eight-year-old Godboldo is charged with discharging a weapon in a dwelling, felonious assault, felony firearm, resisting arrest and obstruction of an officer.
Godboldo was released on bond from Wayne County Jail on Wednesday.
Her attorney, Allison Folmar, said CPS was over-stepping their boundaries when they showed up at Godboldo’s home to take away her child.
“My client is a mother who was protecting her child, against CPS who is acting, over-reaching and outside the scope of their authority. You cannot superimpose your will to give a child Risperdal, which is a psychotropic medication,” Folmar said.
Evans, Godboldo’s other attorney, could not agree more.
“My main concern is that they [CPS] have imposed their own view on this family as to what kind of medication should be given. And when the parents make a plan to help this child and elect not to give a certain type of medication because of the severe risks. The parent has seen what’s happening to the child because they are there 24-7 and they have the right to do that,” Evans said.