Duckett deeply troubled, notes, Web postings show

As [Melinda Duckett] grew older, she started getting into minor trouble, "like skipping classes," [Beth Eubank] said. In 2002, when she was in 10th grade at Lockport High School, Duckett left Lockport to live with her grandparents in Florida. On April 6, 2005, the child welfare agency rece...

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Published inMcClatchy - Tribune Business News p. 1
Main Author Nancy A. Fischer and Maki Becker
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 01.10.2006
Subjects
Child welfare
Criminal investigations
Duckett, Joshua
Duckett, Melinda
Eubank, Beth
Families & family life
Grandparents
Parents & parenting
Secondary schools
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Summary:As [Melinda Duckett] grew older, she started getting into minor trouble, "like skipping classes," [Beth Eubank] said. In 2002, when she was in 10th grade at Lockport High School, Duckett left Lockport to live with her grandparents in Florida. On April 6, 2005, the child welfare agency received a report that Melinda Duckett had threatened to hurt Trenton if [Joshua Duckett] didn't come to see her. Social workers investigating this claim said Duckett had scars on her arms "due to cutting herself" and that she had squeezed the baby boy so tightly that he screamed. Just before her death, Duckett told her mother she took the test to enter the police academy and got a 93. But she was having money problems. Shortly before Trenton went missing, she lost one of her jobs and her ex-husband was refusing to pay child support, Eubank said.