OKDHS Hires Trans, Fake Psychologist, Child Stealer with Priors: Court Helps Perp for Years, Media Omits Critical Facts
Father Files Civil Suit Over DHS Failure to Properly Vet & Supervise Employee
Oklahoma’s child welfare agency and courts are again under well-deserved scrutiny for ongoing failures to properly vet adults within the system. Throughout the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS), a culture of dangerous identity politics continues to exempt protected classes from critical cross-checks and override safety standards leaving children in peril.
V1SUT recently reported on the shocking case of Lincoln Lochman who was unlawfully taken from his parents after DHS withheld critical information from the court. DHS gave newborn Lincoln to two men, one of whom was previously arrested for twice sodomizing a male child. Once again, DHS has ignored prior criminal behavior, this time within its hiring process, and a child was kidnapped.
Just as DHS has taken no action to protect Lincoln, even after his foster/adoptive father’s second arrest for child sex crimes and subsequent suicide, the agency has been less than forthcoming about its failure to vet a dangerous employee.
DHS Child Abuse Hotline Worker Uses Access to Family Info to Fake Docs and Steal Child
On Jan 30, 2025, DHS child abuse hotline worker Xander Daniel Faison (34) used falsified documents to take a 1-year-old child from her mother. Faison used a fake emergency custody form to convince the mother she had to hand over the child.
The mother believed her child was going straight to a relative’s approved foster care home. Instead, Faison took the child to her own apartment and planned to fake an adoption of the child.
After learning his child had been taken by DHS, father Jaelin Robert Pierce immediately attempted to intervene. In response, on the day after the kidnapping, Faison filed for and was granted an order of protection against Pierce on behalf of Pierce’s minor child using falsified guardianship documents. Oklahoma County District Court Special Judge Sara Murphy Bondurant granted the order keeping the child’s father away from his own child and his child’s abductor and made no attempt to confirm the authenticity of Faison’s documents.
Faison had the child for three days but then brought the child to relatives as her scheme was unraveling. Faison was arrested for kidnapping, among other charges (view police bodycam of arrest at FoxOKC) and was recently sentenced to 25 years on 12 separate charges (cases CF-2025-1054, CF-2025-1055 & CF-2025-1056) including kidnapping, forgery and impersonating a public officer.
Following her arrest, Faison blamed her alternate personality “Phoenix” for her crimes. No one, including the media, is asking what abuse the child may have experienced during her three (3) days with Faison.
Father Files Suit Against DHS for Failing to Vet and Supervise
On August 26, 2025, Pierce filed a civil suit against both Faison and DHS for violating his constitutional and statutory rights, false imprisonment, fraud, abuse of process, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent hiring, training and supervision, and custodial interference.
Who is “Xander” Faison? State Hopping, Gender Shifting, Name Changer was Fake Online Psychologist
While dozens of legacy media outlets have reported on Faison’s 2025 kidnapping case, they’ve all conveniently left out critical details that prove DHS, district courts and the mental health treatment system are incapable of properly vetting anyone. And despite female Faison having male first and middle names, the media has also avoided reporting on easily accessible information that proves Faison was gender confused.
The woman now known as Xander Daniel Faison (sometimes Xander S. Faison or Alex Faison) began life in May of 1991 as Iesha Wilson Faison. Faison has publicly identified as both trans and non-binary.
Faison’s 2020 Official Name Change, Previous Crimes & Trans Regret
Faison hopped from Maryland to Georgia, back to Maryland, and then relocated to Oklahoma during late 2020. Just prior to her arrival, she legally changed her name from Iesha Wilson Faison to Xander Daniel Faison in Maryland.
“Xander” Faison had previous court history in both Maryland and Georgia and appears to have relocated to Oklahoma in 2020 pending trial on a civil case against her. The case remains open.
In August of 2024, just months before kidnapping a child, Faison publicly expressed regret about her time spent impersonating a male by posting quotes such as “I missed myself, I’m glad she’s coming back”.
Faison Previously Claimed to Have an Infant Daughter, Also Has Criminal History Under Female Name
As Iesha Faison, in July of 2014 while living in Macon, Georgia, within a Chapter 13 bankruptcy filing (14-51722-JPS), Faison reports having a 3-month-old daughter as a dependent and attempting to get child support. Faison was then 23 years old. No other information can be located about that child.
Also as Iesha Faison, in 2009, Faison (then 18) was caught shoplifting from a military PX. Then in 2013, she was sentenced to three (3) terms of six (6) months each for perjury and making a false statement to an officer related to 2009 offenses.
Bad Sign of Mental Health Times: Faison Was Fake MH Provider & Nobody Stopped Her
According to Faison’s online resume, she was a "Mental Health Therapist” at Together We Rise LLC from July 2020 until 2025. Another conflicting resume states Faison worked for Bridge of Light LLC as a therapist and for First Down Recovery as a case manager during that time.
Sometimes on online provider websites, she’s a psychologist.
Sometimes Faison is listed as a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in everything from LGBTQIA+ issues to PTSD.
Deeply concerning for Oklahomans, Faison, who would go on to kidnap a child, was listed as specializing in “Adoption/Foster Care Issues” after relocating to the Sooner State.
Sometimes Faison was listed as a Doctor of Psychiatry, and despite concerning reviews and patient reports that Faison was not properly licensed, platforms continued to list her as a qualified provider.
