Dad is identified as MARIO RODRIGUES.
http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2016/04/18/police-seek-minivan-in-suspected-parental-abduction-of-5-year-old-girl.html
Father, daughter hurt in crash following Amber alert
Father in custody after child was taken from her mother’s home early this morning.
York Regional Police
Police say the girl's father, Mario Rodrigues, 35, of Toronto, is now in custody.
By: Evelyn Kwong Staff Reporter, Published on Mon Apr 18 2016
A four-year-old girl and her father have been taken to hospital after a rollover that ended a province-wide search for the child early Monday.
The suspect vehicle was located after Ontario Provincial Police spotted a van travelling in the Bancroft area.
After several attempts to stop it, the van rounded a curve and rolled over, according to preliminary information from the provincial Special Investigations Unit.
The SIU is now investigating the crash.
Police said the girl was trapped in the van, and was airlifted to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
Mario Rodrigues was taken into police custody and also taken to hospital, York Regional Police Const. Andy Pattenden said.
An Amber alert had been issued this morning after police in York Region said the girl was taken from her mother’s home in Aurora around 4:20 a.m.
Police were seeking Rodrigues, of Toronto, who was reportedly seen driving away from the house in a silver Toyota minivan.
The SIU is a civilian agency that investigates incidents involving police that result in death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.
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Saturday, August 29, 2015
Abusive dad in custody after abducting 2-year-old son (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
Dad is identified as TRAVIS LESTER.
http://www.okcfox.com/story/29909657/police-searching-for-missing-and-endangered-2-year-old
Missing 2-year-old found, father in custody
Posted: Aug 28, 2015 2:53 PM EDT Updated: Aug 28, 2015 5:56 PM EDT
By: Austin Prickett, Sr. Digital Content Manager
The Oklahoma City Police Department says a missing 2-year-old has been found in safe condition.
According to police, a 2-year-old boy was allegedly taken by his father Travis Lester, who does not have parental rights, Thursday at a metro Walmart. An Amber Alert was issued for the missing child at around 2:30 p.m. Friday. Just after 4 p.m. Friday, Lester and the child were found at a Motel 6 in Midwest City. Lester was then taken into custody.
The Oklahoma City Police Department says the child was taken around 4 p.m. Thursday by Lester from the Walmart near I-240 and Sante Fe. Police say Lester was armed with a pistol and made threats to harm the child.
Lester allegedly told the child's mother to withdraw money for him so she could buy him a shotgun. The boy's mother then went to the bathroom and Lester took off with boy. Police were then called to the business.
The victim told police Lester had threatened and abused her in the past. She also told police Lester's parental rights had been terminated and that Lester had been attempting to intimidate her into buying the gun for him.
Police investigating the incident observed bruises on the victim. Lester was convicted of second-degree burglary in 2010. In 2006, he was convicted of domestic assault and battery.
Lester will be booked into the Oklahoma County Jail.
http://www.okcfox.com/story/29909657/police-searching-for-missing-and-endangered-2-year-old
Missing 2-year-old found, father in custody
Posted: Aug 28, 2015 2:53 PM EDT Updated: Aug 28, 2015 5:56 PM EDT
By: Austin Prickett, Sr. Digital Content Manager
The Oklahoma City Police Department says a missing 2-year-old has been found in safe condition.
According to police, a 2-year-old boy was allegedly taken by his father Travis Lester, who does not have parental rights, Thursday at a metro Walmart. An Amber Alert was issued for the missing child at around 2:30 p.m. Friday. Just after 4 p.m. Friday, Lester and the child were found at a Motel 6 in Midwest City. Lester was then taken into custody.
The Oklahoma City Police Department says the child was taken around 4 p.m. Thursday by Lester from the Walmart near I-240 and Sante Fe. Police say Lester was armed with a pistol and made threats to harm the child.
Lester allegedly told the child's mother to withdraw money for him so she could buy him a shotgun. The boy's mother then went to the bathroom and Lester took off with boy. Police were then called to the business.
The victim told police Lester had threatened and abused her in the past. She also told police Lester's parental rights had been terminated and that Lester had been attempting to intimidate her into buying the gun for him.
Police investigating the incident observed bruises on the victim. Lester was convicted of second-degree burglary in 2010. In 2006, he was convicted of domestic assault and battery.
Lester will be booked into the Oklahoma County Jail.
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Dad who abducted, murdered 1-year-old son had shared custody; protective mom had wanted sole custody, but lost (Urbandale, Illinois)
This is not good reporting. With any understanding of domestic violence and narcissistic personality disorder, you would not make the error of calling this a "troubled relationship" involving a father who "cared for his son."
First of all, there was nothing that was "troubling" about the "relationship" as such. Mom clearly tried to be responsible and do the right thing. She was dealing with a man who could not/would not hold a job, was unreliable, moved in an out of the home on a whim, and ultimately created (unspecified) "domestic disturbances." (I assume that this is a euphemism for domestic violence that the reporters can't bother to follow up on.) No charges followed (typical). So at any rate, the problems clearly laid with the father. Not mom. Not "the relationship."
Mom tried to protect her baby from this unreliable deadbeat and likely abuser by seeking sole custody, but her efforts were defeated. She got stuck with shared custody instead. Needless to say, abusers very typically use "custody disputes" as a way to create anxiety and stress for the mother, especially when the child in question is merely a baby or barely verbal toddler.
The fathers rights people insist that any father with a pulse--no matter how violent, addicted, or crazy--should get joint custody at minimum. (Of course they prefer full father custody so women will be afraid to divorce them, but they don't like that brought out too often in mixed company.)
The predictable result: Daddy's still Not Happy. The self-centered, narcissistic deadbeat dad abducts the 1-year-old son, a baby really, Despite showy displays of affection that fool the babysitter (and very often other people as well), the man is incapable of real love or real empathy for another human being, even his own infant son. Like all sociopaths, he sees people only in terms of how they suit him and feed his narcissistic sense of entitlement. Right now, his only motivation is to punish the mom in the best way he knows how. And that is destroying her baby in a fiery inferno.
This is why fathers like this CAN'T be appeased with joint custody or any move that reinforces their sense of entitlement over other human beings.
Da is identified as ELVIS HABIBOVIC. Now on the Killer Dads and Custody list for Illinois.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2015/06/10/urbandale-amber-alert-death-burned-bodies-logan-habibovic-elvis-habibovic/71013982/
Amber Alert mom: 'What he did was terrible'
Grant Rodgers and Danielle Ferguson, 9:49 a.m. CDT June 11, 2015
HARRISON COUNTY, Mo. – Sheriff Josh Eckerson stood looking at the burned-out remains of a sport-utility vehicle, unsure of what he was seeing.
In the driver's seat was the charred body of an adult — along with what looked like a much smaller body that Eckerson dearly hoped wasn't what he thought.
"I really couldn't determine what it was," he said. "I didn't want to believe it."
When the Amber Alert came about 41/2 hours later from the Urbandale Police Department, Eckerson's fears were realized. He was a witness to the tragic ending to the lives of a 9-month-old boy and the father who abducted him hours earlier and more than 100 miles away.
Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Jake Angle confirmed Wednesday that the bodies in the vehicle are believed to be little Logan Habibovic and his father, 33-year-old Elvis Habibovic.
Harrison County Coroner Jeremy Eivins said it could take 30 days or more to determine the cause of death because of the condition of the bodies.
But authorities found hosing near the vehicle, leading investigators to believe the two likely died from carbon monoxide poisoning from exhaust fumes, Eckerson said.
Investigators are continuing to look for answers behind the abduction and deaths. Logan's baby sitter and family friend Angela Charlier said Habibovic's relationship with Logan's mother, Melissa Zeimet, disintegrated last weekend over concerns about money, and he was forced to leave the Urbandale apartment they shared.
"I think he was very depressed," she said. #The baby sitter mourned Wednesday over the boy she'd cared for almost daily. Logan learned to crawl at 6 months. He was tall and skinny for his young age, Charlier said.
"He was pulling himself up on furniture," she said. "He was good at it. He just took off." #Logan would have turned 1 in August.
The abduction timeline
Habibovic picked up the boy around 11 a.m. that day, saying he just wanted to take his son on a walk, according to Charlier and a timeline released by police.
Zeimet called and spoke with Habibovic around 4:15 p.m. to be sure Logan would be home by 8 p.m.
Zeimet called Urbandale police at 8:19 p.m. to report the boy missing. It was only 30 minutes later that authorities in Missouri found a burned-out vehicle at the rural Grand Trace Conservation Area, 10 miles northwest of quiet Bethany, Mo. A passerby on a nearby highway had called the sheriff's department to report a plume of smoke.
Through the night before learning about the fire, Zeimet sent Habibovic frantic text messages, she said Wednesday. At 9:12 p.m., she texted, "How could you?"
Later, at 12:08 a.m., she sent, "If u bring him back safe and sound we make this all go away and you won't have any trouble."
"It was too late," Zeimet said in an interview. "They were already dead."
It would take about five hours before law enforcement in the two states connected the dots. Unaware of the gruesome discovery to their south, Urbandale police got authority to send an Amber Alert at 1:19 a.m. warning law enforcement to be on the lookout for Logan and Habibovic, who were likely traveling in a black 2003 Land Rover Discovery.
Missouri authorities saw that the charred vehicle matched the description from the Amber Alert. A vehicle identification number found on its frame confirmed their suspicion, said Eckerson, the county sheriff of 21/2 years.
Everything else, including the license plates, was destroyed by flames.
Urbandale police and the Missouri State Highway Patrol believe the remains of an infant and adult found in a burned vehicle are related to the Amber Alert issued early Wednesday morning. near Bethany, Missouri. Rodney White/The Register
"When we got the Amber Alert ... then I thought, 'This is probably what we're looking for,' " he said.
At 2 a.m., Eivins arrived and confirmed the second body was a young child's. Around the same time, Missouri authorities called Urbandale police, and two highway patrol officers immediately drove to the Des Moines suburb to do interviews and gather dental and DNA records for comparison.
The state fire marshal's office took evidence from the scene to determine whether any accelerants were used to fuel the fire. The SUV was taken away around 5 a.m.
Investigators are trying to determine how Habibovic and his son ended up in the parking lot of the 1,500-acre public hunting and fishing area, which is so isolated that Eckerson had to lead local responders through the turns, hills and rough roads to the vehicle.
At the site of the fire, a patch of blackened gravel remained and a nearby tree's leaves were singed up to about 15 feet above the ground.
"It's just hard to try to wrap your brain around someone, not only a parent, but any individual who would want to harm a child," Eckerson said. "An innocent individual who hasn't done anything, who really has just started their life. To do this is unbelievable."
#Troubled relationship
The parents met about a decade ago through a friend Zeimet knew at Iowa State University, she said.
Even before Zeimet got pregnant, Habibovic moved in with her in 2013 when he needed a place to stay, she said. It started a pattern: He'd move in with Zeimet for a few months at a time before leaving.
Most recently, he came back to the Urbandale apartment in late April after losing his job with Ankeny-based G & I Trucking, Zeimet said.
"He texted me and said, 'I just got fired, take good care of Logan if I don't make it home.' " Zeimet convinced her child's father to take a Greyhound bus back to the metro and move in, she said.
When she got pregnant with Logan, Habibovic was clear that he wanted her to have the child, she said. It was obvious when the two were together that the father cared for his son, Zeimet said.
She has pictures on her phone of the two together on Memorial Day, and Habibovic holding Logan behind the wheel of the Land Rover that they both died in Tuesday night.
His final act, though, was selfish and evil, Zeimet said.
"Maybe he wasn't a terrible person," she said. "But what he did was terrible."
Zeimet had to force Habibovic out on Sunday after fighting about money, she said. After losing his job at the trucking company, he was making less working for a construction company, she said.
Urbandale police visited Zeimet's Carole Circle apartment Sunday and Monday in response to a report of an "unwanted guest," records show. On Monday, Habibovic had come over claiming he needed a quick shower, but stayed for hours, Zeimet said.
The couple had other tensions in their relationship, records show.
In November, the mother filed a petition in Polk County District Court seeking sole custody of Logan, a move Habibovic initially opposed.
That same month, Urbandale police twice responded to calls at Zeimet's apartment — one for a welfare check and the second for a domestic disturbance. No incident report was taken on either call, according to police records.
Before the parents worked out a shared custody agreement in February, Habibovic successfully asked for a court-ordered genetic test to establish paternity of Logan.
There was an outpouring of condolences in 92 comments on Zeimet's Facebook page after she announced her son's death around 5 a.m.
"This is gut-wrenching," one commenter wrote. "I can't imagine the pain you are facing. Be strong."
Charlier remembered Logan as a happy baby. His active personality led his mother to call him a "little monkey," she said. A photo of Logan sticking his tongue out that was released with an early morning Amber Alert perfectly captured his personality. #He liked stuffed animals and blankets with monkeys on them.
"He always had his little fist in his mouth," Charlier said. "He was very loved."
"He laughed at everything and he was a happy baby," Zeimet said. "He was easy … it was like nature gave me this amazing baby." -- Reporter Danielle Ferguson contributed to this story.
First of all, there was nothing that was "troubling" about the "relationship" as such. Mom clearly tried to be responsible and do the right thing. She was dealing with a man who could not/would not hold a job, was unreliable, moved in an out of the home on a whim, and ultimately created (unspecified) "domestic disturbances." (I assume that this is a euphemism for domestic violence that the reporters can't bother to follow up on.) No charges followed (typical). So at any rate, the problems clearly laid with the father. Not mom. Not "the relationship."
Mom tried to protect her baby from this unreliable deadbeat and likely abuser by seeking sole custody, but her efforts were defeated. She got stuck with shared custody instead. Needless to say, abusers very typically use "custody disputes" as a way to create anxiety and stress for the mother, especially when the child in question is merely a baby or barely verbal toddler.
The fathers rights people insist that any father with a pulse--no matter how violent, addicted, or crazy--should get joint custody at minimum. (Of course they prefer full father custody so women will be afraid to divorce them, but they don't like that brought out too often in mixed company.)
