Marsha withholds Viikki without any court order.  Even Vikki's attorney can't find her.  This is Parental Alienation Syndrome.  Does Marsha love Vikki or only herself?


November 1,2003
 To Whom It May Concern:

    I am writing this letter to document my feelings and impressions regarding my brother Terence Finnan, his daughter Vikki and his wife Marsha.

    Several months ago, Marsha deserted her husband and took it upon herself to secrete Vikki away from any contact with her father without any legal order to do so. This has gone on way too long.

    In April of this year, both Marsha and Terry decided TOGETHER to send Vikki away from Keene NY as she was having very serious problems with a group of predators on the Internet and local small group of very undesirable bisexual friends. They brought her to my house in Pennsylvania to live and go to the local high school. While here, Vikki was quite happy and enjoyed the high school very much. Vikki returned home for the summer to be with her parents.

    During this time, Marsha decided under extreme pressure from her oldest daughter, Rachel who is a fanatical and religious zealot, that she needed to “return to her Jewish roots”, which in the end, precluded a marriage to my brother.         I believe that Marsha is acting very selfishly without any regard for the well being of Vikki overall, and her relationship with her father.

 Marsha has been extremely evasive and unwilling to speak honestly to her problem. I like Marsha, but it has always been difficult to communicate with her due to her problem with maintaining eye contact and keeping her emotional distance at all times.

    I have tried to maintain contact with my niece Vikki since June and have only been successful in receiving 2 phone calls from Vikki over the period of June through October.    Just this past week I was successful in emailing Marsha and arranging to meet Vikki in Lake Placid alone.    We did finally meet for about 20 minutes at which time Vikki was as evasive as her mother and told me very little about what was going on in her life.    She would not or could not articulate any valid reason for not communicating with her father,     While we enjoyed our few minutes together, our conversation was very non-personal.   I brought her winter jacket and some other clothes that were at my house. I offered to drive her home, but she refused, even though the bag she had to carry was quite large in addition to her backpack.      My impression was that Vikki is NOT allowed to let anyone in my brother’s family know where they are living.

It saddens me greatly that Marsha has made the decision to break up her family unit because of her own selfish reasons. I am flabbergasted that she can be so inhumane to withhold contact from Vikki’s father and cut off all communication, as she has done. She claims that she has in her words “neither persuaded nor dissuaded” Vikki from contacting her father. A good parent would make sure that their child maintain contact with the other parent.

If my brother is angry, he certainly has every right to be, considering what she has done to his relationship with his daughter. Terence has always acted honestly and with the best intentions for his family. Terry was always the parent who was closest to Vikki and the one that Vikki clung to.

 I hope the damage is not irrevocable, as I know how saddened my brother Terry is over it.

    We all hope to have a relationship with Vikki in the future and not have one half of her entire family cut out.

Eileen Baty
P0 Box 704
PA 18350 .