Donald Coleman
What do you think about this case? I just couldn't believe it. Some people may justify it saying, well he is a registered as a sex offender because he had sex with the mother of this child. And? He was the adult and the mother of this child was only a teen! I think the judge who awarded custody is wrong.
The family of a 3-year-old Florida girl is outraged after a judge awarded custody to the child's legal father, who is a registered sex offender, WJXX-TV reports.
Trista Crews Coleman, the child's mother, reportedly died in a car accident a month after her daughter, Miranda Wilkerson, was born.
Earlier this month, a judge gave custody to the child's father, Donald Coleman, a registered sex offender who impregnated Trista Crews Coleman in 1997 when he was 38 and she was 14 years old.
The two had three children together and Crews Coleman's mother, Rita Manning, said she only signed off on the wedding because a child was on the way.
"I signed for them to get married for that reason only," Manning told the station.
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