'Sex Offender's Wife in Child Custody Fight'

AP article here

 

POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- Melissa WolfHawk, due to give birth any day now, lives in fear that her baby will be taken from her -- by the government. The county child-welfare agency believes her child won't be safe because her husband is a sex offender who spent more than a decade in prison for rape in a case involving two teenage girls.

But WolfHawk says her husband of three years, DaiShin WolfHawk, is no ''monster,'' and she won a federal court order Sept. 30 keeping child-welfare workers from asking about her pregnancy, at least until a hearing next week.

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DaiShin WolfHawk, who is unemployed, said he lives about 20 miles from the home his wife shares with her father. He described himself as the chief of an American Indian tribe, the Unole E Quoni, which he says has 175 families in eight states but is not recognized by any state or by the federal government.