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The cyber-bullying of a Minnesota author and his children by online predators that have used his kids as proxy targets has escalated into the Minnesota District Court and gathered into a legal storm that is set to go epic.

In an elaborate case of cyber-stalking, reverse blackmail, extortion, and custody interference – evidence shows how somebody has gone to great lengths to intimidate a former award-winning news reporter that was once told the names of the human traffickers that kidnapped the missing child HaLeigh Cummings.

An ominous undercurrent runs through the Polk County case, as bizarre particulars continue to create new questions about the Ninth Minnesota Judicial District, and a seemingly crippled legal community that appears inexplicably paralyzed in the matter.

For instance - although a guardian ad litem was assigned to the case two years ago, the Court was never alerted about the targeting of the child, which included sexual online abuse.

Rather, the subject seemed to be off limits to the State’s guardian ad litem - Matthew Petrovich.

According to the child’s father, Timothy Holmseth (this writer/reporter), he was ignored and quasi intimidated when he sought to address the issue regarding the stalking and abuse of his children. During the initial interview, Petrovich responded to Holmseth's concerns saying, “I don’t care about any of that."

The indifference not only seemed odd – but has proven catastrophic.

In a letter sent to District Judge Tamara Yon on Monday, Holmseth alerted the Court that confidential records regarding his kids are being circulated by out of state individuals that claim they are obtaining them from the Court Administrator.

Holmseth provided the Judge a published admission made by a Florida blogger named William Murtaugh who named the very person that acquired records for him to publish; records that are supposed to be protected in the confidential section of the court file. 

The availability of protected documents to a cyber-stalking apparatus means either the Court Administrator is violating policy, or a private party with access to the document turned it over to the stalking group for malicious publication.

While the improper release of protected documents is a critical issue that needs to be addressed, darker clouds brew in the form of evidence that indicates careful measures have been taken to obfuscate the truth about the online apparatus being used to threaten and intimidate Holmseth and his family.

In a recent ruling, the District Judge set forth methods the Court will be using to forensically assess what has become a situation the Court considers dangerous to the mental health of the minor child. “This is extremely concerning to the Court,” said The Honorable Tamara Yon in a written Order.

The facts and circumstances of the child protection issue beg the question of how the situation could have possibly escalated to the point it has without intervention from law enforcement – particularly when a guardian ad litem has been on the case for two years.

In August of 2013, Holmseth contacted the Polk County Sheriff’s Office to report that William Murtaugh, a man he did not know, emailed him and asked for inappropriate information about his children; in advance of an article Murtaugh was going to write about them.

Holmseth, attempting to protect his children from such online exposure, cooperated with Murtaugh and gave him the specific government paperwork he asked for. The cooperation did not gain Holmseth any mercy or favor. Murtaugh subsequently published a sensitive document that contained the names of Holmseth’s children. 

Murtaugh stated he published the document upon direct legal advice. The specifics surrounding Murtaugh’s claim regarding legal advice from a professional is known to law enforcement, and will not be published at this time in lieu of any investigation that may be underway.

After receiving the bizarre request for information about his children from Murtaugh, Holmseth learned something very disturbing. Murtaugh is alleged to be the author of a Pal Talk instant messaging conversation that shows a person, claiming to be Murtaugh, boasting he murdered a missing child from Florida named Trenton Duckett. The horrific conversation features a person using the name “murtwitnessone” that is openly bragging he rapes little kids he takes from malls and has murdered six children. 

Although the malicious publishing of documents targeting Holmseth’s children recently became public knowledge, the odyssey itself actually began two years ago - when the exact same document had been published in the exact same way. Between 2011 and 2013 the original stalker(s) had not stopped targeting Holmseth and his children; nor changed their tactics.

The Minnesota Court was well aware of the problem.

In November of 2011, Attorney Michael Jorgenson, Charlson and Jorgenson Law Office, Thief River Falls sent a letter to Honorable Donna Dixon, Roseau County Courts, to alert her that highly sensitive court records, which were supposed to be secured in the confidential section of the court file, were being published on the Web.

The sensitive document in question is something commonly referred to as a ‘hit piece’- an official record deliberately and maliciously generated in bad faith for the express purpose of supporting a fraudulent court motion, or publishing the document to defame or embarrass an adversary.

“I received a call from [a health community professional]. Apparently someone posted the letter report I had received from [health community professional] and submitted with our motion documents to the court, on Twitter,” Jorgenson said, in his letter to the Judge.

Cyber stalking reported to Minnesota Judge in 2011 Continues through 2013	F A C T
Child Protection Crisis		Official Document

Attorney Jorgenson believed he knew where it came from. “I do not believe Mr. Holmseth posted this report. But rather someone who Mr. Holmseth angered in Florida,” Jorgenson said.

Holmseth’s primary connection to the state of Florida is the interviews he conducted regarding the missing child HaLeigh Cummings, and a book he published in 2011. In 2010 Holmseth was interviewed by the Minneapolis FBI regarding the case after the Jacksonville, Florida FBI office requested copies of his recorded interviews.

The hit-piece created to defame Holmseth, met its shame, after Grand Forks County Child Protection Services conducted a complete investigation and rendered a unanimous finding from its esteemed team of child protection professionals – “No Services Required or Recommended – No Risk Factors for Abuse”.

But the attacks continued, and for the next two years Holmseth was lambasted on the Web by anonymous publishers that wrote anything they felt like making up – acting with impunity.

Holmseth made report after report to the East Grand Forks Police Department but received no help. On one occasion, a caller telephoned Holmseth eight times in a row and hung up after he answered. Although Holmseth successfully traced the call, the Police Department refused to investigate the trace from Midcontinet Communications.

In 2011 Holmseth received a telephone call from a private investigator from Florida and was told he was going to be murdered by “Mob boys” if he attended a scheduled court hearing. Holmseth reported the death-threat to Lt. Rod Hajicek, EGFPD, but he took no action and made no report. 

Hajicek and Holmseth have a history.

Hajicek telephoned Holmseth in 2009 while Holmseth was working on a charity fraud story involving illegal activity surrounding the staged kidnapping of HaLeigh Cummings. Hajicek advised Holmseth that a Florida company, Xentel, Inc. did not want Holmseth to write the story about he was working on.

Hajicek was using the badge to lean on Holmseth and protect organized crime.

Xentel, Inc. is a company with a history of charity fraud and has been sued by the State Attorney Generals Offices’ in Colorado, Missouri, Ohio, Iowa, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and other states.

The FBI visited Xentel, Inc. based upon information they received from Holmseth and acquired critical information pertaining to a Photoshopped picture of the missing child that was created by the people that took her. 

Holmseth has noticed many similarities in the behavior of the EGFPD and Matthew Petrovich.

Holmseth recently submitted a wealth of documents to Polk County Sheriff Barb Erdman and Polk County Attorney Greg Widseth.

Attorney Widseth advised Holmseth he submitted the information to Polk County Child Protective Services.