Still Missing HI - Ariel Sellers AKA 'Isabella Kalua', 6, last seen asleep in bdrm, Waimanalo, 12 Sep 2021*Arrests

[Knox]

http://jimspss1.courts.state.hi.us:8080/eCourt/ECC/CaseSearch.iface

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85​	01/06/2023​	Notice of Court Date​	Lehua Kalua​	​
86​	01/06/2023​	Notice of Court Date​	Lehua Kalua​	​
87​	01/06/2023​	Minutes 22 KALUA / 23 KALUA DATE: 1/6/23 TIME:1:13 P.M. ***TRIAL STATUS CONFERENCE*** PRESENT VIA ZOOM VIDEO: DPA: T. KAEO; DPA: E. CANDELARIO ; ATY: J. BURKS FOR DEFT L. KALUA; ATY: D. ODO FOR DEFT I. KALUA OFF RECORD TRIAL STATUS CONFERENCE HELD. MINUTE ORDER: AT BOTH DEFTS REQUEST AND NO OBJECTION BY STATE, REQUEST TO CONTINUE TRIAL WEEK IS GRANTED. NEW TRIAL WEEK: 5/1/23 TRIAL STATUS CONFERENCE: 4/13/23 AT 1:15 P.M. VIA VIDEO PRETRIAL MOTIONS DEADLINE: 3/31/23 DEFT TO FILE RULE 48 WAIVER.​	Lehua Kalua​	​
88​	01/06/2023​	Minutes 22 KALUA / 23 KALUA DATE: 1/6/23 TIME:1:13 P.M. ***TRIAL STATUS CONFERENCE*** PRESENT VIA ZOOM VIDEO: DPA: T. KAEO; DPA: E. CANDELARIO ; ATY: J. BURKS FOR DEFT L. KALUA; ATY: D. ODO FOR DEFT I. KALUA OFF RECORD TRIAL STATUS CONFERENCE HELD. MINUTE ORDER: AT BOTH DEFTS REQUEST AND NO OBJECTION BY STATE, REQUEST TO CONTINUE TRIAL WEEK IS GRANTED. NEW TRIAL WEEK: 5/1/23 TRIAL STATUS CONFERENCE: 4/13/23 AT 1:15 P.M. VIA VIDEO PRETRIAL MOTIONS DEADLINE: 3/31/23 DEFT TO FILE RULE 48 WAIVER.​	Isaac Kalua III​	​
91​	01/06/2023​	Notice of Court Date​	Isaac Kalua III​	​
92​	01/06/2023​	Notice of Court Date​	Isaac Kalua III​	​
89​	02/20/2023​	Minutes TRIAL WEEK CONTINUED TO 5/1/23.​	Lehua Kalua​	​
90​	02/20/2023​	Minutes TRIAL WEEK CONTINUED TO 5/1/23.​	Isaac Kalua III​	​

 

[Knox]

97​	04/13/2023​	Minutes 22 LEHUA KALUA 23 ISAA KALUA III DATE: 4/13/23 TIME: 1:22 P.M. ***TRIAL STATUS CONFERENCE*** PRESENT VIA ZOOM VIDEO: DPA: E. CANDELARIO; DPA: T. KAEO ; ATY: D. ODO FOR DEFT I.KALUA; ATY: J. BURKS FOR DEFT L. KALUA OFF RECORD TRIAL STATUS CONFERENCE HELD. MINUTE ORDER: AT BOTH DEFTS REQUEST AND NO OBJECTION BY STATE, REQUEST TO CONTINUE TRIAL WEEK IS GRANTED. NEW TRIAL WEEK: 8/28/23 TRIAL STATUS CONFERENCE: 8/11/23 AT 1:15 P.M. VIA VIDEO PRETRIAL MOTIONS DEADLINE: 7/31/23 DEFT TO FILE RULE 48 WAIVER.​	Lehua Kalua​	​
98​	04/13/2023​	Minutes 22 LEHUA KALUA 23 ISAA KALUA III DATE: 4/13/23 TIME: 1:22 P.M. ***TRIAL STATUS CONFERENCE*** PRESENT VIA ZOOM VIDEO: DPA: E. CANDELARIO; DPA: T. KAEO ; ATY: D. ODO FOR DEFT I.KALUA; ATY: J. BURKS FOR DEFT L. KALUA OFF RECORD TRIAL STATUS CONFERENCE HELD. MINUTE ORDER: AT BOTH DEFTS REQUEST AND NO OBJECTION BY STATE, REQUEST TO CONTINUE TRIAL WEEK IS GRANTED. NEW TRIAL WEEK: 8/28/23 TRIAL STATUS CONFERENCE: 8/11/23 AT 1:15 P.M. VIA VIDEO PRETRIAL MOTIONS DEADLINE: 7/31/23 DEFT TO FILE RULE 48 WAIVER.​	Isaac Kalua III​	​
99​	05/01/2023​	Minutes TRIAL WEEK CONTINUED TO 8/28/23.​	Lehua Kalua​	​
100​	05/01/2023​	Minutes TRIAL WEEK CONTINUED TO 8/28/23.​	Isaac Kalua III​

