Shocking Audio, Email, Texts Expose Former T/E School Board Member Bullying a 15-year-old Child

During this 70-minute phone call, Andrea Hammerschmidt Felkins berated a 15-year-old child in an effort to change his mind—and his testimony—in the midst of custody litigation.

Felkins is the former three-term elected member of the Tredyffrin/Easttown Board of School Directors.

The phone call, placed by Felkins to the 15-year-old victim, was recorded by the victim. The audio presented has been condensed and edited to protect the victim's identity. The audio and the call are real. The content, context and chronology of the conversation have not been altered.

Felkins attacked the child's intellect, accused the child of disloyalty to one parent and advanced a cascade of slanderous lies about several family members on the "other side."

After realizing that she had been recorded—in a remarkable display of consciousness of guilt—Felkins sent a series of follow-up email and text messages to her victim in which she acknowledged the phone call, defended her false and abusive statements, and threatened her victim with criminal prosecution.

Parental Alienation: Force and Effect

While Felkins' behavior is disgraceful on its own, it's made all the more egregious considering the fact that Felkins barely knows the father whom she slanders with such malice, vitriol and rage. Felkins has never lived in the same state as the father.

At the time of this attack, Felkins had neither seen nor had any contact with the father in over seven years. In fact, the sum total of Felkins' personal interaction, contact and experience with the father is limited to a handful of casual, brief social interactions more than 13 years prior to her attack, and two 45-minute conversations more than seven years prior to her attack.

So where did Felkins get her information? What could incite Felkins' to such rage against someone she barely knows? What could possibly possess someone of Felkins' background and experience to engage in such patently uncivilized, morally reprehensible abuse upon a child?

There's only one possible source: Mom

The Felkins audio laid bare the mother's years-long campaign of parental alienation, the sole purpose and intent of which was to destroy the child's relationship with the father. Mom poisoned the well in violation of court orders, to say nothing of basic civility.

Felkins' behavior offers a glimpse into the abusive tactics to which some adults will resort to coerce a child. However, Felkins' behavior reveals an even more troubling, sinister phenomenon: the corrupting, metastatic influence of parental alienation, and with it, the power of one parent's persistent campaign of parental alienation—false and propagandistic as it may be—to recruit and weaponize others to carry out the alienator's narcissistic quest for control and elimination of the other parent.