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Today, we’re returning to a story that’s quickly developing and even more quickly grabbing headlines, as the melodrama created by Crystal Abelseth continues.
In a revelation of items on a renewed timeline of events that’s surfaced after Abelseth sought news coverage, which caused the contentious story to go viral amid as-yet unsubstantiated claims of rape, Abelseth has emerged as a co-parent hosting what Barnes claims as a “revolving door” of gentlemen callers.
While sharing custody with Abelseth, Barnes claimed, “Men were coming in and out of my child’s life. She had three husbands in three years and it wasn’t healthy.” He also claims that the courts have ruled that it violates a custody agreement that Abelseth has men over while the daughter is staying at her house.
This morning, Fox reported that it had received court records revealing that Abelseth not only kept the child’s identity a secret from Barnes for more than half-a-decade, she also pinned the illegitimate pregnancy on another man, a convicted felon named James Threeton. These records are reported to show that the child even bore Threeton’s last name and, at least for a time, referred to him as “daddy.”
While details are unclear as to the full length of their relationship experts at the BabyCenter say that babies are able to speak and understand one-word phrases at or after one year of age. So, it would appear that the Threeton was at least with Abelseth for that long.
But after several years in a contentious legal battle, during which time Abelseth allegedly muddied the waters by training their daughter that Threeeton was the child’s first father, and that Barnes was only the girl’s second, Barnes was understandably upset.
Rather than filing false charges against Abelseth, however, Barnes petitioned the court for a resolution to the matter – specifically requesting that Abelseth stop bringing his daughter to Threeton’s prison for visitation. The court sided with Barnes yet again, barring the child from having any contact with Threeton.
Though very few news agencies actually reported Barnes’ side, the timeline of court rulings also reveals quite a bit more than was originally claimed by Abelseth, bringing questions into her very convenient and timely claims in the wake of losing those cases.
In 2012 Abelseth sued for child support and Barnes was ordered to pay her $450 per month. After this alleged series of custody violations by Abelseth that apparently spanned three years, Barnes successfully counter-sued Abelseth for sole custody of the child, citing Abelseth’s then-affirmatively adjudicated court violations.
He also requested a financial assessment of Abelseth’s income, which Barnes alleged she was withholding to justify a lighter financial burden to Barnes and even avoid paying altogether. Barnes said Abelseth worked in cash industries to avoid taxable filings. In response, the courts ruled that Abelseth should be earning $80,000 with the master’s degree she’s apparently not making very good use of as a waitress.
The court also ruled that Abelseth be required to not only pay more to Barnes monthly, but also pay retroactive child-support.
Less than one month after that decision is when Abelseth’s infamous rape accusation was filed. In the affidavit, Abelseth allegedly admitted to blacking out and waking up naked on Barnes’ bathroom floor.
Abelseth appeared in an obviously edited and pre-recorded video released to Fox News, in which she pauses and stumbles over presumably coached language that unconvincingly avoids topics and phrases that might explain the questionable claims that she made in her initial report.
I reported on these questionable items in my last article on this story, so it’s worth noting that, since then, she’s decided to maintain the shadowy mystery concerning those questions.
Just watching Abelseth sitting next to her female advocate who’s probably coached Abelseth on what to say in the video, you really get a better impression of Abelseth’s objectives. Here’s a woman who has so many felonious sexual partners that the court has had to intervene. She’s been caught in a year’s long lie that would have seen her daughter completely unaware of her father. And she’s lost case after case for her behavior.
Yet, here she sits, dressed very nicely, with very conservative, church-worthy clothing, with her hair and make-up flawless. And she thinks that because she’s landed the first few jabs on a man-bashing strategy to win a custody battle, that she’s going to come across as angelic and innocent. But the facts don’t tell that same story.