 

[Knox]

Postponed again

 

[OrangeCash]

What are some reasons defendants try to push back their trial dates for as long as possible? Is it so their lawyers have more time to prepare? Is it that time goes on and people's general outrage regarding the crime seems to lessen as other things happen and details get forgotten about? Is the accused held somewhere better pre-trial than post-trial if found guilty?

 

[Knox]

No clue, but I keep hoping they will cop a plea and tell LE where they put Ariel's body. Her poor older sister has been through enough!!

 

[cvaldez1975]

What are some reasons defendants try to push back their trial dates for as long as possible? Is it so their lawyers have more time to prepare? Is it that time goes on and people's general outrage regarding the crime seems to lessen as other things happen and details get forgotten about? Is the accused held somewhere better pre-trial than post-trial if found guilty?

so ppl forget about it is MOO

 

[Knox]

Tried to look for update but court website is down today - eCourt* Kokua

 

[Unalienable Rights]

Judge rules Isabella ‘Ariel’ Kalua dead, opening door for siblings to sue state

The 6-year-old's body was never found.

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A circuit court judge ruled Thursday that Isabella “Ariel” Kalua is dead — opening the door for her siblings to sue the state.

The matter was handled in probate court where the judge ruled that the missing 6-year-old died on or around Aug. 18, 2021.

Kalua’s body was never found.

Her adopted parents, Isaac and Lehua Kalua are charged with murder.

The judge also approved representatives for her siblings.

 

[mickey2942]

Another adopted child, dead.

 

[Lusitana]

Judge rules Isabella ‘Ariel’ Kalua dead, opening door for siblings to sue state

The 6-year-old's body was never found.

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A circuit court judge ruled Thursday that Isabella “Ariel” Kalua is dead — opening the door for her siblings to sue the state.

The matter was handled in probate court where the judge ruled that the missing 6-year-old died on or around Aug. 18, 2021.

Kalua’s body was never found.

Her adopted parents, Isaac and Lehua Kalua are charged with murder.

The judge also approved representatives for her siblings.

Are her siblings adults or minors?

 

[Unalienable Rights]

Are her siblings adults or minors?

Minors

 

[JurassicParker]

I hate the waiting game. Those 2 demons should be in prison for life or the chair. What was done to this little girl is despicable.

 

[Lusitana]

Minors

So... who gets to decide if they sue or not? Can they legally decide to?

 

[Dave99]

This article really calls out how truly horrific the abuse was and how the social service agencies and courts blatantly ignored the clear abuse signs, even when physicians were telling them there was very likely abuse.

Lawsuit Alleges Waimanalo Foster Girls Sexually Abused--and DHS Knew > Hawaii Free Press

 

[Hexe]

This article really calls out how truly horrific the abuse was and how the social service agencies and courts blatantly ignored the clear abuse signs, even when physicians were telling them there was very likely abuse.

