Where in the heck was the mother in all of this?? She left 5 young children? Then she has the gall to cry on the witness stand! This is terrible. This guy had to work and take care of 5 little kids and did I read it right she committed infidelity. How can any mother leave one kid let alone five!
What? How is any of this her fault? She didn't make him kill his children. Sometimes when parents split, one parent ends up doing most of the parenting. That's usually the mother, but we don't seem to judge the fathers when this happens. But we do when it's the mother who leaves? Whether she cheated or not is totally irrelevant. Whether she left or not is also irrelevant. She may have had many reasons for doing so. Nothing justifies him murdering their kids.[/QUOTe
I agree nothing justifies murder EVER. I just cannot see a mother leaving 5 kids one as young as a year old with a father who has a career job. That's nuts! She contributed to this. Total irresponsibility. Poor kids.
I believe she "had problems" and he had a really good career and income so he was able to look better in front of the judge and got custody away from her.Where in the heck was the mother in all of this?? She left 5 young children? Then she has the gall to cry on the witness stand! This is terrible. This guy had to work and take care of 5 little kids and did I read it right she committed infidelity. How can any mother leave one kid let alone five!
Where in the heck was the mother in all of this?? She left 5 young children? Then she has the gall to cry on the witness stand! This is terrible. This guy had to work and take care of 5 little kids and did I read it right she committed infidelity. How can any mother leave one kid let alone five!
I agree nothing justifies murder EVER. I just cannot see a mother leaving 5 kids one as young as a year old with a father who has a career job. That's nuts! She contributed to this. Total irresponsibility. Poor kids.
Where in the heck was the mother in all of this?? She left 5 young children? Then she has the gall to cry on the witness stand! This is terrible. This guy had to work and take care of 5 little kids and did I read it right she committed infidelity. How can any mother leave one kid let alone five!
I agree nothing justifies murder EVER. I just cannot see a mother leaving 5 kids one as young as a year old with a father who has a career job. That's nuts! She contributed to this. Total irresponsibility. Poor kids.
Please don't judge the mother....
"...A messier divorce
Amber and Tim Jones separated and a custody battle was raging by summer’s end.
On one side: Tim Jones, who accused his wife of being unfaithful with a next-door neighbor. According to divorce papers, Tim Jones returned home unexpectedly to find the other man, 19, hiding in the closet of the master suite.
“I am looking into moving to Mississippi with the children, where I have a large family support system,” Tim Jones wrote in a 2012 affidavit. “I will search for a job in Mississippi. I am employed and I am capable of caring for my children ...”
On the other side: Amber Jones, who was now six months pregnant with the couple’s fifth child. Several months earlier, she had walked into the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department and reported a string of threats made by her husband, including one to snap her neck. She declined a DSS caseworker’s referral her to Sistercare, a nonprofit for survivors of domestic abuse.
Tim Jones had the upper hand in the court case, including his $71,000 job at Intel, a divorce attorney and a glowing affidavit from his therapist who described him as a “highly intelligent, responsible father who is capable of caring for his children as the sole custodial parent.”
Amber Jones had none of those things — only an isolated existence along a lonely stretch of road and the pressures of caring for four young children in cramped quarters.
The divorce papers displayed her supposed sins.
But not Tim Jones’. There is no mention of his 2002 prison stint in the Big Muddy Correctional Center in Illinois, where he served time for cocaine possession, car theft, burglary and passing forged checks on his father’s account. The 20-year-old paroled out in about a year in a case of a“typical teenager doing stupid stuff,” according to Tim Jones Sr. in a 2014 interview with The Associated Press.
And so it was ordered on Oct. 14, 2013 by a family court judge. Tim Jones was granted physical custody of all five children, including baby girl Elaine, who would be born in December. Amber Jones reconciled herself to every other weekends and holidays.
The court issued one final judgment on supposed misdeeds: “In no event will the parties permit any paramour ... to be present during overnight visitation.”..."
Trial of SC man Timothy Ray Jones Jr., accused of killing his 5 children, could shed light
She didn't leave them, he got custody in the divorce. He got custody of the baby BEFORE IT WAS BORN. Not when it was a year old. This judge literally gave him custody of a newborn straight from the hospital. It's astonishing.
I understand the income thing, sure. But wouldn't it make more sense to have the one parent care for the kids while the other parent is working? It's just crazy... even more crazy because the mom was like completely frozen out. She wasn't even listed as a contact for the kids at school!