The hunt for a missing toddler sparked when his mother was found murdered has ended in further tragedy as the little boy was also found dead—clamped in an alligator's jaws. A search for 2-year-old Taylen Mosley was launched on Thursday afternoon with a state-wide Amber Alert issued after the body of his mother Pashun Jeffery, 20, was discovered at their apartment in St. Petersburg, Florida. She … [Read more...]
State Lawmakers Consider Bill Banning Controversial Reunification Therapy and Camps
A bill known as Piqui’s Law would prohibit court-ordered family reunification therapy or “camps” as part of a child custody or visitation rights proceeding, that is predicated on cutting off a child from a parent with whom the child is attached, is moving through the legislature. Authored by Senator Susan Rubio, the intent of SB 331 is to increase the priority given to child custody court … [Read more...]
Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Domenico Gigante After Killing Four People in Canaveral Groves
GIGANTE WAS INDICTED BY BREVARD GRAND JURY ON MARCH 29, 2023 BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The State filed a Notice of Intent to Seek the Death Penalty for 36-year-old Domenico Gigante for each of the First-Degree Premeditated Murders of 63-year-old Glenda Terwilliger, 35-year-old Constance Terwilliger, 15-year-old Kiarra Terwilliger and 36-year-old Michael Watson on March 1, 2023. Gigante … [Read more...]
A father shot his daughters. A mom wants to know why her warning was ignored
CITRUS HEIGHTS, Calif. — The three little graves are covered in artificial turf, bright green on a cold winter evening. The gravestones are hand-painted in swirls of purple and a darker green, with cloth butterflies centered above the names: Samarah, 9; Samantha, 10; and Samia, 13. Three little butterflies dead and buried, shot b their father, David Mora, with a homemade ghost gun one … [Read more...]
Sins of the Father
A small, good-natured boy named Pierce O’Loughlin was growing up between the homes of his divorced parents in San Francisco. Nine-year-old Pierce was accustomed to custody handoffs taking place at Convent and Stuart Hall, the Catholic school he attended. On changeover days, one parent dropped him off in the morning at the hilltop campus overlooking the bay, and the other picked him up in the … [Read more...]