Lawsuit Alleges Waimanalo Foster Girls Sexually Abused--and DHS Knew > Hawaii Free Press

I am horrified. People who were supposed to protect Ariel and her siblings, but failed, who gave them to these monsters with history od violence and meth use, who then ignored all signs and signals of horror these poor girls were living in, well these people need to be arrested and tried. That are criminal levels of very much willful negligence.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

This article really calls out how truly horrific the abuse was and how the social service agencies and courts blatantly ignored the clear abuse signs, even when physicians were telling them there was very likely abuse.

Lawsuit Alleges Waimanalo Foster Girls Sexually Abused--and DHS Knew > Hawaii Free Press

Than you @Dave99 for posting this.
When you think it can't get any worse.........

 

[Hexe]

This article really calls out how truly horrific the abuse was and how the social service agencies and courts blatantly ignored the clear abuse signs, even when physicians were telling them there was very likely abuse.

Lawsuit Alleges Waimanalo Foster Girls Sexually Abused--and DHS Knew > Hawaii Free Press

I am horrified. People who were supposed to protect Ariel and her siblings, but failed, who have them to these monstera with history od violence and meth use, who then ignored all signs and signals of horror these poor girls were living in, well these people need to be arrested and tried. That are criminal levels of very much willful negligence.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

The trial has been postponed again.

Trial Of Couple Accused Of Killing Waimanalo Girl Is Postponed

The trial of Isaac and Lehua Kalua, who are accused of abusing and killing their 6-year-old adopted daughter in Waimanalo, has been postponed to Jan. 15, according to court records. The child, Isabella Kalua, who was born Ariel Sellers, was first reported missing on Sept. 13, 2021. A massive...

www.civilbeat.org

August 25

The trial of Isaac and Lehua Kalua, who are accused of abusing and killing their 6-year-old adopted daughter in Waimanalo, has been postponed to Jan. 15, according to court records.

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The trial was previously scheduled to start on Monday. It has been continued six times.

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[Unalienable Rights]

This is a very long article about Ariel's bio mom. She has another baby, a one month old boy. She says she is clean now and hopes that she will be allowed to keep the baby and to be reunited with two of her daughters. She said that the father of the children is also in recovery. The child welfare system stepped in two days after the baby was born and a social worker filed a report. She still does not have a court date. She doesn't know where her four surviving daughters are, but she hears rumors. The article continues with the mom's background and struggles. The second half of the article is about her visits with Ariel. There are also two pictures of a healthy looking Ariel with her mom (which are too large to post.)

A Hawaii Mother Haunted By The Brutal Killing Of One Child Tries To Hold Onto Another - Honolulu Civil Beat

The mother of a Waimanalo girl allegedly murdered by the couple who adopted her says she is sober and working to prevent the state from putting her newborn son into the same system.

www.civilbeat.org

"The mother of a Waimanalo girl allegedly murdered by the couple who adopted her says she is sober and working to prevent the state from putting her newborn son into the same system."

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[Lusitana]

This is a very long article about Ariel's bio mom. She has another baby, a one month old boy. She says she is clean now and hopes that she will be allowed to keep the baby and to be reunited with two of her daughters. She said that the father of the children is also in recovery. The child welfare system stepped in two days after the baby was born and a social worker filed a report. She still does not have a court date. She doesn't know where her four surviving daughters are, but she hears rumors. The article continues with the mom's background and struggles. The second half of the article is about her visits with Ariel. There are also two pictures of a healthy looking Ariel with her mom (which are too large to post.)

A Hawaii Mother Haunted By The Brutal Killing Of One Child Tries To Hold Onto Another - Honolulu Civil Beat

The mother of a Waimanalo girl allegedly murdered by the couple who adopted her says she is sober and working to prevent the state from putting her newborn son into the same system.

www.civilbeat.org

"The mother of a Waimanalo girl allegedly murdered by the couple who adopted her says she is sober and working to prevent the state from putting her newborn son into the same system."

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She needs to stay sober if she wants to keep the baby and get her surviving daughters back. But is that even possible? Were the other girls also adopted?