Our View: Weiler’s custody bill sensible
Editorial Board
Standard-Examiner
Mon, 06/17/2013 – 1:59pm
We support state Sen. Todd Weiler’s proposal that would allow judges to consider removing a parent’s custody rights to his or her child if that parent is a suspect in the murder of a spouse. The proposal puts an emphasis on protecting children during a situation in which one parent is suspected of the murder of another. The children are innocents in such a dire situation, and vulnerable.
The Woods Cross Republican legislator’s bill comes as a result of the murder case in which John Brickman Wall is charged with the murder of his ex-wife, Uta Von Schwedler, a University of Utah biologist. Prior to Wall’s arrest in April, Wall and Schwendler’s son, Pelle Wall, had tried to get younger siblings away from his father’s home.



