Victims of Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca, Unite!

Bandy X. Lee
9 min readAug 14, 2024

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An Impeachment Petition is in Process, and We Need Your Testimonies!

It did not take long (barely a month!) to collect a thousand signatures on the petition to impeach Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca. The question many may rather ask is, Why did it take so long to do it? The most unthinkable things happen and have happened for a long time in Family Courts, because judges are given unlimited power over families with no accountability. What occurs within Gallina-Mecca’s secret chambers illustrates this fact: her court sells children! It is a lucrative, modern-day slave trade, where she has condemned hundreds and hundreds of children to unspeakable suffering, to a fate worse than death. And yet she gets away with it through draconian “court seals,” which litigants cannot breach on pain of imprisonment — although she may put them in prison anyway, along her path of destroying loving, devoted parents and sometimes their supporters, in order to eliminate witnesses (what the public may not recognize is that, in Family Courts, there is no due process; incarceration happens regularly — increasingly universally — without a trial, without limit, and without the possibility of bail). Gallina-Mecca uses the excuse of “court seals,” preposterously purported to be needed “for the protection of children,” when they are the only thing that allow for her monstrous crimes against children and adults who love them to continue. She wields them against loving parents so that they cannot access transcripts or other court records in order to defend their children and themselves, or so that she can hold secret, ex-parte hearings without telling them that these hearings even happened. She also uses it to isolate her victims, and to prevent them from speaking to their supports — when even mass murderers are permitted to speak to whomever they wish — as she isolates, psychologically breaks, and financially bankrupts them. Those who have experienced this judge know that her court is not a court, but a criminal enterprise that has contempt for courts and the law. Murderers literally get away with their crimes in her “courtroom”, as she encourages if not facilitates their violence, and innocent people suffer terribly at the hands of ignorance and greed. Yet, Gallina-Mecca is an archetype, replicated throughout the country and increasingly exported around the world.

We can stop these abuses at one of the epicenters. If you have not yet signed the petition below, please do so, at this link. If you are a victim of this judge, we need your testimony at the time of our presentation of the petition to the New Jersey Senate and to Governor Phil Murphy, who appointed her. Many of you have reached out to me based on my articles, and you can do so confidentially at this address. Your testimonies will also remain confidential.

Petition to Impeach Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca

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We are more than 30 mothers (and one father) who are in enormous pain, as our children have undeservedly become victims of a system that was designed to protect them. Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca of Bergen County, New Jersey, is at the epicenter of our grievance, as she has egregiously mismanaged each of our cases, resulting in our children being trafficked to their abusers. The Judge’s abuses of authority have created unimaginable horrors for many families.

It is said that the judiciary forms the backbone of our society, sworn to uphold justice and protect our rights. The Judge’s repeated failure to conduct thorough investigations, failure to hold violent abusers accountable, but rather rewarding them with sole custody of their victims, child support payments, and no obligations to the parent who raised these children has turned our lives into living nightmares.

The issues are not isolated and reflect a larger, egregious pattern of abuses of authority….

We have been wrongly labeled as “disgruntled litigants,” but the desire to protect our children from destruction is only a natural response of loving parents. With great hope, we call on the New Jersey State Legislature to take immediate action, conduct a transparent investigation, and impeach the Judge if found guilty of these crimes. No judge should continue to preside over cases where she can commit atrocities against children and families and remain unaccountable to the law.

We implore fellow Bergen County residents, those affected by similar judicial negligence, and empathic citizens across the country to support us in our plight. Please sign this petition to help us remove this Judge from her position and to protect our children and families.

Please reach out to give your testimony at this address, so that we can present your story among many others with the petition to the New Jersey Senate and to Governor Phil Murphy.

Already, the comments section on this petition contains horrific stories, mirroring many others in the Robing Room:

I, too, had the unfortunate NIGHTMARE of encountering Judge Mecca five years ago in regard to my daughter. She has DESTROYED my family by taking away my parental rights through allowing my daughter to be placed in the custody of her alcoholic, abusive father who is a retired cop in and out of rehabs with suicide attempts as well. Judge Mecca unjustly took away my rights to handle her schooling, 504, medical care and treatment to which she has been left with NO SUPPORTS since 16 years old; because of a negligent father who loves his alcohol more than his children, and has his own untreated SEVERE mental health issues as well. “Judge” Mecca was FULLY aware of this! As an adult, now 21, my daughter has dropped out of high school as an HONOR STUDENT, doesn’t have her GED, didn’t go to college, doesn’t leave the house or go out and make friends, doesn’t have a job or independence, has crippling social anxiety, and other UNTREATED mental health issues by fault of her Father and his negligence. Instead, she’s become her alcoholic father’s “caregiver” and was recently just left in the dark (STILL living with him)with no electricity for 3 months under his “care”. Not only were my hands tied by Judge Mecca when she was a minor/ teenager, but also now because she’s an adult. Her and her Father’s relationship dynamic is unhealthy and codependent. Judge Mecca fully was aware of the situation and my concerns — as well as NJDCPP — and permitted it anyway, even going against the recommendations of the State’s forensic psychologist. All of the responsible offenders from DCPP, my daughter’s attorney they assigned her, and Judge Mecca (which work together and aid each other in this tyranny) deserve hard prison time and a VERY HOT ETERNITY IN HELL!!! I have a broken heart as a Mother, and a now destroyed relationship with my daughter because of all of them — including my abusive ex husband which is why I divorced him after 17 years and was given FULL custody of BOTH of our children with good reason. This should never have been reversed or happened, nor was it deserved or beneficial to my daughter in ANY way. It was SEVERELY damaging and I’m STILL VERY CONCERNED FOR HER WELL BEING. I obviously have concerns about permanent damage to her now which I DON’T take lightly!!! No child should be allowed to be manipulated by a parent or be allowed to choose a parent to live with that’s highly dysfunctional with no structure or rules — who had a DUI crashing the family car (as a retired COP yet), and restraining orders to protect the ex wife (me) and the kids with good reason. My heart goes out to other parents that have been affected by this fraudulent, psychopathic, cold, careless, negligent, and criminally depraved and predatory “judge.” Hopefully this petition will not only get her terminated and barred from the legal system permanently, but will put her away in the criminal system for a VERY long time which she deserves!!!! I think an orange jumpsuit would complement her well, along with her courthouse/DCPP cohorts.

