Alex Jones' ex-wife rebuffed in bid to gain daughters' custody after he courted COVID-19 at rally
A state district judge Monday denied an emergency motion by Alex Jones’ ex-wife to secure custody of their daughters for the two weeks it would take to determine whether he contracted COVID-19 at a Saturday rally he led at the Capitol at which he was mobbed by unmasked supporters and declared the coronavirus “a hoax.”
Jones is the host of the Austin-based conspiracy website InfoWars.
Austin attorney Tiffany Crouch Bartlett, who filed the motion late Sunday night on behalf of Kelly Jones, said she was disappointed but not surprised by the decision by state District Judge Lori Livingston because the judge had indicated at their last hearing on the Jones’ child custody arrangements, via Zoom on April 6, that she didn’t want to make any changes in custody until she can have a full trial or evidentiary hearing, hopefully when in-person court proceedings have resumed.
Bartlett’s motion asked Livingston to keep Jones from “exercising any physical possession of the children .... for at least the next fourteen days as Alex Jones has deliberately exposed himself to an estimated 300 people at a Texas Capitol rally which he organized on Saturday, April 18th, and during which he failed to use a mask, observe social distancing, or implement any safety measures to avoid infection during the Covid 19 pandemic — in blatant violation of local Travis County stay-at-home orders, and in violation of Texas and federal guidelines and recommendations.”
Read more: https://www.statesman.com/news/20200420/alex-jonesrsquo-ex-wife-rebuffed-in-bid-to-gain-daughtersrsquo-custody-after-he-courted-covid-19-at-rally
= new reply since forum marked as read
