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A man carrying an axe outside an in-home childcare facility in the community of Glenn Dale, in the District of Columbia area, was shot and killed by three police officers, authorities said.
The incident happened just before 3 p.m., a Prince George’s County Police spokesman told a NY Family Lawyer. According to the spokesman, officers were sent there to look into reports of an armed man around the daycare.
The suspect was part of a child custody dispute and wanted to take his children from the daycare. The daycare provider called the children’s mother, the police spokesman said, and the mother told the provider not to release the children to their father.
After that, the police spokesman revealed, the provider called police.
When the officers arrived, the police spokesman said, the man had already left the premises. Officers remained on the scene, and eventually the man returned, while at least one officer was still there.
Details of the shooting are still being investigated. According to him, the suspect emerged from his vehicle with an axe in hand and approached three officers.
“The officers felt threatened and they discharged their firearms,” he said.
The man was shot a number of times and pronounced dead on the scene, the police spokesman said. There were no other people injured.
Family is very important to just about everyone and people will go to great lengths to protect them, quite understandably. There are, of course, right ways to protect the family and wrong ways. NY Family Lawyers have the knowledge anyone needs when there are family matters to take care of in an effective and legal manner.
Divorce and child custody issues can be very painful for both sides, making it difficult to come to a compromise, which is why not only an advocate, but a good advocate, is important. There are many nuances to family law that most people just aren’t aware of. This is true in Queens and Staten Island.

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Arkansas once had a state law that disallowed unmarried, cohabitating couples from becoming adoptive or foster parents – until the Arkansas Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in a unanimous decision, Manhattan Family Lawyers report. They assert, with a circuit judge’s ruling, that the law unconstitutionally burdens fundamental privacy rights.
“This band wouldn’t even allow a relative – gay or straight – to foster or adopt a child with whom they had a close relationship, so long as that relative was unmarried and living with a partner,” an ACLU representative said. “The court clearly saw that this ban violated the constitutional rights of our clients and thousands of other Arkansans.”
A Christian conservative group had another opinion, stating the decision “is the worst ever handed down by the Arkansas Supreme Court.”
“This is a classic example of judicial tyranny,” a representative of the Christian group told Manhattan Family Lawyers. “Unfortunately (the) ruling puts the rights of adults ahead of the rights of children and their welfare.” He and his group are considering making a move to have voters add the measure to the constitution as a constitutional amendment.
This Christian organization proposed the original law in November 2008 and it was passed with 57 percent of the vote. The law was proposed after the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled disallowing same-sex partners to adopt or foster children was unconstitutional.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit to challenge the law, in behalf of unmarried adults who wanted to adopt or foster children, parents who wanted to be able to choose who would adopt their children in case they were no longer able to do so, and the children of such parents.
A circuit judge declared the law cast “an unreasonably broad net”. The state and the Christian group countered that adopting or fostering children is a privilege which is allowed by state law – not a fundamental right.
The Supreme Court of Arkansas believes that the right to engage in private, consensual sexual activity without interference from the state is infringed upon by the law, Manhattan Family Lawyers have learned. Cohabitating sexual partners “must choose either to lead a life of private, sexual intimacy with a partner without the opportunity to adopt or foster children, or forego sexual cohabitation and, thereby, attain eligibility to adopt or foster,” wrote one of the justices.
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Actually, I think this should be something like common sense. Saying the unexpected or the controversial has a price. Losing your job is only one part of the potential price you pay for non-conformity. You may keep your job but be given the silent treatment by colleagues; many would find loss of bonhomie nearly as frightening as loss of a paycheck. Exercise of free speech can certainly damage family relations; one theory of the Ronald Reagan-Jane Wyman divorce is that it came because Reagan was willing to testify before Congress on communist influence in Hollywood. Many might consider a divorce more drastic than losing a job.

If you are a party in a divorce in Brooklyn or the Bronx, it is crucial to have a N.Y. Family Lawyer representing you. The custody of your children either full or joint and visitation privileges could be at stake. A capable New York Family Lawyer will be able to get results that you can live with. Child abuse and neglect may cause the court to issue an order of protection.

