Child Neglect Law
 
JENNIFER K. SCHWARZ v. JULIE A. SCHWARZ

Topeka, KS - Child custody lawyer represented appellee with
challenging giving her sons' paternal grandmother visitation.



Mother and the boys' father (Father) were in the midst of a divorce action when
Father suddenly died. Father's death obviously ended both the marriage and the pending

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State of Texas v. Clinton Wayne Harvey

Tyler, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with sexually abusing a child.

Clinton Wayne Harvey, ate 44, of Tyler, was charged with continus sexual abuse of a child.

The State alleged that Harvey provided marijuana to children, as well as continuously sexually assaulting a child. The affidavit states that Harvey sexually assaulted the child multiple times

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United States of America v. Gary Dumont Riggs

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with abusing a 13-year-old minor in his Claremore home in 2014 and 2015.

Gary Dumont Riggs, 77, was found guilty of four counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor by force and threat in Indian County.

“Today, a federal jury sent Gary Riggs and other child predators a message that victims will be heard and

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United States of America v. Willis Lewis and Brittany Jones

Washington, DC: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, sex trafficking of minors, and related offenses.

Willis Lewis, age 48, and Brittany Jones, age 32, were indicted for sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, sex trafficking of minors, and related offenses, in connection with their trafficking of a 15-year-old

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United States of America v. Daniel Lee Ogorzolka

San Antonio, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with receipt of child porn.

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents executed a search warrant in July 2019 at the residence of Daniel Lee Ogorzolka, 70. Two devices were seized that contained over 25 videos and over 2,000 images of prepubescent children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Ogorzolk

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State of Oklahoma v. Michelle Lynn Leonard

Stillwater, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:
Child Endangerment

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FE1A4, Child Endangerment (AFCF), in violation of 21 O.S. 852.1(4)
Date of Offense: 10/04/2020
Party Name Disposition Information
Leonard, Michelle Lynn Disposed: CONVICTION, 05/17/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: Child Endangerment (A

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State of Oklahoma v. David Derek McKissick

Norman, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:
Possession of Child Porn

Count # 1. Count as Filed: CHPA, *** amended to poss of child porn ****Child Pornography, Aggravated Possession of, in violation of 21 O.S. 1040.12a
Date of Offense: 06/12/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
Mckissick, David Derek Disposed: CONVICTION, 05/20/2022.

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United States of America v. Blake Forest Watson

Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with possession of child porn.

Blake ForestWatson, age 65, of Nebo, North Carolina, was previously convicted of child pornography in the Western District of Tennessee and was sentenced to 96 months in prison and five years of supervised release. A condition of Watson’s supervised release involved warrantless

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United States of America v. Robert Hoyt Reece

Greensboro, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with sexual exploitation of minors.

Robert Hoyt Reece, 39, was identified by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Charlotte Division, after receiving information from local law enforcement in another state about an individual in Lexington, North Carolina possessing child pornography and com

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State of Arizona v. Justin Colorado

Flagstaff, Arizona criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with premeditated murder, felony possession of a firearm and drive-by shooting.

Justin Colorado was accused of killing Jessica Biakeddy, age 34, ouside a Flagstaff apartment complex .

The State claimed that he shot Biakeddy to death as she lay on the pavement screaming from having been shot 10 times.

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State of Texas v. Andrew Riggs

Wichita Falls, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with indecency with an 8-year=old child and continuing for 10 years.

Andrew Riggs, age 46, was charged with sexual indecency with a child. The child testified that Defendant abused her during the entire time that he dated her mother who caught him abusing her.

Title 5 Texas Penal Code Sec. 21.01 provides:

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United States of America v. Jonathan Kyle Morehouse

Newport News, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with distribution of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2262.


In September 2019, the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division began to investigate Morehouse, an Army servicemember, for the suspected distribution of child pornography. Shortly thereafter, the Criminal Investigation Division

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Cherell Harrington and Deserae Cook v. UPMC and Allegheny County

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendants on a civil rights violation theory.


