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Divorced parents of brutally murdered girl, 12, squabble over $100K memorial fund donated by heartbroken community 2/6/13
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The divorced parents of Autumn Pasquale are squabbling over $100,000 in memorial donations three months after their 12-year-old daughter was brutally murdered.
Heartbroken members of the community in Clayton, New Jersey, donated the money - first to secure a reward when Autumn went missing on October 20, and later to pay for funeral expenses after her body was found stuffed in a recycling bin at a neighbor's house.
Autumn's mother Jennifer Cornwell filed a lawsuit against her ex-husband Anthony Pasquale this week after he removed her name from the memorial fund bank acount, which has about $85,000 remaining.
She is asking a judge to give her half the money and order Anthony Pasquale to stop making decisions about Autumn's grave site and headstone without her.
Ms Cornwell, says her ex-husband, Mr Pasquale, took Cornwell’s name off the memorial fund bank account that they had agreed to control together to pay for their daughter’s funeral, legal expenses and help with the college education for their two surviving children.
Autumn Pasquale's murder case transferred to Camden County due to conflict
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The Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office has handed the AP murder case to Camden County after family members of the slain 12-year-old filed suit against the office that is prosecuting the brothers accused of killing her.
“While the preference of the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office would be to continue prosecuting to conclusion ... it is no longer possible for it to do so,” the prosecutor's office said in a statement released Wednesday by Bernie Weisenfeld, Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman.
The in-county prosecution of the murder case will be moved to Camden County due to the Pasquale family’s “decision to hire a civil attorney who has since filed notice of a potential civil law suit against the office."
Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean Dalton made a request to the the New Jersey Attorney General’s Division of Criminal Justice to transfer the case due to a potential conflict.
Autumn Pasquale's murder: father sued by mother over slain girl's memorial fund - Update February 07, 2013
What a mess!
Cornwell’s lawsuit also requests that Pasquale provide an accounting of all fund assets and distributions; that all donor contributions be split evenly between Cornwell and Pasquale; and that any future fundraising monies be split evenly between Autumn’s mother and father in separate memorial funds. In addition, Cornwell is asking a judge to direct the parties to agree on the use of the funds in separate memorial accounts, including funeral expenses, the headstone, college expenses for Autumn’s surviving siblings, and legal expenses in connection with the prosecution of the girl’s alleged killers.
The Fulton Bank memorial account was opened in October by Pasquale, who later added Cornwell as a co-signer on the account.
Cornwell discovered that her name had been removed from the account on Dec. 14, days before a benefit concert was held in her daughter’s name. The $15,500 raised for the Autumn Pasquale Memorial Fund has not been deposited into the account, according to court documents.
Cornwell’s suit acknowledges Long’s January request to turn the proceeds over to Pasquale for deposit into the account. After Pasquale refused to reinstate Cornwell as a co-signer, the lawsuit claims “Jennifer had no choice but to seek the court’s intervention.”
