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By Catherine Davis | 3.16.17
Commentator, Chief Editor, L&SS

I was curious to know why the judge denied the grandmother of this young woman, Heather Mack's, toddler daughter, named 'Stella', permanent custody of her grandchild. The toddler's mother and father are Americans found guilty in an Indonesian court of murdering her mother Sheila von Wiese-Mack and sentenced to 10 (her) and 18 (him) years behind bars. The baby's father, 'Tommy Schaefer' claims von Wiese-Mack violently attacked him when she found out Heather was pregnant.

Indonesia allows new mothers to keep their babies until they reach two years of age.

I read in this this NYTimes article that in spite of the US law that grants legal custody of minors to grandparents should a parent(s) be deemed unfit to raise them, it (the law) can be overwrote in extenuating circumstances such as this one. 

According to news sources, specifically, 'Yahoo news', the toddler's mother has chosen a couple who lives in Indonesia to raise her daughter! Thus, the reason the judge denied the child's father's mother custody of her.

That brings me to my next brain exhausting mind-boggling mental trip that I wish to share with you! 

This young woman's mother was a wealthy Chicagoan whose networth is at $1.56 million. This knowledge of her is why I am not surprised that this girl was able to convince friends to raise her child. Heck, the little girl will be 10-years-old and will have enough money to be taken care of until her mom (?) or mother (?) gets out of prison to take her back and finish raising her to adulthood. 

The Indonesian prison's inmates were so nice and helpful to this young mother and now, since she (the toddler) is leaving the prison, she'll still get regular visits with her mother. This doesn't seem fair to all those in prison in America who've been sentenced to prison, for the same amount of time, for far less crime and they've lost total custody of their children. The grandmother said she wants the girl so she won't end up in foster care in a foreign country, yet, the mother has made darn sure that that would not happen. She has money, she can do that!

Here in the states too, wealthy criminals are able to keep their monies if that money was not apart of the crime they're in prison for.
(A story for another time - Please read my upcoming article regarding this topic)

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