Polly Campbell, Director of the Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner Program, has witnessed Mila Malenko, now age 5, not being protected from abuse by her biological father over nearly 3 years despite multiple reports and evidence of abuse. When Mila was 2.5 she disclosed sexual abuse by her father to Campbell, but DHHS and courts refused to protect her, forcing continued unsupervised contact. Since then more evidence has emerged through Mila's continued disclosures, medical tests, and expert opinions, but DHHS and courts continue to disregard the danger to Mila. Campbell is speaking out under whistleblower protections.

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From: Diane Dimond <didimond@verizon.net>
To: mjwaxy <mjwaxy@aol.com>
Sent: Thu, Mar 1, 2012 3:28 pm
Subject: NOW can I get a comment from you, Mr. Waxman? 2nd request
Augusta, Maine
March 1, 2012
STATEMENT BY POLLY CAMPBELL
Director, Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner Program
State of Maine Attorney General’s Office
I honor my task to serve the citizens of the State of Maine, recognizing that Government Service means
service to the people of Maine. I am also a mandatory reporter for child abuse and neglect and it is my
legal obligation to report, in good faith, child abuse of which I am aware.
I can no longer remain silent. For nearly three years I have witnessed government officials ignore the
evidence of abuse of Mila Malenko, who is now five years old. Law enforcement, judges, the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS) have refused to protect this little girl against molestation and
abuse by her biological father.
When Mila was two and a half years old she told me about being sexually abused by her father. My
report to DHHS, and reports by other health care providers, initiated an investigation. Then in August
2009, after a forensic evaluation the Spurwink Child Abuse Program team unanimously determined Mila
“has been sexually abused by her father” and “strongly recommended that any contact that Mila have with
her father be supervised.” Yet, DHHS refused to protect Mila. The judge said there was no evidence of
abuse and Mila was forced to resume seeing her father for long weekends and overnights.
Over the next three years DHHS, Cumberland County Family Court, and Maine law enforcement refused
to take action to protect Mila disregarding the following evidence:
 Mila's continued disclosures of sexual abuse by her father to medical professionals and to her
mother, which were reported to DHHS
 NMS (www.nmslab.com) lab results of 56ng of methamphetamine, ten times the reporting level of
5ng, in Mila’s urine; tested after her father was arrested for stealing cough syrup with Mila.
 The Head of Maine Poison Control stated in a recorded conversation that this amount was “teeny
tiny.” By rejecting the standard medical scale, this public official ignored danger to Mila.
 Dr. Carl Baum's, Director, Center for Children’s Environmental Toxicology, Yale School of
Medicine, in sworn affidavit and testimony to DHHS, validated what easily could have been a
near-fatal dose of methamphetamine to Mila

2.  A disclosure by Mila about how her father was “blowing ‘mith’ in my face”
 Mila’s drawing and recorded explanation of how her father and his lawyer “sniff black rocks that
make them bad”
 A contusion on Mila’s forehead and recorded disclosure that her father hit her in the head with a
pan because she was crying, documented by an ER photo and report.
 Dr. Eli Newberger, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, sworn affidavit and
testimony to DHHS about the blunt force trauma to Mila’s head and the meth levels, noting Mila's
"tremendous additional risk"
 For the past 10 months Mila's father and his lawyer have been destroying Mila's maternal bond
by illegally withholding Mila from joint custody and visitation with her mother.
 Mila's father and his lawyer have publicly said they will not comply with the court order. The
lawyer has said, in court, "no law enforcement officer is going to take this child from me." Judge
Moskowitz, DHHS and law enforcement officials, have refused to enforce the court order.
This statement is made under the Maine Whistleblower’s Protection Act.