Chicago and North Suburbs Plagued with Sex Trafficking, Parental Alienation, Child Rape, and Psychiatric Drugging of Molestation Victims

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Chicago and North Suburbs Plagued with
Sex Trafficking, Parental Alienation, Child Rape, and Psychiatric Drugging of Molestation Victims:
Thirty-Eight People and Places Which Are Threats to Children's Safety

1. Brad W. Andersen, Lake Bluff realtor. His sons’ friend performed as a camgirl for him when she was in her early twenties.

2. Raymond Allen Boldt, Mundelein attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

3. Janelle Christensen, Waukegan judge. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

4. Raymond D. Collins, Waukegan judge. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

5. Sean Curran, Lincolnshire police officer. In 2009, interrogated then 22-year-old Melissa Calusinski and coerced her into falsely confessing to murdering 1-year-old Benjamin Kingan.

6. Jonathan Dick, Lake Forest confectioner (owner of Sweet’s). Molested and/or raped the daughters of the mother, formerly of Lake Forest, who wrote the book Straying Towards Truth. Husband and accomplice of Susan Dick. May or may not be using the alias “Jonathan D. Jonathan”.

7. Susan Dick, Lake Forest confectioner (owner of Sweet’s). Molested and/or raped the daughters of the mother, formerly of Lake Forest, who wrote the book Straying Towards Truth. Wife and accomplice of Jonathan Dick.

8. Michael Feld, Northbrook psychiatrist. Had an affair with a client. Prescribed neurotranquilizing / sedative atypical antipsychotic medications to Joseph W. Kopsick when he attempted to come forward with child molestation allegations against his attorney father Richard S. Kopsick in 2015. Came recommende (to Richard Kopsick) by psychiatrist and youth counselor Sol Rappaport.

9. George Filenko, Lincolnshire police officer. In 2009, interrogated then 22-year-old Melissa Calusinski and coerced her into falsely confessing to murdering 1-year-old Benjamin Kingan.

10. Scott Boen Gibson, Waukegan / Lake Forest attorney. Former partner of child molester Richard S. Kopsick. Gibson pinched Joe Kopsick’s behind, and other children’s behinds, at his pool parties when Kopsick was a child, while yelling “There’s a butt-biter in the pool!”. Former heroin user. Recovering alcoholic.

11. Melodie Gliniewicz, Fox Lake. Widow of Fox Lake police officer Joseph Gliniewicz. Defrauded a children’s charity with her now deceased husband.

12. Kenneth Hasty, Waukegan basketball recruiter. Molested teenage boys, was put on probation, and tried to seduce a 19-year-old boy. His attorney Richard S. Kopsick recommended more probation in 1993, but Hasty was jailed. Two years later, Richard S. Kopsick molested his first born son, Joseph W. Kopsick.

13. Eric Hill, Zion police officer. Shot 17-year-old Justus Howell to death, in the back, while fleeing.

14. Adam Hyde, Lincolnshire police officer. In 2009, interrogated then 22-year-old Melissa Calusinski and coerced her into falsely confessing to murdering 1-year-old Benjamin Kingan.

15. Richard S. Kopsick, Waukegan / Lake Bluff personal injury attorney. Defended child molester Kenneth Hasty in 1993. Molested his oldest son Joey in 1995 and 1996, multiple times. Former friend of attorney Scott Gibson, who pinched Joe Kopsick’s behind and the behinds of other children at his pool parties. Active in the Lake County Democratic Party and the Lake Bluff District 65 school board during the 1990s. President of the Lake County Bar Association for the year of 2004.

16. Sally A. Lichter, Libertyville G.A.L. (Guardian Ad Litem) at Sally Family Law. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. Charges parents tens of thousands of dollars to speak to their children.

17. Lisa Malkov, Lake Bluff police officer. Refused to charge Richard S. Kopsick with molesting his son (despite multiple written statements, precise estimation of dates on which the abuse occurred, explanations as to why physical evidence is not available, and a prosecutor’s admission that it sounds to him like Joe Kopsick’s mother and brother believe him about the abuse).

18. Matt deMartini, Antioch attorney. In 2011, prosecuted Melissa Calusinski alongside his associate attorney Steven J. “Steve” Scheller. Framed Calusinski by failing to produce sufficiently light X-ray evidence showing that the baby who died in Calusinski’s care had previously existing head injuries.

19. David “Dave” Miller, Lake Bluff / Lake Forest theater director. Exchanged sexually charged text messages with boys around the age of 17 years old, and kissed students. May have also had sexual relationships with teenage boys. Reportedly, information about this was suppressed between 2009 and 2020 because Miller’s victims wanted to retain their privacy.

20. Michael Nerheim, Waukegan former State's Attorney of Lake County. Republican. Defeated by Democrat Eric Rinehart in November 2020. Nerheim's office refused to charge Richard S. Kopsick with child molestation. Nerheim urged support of police after the shooting death of 17-year-old Justus Howell, who was shot by police in the back while fleeing.

21. Victor o’Block, Waukegan prosecutor at the Specialized Victims Unit of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s office. Refused to charge Richard S. Kopsick with multiple counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against his son Joe Kopsick.

22. Kathleen o’Hara, Lake Bluff / Lake Forest former teacher and principal. Mayor of Lake Bluff since 2007. Screamed at students (including Joe Kopsick) while disciplining them, during her tenure at Lake Bluff Middle School (possibly contributing to an environment in which children would be unlikely to report abuse). Possibly failed to sufficiently bring Diane M. Ross’s child pornography arrest to the community’s attention.

