Mom sues police for murder of child by her father (Rochester, New York)

Yet another mother who is suing the authorities after her child was murdered by a violent father with custody/vistitation rights. When Daddy took off with the kids, the police refused to take the threat seriously, because they had been trained to think that All Daddies are Wonderful and that it's not just the same as an abdution by "a stranger." Wrong. Dad ADAM PARCELLS shot and killed both his daughters before offing his own sorry @$$. All while the Rochester police sat on their own sorry @$$es.

Parcells is listed on the Killer Dads and Custody List (see pages listed to the left).

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120905/NEWS01/309050029/adam-parcells-murder-suicide-lawsuit?nclick_check=1

Mother of one of Adam Parcells' murder victims sues Rochester
Written by Gary Craig 10:45 PM, Sep 5, 2012 Staff writer

A year after Adam Parcells fatally shot his two daughters then himself, the mother of o
ne of the girls filed a lawsuit alleging that Rochester police could have headed off the tragedy.

The lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court Wednesday alleges that police ignored their internal “general orders” in cases of missing or abducted children. Attention to the orders may have saved the lives of Noel Parcells, 10, and Mia Parcells, 3, who were abducted by their father, taken to a campground in the Adirondacks, and murdered, the lawsuit alleges.

After killing his daughters on Sept. 5, 2011, Adam Parcells then turned the .45-caliber rifle on himself and pulled the trigger.

Raechel Coffey, Noel’s mother, declined to comment Wednesday through her attorney, Jon Getz. The family held a memorial service for Noel Wednesday, Getz said.

“This is very tough on Raechel,” Getz said.

Last year, police defended their response to the tragedy, saying that officers did act properly and did not take more aggressive action — including immediately filing a missing person report — because there were no indications the children were in “imminent danger or threat of physical harm.”

City spokesman Gary Walker on Wednesday said, “It’s just a tragedy. What happened is awful.”

Still, Walker said, “it’s a little difficult to imagine the city’s role in this.”

City lawyers are reviewing the lawsuit, he said.

On Sept. 2, 2011, Adam Parcells took the two girls from the home of Coffey’s mother, whom they were visiting. Family Court had ordered that Adam Parcells only have supervised visits with Noel, the lawsuit states.

For the next three days, the lawsuit alleges, Coffey tried unsuccessfully to get the police to issue a missing person report, which could have triggered an Amber Alert and possibly have led to the location of Parcells. On Sept. 2, a police officer came to Coffey’s home and handled the incident as a domestic issue, failing to take information about the car Parcells was driving or photos of him or Noel, the lawsuit alleges. Coffey also told police that he may have gone to the camp, where he ultimately did take the children, the lawsuit states.

Coffey was told that police would try to “confirm the whereabouts of Noel and instruct the camp personnel to call 911 should they see Mr. Parcells, Noel or Mia,” the lawsuit says. There is no evidence that police followed up, the court papers allege.

Throughout those September days, Coffey was wrongly told she needed a Family Court order for a missing person report and was sometimes ignored when she reached out to police, the lawsuit states.

Parcells drove the two girls to an isolated campground north of Lake George, where he shot them inside a tent before killing himself.

It wasn’t until Sept. 6 before police finally filed a missing person report — after the killings, Getz said. The slayings were confirmed that day.

“Were talking from Sept. 2 to Sept 6,” Getz said. “You’re talking about a course of four days. This isn’t an incident that occurred within an hour or even … 24 hours.”

The police general orders, detailed in the lawsuit, required a much more immediate and serious response, Getz said