Simply guaranteeing employment will not foster intellectual independence. If you want to go that route, you'll have to guarantee that every tenured professor gets to keep his or her friends and stay married as well.

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In Texas, child support payments didn’t make it to the receiver because of a child support scam that has three main suspects. The three have plead guilty to the crime of Child support payment mail fraud and aggravated identity theft last Tuesday. They worked for a company that does processing of child support payments for the state of Texas, reported a N York Family Lawyer. They face 20 years in prison for these charges.

Thirteen are involved in this case but three have already plead guilty. The child support payments were made with Affiliated Computer Services who had an 18.2 million dollar contract to make payments to Texans in the form of Texas debit cards. The 13 people accused took advantage of this contract and used the debit cards to buy themselves things. They gave these Texas debit cards to friends. They friends then bought things for the accused using the debit cards.

Xerox recently bought out Affiliated Computer Services. This new company paid back the debit card victims $275,000, according to the US attorney generals office.

Child support cases are common in many areas including, Westchester and Suffolk counties.

Six different employees got into the computer system an obtained the victims addresses and personal information and gave the stolen information to people to call AFC and get the debit cards sent out to them, explained a New York Family Lawyer. This deception and fraud happened between October 2008 through June 2010. A couple of the defendants are still waiting to go to trial. The trial is scheduled for March of this year, said a New York Family Lawyer.

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Families who are looking to adopt a child from Nepal, or who are in the process of doing so, have been put on hold as adoption proceedings have been made more difficult in recent months because of fears of child trafficking, said a New York Family Lawyer. 

Dozens of families that have spent thousands of dollars in adoption fees and overseas travel in attempt to open their homes to abandoned children have been stopped short of finalizing the proceedings because officials in Nepal are concerned that some of the children being adopted out were not really abandoned, but stolen, which has devastated those who are anxiously awaiting the arrival of their new son or daughter. 

The New York Family Lawyer cited cases where adoptive families were given a choice by Nepalese officials to either stay in India until investigations into the birth parents of the child had been resolved, which happens very slowly, or to go back to the US and wait until such proof has been established. In a country where poverty and disease is rampant and children are left to die because no one can care for them, it seems as if adoption by a US family would be in the best interest of the child. 

Even so, describes the New York City Family Lawyer, Americans cannot typically afford to suspend their livelihoods and put everything on hold to remain in Nepal for an undetermined amount of time. Leaving the children that they crossed the globe to rescue and to love proves to be one of the most difficult things an adoptive parent can do, but often there is no choice since things move so slowly. 



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Remember the good old days when skipping a day of school was not punishable by fines and jail time? Most of us have taken an unscheduled day off of school at one time or another as children, having begged our parents, with sleepy eyes, to just let us stay in bed, suggests a New York Family Lawyer. According to school officials and lawmakers, those days are no longer acceptable. 

Truancy is a big problem in public schools, reports a New York Family Lawyer. A truant child is one who has three or more unexcused absences in a school year. Those just because days are to blame. Authorities are sending a big message that it is not okay for children to miss school just because they don't feel like going.

Although this is not your normal Child Neglect, in New York City and Queens this kind of parental action or lack thereof comes very close.
Now a new law has been enacted that will fine parents of habitually truant children up to $2000 if they do not attempt to see that their children are at their desk each and every day. 

Granted, there are parents who simply do not care whether their kids get an education or not, and these parents are the focus of these heightened penalties. And while a $2000 fine might seem excessive, failing to pay that fine and get your kids up and on the bus could land parents in jail, according to this new law. 

Obviously this bill is targeted towards parents of children whose truancy has become excessive and will not affect a family who decides to take a road trip one day rather than sit in a stuffy classroom or work cubicle, establishes the New York Family Lawyer. Even so, it might make parents think twice when considering the pleas of sleepy children that a day off from school is exactly what they need.

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It seems as if marriage has become on outdated institution in recent decades. The partnership between husband and wife has lost its significance as single parent households are becoming more commonplace. Laws have been changed, benefits to singles have been increased, and more children now come from broken homes than ever before. Even so, by all accounts, marriage still has its benefits, says a New York Family Lawyer. 

