Legislation Would Gut Kayden’s Law –We posted reports a few hours ago that powerful persons in the legal community were seeking to gut Kayden’s Law which was signed into existence April 15 and took effect Aug. 13.
Kayden’s Law is named for seven-year-old Kayden Mancuso who was murdered by her father in 2018 during a visitation. It mandates courts to consider a parent’s history of violence when deciding custody.
Why would anyone want to have propensity to violence and abuse not be a prime, if not the prime, reason in deciding custody?
Who could even think of this?
A mercenary attorney seeking to maintain an avenue to making a buck? A child abuser?
Certainly no decent person.
Nor, did we think, a legislator concerned about his standing with his constituency.
We were wrong.
House Bill 2018 has been introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature and it guts Kayden’s Law.
Prime sponsor is Montgomery County Democrat Liz Hanbidge who represents the 61st District.
It passed the House Judiciary Committee, Sept. 25. All Democrats voted for it and all Republicans voted no.
Why don’t these Democrats care about the safety of children? Why don’t they give a law that’s been in effect for only about six weeks a chance to work?
Feel free to try and answer these questions in the comments.
Legislation Would Gut Kayden’s Law
