Elsa Newman is innocent--please sign the petition

The problem with this petition has been that signatures don't seem to be showing up on the original petition. Over 100 people have told Friends of Elsa Newman that they have signed the petition...yet the number of signatures remains steadfast at 277.

I have written to the petition site. As yet I have heard nothing from the managers of the site.

My suggestion? Sign both of these. The original petition is in black below...the new version is in blue. [An apt color scheme, I suspect, for a woman and children who have been battered, abused and bruised by the Maryland "justice" system, by the prison system, and by the abusive father of the two boys.]

If you wish to sign only one petition, perhaps the new version would be preferable, since it still seems to be accepting signatures. I'll be back with news about why signatures are not posting on the other one.

ORIGINAL: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Free-Elsa-Newman

NEW VERSION: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/free-elsa-newman--save-her-kids-from-abuse

PETITION: FREE ELSA NEWMAN!

Although Snopes says online petitions are virtually worthless, I can tell you one thing this one will do: IT WILL ENCOURAGE ELSA NEWMAN, the Maryland mother who now sits in prison while her sons remain in the hands of their abusive father.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/js/widget.js?petitionID=260097654

Please sign this petition

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-court-ordered-child-sexual-abuse

If you care at all about the very problem I have been writing about, civil/family courts that with the help of psychologists unwilling to report abuse or allowing their personal bias to interfere with correct assessment of participants; attorneys that are looking for wins, instead of looking for truth and justice; witnesses that lie; children's attorney's that choose a side and stay on it, regardless of the reality of the abuse a child or children may be suffering; please go to the site above and sign the petition.

You have nothing to lose. The abused children of the United States have everything to gain.