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Wednesday 17 May 2017
Massacre victim’s brother charged with evidence tampering

By JOHN HANNA Adrian’s maternal grand- tact with the public school her about her grandson’s system failed him,” she
Associated Press mother, Judy Conway, system at least once a year abuse. She said the state said.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A is urging lawmakers to so that their welfare can be has “a lot of great home Committee Chairman
Kansas prosecutor called strengthen regulation of better monitored. schools,” but because John Barker, an Abilene
Tuesday for tougher state home schools. Wyandotte Conway also testified, fight- Adrian was supposed to be Republican, agreed that
regulation of home schools County District Attorney ing back tears as she spoke schooled at home, “no one home-schooled children
in response to the 2015 kill- Mark Dupree, whose office should be tested at least
ing of a 7-year-old boy prosecuted the case, told once a year in a public-
whose remains were found a House committee that school setting.
in a family pig sty, and has greater oversight is neces- Other lawmakers in both
some bipartisan support sary. parties said they’re inter-
among legislators. The committee had a ested in a detailed study of
The state requires only that hearing on a bill that would the issue.
operators register their require people living in The Republican-controlled
home schools with the a home where a child Legislature previously has
state and provide “com- is abused to report the resisted tighter oversight
petent” teachers. The fa- abuse. Authorities said at because some lawmakers
ther and stepmother of least one other adult had do not want to regulate
Adrian Jones claimed to temporarily lived in the parents or homes. Rep.
be schooling him in their Joneses’ home. John Whitmer, a conser-
Kansas City, Kansas home; “This is a step in the right di- vative Wichita Republi-
they have been sentenced rection but, please, don’t can, said he worries that
to life in prison for his death, stop there,” Dupree told the Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader, left, discusses the ongoing strong supporters of public
and authorities say they committee, adding that investigation into the unsolved killings of eight family members schools will use Adrian’s
abused and starved the children who are home- in southern Ohio, during a news conference in Columbus, Ohio. case to try to shut down
boy. schooled should have con- (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins) home schools.
“You can’t blame all home-
ever saw my grandson.” schoolers for this incident,”
“I also believe that in so he said. “These were not
many ways, that the whole home-schoolers.”q

Kansas boy’s slaying prompts

call for new home school rules

WAVERLY, Ohio (AP) — 70 miles (113 kilometers)
State authorities on Tues- south of Columbus. Three
day charged the brother children were found un-
of one of the eight relatives harmed.
slain in an unsolved mas- Investigators put a tracking
sacre with tampering with device on a truck driven by
evidence and vandalism James Manley, according
over the destruction of a to a search warrant ob-
GPS tracking device they tained by the newspaper
placed on his truck. from Leonard Manley.
The state attorney gener- The search warrant indi-
al’s office accused James cated that investigators
Manley of destroying the believe the truck was used
device being used in the in connection with an ag-
investigation of the slay- gravated murder or by a
ings. person intending such a
The charges “are not un- crime, but it doesn’t specify
common when a witness a connection to the Rho-
destroys such a device den homicide investigation
used in a government in- and doesn’t name James
vestigation,” the attorney Manley as a suspect, the
general’s office said. newspaper reported.
Manley, of Peebles, is the An agent with the state
brother of victim Dana Bureau of Criminal Investi-
Rhoden. gation placed the device
His phone is disconnected, on James Manley’s truck
and online court records on April 22, according to
don’t list an attorney for his arrest warrant, time-
him. His father, Leonard stamped Tuesday. The de-
Manley, told the Cincinnati vice stopped functioning
Enquirer his son would turn on April 28, the warrant
himself in. said.
Seven adults and one teen- Agents went to Manley’s
age boy from the Rhoden residence in rural Pike
family were slain in April County on May 15 to pro-
2016. They were found shot vide notice of the device.
at four homes near Piketon, q