April 26, 2007
About 10 days ago, I was invited to attend a meeting of parents of children who had attended Kiddie Kollege, in Franklinville, NJ, about 40 minutes from my home. Kiddie Kollege had been established in a building that had been a thermometer factory. It was supposed to be a toxic waste site. Through the purported miracle of political corruption, it was knowingly sold by the owner to someone who intended to use it for a nursery school. Mercury was used in these thermometers. As you know, mercury is also the most toxic naturally occurring substance on the planet.
The medical expenses that the families of these children will have, until their predicted early demise will be tremendous. The families do not have the wherewithal to fight the government, the organizational skills to move forward, or a spokesperson to represent them. As a consequence, very few parents attended this meeting, because of the group’s frustration in its inability to coalesce a plan. Hair follicle studies have shown a chronic exposure four times greater than allowable for a 200 pound man. Parents are talking about significant short term memory loss in their children as one of the many symptoms they are observing.
It is my hope that you have read the letter this far, and can help in some regard by acting on your own, to contact the representative of the group Sharon Frank at jellybeanheart68@aol.com or by forwarding this letter on, to other individuals you think can help. This story deserves national attention, before these children start dying of the cytotoxic effects of mercury toxicity.
My observations are that what is needed is:
1. Funding from local and national sources to help establish a foundation to help with medical expenses.
2. A person with organizational skills to step forward and become a campaigner for these unfortunate families. If anyone knows about a corporation with an “executive on loan” program, would you please see to it that this matter gets attention.
3. National publicity – connections with investigative shows like 20-20, Dateline, 60 Minutes would certainly get the ball rolling
4. Someone like Erin Brockovitch to take over
5. Local media sources to take up the story and not let it die until the innocent are given their retribution and the guilty are made to pay.
6. Medical information from one source for all families, who are getting conflicting information from their MD’s and from the state, which is not willing to provide the types of testing needed to evaluate all the children.
Without this help, this group has already become decimated, and those responsible think they are walking away unscathed. For more information and articles that have been written about this travesty, please look at the upper left hand corner of my website at http://www.cent4dent.com/html/mercury_issues/links.html Please think about who you know who could help with one of the 6 items above. Do not let those who willfully exposed over 100 children to toxic levels of mercury escape justice. Thank you for your time.
To learn more about the environmental/legal aspects of this situation, read http://www.envirobank.org/upload/articles/Kidde_Kollege_Debacle-SEJ.pdf
Steve Markus, DMD