Jeez. I now feel slightly less stupid for that time I called 911 because I thought a woman was screaming in my building and it turned out it was someone’s tv. I guess when in doubt etc?

Yes, he does, until a family court judge terminates those rights. You have a Constitutional right to parent your kids as you see fit, providing you are not abusing or neglecting them. In cases of domestic violence, if a woman mentions that she is abused she is more likely to lose custody of her children than if she…

Even though the paternal family have a lot of money, I don’t get how they could have a persuasive case.

yes it is far too early to speculate why this privileged wealthy white man might have barricaded himself inside with a body he mutilated

let’s just allow him to be peacefully white and wealthy for a few moments longer before speculating

just a few moments

“It’s very early to make a conclusion as to what the cause, intent, motive and facts were to this unfortunate tragedy.”

Well, there is the issue that the child is American and the maternal grandparents apparently Ukrainian. The paternal grandparents could make a potentially persuasive case that raising the child in the US is in the best interests of the child, given the current state of affairs in Ukraine.

You know they will. Her family will want to raise the baby in their own country I'm sure. What a fabulous argument for a high-priced attorney to make: this baby is an American citizen and should not be raised elsewhere.

Alex Hanley, a neighbor, told Global News that several people in the building heard screams but that they couldn’t tell whether it was a person or a television program.

I don’t really understand why they’re anticipating a contentious custody battle. The mother’s dead and the father killed her. It seems pretty clear-cut that the maternal grandparents (or aunts or uncles) would be awarded custody. Even though the paternal family have a lot of money, I don’t get how they could have a…

Oh my god. This poor woman, her poor family, her poor daughter. As someone who works with foreign students and exchange visitors, there’s something particularly awful to me about the loss and violation a family suffers when they lose a daughter or son to violence in another country.

“Richards adds, “It’s very rare that someone is involved in a homicide case with someone they just had a baby with.””

Hannibal Lecter’s neighbors and friends would have considered him a very cultured, well spoken individual.

“It’s very early to make a conclusion as to what the cause, intent, motive and facts were to this unfortunate tragedy.”

Also this may have been a clue to his violent tendencies:

She had moved out of the condo they shared when he was charged with rape but had come back to talk things over with him and he killed her. I have the misfortune of having gone to high school with this spoiled piece of garbage and while I can offer no insight here other than to say he was and seemingly still is an…

“It’s very rare that someone is involved in a homicide case with someone they just had a baby with.”

Mayhem is the common law name for the crime of mutilating, crippling, cutting off, or otherwise permanently disfiguring part of a person’s body.

PENAL CODE
SECTION 203-206.1

One of his charges is mayhem, and aggravated mayhem? Not even being snarky here, but wtf does mayhem have to do with anything? Him being combative when the police arrived?

Too horrifying. I hope that child has as good a life as possible. I don't want to imagine the custody battle.