EMERGENCY CRIMINAL COMPLAINT: Harold F. Pryor, State Attorney (SUBMITTED VIA EMAIL TO SAO 17, SAO 20, GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS + FL SENATOR RICK SCOTT 7-18-25)
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EMERGENCY CRIMINAL COMPLAINT
(JULY 17, 2025)
To:
Harold F. Pryor, State Attorney
Broward County State Attorney’s Office
201 SE 6th Street, Suite 665
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Email: sao17@browardstateattorney.org
From:
Kathryn Stillwell Dressler
1011 Elbert St, Darien, GA 31305
kathryndressler@gmail.com | (561) 870-9988
Subject: EMERGENCY CRIMINAL COMPLAINT – ABUSE, NEGLECT, AND JUDICIAL
MISCONDUCT ENDANGERING MINOR CHILD AURORA GAWOR
I. OVERVIEW
This complaint is filed on behalf of minor child Aurora Gawor, who has been unlawfully removed from the care of her protective mother and placed in the custody of Paul Gawor, despite:
- Documented domestic violence arrest against the child’s father,
- Abuse disclosures from the child captured in TalkingParents video calls,
- Medical neglect and endangerment, - Judicial actors’ refusal to permit hearings or review evidence, and
- A recent court order (July 18, 2025) deferring an emergency motion for return of the child, without explanation, despite clear constitutional, statutory, and ethical duties to act.
This complaint requests immediate criminal investigation and protective action.
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II. SUPPORTING EVIDENCE FROM EMERGENCY COMPLAINT (JULY 17,
2025)
The following facts are drawn directly from the attorney-filed emergency complaint: - Hospitalization of Aurora and denial of follow-up care by Paul Gawor - Blocking of insurance access - False and misleading filings used to justify ex parte seizure - TalkingParents disclosures of abuse (dark room, hunger, inappropriate touching
by father in presence of woman named Natasha) - Failure to act by F.A.C.E.S. despite knowledge of abuse - Judicial retaliation and refusal to hear protective motions or review evidence
III. CRIMINAL CONDUCT AND VIOLATIONS
Based on the facts in the emergency complaint, the following crimes were
committed:
- Aggravated Child Abuse (Fla. Stat. § 827.03(2)(a))
- Child Neglect (Fla. Stat. § 827.03(2)(d))
- Perjury / False Filings (Fla. Stat. §§ 837.02, 837.06)
- Custodial Interference (Fla. Stat. § 787.03)
- Failure to Report Abuse (Fla. Stat. § 39.201)
- Judicial Misconduct / Due Process Violations (U.S. Const. Amend. XIV)
- Disability Discrimination (ADA / Fla. Stat. § 760.10)
IV. REQUEST FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION
I respectfully request:
1. Immediate criminal investigation into Paul Gawor, Jason Alman, Sarah Conklin,
Dana Cahn, and complicit judicial actors;
2. Emergency protective removal of Aurora Gawor from her current environment;
3. Filing of formal charges for state crimes and, if needed, referral to federal
authorities.
V. VERIFICATION
I, Kathryn Stillwell Dressler, declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the
State of Florida and the United States that the foregoing is true and correct to the
best of my knowledge. All evidence cited is either presented in the July 17, 2025
emergency motion or previously submitted to attorneys, courts, and officials.
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Signature: </Kathryn Dressler>
Name: Kathryn Stillwell Dressler
Date: July 18, 2025
Phone: 561-870-9988
Email: kathryndressler@gmail.com
Attachments
- Exhibit A – Emergency Complaint Filed by Counsel (July 17, 2025) -
- Exhibit B – TalkingParents Video Transcript Excerpts -
- Exhibit C – Order Deferring Emergency Hearing (July 18, 2025) -
- Exhibit D – Intake Form Submitted to F.A.C.E.S. -
- Exhibit E – Prior Domestic Violence Records
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Gmail Kathryn Dressler <kathryndressler@gmail.com>
Emergency Criminal Complaint – Ongoing Abuse, Judicial Misconduct, and Endangerment of Minor Aurora Gawor
18 messages
Kathryn Dressler <kathryndressler@gmail.com> Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
To: sao17@browardstateattorney.org
Cc: Kathryn Dressler <kathryndressler@gmail.com>
Dear Mr. Pryor and Staff,
Please find attached my sworn Emergency Criminal Complaint concerning the unlawful seizure, endangerment, and ongoing abuse of my minor daughter, Aurora Gawor.
This matter involves criminal actions and omissions by the child’s father, Paul Gawor, as well as complicit conduct by supervised visitation providers, attorneys, and judicial officers.
