They are dragging this out.
FORSYTH — A jury trial for a Branson woman accused of neglecting and abusing her two daughters is scheduled to be tried before a jury in July.
Christie Czajkowski, 38, is charged with two counts of felony child abuse, two counts of first-degree child endangerment and one count of resisting arrest, as well as two counts of felony child abuse in a separate case. Czajkowski is to stand trial for both cases at the Taney County Judicial Center July 25.
The first trial date in the case, which was slated for Feb. 14, was postponed.
Czajkowski was arrested by a Taney County Sheriff’s deputy on April 12, 2010, after a deputy interviewed her children and was told “that they had stayed the last two nights in a vacant apartment and that they have not been home since,” according to a probable cause statement. In the statement, the children said they were kicked out of the house for not doing what they were told.
An arrest warrant application filed in the second case indicated that Czajkowski had an accomplice, her neighbor, Russell Dove, with whom she allegedly tied her children up and placed them in a locked room in Dove’s house on multiple occasions.
Dove, 54, has also been charged in Taney County in connection with these accusations. He faces four counts of felony child abuse and two counts of felonious restraint, also a felony.
Czajkowski, the host of the Internet radio show “Truth Brigade Radio,” has maintained throughout the case that she is innocent of the charges against her. She alleges that the information the sheriff’s office relied upon when it launched the investigation came from her “stalkers.”
According to Missouri Case.net, Czajkowski is being represented by a new attorney in the Public Defender’s Office, James Egan, of Springfield.
Reached by e-mail this week, she said she would need to speak with Egan before making a statement, but said she thinks the charges against her should be dropped. Court records show she filed a request for dismissal in February.
“(The court) never addressed any of my motions, which is also illegal,” Czajkowski said. “So I am filing a bunch of (Sunshine Law) requests to try to get that info and more they conveniently left out.”
Czajkowski’s daughters, who were 11 and 13 in February, were taken into protective custody by the Missouri Department of Social Services when she was arrested.
Czajkowski said both of them have since been moved out of the state.