23. Sol R. Rappaport, Libertyville psychiatrist and youth counselor. Recommended Dr. Michael Feld (who had an affair with a client) to Richard S. Kopsick, to treat his son Joe Kopsick, after he began recovering memories of abuse in 2015, and attempted to come forward about his father molesting him in 1995 and 1996.

24. David del Re, Waukegan attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. Works with psychiatrist and youth counselor Sol R. Rappaport.

25. Diane M. Ross, Lake Bluff / Lake Forest English professor at Lake Forest College. Mother of students who were in Lake Bluff schools in the year 2000, when Ross was arrested for sending child pornography over the internet.

26. Joseph V. Salvi, Waukegan judge. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

27. Steven. J. “Steve” Scheller, Waukegan attorney at Scheller & Burke, L.L.C.. Prosecutor, and former defense attorney. In 2011, prosecuted Melissa Calusinski alongside his associate attorney Matt deMartini. Framed Calusinski by failing to produce sufficiently light and legible X-ray evidence showing that the baby who died in Calusinski’s care had previously existing head injuries. Friend of attorney Richard S. Kopsick, who defended a child molester and molested his own son.

28. Donna-Jo Vorderstrasse, Waukegan judge. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

29. An adult male in either Lake Bluff or Lake Forest, name unknown, who molested a boy in the 1990s and/or 2000s who attended school in Lake Bluff with Joe Kopsick.

30. A Lake Bluff father, name unknown, who molested and/or raped his daughter, who attended school in Lake Forest with Joe Kopsick.

31. The adult male proprietor of a hookah bar / music venue that used to exist in Waukegan. Name of establishment and proprietor unknown. Sexually abused and/or pimped-out at least three underage girls; in the early 2000s, and probably other instances as well. One of these girls was also victimized by sailors at Great Lakes Naval Base.

32. One or more sailors at Great Lakes Naval Base who committed statutory rape against a girl or girls as young as 12 or 13 years old, some time between the years 1999 and 2002. One of these girls was also victimized by the proprietor of a Waukegan hookah bar.

33. The adult male who molested, or attempted to molest, young boys in the men’s showers of the Lake Bluff park district’s public pool in the 1990s. Name unknown.

34. The proprietors of, and dance instructors at, Model Act Studios, based in Schaumburg and Lemont. Accused of taking parents money for photographs of children, without offering adequate dance instruction to kids; may be a scam to defraud parents for money and/or obtain photos and/or videos of children for illicit purposes. Works with International Modeling and Talent Association (I.M.T.A.) to put on child fashion shows featuring young girls in immodest two-piece swimsuits. May be working with (I.M.T.A.) to find attractive children who can be lured into the entertainment industry.

35. J.B. Pritzker and family (including former Jeffrey Epstein associate Tom Pritzker, J.B.’s cousin). Governor of Illinois, Democrat. The Pritzker family owns the Hyatt Regency “Chicago” (actually in Schaumburg) and the neighboring Hyatt Place in Schaumburg. Sex trafficking has occurred at the Hyatt Regency, and has likely occurred at Hyatt Place as well.

36. The Village of Schaumburg, which owns the Renaissance Convention Center and Hotel in Schaumburg. The Renaissance Convention Center has hosted conventions of Tremaine dance studios, which teaches young girls (and some boys) sexually charged dance routines.

37. The owner(s) of Private Events by Sam and Harry’s in Schaumburg. Located next to the Renaissance Convention Center. Reputed area where sex trafficking has likely occurred (possibly in connection to sex trafficking occurring at the Renaissance).

38. The City of Chicago, which owns o’Hare International Airport in northwestern Chicago (a known human trafficking and sex trafficking site) and Midway Airport in south Chicago (another possible human trafficking site).

Written and published on May 25th, 2021

Social Network Map of Child Molesting Attorneys, Fraudulent Psychiatrists, and Corrupt Police Officers in Lake County, Illinois

Part 1: Social Networking Map

     The infographic below is a social networking map which shows the child-molesting attorneys and educators, parental alienation committing attorneys, fraudulent psychiatrists who drug rape accuser patients with psychiatric medications, corrupt and racist police officers, and other corrupt officials, in Lake County, Illinois.

     This image should help explain why I believe that it would be difficult for me to obtain a fair trial - or a trial at all - in my ongoing attempt to urge prosecutors to file charges against my father for molesting me in 1995 and 1996.

     This is a quick-reference guide designed to help people who are new to, or unfamiliar with, my case, to understand the connections between the various attorneys, and other prominent people in Lake County, whom my father Richard Kopsick knows, and how he knows them.

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Part 2: List of People

     The text below consists of all people mentioned on the chart above (except for attorney Matt deMartini).
     For the sake of including the maximum number of possible child predators in the Lake County legal system, I have also included the names of several people involved in parental alienation and child molestation cases whom are close to me.
     I have also included the names of people involved in several well-known criminal cases from Lake County, all of which involved Coroner Dr. Thomas Rudd. I have included this information in order to help illustrate the general degree of corruption in the county, and also because Rudd was the coroner in State of Illinois v. Calusinski, a case in which my father Richard Kopsick and his friend Steve Scheller were both involved.

- Andersen, Brad

     Managing broker at GGL Realty (Griffith, Grant, & Lackie) in Lake Bluff. Friend of Richard Kopsick. Used the camgirl services of one of his friend’s daughters, who was in her early twenties at the time.
    http://www.facebook.com/justaskbrad/

- Bello, Evelyn

     Former legal advocate at Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center in Gurnee. Spoke to Lake Bluff police officer Lisa Malkov about Joe Kopsick’s claims against Richard Kopsick. Told Joe Kopsick to wait for the police to respond if and when contacted by Victor o’Block.

