Weston, FL (October 15th, 2006) I understand the hopelessness, helplessness, frustration and desperation felt by parents with troubled teens. I've been there.

In 2000 I enrolled my daughter in the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS) program, Carolina Springs Academy in South Carolina. Six months after she was enrolled I learned she was hospitalized without my knowledge. With that information compounded by the strange seminars I was mandated to attend, I withdrew her.

After I discovered the abuse my daughter endured and spoke with others that told stories of their abuse, I felt compelled to speak out and to turn a negative into a positive. I created my organization, Parents Universal Resource Experts, Inc. (P.U.R.E.™) in January 2001, and launched my website www.helpyourteens.com. In an effort to help other desperate parents from falling into the same trap I had fallen into, I shared my daughter's story and my story on the website.

In January 2002 WWASPS sued me and my organization for defamation in an attempt to silence me. After over two years of litigation, I won in a jury trial. They appealed and again I won the appeal and continue to share my story today.

In September 2002 Carey Bock, a mother with twins contacted me asking for help to get her children out of a WWASPS program. I supplied her with information of other parents and a consultant who had recently visited there.

In October 2002 Carey Bock had her sons removed from the WWASPS program with a bodyguard and camera crews.

In November 2002 Carey asked me for private information about minor children to use in a film she hoped to profit from. I refused to give her the names, as I felt it was an invasion of the children's privacy. As a result of this, began an all-out campaign to destroy me over the Internet. She committed Internet Defamation and Invasion of Privacy. She had absolutely nothing to substantiate her postings or her e-mails.

The ironic twist was in 2003 Carey Bock contacted WWASPS' attorneys and negotiated a price for her hard drive which contained private information of many families involved in the fight against WWASPS and private e-mails from me that she thought would incriminate me. She was paid $12,500 by WWASPS for her hard drive although, according to her deposition she gave for the WWASPS v Sue Scheff lawsuit in December 2003 she asked for $100,000.00 (according to her deposition), however accepted $12,500.00. She accepted money from the same organization she claims harmed her children.

That same year Carey Bock started a hate campaign against me on Internet Forums. She received a copy of my private deposition taken for the case WWASPS had against me. In her deposition she states the transcript just appeared in her mailbox (no return address). Since the WWASPS attorney's, my attorney's and I were the only ones with copies, it was easy to assume who gave them to her. This deposition transcript contained highly confidential and private information about my children and me. Carey Bock began posting portions of the deposition transcript on the Internet, threatening to post the entire transcript online.

In December 2003 I hired an attorney in an attempt to stop this from happening. In January 2003 Carey retained the same law firm that represents WWASPS (again the same organization that abused her sons) to defend her. In her deposition taken in 2005 she claimed she did not know who paid for her legal fees.

During Bock's campaign to further discredit me, many people begged her to stop. I did not personally contact her because she was escalating out of control and started posting all of my e-mails publicly, including my private, unlisted telephone number. I was fearful to have any contact with her since it was obvious she would stop at nothing. The attempts of others to get her to stop only escalated the vicious attacks.

In August 2004 I defeated WWASPS in a jury trial in Salt Lake City, Utah. I did not commit defamation and I had the evidence to substantiate my Internet postings.

In June 2006 Carey Bock's legal counsel withdrew from the Internet Defamation and Invasion of Privacy lawsuit. The Judge postponed the trial to give Ms. Bock ample time to locate new counsel or represent herself. In July 2006 Carey decided to ignore all court requests and my attorney's telephone calls and mailings.

In September 2006 a Broward County jury spent two days in court reviewing hundreds of defamatory e-mails and Internet postings that were made by Carey Bock or as a result of the campaign she started in an attempt to destroy me. They listened to five witnesses, including an Educational and Forensic Psychologist. They deliberated for hours and came back with a verdict of $11.3 million, $5 million in punitive damages.

I was as shocked as everyone else with the verdict the jury returned. The jury shared with me their desire to send a strong message to others that you simply cannot destroy the lives of others over the Internet. This speaks volumes and I feel vindicated.

Media have taken this story and run with it before finding out the facts of this case. They portray Carey Bock as a Katrina victim who feels she can never speak out again and who was not able to tell her side of the story. Though it is true she is a Katrina victim, she is not your typical Katrina victim. She lived in a nice apartment in League City, TX, while her home was repaired and while she continued to work. I understand all too well, having been a victim of Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Wilma myself. However, she is not the typical Katrina victim we all saw on the news – where people were truly desolate and truly lost everything they owned. Furthermore, Katrina does not excuse her from her illegal actions.

The misconception that Bock was without representation or couldn't afford it is simply another smoke screen in an attempt to condone what she did. Carey Bock was represented by a prestigious law firm in Florida for over 2 years. When they withdrew from her case she had ample time to find new counsel or represent herself. After 2+ years of litigation anyone that believes it would simply go away, in my opinion, is ignorant. In Bock's case, it seems it was arrogance and that she simply did not care anymore.

When my attorney, David Pollack, called her to discuss options she was belligerent and hung up on him. He tried again a week later, and she disconnected her phone. The Broward County Clerk's Office, as well as David Pollack, continually sent her notices regarding trial dates – it seems she made a conscious decision to ignore them. Some were returned. She claims she moved back to Louisiana. We wonder if she intentionally did not submit a forwarding address. The trial was postponed for 2 months in an attempt to give her adequate notice.

It has been a long past 5 years however the victory of both trials have brought me vindication. The fact that I have been on both sides of the fence brings my story full circle. My book, “Wits End!” is a place many parents end up when dealing with a difficult teen, as I did. It is also a place I ended up while defending myself. This book will chronicle both trials as well as much more. Look for it in spring of 2008.

On July 25, 2007 the judge in this upheld this judgment. Carey Bock hired a new lawyer and attempted to get the judgment set aside and failed.

How free is Freedom of Speech? Very free, but it won't condone defamation.