Bias and collusion have marred child custody cases in Arapahoe County, including one in which a judge terminated a mother’s right to parent her three daughters and jailed her for more than 10 months for violating a gag order barring her from publicly protesting, a federal lawsuit contends. The lawsuit asks a federal judge to appoint for a full year a neutral monitor to oversee dependency and … [Read more...]
Delta County children killed in apparent Routt County murder-suicide identified
The two Cedaredge children killed in the Phippsburg incident were identified by sources close to the situation on Tuesday afternoon as being Jessi Hill, 7, and Summer Hill, 3. Routt County Sheriff's Office said in a press release that deputies responded to a welfare check request at a home in the 21000 block of Fourth Avenue in Phippsburg on Jan. 13 to find James "Jake" Hill, 45, and two … [Read more...]
Father identifies child victims, mother accused of double murder in Colorado Springs
(COLORADO SPRINGS) — The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) continues the search for Kimberlee Singler, formerly Kimberlee Wentz, the mother accused of murdering her two children. The child victims have now been identified as seven-year-old Aden Wentz and nine-year-old Elianna “Ellie” Wentz. As FOX21 has previously reported, the incident occurred on Dec. 18, when CSPD found the two … [Read more...]
Four times in the span of a month children have been killed by a parent in Colorado
DENVER — It’s the type of tragedy that should never happen and yet, in Colorado, there have been four instances within the span of a month of children dying at the hands of their fathers in murder-suicides. …“We're going to have more kids murdered if you're not going to look at the domestic violence,” McLean said. She wants to see more training for court personnel who are making custody … [Read more...]
4 recent murders: Colorado’s troubled family court system ignores children in peril
For nearly seven months Andrea Berry had been trying to get police to take seriously her fears that her ex-husband was sexually abusing their 3-year-old daughter, Sophia, and using her in child pornography, but she was running out of options. A police commander in the town of Elizabeth, where the father lived, had bluntly told Berry the case was closed and to stop pestering the police, … [Read more...]