Brainmurk

I had already posted this on Facebook, but I realized there's a lot of you guys over here following this that might want an update... so.. ENJOY!

We arrived at court a little before 8am and found that the courtroom was teeny tiny - it could have held perhaps 30 people at maximum. There was a total of 10 of us there, we took up almost the entire right side of the room. it became obvious fairly quickly that Kim wasn't showing up in person, as there was only one other person in the courtroom for a different hearing.

Finally they call my name, I stand and am recognized and Kim speaks up... over the courtroom speaker. They allowed ther to telephonically appear. I'm sure she thought she was being sly by trying to make it look like she was so afraid of me that she couldn't be in the same room with me... But in the end, it was one more shovel of dirt from the hole that she was digging for herself.

The judge restated/reaffirmed the reason we were there today - that Kim wanted the order extended for 3 more years and I had come to challenge it. Then he asks Kim, "So Mrs. Keister, how do you want to proceed?"

She launches into a crazy tirade about how I'm sending her anonymous emails and calling her from blocked numbers, and even said that the restraining orders I filed were 'falsified' and that I had moved on to stalking her parents, and that because of my ongoing harassment of them they're now getting a divorce. (lol wtf?)

The judge, somewhat exasperated, then gave her a nice healthy dose of stfu, telling her that since she had chosen to appear via telephone she can not be sworn under oath and therefore anything she states can not be considered evidence or admissible testimony in court. Furthermore, her failure to physically show up made being able to cross-examine her impossible because she can not be placed under oath.

She spluttered a little bit at him, claiming that Butte County Sheriff advised her to phone in instead of going in person, to which the judge made the exasperated wtf face once again. Finally he cut her off and asked me if I would explain the unusually large amount of paperwork that was filed. 

At that point I read my declaration, which is below:

My name is Andrea Brooks and I am a disabled artist from North Carolina.

I do not know Mrs Keister. I have never stalked or harassed Mrs. Keister. The things Mrs. Keister claims I have done to her are completely fabricated due to what I can only surmise is jealousy and hatred.

At my hearing today I come prepared to prove to you that Kimberleigh Keister is now, and has in the past used the courts to further harass myself and her former victims by claiming that there is a "conspiracy" against her, and that she has been creating multiple false 911 reports and civil filings in regards to this "conspiracy". All of Mrs. Keister's claims are supported by no evidence whatsoever of the allegations that she is making because there is no "conspiracy" and many of the people she names as "my associates" had no prior contact with me prior to Mrs. Keister's victimization of them, and this court action.

I first came to know of Mrs. Keister's allegations of this "conspiracy" when I was notified by several people on Facebook that she had posted details of several supposed police reports she had made on social media. I called the Butte County Sheriff's Department, the county where Mrs. Keister resides, and they have no record of her filing police reports. They do, however, have a long record of her making an excessive amount of calls to report incidents involving paranoia, delusions of being stalked, and many other things.

As I believe Mrs. Keister has fabricated evidence to ask for this order, I have decided to bring my evidence and defend myself against her.

I ask that you deny the renewal of this order. I further ask that you find Mrs. Kimberleigh Keister responsible for the court costs of this case as well as for the fees that have been required to come here and defend myself. This includes witness fees, Subpoena service fees, etc.

After I finished reading that I turned back and motioned to the full benches behind me - nearly the entire side full with just us few, and said "Your Honor, all of these individuals are also victims of Mrs. Keister.

He just sat there for a second, a little dumbfounded. He didn't even give her a chance to respond to my declaration - though at that moment there was dead silence from her as the realization dawned on her that she was in deep shit - he just said, "If you've been a victim of Mrs. Keister and would like to give a statement, come forward."

Still, dead silence from her. I was give ANYTHING to know the thoughts running through her head at that very moment.

And, of course, all of the victims came forward.

First Jeff Christner spoke. Kim sent him nudes and went around town implying to people that they were a couple. She sent him all kinds of filthy emails and texts, all of which we filed into the court record (of course). In one of these emails she asks him about me, because he's a furry. Because I guess clearly we all know each other.

When Kim had her turn to refute him, she claimed she had no clue who he is and that she had never heard his name before. Absolutely outrageous, considering the giant STACK of emails we had between the two of them.

My husband spoke about the levels of stress all of this has put me through, as well as some techy stuff about how her IP address is tied to literally everything, especially the accounts trying to look like they're there to harass her. Everything traces back to Butte County.

