NY mom gets custody and then murders kids

A couple of readers have sent me this story:

"Whenever I tried to get my daughter, Family Court wouldn't let me," said Jewell's father, Ricky Ward. "The courts wouldn't hear me out. I blame this on Leatrice Brewer and Family Court."

"She wanted to kill them. I let the court know that. But they took only one side...I loved them. I've been fighting for them." -- Innocent Demesyeux, father of Michael, 5, and Innocent Jr., 18 months

Both fathers warned the family court that their children's mother was violent and dangerous. Both tried to get custody. Both tried to save their kids. The courts, apparently blinded by the family law system's pervasive pro-mother bias, did nothing. According to the Fox News article Police Cite Possible Drowning, Poisoning in Deaths of 3 New York Children (2/25/08):

Brewer [the mother], who had six arrests — two felonies and four misdemeanors — on her record dating to 2000, was described by some as troubled, including two men who identified themselves as the children's fathers and said they had fought in vain to have the children removed from Brewer's custody.

'Whenever I tried to get my daughter, Family Court wouldn't let me,' said Jewell's father, Ricky Ward. 'The courts wouldn't hear me out. I blame this on Leatrice Brewer and Family Court.'

There is more here and here.