The predictable result: Daddy's still Not Happy. The self-centered, narcissistic deadbeat dad abducts the 1-year-old son, a baby really, Despite showy displays of affection that fool the babysitter (and very often other people as well), the man is incapable of real love or real empathy for another human being, even his own infant son. Like all sociopaths, he sees people only in terms of how they suit him and feed his narcissistic sense of entitlement. Right now, his only motivation is to punish the mom in the best way he knows how. And that is destroying her baby in a fiery inferno.
This is why fathers like this CAN'T be appeased with joint custody or any move that reinforces their sense of entitlement over other human beings.
Da is identified as ELVIS HABIBOVIC. Now on the Killer Dads and Custody list for Illinois.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2015/06/10/urbandale-amber-alert-death-burned-bodies-logan-habibovic-elvis-habibovic/71013982/
Amber Alert mom: 'What he did was terrible'
Grant Rodgers and Danielle Ferguson, 9:49 a.m. CDT June 11, 2015
HARRISON COUNTY, Mo. – Sheriff Josh Eckerson stood looking at the burned-out remains of a sport-utility vehicle, unsure of what he was seeing.
In the driver's seat was the charred body of an adult — along with what looked like a much smaller body that Eckerson dearly hoped wasn't what he thought.
"I really couldn't determine what it was," he said. "I didn't want to believe it."
When the Amber Alert came about 41/2 hours later from the Urbandale Police Department, Eckerson's fears were realized. He was a witness to the tragic ending to the lives of a 9-month-old boy and the father who abducted him hours earlier and more than 100 miles away.
Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Jake Angle confirmed Wednesday that the bodies in the vehicle are believed to be little Logan Habibovic and his father, 33-year-old Elvis Habibovic.
Harrison County Coroner Jeremy Eivins said it could take 30 days or more to determine the cause of death because of the condition of the bodies.
But authorities found hosing near the vehicle, leading investigators to believe the two likely died from carbon monoxide poisoning from exhaust fumes, Eckerson said.
Investigators are continuing to look for answers behind the abduction and deaths. Logan's baby sitter and family friend Angela Charlier said Habibovic's relationship with Logan's mother, Melissa Zeimet, disintegrated last weekend over concerns about money, and he was forced to leave the Urbandale apartment they shared.
"I think he was very depressed," she said. #The baby sitter mourned Wednesday over the boy she'd cared for almost daily. Logan learned to crawl at 6 months. He was tall and skinny for his young age, Charlier said.
"He was pulling himself up on furniture," she said. "He was good at it. He just took off." #Logan would have turned 1 in August.
The abduction timeline
Habibovic picked up the boy around 11 a.m. that day, saying he just wanted to take his son on a walk, according to Charlier and a timeline released by police.
Zeimet called and spoke with Habibovic around 4:15 p.m. to be sure Logan would be home by 8 p.m.
Zeimet called Urbandale police at 8:19 p.m. to report the boy missing. It was only 30 minutes later that authorities in Missouri found a burned-out vehicle at the rural Grand Trace Conservation Area, 10 miles northwest of quiet Bethany, Mo. A passerby on a nearby highway had called the sheriff's department to report a plume of smoke.
Through the night before learning about the fire, Zeimet sent Habibovic frantic text messages, she said Wednesday. At 9:12 p.m., she texted, "How could you?"
Later, at 12:08 a.m., she sent, "If u bring him back safe and sound we make this all go away and you won't have any trouble."
"It was too late," Zeimet said in an interview. "They were already dead."
It would take about five hours before law enforcement in the two states connected the dots. Unaware of the gruesome discovery to their south, Urbandale police got authority to send an Amber Alert at 1:19 a.m. warning law enforcement to be on the lookout for Logan and Habibovic, who were likely traveling in a black 2003 Land Rover Discovery.
Missouri authorities saw that the charred vehicle matched the description from the Amber Alert. A vehicle identification number found on its frame confirmed their suspicion, said Eckerson, the county sheriff of 21/2 years.
Everything else, including the license plates, was destroyed by flames.
Urbandale police and the Missouri State Highway Patrol believe the remains of an infant and adult found in a burned vehicle are related to the Amber Alert issued early Wednesday morning. near Bethany, Missouri. Rodney White/The Register
"When we got the Amber Alert ... then I thought, 'This is probably what we're looking for,' " he said.
At 2 a.m., Eivins arrived and confirmed the second body was a young child's. Around the same time, Missouri authorities called Urbandale police, and two highway patrol officers immediately drove to the Des Moines suburb to do interviews and gather dental and DNA records for comparison.
The state fire marshal's office took evidence from the scene to determine whether any accelerants were used to fuel the fire. The SUV was taken away around 5 a.m.
Investigators are trying to determine how Habibovic and his son ended up in the parking lot of the 1,500-acre public hunting and fishing area, which is so isolated that Eckerson had to lead local responders through the turns, hills and rough roads to the vehicle.
At the site of the fire, a patch of blackened gravel remained and a nearby tree's leaves were singed up to about 15 feet above the ground.
"It's just hard to try to wrap your brain around someone, not only a parent, but any individual who would want to harm a child," Eckerson said. "An innocent individual who hasn't done anything, who really has just started their life. To do this is unbelievable."
#Troubled relationship
The parents met about a decade ago through a friend Zeimet knew at Iowa State University, she said.
Even before Zeimet got pregnant, Habibovic moved in with her in 2013 when he needed a place to stay, she said. It started a pattern: He'd move in with Zeimet for a few months at a time before leaving.
Most recently, he came back to the Urbandale apartment in late April after losing his job with Ankeny-based G & I Trucking, Zeimet said.
"He texted me and said, 'I just got fired, take good care of Logan if I don't make it home.' " Zeimet convinced her child's father to take a Greyhound bus back to the metro and move in, she said.
When she got pregnant with Logan, Habibovic was clear that he wanted her to have the child, she said. It was obvious when the two were together that the father cared for his son, Zeimet said.
She has pictures on her phone of the two together on Memorial Day, and Habibovic holding Logan behind the wheel of the Land Rover that they both died in Tuesday night.
His final act, though, was selfish and evil, Zeimet said.
"Maybe he wasn't a terrible person," she said. "But what he did was terrible."
Zeimet had to force Habibovic out on Sunday after fighting about money, she said. After losing his job at the trucking company, he was making less working for a construction company, she said.
Urbandale police visited Zeimet's Carole Circle apartment Sunday and Monday in response to a report of an "unwanted guest," records show. On Monday, Habibovic had come over claiming he needed a quick shower, but stayed for hours, Zeimet said.
The couple had other tensions in their relationship, records show.
In November, the mother filed a petition in Polk County District Court seeking sole custody of Logan, a move Habibovic initially opposed.
That same month, Urbandale police twice responded to calls at Zeimet's apartment — one for a welfare check and the second for a domestic disturbance. No incident report was taken on either call, according to police records.
Before the parents worked out a shared custody agreement in February, Habibovic successfully asked for a court-ordered genetic test to establish paternity of Logan.
There was an outpouring of condolences in 92 comments on Zeimet's Facebook page after she announced her son's death around 5 a.m.
"This is gut-wrenching," one commenter wrote. "I can't imagine the pain you are facing. Be strong."
Charlier remembered Logan as a happy baby. His active personality led his mother to call him a "little monkey," she said. A photo of Logan sticking his tongue out that was released with an early morning Amber Alert perfectly captured his personality. #He liked stuffed animals and blankets with monkeys on them.
"He always had his little fist in his mouth," Charlier said. "He was very loved."
"He laughed at everything and he was a happy baby," Zeimet said. "He was easy … it was like nature gave me this amazing baby." -- Reporter Danielle Ferguson contributed to this story.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Dad abducts 9-month-old son, kills him in apparent murder-suicide (Urbandale, Iowa)
Dad is identified as ELVIS HABIBOVICH. Yet another sick and controlling a$$hole out to punish the mother in the worst way possible.
http://whotv.com/2015/06/10/bodies-found-in-burned-out-car-linked-to-urbandale-amber-alert/
Bodies Found in Burned Out SUV Linked to Urbandale Amber Alert
Posted 6:12 am, June 10, 2015, by Kelly Maricle, Updated at 06:35am, June 10, 2015
URBANDALE, Iowa — : An Amber Alert about the abduction of an Urbandale child has ended with tragic results.
The Urbandale Police Department says the body of an adult and an infant were found in a burned out vehicle believed to have been sought in connection with an Amber Alert.
The alert was issued early Wednesday morning for nine-month-old Logan Habibovich. He was believed to have been taken by his father, Elvis Habibovich.
Shortly after the Amber Alert was issued, Missouri State Highway Patrol contacted Urbandale police about a vehicle matching the description of the vehicle sought in the case. They found the vehicle burned out in a conservation area in Harrison County. Two bodies were found in the vehicle.
The child’s mother made a heartbreaking post to her Facebook page Wednesday morning:
We’ll bring you more information when it becomes available.
http://whotv.com/2015/06/10/bodies-found-in-burned-out-car-linked-to-urbandale-amber-alert/
Bodies Found in Burned Out SUV Linked to Urbandale Amber Alert
Posted 6:12 am, June 10, 2015, by Kelly Maricle, Updated at 06:35am, June 10, 2015
URBANDALE, Iowa — : An Amber Alert about the abduction of an Urbandale child has ended with tragic results.
The Urbandale Police Department says the body of an adult and an infant were found in a burned out vehicle believed to have been sought in connection with an Amber Alert.
The alert was issued early Wednesday morning for nine-month-old Logan Habibovich. He was believed to have been taken by his father, Elvis Habibovich.
Shortly after the Amber Alert was issued, Missouri State Highway Patrol contacted Urbandale police about a vehicle matching the description of the vehicle sought in the case. They found the vehicle burned out in a conservation area in Harrison County. Two bodies were found in the vehicle.
The child’s mother made a heartbreaking post to her Facebook page Wednesday morning:
We’ll bring you more information when it becomes available.
Friday, December 26, 2014
Custodial dad loses parental rights due to abuse; later arrested for abducting two kids--what happened to Mom? (Ithanca, New York)
The great unanswered question here: how did this abusive father with a history of substance abuse get custody of two young children to begin with? And what happened to the mother of these kids?
Dad is identified as LEONARD L. THORNE.
http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/public-safety/2014/12/24/tompkins-children-abducted-suspect-father/20860645/
Enfield father arraigned on abduction charges
Andrew Casler, 12:09 p.m. EST December 25, 2014
ITHACA – Leonard L. Thorne, 38, of Enfield, was arraigned Wednesday for allegedly abducting his two children after losing parental custody, a Tompkins County Sheriff's Office news release said.
Sheriff's Deputies said Thorne abducted the children, ages 2 and 4, around 4 p.m. Tuesday on Heron Drive. He had recently learned of a court order that removed the kids from his custody, and that he had an arrest warrant for child neglect, a news release said.
The Sheriff's Office issued an AMBER Alert for the children on Wednesday morning, and Thorne was found riding a Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit Bus with the children around 1:15 p.m.
A TCAT bus driver identified Thorne from the AMBER Alert, and the driver held the bus on Cornell University's campus while area police converged on the area, a TCAT news release said.
Cornell University Police took Thorne into custody without incident, and the children were unharmed. Tompkins County Department of Social Services has taken custody of the children. Thorne was arraigned before Tompkins County Court Judge Rowley on Wednesday.
The children had been removed from Thorne's custody due to substance abuse, child abuse and neglect history, according to the Tompkins County Sheriff's Office.
Dad is identified as LEONARD L. THORNE.
http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/public-safety/2014/12/24/tompkins-children-abducted-suspect-father/20860645/
Enfield father arraigned on abduction charges
Andrew Casler, 12:09 p.m. EST December 25, 2014
ITHACA – Leonard L. Thorne, 38, of Enfield, was arraigned Wednesday for allegedly abducting his two children after losing parental custody, a Tompkins County Sheriff's Office news release said.
Sheriff's Deputies said Thorne abducted the children, ages 2 and 4, around 4 p.m. Tuesday on Heron Drive. He had recently learned of a court order that removed the kids from his custody, and that he had an arrest warrant for child neglect, a news release said.
The Sheriff's Office issued an AMBER Alert for the children on Wednesday morning, and Thorne was found riding a Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit Bus with the children around 1:15 p.m.
A TCAT bus driver identified Thorne from the AMBER Alert, and the driver held the bus on Cornell University's campus while area police converged on the area, a TCAT news release said.
Cornell University Police took Thorne into custody without incident, and the children were unharmed. Tompkins County Department of Social Services has taken custody of the children. Thorne was arraigned before Tompkins County Court Judge Rowley on Wednesday.
The children had been removed from Thorne's custody due to substance abuse, child abuse and neglect history, according to the Tompkins County Sheriff's Office.
Friday, August 22, 2014
Dad violates protection order, assaults mom, abducts son who is found several hours later with bruising (Wellington, Colorado)
Dad is identified as JARRED SPENCER.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/child-safe-dad-arrested-after-amber-alert-jarred-spencer-faces-charges-of-kidnapping-child-abuse
Child safe, dad arrested after Amber Alert; Jarred Spencer faces charges of kidnapping, child abuse
By: TheDenverChannel.com
Team Posted: 10:25 AM, Aug 21, 2014
Updated: 5:13 PM, Aug 21, 2014
WELLINGTON, Colo. - Deputies found a child who was the subject of a Wednesday night Amber Alert and arrested his father. The series of events began around 5:11 p.m., when deputies with the Larimer County Sheriff's Office were sent to the 7300 block of View Pointe Circle in Wellington over a violation of a protection order. They found an adult woman who was injured and was taken to the hospital.
Just after 10 p.m., Sheriff's Office announced the alert and search for Blue Lee Spencer from Wellington. At the time, they said they believed the boy was with his father, 32-year-old Jarred Lee Spencer.
The alert was canceled just after midnight, when the child was found and Jarred Spencer was arrested.
Prior to the issuing of the Amber Alert, Jarred Spencer's father had told authorities his son violated a protection order. He also believed his son was having a paranoid episode and was speaking of a possible bomb in his truck, people in his attic and basement and blood coming from the child’s rectum.