The complaint is supported by an emergency motion filed by counsel on July 17, 2025 and a subsequent deferral order on July 18, 2025.
Aurora is currently in an unsafe environment where she is being abused daily, and has been begging to come home for months.
I implore your office to act immediately to protect her and launch a criminal investigation. She turns six next week on July 22, 2025--and has already suffered losses of family memberse since her unlawful seizure, from whom she was prohibited from so much as saying goodbye, or being allowed to grieve.
The amount of evidence I have is overwhelming, and the judicial bias, misconduct and retaliation is beyond comprehensible. This is a young girls' life at stake.
I am begging and pleading to take action. I attempted to reach out to your office for help before this unlawful seizure was permitted to happen (the email thread is below).
I am prepared to provide additional records or sworn testimony as needed.
Respectfully,
Kathryn Stillwell Dressler
kathryndressler@gmail.com
(561) 870-9988
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From: Kathryn Dressler <kathryndressler@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 23, 2025, 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: EMERGENCY: EXTREMELY URGENT PLEA for Criminal Review and IMMEDIATE HALT OF UNLAWFUL CHILD PICK UP ORDER – Paul Gawor (Case No. 22002865MM10A)
To: <SAO17@sao17.state.fl.us>, Kathryn Dressler <kathryndressler@gmail.com>
Hello again,
I also wanted to send this email which describes multiple violations committed by Paul Gawor.
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Katie Dressler
On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM Kathryn Dressler <kathryndressler@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear State Attorney’s Office,
I am the verified victim of domestic battery assault, in which my minor daughter Aurora Gawor was in direct presence, in State of Florida v. Paul Gawor (Case No. 22002865MM10A) and the pro se Petitioner in a related custody case (FMCE22-006123, Broward County).
I am writing to desperately plead for your help and intervention--in the immediate, to halt an emergency intervention and criminal review in light of an unlawful emergency child pick-up order issued on May 22, 2025, which now places my daughter in immediate, life-threatening danger.
This order was entered:
- Without a hearing, notice, or review of evidence,
- Despite the Respondent’s prior guilty plea to domestic battery,
- In direct retaliation after I filed formal complaints to the DOJ and VAWA,
- And while my daughter remains under active medical care in Georgia following two trauma-induced hospitalizations from visitation-related abuse.
- After being barred and prohibited from submitting any motions, evidence, or any legal filings by the Judicial officers in the Family Division--who thereafter called and held an immediate in-person hearing with less than a few days notice, for which I filed an inability to attend as my daughter was enrolled in school and still under medical supervision following hospitalizations.
The Respondent has not had custody or rights to our child since 2022. Yet through coordinated fraud and abuse of process, he obtained this order with full knowledge that it would result in irreparable harm. I have attached a full evidence package detailing:
- His criminal history,
- My daughter’s ER discharge records,
- Medical specialist referrals,
- Verified abuse transcripts,
- And evidence of coordinated retaliation between the Respondent, his attorney, and court officers.
❗ URGENT PLEA FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION:
I am pleading with your office to immediately:
- Investigate the May 22, 2025 pick-up order for obstruction of justice and fraud;
- Intervene to stay or halt its enforcement pending review;
- Pursue prosecution for retaliation, endangerment, perjury, and custody interference under Florida Statutes §§ 787.03, 827.03, 914.23, and 837.02.
This is a matter of child safety and constitutional rights.
I am prepared to testify, cooperate, and submit any further records your office requires.
I've attached a compilation of evidence the best and quickest I can, as well as a video of his conversation with the minor that clearly shows the SEVERE psychological harm and trauma he has caused her.
I've also included a letter from her primary teacher at Todd Grant Elementary, the first one dated 4-16-25, and a second batch dated 5-16-25--all of which show through third party testimony the severe psychological and medical harm and suffering the minor has had to endure as an immediate result of the actions by Respondent and by the Family Division judicial officers.
I also included an email correspondence between my aunt Nancy Gaskins to my father, former Late Mayor Robert Dressler that prove Paul Gawor IMMEDIATELY VIOLATED THE TERMS OF HIS ROR RELEASE FROM JAIL. I SENT THIS TO ALL FORMER COUNSEL AND BEGGED THEM TO PRESENT THIS TO YOU WHILE THE CRIMINAL CASE WAS STILL ACTIVE.