- Berry, Christine

     Former therapist at Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center. Provided counseling to Joe Kopsick between February and November 2020. Did not commit any acts of impropriety against Joe Kopsick.

    

- Boldt, Raymond Allen

     Mundelein-based attorney. Accused by Grayson “Kash” Jackson (born Benjamin Winderweedle) of parental alienation. Represented Kash Jackson’s ex-wife in their custody battle Defended Jeffrey B. Hannah, a youth pastor who pled guilty of sexual assault against several teenage girls. Boldt motioned for Hannah to be able to visit his niece and nephew.

     Source:

     http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-09-10-9609100025-story.html

- Calusinski, Melissa (and sister)

     After what could be described as a coerced confession, Melissa Calusinski was convicted in 2012 of murdering a baby at a child care facility in 2009. Richard Kopsick represented someone in that case, possibly Calusinski’s sister or co-worker. Kopsick’s friend Steve Scheller prosecuted Calusinski along with his associate Matt deMartini.

     Source:

     http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-bn-xpm-2009-01-17-28521605-story,amp.html

- Christensen, Judge Janelle

     Presided over part of Kash Jackson’s child custody case. Acted with prejudice in committing parental alienation against Jackson.

- Collins, Judge Raymond D.

     Judge in the 19^th Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois. Accused by Sam Gorg of parental alienation.

- del Re, David

     Attorney in Waukegan. Accused by parent Sam Gorg of working with Sol Rappaport to commit fraudulent litigation of Gorg’s child custody and parental alienation case.

- Dick, Jonathan, and Dick, Susan

     Proprietors of Sweet’s Ice Cream store in Lake Forest. Parents of a student Joe Kopsick knew in high school. Accused, by author and therapist Karen A. Fennell, of molesting Fennell’s children.

     http://sweetschocolates.com/everyday/english_toffee.php

- Dunn, Dan

     Friend of Richard Kopsick. Former police officer in either Lake Bluff or Lake Forest. Joe Kopsick overheard Dunn telling fellow police officer Carl Schons that the Jews owned most of the factories in Germany, and therefore caused the pollution (implying that the Jews deserved what was coming to them).

- Feld, Dr. Michael

     Psychiatrist based in Northbrook. Was recommended to treat Joe Kopsick, by Dr. Sol Rappaport, after Richard Kopsick asked Rappaport to recommend a therapist. Joe Kopsick reported Feld to the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulations in May 2021.

    http://health.usnews.com/doctors/michael-feld-153493

- Fennell, Karen A. (and family)

     Formerly of Lake Bluff. Therapist, and the author of Straying Towards Truth, a fictionalized account of what to expect when a child in the family comes forward with allegations of sexual abuse. Fennell claims that Jonathan and Susan Dick, the owners of Sweet’s Ice Cream store in Lake Forest, molested her daughter or daughters. Moved out of state after the alleged abuse.

     http://www.amazon.com/Straying-Towards-Truth-Therapists-Professional/dp/1439229309

- Gibson, Scott Boen

     Waukegan-based attorney who lives in Lake Forest. Long time friend of Richard Kopsick; vacationed together with their families (including Union League Club Hotel in Chicago in December 1996). Used to share office space with Kopsick. Pinched Joe Kopsick’s butt when he was a child attending Gibson’s pool parties, and bragged that he was pinching child guests’ butts by yelling “There’s a butt-biter in the pool” in front of other parents, who did nothing about it. Denied pinching any children’s butts, according to a mutual friend of Gibson and Joe Kopsick, in late June or early July 2020. Once wrote a letter to Richard Kopsick saying that he was in Europe and the heroin there was great. Recovering alcoholic. Divorced.

     http://gibsonsteigauf.com/our-firm/scott-b-gibson/

- Gliniewicz, Joseph

     Deceased Fox Lake police officer. Killed himself in a staged suicide on September 1^st, 2015, prompting suspicion of murder and a search for the alleged killers. The non-existent suspects were described as ethnic minorities. Coroner Dr. Thomas Rudd revealed that Gliniewicz committed suicide. Gliniewicz and his wife Melodie defrauded the Youth Police Explorers Group.

     Source:

     http://abc7chicago.com/gliniewicz-joe-melodie-suicide/1175908/

- Gorg, Sam

     Lake County parent. Published a video alleging misconduct and intentional parental alienation by attorney David del Re and psychiatrist Dr. Sol R. Rappaport in Gorg’s child custody case.

- Hannah, Jeffrey B.

     Former youth pastor from Wildwood who pled guilty to sexual assaults against teenage girls. Was defended by attorney Raymond A. Boldt, who represented Kash Jackson’s wife in their child custody battle.

     Source:

     http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-09-10-9609100025-story.html

- Hastert, J. Dennis

     Former U.S. Representative from Illinois and Republican Speaker of the House. Molested teenage boys while working as a basketball coach (a commonality he shares with Kenneth Hasty).

- Hasty, Kenneth

     Waukegan man and former aldermanic candidate. Defended by Richard Kopsick in 1993 for attempting to make sexual advances towards a teenage boy while in his home. Had previously been accused of child molestation and was on probation. Richard Kopsick urged continued probation.

     Sources:

     http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-06-11-9306110377-story.html

     http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-08-06-9308060436-story.html

- Howell, Justus

     Now deceased boy from Zion who was shot to death by police at the age of 17. Coroner Dr. Thomas Rudd said that Howell was shot in the back by the police.

