2023-08-29 14:30:31
A Florida mother who failed to keep a custody schedule and was ordered by court to return her 10-year-old son to her ex-spouse allegedly killed her child and her 19-year-old daughter who was present at the scene before taking his own life.
“We are heartbroken and devastated by this horrific event. There are still a lot of investigations to be done,” Sheriff Grady Judd of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Florida said Sunday during a Facebook live press conference.
Last Thursday, Brandy Hutchins, 43, appeared in court with her ex-husband after she refused to follow the custody schedule for their 10-year-old son. The court then ruled by granting custody to the father, asking the woman to return their boy to him by 6 p.m. the next day at the police station, the Boston 25 News reported.
Facebook of Hutchins Race, father of one of the children killed.
Except that when the time came, the woman would not have appeared on the scene, triggering a police search to try to find the child during the weekend.
“Let me emphasize at this point that there was absolutely no evidence in the court order or in the testimony that there was any violence or threat of danger,” the sheriff hammered before the police. journalists.
The incident nevertheless turned tragic on Sunday in the early afternoon, when the investigators would have discovered the 10-year-old boy, and his 19-year-old half-sister, lifeless, alongside their mother. also dead.
It would be a double murder followed by a suicide, according to the first information.
“I can’t imagine more horrific circumstances. My heart breaks for the whole family. We are devastated for this 10-year-old child because his mother did not want to return him to his legitimate father in accordance with a court order, ”lamented the sheriff.
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