PLEASE, please help us. This is life or death for my daughter. She has ongoing medical needs that only I am aware of and able to obtain the care and treatment she needs--whereas her father has routinely rejected the severity, despite hospitalization documentation, proving he will never get her the care she needs even when it is critical. (as it has been in the past)
Respectfully,
Kathryn S. Dressler
📧 kathryndressler@gmail.com
📞 (561) 870-9988
EXHIBIT_Gmail - Fw_ NCG re Paul_IMMEDIATE ROR VIOLATION BY PAUL GAWOR.pdf
TalkingParents_call recording between Paul Gawor and Aurora Gawor showing severe trauma.zip
EMERGENCY VERIFIED SUPPLEMENTAL NOTICE OF FEDERAL VIOLATIONS, JURISDICTIONAL INTERFERENCE, AND MOTION TO STRIKE RETALIATORY.docx
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227564060 Order Deferring (1).pdf
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Emergency_Criminal_Complaint_Dressler_StateAttorney.pdf
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Kathryn Dressler <kathryndressler@gmail.com> Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
To: stateattorney@sao.cjis20.org, AFox@sao20.org
Cc: Kathryn Dressler <kathryndressler@gmail.com>
Dear Hon. Amira Fox and Prosecutorial Staff,
I am begging for your immediate intervention. I called and spoke with someone named Erica earlier today at the 20th Division, after I submitted the attached criminal complaint to the 17th Division State Attorney's office, only to learn Judge Kanner is currently under investigation by the 20th Division--yet today she filed AGAIN to deny my emergency motion, declaring it "non emergency", and scheduling it for hearing on July 31, 2025 -- despite my daughter's repeated and recorded disclosures of child abuse, and Judge Kanner being made fully aware I intended to report her and Magistrate Szorosy and any/all other attorneys and judical actors who have aided and contributed to severe and egregious acts of aggravated child abuse, acting under color of law and supposition of "judicial immunity."
Judge Kanner and Magistrate Szrosoy have blindly and dleiberatley refused to hear at least 5 emergency motions I have filed that document severe and ongoing chronic abuse by her father Paul Gawor, who holds a criminal record for abuse following his
Despite irrefutable documentation of ongoing child abuse, judicial corruption, medical neglect, and retaliatory legal interference, the 17th Circuit has refused to act, except to benefit the known abuser whose continued to commit countless acts of aggravated child abuse, among other crimes--in addition to countless crimes committed by Magistrate Szorosy and Judge Kanner in the 17th Division.
My emergency motion for the return of my daughter — a medically fragile child who has repeatedly disclosed abuse — was once again rejected and deemed "non-emergency" by Judge Kanner, with a hearing delayed until until July 31--despite repeated abuse disclosures from my daughter's own mouth and proven in countless TalkingParents transcripts and full video evidence--and despite Judge Kanner being currently under criminal investigation herself.
- Aurora’s disclosures include:
- Being confined in the dark despite her PTSD and severe trauma history,
- Withholding of food and threats of punishment (including frequent "pow pows"=spanking=corporal punishment),
- Inappropriate touching by her father in the presence of a woman named “Natasha,”
- Repeated punishment for disclosing any information about her life or what's being done to her, repeated punishment for crying and pleading to come home, repeatedly stating herself she is being routinely punished and deprived for making such disclsoures.
Proof submitted in countless Emergency Filings of ongoing and continued federal/national, constitutional/civil, stat, VAWA against me and my daughter, both whom were proven to be victims of domestic violence by her father who she was blindly and deliberately overturned to in violations of all forms and facets of law in retalation against me for my emergency filings made in the 17th Circuit division on May 13, 2025 which detailed countless acts of egregious, deliberately cruel, unlawful case mishandlings, judicial and attorney misconduct throughout the entirety of my dissolution of marriage case--which was filed AFTER Paul Gawor's criminal arrest and charge by the State of FL vs Paul Gawor.
This is not a custody dispute. This is a criminal conspiracy and child protection emergency.
Every state and federal safeguard has failed. I have now submitted formal reports to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Civil Rights DIvision, as this has escalated to a matter of civil rights deprivation under color of law, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy to commit child abuse. The state actors involved have ignored ADA protections, retaliated against me for seeking safety, and blocked every attempt to protect my daughter — including hospital follow-up care, deemed MEDICALLY NECESSARY, yet denied as "emergency" or of concern by both Magistrate Szorosy and Judge Kristin Kanner.
I respectfully request that your office independently review this complaint and exercise prosecutorial authority where the 17th Circuit has refused. If jurisdiction is required, I am also requesting you refer this for multi-jurisdictional or federal prosecution.
Please confirm immediate receipt. The amount of evidence I have is overwhelming, and extremely detailed and well documented. I will provide TalkingParents video transcripts, abuse evidence, additional case files upon request--anything and everything you could imagine to prove what I'm saying is true.
