ROBLEDO II

 This is the opening salvo in the David Robledo/Katy Youker post-divorce drama that has mesmerized Brownsville when a nasty soap opera is the perfect distraction to the death and dying that has been consuming us in recent weeks. 

In the story following this article The McHale Report offers more details on the two main characters, but it's a showdown between a pair of educated and professional people who remind us once again that love is the beginning of hate. 

This is Robledo no-holds-barred attack on his ex-wife. He believes she is conducting herself in a careless and irresponsible manner regarding their two children during the pandemic. 

Dr. Polyphemous Pangloss, Dr. Lorenzo Pelly's longtime confidant, fears Youker is acting both rashly and irrationally as her detractors suggest that she is purposely tormenting her former spouse in order to push him over the edge. Raves an anguished Robledo:

You have not heard me complain about my divorce for some time. But I think you need an update. Believe me, I would MUCH rather not be mentioning this, but my ex leaves me no option - either hire a lawyer which I cannot really afford because she sued me into dust in the divorce (The irony is she is a Legal Aid attorney who represents people like me who are primary caregivers to children).

One of the current problems with her care for the children is that she is inviting people over for parties during this stay-at- home isolation order. I have tried to convince her through many text messages to stop doing this because she is putting my children at risk and there are heightened conditions in this particular case.

As a last resort, I have threatened to either call CPS on her or to publicly shame her into acting responsibly. I have warned her for several weeks that if she does not stop hosting these parties, I would bring this information to the public. I have decided to not call CPS because I do not want to actually hurt Katy; I just want her to act responsibly and to stop endangering the kids.

Many of you who know Katy think that she is this model of responsibility, the city's ethics attorney, always volunteering for political campaigns as well as being a high-level director for Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid.

However, what you do not know is that she is one of those people who thinks that rules do not apply to her and she is selfish in the sort of way that would make many of your jaws drop, flying to Europe to see the Crown Jewels the same week as her divorce, staying at the Waldorf while my children left voice messages crying and screaming wanting to see me because they were so shocked by being forced by the courts to be away from me.

I still have some of these voice messages from these poor kids. This is one of just many examples of her extravagance (again, the irony of her being a Legal Aid attorney). For the several weeks that I have been trying to stop her from inviting people to her house for parties in the middle of this pandemic, she tells me that she either does not read my texts or she tells me that I am "micromanaging her care of the children".

One night last week my little girl texted me at midnight scared because her mother was not at home. Katy "claimed" to be looking for the cat. However, the cat sleeps outside, not inside. I am pretty sure she left the house in order to see someone and that she is leaving the children at home alone when she does this.

As I have told her, I am happy if she has a relationship, but if the relationship means putting my children at risk, let ME raise these kids. Katy's behavior has me EXTREMELY concerned about the children's welfare to say the least.

I realize that all of our lives are complicated right now and many of us use Facebook as a way of lightening the day, so I am sorry to drop this interpersonal conflict in your News feed. However, I know that Katy cares a lot about what society thinks about her and as a stay-at-home Dad who was sued into financial oblivion by a Legal Aid attorney, I do not have many options to try to convince her to stop this very reckless behavior.

In case you are wondering how I know so much about what she is doing, I live one house down from her address. As a result, when she has these parties, I can actually hear them as they take place. I live close to my children in order to see them each day. I take them on bike rides, jogging, walking, basketball games, teach them Spanish, instruct them on report writing and other things meant to enrich their lives in a time when they need involvement.

They are truly the center of my world. I appreciate each of you who has taken the time to read this post. If Katy agrees to act more responsibly, I will immediately take this post down. If she disagrees, I will continue to post more details of her irresponsible behavior. Hopefully, more details will not be needed.