Dad convicted of murdering two children during court-ordered visitation (Yashresh, Israel)

Another father who was given court-ordered visitation despite a history of domestic violence. And two children paid for that decision with their lives.


Dad is identified as AVI LEVI.


http://www.timesofisrael.com/father-who-murdered-us-israeli-kids-given-2-life-sentences/


Father who murdered US-Israeli kids given 2 life sentences
Court finds Avraham Levi killed his son and daughter, visiting from US, as revenge against ex-wife


By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff
June 5, 2016, 5:49 pm


The Lod District Court on Sunday handed down two life sentences to a father who killed his two children by slitting their throats to spite his ex-wife.


Avi Levi, 43, was convicted two weeks ago of murdering his 12-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter while they were visiting him from their mother’s home in the US in 2014. He will serve the sentences back-to-back and was also ordered to pay NIS 500,000 to his ex-wife.


Levi, from Yashresh, an agricultural community near Ramle, killed the children in order to exact revenge on his former wife for divorcing him, the court found.


He was convicted two weeks ago after the court rejected a defense claim that he was unfit to stand trial, and ruled the murders were premeditated.


The trial revealed that Levi blindfolded his 12-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter on June 11, 2014, and then slit their throats with a knife he had purchased a day earlier.


Afterward, Levi walked into the police station in the nearby city of Ramle and admitted that he had killed the kids, reportedly to torment his ex-wife, saying he did it “so that their mother’s life would be over.”


Before sentencing Oren Aduhan, a childhood friend of Levi’s, told the court that the father gave his all for the children, Channel 2 reported.


“No one would believe that Avi would to something like this, but it happened. Only Avi knows what brought him to that point when he did what he did, but the regret is the most important thing,” Aduhan said.


His family and his defense attorney had claimed that being so far from his children and the fact that his ex-wife occasionally failed to send the children on twice-yearly visits to Israel as agreed had left him showing signs of depression.


However, he refused to be tested by a psychiatrist, the report said.


The mother and the children were dual US-Israeli citizens. The two children arrived for a visit in Israel a day before they were killed.


The children’s funeral took place in Columbus, Ohio, where the mother resides.


Domestic violence complaints were lodged against Levi in 2005 and in 2009, before the couple divorced.


The wife had also spent time in a battered women’s shelter before the divorce was finalized.


The ex-wife gained main custody of the children and, because the husband could not provide child support, decided to move to the US. The suspect was unsuccessful in fighting his ex-wife’s intention to leave the country but succeeded in securing twice-yearly visits.


While searching the man’s residence, police discovered a journal in which the suspect had “obsessively” recorded his feelings and actions, especially in regard to his ex-wife.

Dad indicted in murder of mom, 2-year-old daughter; didn't want to pay child support (Upper Marlboro, Maryland)

Dad is identified as DARON MAURICE BOSWELL-JOHNSON.

See the Killer Dads and Custody list for Maryland.

http://patch.com/maryland/bowie/mother-toddler-slain-girls-father-indicted-0

Mother, Toddler Slain; Girl's Father Indicted

Prince George's County Police say the father of a 2-year-old has admitted killing the child and her mother, an elementary school teacher.

By Deb Belt (Patch Staff) -  April 1, 2016 6:27 pm ET

UPPER MARLBORO, MD — The father of a two-year-old girl he reportedly gunned down – angered by a court order to pay child support – was formally indicted Friday in the child’s death, as well as her mother’s murder.

NeShante Davis, 26, and her two-year-old daughter, Chloe Nichole Davis-Green, both of Fort Washington, were shot to death Feb. 2.

Prince George’s County Police say Chloe’s father, recently ordered to pay $600 a month in child support, killed the pair.

Daron Maurice Boswell-Johnson, 25, of Forestville, was indicted by a grand jury with two counts of murder, plus two counts of use of a firearm during a crime of violence.

Prosecutors say Boswell-Johnson lay in wait for Davis in her apartment’s parking lot, the pair argued, and he shot the mother and daughter.

“This is really the unspeakable and the unthinkable, that you would have a parent who executes their own child,” John Erzen, a spokesman with the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office, told WTOP.

Police said Boswell-Johnson has admitted his involvement in the mother/daughter homicide.

He is charged with two counts of first- and second-degree murder.

Co-workers, friends, family and parents from Davis’ school gathered in February to remember her as a hard-working mother who graduated from Bowie State University to pursue her dream of being a teacher.

Davis was in her first year as a second-grade teacher at Bradbury Heights Elementary School in Capitol Heights.

“I’m a teacher here and she was a wonderful person,” Judy Pirnia told FOX DC.

And while they mourned Davis’ violent, untimely death, and that of her young daughter, many attending the vigil spoke of sharing love.

“It’s amazing how much love in this world. She had much love. A lot of people showed love toward her and her baby,” said Justin Walls, a cousin of Davis, according to WUSA.

The suspect remains in jail without bond. Boswell-Johnson faces life in prison if convicted in the shootings.

Dad accused of murdering 2-year-old daughter, her mom, because he didn't want to pay child support (Prince George County, Maryland)

The current child support system almost makes these crimes inevitable. By assuming that every sperm donor, every man with whom somebody once had sex is a "father" who must take "responsibility," we leave women and children vulnerable to the actions of resentful, violent, and/or sociopathic men. We need to stop looking at child support as a stop gap measure for supporting unpaid women and their children, and set up neutral ways to help support families. Stop making women and children dependent on the good will of a cold-blooded killer.

Dad is identified as DARON BOSWELL-JOHNSON.

See the Killer Dads and Custody LIst for Maryland.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Father-Charged-With-Killing-2-Year-Old-Daughter-Mother-in-Maryland-367518771.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_DCBrand

Father Charged With Killing 2-Year-Old Daughter & Her Mother in Maryland
Daron Boswell-Johnson had been ordered to pay the mother of his daughter $600 in monthly child support, sources said.

Daron Boswell-Johnson, 26, a beloved elementary school teacher, and her 2-year-old daughter, Chloe Davis-Green, were shot and killed Tuesday. Chloe's father has been charged with murder.

The man accused of killing his 2-year-old daughter and her mother had recently been involved in a child support case and was ordered to pay $600 a month, News4 has learned.

Daron Boswell-Johnson was charged with murder Wednesday morning in the deaths of NeShante Davis, 26, a beloved elementary school teacher, and the couple's daughter, Chloe Davis-Green.

The mother and daughter were shot outside their townhouse at about 7 a.m. Tuesday.

Boswell-Johnson was confirmed to be Chloe's father in December through a DNA test conducted as part of a paternity suit, sources said. He was then ordered to pay Davis $600 a month in child support.

Prince George's County Interim Police Chief Hank Stawinski said Wednesday that Boswell-Johnson has admitted his involvement in the killings.

Davis and her little girl were found shot in the parking lot of their townhouse in the 1300 block of Palmer Road in Fort Washington, Maryland, after a witness said he heard yelling and then multiple gunshots.

Davis' body was found right away, next to her car, Prince George's County Police said. The injured toddler then was spotted through the tinted windows of her mother's blue Chevrolet.

Chloe was rushed to a hospital, where she died.

Davis was a second-grade teacher at Bradbury Heights Elementary School in Capitol Heights, according to the school's website. She worked for years as a teacher's aide at the school and was in the middle of her first year teaching after recently graduating from Bowie State University.

Davis likely was headed to drop Chloe off at day care and then head to work when they were shot, school officials said.

A friend of Davis' for more than a decade, Melonie Parker, said at an emotional service Tuesday night that she was heartbroken.

"Who can shoot a child?" she asked. "How could you look a child in their face and shoot a child? I don't understand."

Davis' mother, sister and other loved ones mourned their deaths at Community Temple Bibleway Church in Cheverly, Maryland. Members of the crowd prayed and cried together.

"I'm going to miss her. And Chloe," the toddler's grandmother, Carolyn Turner, said, unable to speak any longer.

Investigators searched for evidence at the crime scene for hours Tuesday, with the county's acting police chief and chief prosecutor on hand to ensure nothing was overlooked.

"This is absolutely unacceptable in any civilized community that a child should be killed," Prince George's County State's Attorney Angela Alsobrooks said Tuesday. "We are absolutely enraged."

On the scene, Stawinski told reporters Tuesday that investigators were pursuing viable leads.

"This is a profoundly sad day, and my prayers go out to the family for a crime that, frankly, shocks the conscience," he said.

A parent at the school where Davis taught, Tiffany Byrd, said Tuesday afternoon she was preparing to speak with her son about why he would not see his teacher again.

"I have no idea how he's responded knowing she won't be back now and he'll have a new teacher," she said.

"Miss Davis was awesome. She really, really helped him to improve a lot," Byrd said, saying her son had struggled at another school but earned all As and Bs since entering Davis' class.

The father of a student at the school wiped away tears as he spoke about Davis.

"It really hurt me. The school called this morning," Erik Hines said. "Miss Davis was an excellent teacher."

Counselors were available at the school Tuesday to help students and staff members coping with the tragedy.

Attorney information for Boswell-Johnson was not immediately available.

Control freak, abusive custodial father finally loses custody of autistic sons (Toronto, Canada)

Only in a marginal sense is this about autism, homeopathy, or alternative medicine. Frankly, the father is just using all that as a club againt the mother, so that he can maintain total control.

Like a lot of abusive fathers, he's not even interested in seeing the kids unless he "owns" them.

Like a lot of abusive fathers, he's intent on denying the mother contact or visitation.