     Source:

     http://www.mtpr.org/post/coroner-says-illinois-teen-was-shot-twice-back-police

- Jackson, Grayson “Kash”

     Navy veteran, and former resident of Antioch, Illinois. Gubernatorial nominee of the Libertarian Party of Illinois in 2018. Accused Judge Joseph V. Salvi, Judge Janelle Christensen, and his ex-wife’s attorney Raymond Allen Boldt, of committing parental alienation against him in his child custody dispute.

     http://www.nprillinois.org/post/meet-kash-jackson-libertarian-nominee-illinois-governor#stream/0

- Jones, Kristin

     Supervisor at Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center in Gurnee. Referred Joe Kopsick to North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic after Evelyn Bello stopped working at Zacharias.

- Kopsick, Joseph W.

     Private security guard. Born in Lake Forest on February 24^th, 1987. Grew up in Lake Bluff, now lives in Waukegan. Son of Richard S. Kopsick. Accused Richard S. Kopsick of criminal sexual abuse, to Lake Bluff police, in December 2019 and March 2021. Studied political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison between 2005 and 2009. Blogger and political researcher at the Aquarian Agrarian. Frequent candidate for U.S. House of Representatives.

     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com

- Kopsick, Richard S.

     Personal injury, criminal defense, and medical negligence attorney based in Waukegan. Born in Manhattan, New York City, New York State on March 10^th, 1957. Grew up in Lake Bluff. Lives in Lake Bluff. Molested his oldest son Joseph W. Kopsick at 524 East Washington Avenue, Lake Bluff, in 1995 and 1996. Defended accused child molester Kenneth Hasty in 1993. Former friend of attorney Scott Gibson, who pinched Joe Kopsick’s butt at his pool parties in the 1990s. Democrat, heavily involved with Lake County Democratic Party during the 1990s.

     http://www.kopsicklaw.com

- Lichter, Sally

     G.A.L. (Guardian Ad Litem) who charged Kash Jackson thousands of dollars to speak to his son over the phone.

- Malkov, Lisa

     Police officer at the Lake Bluff Police Department. Spoke to Joe Kopsick, and several people Kopsick suggested the police interview, after each of Kopsick’s two visits to the Lake Bluff police (in December 2019 and March 2021). Would contact Victor o’Block’s Special Victims Unit office in the Lake County State’s Attorney if she determined that there was enough evidence to charge Richard Kopsick with a crime.

- Miller, David “Dave”

     Former theater director at Lake Forest High School. Lives in Lake Bluff. Reports that Miller had had inappropriate sexual relationships and text messages with teenage students, surfaced in 2009, and then again in 2020 because the 2009 accusers wished to retain their privacy.

     Sources:

     http://patch.com/illinois/lakeforest/sexual-misconduct-investigation-ex-drama-teacher-released

     http://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20475829/lake-forest-high-school-district-115-investigation-into-former-employee-david-miller.pdf
     http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-forest/ct-lfr-miller-teacher-theater-tl-0622-20200621-tqfrbm2e5vca5bupqjkymv3w4a-story.html

- Nerheim, Michael

     Lake County State’s Attorney from November 2012 to January 2021. Republican. Defeated by Democrat Eric Rinehart. Served above prosecutor Victor o’Block when o’Block decided not to file charges against Richard Kopsick in early 2020.

     http://mikenerheim.com

- o’Block, Victor

     Prosecutor at the Special Victims Unit of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s office. In the position to file charges against Richard Kopsick when and if police determine that there is enough evidence to do so. Decided not to file charges against Richard Kopsick in March 2020 (but failed to notify Joe Kopsick, resulting in his not finding out until two months later). Told Joe Kopsick, the first time they spoke (in May 2020), that he would not file charges, and that if Kopsick wants legal action, he should file a civil suit, or else go out of Lake County’s jurisdiction to bring attention to the case.

- o’Hara, Kathleen

     Former teacher and principal at Lake Bluff Middle School. President and mayor of the Village of Lake Bluff since 2007. Attended school board meetings with Richard Kopsick in the 1990s. Yelled at Joe Kopsick in her principal’s office for using the word “pot” while trying to draw attention to a very young boy who was using marijuana. Accused by Joe Kopsick, in 2020, of not doing enough to alert parents and the community about Diane M. Ross's 2000 arrest for soliciting child pornography.

     Source:

     http://theforestscout.com/7494/in-lfhs/real-ordinary-people-lake-bluffs-kathy-ohara/

- Rappaport, Dr. Sol R.

     Libertyville-based psychiatrist. One of the owners of Counseling Connections Therapeutic Day Schools. Co-founder of four other therapeutic day schools. Youth counselor. Has presented on family counseling and other topics for bar associations. Recommended Dr. Michael Feld to Richard Kopsick, for the purposes of providing psychiatric counseling to Joe Kopsick, in March 2015. Knew that Richard Kopsick wanted his son and victim Joe Kopsick medicated, when he recommended Feld.

     http://www.counselingconnections.net/people/1784614/dr-sol-rappaport

- Rinehart, Eric

     Lake County State’s Attorney since January 2021 (defeated incumbent Republican Michael Nerheim). Democrat. Praised the work done by Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center while on David Rych’s Reality Radio show on WRLR 98.3 FM Lake County in late 2020. Works in the same office as prosecutor Victor o’Block, whom is in a position to file charges against Richard Kopsick but has not done so.

     http://rinehartforlakecounty.com

- Ross, Diane M.

     Former English professor at Lake Forest College. Lived in Lake Bluff. Mother of two students who attended Lake Bluff schools with Joe Kopsick. Arrested in 2000 for posing as a 13-year-old girl in order to send child pornography over the internet.

