A mom, who has already been jailed three times because she refused to let her daughter communicate with her incarcerated father, faces more jail time if she doesn’t change her stance.
Jennifer Logan, 27, Atwood, faces 21 days in the Kosciusko County Jail if she doesn’t comply with a court order to allow her daughter’s father to see his child.
Logan is accused of denying her daughter contact with the girl’s father, Samuel Davis Jr.
Davis is serving a sentence in Wabash Valley Correctional Facility,?Carlisle. Carlisle is 224 miles southwest of Warsaw.
Logan was ordered to bring the child to see Davis once a month.
Davis was sentenced to 15 years in prison after being convicted of driving drunk, smashing into a tree and killing his then-girlfriend, Victoria Anderson, in 2010.
Davis is projected to be released Nov. 21, 2018.
While in prison, Davis filed a petition for visitation rights with his daughter.
On Sept. 19, 2014, The court granted Davis parenting time. The court says Logan has been disobeying the order.
Logan’s attorney, Anthony Garza, did not return multiple phone calls seeking comment on the case.
In an order signed by Kosciusko Circuit Court Judge Michael Reed on June 25, Reed wrote that “Logan remains in willful and contemptuous violation of the prior of orders of the court.”
Among the alleged violations of the order, Logan has failed to take the girl to visit Davis in prison once a month, failed to have the girl available for telephone calls from the Davis, did not have the girl write letters to Davis and did not give the girl letters sent to her from Davis.
Reed set a Sept. 28 hearing date for Logan to show that she is complying with the court orders. In the order, Reed says if Logan is not following the court order, she will be placed in Kosciusko?County Jail for 21 days.
Logan has already been jailed three times for contempt of court in connection with the case.
Logan was placed in the Kosciusko County Jail on Jan. 6, 2016, and released Jan. 13 2016; on Aug. 5 2016, till Aug. 14, 2016; and the third time was a 14-day sentence that began Jan. 30.
On Wednesday, Reed recused himself from the case. It will now be handled by Kosciusko Superior Court II Judge Torrey Bauer.
Bauer will be the third judge to handle the case. The case was assigned to Kosciusko Superior Court I Judge David Cates, who also recused himself.