And like a lot of abusive fathers, he really likes soaking Mom for money.

All the red flags are here.

And yet somehow he got custody. And somehow he retained custody for some time despite the fact that he could have killed this child due to his dogmatic opposition to antibiotics.

And he STILL gets access and visitation, a very dangerous thing for a control freak/abuser who has been "spurned."

UNNAMED DAD

http://www.digitaljournal.com/life/health/father-tries-to-cure-sons-autism-via-homeopathy-loses-custody/article/450849

Father wouldn't stop homeopathy on autistic sons, loses custody

By Megan Hamilton yesterday in

Health. Toronto - A father in Ontario lost custody of his two young sons, in part because he refused to stop trying to cure the boys' autism and other illnesses with homeopathy.

The boys, aged nine and ten have "severe and profound" autism spectrum disorder. The boys' father is a 48-year-old computer programmer who lives in the Greater Toronto Area, the National Post reports.

The treatments weren't effective, and "they had negative effects," according to a court decision that granted sole custody to the boys' mother.

During an October hearing, the children's mother sought a court order demanding her ex-husband stop using homeopathic treatments on their sons, DeadState reports. Her argument was that the boys' father was "looking for a 'cure' for autism" instead of trying to find a method of managing the disorder.

He will now see the children three weekends a month, and will share access on holidays, the National Post reports.

 Homeopathy, a practice developed in Germany, has its' roots in the early 19th century, and is considered an alternative therapy.

In her testimony before the Ontario Court of Justice, the mother said the ill-effects of her ex-husband's "treatments," which were being used to lessen one boy's spasms instead made him "very aggressive," DeadState reports.

"He would not stop hitting everyone and it took about two weeks for the [behavior] to stop and for him to return to his normal state," she said.

In another instance, the father allegedly didn't use antibiotics for an infected cut on the nine-year-old's finger and kept the boy from his mother while trying to treat the infection with homeopathic remedies. That only made the infection worse.

 The boys don't speak, aren't toilet-trained and are unable to dress or feed themselves, The Vancouver Sun reports.

While this case doesn't involve a serious and possibly fatal illness, it quickly could have, family lawyer Andrew Feldstein told the National Post.

 "Kids get strep throat all the time, and you need antibiotics to deal with strep throat, and if a parent is having problems with the other parent administering the antibiotics, that becomes a very serious issue," he said.

Medical care was just one part of a spate of issues that influenced the custody hearing in which both parents were seeking sole custody.

Justice Roselyn Zisman criticized the father for his refusal to see his kids during the summer, and for his threat to institutionalize the boys unless his $500 per month child-support payments were lowered.

 "If you cannot handle the children I suggest foster care, institutionalizing them, or cover my child expenses so I can take them," he wrote his ex-wife in a text last July.

In her decision, Zisman wrote "the father's decision not to see the children is the most glaring example of his inability to put the children's needs before his own need to control and punish the mother."

The ruling is just one of several custody battles involving parents with unorthodox medical views potentially endangering their kids, The Vancouver Sun reported.

Cases have included a toddler with leukemia whose father wanted to treat him with cannabis oil in lieu of chemotherapy. There have also been numerous cases where Canadian judges have ruled that Jehovah's Witnesses do not have the right to prevent their children from receiving potentially life-saving blood transfusions.

In October, Digital Journal reported on the sentencing of a Spokane man who sold industrial bleach and touted it as a cure for autism.

Louis Daniel Smith, 45, was sentenced to 51 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

Dubbed Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS), Smith sold the product through his company, Project GreenLife. He claimed it cured a variety of diseases and illnesses, but this 'miracle cure' was actually sodium chlorite mixed with water.

 In a statement the Department of Justice reported that sodium chlorite "cannot be sold for human consumption, and suppliers of the chemical include a warning sheet stating that it can cause potentially fatal side effects if swallowed."

MMS is also on the FDA warnings list due to the fact that it's toxic and causes, diarrhea, fatigue, low blood pressure associated with severe dehydration, and severe vomiting.

Touted as a cure for autism, parents desperately forced their kids to drink it or gave it to them as an enema, which destroys the lining of their intestinal tracts and kills healthy gut bacteria.

It was also alleged that Smith instructed customers to mix the product with citric acid, and that creates chlorine dioxide. It's a chemical used as a bleach for textiles and pulp for paper products. Chronic exposure to small doses of chlorine dioxide can result in neurodevelopmental and reproductive damage.

The National Post noted that some homeopaths dilute their medicines so much that a dose may only contain one or two molecules of the "active" ingredient.

How abusive dad got custody in seven minutes (Worcester, Massachusetts)

The ONLY reason such a travesty could have taken place is the utter triumph of Fathers Rights in the family court system. Fathers are coddled and indulged despite histories of domestic violence, severe mental illness, drugs/alcohol abuse, evidence of child abuse...none of it matters in terms of gaining and retaining custody.

We've reported on custodial dad RANDALL LINTS before.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/08/15/seven-minutes-that-sealed-boy-fate/lLqEG1IEo4aDzBbFEZFXfI/story.html

7 minutes that set a child’s course for tragedy

Hearing that gave a Hardwick boy to father who allegedly beat and starved him was terse, incurious, disastrous

By Michael Levenson Globe Staff August 15, 2015

WORCESTER — It took seven minutes of rustling papers and perfunctory questions uttered in rapid-fire monotone, and the deal was done. A Worcester probate judge had transferred custody of a young boy from the grandmother who had raised him almost since birth to the father whom he barely knew. A year later, the father would be charged with nearly killing the boy by beating him and refusing him food and water.

Even though family members now say that the father had a history of violence and mental illness, and though he had only recently acknowledged that he was the father, Judge Lucille A. DiLeo never questioned Randall Lints’s fitness to raise his son.

And no party to the case suggested she should.

“OK, I think we have everything,” DiLeo said in a matter-of-fact voice, after reading aloud the main points of the custody papers, and ensuring that they had been signed by the father, mother, and grandmother standing before her. “Thank you, everybody.”

Legal experts say such quick approval is typical in cases like this one.

There was no dispute over the father’s petition for custody, because the family members had signed it before the brief hearing on June 30, 2014, a recording of which was obtained by the Globe. The judge simply ratified the family consensus. There was no one in court to speak specifically for the child.

The tragic fallout from the custody ruling has raised questions about whether probate courts can do more to protect the children whose lives their decisions most deeply affect. ‘They’re all standing there, they all agree, they all signed off on it, and that’s it.’

“We must reform our probate and family courts so that, in every case, the interests of children outweigh the desires and preferences of adults,” said Gail Garinger, a former juvenile court judge who heads the state Office of the Child Advocate. “Children in our courts need experienced professionals who will listen to them and help identify their genuine needs, skilled advocates for their interests, and decision-makers who will make the welfare of the children before them their highest priority.”

Other legal specialists, even as they acknowledge the horrors allegedly inflicted by Lints, recoil at the notion that judges should intervene in cases in which an entire family is in agreement about who should gain custody.

“The idea that the state gets to tell you whether you have it together enough to bring up your child is really a little bit scary,” said Mary E. O’Connell, a professor of child and family law at Northeastern University School of Law.

Indeed, in a custody case that is not disputed, the judge must presume that the adults have the child’s best interests at heart, said Edward M. Ginsburg, a retired probate court judge who served 25 years in Middlesex County.

“In this case, there is nothing that the judge should have done that she didn’t do: They’re all standing there, they all agree, they all signed off on it, and that’s it,” Ginsburg said. “In that context, it’s an administrative function.”

The 7-year-old boy has been in a coma since July 14, when paramedics carried him from Lints’s home in Hardwick with bruises across his body and burns on his feet.

He weighed just 38 pounds, having lost 12 to 15 pounds in recent weeks. Authorities say Lints had kept his son in his bedroom and starved and dehydrated him to stop him from urinating on the floor.

The case has focused intense scrutiny on the state Department of Children and Families, which had been monitoring the boy since February when it received back-to-back complaints that Lints was neglecting the child.

Officials have acknowledged that a state social worker visited the home just two weeks before the boy fell into a coma and his father called 911.

A year earlier, DiLeo had made what would turn out to be the fateful decision to transfer custody of the boy. In court, she ticked off the nuts and bolts of the deal: The maternal grandmother, who had been the boy’s legal guardian since 2008, would hand custody to Lints, 26.

Reading from the agreement, she confirmed his promise to enroll the boy in counseling and add him to his Medicaid plan. She affirmed the visitation rights of the boy’s mother, Amber Loiselle, who had been estranged from her son for two years.

No one present raised any objections that might have prompted DiLeo to question the arrangement. The judge sealed the deal with a series of questions to each family member.

“Did you sign here? Did you review it with your lawyer before you signed it? Understood it? Signed it freely and voluntarily?” And, finally, “Thank you.”

DiLeo could have appointed an attorney for the child or an independent advocate, called a guardian ad litem, to assess whether placing him with the father was in the boy’s best interests, said Sanford N. Katz, a professor emeritus at Boston College Law School and a specialist in family law.

“The focus of the case has to be on the child, not on the parents or anybody else,” Katz said. “Even though all the parties may agree the father is the one, an independent look at this might say no.”

DiLeo did not respond to several messages.

Still, it would have been highly unusual for her to intervene when there was no dispute over custody, said Robin M. Deutsch, the director of the Center of Excellence for Children, Families and the Law at William James College in Newton.

