Barb Wingo, shown in inset over the property where the office of the Anna Bixby Women’s Center are located adjacent to the park in Harrisburg, is said to still be puling strings behind the scenes at the center, despite being forcibly removed from the board and from the position of director after her indictments in March of this year on a multitude of very serious charges. Sources associated with the place say that Wingo might have been the driving force behind the OPs taken out recently against Barbara Ray and Debbie Ramsey.
SALINE/HARDIN COs.—As if the Anna Bixby Women’s Center debacle couldn’t get more bizarre, the filing of Emergency Stalking/No-Contact Orders in both Saline and Hardin counties by the agency’s newest hire just took the whole matter a step beyond.
Breauna Kumorek, all of 20 and from Elizabethtown, is the new hire. And she is one of two who, on August 12, attempted to take out the ESNCO, these against Barbara Ray, who was appointed director of the ABWC board by the Attorney General’s office when former director Barbara Wingo was charged on a multi-felony indictment earlier this year.
Kid in charge/under charges
Bre Kumorek is the granddaughter of Diane Kumorek, who is running ABWC – a domestic violence agency designed to assist women and children living with that scourge – since Wingo has been gone. Bre Kumorek was recently hired to be a “children’s advocate” at the facility, despite having no qualifications whatsoever to perform such a role, as well as despite being under felony drug charges herself in her home county of Hardin, this coming to the fore in early July, when she was popped as part of a drug sting in Hardin, her part in it being that she allegedly sold her Ritalin to a confidential informant.
ABWC sources have advised that Kumorek’s “qualifications” are that she’s a babysitter, and that she alone, among those left at the center after the fall-apart in March, has had a 40-hour “crisis hotline” course.
The whole thing stands as a display of how far the women’s center, since the indictments of Wingo and her daughter, Terrie Eichorn, has fallen.
How much further it will fall lies in whether the authorities will step in and wrest control of the center from Wingo, however…since it’s being reported that she’s running it behind the scenes thanks to Diane Kumorek.
Ranted in two counties
Bre Kumorek’s rantings in the ESNCO – in both counties – brought the matter back to the fore.
The unfortunate-toothed and perpetually-selfie-taking Breauna Kumorek, shown here in her natural habitat, is now manning a desk at ABWC as a “children’s advocate” at the center. Her qualifications, according to those associated with ABWC, are that she’s been a babysitter, and she’s one of the few still remaining at the center who has gone through the 40-hour training course for the “crisis hotline” the place uses.
On August 12, in her petition, she wrote “Tuesday, August 4, Barbara and Debbie came upstairs at ABWC, where the fire doors are to stay locked and shut.”
Debbie Ramsey is a friend of Barbara Ray’s.
“Debbie came up first and beat on the door screaming that the door was not to be shut and that I better unlock it and let her in now!” the petition went on to state. “When I got to the door and opened it she repeated herself, Barbara was coming up now. I tried to tell Debbie that the door locks automatically, there is no unlocking it and the fire marshal says it does have to stay shut.
“That’s when Barbara got in my face screaming in the hall which is a little square, that I was not to talk to Debbie, she backed me up against my door. Thursday August 6 Barbara came upstairs again yelling and yelling through the door, I opened it and she said to come with her, I asked what for? She replied with you’ll see over there. So I started out the door when she grabbed my sleeve and tried to lead me down the stairs, I pulled away and told her to ‘let go, I’m not a dog’ she got mad and started yelling again I just went into my directors office, she followed telling my director I was insuboreinant (sic) and horrible worker etc.”
Of course, her “director” is Diane Kumorek, her grandmother.
Fox piles on
Alongside the Saline County petition by Breauna Kumorek was a nearly-identical but barely-legible petition from Adrienne Fox.
Fox is on the board of directors for ABWC, along with Ray.
Fox also is a former client who resided in an ABWC-owned house, provided through state grants and there for victims of domestic violence as a “safe house” to reside in while going through court proceedings or getting away from abusive spouses/significant others, until October of 2014 when the entire grand jury investigation kicked off and everybody had to give up their cushy benefits being provided by ABWC if they were individuals whom Wingo favored.
