(AP) – Records show that Missouri welfare officials twice
filed statements expressing concerns that a father might harm his two sons
before the boys were killed in a murder-suicide.The Springfield News-Leader reports that a Webster County deputy reviewed reports from Missouri Children’s Division staff after the bodies of 45-year-old Robert Kinney and his 5-year-old son, William, and 7-year-old son, Robbie, were found in July in a burning home.
filed statements expressing concerns that a father might harm his two sons
before the boys were killed in a murder-suicide.The Springfield News-Leader reports that a Webster County deputy reviewed reports from Missouri Children’s Division staff after the bodies of 45-year-old Robert Kinney and his 5-year-old son, William, and 7-year-old son, Robbie, were found in July in a burning home.
Two of the reports included a “danger statement” indicating the boys’ mother, Liegh Ann Malone, and the Children’s Division believed Kinney could potentially harm the children. The deputy wrote in a report obtained through an open records request that welfare officials took no action “other than to offer services to the family,” noting that claims of abuse and neglect were “unsubstantiated.”
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