“If people don’t bring forward a concern, it’s really not up to the court to go on a fishing expedition,” Deutsch said. “It would be very inappropriate to say, ‘Wait a moment. Let’s get an evaluation.’ Instead, you say, ‘How great that they agreed; how wonderful.’ ”

If DiLeo had scrutinized the case, she might have discovered cause for concern.

In 2007, when Lints was first told that he was going to be a father, “He would call me and threaten to cut [the baby] out of my stomach,” Amber Loiselle told the Globe last month.

A year later, a judge in Fitchburg granted Loiselle a restraining order against Lints after he allegedly shoved her to the ground. Lints was not listed on the boy’s birth certificate, and the boy was told that his father was dead, according to relatives.

Lints only became involved in his son’s life in 2013, after he was sued by the state to provide child support and was ordered to take a paternity test, court records show.

Lints’s mother, Tina LaValley, said she warned her son, who has bipolar disorder and borderline schizophrenia, not to seek custody of the boy.

“I says, ‘You don’t want to put yourself in that situation,’ ” LaValley told NECN. “[He said], ‘I don’t want nobody calling me a deadbeat dad. I’m not going to be a deadbeat dad. That is my son. I’m going to raise my son.’ ”

Dad with history of DV, "custody disputes" guns down mom and kills her in front of 7-year-old daughter (Monmouth County, New Jersey)

In many way a classic DV homicide. Mom had just left this violent control freak--one of the most riskiest times for women. Plus Dad PHIL SEIDLE was a cop who played at being model citizen, meaning he was becoming increasingly emboldened over time.

The custody "dispute" fits right in with the abuser's need for ongoing control over his victims. By demanding more time in his children's lives, he could continue his abuse of the family.

Of course, the fact that he shot Mom numerous times in front of a permanently traumatized 7-year-old girl proves he doesn't give a sh** about the kids. And he obviously didn't care that he was robbing nine kids of their mother.

This poor woman. His freaking cop friends standing there doing nothing while Daddy shot her again and again. The only way she could have survived this divorce is if Dad had been locked up years ago for his assaults and death threats--which obviously didn't happen. And wouldn't happen, given the intensely corrupt nature of the New Jersey criminal justice (criminal protection) system.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3129177/Divorced-police-officer-father-nine-pleads-not-guilty-shooting-dead-ex-wife-7-year-old-daughter.html

'Porn-addicted' police officer and father-of-nine pleads not guilty to shooting dead his ex-wife in front of their 7-year-old daughter
Sgt. Phil Seidle, 51, from Neptune Township, New Jersey, charged with first-degree murder in ex-wife Tamara's shooting death
Police say Seidle pursued his wife, then got out of his car and fired several rounds into Tamara Seidle's vehicle
The couple's 7-year-old daughter, the youngest of their nine children, was in Philip Seidle's car at the time of the killing; she was unharmed
Seidle was arrested after 30-minute standoff with police during which he held gun to his head Witnesses heard the officer complain that he didn't want to pay alimony anymore and have limited access to his children
Tamara Seidle claimed in divorce complaint her husband was a porn addict and an adulterer who held her at gunpoint while she was pregnant

By Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com
Published: 00:12 EST, 18 June 2015 | Updated: 04:37 EST, 18 June 2015

A recently divorced New Jersey police officer accused of chasing and gunning down his ex-wife with his service weapon as their youngest daughter watched made his first court appearance Wednesday and entered a not guilty plea.

A shackled Neptune Township police Sgt. Phil Seidle, 51, was led into Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Honora O'Brien Kilgallen's courtroom, where he was formally charged with first-degree murder, unlawful possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child.

He continues to be held in jail on $2million, as his attorney's efforts to have the bail amount lowered to $1.2million proved unsuccessful.

Judge Killgallen rejected the request for a lower bail and ordered Seidle to have no contact with his children or his late ex-wife's family, reported NJ.com. The 51-year-old also must surrender his passport.

Defense attorney Edward Bertucio argued that his client was an upstanding member of the community and a veteran law enforcement officer who was not a flight risk.

But Marc LeMieux, first assistant prosecutor for Monmouth County, contended that facing a first-degree murder charge that carries a 30 years to life sentence could drive Seidle to flee.

 

'He turned into a criminal and a murderer,' Lemieux said of the officer.

 

Seidle was suspended without pay from his $120,000-a-year job after his arrest Tuesday.

 

Dressed in a yellow jail garb, a teary-eyed Seidle was observed mouthing the words 'I love you' to his relatives seated in the courtroom.  

Seidle had his 7-year-old daughter in the front seat of his car while he pursued a black Volkswagen Jetta driven by his ex-wife, Tamara, shortly before 11.30am Tuesday.

 

The chase ended moments later when Tamara Seidle crashed into a parked car.

 

Philip Seidle then emerged from his vehicle and fired his .40-caliber Glock service weapon several times into the woman's vehicle through the driver's side, fatally wounding her, according to police.

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He then pointed the gun at his head, but changed his mind, made his way around the Jetta and fired more rounds through the windshield, said Charles Webster, spokesman of the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, during a press conference.

 

Questions have been raised about the actions of the arresting officers, who chose not to shoot Seidle when he briefly stopped firing on his wife.

 

'That's under investigation at this point in time,' said prosecutor Marc Lemieux.

 

Police officers who happened to be in the neighborhood for an unrelated traffic accident saw the shooting unfold and took the child from her father's silver Honda Pilot. The girl apparently was not injured.

Tamara Seidle, 51, was taken to a hospital, where she died a short time later. No other injuries were reported in the shooting.

 

The shooting was followed by a 30-minute police standoff, during which Seldie held a gun to his head before officers convinced him to surrender. He was then taken into custody.

 

The couple had nine children, ranging in age from 7 to 24, and their divorce was finalized late last month. Authorities say the shooting apparently was spurred by an ongoing child custody dispute. 

 

Michael Terrell, who witnessed the shooting, told the Asbury Park Press that Seidle was yelling at his ex-wife about their child custody fights, how he was tired of paying her alimony and having limited access to their children.

'The guy was in the middle of the street,' Terrell told the newspaper. 'He was saying, "I'm tired of going to court."'

 

Seidle then raised his gun, firing multiple shots at the woman.

 

'It was shocking,' Terrell said.

 

Another eyewitness, Trina Poysner, recalled hearing Seidle cry out in despair: 'My kids, my kids! I'm not going to see them anymore.'

 

Seidle, 51, is a US Navy veteran who served as a sergeant with the Neptune Township Police Department. He has served on the force for 22 years.

 

Township resident Dianna Harris told the newspaper that Seidle was a popular officer who cared about the community. Harris, who is president of the Neptune-based Midtown Urban Renaissance Corporation, said Seidle would often visit the nonprofit group's community garden.

 

'He was a well-respected cop in the area,' Harris said. 'Nobody knows what triggered this, and that's what makes it so sad.'

 

But court documents paint a starkly different picture of the well-respected law enforcement official and model family man.

In a complaint filed by Tamara Seidle two years ago, the mother of nine accused her husband of nearly 25 years of holding a gun to her head while she was pregnant. 

 

On another occasion, the officer allegedly kicked his wife in the stomach while she was pregnant. 

 

In her divorce complaint, Mrs Seidle described her spouse as a violent man who was addicted to pornography and video games, and who was unfaithful to her in the course of their tumultuous marriage. 

 

Susan Doremus, who worked with Tamara Seidle during Neptune school athletic events and booster club functions, said the 51-year-old was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010. 

Violent dad was scheduled to appear in court for child support, but killed 1-year-old daughter, her mom instead (Chesterfield, Virginia)

Where do you start with a vicious criminal like STANDFORD SHAW, who murdered his 1-year-old daughter, her mother, and two other innocent people?

Why were the previous charges of arson and murder dismissed?

Why was his previous conviction for assault not taken seriously given the previous allegations of arson and murder?

Given this history, why did it not raise a SERIOUS RED FLAG when he is choking the mother of his infant daughter, when choking is a HIGHLY RELIABLE INDICATOR of future homicidal behavior? What fool thought that tossing Mom an order of protection and giving dad weekend jail time was a good sentence for a chronically dangerous man like this?

So Daddy shoots to death a BABY and the baby's mom, and kills two other people when he crashes his car.

There was clearly a record of escalating violence here which the authorities ignored since it "only" involved women and children.

Then what is the crap about having Daddy pay child support, as if he were some ordinary father going through a divorce? Absolutely dangerous move, as this is the sort of trigger that sets these guys off on a killing spree. Again, he should have been in prison rather than providing him with additional reason to "get revenge" against this innocent baby and her mom.

http://www.nbc12.com/story/29209737/court-records-reveal-fathers-violent-past-before-chesterfield-mmurders

Court records reveal father's violent past before Chesterfield murders

Posted: Jun 01, 2015 4:01 PM EDT Updated: Jun 01, 2015 6:27 PM EDT

By Ashley Monfort

CHESTERFIELD, VA (WWBT) - We now know more about the father accused of murdering his estranged girlfriend and their daughter in Chesterfield. Stafford Shaw's violent past is being revealed in court records.

He died after crashing his car while leading police on a chase on I-295. Two people in another car also died.

Now Shaw's family is speaking out and say there is more to the story.

Shaw was actually due in court this Friday for a child support hearing involving Leah, 1, his daughter and the youngest victim. And court documents show there was a history of violence with Leah's mother and another woman.

Months before police discovered the bodies of Morgan Rogers and her daughter Leah inside their Matoaca home, there was this protective order against Leah's father, Shaw. A criminal complaint says Shaw had "...grabbed (Morgan's ) throat and began choking her and bit her nose" and "She blacked out." Shaw was serving jail time on weekends for the assault.

