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March 29, 2024

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Mosley: Can’t Control Son

Judge Donald Mosley, in an interview with my Channel 8 colleague Jonathan Humbert, essentially admitted he is powerless to control his 16-year-old son Michael. Michael was arrested at the scene of the fatal crash that killed 15-year-old Olivia Hyten. Henderson police say Michael was not cited in connection with the accident but rather for DUI.

Back to Michael's father, who blamed the media for what he called a daily diet of misinformation.

The only "misinformation" Judge Mosley mentioned was the assertion of Michael's mother, Terry Mosley, that the judge left his son alone while he went hunting. The judge claims he was not hunting but taking care of his deceased father's affairs.

It makes little difference which is true. Neither is an emergency nor a reason to leave a child unattended. But the topper was this: Mosley said his son's drunk driving, when he should not have been driving at all due to a court-ordered restricted license, may have happened even had the judge been in town because "you can't be with your children all the time."

If I may, Judge, for a guy who has been on the bench for nearly three decades, I'm surprised you didn't think of this... but then, you have one child and I have four. A word of advice - cars (and trucks) require keys. You say your fiance and your neighbors were looking in on Michael. Did anyone ask for his keys after school that Friday?

Terry Mosley hopes to have her son released from juvenile detention to her custody Monday. I think Judge Mosley may have just bolstered her case.

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