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Court orders unsupervised visitation, child murdered |
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Monday, 19 June 2006 |
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A Ketchikan, Alaska court gave a man suspected of domestic violence and possession of child pornography unsupervised visitation with his 22-month old daughter just four days before he killed her, Alaska papers are reporting.
James Paul, 46, was sentenced Friday to 50 years in prison for killing
Sarah Paul. The child's mother, Nannapat Paul, asked the court to
protect her child, reports the Anchorage Daily News, saying
that he had hit the girl and that he had child pornography on his
computer. A magistrate ordered Paul to have no contact with the mother
or child, but that order was later weakened to allow unsupervised
visits between Paul and the child. Sarah Paul was found dead in a
bathtub, with "live wires and razor blades" nearby. Police later
charged Paul with 31 counts of possessing child pornography.
"The only reason that Sarah Paul was alone with her father was that we,
the court system, ordered her to be," said Assistant Ketchikan District
Attorney James Scott. In a written statement, Nannapat Paul agreed,
saying that the court was responsible for the toddler's murder.
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