     Sources:

     http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-10-06-0010060386-story.html
     http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-07-02-0007020099-story.html
     http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-05-09-0005090245-story.html

- Rossetti, Judge Victoria “Vicky”

     Judge in the 19^th Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois. Married to attorney Doug Zeit, who shares office space with Richard Kopsick. Friend of Richard Kopsick.

- Rudd, Dr. Thomas

     Former Lake County Coroner. Involved in the cases of Joseph Gliniewicz (police officer suicide), Melissa Calusinski (infant homicide), and Justus Howell (shot by police).

     http://www.facebook.com/DR-Thomas-Rudd-for-Lake-County-Coroner-1571637526491737/

- Salvi, Judge Joseph V.

     Presided over part of Kash Jackson’s child custody case. Acted with prejudice in committing parental alienation against Jackson.

- Scheller, Steve

     Former defense attorney. Prosecutor, along with associate Matt deMartini, in Melissa Calusinski’s trial for the alleged murder of infant Benjamin Kingan. Conspired with deMartini to depict Calusinski as an intentional murderer when the cause of the baby’s death was unintentional homicide. Scheller and/or deMartini, probably intentionally, failed to lighten X-ray evidence which showed that the baby had previous injuries. Friend of Richard Kopsick, who represented Calusinski’s sister and/or co-worker in relation to the case.

      Source:

     http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-bn-xpm-2009-01-17-28521605-story,amp.html

- Schons, Carl

     Former Chief of Police of the Lake Bluff Police Department. Friend of Richard Kopsick and officer Dan Dunn. Did not push back against Dunn when Dunn whispered to Schons that the Jews in Germany ran most of the factories and therefore were responsible for most of the pollution.

- Vorderstrasse, Judge Donna-Jo

     Presided over part of Kash Jackson’s child custody case. Acted with prejudice in committing parental alienation against Jackson.

- Wright, Dr. Vernice

     Therapist at Truth Youth and Family Services, L.L.C., based in Waukegan. Provided cognitive behavior therapy to Joe Kopsick in early 2021. Did not commit any acts of impropriety against Joe Kopsick.

     http://www.truthyfs.com

- Zeit, Douglas E. “Doug”

     Waukegan-based attorney. Shares office space with Richard Kopsick. Friend of Richard Kopsick. Married to Judge Victoria “Vicky” Rossetti.

     http://zeitlaw.com

- [Name unknown]

     Old man accused of molesting kids in Lake Bluff public pool showers.



- [Name unknown] [not mentioned in the infographic]

     Unknown adult male in the community who molested a male student who attended Lake Bluff schools with Joe Kopsick.



- [Name unknown] [not mentioned in the infographic]

     Unknown adult male in the community who molested a male student who attended Lake Bluff schools with Joe Kopsick.



- [Name unknown] [not mentioned in the infographic]

     Unknown adult male in the community who molested and/or raped his daughter, who attended Lake Forest High School with Joe Kopsick.



- [Names unknown] [not mentioned in the infographic]

     Unknown adults in the community who may have conspired to keep the David Miller and/or Diane M. Ross child sex crime scandals a secret.

- [Names unknown] [not mentioned in the infographic]

     Unknown sailors at Great Lakes Naval Base (in Great Lakes, Illinois) who committed statutory rape against one or more young teen underage girls, at least as young as 12 or 13 years old. At least one of such girls may have been acting, at the time, as an underage prostitute, pimped by her father. This occurred some time between 1999 and 2002.

Created on May 21st, 24th, and 25th, 2021

Originally published on May 25th, 2021
under the title
"Social Networking Map of Child Molesting Attorneys,
Fraudulent Psychiatrists, and Racist Police Officers
in Lake County, Illinois"

Edited and Expanded on July 30th, 2021

Documents from 2002 and 2015 Show That I Experienced Protagonist Syndrome from 2013 to 2015

     Protagonist Syndrome is a mental disorder in which a person believes that they are one or more characters from a work of fiction. I have discovered two documents - a list of movies from 2001 or 2002, and a list of characters from 2015 - which document several facts that show I experienced this problem.
     I believe that I suffered from Protagonist Syndrome coupled with Dissociative Identity Disorder, because in early 2015 - while attempting to recover from the psychological issues I experienced in late 2014 and early 2015 - I created a long list of people from history, and from works of fiction, whom I thought I was. It also felt, at times, if these characters were different personalities of mine.

     The fact that I experienced delusions in late 2014 and early 2015, should not be construed to suggest that what I remember about the abuse I suffered as a child, is not credible. I experienced these delusions because I had been molested at the ages of 8 and 9, and then brainwashed into thinking that the abuse had not happened.
     The reason why I suffered delusions - like the ideas that I was Jesus, or Odysseus, or Rasputin, or God, or the Devil - was because those things seemed more likely to me, than the possibility that my father had molested me, and then deceived me about it for almost two decades.
     Recovering more vivid memories of molestation helped me recover from my delusions, because it allowed me to admit that I was, in fact, not Jesus Christ - and did not come to this Earth solely in order to suffer - and therefore my father was not God, and it was not acceptable for him to torture me.
     I believe that my father's emotionally abusive and psychologically manipulative treatment of me over the years, eventually caused Martyrdom Complex to manifest in my mind, so severely that I began to suspect that I was Jesus Christ and that I came to this world in order to suffer.
     This is why I say that I suffered from Protagonist Syndrome perhaps as early as 2013. I also got scrapes on my wrist from climbing over a chain-link fence on the outskirts of Madison, Wisconsin. That occurred in the late summer of 2013, when I left Madison to hitchhike to Oregon.
     I have also been aware, for several years, of the ideas of "theosis", "messianosis", and "Christosis"; i.e., the ideas that a person is supposed to identify with the suffering of Jesus Christ, in order to become more like God, or like the Messiah. Jesus and his suffering, and my relation to Jesus and his suffering, were things that I have thought about a lot, in relation to the way my father treats me. My father's bad advice about jobs, and his domineering way of speaking to me, impacted my emotional and financial well-being a lot in those days.

