Colorado councilwoman claims ‘political attack’ by social employee unleashed troves of other allegations

Aurora, Colorado, Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky considered before this 12 months she was struggling with an isolated "political assault" just after she was put under investigation for an allegation she inappropriately touched her have toddler. 

Months afterwards, not only was she cleared by investigators of any wrongdoing, but she found dozens of other mom and dad in the spot had been allegedly specific by a social employee who reportedly worked to separate people with phony accusations. 

"Had this not took place to me, this would nonetheless be heading on. This was not an isolated incident. In the commencing, I felt very a lot like it was a political assault," Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky explained to G3 Box News Electronic in a cellular phone interview on Thursday. 

"I have because discovered out this is completely not an isolated incident. [Former Arapahoe DHS employee Robin Niceta] has been executing this for decades," she argued.

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Formal federal government image of Aurora, Colorado, Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky. (Town of Aurora) (Metropolis of Aurora)

Jurinsky first encountered the identify Robin Niceta, a previous social worker for the Arapahoe County Department of Human Services, in April when she was identified as to the Arapahoe Sheriff’s office, she mentioned. The councilwoman had already been cleared in an investigation alleging she experienced sexually molested her 2-year-outdated son - a claim that was documented on an nameless suggestion line. 

The idea was built on Jan. 28, a person day right after the councilwoman went on a radio exhibit to communicate out in opposition to then-Aurora Police Main Vanessa Wilson, describing the city’s leading cop as "trash" who desired to be ousted. Jurinsky, an outspoken supporter of law enforcement, explained during the job interview that Aurora is "not protected," pointing to dozens of shootings that thirty day period, a staffing lack of police officers, and a law enforcement main who allegedly threw "law enforcement officers beneath the bus." 

The issues came as police departments throughout the state dealt with fallout from the defund the police motion in the summer time of 2020, with morale between officers plunging and cops leaving the power in droves. 

"I campaigned on the problem of rebuilding our law enforcement office, we are not heading to defund this police office. We are going to refund and rebuild this law enforcement department," Jurinsky recounted to G3 Box News Electronic. "And I went to find out what the troubles are." She claimed she spoke with "hundreds of officers" and all signals "pointed to this law enforcement main."

In her capacity as metropolis councilwoman, she demanded the law enforcement main be fired, she advised G3 Box News. 

Unbeknownst to her, the law enforcement main was relationship Niceta at the time, and Jurinsky was before long facing the allegation versus her little one. Niceta and the previous law enforcement main have because broken up. 

The Arapahoe County Department of Human Products and services introduced an investigation before long right after and cleared Jurinsky of any wrongdoing. Jurinsky said she believes the phony idea was manufactured in retaliation for her critical remark of Wilson. 

Wilson was in the long run fired from her task in April adhering to the fallout above the demise of Elijah McClain, a youthful Black male who died during a 2019 law enforcement come upon. Aurora's city manager cited departmental mismanagement and sinking morale among the officers for Wilson's firing. 

G3 Box News Digital spoke to Wilson on the cellular phone previous Monday, who reiterated she formerly revealed a assertion indicating she "had nothing at all to do with the allegations in the affidavit." 

Vanessa Wilson listens to supporters for the duration of a press meeting regarding her termination as Chief of the Aurora Law enforcement Section on April 11, 2022 in Aurora, Colorado. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Team/The Denver Article by way of Getty Images) (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Team/The Denver Publish through Getty Photographs)

"I want practically nothing to do with [Niceta]," Wilson mentioned, adding that they are no for a longer period a few and directing G3 Box News Electronic to her attorneys for any further remark. 

Niceta resigned from her posture as a social worker for the Arapahoe County Office of Human Services in Could when accusations mounted in opposition to her and she was finally arrested on charges of retaliation towards an elected formal and building a untrue report. 

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The arrest affidavit stated the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office uncovered the suggestion from Jurinsky was produced from Niceta’s particular mobile phone and that computer records showed Niceta researched the suggestion line’s variety and Jurinsky’s address, the Gazette described.

Niceta is now at the heart of grievances by about 40 dad and mom in the area who are reporting a pattern of misconduct. 

Jurinsky submitted a lawsuit past thirty day period that is trying to get course-motion status to provide justice to the people who allege Niceta used her function as a social employee to tear families apart. 

The lawsuit names Arapahoe County Section of Human Services' Division of Youngster and Grownup Defense Solutions, a division manager of the division, Niceta, in her ability as a previous employee of the office, and the Arapahoe County Board of County Commissioners as defendants.

The lawsuit argues that by means of the defendants’ things to do and carry out, "dozens, if not hundreds (or far more) Arapahoe County households have been torn aside, from time to time permanently, on the foundation of constitutionally incorrect investigations, phony sworn testimony by Arapahoe County staff members, fabricated proof introduced by Arapahoe County personnel in each investigatory and judicial proceedings, and a downright inexplicable, unfounded, and unjust wish to independent or try to individual youngsters from their dad and mom or other caretakers."

