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Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Oct 4, 2016
Campbell County Judge Amanda Sammons, who was indicted in August on four counts of official misconduct, now faces a federal civil rights lawsuit unrelated to her previous charges. Knoxnews reports that in September 2015, Sammons wrote a note ordering the removal of Ashley Keisling’s children from their Kentucky home, to be moved to Campbell County into their father’s custody. A Kentucky judge had barred the father, Johnny Ray Elliot, from contact with the children in 2011. Sammons’ order claims that the state Department of Children’s Services had alleged the children were being harmed in their mother’s care, but according to documents filed in Campbell County Circuit Court, DCS had filed no such petition.