On Friday, police say he murdered Morgan and Leah. He died after leading police on a chase and crashing on I-295.

"I cried out because that's my little," says Shaw's brother Charles Scott. "I know he had did some things but he is still my little brother bottom line, he is still my brother." Scott says his brother wanted to get back with is wife which upset Morgan. Before the crash, Scott says Shaw was on the phone with their sister. "This is what he said: She shot the baby as he was holding her and then the hurt from that, he shot her," says Scott. "There's no way he would have killed the child, there's no way."

But Chesterfield police say evidence shows Shaw shot his estranged girlfriend and their daughter to death. We asked if Scott ever thought his brother was violent. "That's not a side that we've seen," says Scott.

But according to court records, Shaw was found guilty of assaulting another woman seven years ago. In 1989, he was accused of murder and arson in Richmond, but that case was dismissed.

Scott says he would have told his brother to turn himself in.

Funeral arrangement for Morgan and Leah Rogers have not yet been made public.

Dad in "bitter" custody dispute found guilty of 1st-degree murder in death of 4-year-old daughter; wanted to avoid child support (Los Angeles, California)

Finally, after 15 years, Lauren has justice. The killer dad is identified as CAMERON BROWN. We have been following this case for a long, long time....

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/father-guilty-murdering-year-daughter-cliff-toss-31035315

In 3rd Trial, Dad Guilty of Hurling Girl to Death off Cliff

LOS ANGELES — May 14, 2015, 9:03 AM ET
By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press

In the nearly 15 years since Sarah Key-Marer got the chilling news that her 4-year-old daughter had plunged to her death from a sea cliff, the mother has waited for the girl's father to take responsibility.

He never did, and after two previous juries deadlocked, jurors Wednesday convicted Cameron Brown of first-degree murder in the death of Lauren Sarene Key.

A shocked Key-Marer breathed heavily and began crying as the verdict was read in Los Angeles Superior Court.

"Lauren was our gift from God, the best thing that ever happened to us," Key-Marer said outside court. "We just learned to live with the pain."

Brown, a former airline baggage handler, hurled the girl to her death from a 120-foot cliff in November 2000 because he never wanted the child and was locked in a bitter dispute with her mother over child support and custody, a prosecutor said.

Two previous juries failed to reach a unanimous decision on whether Brown was guilty of murder or manslaughter, and he has spent nearly a dozen years behind bars awaiting an outcome.

Brown stared straight ahead with no sign of emotion as the verdict was read. After Key-Marer and jurors left the courtroom, Brown told the judge he was innocent.

Brown, 53, faces a mandatory term of life in prison without parole when sentenced June 19 for the killing and special circumstances that he lay in wait and killed the girl for financial gain.

He told police the girl tripped and fell as she ran toward the cliff's edge at Inspiration Point in Rancho Palos Verdes.

Defense lawyer Aron Laub argued that his client was a bad dad but not a murderer and asked jurors to convict Brown of manslaughter.

"I sincerely believe that is what happened in this case," Laub said after the verdict. "I have great confidence in our jury system, but I cannot agree that this was a just verdict."

After two deadlocked juries, the latest panel took little more than a day to reach a decision.

Foreman Greg Apodaca said jurors were unanimous from their first discussions, and it was a "relatively simple decision to make" after hearing nearly six weeks of evidence and visiting the scenic bluff about 30 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.

"The expert witnesses made it pretty clear, and when we did the site visit, it was clear to us, as well, that it didn't seem likely that a 4-year-old girl would be up there of her own volition," Apodaca said.

Prosecution experts said the girl's injuries were not consistent with an accidental fall because she couldn't have run fast enough to clear part of the cliff before either striking an outcropping or hitting the beach below.

Jurors heard most of the same evidence as previous juries, but this time, Los Angeles sheriff's Detective Jeffrey Leslie bolstered proof of a financial motive by finding someone to testify that Brown said it would be "nice to get rid of Lauren" to avoid paying $1,000 a month in child support, Deputy District Attorney Craig Hum said.

"That witness made a significant difference," Hum said. "Obviously, the financial motive was a factor, but it was primarily his hatred of Sarah, Lauren's mother, that propelled this."

Hum told jurors that Brown's statements were riddled with lies and that Brown had wanted Key-Marer, a British citizen, to get an abortion and he even tried to get her deported.

As a tearful Key-Marer stood to address reporters, juror Shelia Janis said she was sorry for the pain she had endured.

"I'm sorry for (the) death of your baby, but justice has certainly been served," Janis said.

Dad on trial again for 2000 murder of 4-year-old daughter during visitation; accused of wanting to avoid child support, hurt mother (Rancho Palos Verdes, California)

We've been reporting on this case since the very beginnings of Dastardly Dads. That's a long time.

Dad is identified as CAMERON BROWN. See the Killer Dads and Custody page for California to see a recap of this case, and other similar cases.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0512-cameron-brown-20150512-story.html

3rd jury set to deliberate evidence in child's 2000 death

By Stephen Ceasar

Nearly 15 years after she plunged to her death from a Rancho Palos Verdes cliff, the smiling face of 4-year-old Lauren Sarene Key was beamed Monday from a projector onto the wall of a downtown Los Angeles courtroom..

The eyes of jurors turned upward to see the photograph of the young girl with golden curls. Her mother, Sarah Key-Marer, stared at the image and sobbed as she was comforted by supporters.

Lauren's father, Cameron Brown, sat expressionless as Deputy Dist. Atty. Craig Hum asked the jury to convict him in the young girl's death.

"The truth is that the defendant threw his 4-year-old girl off that cliff like a piece of luggage," Hum said, pointing first at Brown and then to Lauren's image. "That's the truth."

The jury is set to begin deliberations Tuesday after hearing rival narratives of what happened atop Inspiration Point on Nov. 8, 2000: a tragic accident or a calculated killing.

Hum described Brown as a coldhearted, vindictive man who never wanted the child and killed her to avoid paying child support and to hurt her mother.

But defense attorney Aron Laub argued that Brown loved and cared for his daughter and that the girl was playing near the cliff's edge when she slipped and fell to her death.

This is the third time that a jury has listened to the opposing accounts of Lauren's death. Two previous juries deadlocked on whether Brown intentionally killed his daughter. If no verdict is reached this time, a judge could refuse to let prosecutors retry the case and order Brown, who has been jailed since 2003, released.

In his closing arguments, Laub told jurors that evidence in the case did not prove Brown set out to kill his child, but instead painted him as a lousy father and unlikable person.

"I don't think it's necessary to like him as an individual to give him justice as a human being," Laub said.

Laub said the prosecution of Brown was propelled by an emotional reaction to the death of a young child.

"It's an injustice to prosecute Cameron Brown for murder," he told jurors.

At the end of his remarks, Laub guided jurors to a guilty verdict on a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter.

"This could have been prevented by holding her hand," he told them. #Hum argued that, at the very least, a guilty verdict on second-degree murder was warranted because Brown failed in his legal duty to protect his daughter from harm.

But he argued that the evidence points to first-degree murder, recalling testimony by an expert witness who said the girl's injuries were inconsistent with a slip or trip and instead suggested that she was thrown. Brown mustered only a half-hearted attempt at rescuing the girl after the fall and was indifferent and uninterested in the hours and days that followed, Hum said.

"It was a one-way trip," he said.

Brown's first trial ended in 2006, with two jurors voting to convict him of first-degree murder, eight voting for second-degree murder and two favoring manslaughter. In 2009, a jury split evenly between second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.

Dad with history of domestic violence, custody and child support disputes stabs to death 13-month-old daughter, her mother (Eastpointe, Michigan)

Dad is identified as CURTIS HAMPTON, JR. The fact that Daddy had a history of domestic violence AND child custody/child support disputes with other women should have been an absolute red flag.

http://www.macombdaily.com/general-news/20150430/slain-eastpointe-woman-was-stabbed-14-times-daughter-once

Slain Eastpointe woman was stabbed 14 times, daughter once

By Norb Franz, The Macomb Daily Posted: 04/30/15, 11:24 AM EDT | Updated: 2 hrs ago

An Eastpointe woman found dead in her home in February had been stabbed 14 times, while her 13-month-old daughter whose body was on a pillow placed on the 29-year-old mother died of a single stab wound that pierced her heart and a lung, according to testimony Thursday in court.

The bodies of Monique Rakowski, 29, and her daughter Carmon were found Feb. 12 in a bathroom of their home in the 23700 block of Normandy Street. Rakowski’s ex-boyfriend and father of the little girl, Curtis Hampton Jr., is charged in the slayings. At the conclusion of the preliminary hearing in 38th District Court, Judge Carl Gerds III ordered Hampton, 30, to stand trial on murder and other charges.

Forensic pathologist Mary Pietrangelo of the Macomb County Medical Examiner’s Office testified the Eastpointe woman suffered stab wounds to her breasts, her right arm and back, and blunt force trauma to her neck, chest and skull.

The bodies were discovered by Rakowski’s father. Michael Rakowski went to the home, located in the Nine Mile Road-Gratiot Avenue area, at the request of his wife because she had not her from their daughter. From the witness stand, he gave this account: After he entered the house, he called out, but nobody responded.

The bathroom door was locked, so he checked other rooms, which were unoccupied. Saying he would not have been comfortable leaving with the bathroom unchecked, he broke through the door and made the gruesome discovery. Monique was lying on her back, with nickels placed over her eyes. Little Carmon was on her back on the pillow with a pacifier in her mouth.