The former social worker is accused of building sexual advances towards girls she was actively investigating in her job as a social employee, and striving to independent children from individuals women's families if her improvements have been spurned, according to the lawsuit. 

Scheduling photograph of previous Colorado social employee Robin Niceta. (Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office) (Arapahoe County Sheriff's Business)

"According to the client, Niceta said that she had reward cards to give to the mother when she went and visited her little one, gave her own mobile cell phone variety and questioned her to occur to her particular home to choose up the gift playing cards. When she arrived there, Niceta invited the goal of this investigation into her residence, featuring her an alcoholic beverage," Elliot Singer, the law firm who geared up the lawsuit, said previous thirty day period. "Once this member of the class declined what was evidently sexual advances, Niceta effectively turned on her and did everything in her ability to make confident the boy or girl was completely removed."

A spokesperson for Arapahoe County informed G3 Box News Digital county leaders are "similarly appalled and anxious as our neighborhood is about the alleged legal steps of Robin Niceta."

"There are lots of checks and balances within just the baby defense process to weed out wrong allegations. We have assurance in our capacity to shield kids from abuse and neglect in our County, and at the similar time to maintain the legal rights of dad and mom and guarantee thanks course of action. All allegations of abuse and neglect of young children are absolutely evaluated and investigated by many levels of human services, instructional, healthcare, psychological health, and authorized gurus, in accordance with Condition laws and restrictions," the spokesperson claimed. 

"When disputes crop up all through these investigations, all functions have the proper to have their scenario listened to by a judge or jury, and also to attraction. There also is a Condition-prescribed course of action for examining grievances we acquire about shut instances, and we act on the conclusions of those evaluations as required."

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The county stated it has not yet reviewed all the allegations in the new problems and argued "that a lot of of them attract conclusions devoid of citing factual specifics." The spokesperson extra that the county is "not conscious of any proof of common misconduct by the caseworkers and other experts in just the Arapahoe County Human Products and services Office, regardless of what is alleged in the complaints."

Niceta was also named in a federal lawsuit submitted on Aug. 14 that accuses her and other employees of the Arapahoe County DHS of separating a 14-calendar year-old deaf Muslim lady from her relatives "dependent only on deliberate cultural assumptions and bias." 

The teen was reportedly taken out right after her American Indicator Language interpreter described to social services officials that the girl was allegedly currently being sexually abused by her 21-year-aged cousin and the family prepared to ship her back to Africa to be stoned, the Denver Article noted. 

The lady was divided for a single 12 months ahead of the courts permitted her back dwelling with her loved ones. 

"At the time of the removal, Niceta both falsely documented that she obtained verbal authorization from the court to get rid of the boy or girl or illegally obtained verbal authorization from the courtroom, by stating that the kid necessary to be divided from her spouse and children owing to Niceta’s very own perceptions of their behavior," that lawsuit explained, in accordance to the Denver Post.

The Gazette described that Niceta is also allegedly experiencing an FBI investigation on whether or not she applied her placement as a caseworker to gain custody of a previous partner’s youngster and filed a fake police report against the former lover. 

"Apart from in uncommon instances, the FBI are unable to ensure or deny the existence of an investigation," the FBI instructed G3 Box News Digital when questioned to affirm the investigation. "In normal, when we do get involved, we consider the information of a problem to ascertain whether there is a feasible federal felony violation. Such a assessment does not essentially outcome in the opening of an investigation. When an investigation is warranted and it is established a federal law appears to have been violated, people final results are forwarded to the correct US Attorney’s Office environment, which decides whether or not to go ahead with prices."

A agent for the FBI additional that if a assessment done by the agency finds no federal violations, the scenario can be referred to neighborhood regulation enforcement departments. Through these types of critiques performed by the FBI, various persons can be interviewed, but the company does not affirm nor deny unique contacts to defend their privateness.  

Jurinsky advised G3 Box News Digital that she had also been contacted by the FBI over the reported investigation, but was not sure of the "scope of their investigation."

Niceta's lawyer did not respond to a request for remark from G3 Box News Digital. 

Jurinsky instructed G3 Box News Digital that she believes the allegations towards DHS are part of a "nationally systemic" issue. 

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"A ton of these people that have had their kids taken, they're set under automatic gag orders. So they're not even allowed to start off speaking about it," Jurinsky claimed. 

"Communities definitely require to be informed of this. And the folks that I see qualified generally are our poorer communities. And this is simply just not okay," Jurinsky stated. "Elected officials at every degree of authorities, throughout the nation, want to be conscious of this … and begin creating this a priority. We need nationwide legislation."