Spencer also told his father there were bruises on the child. Authorities also spoke with the child's mother who had "obvious injuries" but she would not say how she got them.
Now that he is arrested, the Sheriff's Office says Jarred Spencer faces charges of second degree kidnapping, third degree assault, menacing, false imprisonment, child abuse and domestic abuse.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/child-safe-dad-arrested-after-amber-alert-jarred-spencer-faces-charges-of-kidnapping-child-abuse
Child safe, dad arrested after Amber Alert; Jarred Spencer faces charges of kidnapping, child abuse
By: TheDenverChannel.com
Team Posted: 10:25 AM, Aug 21, 2014
Updated: 5:13 PM, Aug 21, 2014
WELLINGTON, Colo. - Deputies found a child who was the subject of a Wednesday night Amber Alert and arrested his father. The series of events began around 5:11 p.m., when deputies with the Larimer County Sheriff's Office were sent to the 7300 block of View Pointe Circle in Wellington over a violation of a protection order. They found an adult woman who was injured and was taken to the hospital.
Just after 10 p.m., Sheriff's Office announced the alert and search for Blue Lee Spencer from Wellington. At the time, they said they believed the boy was with his father, 32-year-old Jarred Lee Spencer.
The alert was canceled just after midnight, when the child was found and Jarred Spencer was arrested.
Prior to the issuing of the Amber Alert, Jarred Spencer's father had told authorities his son violated a protection order. He also believed his son was having a paranoid episode and was speaking of a possible bomb in his truck, people in his attic and basement and blood coming from the child’s rectum.
Spencer also told his father there were bruises on the child. Authorities also spoke with the child's mother who had "obvious injuries" but she would not say how she got them.
Now that he is arrested, the Sheriff's Office says Jarred Spencer faces charges of second degree kidnapping, third degree assault, menacing, false imprisonment, child abuse and domestic abuse.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Update on 2-year-old abducted by dad during police standoff; toddler recovered, but why did dad with history of felony arrests have joint custody? (Topeka, Kansas)
We've posted before on this case, and it just gets more bizarre.
Once again, we see why Shawnee County, Kansas is one of the worst places in the country for protecting/coddling abusive fathers and stomping on the rights of women and children.
Some salient points here:
1) Earlier articles reported the facts about the mother being locked out of her house, with Dad and the little girl inside. The mother and the father were no longer a couple and lived in separate homes. Dad apparently slipped out the back with the girl during the 4-hour police standoff. Even the usually clueless neighbors reported that Dad was verbally abusive and controlling. Yet the Topeka Police REFUSED to issue an Amber Alert.
2) Now we find out that it was worse that that. Dad has a CRIMINAL RECORD.
--He was arrested in May in connection with one felony count of criminal threat and one misdemeanor charge of criminal carrying a weapon. -
--And in November 2013, he pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count of attempted criminal damage to property. His 30-day sentence in jail was suspended for probation.
In other words, this a potentially dangerous man, and yet it was okay for him to take off with a two-year-old child??? While the fathers-rights controlled police department silently cheered him on?
3) And yet DESPITE this criminal record, Dad had apparently been previously awarded joint custody--presumably thoroughly the thoroughly corrupted Shawnee County Family Court, which has yet to see a dangerous violent father who can't be awarded "his rights."
4) Notice that Daddy doesn't even have any interest in regular visitation or meaningful time with the child, and has never demonstrated any interest through his actions. He just wants to bully his way into Mom's house uninvited and take off with the baby when he feels like it. This is obviously all about coercive control and punishing the mother for leaving him. And yet the authorities don't care about this either.
5) Because of police inaction/craven indifference, Mom had to do her own detective work and hunt down her daughter HERSELF. All while she is being crapped on by the local media, including the fathers rights people who dominate and control the comment sections.
6) Notice that Daddy had disguised the gender of the little girl. And that doesn't speak of suspicious intentions? Just a little visit with his kid? Bull crap.
Dad is identified as TREVOR HUGHES.
http://m.cjonline.com/news/2014-07-21/topeka-mother-recounts-terror-time-spent-without-daughter?v=%3Cem%3E6%20min%2025%20sec%3C%2Fem%3E%20ago
Monday, July 21, 2014
Topeka mother recounts terror of time spent without daughter
By Aly Van Dyke
MEGAN HART/THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
Topeka police officers Saturday surround a home in the 2600 block of S.W. Valley Brook Lane, where a man was believed to be armed and holding his young daughter hostage.
Topekan Alisha Marie Quigley spent most of Saturday and all of Sunday fighting back fear and anger: Her daughter’s father had taken their little girl from her home and was threatening not to give her back.
“I was very worried,” Quigley said Monday. “I had no idea what to do. Part of me wondered if I’d ever get her back, and I feel like he doesn’t care, like he’s more concerned with getting away than he is about Ambree.”
After they were reunited late Sunday, she said, Ambree, who turns 2 on Thursday, wouldn’t let her out of her sight.
“We’re really good,” Quigley said. “(Ambree) was just very exhausted yesterday.”
After a four-hour standoff with an empty house and nearly 24 hours of no action, Quigley took matters into her own hands. Late Sunday evening, she traveled to Lawrence, where she knew the father, Trevor Hughes, was keeping Ambree. She was asked to leave the property, which she said is located in the 2300 block of 24th Street, but caught a glimpse of Hughes and Ambree from a neighbor’s yard.
“That’s the point where I kind of went crazy,” Quigley admitted.
Eventually, Hughes’ family brought Ambree to her. The first thing she noticed was that her little girl was dressed like a little boy. Quigley last saw her wearing blue shorts with white flowers and a navy blue shirt, according to a Facebook post.
Topeka police at 10:50 p.m. Sunday confirmed the girl had been located.
This series of events has played out since about noon Saturday, when Topeka police officers engaged in a four-hour standoff with what ultimately was an empty house in the 2600 block of S.W. Valley Brook Lane.
Hughes on Monday continued to defend himself on his Facebook page, claiming he returned his child when his “time was up like was planned” and accused people of blowing things out of proportion and spreading “crazy lies” because he wouldn’t give up his time with his daughter.
“Lol most definitely didn’t kidnap my daughter,” he posted after 11 a.m. Monday. “It’s not kidnapping when I have custody of her also.”
Quigley argued the couple hasn’t had scheduled visitation rights since they split up last September. He will randomly call or drop by her house to see Ambree, she said, but he doesn’t have any means to take care of her.
“He doesn’t have any weekend with her,” Quigley said. “There’s no scheduling. Every time there’s something bad that happens.”
Hughes and Quigley had Ambree on July 24, 2012, but the couple split up this past September, she said.
Shawnee County District Court records show Hughes was arrested in May in connection with one felony count of criminal threat and one misdemeanor charge of criminal carrying a weapon.
The case hasn’t been updated since April 29, a month after he was scheduled to have a pretrial conference. “This case is not closed or resolved,” said Cathy Leonhart, the Third Judicial District’s court administrator. “There just isn’t a future setting at this point.”
On Nov. 12, 2013, he pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count of attempted criminal damage to property. His 30-day sentence in jail was suspended for probation.
Quigley was subpoenaed in both cases.
Tired of Hughes’ unannounced visits, Quigley was moving from her home Saturday, when he came by once again.
Quigley claims Hughes eventually locked her out of her home using furniture to barricade the door. She called the police.
Topeka police were called about noon Saturday to the 2600 block of S.W. Valley Brook Lane, after a Quigley reportedly said Hughes was inside her house with the toddler, Lt. Shane Lind said Saturday.
Police surrounded the house and attempted negotiations for four hours, eventually finding it to be empty. At the time, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Lind said there were no signs of foul play, but authorities were determining whether the criteria for issuing an Amber Alert had been met.
That was at 4 p.m. Saturday.
Quigley waited more than one day before she went to Lawrence herself. She said she believes Hughes used the chaos of the police cars arriving to escape both Saturday in Topeka and Sunday in Lawrence.
Quigley is set to go to the police department Tuesday to file a protection from abuse order, she said. As far as she knows, no charges have been filed against her, and they are still pending for Hughes.
“(The officers said) there’s always two sides to a story,” she said. “They want to talk to him before issuing anything.”
Topeka police have remained mostly silent on the issue since Sunday. They released a brief, two sentence news release sent at 10:50 p.m. Sunday confirming the child had been located. Cpt. Scott Conklin on Monday afternoon explained no Amber Alert was issued because it didn’t fit the Kansas Bureau of Investigation requirements for one.
Multiple attempts to ascertain more details from the police department went unanswered Monday. They have yet to confirm any names, which have been reported in news media since late Saturday, and they haven’t said whether they still are searching for Hughes.
Friends and family continue to reassure Quigley that Ambree is too young to remember what happened, but Quigley isn’t so sure.
“I don’t see how she wouldn’t see it as not being scary,” she said.
As for the Ambree’s birthday plans Thursday, Quigley said, they probably will have a family party to celebrate.
Once again, we see why Shawnee County, Kansas is one of the worst places in the country for protecting/coddling abusive fathers and stomping on the rights of women and children.
Some salient points here:
1) Earlier articles reported the facts about the mother being locked out of her house, with Dad and the little girl inside. The mother and the father were no longer a couple and lived in separate homes. Dad apparently slipped out the back with the girl during the 4-hour police standoff. Even the usually clueless neighbors reported that Dad was verbally abusive and controlling. Yet the Topeka Police REFUSED to issue an Amber Alert.
2) Now we find out that it was worse that that. Dad has a CRIMINAL RECORD.
--He was arrested in May in connection with one felony count of criminal threat and one misdemeanor charge of criminal carrying a weapon. -
--And in November 2013, he pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count of attempted criminal damage to property. His 30-day sentence in jail was suspended for probation.
In other words, this a potentially dangerous man, and yet it was okay for him to take off with a two-year-old child??? While the fathers-rights controlled police department silently cheered him on?
3) And yet DESPITE this criminal record, Dad had apparently been previously awarded joint custody--presumably thoroughly the thoroughly corrupted Shawnee County Family Court, which has yet to see a dangerous violent father who can't be awarded "his rights."
4) Notice that Daddy doesn't even have any interest in regular visitation or meaningful time with the child, and has never demonstrated any interest through his actions. He just wants to bully his way into Mom's house uninvited and take off with the baby when he feels like it. This is obviously all about coercive control and punishing the mother for leaving him. And yet the authorities don't care about this either.
5) Because of police inaction/craven indifference, Mom had to do her own detective work and hunt down her daughter HERSELF. All while she is being crapped on by the local media, including the fathers rights people who dominate and control the comment sections.
6) Notice that Daddy had disguised the gender of the little girl. And that doesn't speak of suspicious intentions? Just a little visit with his kid? Bull crap.
Dad is identified as TREVOR HUGHES.
http://m.cjonline.com/news/2014-07-21/topeka-mother-recounts-terror-time-spent-without-daughter?v=%3Cem%3E6%20min%2025%20sec%3C%2Fem%3E%20ago
Monday, July 21, 2014
Topeka mother recounts terror of time spent without daughter
By Aly Van Dyke
MEGAN HART/THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
Topeka police officers Saturday surround a home in the 2600 block of S.W. Valley Brook Lane, where a man was believed to be armed and holding his young daughter hostage.
Topekan Alisha Marie Quigley spent most of Saturday and all of Sunday fighting back fear and anger: Her daughter’s father had taken their little girl from her home and was threatening not to give her back.
“I was very worried,” Quigley said Monday. “I had no idea what to do. Part of me wondered if I’d ever get her back, and I feel like he doesn’t care, like he’s more concerned with getting away than he is about Ambree.”
After they were reunited late Sunday, she said, Ambree, who turns 2 on Thursday, wouldn’t let her out of her sight.
“We’re really good,” Quigley said. “(Ambree) was just very exhausted yesterday.”
After a four-hour standoff with an empty house and nearly 24 hours of no action, Quigley took matters into her own hands. Late Sunday evening, she traveled to Lawrence, where she knew the father, Trevor Hughes, was keeping Ambree. She was asked to leave the property, which she said is located in the 2300 block of 24th Street, but caught a glimpse of Hughes and Ambree from a neighbor’s yard.
“That’s the point where I kind of went crazy,” Quigley admitted.
Eventually, Hughes’ family brought Ambree to her. The first thing she noticed was that her little girl was dressed like a little boy. Quigley last saw her wearing blue shorts with white flowers and a navy blue shirt, according to a Facebook post.
Topeka police at 10:50 p.m. Sunday confirmed the girl had been located.
This series of events has played out since about noon Saturday, when Topeka police officers engaged in a four-hour standoff with what ultimately was an empty house in the 2600 block of S.W. Valley Brook Lane.
Hughes on Monday continued to defend himself on his Facebook page, claiming he returned his child when his “time was up like was planned” and accused people of blowing things out of proportion and spreading “crazy lies” because he wouldn’t give up his time with his daughter.
“Lol most definitely didn’t kidnap my daughter,” he posted after 11 a.m. Monday. “It’s not kidnapping when I have custody of her also.”
Quigley argued the couple hasn’t had scheduled visitation rights since they split up last September. He will randomly call or drop by her house to see Ambree, she said, but he doesn’t have any means to take care of her.
“He doesn’t have any weekend with her,” Quigley said. “There’s no scheduling. Every time there’s something bad that happens.”
Hughes and Quigley had Ambree on July 24, 2012, but the couple split up this past September, she said.
Shawnee County District Court records show Hughes was arrested in May in connection with one felony count of criminal threat and one misdemeanor charge of criminal carrying a weapon.
The case hasn’t been updated since April 29, a month after he was scheduled to have a pretrial conference. “This case is not closed or resolved,” said Cathy Leonhart, the Third Judicial District’s court administrator. “There just isn’t a future setting at this point.”
On Nov. 12, 2013, he pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count of attempted criminal damage to property. His 30-day sentence in jail was suspended for probation.
Quigley was subpoenaed in both cases.
Tired of Hughes’ unannounced visits, Quigley was moving from her home Saturday, when he came by once again.
Quigley claims Hughes eventually locked her out of her home using furniture to barricade the door. She called the police.