There didn’t appear to be an OP filed by Fox in Hardin County.
Judge said ‘no’
It appears the filing was first made by Kumorek in Hardin County, where she was told by the judge, Paul Lamar, on August 11, that the request was going to be denied. At that point it appears she told the judge that she would take up the matter in Saline County.
The judge scratched out his record sheet entry, so it’s very difficult to ascertain exactly what he was trying to indicate on it, other than the petition was dismissed, and the petition was going to file in Saline County.
However, in Saline, Judge Todd Lambert refused to grant the matter on an “emergency” basis because it was filed under Stalking/No-Contact, which by statute requires that two or more instances of stalking must take place before any emergency status can be conferred to it, and before it can be granted.
Therefore, Lambert set the matter over for a plenary order hearing on August 29, wherein Kumorek can plead her case again, only not on an emergency basis.
Apparently Kumorek is going to have to come up with another instance of what she considers “stalking” by Ray before the judge is going to grant any such sort of a thing.
Why Kumorek didn’t just call the law and report an assault and battery by Ray and Ramsey (since someone grabbed her sleeve and dragged her along) to local police is unknown…unless it’s Anna Bixby’s policy to ensure that the use (and abuse) of orders of protection continue in Saline County circuit court.
Center’s meltdown
The entire debacle is one that is a perfect display of the slow meltdown Anna Bixby is experiencing in the wake of the grand jury indictments.
It’s reported that the current board – necessitated when the Illinois Attorney General’s office filed a Chancery suit in Saline County to dissolve the then-existing board when the indictments were issued – was seated in toto when Diane Kumorek, who took over for Wingo in directing the place, brought in a batch of people to the courtroom, and the IAG approved them all.
Among that bunch were Ray, as well as another former client, Charlotte Parrish.
Regular readers will recall that Barbara Ray is the mother of child murderer Ricky Turner, who is spending life in prison over his various crimes, including the killing of four-year-old Jessika James in 2009.
Regular readers will also recall that Ray venomously defended her son before, during and throughout the 2013 trial, going so far as to get into vicious online arguments with Disclosure about the innocence of her son when the evidence clearly showed otherwise.
What she’s doing on the board of such an important women-and-children’s domestic violence center, therefore, is one of those mysteries that stands in stark contrast to what ABWC is all about.
Sources advise that Ray’s presence on the board, like Kumorek’s presence flying a desk at the actual facility at its location next to the park in Harrisburg, is only explainable in connection with Wingo, who likes to keep the thing close-knit, and since Diane Kumorek is running the facility, it must be okay for her grandchild to be there too, despite the fact that the younger Kumorek is a Kyle Eichorn discard, this Eichorn being Wingo’s only grandchild and a boy facing his own serious problems with drug and alcohol abuse following a felony conviction in Saline this year.
Sources also advise, however, that somehow, Wingo and Ray have recently had a falling out, which might account for the obtuse behavior recently toward Kumorek.
And while Barb Wingo is not supposed to be having any kind of directoral impact toward Anna Bixby, it’s being indicated that she most certainly is, having meetings at Diane Kumorek’s house on Tuesday and Thursday nights nearly every week.
These same sources indicate that it was very likely Wingo’s suggestion to both Bre Kumorek and Adrienne Fox to take out the failed Emergency Stalking/No-Contact Orders.
Wingo and her daughter Terrie Eichorn aren’t scheduled to be back in court on the hefty charges involving abuse of state funds and other incredible alleged abuses at ABWC until October.
Sources in Harrisburg have advised that while they seemed bulled-up and defiant at previous court hearings, of late, both women have seemed somewhat deflated, and while talk of a jury trial for each was all that was going on throughout the Spring, now, there’s talk of a plea deal.
The IAG’s attorney on the matter, Jonas Harger, has been quoted by many at the courthouse as saying that “a plea deal isn’t going to happen.”