      In late February 2015, I moved from Portland, Oregon to Lake Bluff, Illinois. For the next three years, I lived with my father and childhood sexual abuser, Richard Steven Kopsick, at 132 Welwyn Street, in the Knollwood neighborhood of west Lake Bluff.

     While in Portland, I experienced sexual dysfunction, due to the genital pain I was experiencing - at the site of my circumcision scar - when having too much sex and masturbating too much. I begun to develop resentment towards my father regarding his making the decision to have me circumcised.

     That resentment about my father's decision to circumcise me, is what prompted me to ask myself whether he had ever molested me as a child. While in Portland, I only had questions and images in my mind's eye; it wasn't until I was back, living with my father - in his face all the time, dealing with him shouting at me nearly every day - that I recovered vivid memories of sexual abuse.

     Between December 2014 and February 2015, I suffered from a psychotic break, after developing symptoms of what I now recognize to be Dissociative Identity Disorder (D.I.D.) and probably also schizophrenia. D.I.D. is the new term for Multiple Personality Disorder.
     Victims of abuse will often suffer from a "splitting" of their personality, resulting from their abuser provoking the victim's angry side that remembers the abuse, and then soothing them to get the happy side that doesn't remember the abuse, to come out. This is what my father did to me. Although I still haven't been diagnosed with any psychiatric disorder(s) - and / because I still haven't been given a full psychiatric evaluation - I suspect that my father's treatment of me resulted in splitting and D.I.D..
     I also believe that my father has Martyrdom Complex - probably due to his mother dying at a young age - and I believe that he transferred his Martyrdom Complex onto me.
     Additionally, I believe that I experienced schizophrenia in late 2014 and early 2015, due to extreme loneliness and isolation from most other people (aside from a few close friends and my landlady in Portland, Ann Theroux, whom I didn't trust).
     That sort of thing will happen to a person who is alone for extended periods of time; for example, the Tom Hanks movie Castaway depicts a man befriending and naming a volleyball. To anyone else, such a person might look insane, but "Wilson" was probably the only thing keeping Hanks's character connected to society and reality.
     I suspect that the long periods of silence I had to endure, living by myself without a girlfriend or any friends, increased my desire to believe that I was hearing voices that weren't really there. Believing that I was hearing imaginary voices, comforted me, because it made me believe I was special (because nobody else could hear the voices).
     Between December 2014 and February 2015, I believed that I was hearing voices (including coming from inanimate objects), and I believed that I was other people (including people from history, and characters from works of fiction).

     In early 2015, while trying to jog my own memory about my childhood, I wrote down several lists of terms that I thought would help jog my memory more. I published those lists of terms in my April 2021 article "Correcting the Record: How I Recovered Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse at the Age of Twenty-Eight", which can be read at the following link:

     http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/04/correcting-record-how-i-recovered.html

     In attempts to jog my memory about my childhood, I also went through my childhood toys, and some writing and projects from school that I did between the ages of six and eighteen years old. The smell of my toys helped me remember smells from my childhood. I also tried to remember the smell of Nintendo game cartridges, to help myself remember the way our basement smelled. I did this because I was molested in the basement on our gray couch.

     One of the documents I found in 2015 was a list of movies I had watched before the year 2001 or 2002. I created this list at the age of 14 or 15, and even asked Walt - the owner of Center Video in Lake Bluff - for some help remembering a few of the titles.

     Incidentally, when I rented the 1983 film WarGames, that video store owner told me that the movie featured a young Ally Sheedy doing yoga while wearing a leotard. Sheedy was about 20 years old when she filmed that movie. Still, looking back on it, it seems inappropriate that Walt told me about what Sheedy was wearing in the film; because I was only 14 or 15 years old at the time. It seems obvious that that video store owner was attracted to much younger women.

     I am reproducing the list below, here, in order to help explain why I believe that I suffered from Protagonist Syndrome especially in 2015 (and also to some extent during the two years prior). The fact that I saw hundreds of movies before the age of 14 or 15, should help explain why I experienced Protagonist Syndrome years later.

     What follows is an excerpt from a list that I created in early 2015.
     That list consists of people from history, and fictional characters, whom I thought I was at various times.
     At the top is an excerpt from the portion of the list which focuses on religious figures whom I thought I was, and at the bottom is the part of the list consisting of fictional characters whom I believed I was.
     Readers will notice that one of those fictional characters was Ally Sheedy's character from WarGames.