Topeka police were called about noon Saturday to the 2600 block of S.W. Valley Brook Lane, after a Quigley reportedly said Hughes was inside her house with the toddler, Lt. Shane Lind said Saturday.
Police surrounded the house and attempted negotiations for four hours, eventually finding it to be empty. At the time, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Lind said there were no signs of foul play, but authorities were determining whether the criteria for issuing an Amber Alert had been met.
That was at 4 p.m. Saturday.
Quigley waited more than one day before she went to Lawrence herself. She said she believes Hughes used the chaos of the police cars arriving to escape both Saturday in Topeka and Sunday in Lawrence.
Quigley is set to go to the police department Tuesday to file a protection from abuse order, she said. As far as she knows, no charges have been filed against her, and they are still pending for Hughes.
“(The officers said) there’s always two sides to a story,” she said. “They want to talk to him before issuing anything.”
Topeka police have remained mostly silent on the issue since Sunday. They released a brief, two sentence news release sent at 10:50 p.m. Sunday confirming the child had been located. Cpt. Scott Conklin on Monday afternoon explained no Amber Alert was issued because it didn’t fit the Kansas Bureau of Investigation requirements for one.
Multiple attempts to ascertain more details from the police department went unanswered Monday. They have yet to confirm any names, which have been reported in news media since late Saturday, and they haven’t said whether they still are searching for Hughes.
Friends and family continue to reassure Quigley that Ambree is too young to remember what happened, but Quigley isn’t so sure.
“I don’t see how she wouldn’t see it as not being scary,” she said.
As for the Ambree’s birthday plans Thursday, Quigley said, they probably will have a family party to celebrate.
Monday, May 12, 2014
Dad who stabbed mom and abducted kids now faces murder charges (Lodi, New Jersey)
Dad is identified as JOHN JORDAN.
http://www.northjersey.com/news/police-lodi-man-who-stabbed-wife-and-grabbed-kids-now-faces-murder-charge-1.1013424
Police: Lodi man who stabbed wife and grabbed kids now faces murder charge
May 9, 2014, 7:58 PM
Last updated: Saturday, May 10, 2014, 6:33 PM
By ABBOTT KOLOFF and JEFF GREEN staff writers
The Record
A frantic search for two Lodi children allegedly abducted from school by their father — hours before the children’s mother was found stabbed to death — ended early Saturday with the children safe and the father arrested near a relative’s home in South Carolina, New Jersey State Police said.
John Jordan, 47, was taken into custody near a relative’s home, and his two children, 7-year-old Anthony and 8-year-old Nicholas, were recovered after New Jersey State Police issued an Amber Alert that extended into South Carolina, authorities said in a statement shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday.
The body of the children’s mother, identified by friends as 39-year-old Tracey Jordan, was found in her apartment by her mother early Friday evening, according to state police.
John Jordan has been charged with murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said Saturday. He remains in South Carolina pending extradition to New Jersey.
State police said shortly before 1 a.m. that they were no longer looking for a 2007 black Honda Civic owned by the suspect, but for the mother’s silver 2012 Honda Accord with New Jersey license plate number Z56-CDJ. Less than 15 minutes later, Sgt. Greg Williams of the state police sent an email saying that Jordan had been caught.
Dozens of police and Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office detectives swarmed the Cynthia Gardens apartment complex on Garibaldi Avenue where the woman lived with her children.
In a release, Molinelli said Tracey Jordan had been estranged from her husband.
Marie Dejulia, who knows the family, said Tracey Jordan had been anticipating the finalization of a divorce from her husband “either today or tomorrow.”
Dejulia’s brother, who has been dating Tracey Jordan and has known her since they went to high school together in Saddle Brook, was too distraught to talk, Dejulia said. She said he had told her that the husband picked up the children from school on Friday, telling school officials that they had a dental appointment.
“Our concern is to get the children home,” Dejulia said. “I’m afraid he’s going to harm them and then himself.”
She said that Tracey Jordan’s mother went to the apartment Friday evening after she was unable to get in touch with her daughter and called police after there was no answer when she knocked on the door. The police helped the mother get into the apartment, where her daughter’s body was found, Dejulia said.
Tracey Jordan worked in a women’s clothing store in Secaucus, Dejulia said, and “was an amazing person, a good person, and a friend.”
Tracey Jordan was interviewed by CBS last year about the borough school district’s plan to hire retired police officers as armed guards, saying she supported the decision in the aftermath of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. After that shooting, she told CBS: “To be honest, I didn’t want to send them to school, but we have to live our lives and move on.”
State police activated the Amber Abducted Child Alert Plan, a statewide alert, as an intensive search was under way for John Jordan and his children. Molinelli said Saturday that John Jordan had removed the children from their school “under false pretenses.” State police identified the school as Wilson Elementary School on Union Street.
Molinelli said John Jordan lived at 11 Terhune St. in Lodi.
Residents of the apartment complex said a screaming woman emerged from one of the apartments in the early evening. The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office major crime scene unit arrived on the scene along with the Lodi police as the area was cordoned off and traffic was detoured.
Police and Lodi department of Public Works employees blocked off the street around the apartment complex with barricades and police tape. Residents gathered outside as the news spread and expressed concern for the children. One man who lives in the area, Steven Tufaro, said he was confident the children would be found quickly with so many people looking for them.
An administrator with the Greenville County Department of Public Safety on Saturday confirmed Jordan is an inmate in the county detention center. According to a county government database, a judge has not set bond for Jordan. The administrator did not know when he would make an appearance in court.
http://www.northjersey.com/news/police-lodi-man-who-stabbed-wife-and-grabbed-kids-now-faces-murder-charge-1.1013424
Police: Lodi man who stabbed wife and grabbed kids now faces murder charge
May 9, 2014, 7:58 PM
Last updated: Saturday, May 10, 2014, 6:33 PM
By ABBOTT KOLOFF and JEFF GREEN staff writers
The Record
A frantic search for two Lodi children allegedly abducted from school by their father — hours before the children’s mother was found stabbed to death — ended early Saturday with the children safe and the father arrested near a relative’s home in South Carolina, New Jersey State Police said.
John Jordan, 47, was taken into custody near a relative’s home, and his two children, 7-year-old Anthony and 8-year-old Nicholas, were recovered after New Jersey State Police issued an Amber Alert that extended into South Carolina, authorities said in a statement shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday.
The body of the children’s mother, identified by friends as 39-year-old Tracey Jordan, was found in her apartment by her mother early Friday evening, according to state police.
John Jordan has been charged with murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said Saturday. He remains in South Carolina pending extradition to New Jersey.
State police said shortly before 1 a.m. that they were no longer looking for a 2007 black Honda Civic owned by the suspect, but for the mother’s silver 2012 Honda Accord with New Jersey license plate number Z56-CDJ. Less than 15 minutes later, Sgt. Greg Williams of the state police sent an email saying that Jordan had been caught.
Dozens of police and Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office detectives swarmed the Cynthia Gardens apartment complex on Garibaldi Avenue where the woman lived with her children.
In a release, Molinelli said Tracey Jordan had been estranged from her husband.
Marie Dejulia, who knows the family, said Tracey Jordan had been anticipating the finalization of a divorce from her husband “either today or tomorrow.”
Dejulia’s brother, who has been dating Tracey Jordan and has known her since they went to high school together in Saddle Brook, was too distraught to talk, Dejulia said. She said he had told her that the husband picked up the children from school on Friday, telling school officials that they had a dental appointment.
“Our concern is to get the children home,” Dejulia said. “I’m afraid he’s going to harm them and then himself.”
She said that Tracey Jordan’s mother went to the apartment Friday evening after she was unable to get in touch with her daughter and called police after there was no answer when she knocked on the door. The police helped the mother get into the apartment, where her daughter’s body was found, Dejulia said.
Tracey Jordan worked in a women’s clothing store in Secaucus, Dejulia said, and “was an amazing person, a good person, and a friend.”
Tracey Jordan was interviewed by CBS last year about the borough school district’s plan to hire retired police officers as armed guards, saying she supported the decision in the aftermath of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. After that shooting, she told CBS: “To be honest, I didn’t want to send them to school, but we have to live our lives and move on.”
State police activated the Amber Abducted Child Alert Plan, a statewide alert, as an intensive search was under way for John Jordan and his children. Molinelli said Saturday that John Jordan had removed the children from their school “under false pretenses.” State police identified the school as Wilson Elementary School on Union Street.
Molinelli said John Jordan lived at 11 Terhune St. in Lodi.
Residents of the apartment complex said a screaming woman emerged from one of the apartments in the early evening. The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office major crime scene unit arrived on the scene along with the Lodi police as the area was cordoned off and traffic was detoured.
Police and Lodi department of Public Works employees blocked off the street around the apartment complex with barricades and police tape. Residents gathered outside as the news spread and expressed concern for the children. One man who lives in the area, Steven Tufaro, said he was confident the children would be found quickly with so many people looking for them.
An administrator with the Greenville County Department of Public Safety on Saturday confirmed Jordan is an inmate in the county detention center. According to a county government database, a judge has not set bond for Jordan. The administrator did not know when he would make an appearance in court.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Dad with joint custody arrested in missing infant case, 5-month-old son found dead (Pulaski, Virginia)
When we first reported on this case, we speculated that it sounded like a custody/visitation case. And it turns out we were correct. Sadly, the father abduction of this infant had a horrible end, with the apparent murder of the baby boy.
Interesting how the police don't find the custody situation relevant to the crime. This totally doesn't make sense, given how many vindictive and violent fathers murder children because they were provided access by the courts. Some judge GRANTED this father his custody rights, and because he had those rights, he was able to kill the victim. What needs to be revealed is whether there was a history of domestic violence and abuse that was ignored when the apparent killer daddy got his rights. The family courts needs to be held responsible for these horrible decisions.
Dad is identified as HOWARD SAMUEL COLE.
http://www.newsadvance.com/news/state/pulaski-man-arrested-infant-body-found/article_cfdda6d2-8a78-11e3-94b3-001a4bcf6878.html
Pulaski man arrested; infant body found
Police arrested Howard Samuel Cole on Thursday after a report that an infant was abused by his father.
Posted: Friday, January 31, 2014 8:08 am
Melissa Powell
The Roanoke Times
Pulaski police discovered the body of an infant Thursday night in Pulaski County after a daylong search for a 5-month-old boy. The search began after a man was arrested in Pulaski on Thursday morning on a child abuse charge.
On Wednesday, an arrest warrant was issued for Howard Samuel Cole, 31, on a charge of child abuse after police received information that an infant had been abused by his father on Sunday morning, authorities have said.
Howard Cole was apprehended Thursday morning by county sheriff’s office personnel. Cole was found about 10:30 a.m. near the Walmart in Fairlawn, according to Pulaski Police Chief Gary Roche.
Roche said Howard Cole’s son, Cory Samuel Cole, was last seen with his father in the town about 7 p.m. Monday.
Before he was taken into custody, Cole had last been seen about 5 a.m. Wednesday — without his son — at the McDonald’s in Dublin in the 4600 block of Cleburne Boulevard.
Roche said officers searched Cole’s residence in the 200 block of Crestline Drive on Wednesday night and into Thursday morning. The car Cole had been driving was found at the McDonald’s in Dublin.
Roche said a missing and endangered child alert had been broadcast. When asked about the absence of an Amber Alert, Roche said “this set of circumstances met the protocols” for the alert that was issued.
An online missing poster for Cory — who was reported to have dirty blonde hair and blue eyes — was uploaded on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s website.
Roche said it was not immediately clear Thursday who had custody of the child.
“As far as I know, there is some form of shared custody but determining exactly what that legal status is, is not a priority at this point,” Roche wrote in an email on Thursday afternoon.
About 6:30 p.m. Pulaski police and the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office investigated a rural, wooded area in Draper off of Old Route 100. At about 8:30 p.m. Roche said the body of an infant had been recovered in the area. Police have not confirmed that this is Cory Cole, but Roche said it does fit his description. The body will be taken to the medical examiner for proper identification.
Interesting how the police don't find the custody situation relevant to the crime. This totally doesn't make sense, given how many vindictive and violent fathers murder children because they were provided access by the courts. Some judge GRANTED this father his custody rights, and because he had those rights, he was able to kill the victim. What needs to be revealed is whether there was a history of domestic violence and abuse that was ignored when the apparent killer daddy got his rights. The family courts needs to be held responsible for these horrible decisions.
Dad is identified as HOWARD SAMUEL COLE.
http://www.newsadvance.com/news/state/pulaski-man-arrested-infant-body-found/article_cfdda6d2-8a78-11e3-94b3-001a4bcf6878.html
Pulaski man arrested; infant body found
Police arrested Howard Samuel Cole on Thursday after a report that an infant was abused by his father.
Posted: Friday, January 31, 2014 8:08 am
Melissa Powell
The Roanoke Times
Pulaski police discovered the body of an infant Thursday night in Pulaski County after a daylong search for a 5-month-old boy. The search began after a man was arrested in Pulaski on Thursday morning on a child abuse charge.
On Wednesday, an arrest warrant was issued for Howard Samuel Cole, 31, on a charge of child abuse after police received information that an infant had been abused by his father on Sunday morning, authorities have said.
Howard Cole was apprehended Thursday morning by county sheriff’s office personnel. Cole was found about 10:30 a.m. near the Walmart in Fairlawn, according to Pulaski Police Chief Gary Roche.
Roche said Howard Cole’s son, Cory Samuel Cole, was last seen with his father in the town about 7 p.m. Monday.
Before he was taken into custody, Cole had last been seen about 5 a.m. Wednesday — without his son — at the McDonald’s in Dublin in the 4600 block of Cleburne Boulevard.
Roche said officers searched Cole’s residence in the 200 block of Crestline Drive on Wednesday night and into Thursday morning. The car Cole had been driving was found at the McDonald’s in Dublin.
Roche said a missing and endangered child alert had been broadcast. When asked about the absence of an Amber Alert, Roche said “this set of circumstances met the protocols” for the alert that was issued.
