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In 1994, Kay F. Gibbs was pursuing a prisoner’s claim against the State of North Carolina for damages to her while she was incarcerated in the North Carolina Correctional for Women, located at 1034 Bragg Street, Raleigh, NC she was pursuing the matter on her own after being turned down by the Prisoner’s legal services and by several attorneys.
In December, 1990 Kay was sent to prison for a psychiatric evaluation. In May she was sentenced to 5 years probation and mandatory mental health. During her probation she had to stay with her mother and her mother’s husband at the time, J.T. Gibbs who lived in San Diego, California before moving to North Carolina in 1974. He had previously made verbal advances toward Kay and is why she moved away from home in 1987. She never communicated this to her mother. Her mother was going to leave her with her husband but Kay refused to stay with him alone so she decided to drive her mother’s car to Engelhard to get another place to stay. Once she was in the car she decided to go to the Sheriff’s department to get the matter taken care of legally. On the way she encountered her mother and aunt in another car, arriving at the Sheriff’s Department before she did and they were in the process of getting a warrant against Kay for taking the car. She was also cornered as if she were some wild animal by the Probation officer and then arrested for violation of probation. She was sent to New Bern then taken to NCCIW where she remained until September of 1991. During that time her left arm was irreparably damaged by the staff Nurse, Jane Yarborough-Williams and the Corrections Officer, Angela Suggs, on duty at the time.
Laurie Dunston was wearing wire rim glasses when she assaulted me.
After her release from NCCIW, September 1991, she was homeless and frequently stayed in various hotels mainly Motel 6, “and we’ll leave the light in for you”, ads most likely influenced her choice as well as room rates. While at the Motel 6, located on Arrow Drive in Raleigh, NC next to Crabtree Valley Mall she decided to seek some religious counseling. She failed to recall the book on Dianetics she read in the 80’s and Scientology, so it is possible this might have been someone in California seeking aid from the Church of Scientology as there are no known Scientology Churches in North Carolina. However, Kay did go to the Westminster Presbyterian church on Whitaker Mill Road in Raleigh, NC in September of 1993. The church was closed and as she was returning to the Five Points area to catch the next bus back to Crabtree Valley Mall, a dark green truck pulled out from Pine Street onto Whitaker Mill Road and passed her honking the horn at her. She did not recognize the driver. The truck pulled off into the drug store parking lot about a block ahead of her. As she got closer she recognized the driver as Jean Baird, with whom she had been roommates from 1979 until 1983. Baird was leaning on the truck smoking a cigarette. When Kay reached her Jean greeted her and they engaged in conversation. She asked Kay if she was angry with her and she responded in the affirmative although Kay did not feel inclined to hash out all that old baggage at the time, since her immediate concerns were to get food, which she could afford and find more permanent housing. Kay then asked Miss Baird to take her to the IHOP for something to eat as she had not eaten all day. She told Jean she would buy her dinner or coffee whatever she wanted. Jean agreed to take her to the IHOP. They arrived and sat in the parking lot for several minutes still talking and Kay then asked her if she was interested in seeing the sketches I had drawn and had to pawn at the pawn shop about 5 blocks away. Jean stated she was in a hurry. Kay got out of the truck and went into the IHOP, ate chocolate chip pancakes and left, caught the bus to Crabtree Valley Mall, walked to Motel 6 on Arrow Drive.
After Kay had been in the room for about an hour she received a call from Miss Baird. Jean wanted to continue the previous conversation they had earlier and seemed to want to argue but Kay was not interested at that point and really wanted her to just leave her alone. She had the legal matter on her mind and was looking for a place to live, these were her priorities. Jean continued talking, saying something, then Kay said, “I could kill you”. Kay had forgotten she had been incarcerated with Denise Sorette in 1991, who was charged with communicating threats toward her lover. Miss Sorrette told Kay this herself. Kay had also forgotten she had been lifted by these two women which she knew nothing about at the time. Miss Sorette showed up in Chapel Hill in 2000 where Kay was living at the time. Kay encountered her on Franklin Street. She apparently acquired an apartment and was living here as Kay encountered her another time at Weaver Street Market. Sorette stated she had been to California for awhile, got disability but wanted to go back to prison because her lover was there. She wanted Kay to help her get back into prison but Kay refused to get myself involved in Sorettes problems. Kay suggested she seek assistance at OPC but Sorette was set on getting back into prison as she claimed she was incapable of being on her own.
So, after making this statement to Miss Baird Kay still did not recollect Miss Sorett’s comments to her about her incarceration as Kay had been too traumatized since that time to remember what Denise said or that she had been lifted by her and Barbara who was incarcerated for murdering her grandmother.
Just before Kay was about to get a shower a knock came at the door. Jean had sent the police and they broke the lock and entered the room. They searched Kay bags for the weapon Jean claimed she had in her possession. Jean claimed Kay had jumped into the back of her moving vehicle on Whitaker Mill Road, and with a pistol hidden under her blue denim shirt, forced Jean to take her to the International House of Pancakes on Hillsborough Road. Kay F. Gibbs has never owned or possessed legally or illegally any type of weapon, at anytime. She has used a military weapon and has fired rifles at various times in her youth, belonging to her father.