I fear for my daughter’s life and mental health with every passing day of inaction. What has been done is WILLFUL, DELIBERATE, and has already caused severe harm--including death--of several of both mine and Aurora's family members.
My daughter NEEDS emergency protection and return to her SAFE home under my care, where she was under my exclusive care from the date of his arrest--May 2, 2022--until the complete and illegal seizure and overturn of my daughter to her abusive father illegally and unlawfully imposed under color of law on May 27, 2025 by both Magistrate Szorosy and Judge Kanner-- occuring immediately after I filed several emergency motions on May 13, 2025 that explicitly cited multiple acts of attorney and judicial misconduct, all of which were also illegally and unlawfully stricken and "nullified" by them, and for which I was immediately retaliated against, resulting in the traumatic and unlawful seizure and complete custody overturn of my daughter to her abusive father, with Aurora continuing to disclose abuse and suffering every single day--and of which I have recordings from TalkingParents to prove, as I have been submitting daily and routinely, only to be repeatedly denied by both the magistrate and judge--including aanother REFUSAL and declaration of "non-emergency" by Judge Kanner today, May 18, 2025. SHe clearly struck my emergency filing, AGAIN, though this time submitted by my 4th legal counsel in order to retaliate against me as I made it very aware I intended and had already reported gross acts of misconduct and acts under color of law.
I also NEED immediate federal protection from the clearly demonstrated, ongoing pattern of Judicial misconduct, bias and retaliation that continues to cause severe, life-threatening and irreparable harm to my daughter, myself, and what's left of my entire immediate family.
My father, Robert A Dressler, was the first elected Mayor of Ft. Lauderdale, FL -- in addition to being named a Honored Founder of Fort Lauderdale, Florida in November 2023 - in addition to being a practicing attorney in South Florida, as was his father/my grandfather Philip Dressler. My father literally gave his life, as in, he committed SUICIDE, only THREE DAYS after we were unjustfly and wrongfully called back into active litigation by Magistrate Szorosy, as she expliciltly stated, "solely to clear the docket" -- after Judge Cohen was removed from my case and it was reassigned to Judge Kanner who has repeatedly defferred to Magistrate Szorosy--despite countelss proof and evidnece of the need to be heard and seen by a judge, as is right by law.
If I need to furnish my own father's suicide note and death certificates, I will. My father had been previously diagnosed with Parkinon's Disease, and was financially bankrupt and ruined by litigation in the 17th Division--of which all parties have been made fully aware yet continue to deny and argue. He could not bear to watch my daughter Aurora Gawor and myself continue to be routinely abused and left destitute by the 17th Division, so he took his own life so I could sell my inherited childhood home to afford an attorney to try to protect us. Unfortunately, given the systemic corruption in the 17th division which is evidenced by countless Family Division judges being under investigation in the last year alone, my father seemingly gave his life without meaning...which is a heartbreak no one could possibly understand.
I was also personally witness to my father's suicide which I desperately tried to prevent and which is proven and documented in the subsequent investigation that occurred immediately following his suicide on July 17, 2024. Despite making the 17th circuit aware and requesting a postponement given the severe trauma I endured, I was denied and still forced to appear at a July 9, 2024 case management hearing...therefore followed by active litigation stemming from known and proven domestic abuse, causing even more compounded trauma and fear to myself and my daughter--despite also losing my only brother (Oct 2023) after he was unrightfully displaced as we had to move in with my father given the 17th division's permittance of complete and total abandonment and neglect and aggravated abuse by Paul Gawor.
Since my daughter's unlawful seizure, one of her lifelong companion and emotional support animals, Chewie, dropped dead suddenly--and the following day, her remaining companion animal Cupcake was diagnosed with an inoperable and rapidly growing tumor stemming from her jaw, and will require euthanasia any day. Aurora has repeatedly cried and begged to return home and be permitted to say goodbye to Cupcake, which has been cruelly denied--as have all of my parenting rights and legal rights, which have been deliberately and cruelly wihthheld by her abuser father who has also traveled with her outside of the tri-county area with no notice or knowledge to the court from July 3-July 6, 2025 to Fernandina Beach--only one hour away from our home in Darien, GA--while he deliberately lied to me and stated they were in "Palm Beach", in addition to me providing legal proof he has submitted countless false UCCJEA and other financial affidavits under oath and in deliberate perjury and violation of the law, in addition to countless other legal violations stemming the entirety of my family law didivisoin case in which Magistrate Szorosy unilitaterally declared "has nothing to do with domestic violence" despite having EVERYTHING TO DO WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, as proven by his criminal arrest and all filings on my behalf in the 17th divison as well.