An online missing poster for Cory — who was reported to have dirty blonde hair and blue eyes — was uploaded on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s website.
Roche said it was not immediately clear Thursday who had custody of the child.
“As far as I know, there is some form of shared custody but determining exactly what that legal status is, is not a priority at this point,” Roche wrote in an email on Thursday afternoon.
About 6:30 p.m. Pulaski police and the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office investigated a rural, wooded area in Draper off of Old Route 100. At about 8:30 p.m. Roche said the body of an infant had been recovered in the area. Police have not confirmed that this is Cory Cole, but Roche said it does fit his description. The body will be taken to the medical examiner for proper identification.
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Dad convicted in 2008 killing of 7-month-old son gains custody of 1-year-old son (Red Springs, North Carolina)
WTF???
What the hell is going on here? Mom is the focus on an Amber Alert for kidnapping her own child, although we're not told why, other than it sounds like she has a dickhead for a boyfriend.
Meanwhile, the authorities give custody to the father, a CONVICTED BABY KILLER!!! You want to tell me that the mother is worse than this dude? A guy who has a track record for getting
"frustrated" with young infants and children and bashing them to death? Who the hell thought this was a good idea???
Just goes to show once again that discrimination against fathers is a MYTH. On the contrary, fathers are not held accountable for their own crimes at all. Probation for killing a baby? And then is given custody of another one? Makes me puke.
Dad is identified as JAMIE BULLARD.
http://robesonian.com/article/20131228/news/312289992/1011
Amber Alert child reportedly with father Man guilty once of manslaughter
by Sarah Willets Staff writer 1 days 1 hours ago
RED SPRINGS — A 1-year-old boy who was the focus of an Amber Alert Friday morning following a domestic dispute has been released into the custody of his father, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in a case involving his infant son three years ago.
Nearly seven hours after an Amber Alert was issued, Jaylon Marcus Bullard was found unharmed with his mother, Candice Locklear, 21, and her boyfriend, Shamael Ellerber, 23, who had been suspected of taking the boy.
The three were found at an unclear location in Robeson County, according to Maj. Anthony Thompson, chief of detectives for the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office.
According to WRAL-TV in Raleigh, the child was then released into the custody of his father, Jamie Bullard, although Thompson did not confirm Bullard has the boy.
“I was crying all morning and just worried to death about him. I’m just glad he’s back with me,” Bullard told WRAL.
Bullard was charged in Moore County in 2008 with first-degree murder and intentional child abuse inflicting serious injury in a case involving a different son, who was 7 months old at the time. Those charges were reduced to felony child abuse and involuntary manslaughter when he was convicted in 2010. Bullard served time for those offenses and remains on probation.
Bullard told WRAL that Locklear and Ellerber frequently fought. He said Locklear had gone to a neighbor’s house after an early morning altercation on Friday to call her grandmother.
Locklear took the boy with her when she fled to the neighbor’s house. Ellerber chased them, forced them into a green 2001 Chevrolet Malibu and drove away, Thompson said. Locklear spoke out on her Facebook page, calling the ordeal “a big misunderstanding.”
“Nobody has kidnapped me or my lil’ man and thanks to the ones that cared,” she posted just after 2 p.m.
Currently, no charges have been filed in the incident.
What the hell is going on here? Mom is the focus on an Amber Alert for kidnapping her own child, although we're not told why, other than it sounds like she has a dickhead for a boyfriend.
Meanwhile, the authorities give custody to the father, a CONVICTED BABY KILLER!!! You want to tell me that the mother is worse than this dude? A guy who has a track record for getting
"frustrated" with young infants and children and bashing them to death? Who the hell thought this was a good idea???
Just goes to show once again that discrimination against fathers is a MYTH. On the contrary, fathers are not held accountable for their own crimes at all. Probation for killing a baby? And then is given custody of another one? Makes me puke.
Dad is identified as JAMIE BULLARD.
http://robesonian.com/article/20131228/news/312289992/1011
Amber Alert child reportedly with father Man guilty once of manslaughter
by Sarah Willets Staff writer 1 days 1 hours ago
RED SPRINGS — A 1-year-old boy who was the focus of an Amber Alert Friday morning following a domestic dispute has been released into the custody of his father, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in a case involving his infant son three years ago.
Nearly seven hours after an Amber Alert was issued, Jaylon Marcus Bullard was found unharmed with his mother, Candice Locklear, 21, and her boyfriend, Shamael Ellerber, 23, who had been suspected of taking the boy.
The three were found at an unclear location in Robeson County, according to Maj. Anthony Thompson, chief of detectives for the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office.
According to WRAL-TV in Raleigh, the child was then released into the custody of his father, Jamie Bullard, although Thompson did not confirm Bullard has the boy.
“I was crying all morning and just worried to death about him. I’m just glad he’s back with me,” Bullard told WRAL.
Bullard was charged in Moore County in 2008 with first-degree murder and intentional child abuse inflicting serious injury in a case involving a different son, who was 7 months old at the time. Those charges were reduced to felony child abuse and involuntary manslaughter when he was convicted in 2010. Bullard served time for those offenses and remains on probation.
Bullard told WRAL that Locklear and Ellerber frequently fought. He said Locklear had gone to a neighbor’s house after an early morning altercation on Friday to call her grandmother.
Locklear took the boy with her when she fled to the neighbor’s house. Ellerber chased them, forced them into a green 2001 Chevrolet Malibu and drove away, Thompson said. Locklear spoke out on her Facebook page, calling the ordeal “a big misunderstanding.”
“Nobody has kidnapped me or my lil’ man and thanks to the ones that cared,” she posted just after 2 p.m.
Currently, no charges have been filed in the incident.
Monday, October 14, 2013
Dad arrested for shooting mom, abducting 2-year-old daughter (Gresham, Oregon)
Thank goodness Dad was arrested before he became "frustrated" and violent towards the daughter. Any dad who is more than willing to shoot a 2-year old's mother is an abusive father by definition.
Dad is identified as JOSHUA R. CAVETT.
http://www.kxl.com/10/12/13/Amber-Alert-Canceled-Father-in-Custody/landing.html?blockID=718241&feedID=10446
Amber Alert Canceled. Father in Custody.
October 12, 2013, 5:37 pm
An AMBER Alert was canceled when a shooting suspect was taken into custody Saturday October 12th.
Gresham Police Department asked for the public's help to find suspect Joshua R. Cavett, age 36, from Portland, who had his 2-year-old daughter Paige Cavett.
The suspect is the child's biological father but does not have legal custody. He was believed to be armed and dangerous.
Police said Cavett is a member of the Gypsy Jokers Motorcycle Club. He was a suspect in the shooting of the girl's mother just before noon at the Holly Ridge apartments, said Lt. Claudio Grandjean with Gresham police.
The 27-year-old woman, Jessie Cavett is in the hospital with lift-threatening injuries.
Dad is identified as JOSHUA R. CAVETT.
http://www.kxl.com/10/12/13/Amber-Alert-Canceled-Father-in-Custody/landing.html?blockID=718241&feedID=10446
Amber Alert Canceled. Father in Custody.
October 12, 2013, 5:37 pm
An AMBER Alert was canceled when a shooting suspect was taken into custody Saturday October 12th.
Gresham Police Department asked for the public's help to find suspect Joshua R. Cavett, age 36, from Portland, who had his 2-year-old daughter Paige Cavett.
The suspect is the child's biological father but does not have legal custody. He was believed to be armed and dangerous.
Police said Cavett is a member of the Gypsy Jokers Motorcycle Club. He was a suspect in the shooting of the girl's mother just before noon at the Holly Ridge apartments, said Lt. Claudio Grandjean with Gresham police.
The 27-year-old woman, Jessie Cavett is in the hospital with lift-threatening injuries.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Dad charged with homicide in death of 3-year-old son (Dear Lodge County, Montana)
More on dad JEREMY BRENT CRAMER.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/07/10/2672882/lacey-boy-died-in-montana-of-blunt.html
Lacey boy died in Montana of blunt and sharp force injuries
A 3-year-old boy from Lacey died in Montana of “blunt and sharp force injuries,” according to authorities in Montana. The child’s father, Jeremy Brent Cramer, 38, was charged with deliberate homicide in the child’s death after he was arrested Monday night
BY JEREMY PAWLOSKI; Staff writer
Published: July 11, 2013 at 12:55 a.m. PDT— Updated: July 11, 2013 at 2:00 a.m. PDT
A 3-year-old boy from Lacey died in Montana of “blunt and sharp force injuries,” according to authorities in Montana.
The child’s father, Jeremy Brent Cramer, 38, was charged with deliberate homicide in the child’s death after he was arrested Monday night, when he was found washing blood off his clothes in a southwestern Montana convenience store restroom, Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Attorney Ben Krakowka has said.
The boy has been identified at Broderick Daniel Cramer, according to the Montana Department of Justice. Broderick would have turned 4 next Tuesday.
Jeremy Cramer made an initial court appearance Tuesday in Montana and is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail. Preliminary autopsy results indicate that the boy likely died from blunt and sharp force injuries, according to the Montana Department of Justice. No further details regarding the specific cause and method of death were available Wednesday.
According to a news release from the Montana Department of Justice, additional pathology examination and criminal investigation are required. Division of Criminal Investigation agents and Anaconda-Deer Lodge law enforcement officers are working closely with the Lacey Police Department to determine the events that led up to the child’s death, according to the release. Krakowka said Wednesday that he expects to file charging documents in connection with the case by the end of the week.
Krakowka would not say whether Cramer has given investigators a statement.
Homicides are extremely rare in Deer Lodge County, Krakowka said.
“Something like this happening here is completely and totally unheard of,” he said.
The boy’s mother had told Lacey police Monday that her husband took the child from their Lacey home that morning and drove off. Lacey police put out a “be-on-the-lookout” alert for Jeremy Cramer’s vehicle for Eastern Washington, Montana and Idaho authorities after the mother notified police that a credit card in the family’s name had been used at a store in Moses Lake.
However, police did not issue an Amber Alert because there was no information from the mother suggesting that the child was in danger, Lacey Police Cmdr. Jim Mack said Tuesday.
A convenience store clerk in the Anaconda, Mont., area called police about 10:30 p.m. Monday after finding Cramer washing blood off himself in the restroom.
Investigators later found Cramer’s vehicle in a rural area near Mill Creek Road, about 5 miles southeast of Anaconda.
An initial search turned up no sign of the boy Monday night, but his body was found after the search resumed at daybreak.
Mack has said Cramer lived in Lacey about a year, and had a Montana driver’s license. Mack said police had never been called out to the home.
Mack added that the couple had been arguing about finances recently.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/07/10/2672882/lacey-boy-died-in-montana-of-blunt.html
Lacey boy died in Montana of blunt and sharp force injuries
A 3-year-old boy from Lacey died in Montana of “blunt and sharp force injuries,” according to authorities in Montana. The child’s father, Jeremy Brent Cramer, 38, was charged with deliberate homicide in the child’s death after he was arrested Monday night
BY JEREMY PAWLOSKI; Staff writer
Published: July 11, 2013 at 12:55 a.m. PDT— Updated: July 11, 2013 at 2:00 a.m. PDT
A 3-year-old boy from Lacey died in Montana of “blunt and sharp force injuries,” according to authorities in Montana.
The child’s father, Jeremy Brent Cramer, 38, was charged with deliberate homicide in the child’s death after he was arrested Monday night, when he was found washing blood off his clothes in a southwestern Montana convenience store restroom, Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Attorney Ben Krakowka has said.
The boy has been identified at Broderick Daniel Cramer, according to the Montana Department of Justice. Broderick would have turned 4 next Tuesday.
Jeremy Cramer made an initial court appearance Tuesday in Montana and is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail. Preliminary autopsy results indicate that the boy likely died from blunt and sharp force injuries, according to the Montana Department of Justice. No further details regarding the specific cause and method of death were available Wednesday.
According to a news release from the Montana Department of Justice, additional pathology examination and criminal investigation are required. Division of Criminal Investigation agents and Anaconda-Deer Lodge law enforcement officers are working closely with the Lacey Police Department to determine the events that led up to the child’s death, according to the release. Krakowka said Wednesday that he expects to file charging documents in connection with the case by the end of the week.
Krakowka would not say whether Cramer has given investigators a statement.
Homicides are extremely rare in Deer Lodge County, Krakowka said.
“Something like this happening here is completely and totally unheard of,” he said.
The boy’s mother had told Lacey police Monday that her husband took the child from their Lacey home that morning and drove off. Lacey police put out a “be-on-the-lookout” alert for Jeremy Cramer’s vehicle for Eastern Washington, Montana and Idaho authorities after the mother notified police that a credit card in the family’s name had been used at a store in Moses Lake.
However, police did not issue an Amber Alert because there was no information from the mother suggesting that the child was in danger, Lacey Police Cmdr. Jim Mack said Tuesday.
A convenience store clerk in the Anaconda, Mont., area called police about 10:30 p.m. Monday after finding Cramer washing blood off himself in the restroom.
Investigators later found Cramer’s vehicle in a rural area near Mill Creek Road, about 5 miles southeast of Anaconda.
An initial search turned up no sign of the boy Monday night, but his body was found after the search resumed at daybreak.
Mack has said Cramer lived in Lacey about a year, and had a Montana driver’s license. Mack said police had never been called out to the home.
Mack added that the couple had been arguing about finances recently.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Dad abducts 3-year-old son from mom's home and kills him (Helena, Montana)
Yet another killer dad who was out to punish Mom in the worst possible way--by abducting then murdering her child.
Killer dad is identified as JEREMY BRENT CRAMER.
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/viewart/20130709/NEWS01/307090011/3-year-old-boy-s-body-found-southwestern-Montana
3-year-old boy's body found in southwestern Montana
Jul. 9, 2013 4:21 PM
Written by The Associated Press
HELENA — Police discovered a 3-year-old boy’s body off a roadway in southwestern Montana on Tuesday, a day after arresting his father as he was washing blood off his clothes and body in a convenience store restroom, authorities said.
The boy’s mother told police on Monday that her husband had taken their child from their home in Lacey, Wash., and was not returning cellphone calls or messages, the Lacey Police Department said in a statement.
