July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
No comment on abduction (9/4/04)
School corporation not talking
The superintendent of Jay Schools isn’t talking about the alleged abduction of a General Shanks Elementary School second grader.
When asked Friday afternoon if the proper procedures outlined in the school policy were followed Thursday, Jay School Corporation superintendent Barbara Downing said she could not comment because of potential legal issues.
Downing could not be reached for comment by press time for a story in Friday’s edition of The Commercial Review.
In a telephone interview Friday afternoon, Downing outlined the corporation’s policy for picking up children from school.
Downing said the school corporation’s policy was established in 1996. She said the policy states children cannot be taken from the school without parental permission. No written statement is required, she said.
However, when someone comes to pick up a child, some kind of identification must be presented, said Downing. Some families even create codes to ensure safety, she said.
After Harrison W. Lovely, 9, was taken from school, his father, Harrison R. Lovely, 28, Hardinsburg, Ind., and his grandmother, Earline R. Lovely, 61, West Liberty, Ky., were stopped by Randolph County police on U.S. 27, south of Winchester. The two were arrested by Portland police, and the child was returned to his mother, Mary Sullivan.
Portland police investigator Todd Wickey, who arrested the pair, said Thursday and Friday that in his interviews with school employees and officials, no one mentioned asking the grandmother for identification.
Wickey said the woman simply identified herself as his grandmother. When the school asked Lovely what side of the family she was on, she said she was on the mother’s side, police said.
The school did have written notification that the child’s father could have no contact with him, Wickey said.
The child was allegedly abducted from the Portland elementary school Thursday morning by his grandmother and his father. According to police, she told school staffers she was taking the boy to a dentist appointment. The Lovelys then attempted to contact the child’s mother at a Portland residence.
Sullivan said she overheard her former boyfriend say he was taking the boy to Kentucky. She contacted the school, then called police. Little more than an hour after being taken, the child and his alleged captors were stopped by police.
The Lovelys were arrested for criminal confinement, a class D felony. He also was arrested for invasion of privacy, a class A misdemeanor, for allegedly violating a protective order.
The protective order, preventing the father from having any contact with his son or Sullivan, was issued earlier this year in Orange County, soon after Lovely allegedly battered Sullivan.
The grandmother was released from the Jay County Jail Thursday afternoon on a $3,000 bond. Her son was being held in the jail Friday night on a $4,500 bond.[[In-content Ad]]
When asked Friday afternoon if the proper procedures outlined in the school policy were followed Thursday, Jay School Corporation superintendent Barbara Downing said she could not comment because of potential legal issues.
Downing could not be reached for comment by press time for a story in Friday’s edition of The Commercial Review.
In a telephone interview Friday afternoon, Downing outlined the corporation’s policy for picking up children from school.
Downing said the school corporation’s policy was established in 1996. She said the policy states children cannot be taken from the school without parental permission. No written statement is required, she said.
However, when someone comes to pick up a child, some kind of identification must be presented, said Downing. Some families even create codes to ensure safety, she said.
After Harrison W. Lovely, 9, was taken from school, his father, Harrison R. Lovely, 28, Hardinsburg, Ind., and his grandmother, Earline R. Lovely, 61, West Liberty, Ky., were stopped by Randolph County police on U.S. 27, south of Winchester. The two were arrested by Portland police, and the child was returned to his mother, Mary Sullivan.
Portland police investigator Todd Wickey, who arrested the pair, said Thursday and Friday that in his interviews with school employees and officials, no one mentioned asking the grandmother for identification.
Wickey said the woman simply identified herself as his grandmother. When the school asked Lovely what side of the family she was on, she said she was on the mother’s side, police said.
The school did have written notification that the child’s father could have no contact with him, Wickey said.
The child was allegedly abducted from the Portland elementary school Thursday morning by his grandmother and his father. According to police, she told school staffers she was taking the boy to a dentist appointment. The Lovelys then attempted to contact the child’s mother at a Portland residence.
Sullivan said she overheard her former boyfriend say he was taking the boy to Kentucky. She contacted the school, then called police. Little more than an hour after being taken, the child and his alleged captors were stopped by police.
The Lovelys were arrested for criminal confinement, a class D felony. He also was arrested for invasion of privacy, a class A misdemeanor, for allegedly violating a protective order.
The protective order, preventing the father from having any contact with his son or Sullivan, was issued earlier this year in Orange County, soon after Lovely allegedly battered Sullivan.
The grandmother was released from the Jay County Jail Thursday afternoon on a $3,000 bond. Her son was being held in the jail Friday night on a $4,500 bond.[[In-content Ad]]
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