A Kentucky man charged with burglary met his one-month-old son for the first time while in court, thank to the judge presiding over his case.
James and Ashley Roeder are co-defendants charged in a February burglary case in Louisville. Judge Amber Wolf had issued a no-contact order for the couple, but upon realising Mr Roeder had yet to meet his newborn son, she made a temporary exception to facilitate the introduction.
“I saw her try to hold the baby up when he came out for his case to be called with his attorney,” Ms Wolf toldWDRB. “And I thought that he hadn’t seen that. And it occurred to me after we finished this case that he had not met his baby – who was 30 days old – and that he was not going to get an opportunity to meet his baby anytime in the near future.”
The Roeders were taken into custody on 20 May and are accused of breaking into a warehouse and stealing six flat screen television, according to police documents. They were ordered not to have contact ahead of their trial.
In the court video, Mr Roeder kisses his son immediately upon holding him, and the couple can be seen wiping away their tears as the judge observes.
[For more of this story, written by Feliks Garcia, go to http://www.independent.co.uk/n...-watch-a7181386.html]
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