- https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/06/22/robert-dressler-former-mayor-of-fort-lauderdale-who-battled-spring-break-dies-at-78/
Aurora's birthday is next week on July 22, 2025 -- and her school year resumes August 5, 2025 -- with her school in Darien, GA making special accomodations for her given noticeable and obvious trauma to repeat her kindergarten year with the same teacher.
SHe was also due to immediately begin independent counseling back in May 2025, which she was unlawfully prevented from beginning due to her father and the 17th circuit's refusal to act, and Georgia Medicaid being unable to start the therapy at no-cost and while in-school so long as her father unlawfully claimed the child remained in FL -- while she very clearly did not -- and illegally claimed and maintained coverage under Teamcare.
The 17th circuit also forced my daughter to unlawfully begin supervised visitation with her father in Fort Lauderdale in April 2025, despite being in clear violation and having never held one evidentiary hearing--which then led to two hospitalizations in the state of GA in both APril and May 2025, with the hospitalization discharge paperwork stating her need to attend a follow up appointment with a pediatric surgeon that was scheduled for June 2, 2025--yet the 17th circuit acted in immediate and deliberate retaliation for reports of misconduct filed in my emergency motions on 5-13-25 and prevented her from receiving therapy, despite widely reported and immediate acts of self harm by the minor child and suicidcal ideation, which she even admitted to her father in-person and is disclosed in countless legal filings and intake disclosures to faces--entirely as a result of being forced back into contact with her father. She was unlawfully seized from my custody on May 27, 2025 despite NO claim or reason, no crimes filed, and completely inadequate and insufficient follow up hearing...in addition to Judge Kanner repeatedly, again, denying emergency motions despite proof of severe, ongoing and AGGRAVATED CHILD ABUSE she is forced to endure EVERY DAY she is not returned.
I have now lost my only sibling, my father, my daughter, Chewie, and Cupcake will need to be euthanized tomorrow. My only remaining family, my mother Patricia Dressler who is also a known disabled adult who recently had kidney removal due to kidney cancer, as well as my stepfather Nikolas Kladis, who also recently underwent a year of chemotherapy due to cancer...and most prominently, my daughter AURORA GAWOR, have continued to suffer IRREPARABLE HARM AND DEATH -- all of which was entirely DELIBERATE, and ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE AND PREVENTABLE.
Attached, please find a criminal complaint and sworn affidavit originally filed with the Broward County State Attorney (17th Judicial Circuit) -- prior to me being informed that Judge Kanner is under criminal investigation.
I am begging with every fiber of my being to be heard, and to have my daughter returned to safety. Every time we have been removed from the 17th circuit and deliberate harm by her father, we have flourished and thrived as is and has been proven throughout the entirety of my criminal and family case.
Please do not allow more death and loss and abuse and harm to come to my family, most especially my INNOCENT DAUGHTER. This goes against everything the law is supposed to stand for. We are punished and have been repatedly punished and left destitute and dying by a failed system that refuses to follow laws and deliberately contributes to aggravated child abuse to protect its own court actors over the actual lives of people, and children. All of this has been ENTIRELY PREVENTABLE if IMMEDIATE AND NECESSARY ACTIONS and CRIMINAL CHARGES had ever been taken seriously and entered against those who have deliberately, knowingly, maliciously, and under color of law contributed to so many deaths and counts of aggravated abuse, including child abuse.
I respectfully and formally demand any investigation into Judge Kanner include my prove and testimony AND EXTREMELY DETAILED AND LONG STANDING EVIDENCE, as this person should NEVER HOLD ANY JUDICIAL OFFICE, LET ALONE "JUDICIAL IMMUNITY" and needs to be rightfully and legally charged and held accountable for the harm and death she has caused, in addition to Magistrate Szorosy, in addition to countless family court attorneys--all of which I have more than sufficient documentation and individual reports against.
As I mentioned, I have also filed independent reports with the FBI Civil Rights Division for countless violations under color of law, VAWA and disability discrimination, and countless other severe and egregous acts -- in addition to Senator Rick Scott's office also stated on the phone they are opening their own case and waiting for more evidence from me. I will not and cannot sit idly by while my daughter cries to me every single day begging to be returned to her home and safety and appropriate medical and therapeutic care, which she NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM.
Sincerely and urgently,
Kathryn Stillwell Dressler
1011 Elbert St, Darien, GA 31305
561-870-9988
kathryndressler@gmail.com
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