06-26-2012, 04:22 AM
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Adults in the life of missing 4-year-old Carnel Chamberlain – including his mother’s boyfriend, who has been termed a “person of interest” in his disappearance – have had several legal skirmishes and his biological father is imprisoned for felonious assault.
Carnel was born in January 2008 to a teenage mother with substance abuse problems and Michigan officials placed him in foster care and attempted to remove parental custody.
His mother’s boyfriend, Anthony Michael Bennett, 20, whom police have termed a “person of interest” in Carnel’s disappearance, was released unsatisfactorily from state probation a year ago.
Bennett, whom police initially said was uncooperative and have since described as having “calmed down” a bit, was under state probation for fleeing a traffic stop while drinking and driving near the Bradley Trailer Park two years ago.
Officials said Bennett, the last person to see Carnel, is still not cooperating with their efforts to find him.
Meanwhile Carnel’s mother, Jaimee Leona Louise Chamberlain, 21, at one point told a probation official to take Carnel out of her custody because she did not want him, according to an abuse-neglect petition filed in Isabella County Trial Court in February 2008.
Trial Judge William Ervin transferred the case to Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Court in April 2008 after it was determined that Carnel’s parents are both Native American.
Records in Tribal Court are not public information.
Tribal Spokesman Frank Cloutier said Monday that Jaimee Chamberlain was successful in regaining custody of Carnel in the Tribal system and completed what was required to get her child back, adding that her progress says something about her and her love for the child.
Adults in the life of missing 4-year-old Carnel Chamberlain – including his mother’s boyfriend, who has been termed a “person of interest” in his disappearance – have had several legal skirmishes and his biological father is imprisoned for felonious assault.
Carnel was born in January 2008 to a teenage mother with substance abuse problems and Michigan officials placed him in foster care and attempted to remove parental custody.
His mother’s boyfriend, Anthony Michael Bennett, 20, whom police have termed a “person of interest” in Carnel’s disappearance, was released unsatisfactorily from state probation a year ago.
Bennett, whom police initially said was uncooperative and have since described as having “calmed down” a bit, was under state probation for fleeing a traffic stop while drinking and driving near the Bradley Trailer Park two years ago.
Officials said Bennett, the last person to see Carnel, is still not cooperating with their efforts to find him.
Meanwhile Carnel’s mother, Jaimee Leona Louise Chamberlain, 21, at one point told a probation official to take Carnel out of her custody because she did not want him, according to an abuse-neglect petition filed in Isabella County Trial Court in February 2008.
Trial Judge William Ervin transferred the case to Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Court in April 2008 after it was determined that Carnel’s parents are both Native American.
Records in Tribal Court are not public information.
Tribal Spokesman Frank Cloutier said Monday that Jaimee Chamberlain was successful in regaining custody of Carnel in the Tribal system and completed what was required to get her child back, adding that her progress says something about her and her love for the child.