In February 2025, I interviewed Jeff Reichert, shortly after he filed to have his son emancipated.
It was a bold move to remove Jeff’s son from an abusive child custody case which has engulfed both of them.
The last time Jeff and his son were in the same room was in September 2022, and he’s spoken to him twice in about the last year on the phone. While this violates a court order, his ex-wife, Sarah Hornbeck, seems to operate with impunity.
The corrupt system- which has flagrantly kept father away from son- was bound to take its next step to continue that corruption.
That happened on March 18, 2025, when Anne Arundel County, Maryland Judge Elizabeth Morris issued a draconian order.
Jeff was already limited to one visit per week. Hornbeck violated this order for years, and while Jeff filed numerous contempt motions, none of those were heard.
Rather than hearing those motions, Judge Morris merely removed his in-person visitation in her order from March 18, 2025.
Shocking as that is, Judge Morris issued this order despite neither parent living in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Jeff lives in Virginia while Sarah lives in Baltimore County.
The petition for emancipation was filed in Baltimore County.
Two hearings were held in this case in December 2024, and those were the last two hearings.
In the interview, Jeff told me that the last two hearings weren’t hearings. One dealt with previously filed contempt motions by Ms. Hornbeck. Jeff told me that Judge Morris stated in court that there was no contempt but scheduled a second hearing for December 18, 2024.
This was no hearing either. Rather than having a hearing, Judge Morris read an order into the record, though not the order she filed on March 18, 2025.
No witnesses were called or evidence presented that day, Jeff told me.
As such, this order was filed with no due process because Jeff was entitled to a hearing with witnesses and evidence before a draconian order was issued.
Jeff told me that the timing of the order was suspicious. In October 2024, Sarah Hornbeck filed another protective order against him; this is part of a pattern for Ms. Hornbeck.
Hornbeck never served Jeff with the protective order, and Jeff told me in the interview that the protective order was set to expire on the day the child custody order was issued: March 18, 2025.
The child custody order did what the protective order attempted to do. Sarah Hornbeck filed the protective order on her and her son’s behalf. If granted, Jeff would have been barred from all visits with his son for the duration of the order.
Judge Morris issued a child custody order which did the same thing. Judge Morris’ court order also requires Jeff to take drug tests and go to therapy, things he told me he has already done.
At the same time, an interview Jeff’s son, Grant, did with journalist Wayne Dolcefino in September 2022, has recently surfaced. In the interview, Grant made clear that he wanted to live full time with his dad, and the custody evaluator, Helen Laird, was manipulating him into choosing splitting time as an option.
The court orders in this case since 2022 are “legal fiction”, as Richard Luthmann termed it. They have created works of fiction pinning Grant’s mom, Sarah Hornbeck, as the fit parent, whereas the reality, as Grant stated, is that his father provided “normalcy” while his mother was drunk and abusive.
The courts have desperately kept Grant from expressing himself in court because his testimony would contradict everything they’ve done for the last five years.
This latest court order is the most recent example.
I reached out to Sarah Hornbeck and her attorney, Brennan McCarthy, by email, but neither responded. Below is Dolcefino’s video from 2022, explaining events from 2020-2022.
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