This page contains statements made by Jean Brookbank of State Offices for Services to Children and
Families (SCF) under oath during a Court hearing on February 29th 2000. The first deliberate perjury
is an explanation of why she went to my home (despite my specific objections to her doing so) in
which she manages to invoke the names of both Judge Mendiguren and Judge Valentine in lying
about a non-existent hearing she used as an excuse to get herself into our home and make her first
attempt to take Stephanie. In the second statement she again perjures herself while falsely invoking
the authority of others, this time it is State Police Detective Pat Montgomery. Jean purjures herself
regarding removing Stephanie from my home and placing her into Foster Care. It is this lie that is the
basis for our claim of a conspiracy. I can prove that her testimony about a conversation with Detective
Montgomery was actually a converstation with Barbara Bare her co-conspirator.
The first perjury is very straightforward, it involves Jean Brookbanks voluntary explanation of why she
was at my home the night I first went to jail. From transcript of February 29th 2000 pages 61/62
understanding is that, at a hearing that Mr. Bare was asked, it came to the Court's attention, I'm not sure if it was you or Judge
Valentine, that there was a minor child in the home and an effort was made by the Court to identify extended family members for
Stephanie so that she wouldn't be left alone in the home and my understanding --again I wasn't there-- was that Mr. Bare indicated
that there was no, I think there was no extended --no available extended family members and I don't know if that meant that he was
saying there was no one in town or that, as I understand from him that there's not contact with those family members. And so we
sent out a co-worker and I went out to see Stephanie in the home. She was home by herself.
This false statement is repeated in a document (147A):
"At the time of referral by Deputy Roger Washbond, custodial parent Larry Bare was lodged in Union County jail and twelve year old
Stephanie was alone in the family's rental home on East "N" Avenue in La Grande. At arraignment, Mr. Bare refused temporary
placement of his daughter with local extended family members: the court reportedly allowed her to remian in the home alone."
In a nutshell, there was no such hearing, this can be verified by public Court records. She lied to cover up the fact that she was
waiting for this call from the jail to take my daughter. This attempt was foiled by the appearance of our families best friends with two
girls of their own who took Stephanie for the night.
Which brings us to the second perjury. From the transcript Page 64:
Ms. Penz: Were there any family members or friends that she could have stayed with other than foster care?
Ms. Brookbank: There was one family, the Wards, who were the friends that she stayed with the night that her father was in jail.
When Oregon State Trooper Pat Montgomery and I went back and met with her and her father, we were talking
about the possibility of creating a safety plan where Stephanie would go to that home and we were having that
conversation with Mr. Bare and Mrs. Ward came into the house at that time and began talking about how
Stephanie's father was the only person who'd ever cared for her, and when we knew the whole story we would have
a different perspective on what had occurred in late November. Detective Montgomery and I stepped outside and
made a ---
Although this portion of her testimony was interrupted by the Judge, the statement is reiterated in the 147B Substitute Care Review
Narrative dated 8/18/2000 which states:
"After Mrs. Ward left, Detective Montgomery and this worker consulted outside and concluded that Stephanie's
need for a neutral placement and, thus, removal form the dynamics surrounding domestic violence could not be
immediately met at the Ward home."
When Detective Montgomery and Jean Brookbank left our home with Stephanie, they went to the SCF office where she was
interviewed with Jean and Sargent Washbond UCSO. I was sent to an emergency mental health evaluation with the head of CHD
Jeff Callison. Ms. Brookbank left that interview to take a telephone call from Mr. Callison that I was present for and failed to return to
the interview. In that telephone call Mr. Callison, after having read Barbara's psychological evaluations said the following:
"I contacted SCF, Jean Brookbank, and told her I see no danger for daughter as long as client & ex-wife have
no contact and recommended he get a restraining order against wife which he is willing to do."
Ms. Brookbank also testifies regarding the interview:
"I actually had to leave the interview that Detective Washbond was conducting with Stephanie at that point so I
wasn't there for that part of the discussion."
From Barbara Bare's diary dated the same day:
"Cell phone call-Jean Brookbank-963-8571. Talked to her at length one hour. Asked about the Wards as
possible placement. Also wanted Monica's phone #'s. They want to meet with me at the ranch with an officer to
discuss what happened and make an assessment of Larry. Stephanie placed in foster care."
