You never answered the question. Where are the three missing fathers? Four children fathered by three different fathers and not one of them Mr. O'Dell. Last names are Veach, Thompson and Cameron.
The O'Dell family is NOT on welfare.
Mr. O'Dell is on state disability.
The O'Dell's do have a limited income but they own their property free and clear of any mortgage payments, unlike nearly every college graduate I know.
But the "property" amounts to a junkyard that must be cleared and utilities must be installed. And that's before the brand new used mobile home is towed into place.
Interesting how the bankruptcy and the house burning down coincided.
On Monday, October 7 Patricia was cited into court on charges of 'impeding an officer' and 'custodial interference' as a result of the Friday, September 13 SRS, state & local police raid on her mother's home without a search warrant. This action was taken because Patricia was homeschooling her four children. The VT DOE had informed her in December 2001 that she wasn't 'allowed' to send in an enrollment for this year or next. Patricia eventually moved out of state to Connecticut and returned to Vermont in May 2002. She was visiting her very ill mother in Bennington on the day of the raid but was living at the Ladd Brook Motel in Pownal, VT with her husband and children. In a nutshell Patricia is in jail for homeschooling her children.
Parental rights are not lost on the spur of a moment because of a home study plan. The children must have been taken away from the legal custodial parents by Ms. O'Dell(possibly in Conneticut). She abducted at least one of the kids from the real custodial parent or other legal guardian. That is why she was arrested for "custodial interference". In a "nutshell" Patricia is in jail because she abducted four children who did not belong with her.
You will notice that no SRS hearings are scheduled, or reported as scheduled, that's because custody has already been established.
From the Vermont statute:
§ 2451. Custodial interference
(a) A person commits custodial interference by taking, enticing or keeping a child from the child's lawful custodian, knowingly, without a legal right to do so, when the person is a relative of the child and the child is less than eighteen years old.
(b) A person who commits custodial interference shall be imprisoned not more than five years or fined not more than $5,000.00, or both.
(c) It shall be a defense to a charge of keeping a child from the child's lawful custodian that the person charged with the offense was acting in good faith to protect the child from real and imminent physical danger. Evidence of good faith shall include, but is not limited to, the filing of a non-frivolous petition documenting that danger and seeking to modify the custodial decree in a Vermont court of competent jurisdiction. This petition must be filed within 72 hours of the termination of visitation rights. This defense shall not be available if the person charged with the offense has left the state with the child. (Added 1979, No. 149 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. April 24, 1980.)
Looks to me like the kids went back to their legal parents. Or at least some did. The others were removed from the clutches of a child abductor. Cindy Wade tried to play this as a Christian Homeschooling issue, it is not. This is a custody issue or rather lack of legal custody by O'Dell. Patricia O’Dell probably removed the kids from the various fathers’ care. Remember that there are three absent fathers. Mr. Veach is the father of two of the children, Mr. Cameron and Mr. Thompson fathered one child each. Ray O’Dell, Patricia O'Dell's husband, is not the father of any of the children.
This whole thing is a sham. If anybody’s rights have been violated, the fathers’ rights have been violated. The Christian Homeschool angle was used to sucker in the feeble of mind. How does it feel to be used Spiff, Eternal Vigilance and the rest?