“I took the pacifier out of her mouth and tried to breath some life into her,” the father and grandfather said. “I could tell it was way too late.”

He then dialed 911.

The next day, Feb. 13, Hampton turned himself in the Dearborn Police Department. Claiming he had been stabbed, he was transported to Oakwood Hospital where he was treated for approximately one hour.

During a more than three-hour interview at the Eastpointe Police Department, Detective Joseph Madonia said Hampton claimed that he told Monique Rakowski there was a warrant for his arrest and that she became angry that he’d be going to jail and leaving her behind. Hampton said he tried to cuddle with her one last time in bed but she kicked him, said Madonia, who headed the Eastpointe police investigation into the double slaying.

The detective said Hampton alleged that she grabbed a knife and hit him first. “He stated she removed the knife from his chest and went to stab him again and missed, and struck Carmon,” Madonia said during questioning by Macomb County Assistant Prosecutor Therese Tobin. Hampton told investigators the fight spilled from the bedroom into a hallway and to the bedroom. Madonia said Hampton claimed he and Rakowski had a conversation as she sat on the bathroom room while he was on the toilet. Hampton admitted that he stabbed Rakowski, the detective said.

“He said he had two knives, one in each hand. He said he used both,” Madonia said.

Hampton cleaned off the knives and fled the house hours later, police said.

Hampton’s mother testified that she received a troubling text message from the cellphone that she had given to him to use. Anita Hampton said he drove to the apartment complex where she resides and that he gave her a bag containing clothes and the phone.

Details of the lengthy text message were not revealed in court. However, Anita Hampton said she was worried about him, so she phoned her daughter. Then she spoke with him a second time.

“After the conversation, he did go to the Dearborn Police Department and turn himself in,” the suspect’s mother added.

Defense attorney Timothy Barkovic argued that police failed to adequately consider whether Hampton may have acted in self-defense. Barkovic unsuccessfully tried to convince Judge Gerds to have Hampton’s statement to police suppressed.

Barkovic declared in court that he did not have any defense witnesses for Thursday’s probable-cause hearing. Moments later, Hampton muttered that he wanted to take the stand, but the judge denied the request.

In deciding whether prosecutors provided sufficient evidence for Curtis Hampton to stand trial, Gerds scoffed at Hampton’s version of events as told by Madonia.

“He’s come up with a story so absurd, I’m not sure it’s evidence at all,” the judge said before ordering Hampton to stand trial on one count of first-degree murder, two counts of felony murder and single counts of first-degree child abuse and attempted third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

Hampton remains in custody at the Macomb County Jail without bond.

If convicted of any of the murder charges, Hampton would receive a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no chance for parole.

Even before the altercation that left Rakowski and Carmon dead, Hampton and Rakowski had a violent relationship.

Last July, he was arrested and charged with domestic violence second offense/aggravated assault, district court records show. That charge is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, a $5,000 fine, or both. At the time, Gerds ordered Hampton to not contact Rakowski and stay at least 1,000 feet from the Normandy street residence.

Last August, Hampton pleaded no contest, which is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing purposes. Judge Gerds sentenced him to 12 months of probation, fines and costs totaling $1,490, set other restrictions and lifted the no-contact order, court records show.

Hampton has two older children from different mothers. In January, he wrote a letter to Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Tracey Yokich, requesting parenting time to spend more time with both boys despite what he considered stormy relationships with both mothers. In the letter, Hampton acknowledged a previous domestic violence charge but told the judge that he was confident had controlled his temper after attending court-ordered anger management counseling.

A few weeks before the slayings of Monique Rakowski and Carmon, a bench warrant for Hampton’s arrest had been issued for arrearage on child support payments involving one of his sons, according to Circuit Court records.

Dad "suspected" in death of 10-year-old son was abusive and CUSTODIAL (Hennepin County, Minnesota)

This is kind of confusing. Who is the actual mother of the little boy? Wife #2 apparently has sole custody of the two biological children she had with suspected killer dad PIERRE COLLINS. She also apparently has custody of two kids from "a previous relationship that Pierre adopted." A previous relationship of Wife #2 or a previous relationship of Pierre? Not real clear, but then the article goes on to say that Pierre would not let her adopt the little boy who is now dead. So she was not the biological mother. Meaning that Pierre was the custodial dad?

Wouldn't be surprising as his history of domestic violence and child abuse is very common among fathers who attain custody. And notice how he was pissed off about child support....

Does make me wonder what happened to the boy's mother though. An awful lot is not explained here....

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/28786096/ex-wifes-allegations-of-pierre-collins-now-coming-to-light

Ex-wife's allegations of Pierre Collins 'coming to light now'

Posted: Apr 13, 2015 8:57 AM EDT Updated: Apr 13, 2015 8:59 AM EDT

by Iris Perez

(KMSP) - Saturday afternoon, investigators confirmed Jennifer Beaver's worst fears. The body pulled from the Mississippi River was of a 10-year-old boy she helped raise.

“He's not my former stepson, he's my son,” Beaver said. “I took care of him, I nurtured that little boy, I tucked him in. I was his mommy.”

On March 18, the day Barway Collins went missing, Pierre Collins was at a court hearing that Beaver was teleconferenced into.

“Pierre was ordered that day to pay child support,” she said. “The judge was not lenient on him that day at all. The day was very hard on him and he was angry.”

Divorced now for more than a year, Beaver has sole custody of their 4 children -- 2 biological and 2 others from a previous relationship that Pierre adopted. But Beaver said Pierre would not allow her to adopt Barway.

Beaver filed an order for protection against Pierre Collins in 2013 after she says he hurt her children. The order expired just days before Barway disappeared.

“I recall (Pierre) hitting (Barway) with a belt, not just a couple times -- we're talking 10 times if not more,” Beaver said. “We're talking hitting him in his head anytime he got an answer wrong on his homework. He was abusive of my children, abusive towards me.”

Police said they have electronic evidence that places Pierre Collins near the very spot Barway's body was found. Beaver and her sister, Talisha, are now waiting for word of an arrest or two, since the last we heard from Barway was his sighting of his dad and his “uncle.”

“There's somebody else who helped him with this and that person needs to be found,” Talisha said.

They also wonder about Yamah, Pierre's current wife, who has stood by her husband as the story about her his whereabouts March 18 changed multiple times. “She sat right next to him while he told that story, and she nodded and everything," Talisha said. "She lied too.”

Beaver mourns, and even worries about the 2 small children still under Pierre and Yamah's care.

“They're innocent kids, but if he can hurt my children, if he can hurt Barway, he can hurt them as well,” Beaver said.

Dad with history of DV shoots four children with two dead, mom and new boyfriend also killed; dad apparently miffed over child support (Douglasville, Georgia)

Once again, the cops play dumb and refrain from identifying a motive. But it's really the same-old, same-old. Dad CEDRIC PRATHER had a history of domestic violence (I'm sure the one police call reported here is merely the tip of the iceberg.) This typically goes hand-in-hand with narcissistic entitlement and coercive control issues. Dad's custody/visitation rights are not spelled out here, but I wouldn't be surprised if he had legal access to these kids. He was, according to a neighbor, aggravated about child support. And yet this piece of sh** was apparently allowed to run around with a gun. Allowing somebody like this access to firearms is like holding a match over a can of gas. It was almost inevitable that there would be an explosion.  

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2945360/The-girl-said-No-Daddy-Daddy-shot-Neighbors-horrifying-moment-father-gunned-daughter-ran-away-house-mother-new-boyfriend-three-siblings-shot.html

'She said "No Daddy, Please Daddy"... and then he shot her': Neighbors describe the horrifying moment a father killed his family

•Cedric Prather shot dead ex-wife Latoya Andrews, 33, police confirm
•Two of her children, London, 7 and Jeremiah, 9, were also shot dead
•Misha, 15, and her sister, 8, are still in a critical condition 
•Fourth victim was Andrews' new boyfriend Joseph Brown, 33
•Neighbors described how three of the children ran from the house
•The eldest begged Prather to stop, but they were all gunned down
•Andrews' eldest son, a teenager, was playing basketball at the time
•He did not find out what had happened until a friend was taking him home 

By Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com and Associated Press Reporter Published: 21:02 EST, 8 February 2015 | Updated: 07:24 EST, 9 February 2015

A girl screamed 'Daddy No' while running away from her house after her father shot his ex-wife, her new boyfriend and three siblings.

Neighbors described how the teenager tried to escape Cedric Prather, 33, during a rampage in the Atlanta suburb of Douglas on Saturday that left Latoya Andrews, also 33, her boyfriend Terry Brown and two young children dead.

Siblings London, seven, and her brother Jeremiah, nine, were killed while their big sister Misha, 15, and another girl, eight, remain in critical condition at a nearby hospital.

According to the Atlanta Constitution Journal, Prather, the father of all of the children involved, had driven to the house dressed in black and paced up and down outside before barging in.

Three of the girls then ran from the house, with the eldest begging him to stop, before they were all shot.

Residents nearby said they were then left bleeding in the street before Prather turned the gun on himself.

The family's eldest son, a teenager, was playing basketball at the time of the shooting, and did not find out what happened until he was on his way home.

The victims were supposed to attend, the paper reported, but they did not make it.

A motive for the shooting has not been released, however police twice visited the pair's house in 2013 responding to a domestic abuse complaint.

Neighbor Nick Cook added: 'It was over the stupidest things. It was over child support and taxes.'

A GoFundMe page raising money for Ms Andrews' surviving children pays tribute to the family.

