Judge denies cop killer Ronell Wilson’s paternity petition, says he’s ‘civilly dead’
He really is a dead man walking. Cop killer Ronell Wilson‘s paternity petition seeking access to the baby he fathered with a prison guard was thrown out because he’s “civilly dead.” Wilson “began his petition while incarcerated, and was therefore civilly dead,” and should be treated “as if he were actually dead,” Suffolk County Family Court […]
NYPD cop killer Ronell Wilson can seek visitation for baby he fathered with prison guard: court
Condemned cop killer Ronell Wilson has risen from the dead. A state appeals court has reversed the decision, which called the death row convict “civilly dead,” that denied him access to the baby he fathered with a prison guard while in lockup. A Suffolk County Family Court judge ruled last year that Wilson, 32, had […]
76 Fake Charities Shared a Mailbox. The I.R.S. Approved Them All.
The “American Cancer Society of Michigan,” state authorities say, was a fake charity. And not even a good fake. It was not in Michigan, for one thing. When the group applied to the Internal Revenue Service to become a tax-exempt nonprofit in 2020, it listed its address as a rented mailbox on Staten Island. It […]
He Didn’t Abuse His Daughter. The State Took Her Anyway.
What does it mean to be a parent? One man hopes his case will change how a decades-old New York law treats unwed fathers. What does it mean to be a parent? One man hopes his case will change how a decades-old New York law treats unwed fathers. For the first five years of his […]
Extraordinary Circumstances A father’s yearslong struggle to regain custody of his son.
In the moments after Kenny was born, Kenneth Watkins remembers feeling happier than he had ever been in his life. Blissed out, he couldn’t stop staring at his son — the impossibly tiny toes and fingers, his curly brown hair, his perfect little mouth. Watkins brought Kenny home from the hospital to his mother’s apartment in […]