Kay was arrested and taken to Wake County Jail. She was stripped and put into paper sheets and kept in the holding cell for 48 hours. She was them given jail clothing and sent upstairs to the 5th floor of the jail. This was the early part of September. On or about September 27, 1993, Kay was assaulted by an inmate.
She was then moved to another pod where she slept most of the time. She tried to retrieve property left at the Greyhound Bus Station as she had taken a bus from Washington, NC to Raleigh after leaving her mother’s home in 1993. Her wallet and ID were in the property which the police department never requested in order to identify her, along with numerous pieces of clothing and a pillow. The property was never retrieved. In October she posted her bond of $350.00. She then went to the Salvation Army Shelter in Raleigh for one night. Unable to stand the disorganization or noise from all of the children, she left and slept on the streets for two weeks, eating at the Good Shepherd Church once per day. She slept at the Five Points Post Office off and on for a week and behind the Sound Trax Music Recording Studio one night. Someone finally told Kay about the services provided at a facility off Hillsborough Road near St. Mary’s College, for the homeless. They provided showers once daily at the facility and while there she applied for help with an apartment. She finally got into the Ark shelter after an insulting confrontation at which time employees laughed at her situation. She then got a room on Woodburn Road. Kay was there for several months and began working on her claim against the prison. She was to be in court in January for the charges Jean brought against her. Kay donated plasma at the Plasma center on Method and Hillsborough Rd for money as she was only getting by on less than $200.00 for food. The Doctor there stopped her from donating as the Doctor stated her taurine levels were low. Kay then started taking taurine, GABA and tyrosine. Because of the inhibitory effects of these amino acids she was unable to recall her court date and failed to appear in court. Kay had just moved into another room at the boarding house when she discovered her court papers. She then called the District Attorney’s office regarding the matter but the DA would not talk with her over the phone. Kay then went to the District Attorney’s office in person but the DA would not see her. She left a written statement and never heard from the DA. Kay knew nothing of the inhibitory effects of the amino acids she was taking at the time so, was unable to give a completely satisfactory explanation for missing the court date. She was growing exhausted and sleep deprived at this time.
She continued pursuing the prison matter and was on her way to the District Attorney’s Office and the NC Court of Appeals when she was stopped on the sidewalk by the bail bondsman’s employees. They knocked her papers from her hands onto the pavement, scattering them everywhere. She was taken to the bondsman and then sent to jail again where she remained until April. Kay was not given an opportunity to plead her case before she had already served the time and then was found guilty based on no testimony at all and gave her no opportunity to defend herself. She petitioned the US District Court for a Habeaus Corpus but was turned down. The court appointed attorneys sent to represent me wanted her to plead guilty but she refused. She was returned to jail where she encountered Paulette Esmond who she had encountered in 1991 but had no recollection of Ms. Esmond at the time. Esmond told Kay her story of how she came to be in jail and prison, which Kay has already written out of her psyche along with stories communicated by other inmates.
In 1993 J.T. Gibbs had throat cancer but Kay did not know of his death. She was told she would be released sometime in April or 1994 so Kay made arrangements to move in with her mother after her release. It was then Kay’s mother told Kay her husband J.T. Gibbs had passed from cancer in November 1993. She agreed to let Kay stay with her for awhile as she could not afford the house by herself. Kay was released from jail and rented a U-haul truck to gather her property from the storage facilities and from Woodburn Road. After renting the truck, she went to Walmart and purchased a .22 caliber rifle, then went to Woodburn road and walked up to the door of the house with the rifle. A blond girl came to the door. Kay asked her if she could get her property and the girl did not seem resistant so she ran back to the truck with the gun, put it inside and went back to the house, went into the basement and started removing her property to the truck. There had been a flood and some of her property had been damaged from the water which the landlord had already communicated to her and had already given her permission to retrieve her property. She loaded the truck and left. After leaving the house Kay realized she could have gotten herself into deeper trouble so she returned the rifle to Walmart. She then left for Greenville where she packed up more of her property and headed for Hyde County.
During none of this did Kay Frances Gibbs, recognize her problems as being from anything she, JT, her mother or anyone else she knew, had seen on television, had read in a book or anything anyone in jail had communicated to me. She was not clear about what had been happening to her until 2000 when she started writing. It was then things began to unfold.
Kay’s mother started dating a man sometime July 1994. Things did not go smoothly. Her mother moved out. In 1995 Kay’s mother gave her a car and helped her get it licensed and tagged. Kay had intentions of trying to keep the house and set up her art table starting to sketch various things and drew the pastel sketch of the blond girl. Kay knew nothing of the film, The Hard Way, until just a few days ago.
She made a necklace while she was in prison in 1991. It was made of wooden beads.