Faison is a complete fake and no one in mental health licensing seemed to notice. Neither the Oklahoma Board of Examiners of Psychologists or Maryland Department of Health’s State Board of Examiners of Psychologists shows Faison as ever being a licensed psychologist in either state.
In fact, according to the Oklahoma State Board of Behavioral Health Licensure (BBHL) and Maryland State Board of Professional Counselors & Therapists, Faison has never held any legitimate credentials as any level of mental health provider.
Nevertheless, Faison was or still is listed as a licensed provider accepting a number of insurances on multiple online sites including Therapy Den, Headway, Open Path Collective, CareDash, WebMD, ProviderWire, MintLeaf Therapy, HealthSoul and Vitals.
Faison Proves Nobody is Vetting Mental Health Providers & AI Shouldn’t Be Trusted to Vet Anyone
Patients outing Faison were correct. Based on her ProviderWire listing, Xander Faison used the Maryland issued license number of Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) Elizabeth L. Faison to impersonate a Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychologist in Oklahoma. The names don’t match up and neither do the credentials but it appears no one in the world of mental health treatment regulation cared to notice.
Even AI queries claim Xander Faison is a credentialed mental health provider and assures she has no connection to the Xander Faison arrested in Oklahoma City for kidnapping. In truth, Faison is a fake provider and the same individual hired by DHS who kidnapped a small child in January.
OK County Court Provides Preferential Treatment and Assistance to Perp Faison Since 2021, Often Ruling Against Parents
Xander Faison is no stranger to the Oklahoma County District Court and appears to have been plotting concerning other people’s children since 2021. Father Jaelin Pierce was not the only Oklahoma parent who was blocked from protecting his child from Faison by that court. In multiple cases, the court sided with and appeared to give preferential treatment to Faison, often under the same district judges.
History of Faison’s Oklahoma Activities and Court’s Dangerous, Ongoing Support of Her Attempts to Steal Children
Faison appears to have been actively seeking to steal children in the Oklahoma metro area for years. Her LinkedIn resume suggests she briefly worked within two (2) different child care organizations shortly after arriving in Oklahoma.
In a dangerous pattern involving Faison and requests for protective orders, over a four (4) year stretch, the Oklahoma County District Court consistently granted Faison’s requests for emergency protection from parents and denied parental requests to bar Faison from contact with their children.
Special Judge Sara Murphy Bondurant has been involved in three (3) such cases involving Faison. Judge Bondurant pioneered the Court Ordered Outpatient Treatment (CO-OP) program in partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuses Services (ODMHSAS) that drops charges and instead provides outside services to “consumers who are severely mentally ill with a history of non-compliance with outpatient services” and experience “frequent touchpoints with law enforcement”.
Timeline of Faison’s criminal activities in Oklahoma:
September 2021 (Oklahoma County): Faison (plaintiff listed as Xander Daniel Faison) filed for a protective order against Malkik (believed to be Malik) Sheffield, a father with a history of DHS-involvement. The petition was assigned to Special Judge Sara Murphy Bondurant and granted by Judge Susan K. Johnson, then dismissed after 14 days when Faison failed to appear.
March 2023 (Oklahoma County): Judge Sara Murphy Bondurant denied two (2) requests for emergency protective orders to protect both a mother and her child from Faison (defendant listed as Xander Iesha Daniel Faison).
2024: According to the arrest affidavit, Faison portrayed a Homeless Alliance employee and used false guardianship papers in an attempt to kidnap another child.
August 2024: According to News9 Oklahoma City, Faison used Facebook in an attempt to lure a displaced father and child, eventually suggesting her open adoption of the child.
January 2025 (Oklahoma County): Faison, by then a DHS employee, successfully kidnaps a 1-year-old girl and is granted a protective order by Judge Sara Murphy Bondurant blocking Pierce, the child’s father, from contact with his child or Faison.
In all three (3) cases involving protective orders, the court under Judge Bondurant always sided with Faison as either plaintiff or defendant. It appears this threat to other people’s children had court immunity and some help boxing out parents.
Long Overdue Grand Jury Petition to Investigate DHS & Courts Hampered by Speakers Hilbert & McCall
Somehow, Oklahoma’s current and former House Speakers (Kyle Hilbert-R and Charles McCall-R) are actively fighting yet another grand jury petition requesting a long overdue investigation of DHS and the state’s scandal ridden, juvenile deprived court system. One of the Payne County petitioners was arrested twice in a single day by judges Nikki Leach and Jason Reese and saddled with a $1 million bond.
From previous reporting:
What exactly are these UniParty actors seeking to hide? V1SUT will be following as the DHS story progresses. Stay tuned.
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Another great investigative article!
The case of Xander Faison, a former Oklahoma DHS employee with a criminal history and falsified credentials, exemplifies profound institutional failures in child protection, where inadequate hiring vetting and unauthorized system access enabled the 2025 kidnapping of a 1-year-old child under the guise of official custody.
Compounding this, Judge Sara Murphy Bondurant's repeated judicial decisions, such as granting unverified protective orders favoring Faison while denying others aimed at shielding children from them, reveal a troubling pattern of oversight lapses, potentially influenced by insufficient verification protocols or biases, that prolonged risks to vulnerable minors and underscore systemic deficiencies in Oklahoma's child welfare and court systems.
These interconnected breakdowns not only endangered young children but also erode public trust, demanding urgent legislative reforms in background checks, training, and most importantly, in judicial scrutiny to prevent future abuses.
Unbelievable.