EXPOSING CORRUPT POLITICIANS
My name is Jody – Ann Campbell and I was arrested by the Pennsylvania State Police at my home in Norristown, Pennsylvania because of Joshua Shapiro, the current Governor of Pennsylvania, Akbar Hossain, the current Secretary of Policy and Planning for Pennsylvania, and Hakim Jones, the current Magisterial District Judge for the 4th District of Norristown, Pennsylvania. I spent a total of 19 months incarcerated because of these men and I want justice. I spent 14 months at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility and 5 months at the Norristown State Hospital because of them. I was charged with Terroristic Threats and Harassment because Akbar Hossain said that I was sending him and his family members or co-workers too many or threatening emails. He sent police to my door to confront and confuse me, without ever saying anything himself, before testifying in court. I am innocent of all charges but my attorney didn’t want to go to trial so I was forced to take a plea deal. However, I still want to go to trial because I am innocent. I sent Akbar emails because I was having a mental health crisis because Hakim Jones asked to be in a relationship with me and tried to have sex with me even though he was married. I contacted many public servants in the Democratic Party in the community to receive help for a mental health crisis that I was experiencing because of Hakim Jones and they all did nothing. Their karma was the election results in 2024. The Democratic Party could not have won without my help or after what they did to me. I was innocent, but it didn’t keep them from imprisoning me and keeping me in pre-trial detention for 19 months on a $99,000 bail as someone with no prior record on a non-violent offense. Every public servant I went to failed me, but not God. I prayed and went to church the entire time I was incarcerated and God kept me. I took up my cross and followed Jesus. This is my testimony.
Psalm 34:19 “Many are the afflictions of the righteous: But the Lord delivereth him out of them all”
Before I expose the story behind my incarceration, I would like to give some background information as to who I am. I was born in Kingston, Jamaica on June 13, 1999. I grew up in Jamaica for the first 14 years of my life and my days in Jamaica were mostly filled with school and church. I grew up in Christianity. I have been a Christian my whole life and I came to know Jesus Christ at a very young age. The members of my church were astronomical and filled with the Holy Spirit. We cast out demons, and saw people being delivered from sickness and diseases. I have experienced the whole works of Christianity. There is nothing that you can convince me that God cannot do. He’s in the room, wherever I go, and I know that he was with me in that jail cell.
I immigrated to America when I was 14 years old and moved to Norristown, Pennsylvania. I then enrolled in the Norristown Area High School and quickly became involved in a plethora of clubs and activities like the Track and Field Team, Concert Choir, Gospel Choir, Select Choir, Tri-County Honors Choir, Women’s Choir, the National Honor Society, Army JROTC, and the Young Scholars Mentorship Program. I was also very involved in my community as I volunteered at my local food cupboard for many hours. I graduated high school with over a 4.0 G.P.A and got a full scholarship to the Lincoln University of Pennsylvania but I decided to take a gap year to enlist in the military because I wanted to serve this country. Unfortunately, the military didn’t work out but I still spent my gap year in service to my community in a plethora of ways because that is what I am passionate about.
When I enrolled at Lincoln University in the fall of 2018, it started a new passion that I had for leadership in public service. I became the freshman and sophomore class president, a representative in the student senate, a resident advisor, a national Truman scholarship finalist, and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated. I also served as a committee person in my community for Norristown District 4-3 and secretary of the Norristown Democrats. I spent a lot of my years doing public service and I have done over 1000 hours of community service in total with all of my endeavours. My passion was to be a public servant and that hasn’t changed despite all that I have gone through. My passion can also be seen in this article in the Public Service Review where I highlight my work. I can be found on pages 24-26.
