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Did You Know a Crime Victim May Have Saved Your Life?
Santa, Please Bring Me the Courage to Be Like These Advocates
In May of 2021, 4-year-old Greyson Kessler was murdered by his father, John Stacey, who shot his son and then killed himself. It was his mother’s worst fear.
Stacey had been tormenting ex-partner Alison Kessler for years. But over the past month, his behavior (putting a tracker on her car, stalking her, sending her threatening texts and emails) had escalated in response to learning that she and her new boyfriend were expecting.
She had done what she could. She had repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to get a domestic violence restraining order against her ex for months. At the very least, she was desperate to get an injunction, which would have halted shared visitation until a hearing could be scheduled.
“Never again,” she vows. On Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2021, she got one step closer to helping other kids avoid her son’s fate. Two Florida lawmakers have taken on Kessler’s crusade and introduced Greyson’s Law to their state legislature.
Greyson’s Law
Since her son’s death, Kessler has been lobbying for a law that would allow a judge to temporarily suspend shared custody if one parent is threatening or abusing the other…