Aside from the union of two hearts, marriage can be seen as a union of two lives, bound in one common goal to meet the needs of the family. It is much easier to succeed in this world if we are not doing it alone, according to the New York Family Lawyer. Cooperation, the division of time and skills and the sharing of resources are just a few of the benefits that a marriage brings to life. 

The New York Family Lawyer reports that financially, marriage is still the best way to succeed, what with tax breaks for families with children being more available to married couples than non-married couples. Social security is set up for married couples to reap the benefits of their spouse’s years in the work force. Non married couples do not receive such benefits, even if they have been together for years. 

The NY Family Lawyer went on to suggest that even with the financial gains that married couples sustain, such a union should not be entered into strictly for financial reasons. Couples who wish to raise a family together would do well to get married if they are committed to the family and the partnership. All of the financial benefits of marriage mean nothing if the couple ends up divorcing a few years later.

In matters of marriage, civil union and divorce, emotions run high.

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A 40 year old woman has been accused of dousing her boyfriend with nail polish remover in an argument and lighting him on fire, according to reports by a New York Family Lawyer. The woman's 10 year old son and the couple’s small daughter were reportedly present in the house at the time of the incident. 

Neighbors called police when they heard an argument escalate into screams of pain. Police arrived on the scene to find the man seriously burned, and blaming his girlfriend. The 44 year old victim alleges that his girlfriend was angry about his drinking, which started the argument that led to the incident in question. 

The woman denies lighting her boyfriend on fire, claiming that it was he who doused himself with nail polish remover and set his clothes alight, accusing her of the crime, reports the N York Family Lawyer. Neighbors who live in the building expressed surprise and shock when they heard about the incident, saying that they had heard the couple argue on numerous occasions but had never expected that violence would erupt in the apartment. 

A judge ruled the woman to stand trial and has place her under arrest with $200,000 bail. The two children were taken into custody and have been placed in foster care and they are undergoing evaluation, stated the New York Family Lawyer. More information on this case will be released pending further investigation. A trial hearing had been set for January 12 and results of that hearing are as yet unavailable. 

Domestic abuse is often a precursor to legal disputes within a family unit.

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A Nebraska district court judge denied a divorce to a same-sex couple on Tuesday. The couple got married in 2003 when they lived in Vermont.

The judge said that according to Nebraska Constitution, Nebraska does not see them as a married couple, a New York Family Lawyer stated. According to the constitution, “only marriage between a man and a woman shall be valid or recognized in Nebraska,” the judge said.

Nebraska does not see the marriage as validate and he cannot dissolve the union. Nebraska is not the only state that does not recognize same-sex marriages. Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Texas and Rhode Island also have similar constitution.

A 37-year-old woman was requesting a divorce from another 50-year-old woman. Both women are from Nebraska City, Nebraska.

Even though the judge could not grant the 37-year-old woman’s request, he did make several orders about the condition of their family. He ruled about the issues of parenting and child support, a New York Family Lawyer was told. Both women agreed to the judge’s ruling in the matter.

The judge gave custody of a four-year-old girl to the plaintiff. The 37-year-old woman is the girl’s biological mother. A parenting plan was also ordered so that both parties could see the girl. The plan included weekend and holiday visits. As in cases like this in Long Island or Manhattan, the judge has the power to make these decisions.

The defendant was order to pay child support and all day-car and pre-school expense. The woman has a job in Hamburg, Iowa. It is unclear what her job is. She was order to pay $200 in child support a month. Both women will cover medical care for the girl.
The judge believes it is important that both parties be responsible for the girl because they both have a relationship with the woman.