I graduated Lincoln University with a Bachelors of Science in Philosphy, Summa Cum Laude, with a 3.9 G.PA in the fall of 2021. I got accepted into the Columbia University School of Professional Studies Masters Program for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution but they didn’t give me a scholarship so I didn’t go. I also worked for Congress for a little while after graduating but that didn’t last either. My life took a turn for the worst when Hakim asked to be in a relationship with me in December of 2021 and when he tried to have sex with me in April of the following year. Everything fell apart in 2022. It didn’t quite set in that I was severely affected and traumatized by Hakim’s actions and I even tried to blame Columbia University for my mental health decline in a lawsuit that I filed against them because Zelon Crawford didn’t give me a diversity scholarship that I applied for and Trudy Stapleton-Truglia gave me no financial aid when my Estimated Family Contribution was a 0. Even though deep down, I didn’t want the diversity scholarship because I didn’t want anyone telling me I got into Columbia because I was black, I couldn’t understand why the financial aid office gave me zero dollars in aid and I filed a lawsuit against them for it. Columbia University hired an attorney to dismiss the lawsuit even though I was representing myself and that spoke volumes to me. The staff members couldn’t even represent themself against a 23 year old. That was embarrassing and turned me off from the school altogether. The truth is Zelon Crawford and Trudy Stapleton-Truglia didn’t give me any money for school because they were jealous that Columbia University wanted me for me and I wasn’t a DEI implant. The attorney that Columbia hired was eventually granted a dismissal of the lawsuit that I had filed but the things I alleged against them weren’t true. I even tried to file another lawsuit after my incarceration because I felt like I had to follow through with what I started but that lawsuit was dismissed as well. As I reflected on what I went through I realized that Columbia didn’t hurt me. Hakim did, and it took some reflection in a jail cell for me to realize the deep impact of his wounds.
When Hakim asked to be in a relationship with me and tried to have sex with me, I lost my mind. I was emotionally distraught and in mental anguish. I knew Hakim since I was 15 years old and we worked together closely for years. I was his secretary when he was president of the Norristown Democrats and anything he asked me to do I didn’t think twice about and immediately did. I am someone who respects family and is extremely loyal so when he asked me to devalue myself to nothing, I was distraught. I never expected this behavior from him but ultimately he has always been a predator. He is disloyal, unfaithful, and untrue. His character is diminished and he will forever be tarnished in my eyes.
I went to Akbar Hossain for help with my mental anguish because he was a public servant and I thought he would have my best interest at heart but he didn’t. I met Akbar in 2018 when he was the keynote speaker at a Martin Luther King event hosted by the Young Scholar’s Mentorship Program and I have always been inspired by him. I was re-introduced to him by a teacher when I was applying for the National Truman Scholarship and he helped me with my application and interview prep. He seemed like a good guy so I stayed in contact with him moving forward but when Hakim violated me, our relationship diminished and he showed his true colors. Akbar Hossain is an individual that was built by the community. When his biological father passed away when he was young the community stepped in to take care of him and his family. When his step-father passed away due to covid because he was an uber driver, the community stepped in again when he asked for help, and gave him close to $20,000 for his family. This is a man that has always received help from the community but when I asked him for help he vanished. I went to him because he of all people should have understood what it felt like to be abandoned and in a place of need. The community poured in to him when he needed it but when he had the opportunity to give back he became puffed up and cocky.
I went to Akbar as a broken individual seeking help. I emailed him multiple times hoping for a response but he ignored me. I said several outlandish things hoping to get his attention and even went as far as pretending to want to be in a relationship with him but nothing I said got me a response. He was dead on the inside. I went through several avenues to get to him to get help but nothing worked. Everything I did and said was to receive help with my mental health. I even tried to be kind to him by giving him advice on campaigns which he happily used without giving me the credit for, but it didn’t help. He used me and left me for dead. I gave advice to all of the Democrats and helped John Fetterman to get elected in 2022 and he would not be in the U.S. Senate without me. Argue with your mama, it’s true. Akbar used my emails when it was convenient for him but ignored the parts where I was screaming out for help.
Akbar Hossain told Joshua Shapiro that I was harassing and terrorizing him through emails and other avenues of communications, like co-workers and family members like Akbar’s wife, but it wasn’t true. I went to him for help. I wasn’t harassing or terrorizing him and he was delusional to even think that. Joshua Shapiro had me arrested and charged while telling the prosecutors that I was mentally ill. So they knew I had issues and tried to use jail to fix them. What sense does that make? If I am coming to you for help, how would anyone think that jail or charges would help? I didn’t need a district attorney to tell me that I needed help, that is what I was reaching out for, and the way they made me seem was that I didn’t know my left from my right or that 1+1=2. That is how they made me seem. They made it look as if I was crazy and delusional when I already knew that I needed help but never expected to be thrown in a jail cell to try to receive it. I needed help with suicidal ideations, anxiety, and depression. I wasn’t crazy or delusional and if someone actually sat down and had a conversation with me they would have figured that out. I wasn’t accepting to their help through charges because you don’t try to help someone who has struggled with suicidal ideations, anxiety, and depression, their entire life by putting them in jail. That is not how you help someone and that is not how you react as a public servant.
