In the past eight months, I've published several articles about the sexual abuse of a client for whom I finally filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Chicago. The press release announcing that case was published on June 7, 2023. Several dozen people read the article in the first couple days, and almost two hundred have read it by now.
Earlier, beginning on October 30, 2022, I started laying out details of Michelle Bogle's "affair" with Mickey Russell, which was in fact classifiable as felony sexual abuse of a long-term care resident. I appealed to Michelle Bogle, without accusing her by name, to get honest and straight. She never called me, she just tried to hide and probably hoped against hope that she might escape from being held to account, by the police, her employers, her husband, Mickey....
That article has since been read almost 500 times.
Beginning a month later, I commented more frequently about Michelle Bogle's grievous, felony sexual abuse of Mickey Russell. On November 30, 2022, December 1, 2022, January 2, 2023, and January 9, 2023, I put the names of several eventual lawsuit Defendants in article headlines. In total, my blog articles about Michelle Bogle and Mickey Russell have been read over 2000 times. And just by the way, almost the only people who ever read my blog are employees of the Illinois Department of Human Services and Elgin Mental Health Center. So it's not like nobody knows.
An investigation was conducted by the Illinois State Police Division of Internal Investigations (ISP/DII). They interviewed Michelle Bogle and Mickey Russell (Mickey told the truth, Michelle lied), they made a couple phone calls, and in the end, either they couldn't decide whom to believe, or somebody else convinced them they'd better drop this one: there was no prosecution.
So we filed Mickey's civil rights lawsuit against twelve Defendants, each one of whom is accused of specific individual actions or omissions that can probably keep them on the hook through a long process of civil discovery under Federal Rules. We will receive tens of thousands of documents, many megabytes of electronically stored information. We will conduct dozens of depositions of Defendants and witnesses. It will take years and thousands of billable hours. Institutions will be embarrassed, people will lose jobs. At least. Maybe Mickey will be compensated.
Or (!!) maybe Mickey will be disposed of. They've sold him down the river to Chester, seven hours' drive (one way) from his legal counsel, where nobody can call him, and where the media don't even like to go, short of some heroic, Rodney-Yoder-type, international-circus event.
Chester is a weirdly ominous place. The first time my partner Joe Cecala saw the sign, "Entering Randolph County," he turned to me and said, "Why do I get the feeling that they kill people like me here?" I don't think they kill Sicilians as a matter of habit, but psychiatric slaves are another story. They might kill those once in a while, like bugs.
Michelle's family in the Philippines has money, and power, too. The thought has occurred to Mickey that they might put out a contract on him. Sounds paranoid, right? He's "chronically psychotic" after all.
My only fear about this comes from the simple fact that it makes no sense for Michelle to be back on the clinical units at EMHC, in contact with patients. She shouldn't be there while credibly accused of felony sexual abuse. The complaints are not unfounded. She, or somebody in charge, must be pretty confident that in the end Mickey won't be a problem. How can they be so confident? What's the plan?
A conversation was overheard yesterday morning: another STA (likely one of those EMHC staff who read a blog article about this, one of those 2000+ times) saw Michelle on the unit, and asked her with obvious surprise, "Wow Michelle, how'd you get your job back?"
Indeed! Watch your back, Mickey. And Travis Nottmeier, Lauren Nottmeier, you guys please watch Mickey's back, too.
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