Children who performed at Oregon standoff still in Kansas state custody -#BundyTeaParty
AUGUST 23, 2016 7:36 AM
BY JUDY L. THOMAS
The outspoken Kansas-raised teen who was dubbed the “Patriot Princess” after her involvement in an Oregon standoff earlier this year appeared on Monday at the Shawnee County Courthouse ... to support her dad in his effort to gain sole custody of seven of his minor children after they lodged allegations of child abuse against their mother in April. At the conclusion of a brief closed-door hearing, the children remained in state custody. But Tim Sharp said he was hopeful that the children would soon be living with him in Colorado ...
The children’s mother, Odalis Sharp, made headlines earlier this year when she took them to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, where they performed gospel and patriotic music for armed protesters who had seized the property ...
In April, several of the Sharp children bolted from the family’s home in Auburn, Kan., and sought help from authorities, alleging abuse by their mother.
At a hearing last month, Shawnee County District Judge Steven Ebberts ruled that the children would remain in state custody after some of them testified that their mother had beaten them. The children said their siblings would scream in pain and described how their mother would say she was trying to “beat the fire” out of them ...
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