I think I should also point out, here, that she’s been wrapped up in this bitter feud with Barnes since 2005, and she’s consistently lost that battle primarily because of her own lifestyle. There’s no mention that Barnes does drugs or engages in a dangerous lifestyle, he was well over the drinking age when these two met at the bar, there are no reports coming out from any news sources that they’ve done a background check on Barnes and found out that he’s got some dangerous past.
They’ve apparently also been able to find out that he makes more than six figures annually, and that he’s been continuously employed for the entire time his daughter was alive. And the complete opposite is true of Abelseth.
And here’s the other thing: she’s only got two more years until the battle is over, because the child is now 16-years-old. When their daughter turns 18, there will be no more items to quibble over. So, my opinion is that Abelseth is trying to start a process that will see her child’s father in jail before the window closes on her opportunity to land the final blows.
Why else would she be so worried about it? Outside of the back-child support, she only owes Barnes $117 a month per her latest court ruling. So, if she really can’t financially hang on for just two more years, and if all the time that the courts have spent on the matter hasn’t proven to her that she’s not got the statistical probability of winning by now, the only reasonable victory that she can expect to take home from this experience is to destroy Barnes’ credibility and reputation in the court of public opinion. Because every woman knows that once a man is labeled a rapist, his reputation will never recover. It’s been proven time after time after time after (35) time(s).
And for those of you listening to this podcast, I implore you to read the article for this episode, where I cite these tragic cases.
But back to Abelseth’s video: Her advocate then jumps in and claims Barnes has engaged in an anti-American campaign in congress with the court system, to steal his daughter and literally get away with rape. It’s not enough that no one believes the decades-long series of lies that Abelseth has been spouting. Now they’re trying to wrangle in the conservatives on the claim that you’re unAmerican if you don’t believe her.
It should be noted that Barnes has apparently navigated the courts, cleared the sheriff’s department, survived rape allegations to the police department, been given custody after Child Protective Services got involved, been cleared by medical examiners against rape allegations, successfully fought to keep his daughter away from the imprisoned felon that Abelseth kept bringing her to, and who knows what else he’s had to do just to keep his daughter.
But I think he sums up the story best in his own words:
“All I have been trying to do is protect my daughter,” Barnes told Fox News Digital. “There is no way in hell I have influenced seven very high-level organizations that are geared toward protecting children’s rights and safety into sweeping her claims of rape and child abuse under the rug.”
He also told Fox News Monday in a separate interview and article, “It’s a Lie. She was in a bar with a fake ID, telling everyone she was a college student. I had no idea she was 16, and I didn’t rape her. That is absolutely, unequivocally false.”
But even after all this, Abelseth is now claiming that Barnes has drugged and raped their teenaged daughter.
That’s right, the coninuing saga now includes yet another rape allegation against Barnes – this time Abelseth claims that the alleged rape occured between Barnes and his own daughter.
The allegations were filed in a February 21 affidavit signed by Abelseth, stating that Barnes had “drugged and sexually assaulted [their child] two nights in a row.”
She also cited her own alleged rape, stating, “I suspect drugs were used by him to sedate me as I was unable to move while he raped me. Now, it is alleged that he has committed the same heinous crime on our 15 year old daughter.”
I can’t find any reports prior to this February 2022 account where Abelseth had claimed he used drugs on her in their encounter 16 years prior. But in two pivotal actions since she filed her claims against Barnes in February, the courts have twice sided with Barnes.
The first of these actions was a restraining order Abelseth filed with the courts, which awarded her emergency custody of the child. Abelseth apparently dismissed the restraining order through her attorney, claiming to be home sick with the flu at the time of the hearing that would decide whether or not to continue the injunction.
On March 18, the second of these actions came in the form of a ruling that outright refused all criminal charges against Barnes, citing that “medical evidence does not support [the] allegations in [the] petition.”
We’ll be keeping an eye on this story as it unfolds. I really hope that the courts don’t fold under the growing pressure from the liberal media that clearly wants blood for little more than accusations from a woman with a clear pattern of lies, court violations and very conveniently timed claims against Barnes that now span decades.
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