Greek Legends

Atlas

Hercules

Icarus

 

Homer

Cassandra (from The Iliad)

Odysseus, esp. as Nohbdy (from The Odyssey)

Paris (from The Iliad)

 

Shakespeare

Banquo (from Macbeth)

Hamlet (from Hamlet)

Macbeth (from Macbeth)

From Peanuts

Linus

Pigpen

Schroeder

From “The Brady Bunch”

Bobby Brady

Oliver Brady

 

From “The Breakfast Club”

Ally Sheedy’s character, Alison; and Sheedy’s character from WarGames

John Bender

 

From The Simpsons

Abraham J. Simpson

Agnes Skinner’s change purse

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

C. Montgomery Burns

Chester J. Lampwick

Comic Book Guy

Shelbyville Manhattan

 

From King of the Hill

Bobby Hill

Kahn Subanusenphone

Lama Sanglug

Luanne Platter

The Exterminator (composite with Dale Gribble’s occupation)

The Ghost of Rusty Shackleford

 

From “Futurama”

Bender the Robot

Cubert Farnsworth

Philip J. Fry

Professor Hubert Farnsworth

Robot Nixon

Turanga Leela



Figures from the Bible

Bartholomew the Apostle

Doubting Thomas the Apostle

Esau

Enoch

God

Jesus

Joseph (all of them)

Job

Jonah

King David

King Solomon

Lucifer

Moses

Noah

Samson

St. Anthony of Padua

St. Emerentiana of Rome

St. Francis of Assisi

The Devil

The Pharaoh

     This is only a partial list. These 55 personas represent less than twenty percent (20%) of the more than 350 people whom I thought (or suspected) that I was, in early 2015. I created that list in March and/or April of 2015.

     Again, I realize how ridiculous it sounds to ask people to believe that I was molested as a child, while explaining that I, at one time, believed that I was hundreds of other people (including fictional characters, figures from religious, and inanimate objects).

     I do not now believe myself to believe any of those things. But I also firmly resent the idea that I "am" Joe Kopsick. First, because I share a last name with my child molester. Second, because my last name sounds awful. Third, because I and my name are not the same thing. I "am" not Joe Kopsick; I was named Joseph William, by the clan Kopsick, which is my family. I am not Joe Kopsick; I am a person who was named "Joe Kopsick".

     This feeling of lack of identification with my name - coupled with my resentment of my father (over naming me, allowing me to be circumcised, molesting me, and mistreating me), and also losing my best friend and girlfriend - are what caused my feelings of dissociation to grow so badly that they began to manifest as more recognizable and nameable disorders such as Martyrdom Complex, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Protagonist Syndrome.

     I repeat: My delusions resulted from trying to remember whether I had been abused, and from struggling to come up with alternative explanations about why I was suffering so much. The fact that I suffered from mental distress and confusion about reality should therefore not be used to suggest that my memories about the abuse are not reliable.

     Moreover, I did not recover the vivid memories about the abuse on the gray couch (the incidents which I remember the most clearly) until mid-2017, a full two years after I stopped suffering from schizophrenic and dissociative delusions.

     On the other hand, I did recover at least one memory in early 2015, when I was still in the midst of trying to recover psychologically; this was the memory of my father caressing the back of my head at the Union League Club Hotel in Chicago in December 1996 (after which I blacked out). I referred to this incident as "Incident #20" in my second statement to Lake Bluff police.

     That statement can be read at the following link:

     http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/03/second-statement-to-police-regarding.html

     But the vast majority of vivid memories regarding sexual abuse, were recovered two whole years after I stopped experiencing delusions.

List of movies created in 2001 or 2002,
and found in 2015

List of personalities created in March and/or April 2015

This article written and published
on May 20th, 2021

List of religious figured added on May 24th, 2021

Reference Chart Regarding the As Many As Twenty-One Incidents of Sexual Abuse Which I Endured as a Child

      The following image is a spreadsheet which should help explain the between four and twenty-one incidents of sexual abuse which I endured as a child.
     This image is a clarification of the grid found in my second statement to police, which was written between January and March 2021, and delivered to Lake Bluff police in early March 2021.
     That statement can be read at the following link:
     http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/03/second-statement-to-police-regarding.html


     

     I was molested no less than three or four times - in 1995 and probably also 1996 - via forced subjection to unwanted genital touching, during overwhelming tickling by my father. The restraint and forced laughing to which my father would expose me, for as long as five minutes at a time, caused partial suffocation.
     Some of the memories I have are vivid, while others are partial. I have vivid memories of no less than three or four of those incidents, partial memories of as many as eight other incidents of possible abuse on the couch, and nine other incidents.

     That partial suffocation, coupled with my father's routine screaming at me for years after the abuse, caused me to forget the abuse some time between the ages of ten and thirteen years old (between Incident #20 and Incident #21).
     [Note: The process by which a person's conscious mind is shielded from dealing with painful and traumatic memories, is called Adaptive Information Processing (A.I.P.). When memories of trauma are so suppressed that it begins to affect a person's personality, this can cause what is called the "splitting" of the psyche; for example, into a "Jekyll and Hyde", or into "multiple personalities". Multiple Personality Disorder is now called Dissociative Identity Disorder.] 

     I have also created this spreadsheet to explain which incidents I remember the most clearly, and which I remember the least clearly.

     I began recovering memories of the other incidents in late 2014 and early 2015 (at the ages of 27 and 28 years old). More vivid memories surfaced in 2017; of Incidents #5 through #16 (the incidents of abuse on the gray couch).

     Incident #21 was the last possible time that my father may have tried to touch me against my will; I suspect that Incident #21 was a failed molestation attempt.
     I have always remembered Incidents #1, #2, and #4, but I remain uncertain as to whether sexual touching occurred during those incidents.

          The incidents of genital touching via forced tickling on the gray couch, are the incidents I remember the most clearly.

     Incidents bearing a low percentage (in terms of how sure I am that something sexual happened during the incident) are the incidents which I remember the least clearly.

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Created and Published on May 12th, 2021

Correcting the Record: Regarding the Details About Six of Forty-Three Dates on Which Molestation Could Have Occurred

     In my second report to police regarding the molestation I endured as a child, I explained that I may have been molested as many as 21 times, between 1992 and 2000. The majority of those incidents – as many as 12 of them (and certainly no less than 3 or 4) – occurred on the gray couch in the furnished basement of my childhood home, at 524 East Washington, in Lake Bluff, Illinois.