Police requested help from law enforcement in eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana in a search for the boy after the 31-year-old woman reported her husband’s fuel card was used in Moses Lake, Wash.
A convenience store clerk in the Anaconda area called police at about 10:30 p.m. Monday after finding Jeremy Brent Cramer, 38, washing blood off himself in the restroom.
Investigators later found Cramer’s vehicle in a rural area near Mill Creek Road, about 5 miles southeast of Anaconda.
An initial search turned up no sign of the boy Monday night, but his body was found after the search resumed at daybreak.
Cramer was being held on a disorderly conduct charge for having his pants off in a restroom, Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Attorney Ben Krakowka said.
Additional charges may be filed as the investigation progresses, authorities said.
The cause of death has not yet been determined and the boy’s name has not been released, Krakowka said.
Krakowka declined to provide more details about where the boy was found or how he may have died.
“We don’t want to compromise our investigation until we feel that we’ve found out everything we can,” Krakowka said.
Lacey Police Cmdr. Jim Mack said that an Amber Alert wasn’t issued because the mother, whose name is not yet being released, never indicated that the child was in danger.
“My officers had no reason to believe that the father was going to harm the child,” Mack said. “It’s a tragedy for the community.”
He said that Cramer had only lived in Lacey about a year, and had a Montana driver’s license. He said that police had never been called out to the home previously.
Mack said that the couple had been arguing about finances recently.
“He had asked her earlier within the last couple of weeks if they could do a road trip to the East Coast, and she said, ‘No, we don’t have the money,’” Mack said. “It sounded like he wanted to go to the East Coast.”
Agents with the state Division of Criminal Investigation are assisting Anaconda-Deer Lodge Law Enforcement in the investigation.
Killer dad is identified as JEREMY BRENT CRAMER.
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/viewart/20130709/NEWS01/307090011/3-year-old-boy-s-body-found-southwestern-Montana
3-year-old boy's body found in southwestern Montana
Jul. 9, 2013 4:21 PM
Written by The Associated Press
HELENA — Police discovered a 3-year-old boy’s body off a roadway in southwestern Montana on Tuesday, a day after arresting his father as he was washing blood off his clothes and body in a convenience store restroom, authorities said.
The boy’s mother told police on Monday that her husband had taken their child from their home in Lacey, Wash., and was not returning cellphone calls or messages, the Lacey Police Department said in a statement.
Police requested help from law enforcement in eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana in a search for the boy after the 31-year-old woman reported her husband’s fuel card was used in Moses Lake, Wash.
A convenience store clerk in the Anaconda area called police at about 10:30 p.m. Monday after finding Jeremy Brent Cramer, 38, washing blood off himself in the restroom.
Investigators later found Cramer’s vehicle in a rural area near Mill Creek Road, about 5 miles southeast of Anaconda.
An initial search turned up no sign of the boy Monday night, but his body was found after the search resumed at daybreak.
Cramer was being held on a disorderly conduct charge for having his pants off in a restroom, Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Attorney Ben Krakowka said.
Additional charges may be filed as the investigation progresses, authorities said.
The cause of death has not yet been determined and the boy’s name has not been released, Krakowka said.
Krakowka declined to provide more details about where the boy was found or how he may have died.
“We don’t want to compromise our investigation until we feel that we’ve found out everything we can,” Krakowka said.
Lacey Police Cmdr. Jim Mack said that an Amber Alert wasn’t issued because the mother, whose name is not yet being released, never indicated that the child was in danger.
“My officers had no reason to believe that the father was going to harm the child,” Mack said. “It’s a tragedy for the community.”
He said that Cramer had only lived in Lacey about a year, and had a Montana driver’s license. He said that police had never been called out to the home previously.
Mack said that the couple had been arguing about finances recently.
“He had asked her earlier within the last couple of weeks if they could do a road trip to the East Coast, and she said, ‘No, we don’t have the money,’” Mack said. “It sounded like he wanted to go to the East Coast.”
Agents with the state Division of Criminal Investigation are assisting Anaconda-Deer Lodge Law Enforcement in the investigation.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Dad who threw 3-month-old daughter off bridge gets life in prison (New Brunswiick, New Jersey)
We've been reporting on this case for almost two years. Finally dad SHAMSIDDIN ABDUR-RAHEEM has been sentenced to life in prison. Not really touched upon here is how this father was coddled by the authorities and CPS before he murdered his own infant daughter by callously throwing her off a bridge.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2229522/Shamsidden-Abdur-Raheem-Father-threw-baby-daughter-Zara-bridge-sentenced-life-prison.html
Father who threw his three-month-old daughter over a New Jersey bridge sentenced to life in prison
Shamsiddin Abdur-Raheem, 24, received an extra 30 years to his life sentence for the baby's kidnapping
In February of 2010 Abdur-Raheem abducted his daughter Zara before tossing her over a New Jersey bridge
Father previously testified: 'I tossed my daughter off the bridge ... I don’t know why'
Judge: 'You should never be on the streets again'
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 17:48 EST, 7 November 2012 | UPDATED: 17:50 EST, 7 November 2012
A New Jersey man who threw his three-month-old daughter off a bridge and to her death has been sentenced to life in a state prison.
Appearing in a New Brunswick courtroom with little mercy Shamsiddin Abdur-Raheem, 24, was called 'despicable' by the judge while given an additional 30 years onto his life sentence for his baby Zara's 2010 kidnapping.
'You should never be on the streets again,' Superior Court Judge Bradley Ferencz told Abdur-Raheem before his sentencing which prevents any possibility of his parole before serving 89 years, NJ.com reports.
In September Abdur-Raheem was found guilty in the February 16th kidnapping of his daughter before throwing her over a Garden State Parkway bridge. Her body was recovered two months later on the bank of the Raritan River.
The additional 30 year sentence for kidnapping, ordered to be served consecutively, requires Abdru-Raheem to serve 85 per cent of the extended sentence before he is eligible for parole.
'Mr Abdur-Raheem, your conduct is despicable,' Judge Ferencz fired at the man while mutually calling him 'narcissistic and self-centered.'
'You're not a good person,' he added.
Abdur-Raheem told the judge he comprehended the horrific effect his actions had taken and sympathized with the additional victims it created.
'I commiserate with everyone involved in this. I obviously believe a human being is the world's most valuable resource. It is sad every time a life is lost,' he said, adding that he 'wonders every time what my daughter would look like and what she could have done.'
In early September Abdur-Raheem was criticized for showing no emotion during his conviction for murder, kidnapping and endangering the welfare of a child while the girl's mother, Venetta Benjamin openly wept during her testimony along with his verdict.
Speaking again on Wednesday Zara’s mother emotionally expressed her ensuing loss to the judge: 'I lost the best part of me.
'I'll never get to experience what other mothers have. I mourn the loss of my child. [Her death] has left a void that can never be filled.'
With Abdur-Raheem’s verdict on September 7 he was also found guilty of two counts of simple assault after attacking the baby's grandmother over the head and then again with his car during the February 16th kidnapping.
The infant's mother had custody of the child at the time of the attack with a restraining order filed against Abdur-Raheem that same day.
In September she thanked all those 'who have worked tirelessly on this case and verdict, to ensure justice for my daughter', adding: 'God is good.'
New Jersey’s attorney general lauded the verdict, saying it was 'a chapter in a tragedy, but a chapter that needed to be written', in a case that prompted an overhaul of the state’s rules on issuing missing child alerts.
Abdur-Raheem admitted during the trial that he threw three-month-old Zara Malani-Lin Abdur-Raheem off a Garden State Parkway bridge into the Raritan River but said he didn't know why.
But he claimed he believed the child already was dead from injuries she suffered during a fight with the baby’s grandmother.
The jury acquitted Abdur-Raheem of attempted murder of the baby’s maternal grandmother, Leno Benjamin.
The grandmother had been caring for the infant at her East Orange apartment after the child’s mother obtained a restraining order against Abdur-Raheem.
Abdur-Raheem testified that during a struggle with the child’s grandmother, the baby fell and hit her head.
But a state forensic anthropologist testified the skull fractures found on the baby were made at or about the time of death and that they were caused by a significant fall and not one of four feet or less.
During his testimony, Abdur-Raheem said he placed the infant in a knapsack, and pushed her out the passenger side window and off the Driscoll Bridge, into the river more than 100 feet below.
'I tossed my daughter off the bridge,' he said. 'I don’t know why.'
Family members said at the time of the baby’s disappearance that the couple, who never married, had a bumpy relationship since they started dating as freshmen at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Abdur-Raheem, of Galloway Township, wore a suit, tie and glasses in court, and showed little reaction during the proceedings in front of State Superior Court Judge Bradley Ferencz. Abdur-Raheem’s mother and father, both present in court for the verdict, declined to comment.
His attorney, Michael Priarone, did not comment following the verdict, and did not return a call seeking comment.
Deputy Attorney General Andrew Fried, who prosecuted the case, said he appreciated that jurors seemed to have taken their time because they were taking the case seriously.
The jury deliberated for four days and made several requests for clarification on legal points and to have testimony transcripts read to them.
'People came up to me and said: "Why isn’t there a verdict?" Obviously this jury wanted to be very, very careful, and they took it very seriously, and obviously came out with the right verdict,' Fried said.
Abdur-Raheem faces a minimum of 40 years in prison on the murder and kidnapping charges and up to life in prison when he’s sentenced November 7, Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa said.
The case prompted changes to the state’s procedures for issuing Amber Alerts, information about a missing child broadcast on television and radio stations and posted on electronic highway message boards.
No alert was issued between the time Zara went missing and Abdur-Raheem was arrested because state law then discouraged use of the alerts in suspected domestic cases.
Now, state police issue the alerts even in cases of suspected parental involvement in a child’s abduction.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2229522/Shamsidden-Abdur-Raheem-Father-threw-baby-daughter-Zara-bridge-sentenced-life-prison.html
Father who threw his three-month-old daughter over a New Jersey bridge sentenced to life in prison
Shamsiddin Abdur-Raheem, 24, received an extra 30 years to his life sentence for the baby's kidnapping
In February of 2010 Abdur-Raheem abducted his daughter Zara before tossing her over a New Jersey bridge
Father previously testified: 'I tossed my daughter off the bridge ... I don’t know why'
Judge: 'You should never be on the streets again'
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 17:48 EST, 7 November 2012 | UPDATED: 17:50 EST, 7 November 2012
A New Jersey man who threw his three-month-old daughter off a bridge and to her death has been sentenced to life in a state prison.
Appearing in a New Brunswick courtroom with little mercy Shamsiddin Abdur-Raheem, 24, was called 'despicable' by the judge while given an additional 30 years onto his life sentence for his baby Zara's 2010 kidnapping.
'You should never be on the streets again,' Superior Court Judge Bradley Ferencz told Abdur-Raheem before his sentencing which prevents any possibility of his parole before serving 89 years, NJ.com reports.
In September Abdur-Raheem was found guilty in the February 16th kidnapping of his daughter before throwing her over a Garden State Parkway bridge. Her body was recovered two months later on the bank of the Raritan River.
The additional 30 year sentence for kidnapping, ordered to be served consecutively, requires Abdru-Raheem to serve 85 per cent of the extended sentence before he is eligible for parole.
'Mr Abdur-Raheem, your conduct is despicable,' Judge Ferencz fired at the man while mutually calling him 'narcissistic and self-centered.'
'You're not a good person,' he added.
Abdur-Raheem told the judge he comprehended the horrific effect his actions had taken and sympathized with the additional victims it created.
'I commiserate with everyone involved in this. I obviously believe a human being is the world's most valuable resource. It is sad every time a life is lost,' he said, adding that he 'wonders every time what my daughter would look like and what she could have done.'
In early September Abdur-Raheem was criticized for showing no emotion during his conviction for murder, kidnapping and endangering the welfare of a child while the girl's mother, Venetta Benjamin openly wept during her testimony along with his verdict.
Speaking again on Wednesday Zara’s mother emotionally expressed her ensuing loss to the judge: 'I lost the best part of me.
'I'll never get to experience what other mothers have. I mourn the loss of my child. [Her death] has left a void that can never be filled.'
With Abdur-Raheem’s verdict on September 7 he was also found guilty of two counts of simple assault after attacking the baby's grandmother over the head and then again with his car during the February 16th kidnapping.
The infant's mother had custody of the child at the time of the attack with a restraining order filed against Abdur-Raheem that same day.
In September she thanked all those 'who have worked tirelessly on this case and verdict, to ensure justice for my daughter', adding: 'God is good.'
New Jersey’s attorney general lauded the verdict, saying it was 'a chapter in a tragedy, but a chapter that needed to be written', in a case that prompted an overhaul of the state’s rules on issuing missing child alerts.
Abdur-Raheem admitted during the trial that he threw three-month-old Zara Malani-Lin Abdur-Raheem off a Garden State Parkway bridge into the Raritan River but said he didn't know why.
But he claimed he believed the child already was dead from injuries she suffered during a fight with the baby’s grandmother.
The jury acquitted Abdur-Raheem of attempted murder of the baby’s maternal grandmother, Leno Benjamin.
The grandmother had been caring for the infant at her East Orange apartment after the child’s mother obtained a restraining order against Abdur-Raheem.
Abdur-Raheem testified that during a struggle with the child’s grandmother, the baby fell and hit her head.
But a state forensic anthropologist testified the skull fractures found on the baby were made at or about the time of death and that they were caused by a significant fall and not one of four feet or less.
During his testimony, Abdur-Raheem said he placed the infant in a knapsack, and pushed her out the passenger side window and off the Driscoll Bridge, into the river more than 100 feet below.
'I tossed my daughter off the bridge,' he said. 'I don’t know why.'
Family members said at the time of the baby’s disappearance that the couple, who never married, had a bumpy relationship since they started dating as freshmen at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Abdur-Raheem, of Galloway Township, wore a suit, tie and glasses in court, and showed little reaction during the proceedings in front of State Superior Court Judge Bradley Ferencz. Abdur-Raheem’s mother and father, both present in court for the verdict, declined to comment.