Here is another:

My daughter who turns 3 years old this August, has only gained 2 lbs. 5oz. In the last year, her BMI is 14, and severe injury after severe injury weekly and not only did this judge refuse my pictures and evidence be admitted into the litigation but allowed conflict of interest, perjury, and ordered my one year old to take the Covid vaccine, which is not good for her age and went against my daughter’s pediatrician’s word saying she didn’t need it, while also allowing her mother, who was failing for several illicit drugs and substances that her pediatrician also advised against the continuance of breast feeding with all those harmful substances in her mother’s system, to continue breastfeeding against my daughter’s pediatrician’s wishes, and even after I said I would provide formula and/or breast milk from a breast milk bank for the mother to continue to breastfeed, with all those harmful substances in her system due to a formula shortage — what a joke! Also, DYFS, DCPP refused to act, because they already messed up and didn’t want to admit their failings but told me, “E — , you have a bad attitude, and we don’t like it, and until it changes, you will have your parenting time only in this office, and only supervised by our employees!” I asked if it was a joke and was told to leave if that’s what I thought, by the way I have these statements on recording, which they didn’t like, and reached out to the head of DCF of NJ, Ms. Better, a tyrannical, appointed criminal, who hung up on me and told me, “Do what they tell you to!” This is a disgusting abuse of power and needs to end now. Just look at the initial injury my one year old experienced at the hand of her mother and the DCPP, who said, “This is normal for a one year old!” Absolutely disgusting, but this is the only channel I have left. Please let the public take action, and give power back to where it belongs. I have been dealing with this for the last 2.75 years, and my daughter suffering atrocities that can only be rectified with the help of the public…. Thank you all, please hear my truth!

And another:

My family was torn apart by this corrupt, tyrannical, megalomaniacal, psychopathic, soulless reprobate and DCPP. My (now adult) sister, who has several untreated mental health disorders, was handed off to our alcoholic father (an ex police officer with many connections) who has a history of being violent, manipulative, sadistic, and abusive toward our family, and has before threatened the lives of my mother and myself. I have witnessed how this wicked “judge’s” poor decision-making tore my family apart. I’ve worked with/known people who’ve worked in the family courts and Family Services who’ve quit and gone on to other things — they tell me judges like this do it all for the money. The more kids taken from families, the more revenue generated for their paychecks. It’s all quota. Our families are just numbers to them. Judge Mecca deserves to be disrobed and to have her Bar Association license permanently revoked for this corruption. My heart goes out to the other affected families — ones whose kids have died, been sexually abused, neglected, taken for granted, left in pain and isolation — to whom this judge and her cronies have inflicted trauma for a mere profit. May God judge them according to their works and render to them eternal damnation for their God complexes and for harming society’s most vulnerable. This kind of thing is EXACTLY WHY I became a law student — to fight back against this kind of thing. The children have suffered enough. Sincerely, an Anonymous Law Student.

And there are more.

New Jersey recently permanently removed a municipal judge for misdeeds that are the minimum for Gallina-Mecca: ex-parte communications, illegal fraternizations, and verbal abuse in the courtroom. Gallina-Mecca’s excesses with judicial privileges and protections go further to include at least one highly-publicized murder, as well as a half-dozen more of which I have been told — and yet the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct (ACJC) refuses to investigate her after more than two dozen reports, one outlining one hundred seventy violations of the Code of Judicial Conduct. In my sister’s case, the dramatic descent from her peaceful life as a thriving, successful community member and a mother of two healthy and happy children, to losing her children, suffering the greatest tragedies conceivable, and literally fighting for her survival at almost every moment, vividly illustrates the enormity of the abuses. Even her emergency plea to gain access to her own transcripts, to defend her very life against Gallina-Mecca’s appointed guardian ad litem who almost killed her, was denied. Gallina-Mecca and this guardian ad litem work as a team, and almost everything they do consists of abuse of court process, court connections, and conflicts of interest — with no compunction whatsoever. The guardian ad litem truly ludicrously stepped out of bounds when she had one of Gallina-Mecca’s subordinate judges approve a protective order against her own victim whom she almost killed, in order to extend her harassment and control. When my sister tried to apply for a protective order against the guardian ad litem, her assaulter who almost killed her, the same judge denied it without a hearing. It is a sad fact to recognize that these “courts” do not serve justice but mete out the greatest injustices, even to the point of multiple unjust deaths.

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Bandy X. Lee

Forensic psychiatrist, violence expert, president of the World Mental Health Coalition (worldmhc.org), and New York Times bestselling author.