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About two months ago, the Obama Administration announced that it would not defend the Defense of Marriage Act, the controversial act that restricts federal benefits for heterosexual couples. Since that announcement, Immigration Equality, a nonprofit based in Washington and New York that advocates in favor of gay immigrants, announced its plans to challenge the immigration law affecting same-sex couples.
As a New York Family Lawyer relates, gay couples face a conundrum when one of the two is a foreign national. They have to make hard decisions. Either the immigrant partner has to live in the shadows of America, hiding and becoming paranoid, or both have to move to a more accommodating country. The decision to leave your country of birth is a monumental leap, and some wonder why it should even have to be considered.
A NYC Family Lawyer shares that under current legislation, heterosexual couples can sponsor their spouse for visas or green cards. Recently, however, U.S. lawmakers reintroduced a bill that will allow gay Americans to do the same with their same-sex partners. The Uniting American Families Act was introduced in both the House and the Senate, and has the largest number of supporters it’s had since 2000 when it was introduced. While the bill has remained stagnant for the last decade, now there are 98 cosponsors of the bill in the House and 18 in the Senate. If passed, UAFA will allow Americans to sponsor their gay “permanent partner,” who is defined as someone who has the intention of maintaining a lifelong intimate relationship with his or her partner. Same sex marriage is on the agenda in counties like Brooklyn and The Bronx.
At the same time as they are reviving this bill’s life, members of Congress are urging the Attorney General to stall deportations for foreign nationals who would be affected by the new bill. They are asking that the Attorney General influence the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services allowing for lenience in the cases of all gay immigrants who would become eligible for a marriage visa if the Defense of Marriage Act is repealed or if the Uniting American Families Act is passed.

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Actor Charlie Sheen has stumbled into a mess of recent struggles. The latest rebuff came when his petition to take custody of his twin sons from his estranged wife, Brooke Mueller, was shot down in court. The custody is to remain as an earlier custody agreement outlines. According to a New York City Family Attorney, those records have so far been kept confidential.
Both Sheen and Mueller were at the hearing. It is public knowledge that both have been struggling with sobriety for quite a while. In fact, Mueller just recently returned to rehab.
After the hearing, Sheen left the courthouse surrounded by his security detail and flew straight out to Washington D.C. to perform his stage show. When Mueller left the courthouse she was smiling and even hugged her attorney. She declined to comment, however.
A month earlier, Mueller had imposed a restraining order against Sheen; she referenced a threat Sheen made to her on a recent trip to the Bahamas to behead her. The earlier custody agreement was supposed to have overcome any differences the two were still having about the custody of their children, and many think it would have led Mueller to revoke or amend her restraining order. With this newest filing, it has yet to be seen what the order and the agreement will look like in application. Custody battles in Brooklyn and The Bronx should be handled by local lawyers who are familiar with the laws in those places.
There is much speculation about just what the home life of the twins would be like in the custody of either parent. While it is not the job of the public to ascertain where the toddlers will be best off at, it is the indescribably hard job of lawyers, judges, and the parents themselves, to attain the best environment and support structure for dependents. As New York Family Law Offices know, it is imperative to find the right legal aid for you and your situation. Children, ultimately, depend on the decision you make on who your legal representation will be.
While the custody agreements are supposed to now be settled, the public is expecting to hear of more courtroom time for the former “Two and a Half Men” star and his estranged wife, Brooke Mueller.

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Daytona Beach police told of a 16-year-old mother who was arrested after taking her baby from a foster home agency that worked with abused and neglected children to give them new homes.
The girl and her baby had been taken to Community Partnership for Children in Daytona Beach, Florida. She was brought in by a caseworker from Jacksonville.
Once the girl understood she and her child were going to be separated, she sent texts to two of her friends, asking them to come pick her up, investigators told NYC Family Lawyers. According to police, she took her baby and ran to the car.
It wasn’t much later until another case worker managed to contact the mother and the baby was returned to the agency.
The girl’s identity has not been released, due to her age, but her age did not stop her from being arrested on a charge of interference with child custody. Her friends were not arrested, however, since they did not know what their friend planned to do. Further details are unavailable at this time.
Everyone has rights, especially when it comes to family, but it is important how we choose to exercise those rights. Taking the law into one’s own hands is never a good idea. The right thing to do is to work within the law and make the law work for you. This is just what NYC Family Lawyers excel at doing.
Legal cases involving children are always difficult. Of course, everyone wants what is best for the children, who are not capable of deciding for themselves what’s best. Everyone in a certain case may have a different idea of what’s best for the children involved, however. It can be a big mess. Someone like a NYC Family Lawyer can help clear away the clutter, allowing a clear choice of options and actions, so you and anyone else in the case know what you can and can’t do and what the eventual outcomes are likely to be.

