A California Bill that would protect children from being placed with a dangerous parent by a judge is closer to becoming what has been named Piqui's Law.
After a judge granted a South Pasadena boy's father unsupervised visitation in 2017, he took the five-year-old boy, affectionately called "Piqui," or "little one," to Disneyland and murdered him. A heinous crime the man had planned for months before he carried it out.
Piqui's mother, Ana Estevez, told KNX News reporter Emily Valdez, "I firmly believe that the incompetent judges who were on my case empowered him to do this because every decision that they made was harmful to my son."
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The law would require judges to have more education about domestic violence, allow more experts to testify in child custody hearings, and prohibit mandatory reunification.
Estevez said, "If it can at least protect one more child, then we're doing the right thing."
Estevez recently testified before the Assembly Judicial Committee, which passed the second version of Piqui's Law.
The Bill must still be introduced to the entire Assembly for a vote; that decision will come in August.
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