Thursday, November 05, 2020

NBA Player In Danger Of Losing Parental Rights


Minnesota Timberwolves' Malik Beasley accused of putting his 19-month-old son in danger...

Hennepin County officials want to have the 19-month-old son of Minnesota Timberwolves player Malik Beasley put under court-ordered protection citing the felony weapons and drug charges filed last month against the boy's parents as well as new evidence of possible maltreatment.
A petition filed this week in District Court by the county's Human Services and Public Health departments challenges the parental rights of Malik Beasley and wife Montana Yao and levels further allegations against the couple growing out of an altercation the 23-year-old basketball player had in late September with a family outside his Plymouth home.
Beyond the charges filed last week accusing Beasley of aiming a rifle at a couple and their teenage daughter in an SUV outside his house, where a large stash of marijuana and other guns were seized by police, the petition also says Beasley was caught on indoor video surveillance pointing a rifle "in the general direction" of his son in the garage that same day.
The son remains in parental custody as a judge weighs the petition's allegations and whatever response to the filing the parents might offer.