Plaintiffs Cherell Harrington and Deserae Cook filed a Complaint in Civil Action in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, on behalf of themselves and two putative classes, alleging various claims against the University of Pittsburgh Me

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Tori Kamphaus v. Town of Granite

Greer, Oklahoma personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a governmental tort claim theory claiming damages in excess of $10,000.00.

The mother of a child injured while visiting a cemetery when a headstone fell sued the Town of Granite, the operator of the cemetery, for negligence. The district court granted Town's motion for summary judgment, holding that Town d

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Michael Krause v. Tara Krause

Sacramento, California family law lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and the International Child Abduction Remedies Act violation theory.


This action proceeds on Petitioner Michael Krause's (“Petitioner”) verified petition for the return of children to Petitioner (ECF No. 1), brought pursua

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United States of America v. Robert Marlin Sellers, II

Hartford, Connecticut criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with attempting to engage in commercial sex with a minor.

In 2020, law enforcement received information that Robert Martin Sellers, age 62, of Bristol, was sharing videos of child sex abuse on a website that is focused on incest. In November 2020, an undercover FBI employee began interacting with Sellers on the s

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Y. G. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services

Austin, Texas - Parental Rights lawyer represented Appellant with appealing from the termination of his parental rights to his child.



Y.G. (Father) appeals from the trial court’s order of termination.1 Following a
jury trial, the trial court terminated Father’s parental rights to his chi

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Tony Dinwiddie v. Margaret Danielle Pottin and Jennifer Ann Francis

Austin, Texas - Parental Rights lawyer represented Appellant with appealing from the termination his parental rights.



K.J. was born in January 2019 to Dinwiddie and Patience Barnes. In mid-2021,
appellees Margaret Danielle Pottin and Jennifer Ann Francis filed a petition to terminate Barnes

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Gabriela Castro v. Jessie Contreras

Austin, Texas - Adoption lawyer represented Appellant with appealing a judgment denying her petition to adopt a child.



Appellant Gabriela Castro filed a notice of appeal from the trial court’s final and
appealable judgment denying her petition to adopt a child. Appellee Jessie Contreras fil

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The People v. Jeff Cooper

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with three counts of child molestation.

Defendant pled not guilty and claimed that he was being targeted by the alleged victims because of his wealth.

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United States of America v. Clarence Michael Lynch

Savannah, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with having sexual contact with a child nearly 15 years ago at Fort Stewart.

Clarence Michael Lynch, 43, of Highland, Ill., pleaded guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child Under 12, said David H. Estes, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. Already a registered sex offender because of a prior crimina

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Thomas Olivas v. The State of Texas

Fort Worth, Texas - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with a capital murder charge.



Our 2016 opinion thoroughly details the testimony presented and evidence
admitted during the two-week trial. Olivas, 507 S.W.3d at 449–69. We will focus on
those facts which are particularly

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State of Oklahoma v. Garrett Thomas Perry

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with:
DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

Count # 1. Count as Filed: CHPM, DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, in violation of 21 O.S. 1021.2
Date of Offense: 07/22/2021
Party Name Disposition Information
PERRY, GARRETT THOMAS Disposed: CONVICTION, 05/12/2022. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: DIST

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United States of America v. Robert Dunn and Tonya Bagley

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with buying or selling of children and producing child porn.

Robert Dunn, a registered sex offender, developed a "master-slave" relationship with Tonya Bagley. The started texting in November 2019. Bagley and Dunn, both in their early forties, agreed that Bagley would photograph herself performing oral sex on a young b

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Clarence Jeduss Washington v. Catherine Grace Rubio

Fort Worth, Texas - Divorce lawyer represented Appellant with appealing the court-ordered child support payments.



On January 10, 2020, we sent Washington a letter expressing our concern that
we do not have jurisdiction over this appeal because the “Commitment Order” is not
a final j

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