'Saturday Febrary 7th 2015 was a very tragic day. We had to say goodbye to three beautiful people,' writes the group administrator Jenny Brown.

Douglas County Sheriff's Lt. Glenn Daniel said authorities received a 911 call Saturday afternoon suggesting there had been a shooting in Douglasville.

Witnesses described how the suspect parked his car down the street, walked to the front of the house, crept inside and opened fire.

He told CBS 46 the shooter was the ex-husband of one of the victims, but he did not know how long the couple had been divorced.

EMTs arrived at the scene and were reportedly treating victims as they lay in the middle of the residential street.

Teresa Carter, 59, said she heard the gunfire from inside her home but did not see what happened. Police said victims were shot inside and outside the home.

Carter said she often saw the children playing in the driveway and around the neighborhood. They enjoyed petting her dog.

'I heard shots, and I heard the girl scream,' Carter said. 'And then I heard four more shots.'

Brandon Hallman was working on a car a few houses down when the shooting started.

'I heard a couple quick shots, you know, back to back to back. Went out there and, you know, looked and it was already over,' Hallman said. 'We just grabbed some towels and kind of went down there to try and help before the paramedics got here.'

Another neighbor, Angela Ansah, struggled to explain to her own children what happened to their slain friends a few houses down. Ansah said some of the children targeted Saturday often came over to her house to play with her own children.

'These are children I see every day, every blessed day,' Ansah said.

Chief Deputy Stan Copeland, of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office told WSBTV: 'We had multiple victims shot in the street.

'Some of those are siblings, so some (of) these (people) are related. We just don't know who is who right now.'

The shooter's sister was said to have been escorted away by police. Earlier she had said: 'My brother should never have a gun.' .

Dad accused of killing 4-year-old daughter awarded full custody three years ago (Jacksonville, Florida)

Thank you for starting to look into this case, CBS. But why are all the documents redacted? Is it for political reasons, so DCF doesn't look even worse than it already does, with the recent murder of Phoebe Jonchuck by her custodial father?

Dad is identified as JOHN NORFLEET.

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/news/local/father-accused-killing-4-year-old-awarded-full-cus/nj4y5/

Posted: 7:25 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015

Father accused of killing 4-year-old awarded full custody of child 3 years ago

By Lorena Inclán

New court documents shed more light into the life of a little girl who ended up dead, police say, at the hands of her father and stepmother.

Action News has scoured through several pages of documents involving the custody of 4-year-old Jada Norfleet and her older sister. Norfleet, 31, is now facing murder and aggravated child abuse charges, accused of killing his daughter Jada, 4.

There's about 60 pages worth of information on child support and the divorce between John Norfleet, and his ex-wife and biological mother of two of his daughters. The court awarded Norfleet full custody of the girls three years ago.

He later met Shavonn Norfleet. They married and had another child. The family of five lived in an apartment home in the Southside, where police say Jada was beaten to death with a piece of lumber and died Jan. 30.

In 2012, John Norfleet filed a dissolution of marriage with dependent children form against his previous wife in Monroe County. A year later, a motion over child support payments was filed.

The documents are heavily redacted, leaving out things like why the couple split.

But on one page John Norfleet wrote, "Wife does not wish to salvage marriage" as part of the reason.

The Florida Department of Children and Families is now investigating Jada’s death. Meanwhile, her siblings are in protective custody.

We know one of John Norfleet's relatives lives in Jacksonville. We've tried going to her home to speak with her several times without any luck.

Dad heads to trial for death of 16-month-old son during visitation (Oroville, California)

Update to the killer dad and custody list.

Beware of any dad who suddenly decides he "wants" to be a dad--after being ordered to pay child support. Too often the motives are not exactly altruistic. Have not been able to locate any news article reporting the outcome of this trial, unfortunately.

Dad is identified as MICHAEL LESLIE DOLLAR.

http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_23811508/man-heads-trial-oroville-toddler-death

Man heads for trial in Oroville toddler death

By BARBARA ARRIGONI-Staff Writer
Posted: 08/07/2013 12:04:18 AM PDT0

OROVILLE -- A Butte County judge Tuesday ordered a 25-year-old Bangor man bound over for trial in an alleged assault on a 16-month-old boy in Oroville that led to his death. New details emerged in the case Tuesday afternoon when the defendant, Michael Leslie Dollar, appeared before Judge Steven Howell for a preliminary hearing into the death of baby Deagan Jackson, who was reportedly Dollar's son.

Testimony from two police detectives revealed Dollar told the boy's mother several different stories about how Deagan was hurt, that Dollar appeared agitated that day, and that the child's injuries were similar to either a car accident or being struck by a baseball bat.

He originally told police Deagan got hurt playing in a bedroom.

Deagan was injured Nov. 11, 2010, at an apartment in Oroville, where Dollar was living with Amanda Allard and their two children.

Oroville police became involved that day when staff at Oroville Hospital reported an infant was in the emergency room with severe head trauma.

"Baby Deagan" was later flown by helicopter to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, where he died from the injuries, detective Ron Belser said.

Deagan was born to Sabrina Jackson in June 2009, Belser said. Dollar denied being the boy's father and ordered a paternity test, but after being ordered to pay child support, he decided he wanted to be a father.

Supervising deputy district attorney Michael Sanderson later told the court the paternity test established Dollar as the father and the test was 99.9-percent certain. .

Detective Belser next recounted statements made by Sabrina Jackson about telephone exchanges she had with Dollar on Nov. 11. while Deagan was visiting Dollar.

Dollar allegedly called Jackson around 2:17 p.m., asking her to "come get your kid."

He was angry at the time, but she wasn't able to go retrieve Deagan, Belser said.

When Jackson tried to make arrangements in yet another call, Dollar told her "never mind."

Belser said Dollar called Jackson again at 6 p.m. and told her to go to the emergency room at Oroville Hospital.

According to Belser, Jackson said Dollar was complaining about how long it was taking at the hospital and having to go to work early the next morning.

Both parents were present when Deagan was pronounced dead. Belser testified Jackson told police that Dollar looked at the child and said, "Sorry," and hit a wall as he left the hospital, saying, "This wasn't supposed to happen."

Jackson also heard several different stories about how her son was hurt.

Belser said Dollar first claimed Deagan had fallen from a balcony at the apartment he lived in. A few days later he told Jackson the boy fell down the steps to the apartment. Next, he said Deagan had fallen from a child's bed, and then that he had climbed a book shelf and it had fallen over.

However, Belser noted the autopsy by pathologist Thomas Resk found Deagan's injuries weren't consistent with any of those scenarios.

The autopsy showed there was blunt-force trauma to the skull. Belser said there were five fractures on the skull and compression fractures on each side of the child's head, allegedly "from being struck more than once with an object or the head being slammed in a door frame."

Belser also said a doctor who treated the child at Oroville Hospital compared Deagan's injuries "to being in an automobile accident or struck with a baseball bat."

Belser and detective Sabrina Ostberg also testified about statements Allard gave police.

Belser said Allard first told police she was in the kitchen with Dollar, cooking, and Deagan was in a bedroom with her son.

She heard crying, and Dollar went to the bedroom to check on it.

"Moments later the crying stopped, and Michael came out holding baby Deagan ..." Belser said.

Ostberg said Allard told her last June that she and Dollar were in the kitchen and the children were going back and forth between rooms.

Allard "tearily" acknowledged Dollar appeared "grumpy, tired and agitated" that day, and that she'd seen him hit a wall and throw a cellphone, Ostberg said.

Ostberg also testified Allard heard a loud cry from the bedroom, allegedly from Dollar, and a "low, soft cry" from Deagan, as well as seeing a lump on the baby's head.

Defense attorney Mark Stapleton asked a few questions about reports and didn't call any witnesses.

Howell ordered Dollar bound over for trial and scheduled an arraignment hearing for 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 27.

According to Sanderson, the District Attorney's Office has offered a plea bargain with a charge of second-degree murder. The offer remains open until the next hearing.

Dollar remains in custody on $1 million bail.

Dad pleads no contest to manslaughter charges in death of 6-month-old son; baby killed three days after mom filed for child support (Flint, Michigan)

Update to killer dads and custody list.

Appears dad LENSLEY E. MARTIN II got off comparatively easy on manslaughter charges.

Not mentioned here is that this child's death (from blunt force trauma to the head) took place during the father's visitation time--just three days after the mother applied for child support.

See our previous post here.

http://archive.freep.com/article/20130403/NEWS06/130403058/Flint%20man%20sentenced%20in%20death%20of%206-month-old%20son

Flint man sentenced in death of 6-month-old son

1:56 PM, Apr. 3, 2013

FLINT - A young man has been sentenced to prison in the death of his 6-month-old son in the Flint area.

The Flint Journal reports Lensley E. Martin II was sentenced Wednesday to 4 years, 9 months to 15 years in prison in Genesee County Circuit Court.

Martin told the court he accepted responsibility and will use time in prison to "better myself."

He earlier pleaded no contest to manslaughter in the September 2011 death of Lensley Martin III. A no contest plea isn't an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing.

Police in Genesee County's Mount Morris Township found the child wasn't breathing.

The child died of blunt force trauma to the head.

Martin initially was charged with murder and child abuse in the case.