His attorney, Michael Priarone, did not comment following the verdict, and did not return a call seeking comment.
Deputy Attorney General Andrew Fried, who prosecuted the case, said he appreciated that jurors seemed to have taken their time because they were taking the case seriously.
The jury deliberated for four days and made several requests for clarification on legal points and to have testimony transcripts read to them.
'People came up to me and said: "Why isn’t there a verdict?" Obviously this jury wanted to be very, very careful, and they took it very seriously, and obviously came out with the right verdict,' Fried said.
Abdur-Raheem faces a minimum of 40 years in prison on the murder and kidnapping charges and up to life in prison when he’s sentenced November 7, Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa said.
The case prompted changes to the state’s procedures for issuing Amber Alerts, information about a missing child broadcast on television and radio stations and posted on electronic highway message boards.
No alert was issued between the time Zara went missing and Abdur-Raheem was arrested because state law then discouraged use of the alerts in suspected domestic cases.
Now, state police issue the alerts even in cases of suspected parental involvement in a child’s abduction.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
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
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
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
Monday, April 2, 2012
Dad argues with mom, threatens to kill himself with handgun, and abducts 16-month-old son (Manchester, New Hampshire)
The star of this latest bit of Daddy Drama: KELLY SOUCY. Children do NOT need this....
http://www.newhampshire.com/article/20120402/NEWS03/120409993
Police: 18-month old found uninjured after Amber Alert issued
Published Apr 2, 2012 at 7:33 am (Updated Apr 2, 2012)
MANCHESTER - An 18-month-old boy was found safe Monday morning after police say his father abducted him after an argument with the boy's mother.
The father, Kelly Soucy, 29, threatened to kill himself early Monday morning during an argument with his wife in Manchester but then took his toddler son and a handgun and fled in an old black and white Ford Crown Victoria, police said.
The incident prompted an Amber Alert, which was broadcast over local radio stations and posted on signs over the state's highways.
Soucy and his son, Waylon Soucy, 18 months, were both located just before 8 a.m. The child was not injured. Police have not released details concerning how they were located or if Soucy was arrested.
The incident began at 3:47 a.m. when Soucy's wife reported her husband suddenly left their Bodwell Road home with their young son after an argument, during which he threatened to kill himself with a handgun.
He fled with the child in the 2003 Ford Crown Victoria with New Hampshire veteran license plates of V 33235. The car has a spotlight mounted on the driver's door.
"Basically, it's an old black and white police car without agency markings," said Lt. Maureen Tessier.
Waylon was in a car seat in the rear. The Ford was spotted heading south on Route 28 in Londonderry near Interstate 93, Exit 5 off-ramp.
Waylon was described as white with blond hair and blue eyes. He is 36 inches tall and weighs 25 to 30 pounds. He was wearing a gray and red zip-up coat, red pants and blue and white shoes.
Soucy was described as a white man, 6-foot-1 and weighing 195 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes.
He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and black sneakers.
http://www.newhampshire.com/article/20120402/NEWS03/120409993
Police: 18-month old found uninjured after Amber Alert issued
Published Apr 2, 2012 at 7:33 am (Updated Apr 2, 2012)
MANCHESTER - An 18-month-old boy was found safe Monday morning after police say his father abducted him after an argument with the boy's mother.
The father, Kelly Soucy, 29, threatened to kill himself early Monday morning during an argument with his wife in Manchester but then took his toddler son and a handgun and fled in an old black and white Ford Crown Victoria, police said.
The incident prompted an Amber Alert, which was broadcast over local radio stations and posted on signs over the state's highways.
Soucy and his son, Waylon Soucy, 18 months, were both located just before 8 a.m. The child was not injured. Police have not released details concerning how they were located or if Soucy was arrested.
The incident began at 3:47 a.m. when Soucy's wife reported her husband suddenly left their Bodwell Road home with their young son after an argument, during which he threatened to kill himself with a handgun.
He fled with the child in the 2003 Ford Crown Victoria with New Hampshire veteran license plates of V 33235. The car has a spotlight mounted on the driver's door.
"Basically, it's an old black and white police car without agency markings," said Lt. Maureen Tessier.
Waylon was in a car seat in the rear. The Ford was spotted heading south on Route 28 in Londonderry near Interstate 93, Exit 5 off-ramp.
Waylon was described as white with blond hair and blue eyes. He is 36 inches tall and weighs 25 to 30 pounds. He was wearing a gray and red zip-up coat, red pants and blue and white shoes.
Soucy was described as a white man, 6-foot-1 and weighing 195 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes.
He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and black sneakers.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Dad kidnaps mom, 1-year-old daughter off street, shoots them to death (Cleveland, Ohio)
Is it any big surprise that dad THOMAS LORDE had a criminal history?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/19/justice/ohio-missing-girl/index.html
Missing teen mom, child found dead in Cleveland
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 8:15 PM EST, Sun February 19, 2012
(CNN) -- A teenage mother and her young daughter, snatched off a Cleveland street, were found shot to death in a garage early Sunday, Cleveland, Ohio, police said.
Thomas Lorde, the estranged boyfriend of 19-year-old Latasha Jackson and the father of 1-year-old Chaniya Wynn, was found next to them, dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said Sunday.
Cleveland police issued an Amber Alert on Saturday after witnesses reported seeing Jackson and Chaniya abducted while walking on East 72nd Avenue in Cleveland.
Jackson's 14-year-old brother was walking with the pair when he said Lorde approached.
"He walked up on us and ... he pulled out the gun. He pointed it at me," the brother told CNN affiliate WEWS. "He told me to run."
The brother, who CNN is not identifying because of his age, ran home and called 911.
"I was scared for my niece and my sister," he said. "She (Jackson) was silent. She was scared. She didn't know what to do."
The alert named Lorde, 25, as the kidnapping suspect, warning that he was a "violent sexual predator with felony warrants out of New York," and armed and dangerous.
The alert was lifted Sunday after police found the bodies of the three "in a closed garage of an unoccupied structure in the 7000 block of Union Avenue," a police statement said.
"All three were found unresponsive with gunshot wounds and pronounced dead on the scene," the statement said.
No other details of the investigation were made public.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/19/justice/ohio-missing-girl/index.html
Missing teen mom, child found dead in Cleveland
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 8:15 PM EST, Sun February 19, 2012
(CNN) -- A teenage mother and her young daughter, snatched off a Cleveland street, were found shot to death in a garage early Sunday, Cleveland, Ohio, police said.
Thomas Lorde, the estranged boyfriend of 19-year-old Latasha Jackson and the father of 1-year-old Chaniya Wynn, was found next to them, dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said Sunday.
Cleveland police issued an Amber Alert on Saturday after witnesses reported seeing Jackson and Chaniya abducted while walking on East 72nd Avenue in Cleveland.
Jackson's 14-year-old brother was walking with the pair when he said Lorde approached.
"He walked up on us and ... he pulled out the gun. He pointed it at me," the brother told CNN affiliate WEWS. "He told me to run."
The brother, who CNN is not identifying because of his age, ran home and called 911.
"I was scared for my niece and my sister," he said. "She (Jackson) was silent. She was scared. She didn't know what to do."
The alert named Lorde, 25, as the kidnapping suspect, warning that he was a "violent sexual predator with felony warrants out of New York," and armed and dangerous.
The alert was lifted Sunday after police found the bodies of the three "in a closed garage of an unoccupied structure in the 7000 block of Union Avenue," a police statement said.
"All three were found unresponsive with gunshot wounds and pronounced dead on the scene," the statement said.
No other details of the investigation were made public.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Could Judge Peter McBrien have prevented Madeline's Murder? (Sacramento, California)
Too often, the media treats the murder of children at the hands of their fathers as inexplicable "tragedies" that no one could have foreseen. The dad--who all the neighbors swear was a "good guy"--must have "snapped." But this is not the case at all. Very often, the father in question has a history of domestic violence, child abuse, and/or general criminality that is ignored. Very often, when the mother has finally left the father at great risk to herself, the courts turn around and give custody/visitation to the man who has abused her and/or her children. Then we're told by the fathers rights sympathizers that we're supposed to feel sorry for the killer daddy and how he was "mistreated" by the courts.
It's all nonsense. Abusive criminal fathers are remarkably successful at gaining access to their children--and they use that access to put the mother and/or children at continued risk of additional violence. It's time that judges be held accountable for their poor decisionmaking. Children are dying as a result of it.
From the California Protective Parents Association:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 18, 2011
CONTACT: Anne Hart 916-715-5243
Could Judge Peter McBrien Have Prevented Madeline's Murder?
Controversial Judge at the Center of A Tragic Death: Citizens Protest
Sacramento, CA - On Thursday, September 22, 2011, community members will hold a protest from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm at the Sacramento Superior Court, 720 9th Street, Sacramento regarding the abject failure of Sacramento family court to protect children in custody disputes. The protest will begin on the corner of 9th and H Streets.
One judge, Sacramento Family Court Judge Peter McBrien, has been a focus of community scrutiny for over a decade for his lack of judgment and destructive decisions. He destroyed ancient oak trees on a nature preserve to obtain a better view from his home which earned him the moniker of "Chainsaw" and resulted in a felony charge that he pled down to a misdemeanor. Additionally, he received a public reprimand from the Commission on Judicial Performance. He then became personally embroiled in the divorce case of Ulf Carlsson, and went far out of his way to destroy Mr. Carlsson by ensuring he was fired from his job. Judge McBrien committed numerous ethical violations along the way and earned another reprimand. Battered mothers report that he consistently places children with substantiated molesters, batterers, violent alcoholics, and drug addicts. Now, Judge McBrien failed to protect a toddler, who was then murdered.
After a statewide AMBER Alert, two-year-old Madeline Layla Samaan-Fay was found near Placerville, CA in her father's vehicle. She and her father Mourad Samaan were both dead.
Samaan had a pattern of not returning his daughter Madeline from visits and had told her mother that he was taking the child to Oregon against the court order. Prior to the toddler's death, Judge McBrien had refused to grant an ex parte request by Madeline's mother to order law enforcement to locate the father and child, and to place Samaan on supervised visits. Judge McBrien had a perfect opportunity to prevent this tragedy, but refused to assist the mother Marcia Fay, a California Deputy Attorney General, in locating and protecting her child.
California judges have a pattern of not believing women and children, and are trained to minimize concerns of mothers, according to Judge DeAnn Salcide (Ret), founder of Judicial Action Watch Society. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Judicial-Action-Watch-Society/219653241395520
The United States has a pattern of not protecting women and children. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has sharply rebuked the United States for failing to protect women and children in the Gonzalez v. United States decision in August 2011, stating that the U.S. practices discrimination and violation of the right to equality.
http://www.cidh.oas.org/Comunicados/English/2011/92-11eng.htm
We can begin changing these destructive patterns by demanding that Judge McBrien be removed from family court and from any position that gives him authority over vulnerable children.
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It's all nonsense. Abusive criminal fathers are remarkably successful at gaining access to their children--and they use that access to put the mother and/or children at continued risk of additional violence. It's time that judges be held accountable for their poor decisionmaking. Children are dying as a result of it.
From the California Protective Parents Association:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 18, 2011
CONTACT: Anne Hart 916-715-5243
Could Judge Peter McBrien Have Prevented Madeline's Murder?
Controversial Judge at the Center of A Tragic Death: Citizens Protest
Sacramento, CA - On Thursday, September 22, 2011, community members will hold a protest from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm at the Sacramento Superior Court, 720 9th Street, Sacramento regarding the abject failure of Sacramento family court to protect children in custody disputes. The protest will begin on the corner of 9th and H Streets.
One judge, Sacramento Family Court Judge Peter McBrien, has been a focus of community scrutiny for over a decade for his lack of judgment and destructive decisions. He destroyed ancient oak trees on a nature preserve to obtain a better view from his home which earned him the moniker of "Chainsaw" and resulted in a felony charge that he pled down to a misdemeanor. Additionally, he received a public reprimand from the Commission on Judicial Performance. He then became personally embroiled in the divorce case of Ulf Carlsson, and went far out of his way to destroy Mr. Carlsson by ensuring he was fired from his job. Judge McBrien committed numerous ethical violations along the way and earned another reprimand. Battered mothers report that he consistently places children with substantiated molesters, batterers, violent alcoholics, and drug addicts. Now, Judge McBrien failed to protect a toddler, who was then murdered.
After a statewide AMBER Alert, two-year-old Madeline Layla Samaan-Fay was found near Placerville, CA in her father's vehicle. She and her father Mourad Samaan were both dead.
Samaan had a pattern of not returning his daughter Madeline from visits and had told her mother that he was taking the child to Oregon against the court order. Prior to the toddler's death, Judge McBrien had refused to grant an ex parte request by Madeline's mother to order law enforcement to locate the father and child, and to place Samaan on supervised visits. Judge McBrien had a perfect opportunity to prevent this tragedy, but refused to assist the mother Marcia Fay, a California Deputy Attorney General, in locating and protecting her child.
California judges have a pattern of not believing women and children, and are trained to minimize concerns of mothers, according to Judge DeAnn Salcide (Ret), founder of Judicial Action Watch Society. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Judicial-Action-Watch-Society/219653241395520
The United States has a pattern of not protecting women and children. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has sharply rebuked the United States for failing to protect women and children in the Gonzalez v. United States decision in August 2011, stating that the U.S. practices discrimination and violation of the right to equality.
http://www.cidh.oas.org/Comunicados/English/2011/92-11eng.htm
We can begin changing these destructive patterns by demanding that Judge McBrien be removed from family court and from any position that gives him authority over vulnerable children.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
"Devoted" killer dad had history of child abuse, but police refused to issue Amber Alert when daughter went "missing" (Lake George, New York)
Once again, we see how the police refuse to take a history of child abuse (or domestic violence) seriously--when it concerns a father. Dad ADAM PARCELLS was supposed to have supervised visitation with his now murdered 10-year-old daughter, at least while CPS investigated the claim that he had hit her. Mom called the police to report her missing after Dad picked up the girl--supposedly to go get ice cream--and then didn't return her. But the Rochester Police refused to issue an Amber Alert.
