You may have read the news story (in the October 1, 2004, copy of
Sanguinarius News & Updates) about Raphael Spindell, the founder of
The Coven Organization, having taken his son and allegedly threatened
to kill him. Many of us who knew and know Raphael found it impossible
to believe his alleged behavior. What follows is a message from
Raphael Osiris himself, telling his side of the events. This can also
be viewed at its source at
http://finewhyfine.typepad.com/fine_why_fine/2004/09/to_the_extreme.html

Raphael Spindell, a.k.a. Raphael Osiris, writes:

I am the father, Raphael Spindell who is being hunted like a human
dog. I am here to say, that all of these allegations are false, and
when our defense is had and we (me and my wife) are heard in court
finally, we will be found completely exhonerated. I can tell you 1)
obviously, with internet access I am not "hiding in the woods", and
that 2), I NEVER made any claim to bring any harm to my child, who'm I
love, and whom I actually delivered by myself in a homebirth.

My mother-in-law is a very disturbed woman, who, having lost two sons
of her own in childbirth in Russia, before coming to America with her
daughter, who was later to become my wife, has developed a severely
pathalogical need for a male child. When my son was born, she started
becoming very attached to him, and has been distressing me and my wife
with her desires to take over his care from us. She filed false
allegations with the Administration for childrens Services, told the
police where we were and made claims that we were going to harm / hurt
the child, so that she could gain sole custody. The woman is a sick,
twisted liar who will be sued for slander. The woman is covering up
her own inadequate parenting which caused the death of her own
children and her abuse of her daughter (my wife) which caused her to
become a runaway at 15 years old. And what is not being said is that
she beat my wife while she was not only pregnant with my son, several
times, but also beat her while my wife was breastfeeding my son. She
also slammed a door into my sons head the day that I took my son into
my own custody. I took my son out of her house so that he would be
safe, me and my wife have since returned him to the care of the social
services pending that he be placed with a close, and trusted, and
sane, family friend. We also took him out of the house because Zoya
Watterson is again living with her on-again-off-again husband who is a
heroin addict who has been in and out of heroin rehab many times this
past year, and who has a terminal case of hepatitis C which he
contracted when using dirty needles. The law is on our side as it is
approved for a parent who feels their child is in immediate harm, and
can prove it, to take that child out of the custody situation and
remand him to another foster care agency. That is what we did. Please,
do not trust everything you hear in the slanted and biased media. The
half truths and lies that are published are incredulous, and I never
would have known just how far this could go until I found myself on
the receiving end of the published slander.

As far as my sons diet, my son is healthy, whole and strong, he runs
walks jumps climb, has bright eyes and full set of teeth, and is
congnitavely advanced. He will remain that way on a well planned and
intelligently forumalated vegan diet, not a "fanatic" vegan diet which
the papers are insisting he is being fed. He is not being fed the
"juice and seeds" that the papers claim. He has a complete and
balanced vegan diet full of fruts, nuts, vegetables, grains, juices,
and other nutritional additives (nutritional yeast for b-12, iron
supplements, etc). He was diagnosted, incorrectly with iron-dificiency
anemia, while he had a low grade fever, search for "fever iron
infection" on the internet, and you will what every pediatrition
should now, that during or immediately after a fever or infection,
iron stores in the body will be lower than normal. He was also
incorrectly diagnosed with FTT or failure to thrive, search for the
FTT report from the American Academy of Pediatrics, it is a long read,
but you will see immediately that FTT is an often mis-diagnosed
condition, that it cannot be diagnosed on a single visit (which is
what they did), but has to be determined over several clinical visits
over the course of a year while taking accurate growth measurements,
which obviously in this case was not done.

Furthermore, the making me out to be a "fanatical vegan eco-terrorist"
is press sensationalism to justify selling copies of their papers. The
most radical environmental thing I have done is to switch my laundry
detergent to a biodegradable brand.

What we need is for people to start getting the truth out about this
case, and we need legal and professional assistance and support to get
our child back who is the innocent who is suffereing in this story,
ripped from his mothers arms and her breast, suffering seperation and
detachment anxiety, the last I saw my son he was showing signs of
severe psychosis and depression. If anyone out there can help my
cause, please get in touch with us somehow.

thank you,
From a loving father
wrongly accused,
Raphael Spindell
NYC

Posted by: Raphael Spindell | September 8, 2004 11:25 AM

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