A newly-launched blog, Ginger’s Story, tells of a Nashville woman who after overcoming prolonged and extreme battles with cancer, fell and suffered a traumatic brain injury only to recover and find herself under the control of a court-appointed conservator who now requires Ginger to live in a group home caring for other mental health patients. Though Ginger is reportedly ordered to perform functions comparable to that of other employees, she only receives a $150 per month allowance.Ginger’s plight is of an involuntary nature and presumably being treated as a lifetime contract.
An interesting twist on this case comes as the court that approved Ginger’s conservatorship is the same Davidson County (TN) probate court - that of Judge Randy Kennedy - which has come under significant scrutiny due to its handling of the Danny Tate conservatorship.
Requests by Ginger and her supporters for a termination of the conservatorship have been largely ignored. If the conservator is charged with protecting her ward’s “best interest,” it’s hard to see how this arrangement benefits Ginger Franklin!
Much more can (and will) be said about this case. Meanwhile, we urge you to take a look at Ginger’s Story.
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Ginger's Story Tells of Another Nashville Curious Conservatorship
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9 comments:
yes unfortunately another case of til death do we part conservatorship cases last longer than most happy marriages the ward has no way out to divorce the warden no parole no probation its a life sentence darn this is frightening and sooooo wrong and unconstitutional and unamerican shameful and a disgrace to our country
Right - another Judge Kennedy victim!
Thanks for following Ginger's story, Lou Ann.
Ginger is surely a "slave" but, not for long from what I read and members I converse with... I think help is on the way for Ginger and not a moment to soon.
Judge Kennedy is about to look like the criminal that he is.
Thank you NASGA and the nameless friends behind the scenes.
When will the authorities end this industry of human trafficking masked as "protection".
I challenge Judge Randy Kennedy to surrender his robes immediately and devote the rest of his life to undoing the atrocities that have been committed in his court and probate courts all across our land.
Ginger Franklin is able enough to run a group home, but "disabled" from being set free from an abusive guardianship.
Free Ginger Franklin!!!
Thanks Lou. You are thinking right.
this on e will shock you if it does not .... I will be shocked.
In the Indiana Supreme Court 1989ish I believe, "Bayh v Sonneburg" a case about slaveryt and a case the state lost in the lower courts, the Indiana Supreme Court reasoned as follows;
Persons' with developmental disabilities who work in "sheltered work programs" were not enslaved nor were they entitled to compensation nor federal minimum wage because in quip pro quo they received a theraputic benhefit, the cost of which if purchased exceed the value of minimum wage payment.
yep ---- slavery is still legal. Chief Justice Randy Shepard, the hack he is, says so.
Tim,
Theraputic benefit from forced labor?
How many other Ginger's are out there?
I think this more than warrants a nationwide audit and review by the federal authorities post haste.
And, Danny, I hear you loud and clear, people churned into products to generate cash for team probate = big business getting bigger every hour of the day enriching those who are supposed to be protecting those who cannot help themselves.
Ginger not only can help herself, she was seen as fit enough to protect and supervise others who were under her loving care.
There is so much more to this story that will come out when the time is right.
FREE GINGER FRANKLIN!!!
"occupational therapy"
what happens in these sheltered work environments ---- and look around your community for the charity working with the develomjentally disabled and mentally ill ..... the charity brings these folks into a work environment under the treatment regime of "occupational therapy" and the "facility" has contracted out themselves to industry for menial tasks like packaging and such .... effectively and essentially selling the services of the program attendees .....
I bet if it were known on one hand medicare/medicaid is paying for the treatment ---- the facility utilizes the attendees to complete the tasks contracted for, and the facility then collects from industry.
and it all looks so benevolent under the gyves of "helping" the mentall ill and Dev disabled community.
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