Notice that this father also had joint custody with the mother of the 3-year-old girl (a different mom from the mother of the 10-year-old daughter). He specifically had "legal physical custody" on weekends.
So for much for an anti-father "bias." Quite the contrary. The police refused to take Dad's abduction of the 10-year-old daughter seriously--even though he had a history of "alleged" child abuse. Dad's so-called "supervised" visitation was a joke. In addition, Dad apparently had NO TROUBLE AT ALL getting joint custody/weekend visitation with the 3-year-old, and when that mother called the police after the daughter was not returned--well, the police sat on that matter as well.
Had there been less daddy indulgence here, is it possible the police MIGHT have found these girls while they were still alive? We'll never know....
http://poststar.com/news/local/abuse-complaint-was-pending-vs-lake-george-campground-killer-dad/article_6b60b342-d97d-11e0-88b7-001cc4c002e0.html
Abuse complaint was pending vs. Lake George campground killer dad
DON LEHMAN
The Post-Star
Posted: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 2:10 pm
LAKE GEORGE -- The western New York man who shot and killed his young daughters before killing himself was only allowed to have supervised visitation with the older girl because of an investigation into allegations he had abused her, officials said Wednesday.
A police source familiar with the investigation said that Child Protective Services in the Rochester area was investigating a complaint that Adam P. Parcells had struck 10-year-old Noel Parcells, resulting in a court order that the father only have "supervised visitation" with her.
Police believe Adam Parcells, 29, killed Noel Parcells and 3-year-old Mia Parcells on Monday in a tent at a Lake George campground, then killed himself. Their bodies were discovered Tuesday.
Adam Parcells took the older girl during a scheduled visit with her Friday, telling the mother he was taking her for ice cream and that they would be back later that evening. When they did not return, she called police at about 7:40 p.m. Friday.
Noel Parcells' mother reported her missing, but Rochester Police did not issue an "Amber Alert" for the missing child and did not enter the case into a nationwide police database for missing persons until Tuesday.
Rochester Police did not return phone calls on the matter Tuesday or Wednesday. The agency issued a statement Wednesday defending its handling of the case and saying the situation did not qualify for an Amber Alert.
"The officers were given no indications that the child was in imminent danger or threat of physical harm," the statement reads. "Mr. Parcells' act of leaving with the child did not rise to the level of a crime nor did it meet the criteria for an Amber Alert."
The mother contacted police again on Monday to report Noel had not been returned, and Rochester Police prepared a complaint for misdemeanor criminal contempt for disobeying a court custody order and began the process of seeking an arrest warrant.
"At this point, officers were still given no indication that imminent danger existed for the child," the Rochester Police statement read.
The mother contacted Rochester Police again on Tuesday, and the department entered the missing persons report in a nationwide computer system. A short time later, the Warren County Sheriff's Office contacted Rochester Police about the deaths.
Adam Parcells had legal physical custody of Mia Parcells for the weekend through a visitation agreement with his estranged wife, authorities said.
He was supposed to have returned the girl to her mother's home Monday night, and when she had not been brought back the mother, Marcie Parcells, filed a report with police.
The Warren County Sheriff's Office said Adam Parcells, of Hilton in Monroe County, shot and killed the two girls in a tent at Adirondack Camping Village in Lake George late Monday, then killed himself.
An autopsy found that Mia Parcells was shot four times, Noel Parcells twice and that Adam Parcells shot himself once in the head.
The Sheriff's Office said earlier Parcells bought the .45-caliber rifle used in the shooting at a Dick's Sporting Goods store in western New York, but a spokeswoman for Dick's said Wednesday the company had no record of a purchase by him.
The Sheriff's Office said Wednesday that the gun's history was being investigated. A receipt for ammunition from Dick's was found in a gun case in Parcells' car, and the agency was tracing where he got the gun itself.
The two girls had different mothers, the mother of the younger girl having filed for divorce from Parcells earlier this year, police said.
Warren County Sheriff Bud York said no suicide note or other correspondence was found at the scene.
Adam Parcells and his daughters had apparently been at the campground since Saturday. The campground's owner checked on the car Tuesday and located their bodies.
A call to the Monroe County Department of Social Services, which was investigating the child abuse complaint against Adam Parcells, was not returned Tuesday.
Parcells' profile on the social networking website Linkedin indicated he worked as a "manufacturing inspector" at a western New York electronics company, Badger Technologies of Farmington, N.Y., for the last 8 months. A call to the company was not returned Wednesday.
His profile also indicated Parcells had degrees in criminal justice from two western New York colleges.
Adam Parcells and his daughter Noel were featured in an online news article last year about a contest he had won through a musical instrument manufacturer, allowing him to buy a clarinet for his daughter. He was described as a "devoted dad" in the article.
Notice that this father also had joint custody with the mother of the 3-year-old girl (a different mom from the mother of the 10-year-old daughter). He specifically had "legal physical custody" on weekends.
So for much for an anti-father "bias." Quite the contrary. The police refused to take Dad's abduction of the 10-year-old daughter seriously--even though he had a history of "alleged" child abuse. Dad's so-called "supervised" visitation was a joke. In addition, Dad apparently had NO TROUBLE AT ALL getting joint custody/weekend visitation with the 3-year-old, and when that mother called the police after the daughter was not returned--well, the police sat on that matter as well.
Had there been less daddy indulgence here, is it possible the police MIGHT have found these girls while they were still alive? We'll never know....
http://poststar.com/news/local/abuse-complaint-was-pending-vs-lake-george-campground-killer-dad/article_6b60b342-d97d-11e0-88b7-001cc4c002e0.html
Abuse complaint was pending vs. Lake George campground killer dad
DON LEHMAN
The Post-Star
Posted: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 2:10 pm
LAKE GEORGE -- The western New York man who shot and killed his young daughters before killing himself was only allowed to have supervised visitation with the older girl because of an investigation into allegations he had abused her, officials said Wednesday.
A police source familiar with the investigation said that Child Protective Services in the Rochester area was investigating a complaint that Adam P. Parcells had struck 10-year-old Noel Parcells, resulting in a court order that the father only have "supervised visitation" with her.
Police believe Adam Parcells, 29, killed Noel Parcells and 3-year-old Mia Parcells on Monday in a tent at a Lake George campground, then killed himself. Their bodies were discovered Tuesday.
Adam Parcells took the older girl during a scheduled visit with her Friday, telling the mother he was taking her for ice cream and that they would be back later that evening. When they did not return, she called police at about 7:40 p.m. Friday.
Noel Parcells' mother reported her missing, but Rochester Police did not issue an "Amber Alert" for the missing child and did not enter the case into a nationwide police database for missing persons until Tuesday.
Rochester Police did not return phone calls on the matter Tuesday or Wednesday. The agency issued a statement Wednesday defending its handling of the case and saying the situation did not qualify for an Amber Alert.
"The officers were given no indications that the child was in imminent danger or threat of physical harm," the statement reads. "Mr. Parcells' act of leaving with the child did not rise to the level of a crime nor did it meet the criteria for an Amber Alert."
The mother contacted police again on Monday to report Noel had not been returned, and Rochester Police prepared a complaint for misdemeanor criminal contempt for disobeying a court custody order and began the process of seeking an arrest warrant.
"At this point, officers were still given no indication that imminent danger existed for the child," the Rochester Police statement read.
The mother contacted Rochester Police again on Tuesday, and the department entered the missing persons report in a nationwide computer system. A short time later, the Warren County Sheriff's Office contacted Rochester Police about the deaths.
Adam Parcells had legal physical custody of Mia Parcells for the weekend through a visitation agreement with his estranged wife, authorities said.
He was supposed to have returned the girl to her mother's home Monday night, and when she had not been brought back the mother, Marcie Parcells, filed a report with police.
The Warren County Sheriff's Office said Adam Parcells, of Hilton in Monroe County, shot and killed the two girls in a tent at Adirondack Camping Village in Lake George late Monday, then killed himself.
An autopsy found that Mia Parcells was shot four times, Noel Parcells twice and that Adam Parcells shot himself once in the head.
The Sheriff's Office said earlier Parcells bought the .45-caliber rifle used in the shooting at a Dick's Sporting Goods store in western New York, but a spokeswoman for Dick's said Wednesday the company had no record of a purchase by him.
The Sheriff's Office said Wednesday that the gun's history was being investigated. A receipt for ammunition from Dick's was found in a gun case in Parcells' car, and the agency was tracing where he got the gun itself.
The two girls had different mothers, the mother of the younger girl having filed for divorce from Parcells earlier this year, police said.
Warren County Sheriff Bud York said no suicide note or other correspondence was found at the scene.
Adam Parcells and his daughters had apparently been at the campground since Saturday. The campground's owner checked on the car Tuesday and located their bodies.
A call to the Monroe County Department of Social Services, which was investigating the child abuse complaint against Adam Parcells, was not returned Tuesday.
Parcells' profile on the social networking website Linkedin indicated he worked as a "manufacturing inspector" at a western New York electronics company, Badger Technologies of Farmington, N.Y., for the last 8 months. A call to the company was not returned Wednesday.
His profile also indicated Parcells had degrees in criminal justice from two western New York colleges.
Adam Parcells and his daughter Noel were featured in an online news article last year about a contest he had won through a musical instrument manufacturer, allowing him to buy a clarinet for his daughter. He was described as a "devoted dad" in the article.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Dad on trial for attempted murder of mom, abduction of 5-year-old daughter during "custody dispute" (Temecula, California)
A few lessons about the English language. A "dispute" implies the disagreement of two parties. When a custody "dispute" leads to attempted murder and kidnapping, then we are not talking about a custody "dispute." We are talking about a father (in this case JOSE DE JESUS CARDON ALCALA) who is using child custody as just another one of his weapons to further hurt/intimidate/control the mother. Notice that this POS got the kidnapping charges dropped, despite "allegedly" shooting the mother in the abdomen. Can't interfere with his father's rights, don't ya know. Sick.
http://www.swrnn.com/southwest-riverside/2011-03-21/news/trial-begins-for-temecula-man-accused-of-shooting-estranged-wife-taking-daughter
Trial begins for Temecula man accused of shooting estranged wife, taking daughter
Jose De Jesus Cardon Alcala, 39, is charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, spousal abuse, burglary and multiple gun and great bodily injury allegations in the Aug. 23, 2008, attack on then-43-year-old Marta De Ochoa.
By Staff, City News Service
Monday, March 21, 2011
Jury selection got under way today for the trial of a Temecula man accused of trying to kill his estranged wife during a custody dispute that ended with the defendant fleeing with his 5-year-old daughter.
Jose De Jesus Cardon Alcala, 39, is charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, spousal abuse, burglary and multiple gun and great bodily injury allegations in the Aug. 23, 2008, attack on then-43-year-old Marta De Ochoa.
Alcala is being held without bail at the Southwest Detention Center in Murrieta.
Riverside County Superior Court Judge Mark Mandio summoned the first panel of prospective jurors to his courtroom today for screening. Jury selection is expected to wrap up later in the week.
According to sheriff’s investigators, Alcala broke into Ochoa’s residence in the 43100 block of Corte Cabrera in Temecula in the predawn hours on the day of the assault. The two had been at odds over a number of issues, including custody of their daughter, then-5-year-old Kaylee Jocelyn Cardona.
After forcing his way into her bedroom, Alcala allegedly shot his estranged wife in the stomach and snatched Kaylee, according to sheriff’s officials.
The defendant fled north with the girl, heading to Rosamond, in Kern County, where he had relatives, investigators said.
An Amber Alert was broadcast statewide, providing information to the public about Alcala’s vehicle. That afternoon, Kaylee was found unharmed at a family member’s home in Rosamond.
A short time later, Kern County sheriff’s deputies spotted Alcala dining at a nearby fast-food restaurant and arrested him without incident.
Ochoa underwent surgery and survived her wounds. She and her daughter were reunited the next day.
Alcala was initially charged with kidnapping, but that count was dismissed for lack of evidence following a June 2009 preliminary hearing.
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Trial begins for Temecula man accused of shooting estranged wife, taking daughter
Jose De Jesus Cardon Alcala, 39, is charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, spousal abuse, burglary and multiple gun and great bodily injury allegations in the Aug. 23, 2008, attack on then-43-year-old Marta De Ochoa.
By Staff, City News Service
Monday, March 21, 2011
Jury selection got under way today for the trial of a Temecula man accused of trying to kill his estranged wife during a custody dispute that ended with the defendant fleeing with his 5-year-old daughter.
Jose De Jesus Cardon Alcala, 39, is charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, spousal abuse, burglary and multiple gun and great bodily injury allegations in the Aug. 23, 2008, attack on then-43-year-old Marta De Ochoa.
Alcala is being held without bail at the Southwest Detention Center in Murrieta.
Riverside County Superior Court Judge Mark Mandio summoned the first panel of prospective jurors to his courtroom today for screening. Jury selection is expected to wrap up later in the week.
According to sheriff’s investigators, Alcala broke into Ochoa’s residence in the 43100 block of Corte Cabrera in Temecula in the predawn hours on the day of the assault. The two had been at odds over a number of issues, including custody of their daughter, then-5-year-old Kaylee Jocelyn Cardona.
After forcing his way into her bedroom, Alcala allegedly shot his estranged wife in the stomach and snatched Kaylee, according to sheriff’s officials.
The defendant fled north with the girl, heading to Rosamond, in Kern County, where he had relatives, investigators said.
An Amber Alert was broadcast statewide, providing information to the public about Alcala’s vehicle. That afternoon, Kaylee was found unharmed at a family member’s home in Rosamond.
A short time later, Kern County sheriff’s deputies spotted Alcala dining at a nearby fast-food restaurant and arrested him without incident.
Ochoa underwent surgery and survived her wounds. She and her daughter were reunited the next day.
Alcala was initially charged with kidnapping, but that count was dismissed for lack of evidence following a June 2009 preliminary hearing.
Read more: http://www.swrnn.com/southwest-riverside/2011-03-21/news/trial-begins-for-temecula-man-accused-of-shooting-estranged-wife-taking-daughter#ixzz1HLNg9Cfr
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