Judge to rule next week in Amanda Ware child custody case

CHICAGO (AP) — A Cook County judge says he will rule Nov. 6 in a custody battle involving an Illinois woman who’s fighting a state agency’s decision to take away her three children.

Illinois child-welfare workers took Amanda Ware’s three children last year after learning that in 2003 three of her other children drowned. Those children — ages 6, 3, 2 — died when the car they were in rolled into a central Illinois lake.

Ware, then known as Amanda Hamm, served five years in prison for child endangerment. Her then-boyfriend Maurice LaGrone was convicted of their murders and is serving a life sentence.

Ware later married and had three more children, whom the state took custody of last year.

The Chicago Tribune reports that Ware’s husband, Leo, said they will keep fighting for their children.

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