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Authorities continue to search for the missing head of 10-year-old disabled girl, Zahra after a long search revealed her desecrated body, said New York Family Lawyers.
Elise Baker, 42, is accused of abusing, murdering and dismembering the girl’s body, according to NYC Family Lawyer reports. Coroner reports said Zahra died “as a result of undetermined homicidal violence.”
The child’s remains were found spread between two different locations with two different types of tool marks on her bones. The coroner concluded she had died before she was dismembered and that animals had eaten her flesh. There are many cases of abuse which arise in Brooklyn and The Bronx but none as gruesome as this one.
New York Family Lawyers said Elisa Baker had a "history and pattern of physical, verbal and psychological abuse" against the child and that family members accused her of “taking advantage of a position of trust and confidence" in order kill Zahra and then "desecrated her body to hinder detection and prosecution."
Authorities said details of the child’s death "must be kept close to the investigation and not be discussed in order to protect this case."
Zahra, who while struggling with cancer, lost a leg and lost most of her hearing, was reported missing in the fall, but police speculate she had disappeared many weeks earlier.
When she was reported missing, her stepmother allegedly issued a phony $1 million reward for her return.
Not long after the search began, authorities found a prosthetic leg matching the description and serial number of Zahra’s. The child reportedly had a very hard life after being abandoned by her biological mother as a baby, struggling with cancer and ending up with an abusive stepmother in the end.
A neighbor said, “Zahra was abused. She was often bruised and was very quiet.”
Before the child’s body was discovered, Elisa Baker had already been indicted for obstructing justice, a charge related to the ransom note and sits in jail awaiting trial.
A few weeks before authorities found the remains, Elisa Baker wrote in a letter that the child was dead, but showed no remorse. She seemed to feel sorrier for herself, said a New York Family Lawyer, while she made vague accusations about her husband doing something "horrifying" to Zahra after she was dead.
Baker’s attorney called this accusation “a desperate attempt at distraction.”

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There has been a lot of debate concerning this new law that would require couples to get professional counseling before being allowed a legal divorce. There would be a few exceptions to this new rule. Domestic abuse would be one of the exceptions, according to a New York Family Lawyer. People are upset and they don’t want the government to have the right to get that involved in their marriages.

About half of all marriages end in divorce and some law makers are doing their best to lower that number. Once divorced, if you remarry that percentage of divorce goes well over fifty percent.
Vince Lindgren stated, “Coming to a marriage counselor can give them some ideas about things that they haven't thought about that they can start thinking about breaking some patterns that might be destructive.”
But he even thinks this should be corrected another way.
Lindgren added, “If people are at the point where they are actually going to see a lawyer and actually filing papers, most of them are at the point where they've decided to move on and they would be just putting in the time.”
A lot of people are speaking up against this bill, according to a New York Family Lawyer. People all over the area have said this bill will step all over their rights.
“There might be kids involved and property, anything, there's just too many things involved. If someone found a new mate, what are you going to do? That is just called life,” explained John Brekke. John believes that it’s too complicated of an issue to just make ever go to counselor and try to work it out.
“It's an intrusion upon private rights. One should be able to make the decision themselves,” believes John Mahan. This man very clearly doesn’t want the government involved any more than absolutely necessary. Divorces in New York City and Nassau County should be handled by NY Lawyers.
Of course not everyone is against this new bill. Some believe that this could bring some much needed help in the lives of people who could work out their problems if they put in a little effort and this would greatly help benefit children that are involved.
Karen Vosburg concluded, “If people don't want to live together, maybe they shouldn't have to anyways, but I do think counseling helps.”

