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Baby William update: No jail time for Mesa couple, daughter
Associated Press
12:14 PM, Jul 13, 2018
7:07 PM, Jul 13, 2018
Baby William went missing for several weeks in 2017.
Madeline Jones took her baby to California in June 2017 to deny her ex-husband custody of the infant.
Mesa police said 19-year-old Madeline Jones and her son, one-year-old William, were reported missing on June 16 by Roland Jones.
The Valley woman is accused of faking her and her son’s disappearance to avoid giving the baby to the biological father.
Roland Jones, Cassandra Yusko-Jones
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MESA, AZ - A Mesa couple and their daughter will avoid jail time for hiding the younger woman's baby in a custody case, involving Baby William.
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge sentenced Roland Jones, wife Cassandra Yusko-Jones and daughter Madeline Jones on Friday to three years of supervised probation.
All three pleaded guilty to custodial interference in May. They were facing a year each in prison.
Roland Jones had reported his daughter and then 1-year-old grandson missing in June 2017.
He and his wife were detained at a Phoenix airport three months later.
Police say their daughter's ex-husband had been granted joint custody but the couple was helping to deny him access to the infant.
Madeline Jones and her son were found safe in California last October.