Next up was Mark Kumpf who is also a board member at NACA - the National Animal Control Association (which Kim is/was a member of). He spoke of the number of complaints they have had throughout their organization and how they had to change the baws to get rid of her, as well as some personal Kim horror tales.

Lastly, Karolyn Verville spoke and showed her screenshots from when Kim stole her identity, photos from Facebook, and more. Keister stole the profile of Karolyn and was using it as her own and later had an entire profile pretending to be Karolyn. With this false page she caused a lot of trouble for this woman and her animal rescue.

The other two witnesses that were there, Mary Ellen Wood and Robert Heslop had both filed their statements and records into court record and chose not to speek out, as by this time this had gone on for a little while.

During all of this Kim adamantly swore that she had never heard of these people before and that she knew Karolyn was causing trouble with me, she was an accomplice, etc, etc.

So after all the testimony from all of us was heard, the judge had some pretty words for Merced's little darling.
The judge ruled against Kim, denying her request for the extension / renewal, then went a step further and said that since I and so many other witnesses had traveled so far to see justice done here that he would take that as motion to vacate the original restraining order that I didn't know how to fight.

He then ruled that due to a TOTAL LACK Of CREDIBLE EVIDENCE OR TESTIMONY from Kim that the order was vacated. The judge also ordered Kim to pay the cost of court + expenses, and suggested I could go another route to get damages as well.

And then we all took an epic pictures outside the front of the Merced courthouse to commemorate our victory over evil. :Toot:

THE END

Seriously though - if you find yourself targeted by Ziralionkingfan / Kimberleigh Ann Keister then PLEASE please please do not engage her.  She is batshit crazy and can and will stalk you.  Document her actions and update her ED page with it.  The strongest thing you can do against her is to expose her antics.

As those of you that are followers of mine on Facebook know, I suffer from stage 4 Endometriosis.  This passed Monday I had an elective historectomy to attempt to alleviate the pain and suffering that I have endured for years.

To put a long story short, the surgery went badly. The endo was worse than expected so they had to back out and instead of doing the surgery laparoscopically as intended, they had to make a 11 inch incision from hip to hip.

Shortly into the surgery I began losing a fair amount of blood.  I had to have a transfusion.

My uterus was calcified - completely hard, and somehow my bladder had moved forward and down, so the two organs were resting one-in-front of the other, with my bladder 'in front', sort of molded around my uterus. On top of all that (literally) was my bowel, and the whole diorama was completely held in place via adhesions - scar tissue from the endometriosis.  NSFW/L picture of this arrangement from before they pulled out to do the manual incision:  i.imgur.com/QRzBVRk.jpg

My right ovary was 'normal' - as normal as it could have been, given circumstances.

They could not find my left ovary, period. They dug around so thoroughly they had to send someone to triple check that it hadn't already been removed in a previous surgery.  Once they were certain it was there somewhere they searched all over and finally found a lump. They missed it the first several times because it looked like a mass of scar tissue, attached to my abdominal wall higher on my left side. They finally determined this mass was my ovary, and when removed and cut open my surgeon described it like a raisin surrounded by was of scar tissue - it was completely encased in adhesions.

Anyway, I was hospitalized for a few days post-surgery then released, but last night I had to come back because my fever shot up to 102F.  They are expecting this stay to be at least a few more days because my fever and pain are currently nearly uncontrolable.

Right now, we've spent every dime we have trying to get me through all of these unseen complications, and Jason having to make sometimes-multiple trips home daily to take care of our pets has obliterated my small savings.

I'm not here asking - I'm begging. If you can spare a few bucks, it would be amazingly kind and generous of you.  I don't know if I am going to be able to get a lot of work done imideately, but I will pledge that all donations over $10 get a sketch, $25 get greyscale shading and $45 get color, all work to be done digitally.

My PayPal is banrai@gmail.com.  If you are donating enough to qualify for art, please note or email me the fef, or simply include the link or description of your charactet and ideas with your payment (my preferred method). Please, only one character per donation tier, however if friends want to combine their art I am happy to work with them

Even if you can't help right now, a signal boost would be amazingly kind of you. From the bottom of my heart: thank you.

So close to being done with this term. So, so close. December 16th is my last day of classes, at which point I still have one commission to finish up and then WOO HOLIDAY.

In the meantime, I've been in hospital this past week and it was awful. Super super sick with a horrible stomach bug that just hit me exceptionally hard and they had to force fluids into me. Feeling a lot better now, but the worst part is now I have like two weeks of backlog of classwork to do that I didn't do while I was ill, so crunch time is even more... crunchy?