Here’s another of our front page articles, a new piece of information coming in about a tragedy that occurred in Jasper County and affected the lives of those in Clay.
Zephrum and Lily Jones
CLAY CO.—A tragedy in mid-April was made even more disastrous just three weeks later when a Clay County father had his parental rights violated by his daughter’s grandmother.
Lilian (Lily) Jones, age 2, was left without a mother after Andrea Weiler, 25, died two days following an ATV accident in Jasper County at that time.
The baby was staying with her father, Zephrum Jones, 30, that weekend per a joint agreement between the parents that had been in affect for the past eight months, since Weiler and Jones had split up after six years and when they were both living in Vincennes, Ind. Jones had moved back to Flora, and Weiler was still living in Indiana when the tragic accident occurred.
As the baby’s legal surviving parent, Jones immediately stepped up to the plate and began to make a life for his toddler.
However, all that came to a crashing halt when the little girl’s maternal grandmother refused to return her after a visit Jones allowed her to have during the first weekend in May.
Now, facing an unnecessary guardianship case in Clay County circuit court, Zephrum Jones is doing everything he can to get Lily back home.
But it appears that the grandmother, Sherrie Kittle, is driven by something more than just concern for the little girl, as court documents show; and a judge has already deemed that the matter can’t be resolved on any kind of emergency basis after Jones attempted to get his daughter back, first through law enforcement, then with a petition for Order of Protection.
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