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Case Shows Custody Issues When Parent Released From Prison
By dailyherald.com
Published: 10/29/2010

Joey Dombroski has had little contact with his mother in the eight years since she pleaded guilty to bludgeoning his father with a sledgehammer.

But now that the 11-year-old Lake in the Hills boy's father has died and his mom was released from prison, relatives on the father's side of the family say they fear the youngster will fall into the wrong hands.

“He's definitely afraid of his mother,” Debbie Dombroski, a paternal relative, said. “We're the only family he's ever known.”

Joey's mother, Kelly Dombroski, pleaded guilty in January 2003 to armed violence for striking her husband, Joe Dombroski, in the face with a sledgehammer as he slept on Oct. 27, 2001. The repeated blows left him with permanent injuries, including partial blindness, frequent headaches and loss of taste and smell but he was able to continue caring for Joey, who was then just a toddler.

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