Made's Angels

But for the overwhelming support that I have received from my family, friends and the Balinese community I would not have survived this ordeal. Attached hereto as EXHIBIT “C" are true and correct copies of only a handful of the numerous declarations which have been written on my behalf in the hopes that I will be able to see my children. There is now a special support group in Bali called Made's Angels made up of friends, associates and people from the community whose goal is for the truth of this matter to come out.

--- Made Jati, Declaration to California Superior Court, April 2008

Made doesn't really have overwhelming support from the Balinese community. Other than her family and those who are suspected of being involved in collusion with her, most Balinese are appalled.

But the friends she refers to are expatriates living in Bali, some of whom gave her rabid support. I was already familiar with Made's Angels, because two weeks after I received an anonymous death threat in August 2007 I received another anonymous threat, this time obviously from an expatriate and sent from the same location as the original threat, from someone who said she was part of an organization which was, as she put it, "opposed to you." Other emails, some anonymous under the name Made's Angels and some signed, were sent out through the Bali expatriate community in December 2007.

In December 2008, Made and her lawyer Julie Duncan submitted notarized letters from Nigel Mason, Jean Lane, Max and Collette Hunt, Mark Moody, Vicki Podolsky, Mark Keatinge, and Richard Pearse.

Julie Duncan quoted directly from Nigel Mason in her Declaration:

Any man who would keep a loving mother away from her children by using such loathsome measures, is not a man to be trusted by anyone least of all a court of law. To be honest she is well rid of him and all the people that I know say Bali is also well rid of Michael Donnelly. Made should be given full access to her children without hesitation and any further financial claims from Michael Donnelly should be dismissed as ridiculous. He had kidnapped these children and held them to ransom to try and gain both an emotional and financial hold of this woman. He should be ashamed of himself for both his greed and his lack of decency towards this woman who once shared her life, her business, her wealth and her bed without ever knowing that he had planned almost from the start to leave her with nothing. Not even her children.

--- Nigel Mason, notarized statement submitted to California Superior Court, November 2008

If the California judge had doubts about the children's safety and welfare with their mother or about the history of this case in Bali, the Made's Angels letters with their violent and intemperate rage and misrepresentation of facts quickly settled the issue. The court issued a Restraining Order against Made Jati and ordered complete physical and legal custody to me.

"If you don't mind my saying so, Julie Duncan is a really stupid lawyer."

---Mr. Jose Luis Salgado (Made's new lawyer), private communication outside California Superior Court, February 2011

I didn't mind Mr. Salgado saying so, and entering the Angels' letters to the court was obviously a dumb move, but Julie Duncan's possible stupidity was not the reason Made Jati abandoned her children. Apparently it was because she and her lawyer in Bali, Ida Bagus Wikantara, really did not want "for the truth in this matter to come out," and he advised her to flee deposition.

Made and her Angels have asserted that I kidnapped my children, turned them against their mother, plotted to steal everything Made owned (I've never been able to figure that one out), created fraudulent court and police and legal documents, fabricated evidence, and threatened Made and anyone else who opposed my nefarious plans.

That is, they have asserted an almost identical mirror of the facts -- a Bizarro world in which everything is reversed -- but with absolutely no documentation or testimony.

Made and her Angels have consistently refused any mediation, any discussion or communication with my children or with me, or any attempts at deposition under oath by a third party.

A few of the Angels seem fairly dim, but most appear to be fully and cynically aware of what they are doing.

It is one of the mysteries of human nature.

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