05 Oct 09 - Grandparents arrested after taking 3-year-old
FLORENCE, Alabama - According to a story published in the Florence TimesDaily, the grandparents of a 3-year-old Florence boy were jailed after they carried out a plan to take the child from a local business without the mother’s knowledge and transport him to Lawrence County. According to the news story authorities said the mother’s father, and his wife, who is the child’s step-grandmother, filed for custody of the boy Friday. There wasn’t a judge’s signature (on the custody petition) nor had they had a hearing on the custody issue, so legally, the mother had custody of the child. See the TimesDaily story here.