She says Barnes is also blocking their court-mandated daily phone calls.
Asked if her daughter is okay, Abelseth replied: ‘I don’t know.’
Barnes is claiming he is trying to keep the teenager from having sex with her boyfriend. And that when she had a phone she was ‘sexting’ her boyfriend and posting sexually explicit TikToks.
Barnes now has full custody. And Abelseth it ordered to pay her rapist child support.
If there had been an investigation
This is a case where the age of the victim and the age of the child are not in dispute. Even without the “lost” report police should have investigated the crime.
Stacie Triche is Abelseth’s advocate and founder of the nonprofit Save Lives Foundation. She believes it is all about local politics.
She said, “You have birth certificates. You have DNA evidence. All the facts are there, so this mother should have never had to go through this mud that she’s been going through for the past 10 years with this legal battle back and forth because he should have never been given any rights to the child at all.”