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Most people can just visit a tax consultant or fire up a computer to easily figure out their taxes. Married same-sex couples in California don’t have it quite that easy. Such marriages aren’t recognized by the federal government, which makes legal issues regarding them murky, to stay the least.
“So many people don’t know what the new federal tax requirements are and they affect 2010,” a tax attorney stated.
The tax attorney noted that, for the first time, registered same-sex couples in California must have a combined income on federal tax returns. This means if one partner makes $25,000 and the other $45,000, for a total of $70,000, they each have to file as if they made $35,000. The federal government does not recognize their marriage, so they have to each file $35,000 on separate federal returns.
So far, this law is only in effect in California, Nevada, and Washington, which are all states that allow for same-sex domestic partnerships and the sharing of property. There are yet to be any laws that determine how such couples are to deal with Social Security or self-employment, the tax attorney explained to NYork Family Lawyers.
One member of a same-sex relationship, an accountant herself, has no idea how the laws should work. Her partner, a schoolteacher, is similarly confused. They were married in 2008 in the brief period when such marriages were allowed. It was never easy for them to file as a couple.
“For last year’s taxes, we found a firm,” the accountant said. “We told them our situation and they said, no problem, they can do what they needed to do. And when I looked at our returns, they filed them incorrectly.”
The couple is looking for a new accountant and a new NYC Family Lawyer.
Not only taxes present difficulty for same-sex couples. The new laws clashing with old laws or laws in other states, or with federal laws create problems with name changes and even passports.
There are 18,000 couples that married in California before the voters there made same-sex marriage illegal. All of these issues will remain confused until the courts decide the final law.

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A man and his girlfriend made a crucial and deadly mistake when they made the decision to let the man drive her young son home after she was arrested one evening, revealed a New York City Family Lawyer. In Manhattan and Long Island this crime is considered the ultimate in Child Abuse.
After his girlfriend left with police, the drunken man got behind the wheel, and shortly after while driving too fast, he hit a tree, slammed into a cyclone fence and killed the 5-year-old boy who was in the back seat.
When police arrived on the scene the boy was already dead and after some testing, they concluded the man’s blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit.
The drunken man claimed he had been forced by police to drive the car after his girlfriend was arrested. Both he and the girlfriend maintain that they had begged the officers not to let him drive the boy and not to arrest her.
In addition, the man was driving on a suspended license and stated in court reports that his girlfriend was his designated driver. His attorney argued that the case was one of “entrapment and necessity” and that again the man was forced behind the wheel by police officers and that they had threatened to arrest him if he didn’t follow his direction. .
In a statement the girlfriend said, “I told the police three different times that he was drunk and begged them not to let him drive. They didn’t want to believe me and now my boy is dead.”
A N York Family Lawyer pointed out that court reports indicated inconsistent statements from both clients and that most likely his verdict came in quickly due to the inconsistencies. She said to the jury, “Don’t forget the testimony we have from a security supervisor at the hospital.”
This basically reminded the jury that although the woman claimed she had begged the officers not to let her boyfriend drive, she admitted to the security officer at the hospital that she had done the opposite. She had begged the officers to let the man drive her son home.
The guilty man in the case could not be reached for comment and it is unclear when his sentencing will be announced at this time. The mother, who lost her son to this tragedy, declined to comment on the case and is currently expected to be serving time for other crimes unrelated to this case.

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A mom has been charged with shooting and killing her two children, a New York Family Lawyer has indicated. She is being held without bail until the trial.
Month’s earlier police went to her house after being called about a physical abuse incident. The mom had been fighting with her teen daughter. Her 16 year old daughter claimed she was slapped in the face multiple times after arguing with her mother. No physical injuries were seen so the mom was not arrested at that time, according to a New York Family Attorney. This was the first time police ever had a call concerning the mother.
"It appeared to just be typical tensions that parents have with teenagers," police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said. "The daughter had talked back; the mother slapped her for it. The daughter was upset that she had been punished and then she also expressed regret for the things she had said to her mother, and she knew that she was wrong. Certainly none of that would be an indication that it was going to rise to the level of a mother killing her children." The police feel that they did everything according to the law and no action could have been taken against the mother that would have prevented this horrible action.

A police report stated that the 16 year old daughter had been seeing a counselor for a few months before the incident because she has been verbally abusive to her mother. The girl felt bad for yelling at her mom and was trying to learn how to control her emotions. The teen also told her counselor that the mom would slap her in the face if she talked back. The counselor told the teen that slapping in the face is not an acceptable method of punishment.

A New York Family Lawyer explained that even though this mother of two would sometimes slap her children in the face, no one expected her to shoot and kill them.

This mother has only been a mom for a few years. She was a step mom to these two teen age children. She doesn’t have any biological children of her own.

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