     I have identified, in previous statements, the forty-three Sundays between April and August of 1995 and 1996, as the dates on which those incidents of molestation on the gray couch could have taken place.

     I wish to clarify some things about seven of those forty-three dates.

     As I have stated, the twelve incidents in question – given as Incidents #2 through #13 in the first statement to police, and as Incidents #5 through #16 in the second statement – could only have occurred on forty-three possible dates:

     April 2^nd, 9^th, 16^th, 23^rd, and 30^th; May 7^th, 14^th, 21^st, and 28^th; June 4^th, 11^th, 18^th, and 25^th; July 2^nd, 9^th, 16^th, 23^rd, and 30^th; and August 6^th, 13^th, 20^th, and 27^th, 1995;
     and April 7^th, 14^th, 21^st, and 28^th; May 5^th, 12^th, 19^th, and 26^th; June 2^nd, 9^th, 16^th, 23^rd, and 30^th; July 7^th, 14^th, 21^st, and 28^th; and August 4^th, 18^th, and 25^th, 1996.

     The matter which I wish to clarify, is that I was less likely to be abused during major golf tournaments, than other dates mentioned. Those golf tournaments took place on seven of the forty-three Sundays I have listed.

     Those tournaments and dates were:

     1) the Masters Tournament in Georgia, held on Sunday, April 9^th, 1995;
     2) the U.S. Open in New York, held on Sunday, June 18^th, 1995;
     3) the British Open in Scotland, held on Sunday, July 23^rd, 1995;
     4) the Masters Tournament in Georgia, held on Sunday, April 14^th, 1996;
     5) the U.S. Open in Michigan, held on Sunday, June 16^th, 1996;
     6) the British Open in England, held on Sunday, July 21^st, 1996; and
     7) the P.G.A. Championship in Kentucky, held on Sunday, August 11^th, 1996.

     On the seven dates listed above, I believe that my father would have been less likely to have molested me, than the other thirty-six dates.

     I say that because my father is, and was at the time, such an avid golfer and golf fan, that he has routinely gone to parties at friends’ houses – or thrown his own parties – to watch golf tournaments on television.

     The significance of this is that I have increased the precision with which I have identified the dates on which I could have been molested.

     Those (between three and twelve) incidents of molestation on the gray couch, could only have occurred on the following dates:

    -  April 2^nd, 16^th, 23^rd, and 30^th, 1995;
      - May 7^th, 14^th, 21^st, and 28^th, 1995;
     - June 4^th, 11^th, and 25^th, 1995;
     - July 2^nd, 9^th, 16^th, and 30^th, 1995; and
     - August 6^th, 13^th, 20^th, and 27^th, 1995;
 and
     - April 7^th, 21^st, and 28^th, 1996;
     - May 5^th, 12^th, 19^th, and 26^th, 1996;
     - June 2^nd, 9^th, 23^rd, and 30^th, 1996;
     - July 7^th, 14^th, and 28^th; and
     - August 4^th, 18^th, and 25^th, 1996.

     As I have explained, I was molested no less than three or four times, and as many as ten or twelve times, on the gray couch (aside from nine other incidents, of which I have partial memory, and am not sure whether sexual touching occurred meanwhile).

     I can’t remember how many times it happened, because the pattern of abuse – sitting behind my father’s legs, being restrained onto my father’s lap, being tickled and partially suffocated through forced laughing, and then forced genital touching – occurred so similarly, over and over again.

     This fact makes it difficult to distinguish one incident from another in my memory, aside from two incidents. One is the time I clearly remember standing in the basement living room, telling my father that I didn’t want to sit behind his legs while he was watching television, knowing that he was probably going to touch me inappropriately. The other is the time I remember speaking to my mother in the laundry room and asking her to stay home.

     I wrote this statement because I want to make it clear that – if I was molested as many as twelve times on the couch – then there is as much as (approximately) a thirty percent (30%) chance that I was molested on any one of the dates, chosen at random from among the following even sets of three dates in close succession to one another.

     Namely:

     - there is as much as a 30% chance that I was molested on either April 2^nd, 16^th, or 23^rd, 1995;
     - there is as much as a 30% chance that I was molested on either April 30^th, or May 7^th or 14^th, 1995;
     - there is as much as a 30% chance that I was molested on either May 21^st or 28^th, or June 4^th, 1995;
     - there is as much as a 30% chance that I was molested on either June 11^th or 25^th, or July 2^nd, 1995;
     - there is as much as a 30% chance that I was molested on either July 9^th, 23^rd, or 30^th, 1995;
     - there is as much as a 30% chance that I was molested on either August 6^th, 13^th, or 20^th, 1995;
     - there is as much as a 30% chance that I was molested on either April 7^th, 21^st, or 28^th, 1996;
     - there is as much as a 30% chance that I was molested on either May 5^th, 12^th, or 19^th, 1996;
 and
     - there is as much as a 30% chance that I was molested on either May 26^th, or June 2^nd or 9^th, 1996.

     August 27^th, 1995, and August 18^th and 25^th, 1996, were left out of the set of dates above, since they could not be easily grouped together into sets of threes.

     My father, Richard S. Kopsick, should be asked where he was, and what he was doing – and whether he has electronic or paper records proving it - on the thirty-six dates listed above (as well as during the last week before Christmas of 1996, when Incident #20 occurred at the Union League Club Hotel in Chicago).



     To read my most recent statement to police (written between January 9^th and March 3^rd, 2021), please visit the following link:
     http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/03/second-statement-to-police-regarding.html

Written and Published on May 8th, 2021