After 6-year-old Ayla was murdered, Judith Hyde heard a voice inside her head. The message: Create a children’s legal advocacy center to represent young children in family court.
Hyde had founded the Child Protection Council of Northeastern Connecticut, which included a small program to provide supervision for court-ordered visits between parents and their children. During one of those visits, Ayla Rose Moylan was shot and killed by her father, who was apparently upset by his former wife’s plan to remarry. The visit supervisor, Joyce Lannan, was shot too and ended up blinded in one eye.
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