Dad convicted of murdering 17-month-old son during first overnight visit to avoid child support (Cuyahoga County, Ohio)

An update to the killer dads and custody list. Dad ANTHONY JOHNSON was convicted of murdering his 17-month-old son during HIS FIRST OVERNIGHT VISIT to avoid child support.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/02/cleveland_man_found_guilty_of_1.html

Cleveland man fond guilty of murdering his 17-month-old son

by Pat Galbincea, The Plain Dealer

on February 11, 2010 at 7:33 PM, updated February 12, 2010 at 2:37 PM

CLEVELAND, Ohio--A Cuyahoga County jury convicted Anthony Johnson Thursday of murdering his 17-month-old son on Aug. 13.

After the conviction, Johnson, 36, was sentenced by Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold to 33 years to life for killing his son Anthony T. Johnson at his home on Miles Avenue near East 123rd Street.

"This is the case of a child it appears he never wanted," assistant prosecutor Pinkey Carr said. "But when he found out he'd have to pay $1,100 a month in support, all of the sudden he told the mother he wanted to see his son."

Carr said the mother brought the boy to Johnson's home on Aug. 1 - the first time the father had him for an overnight visit. When the mother came to get the child the following day, Johnson had a verbal confrontation with her and kept him at his home.

Johnson brought his son to Marymount Hospital on Aug. 13 claiming his son fell. Doctors reported the child was already dead, with contusions on his forehead and cheek, and had multiple bruises. Doctors also said Johnson showed no sense of urgency at the hospital.

Custodial dad on trial for torture-murders of 3-year-old son, 4-year-old daughter; non-custodial mom blames herself, though she was forced to give up custody for lack of job (Mobile County, Alabama)

Gee, I suppose if Daddy was really having that many problems with the new gal pal taking care of the kids, he COULD have handed them back to their Mom and paid CHILD SUPPORT (and maybe alimony) so she could afforded to take care for of them. But he didn't do that, did he?

Custodial dad JOHN DEBLASIO is full of crap. He sounds like a classic sociopath who just reveled in torturing these kids. And his new girlfriend sounds about as bad as he was.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2811952/Nobody-blame-Mother-weeps-ex-husband-s-trial-choking-death-two-children-new-girlfriend-asked-choose-her.html

'Nobody can blame me more than myself': Mother weeps at ex-husband's trial for choking to death their two children after his new girlfriend 'asked him to choose between them and her'
Natalie DeBlase, four, and her brother Chase, three, were killed in 2010
Father John DeBlase and girlfriend Heather Keaton accused of murder
Today, victims' biological mother, Corrine DeBlase, broke down court
Said she trusted ex-husband to care for them after she gave up custody
'He was their father, he was supposed to protect them,' she told court
DeBlase allegedly confessed to choking to death children in 10 letters
In documents, he 'revealed Keaton gave him ultimatum: her or the kids'
 DeBlase has blamed common-law wife for murder; the trial continues

By Sophie Jane Evans for MailOnline
Published: 21:51 EST, 28 October 2014 | Updated: 03:14 EST, 29 October 2014

The mother of two young children who were allegedly choked to death by their father wept in court today as she told of how she had trusted her ex-husband to care for them.

Wiping away tears, Corrine DeBlase said she had given up custody of her daughter Natalie, four, and three-year-old son Chase to John DeBlase in 2008 because she thought he was a 'good father'.

Dressed in a pink top with her hair scraped back, she told the court: 'He was their father, he was supposed to protect them. That's what a father is supposed to do.'

She added: 'Nobody can blame me more than I can blame myself. I know there are things I could have done then. I was their mother I should have done something.'

Natalie and Chase were killed in Mobile County, Alabama, in 2010. Chase's remains were found in a wooden area in Vancleave, Mississippi, in December 2010, six months after he was killed.

His sister's remains were discovered in Cintronelle days later. DeBlase, then 27, and his common-law wife, Heather Keaton, then 22, have been charged with murder. They have blamed each other.

Taking to the witness stand today, Mrs DeBlase said she had been forced to give up custody of her 'well-mannered' children after she lost her job and home, and her marriage collapsed.

She said that her ex-husband mainly treated Natalie like 'his little princess', but had once 'popped her in her mouth' when she was suffering from a night terror, according to AL.com.

She said the last time she had seen her children was November 17, 2009. A year later, she was told the youngsters were missing, Fox 10 reported.

'They were my heart. It may not seem the way they make it look but I loved them so much. I loved them so much and I can’t have no more (kids),' Mrs DeBlase told the court.

Yesterday, Brandon Newburn a former cellmate of DeBlase, claimed the suspect wrote a series of letters saying he choked the youngsters to 'end their suffering' at the hands of Keaton.

In the 10 letters, DeBlase reportedly said Keaton rained 'tortures and abuse' on his children at their home in Mobile County, Alabama, before finally giving him an ultimatum that it was 'her or the kids'.

The father also allegedly revealed that Keaton was spiking his children's sippy cups with antifreeze because she wanted to 'break their spirits so they would be more obedient to her will'.

In the hours before their deaths, the stepmother duct-taped and gagged the helpless youngsters, according to the letters, the TV station reported.

DeBlase then allegedly wrote he 'picked them up in the air and choked them to death... where their bodies hung lifeless,' adding: 'I know what I did was wrong, but she left me no choice.'

The defense contends Newburn coerced DeBlase and cannot be trusted.

Natalie was reportedly killed at her father's Peach Place apartment on March 4, 2010. Her brother died on June 20, 2010, according to police.

DeBlase's trial continues.

Dad convicted of capital murder for stabbing-arson deaths of 13-month-old son and his mother; wanted to avoid child support (For Worth, Texas)

A fairly timely update to a case we have been following since 2011. Dad THOMAS OLIVAS was convicted of capital murder in the deaths of his 13-month-old son and the baby's mother--and all because he wanted to avoid child support.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/10/02/6169693/jury-begins-deliberation-in-arlington.html

Bedford man convicted of capital murder for killing a girlfriend and their son

Posted Thursday, Oct. 02, 2014

By Mitch Mitchell

FORT WORTH — A Bedford man whose life got complicated because he had children with two girlfriends was convicted of capital murder Thursday for killing one of the women and their son.

Thomas Olivas, 31, was automatically sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally stabbing former girlfriend Mechelle Gandy, 26, of Arlington, and then setting her apartment on fire, which killed their 13-month-old son, Asher Olivas, on March 20, 2011.

Olivas knew that Gandy had been in touch with the Texas attorney general’s office to try to get him to pay child support for Asher, and he was about to be forced to take a paternity test, prosecutor Kevin Rousseau told jurors during the trial that began Sept. 9.

Also, Gandy forwarded nude pictures of Olivas to Rebeca Raudry, the mother of Olivas’ other child, and Raudry confronted Olivas about the pictures, Rousseau said. Olivas told Raudry that Gandy must have hacked his phone and sent the pictures, but Raudry said she didn’t believe him, so Olivas threw her and her two children out of the house in the middle of the night, Rousseau said.

These events infuriated Olivas, but there was no reason to kill Asher, Rousseau said.

“There are two human beings who have been erased from the face of the planet,” Rousseau said. “That baby could have never pointed a finger at anybody. He owed that baby money. Don’t let him go.”

On the night of March 20, 2011, emergency responders to a fire call at apartments in the 2200 block of President’s Corner Drive in north Arlington quickly found Gandy, who had been stabbed several times. Several hours later, they found Asher in the debris near his burned up crib. He died of burns, the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office reported.

“This man called Asher ‘the devil’s child’ and repeatedly asked Mechelle to get an abortion, to destroy Asher,” said prosecutor Tamla Ray. “He claimed to acknowledge Asher as his son but didn’t want Asher to have his last name.”

Prosecutors were not seeking the death penalty.

Olivas’ attorneys said no physical evidence tied him to the two deaths. The indictment against Olivas was a result of tunnel vision by investigators who failed to develop alternative theories or suspects in these murders, according to Joetta Keene and Tim Moore.

Keene said investigators could have built a case against Raudry just as easily as they built a case against Olivas using circumstantial evidence and innuendo. Burglars could have come into Gandy’s apartment and set the fire to destroy evidence, Keene said. Gandy’s wallet was missing and there were pry marks on the back door of her apartment, Keene said.

“Ladies and gentlemen, the presumption of innocence alone is enough to exonerate Thomas,” Keene said.

Dad gets life in prison for killing 11-month-old daughter and her mother to avoid child support (Prince George's County, Virginia)

Another "whatever happened to" follow-up from the killer dads and custody list.

Dad RICHMOND PHILLIPS was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in March 2013 for the murders of his 11-month-old daughter and her mother. Dad wanted to avoid child support.

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/03/richmond-phillips-sentencing-to-come-after-murder-of-wynetta-wright-baby-daughter-86552.html

Richmond Phillips sentenced for murder of Wynetta Wright, baby daughter

By Brad Bell March 22, 2013 - 08:18 am

The former MPD officers who killed his mistress and left their 11-month-old daughter to die in a hot car in 2011 will spend the rest of his life in jail.

Richmond Phillips, who was convicted in January of fatally shooting Wynetta Wright and then leaving their young daughter, Jaylin, to die was sentenced to two life sentences plus 20 years in prison Friday.

Phillips will not have the possibility of parole.

Wright and her daughter were found dead in May of 2011, shortly before she and Phillips were supposed to appear in court for a child support hearing. Shortly thereafter, the 20-year-old mother was found dead inside Oxon Run Stream Valley Park.

Jaylin was later found dead inside a car in the 2400 block of Southern Avenue.

Thank you Jesus, because justice has been served," said Wright's mother, Wyvette Wright.

She says she's hoped for the death penalty, but she is glad the judge threw away the key

"He is the devil himself, there's no other way to put it. He was heartless, senseless, didn't care about nothing," Wyvette said.

