Breaking the Silence's Producers Were Warned
of Sadia's Record of Child Abuse

Letter to Co-Producer Dominique Lasseur of Tatge-Lasseur Productions

On April 24, 2005, six months before the initial broadcast of Breaking the Silence, Scott Loeliger details Sadia's violence--including seven counts of child abuse--for Lasseur. To read the document in its entirety, click here.

Letter to Dana O'Neill, Programming Business Manager of Connecticut Public Television, a co-producer of Breaking the Silence

In a June 6, 2005 letter copied to Lasseur, Scott Loeliger again details Sadia's violence and provides documents. To read the document in its entirety, click here.

Letter to Co-Producer Dominique Lasseur of Tatge-Lasseur Productions

In a July 7, 2005 letter CC'd to Dana O'Neill of Connecticut Public Television and Michael Lunsford of the Mary Kay Ash Foundation, Scott Loeliger again details Sadia's violence for Lasseur. To read the document in its entirety, click here.

Letter from Scott Loeliger's Attorney to Co-Producer Dominique Lasseur of Tatge-Lasseur Productions

In a September 3, 2005 letter to Dominique Lasseur and CC'd to Dana O'Neill of Connecticut Public Television and Michael Lunsford of the Mary Kay Ash Foundation, Scott Loeliger's attorney Dennis Roberts details findings that Sadia is an abusive mother. Roberts notes "there have been no such findings [of violence or abuse] against the father, and child protective reviews in two subsequent counties have never substantiated Fatima's claim of child abuse in her father's home." To read the document in its entirety, click here.

Letter from Scott Loeliger's Attorney to Co-Producer Dominique Lasseur of Tatge-Lasseur Productions

In a September 24, 2005 letter to Dominique Lasseur and CC'd to Connecticut Public Television and the Mary Kay Ash Foundation, Scott Loeliger's attorney Dennis Roberts warns of pending legal action, labels Breaking the Silence a "defamatory charade." To read the document in its entirety, click here.

Letter to Corporation for Public Broadcasting

In an October 2, 2005 letter the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and copied to Tatge-Lasseur Productions, Connecticut Public Television, the Mary Kay Ash Foundation, and numerous others, Scott Loeliger again details Sadia's violence and asks that Fatima be removed from the film. To read the document in its entirety, click here.

Scott Loeliger received letters back from the involved individuals noted above but we cannot reprint them on the site for legal reasons.