I started to think that they arrested me because of my lawsuit against Columbia University and the fact that they thought I was going to get a lot of money which I would then use to put them out of office and I wouldn’t be surprised if it were true. I also thought that they might have been working with Columbia to intimidate me into dismissing the lawsuit I had against them, and why wouldn’t I? I was suing Columbia for 250 million dollars and when I got arrested and saw that they put Columbia in the criminal complaint I upped it to 500 millions dollars and said that they were trying to kill me. Why would I not think that they were trying to kill me when they put a suicidal person in jail? Make it make sense. It was an allegation that they could have defended themself against by speaking to me or giving me the help that I needed but instead they allowed me to deteriorate in jail.
Despite everything that I was going through, the Lord always delivers. He did not allow me to act out on my suicidal ideations and He kept me alive during the worst experience of my life. While I was in jail I went to church and never gave up on God and waited for Him to deliver me. I prayed constantly and fasted occasionally and depended on God to carry me through. I still struggled with my mental health during the entire time but God’s mercy kept me. I was on God’s side and He was on mine. There are certain things that I told Akbar and several others through emails that were inspired by God but it couldn’t register because they were not in tune with the Holy Spirit. I don’t regret anything that I have done or said to receive help because I know that my reaction was on God’s agenda and He always had a plan to deliver me. God speaks. He has always spoken and He speaks to me everyday. I am in tune with His voice and will for my life and I know that I will overcome any situation that I am faced with. The road to Christianity is faced with many trials and tribulations and I am not the only Christian who has faced false imprisonment or persecution. I look at individuals in the Bible, like Jesus, a perfect man who was crucified, and draw inspiration and strength for my faith. If the Devil thought that he could shake my faith with this experience he was wrong. I am still a Bible believing Christian and I know that God will use my story to change lives.
The thing that I love most about God is that He always looks out for His people and He will avenge His children when they are harmed. God’s vengeance is greater than anything that I could have ever done and that is why I leave everything up to Him. God saw what the Pennsylvania Democratic Party did to me and He had a plan to get them back in the worst way possible. He hit them where it hurts and that is in their influence. They harmed me and God made them lose every single statewide election in 2024 and the presidential election to Donald Trump. That is what happens when you mess with God’s people, you lose. There is no one more powerful than God and if you harm one of His children, He will show you who is really in charge. I am satisfied with God’s vengeance. The Democrats have to deal with Trump, and all of Joshua Shapiro’s allies in the state are gone. That is what he gets. Always leave vengeance to God because He will not disappoint you. Even if he has to use an unstable person to start a fire in the Governor’s mansion, He will avenge you. I don’t feel bad or sorry for anything bad that happens to the people who hurt me. You played with fire and you got burnt. They should have never had me incarcerated.
Jail changed me. I gained 100 pounds and emotional scars, but I also gained clarity. I realized that I had everything I needed to be happy and I didn’t have to be connected to corrupt public servants to have influence or do community service. I am also happy that I had my family by my side and the support of the Norristown Participatory Defense Hub that made the attorneys and government realize that jail wasn’t the place for me. If it wasn’t for the Norristown Participatory Defense Hub advocating for me, supporting me and guiding my family, I would not be home. I am more traumatized than ever and I know that the road to healing is a long and challenging one but I am willing to embark on this path to be the woman that God has called me to be. Jail is no place for the mentally ill and the Norristown State Hospital where I was sent to help with my issues did not help me with any of my problems. It just traumatized me and made me even worse.
The whole justice system is a trauma bucket. I was offered time served after 4 months of being incarcerated but I stayed in jail for 19 months because I wanted to take my case to trial and I still do. I had to take a competency evaluation to go to trial but in my final competency evaluation the evaluator told me that Greg Nester, my Public Defender, is not going to want to take my case to trial and he forced me to say I would take a deal but I didn’t want to. I passed my competency evaluation but Greg Nester, my Public Defender, tried to say that I was incompetent and hard to work with, because no one wanted to hear my story. He is a failure to the criminal justice system and he even told me that he planned on finding me unrestorable. I had to take a deal because Greg Nester wanted to keep me at the Norristown State Hospital for the rest of my life, as if I wasn’t a productive member of society and he was wrong for that. I stayed in jail almost a year and a half past time served to go to trial. It made no sense for me to change my mind and take a deal after 19 months. I was forced into a deal. I am free now and I want my civil rights to be honored with a trial. I did not want to take a deal. I was faced with either a deal or the rest of my life in a psychiatric facility and that was wrong. I am competent and I wanted to fight my case but no one else did and I am willing to represent myself to get justice served now. The way they treated me could have killed me with what I was dealing with. They acted unethically and therefore unlawfully as public servants and due to my emotional death, committed involuntary manslaughter.