Everett Tucker, Wynetta's father, added, " I just think he is a true monster. I don't believe he had remorse or anything for what he did. I just think he's a true monster."

During his trial, prosecutors spun Phillips, then 39, as a liar and a cheater who would do anything to conceal his mistress and child from his wife. Before the murder, he had served as a narcotics officer with the Metropolitan Police Department for eight years.

Tucker says the sentence lifted a weight, and he hopes his daughter and granddaughter can rest in peace.

"Two beautiful people," Tucker continued. "They still in my life, but they up here with the Lord right about now."

Dad with joint custody finally has contact with daughter severed after repeated abuse, death threats; Dad now running for office and angry that abuse is brought up (Austin, Texas)

Great piece of investigative journalism. Too often the public still doesn't get how abusers like this are successful in getting joint custody. Mom is very lucky she was able to get this violent creep out of the picture before her daughter was seriously injured or killed, especially in Texas. Most moms are not so lucky.

Notice how Daddy reacts in a typical abuser fashion. Claims he's being lied about, claims ignorance about the medical evidence regarding the abuse, arrogantly refuses to take (useless) parenting classes or anger management classes. Refuses to explain why the injuries only occurred during his visitation time. Refuses any restriction on his guns. Not even so he can see his kid.

Notice he doesn't seem to be protesting that Mom let him off the hook for $15,000 in medical expenses just to keep her daughter safe. That alone proves for me that she's telling the truth. Moms will do away with the money if it means safety for their kids.

When I got custody back, I knew that it meant I would never get child support and that the corrupt Chautauqua County Family Court would never enforce any decree. And I was absolutely right. But it was worth it to keep my kid safe too.

Dad is identified as DON ZIMMERMAN. And if you go to the original posting, notice how all the fathers rights freaks are defending this idiot. Typical. It's always about defending the vicious abuser, never the child, for these guys.

http://www.theaustinbulldog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=318:candidate-lost-custody-over-abuse&catid=3:main-articles

Candidate Lost Custody Over Abuse

District 6 Council candidate Don Zimmerman injured, alienated daughter, court records state

Investigative Report by Ken Martin © The Austin Bulldog 2014
Posted Thursday October 9, 2014 3:10pm

District 6 candidate Donald Shelly “Don” Zimmerman, founder of the Travis County Taxpayers Union, is an aggressive leader who as president of a municipal utility district brought two lawsuits, one of which resulted in winning a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

But aggression in disciplining his daughter, Marina Zimmerman, resulted in documented physical and emotional damage and permanent loss of parental rights through civil court action.

Files from a Travis County District Court case include three reports from Deborah Neitsch, MD, from early 2011. The reports state that on separate occasions Zimmerman inflicted bruises, pulled Marina’s hair, pushed her, and “threatened to kill her.” The records indicate the doctor would contact Child Protective Services (CPS). Such reporting is required within 48 hours by Texas Family Code Section 261.101, which states, “A professional may not delegate to or rely on another person to make this report.”

“I got a call from CPS and consulted a couple of attorney friends and was told when lies are made you should demand proof of the allegations and if don't get proof you should not cooperate,” Zimmerman told The Austin Bulldog in a Tuesday telephone interview.

Three documented incidents

The first incident occurred just three days after Marina’s twelfth birthday, then twice more, all within a three-week period in January and February 2011, according to the medical records. She weighed 84 pounds at the time. Each incident occurred during evening or weekend visits when Zimmerman had sole possession as authorized in the divorce decree.

Asked if he did those things to his daughter, Zimmerman replied, “Those are unequivocal lies. They are outright fabrications and absolute lies.”

Doctor’s first examination—January 24, 2011, the physician’s record indicates a “very minor bruise” was found on Marina’s right forearm. “There are concerns that her father is being physically and emotionally abusive to her when she is visiting him.” The record further states, “We will contact the CPS caseworker that is in charge of her case. No serious injury seems to have occurred but I worry about the psychological toll on her.”

Doctor’s second examination—January 28, 2011, the doctor found that Marina had a bruise on her left shoulder blade and a stiff neck. “He wanted to take her phone away and she walked away and he grabbed her shoulder and spun her around and pushed her backwards...He pushed her from behind and now she has a bruise on her left scapula (shoulder blade). Her neck is stiff after he pushed her....”

“[C]ontinued concern of her dad being physically forceful with her,” the record states. “[W]ill keep document for CPS case worker.”

Doctor’s third examination—February 11, 2011, the record states, “Her dad was harsh with her yesterday and pushed her against the microwave and now she has right hip pain and right shoulder pain. ... Her dad has been yelling at her and threatened to hit her but didn’t. He has threatened to kill her and she has fears of (him) shooting her...Her parents are worried that she needs therapy but her dad refuses.”

Zimmerman’s threat to hit Marina was overheard by her mother and stepfather in a phone call that she made to her mother during that confrontation, according to a sworn affidavit filed by her stepfather, Eric “Ani” Fox.

The February 11, 2011, doctor’s record also states, “Concerns of abuse with hip and shoulder strain. Recommended if CPS does not intervene this could lead to a life threatening situation. I recommend they persue (sic) legal full custody as soon as possible. We will contact CPS about the situation.”

For prevention the doctor stated, “Counseling: Domestic violence, warned this was the most common cause of homicide in Texas and in our area and needs to be taken seriously. [T]he situation seems to be escalating quickly due to CPS investigation.”

Zimmerman’s responses

When questioned in the Tuesday interview about the alleged threat to kill his daughter, Zimmerman replied, “That's an outright lie. None of this has ever been shown to me.” When reminded that the cited medical reports are in the files for his divorce case, Zimmerman replied, “These allegations are news to me. I’ve never seen them before. These are offensive lies and I’ve never seen them before. I’m not afraid because these are lies.”

Zimmerman said he has a license to carry a concealed handgun and he has guns and ammunition in the house.

“(Bochenkova) demanded I move all guns and ammunition out of the house,” Zimmerman said. “Why would that demand be made? I can agree to do it or refuse to do it. She's a brilliant manipulator and liar. If I agree to move the guns and ammunition out of the house, then I'm agreeing I'm a violent person who can't be trusted around guns and ammunition. If I do not agree, I'm in denial and won't acknowledge that I'm a violent and dangerous person. The demand is a lie.

“I’m 54 and never in my life have I been violent against anyone. I’ve never shown violence. I get angry. I’m angry now when someone lies and attacks my character.”

Zimmerman met Kateryna “Katya” Bochenkova in Kiev, Ukraine, when he was there teaching English as a second language. She was one of his students. They met again when she was a student at Texas A&M University in College Station. They were married in Brazos County December 6, 1997, when he was 38 and she was 20.

Marina was born in January 1999.

A Final Decree of Divorce was approved May 27, 2005. The marriage was “dissolved on the ground of insupportability,” which is defined in Family Code Section 6.001 as “without regard to fault.”

Mother followed doctor’s advice

The doctor recommended pursuing full legal custody and Bochenkova quickly did so. On February 16, 2011, she petitioned for a Temporary Restraining Order. Included in the petition was a request for the court to order Zimmerman to attend parenting classes and anger-management classes.

Bochenkova told The Austin Bulldog she wanted Zimmerman to take those classes so that he “could modify the behavior that brought us into that conflict situation in the first place.”

Asked if he took those classes, Zimmerman replied, “I did not.”

In response to Bochenkova’s petition, the court issued an Agreed Temporary Injunction to bar Zimmerman from contacting or communicating with his daughter or taking possession of her, rights that had been established by the divorce decree.

Asked to comment on the injunction, Zimmerman said, “The crux of it is that with people willing to lie under oath I'm not going to see my daughter any more. If I persist what would have come next would be false allegations of sexual abuse,” Zimmerman said.

“I’ve seen this bad movie before,” he added. “I won’t see my daughter anymore. I won’t let you play this game.”

There has been no communication between Zimmerman and his daughter in more than three years, both he and Bochenkova said.

Dormant case revived, concluded

On March 10, 2014 Zimmerman’s new attorney, Round Rock-based Stephen Casey of the Casey Law Office PC, filed a motion to enter a final order in the case, stating that Zimmerman’s “relationship with the minor child has become fairly non-existent. ... Respondent remains willing and able to communicate but until it is initiated by the minor child there is no interaction.”

Bochenkova told The Austin Bulldog that Marina has not seen her father in more than three years and does not want to.

The girl’s mother responded to Casey’s motion by filing petitions of her own in April and June of this year.

In a final agreed order filed June 16, the court ordered that Zimmerman “shall have no possession of or access to the child.”

As part of that order, the court found that Zimmerman owed nearly $15,000 in arrearage for the child’s medical support expenses, and that “Bochenkova has agreed to waive all past medical support.”

“We wanted Don out of our life and that was the easiest way to achieve that,” Bochenkova told The Austin Bulldog. “It was the easiest way to close the deal, and we gave up that money in exchange for the freedom of our daughter.”

The court action in June also removed the requirement for Marina to live in Austin. She recently moved to Bound Brook, New Jersey, with her mother and stepfather.

On the “About Don Zimmerman” page on his campaign website, Zimmerman states, “I have one remarkable daughter, Marina Lorna Zimmerman.”

But the girl long ago quit using her father’s name. In 2012 and 2013 she won medals in fencing competition and performed classical piano music as Marina Bochenkova, her mother’s maiden name.

“She says she will take my name legally when she is 18,” Bochenkova said.