Jordan Sorensen, 37, appeared in Jefferson County Superior Court docket final month, dealing with critical allegations linked to the loss of life of his toddler son.
The presiding Decide, Brandon Mack, discovered possible trigger to detain Sorensen for investigation on fees of illegal disposal of human stays and elimination/concealment of a lifeless physique, with a possible cost of second-degree kidnapping-domestic violence pending additional investigation into Sorensen’s paternity and authorized custody of the toddler.
Sorensen, a resident of Port Townsend, was being held on $205,000 bail, a sum that features a earlier unrelated cost.
The deceased toddler, recognized solely as “OS” in court docket paperwork, was a new child, lower than a month outdated. The investigation intensified after the toddler’s mom, Kiersten Anderson, and the kid examined constructive for fentanyl shortly after his start on December 26, 2023.
“Shortly after his start, DCYF acquired a report on December 26, 2023, that the mom (Kiersten Anderson) and the infant examined constructive for fentanyl. The opposite concern within the report was Anderson was not bonding with the kid,” the possible trigger assertion learn, in accordance with Peninsula Daily News.
Based on the possible trigger assertion, Sorensen grew to become the first caregiver beneath a security plan that mandated he reside with Pamela Andrews, whose relationship with Anderson is presently unclear. As a part of the non permanent custody settlement, Sorensen was not allowed unsupervised contact with “OS” till passing a drug take a look at and agreeing to weekly testing.
Nevertheless, the safeguards put in place by DCYF rapidly unraveled. Sorensen was allowed unsupervised entry to his son after passing a drug take a look at, a call that now haunts all concerned.
A clear urinalysis on January 8 appeared to grant Sorensen the flexibility to be unsupervised along with his son. Nevertheless, he failed to offer a required pattern at a subsequent physician’s appointment and have become unresponsive to DCYF communications, in accordance with Daily News.
Allegations surfaced from Pamela Andrews, who acknowledged Sorensen had boasted about falsifying his drug take a look at.
On Thursday, she alerted DCYF that Sorensen claimed to have given OS to “Aunt Mary,” a person not additional recognized in court docket information. Later that night time, Sorensen and Anderson returned dwelling with out OS.
After Andrews raised alarming considerations, DCYF, unable to succeed in the couple, sought the help of legislation enforcement. Sorensen was later discovered at a transient camp in Kah Tai Park, the place he resisted arrest and revealed the heartbreaking destiny of his son.
Through the arrest, a distraught Sorensen indicated the infant was lifeless and led officers to the physique, hid in bushes in his automotive seat.
In his Daily Mail commentary, Seattle radio host Jason Rantz has outspokenly criticized the incident as proof of the failure of Democrat insurance policies within the Pacific Northwest.
Rantz wrote:
The unbelievable, unconscionable fact of this horror is that it was by design.
Washington State’s ‘Retaining Households Collectively Act,’ in impact since July 2023, says that substance abuse and prenatal drug and alcohol publicity will not be a purpose to take away a toddler from a mum or dad’s custody as a result of it ‘doesn’t by itself represent imminent bodily hurt.’
State Democrats argued the legislation was essential due to – you guessed it – racism.
‘Black and Indigenous youngsters are nonetheless disproportionately faraway from their households and communities’ in comparison with white youngsters, the laws complains.
So, their psychotic treatment? A recreation of Russian roulette with youngsters’s lives.