A Mississippi man facing charges of kidnapping and aggravated assault in Benewah County asserted his parental rights when he forcibly removed his children from a Sanders Road home, according to his defense attorney. Roger Shoemaker was arrested May 30 on Highway 95, along with his wife, Angela, after using a box cutter to threaten the guardians of his children before taking the two young boys away from their grandparents, Hal and Gladys Dennis. But the Shoemakers acts weren’t malicious, or in their minds, illegal, said defense attorney Dave Rogers, because they had no knowledge that the children were being held under a temporary custody order by their Idaho grandparents/Ralph Bartholdt, St. Maries Gazette-Record. More here.

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